From owner-freebsd-small Wed Oct 7 10:47:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07678 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:47:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freeby.mesanet.com (mesa.dial.idiom.com [209.157.70.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07660 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:47:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pcw@mesanet.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freeby.mesanet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA12491; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:44:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:44:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Wallace To: "Christopher G. Petrilli" cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New microdrives from IBM In-Reply-To: <19981007100029.30754@amber.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > BTW, for those worrying about cramming it onto a 1.44Mb floppy for > reasons of flash size, I went looking, and it's damned hard to find > anything under 2MB of flash any more, and many many many boards support > up to 72MB of FlashDisk. While I understand the need to conservce > space---if not the need to spell correctly ---I think that it is > important to focus on what the embedded world needs, and make sure we > can STRIP it to fit on a floppy, but not that we obsess over making > sure it fits in all forms. Thats just what I was trying to say about size & embedded systems... Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message