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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: boot disk....
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 09:14:57 +0100 (MET)
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
In-Reply-To: <199510310139.MAA02717@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 31, 95 12:09:45 pm
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As Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> > I'm really afraid of too much bloat here.
> 
> How may MB for your DM, Jo"rg?  I can imagine the bootstrap module might make
> it to 150-200K if we go _completely_ overboard.

It's not the question of DM/US$/... here.  If i have to wait for too
long until the boot prompt appears, it's annoying.

My test machine is a 386sx/16, and FreeBSD is still not bloated enough
:) to run fast enough on that class of machines (with `fast' being
scaled to the feeling that's usual when using such a slow beast).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)