From owner-freebsd-small Tue Oct 6 15:37:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17635 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:37:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17466 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:37:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from diabolique ([195.121.58.124]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAE50E; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:37:05 +0200 Message-Id: X-Sender: skywise@pop.wxs.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Demo Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:07:19 +0200 To: Peter Wallace , Jerry Hicks From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Subject: Re: Command-line i/f (Re: PicoBSD) Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199810052109.RAA11605@jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises Network/Security Specialist /==|| FreeBSD and picoBSD, the Power to Serve ||==\ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.0 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBNhqGh4Y752GnxADpEQL23gCfV44boEr5OPPwve4f3FESYBdUqlsAoN/n 7iwo0O06L1j+Qtj9KrpbddT+ =vIId -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message