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Date:      Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:25:53 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        Nathan <nboeger@getrelevant.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Alpha kernels
Message-ID:  <20000214132553.A17797@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <38A85C2C.C66243B8@getrelevant.com>; from nboeger@getrelevant.com on Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 11:49:00AM -0800
References:  <38A85C2C.C66243B8@getrelevant.com>

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On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 11:49:00AM -0800, Nathan wrote:
> or are the kernels larger for alphas than  intel based kernels ?

Yes this is a RISC vs. CISC thing.  Kernels for Sparc would be bigger
than i386 too.  Plus the 64bit vs. 32bit ints also contributes some to
the larger size.

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-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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