Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 14:32:16 -0500 From: Jerry Kendall <jerry@border.com> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pppd vs ijppp Message-ID: <96Jan11.143558est.20482@janus.border.com> In-Reply-To: <199601111824.NAA00402@etinc.com>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, dennis wrote:
>
> >> >Or, we could all of those features in the kernel, increase your memory
> >> >use by a couple 100K (always, even if you don't use it), and it would
>
> it indicates you're either very young or very inexperienced...as even the
> semi-old
> like myself remember doing fairly powerful things in tiny bits of
> memory...if you
> just spend a little time thinking about it.
>
I tend to agree.... I wrote(as an experiment) a multi-tasking OS(sort of)
for the C-64(commodore) a while ago... Not much memory(only 64K) but I did
manage to get ALL the basic stuff in there.... I even wrote a fully loaded
spreadsheet and word processor for it.... Wrote it in 'C'...(Yes there was
a C compiler for the C64).
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