16 Jun
2023
16 Jun
'23
7:53 p.m.
On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 1:49 PM ben via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 2023-06-16 1:40 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
Linux never ran on 16-bit hardware, though weird pseudo-forks like ELKs
have.
And 32-bit source code tends to be about the same length as 16-bit source
code, at
least in C. Object code... can vary somewhat. On Intel 32-bit code isn't
2x the size of
16-bit object code because the variable encoding generally encodes to the
same length.
The data will be bigger, especially addresses, and the 32-bit intel code
usually programs
the MMU, which 16-bit code can't really do (well, depending on how you rate
the 286
memory model).
Warner
On 6/16/23 12:02, ben via cctalk wrote:
What cpu?
Minix was 16 bit code only. I suspect 16 bit code here as well.
Remember 32 bit code is 2x the size of 16 bit stuff.
Ken , Jobs and Wozniak need their fair share.
Graphics and file system buffers take up more
space than you expect.
I just transferred a DC150 tar tape. Total (uncompressed) file size was
11MB. What was on it? The complete source to Linux 1.0.
--Chuck