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Date:      Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:29:52 +0100
From:      phk@FreeBSD.ORG
To:        walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 80386 out of GENERIC 
Message-ID:  <39198.1039973392@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Dec 2002 08:43:06 PST." <3DFCB11A.4090900@hotmail.com> 

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In message <3DFCB11A.4090900@hotmail.com>, walt writes:
>phk@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:
>
>> Because few if any 80386 computers have the ram it takes to run sysinstall.
>
>Was sysinstall around when 386 was new?  Just curious what's changed since
>then to make it bigger.

sysinstall arrived in the 486 days.

Lots of junk has been added since, but I think most of the bloating
is from added kernel stuff, IPv6, PCcard, PCI, USB and so on.

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