Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 23:31:07 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: "Roberto Nunnari, AGIE" <roberto.Nunnari@agie.ch>, freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minimum HW requirement Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001122330340.70495-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <200001121643.IAA02293@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Hi there. > > > > I'd like to use picoBSD in an embedded system with very > > small resorces. It should be a 386 with just 1 or 2 Mb RAM. > > > > The system is a deeply embedded one, with no networking, nor > > graphics, sound, TCPIP, etc... > > > > All it needs would be a multitasking kernel, message queues, > > semaphores, pipes, memory management, I/O system, > > parallel port, and a couple of serial ports. > > > > I'd like to know how hard scaling down picoBSD to fit these > > constraints would be. > > "How long is a piece of string"? Seriously, without knowing what > resources or experience you have available, all that can reasonably be > said is "yes, it's possible". > > There's at least one product I'm aware of using a cut-down FreeBSD on a > 386ex in 2MB of RAM. I think that still has networking in the system too. > Is it possible to reveal what that product is? Thanks! -- Marc Schneiders marc@venster.nl marc@oldserver.demon.nl propro 11:30pm up 13 days, 1:19, load average: 2.17 2.12 2.08 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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