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Re: sh vs. sh5 in ultrix

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From: Douglas F. DeJulio
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 17:38
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wnp@iiasa.AT (wolf paul) writes:
> In article <3865@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> rouben@math13.math.umbc.edu writes:
> >-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     system      45056 Apr  1 12:27 /bin/sh
> >-rwxr-xr-x  2 root     system     163840 Apr  1 09:56 /usr/bin/sh5
>
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root        23552 Jan 11  1989 /bin/sh
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root        44032 Jan 11  1989 /bin/sh5
> That's not even twice the size!
> 
> I suspect that on your machine, sh is stripped, and sh5 is not.

I suspect that the first figures are for a DECstation and the last are
for a VAXstation.  Remember, RISCish binaries will almost always be
much bigger than CISCish binaries.
-- 
DdJ
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From: dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio)
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Subject: Re: sh vs. sh5 in ultrix
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