Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:30:28 +0200 From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GSOC 2013 project " Kernel Size Reduction for Embedded System " Message-ID: <86c97844c3a21dce5922552694c3eeb5@mail.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <516568CD.80104@feral.com> References: <CAOhv3dpTM9J9oiLpdw8xOAToXT_tQ3VW4Mv1F%2B8n7xhG%2BJK93w@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1304091935490.13342@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <E1UPoub-000PiJ-DI@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <516568CD.80104@feral.com>
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Am 10.04.2013 15:27, schrieb Matthew Jacob: > On 4/9/2013 11:53 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote: >> this host can run x11 apps! so 'Huge' is a relative matter, my first >> PDP11/45 has 64K :-) danny > Bah. Real old farts ran munix on a 32k PDP 11/03- shell and apps in > the low 16k and the kernel in the upper. Or was it the other way > around? At Tektronix, a PDP 11/70 supported 64 users runing vi and > compiling simultaneously, although starting a link job meant going out > for coffee. > > As a point of comparison with huge and speed: in 1987 my Sun 3/50 > with a 15MHz 68020 and 4MB of memory could open the mailtool and I > could be reading email within a second. > > My current desktop with 8GB of memory and running 8 cores @ 2.2GHz > and Thunderbird running almost entirely memory before being > un-iconified still takes a couple of seconds to be usable. That's why I use mutt. :-)
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