From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 13 23:24:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA17227 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 23:24:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA17221 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 23:24:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikegoe@pop03.ca.us.ibm.net) Received: from aldebaran.ird.rl.af.mil (slip166-72-108-21.ny.us.ibm.net [166.72.108.21]) by out1.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA10216; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 07:24:41 GMT Message-Id: <199712140724.HAA10216@out1.ibm.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Michael G." To: Michael Graffam , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 02:21:57 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Free BSD for i286 X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Michael G." X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal References: <3.0.2.32.19971214001730.006e726c@pop.sphynx.com.au> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Here..Here... My sentiments also. I've got a palmpilot at work and you would be surprise how people have had to go back to caring about the bulk and processor req. of their software. A Palmpillot has one meg of ram (with no HD) and you can get a basic spreadsheet program to take up only 85k!!! Hey...FreeBSD on a Palmpilot Michael G. > And as the guy who first started working on it expressed, there is > something rather beautiful in getting a back-port of Linux to run on > an old DEC PDP-11. > > I suppose not all people can realize the beauty in this stuff. But I > find it great. > ------------------------------------------------------------ Brought to you by the letters "O" and "S" and the number "2" Live FreeBSD... or Die! COBOL...the language of business! C:\DOS C:\DOS\RUN RUN\DOS\RUN ----------------------------------