Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:07:19 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Peter Wallace <pcw@mesanet.com>, Jerry Hicks <jhicks@glenatl.glenayre.com> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Command-line i/f (Re: PicoBSD) Message-ID: <Version.32.19981007000530.0103f220@pop.wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981005143627.24817D-100000@freeby.mesanet.co m> References: <199810052109.RAA11605@jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com>
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At 23:44 05-10-98 , Peter Wallace wrote:
>On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Jerry Hicks wrote:
>> > Whats the big deal about cramming this onto a single floppy...
>> > Wouldn't a real embedded FreeBSD application use a small flash drive? The
>> > smallest chips that we use now are 4 M Bytes and about $12.00, cheaper
>> > than a floppy drive!
>> Of course, flash drives are hardly ubiquitous just now. Older PC's with
>> floppy drive are abundantly available to the average user.
> Of course our interest is more for embedded systems than people
>with a spare PC...
Indeed, we have currently two types of picoBSD users defined, the ones for
real embedded system set-ups and the ones using them on 'underpowered'
machines/PC's, as Jerry and me said...
regards,
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai <asmodai(at)wxs.nl>
ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises
Network/Security Specialist
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