PDP 11/73 on the Internet

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> Well, out of curiosity, I'm going to attempt to build gzip and wget on
>> it.
>> I hope it doesn't crash.
> 
> It probably won't crash, but the compiler might or might not be able
> to wedge all that code into the available code space.
> 
> Checking on a handy 64-bit Linux system, the gzip binary is under 64K
> total size, so that might not go so poorly.  OTOH, wget is nearly
> 256K.  That will be "fun" to adapt.  I recommend paring back unneeded
> features and learning how overlays work.

But are those executables dynamically linked?  If so, wouldn't the 
static executables be way larger?

Peace...  Sridhar