stripping (was Ramdisk coming for NeXT)

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From: Dan Berry
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 20:52

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In all the talk of the modifications to sdmach to increase the buffer size, I
recalled a comment that someone had made:

	"If you want to save some space, try stripping sdmach [hah hah hah]"
	(paraphrased)

Well, I thought he was joking.  And yet, amazingly enough...

atlantis> ls -l /sdmach
-r-xr--r--  2 root      708219 Aug 14 19:11 /sdmach*
atlantis> ls -l /tmp/sdmach 
-rwxr--r--  1 bugs      624388 Aug 22 14:32 /tmp/sdmach*

*** YEESH! ALERT ***
How can this be?  And although I feel that the stripped version might work with
no problems, _I_ ain't gonna be the one to try it out.  It might work in the
beginning, but I'd hate to have to deal with sporatic mach-kernel errors.

-- 
Dan Berry == President, NeXT Edmonton Owners Network / UofA Computers Tech.
	bugs%atlantis@cs.ualberta.ca (bugs@atlantis.uucp) *** NO NeXTmail! ***
"On a first date, watch how your date treats the waiter, the bartender,
	and so on.  That's how she'll be treating YOU after three months."

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Subject: stripping (was Ramdisk coming for NeXT)
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