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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 1995 13:11:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To:        dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.951002130924.18257H-100000@trepan.io.org>
In-Reply-To: <199510012343.TAA08602@etinc.com>

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On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, dennis wrote:
>
> Great Idea! Lets lose the established users who are pushing for the O/S to
> support the idiots. Let's eliminate those that are building systems based on
> FreeBSD in hopes of luring the occasional one-time user.  This is a great
> business decision.

    It's the "idiots" and the "one-time user" that are more likely to
have deficient hardware than those who are already accustomed to
building FreeBSD boxes.  Those in the latter group can still go for
the full 8Mb installation kernel.  Who says we have to have one or the
other?
--
Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"




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