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From the book: "Did you know that all the standard Sun window applications (“tools”) are really one massive 3/4 megabyte binary?" Oh for the days when 750kB wa
by haberman 10y ago
From the book: "Did you know that all the standard Sun window applications
(“tools”) are really one massive 3/4 megabyte binary?"
Oh for the days when 750kB was considered "massive" for a binary.
- Koshkin 10y agoIIRC, the original (1969) version of UNIX was designed to run on a computer with 24 kilobytes of RAM.
- AceJohnny2 10y agoOh the days without process isolation and memory management.
- aap_ 10y agoThe original UNIX ran on a PDP-7, which didn't have bytes. The memory was 8k of 18 bit words.
- VintageCool 10y agoHeh. That reminds me of the article from last year that Apple was distributing many Unix programs as a single binary. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/04/17/unprotected/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/04/17/unprotected/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11517894 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11517894
- brandmeyer 10y agocough cough Busybox cough