Even as a non-VAX user (but I do love VAXen) I agree with you.
There is far too much bloat in NetBSD these days.  I can see
how my kernel grows slowly every time I recompile.  And I don't
even get any new drivers etc for this extra cost.

Chuck McManis wrote:
> I've not completely vanished either. My "House of VAX" pages still get 
> hit pretty regularly on my web site. Generally I've become a bit 
> disappointed in NetBSD in general (perhaps in all of the *BSDs) in that 
> the lean/mean operating system that had just as much as you needed but 
> not too much seems to have been lost in a world where a PC with 256MB of 
> main memory is considered practically an embedded system. The VAX has 
> always represented for me the ultimate CISC machine, something that ran 
> a multi-user operating system in less bytes than any thing else. I love 
> having 32 terminals hooked up to a MicroVAX II and it isn't really even 
> breaking a sweat.
> 
> That isn't NetBSD's charter, I understand that. Maybe 4.3 Tahoe is the 
> best thing you can run on the machine these days.
> 
> --Chuck
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