Bloat: How and Why UNIX Grew Up (and Out) - Rusty Russell,Matt Evans

The 'ls' binary on the original release of Unix (version 6) was 4920 bytes long. Thirty six years later, 'ls' on Ubuntu is 105776 bytes. Is this the laziness of modern coders? Increasing features? Does 'cat' really now do 313 times more stuff, or is there something else going on?
Grab your sandals and/or fake beards as our two brave coders tear apart a handful of common UNIX utilties which they grew up alongside, with adult supervision from a genuine greybeard.

[@mitchelvalentino1569]

I somehow end up rewatching this video every year. Love it!

[@DwightWalker]

I wrote code in PDP/11 assembler in operating system programming at UQ in 1987. Brings back memories. All those assembler tricks.

[@doodoostickstain]

18:38 :D clearly i'm a very mature individual, cause that dude sneezing was cracking me up

[@RonJohn63]

64 bit PDP-11 is called Alpha... :)

[@peppedaman]

thanks for sharing :)

[@Hetzenhacker]

great talk, thanks! ;)

[@mikelward]

The data are available on rustyrussell's github.
Never even heard of: --file-type, --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir, --hide, --indicator-style, -q/--hide-control-chars, -Q/--quote-name, -T/--tabsize, -v, -x, -X, -Z/--context
Not known or used by more than one person: --author, -B/--ignore-backups, -D/--dired, -g, -G/--no-group, --si, -I/--ignore, -m, -N/--literal, -p/--indicator-style, --quoting-style, -S, --time-style, -U.

[@gavinothegreat5765]

what u guna do about it minix4?

[@gavinothegreat5765]

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