This is very much not true. "A lot of effort was made to keep ksh88 small. In fact the size you report on Solaris is without stripping the symbol table. The si

This is very much not true. "A lot of effort was made to keep ksh88 small. In fact the size you report on Solaris is without stripping the symbol table. The size that I am getting for ksh88i on Solaris is 160K and the size on NetBSD on intel is 135K. "ksh88 was able to compile on machines that only allowed 64K text. There were many compromises to this approach." Without a doubt, that had a profound impact upon the POSIX shell. It was also the cause of the removal of many features in the Korn shell for the standard, especially arrays. This is why POSIX Powershell could never exist. https://news.slashdot.org/story/01/02/06/2030205/david-korn-tells-all https://news.slashdot.org/story/01/02/06/2030205/david-korn-...