Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:35:20 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: grog@lemis.de Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More nits Message-ID: <199511041535.QAA00989@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199511041418.PAA19341@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Nov 4, 95 03:18:11 pm
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As Greg Lehey wrote: > > I'm not really bitching about this. I tend to agree that 4MB is too > little memory for anything useful, but I still think it's worth > drawing to people's attention that we *don't* want a System V, and > that there are virtues in small, lean systems. Btw., this > 4 MB requirement is just only for an installation, due to the GENERIC kernel, and the built-in MFS the installer runs on. I've been succesfully booting a FreeBSD 2.0.5 kernel on a machine with 1820 KB RAM. :-) (Unfortunately, the kernel didn't have an FPU emulator, and this machine lacked an 80387. So i couldn't run the single-user shell.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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