From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 3 07:46:16 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA05007 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 07:46:16 -0700 Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [198.137.146.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA04999 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 07:46:12 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA28439 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 08:46:10 -0600 Message-Id: <199510031446.IAA28439@rover.village.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 03 Oct 1995 18:00:18 +0800 Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 08:46:10 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thus spoke Raju Daryanani: : No, my employer at least has almost completely stopped making non-PCI : machines. The entry level system is now a 486DX2/66 with PCI bus and : 4MB RAM. Of course I wouldn't buy a machine like that, but we have : lots of customers who still only want to run DOS and buy it with 4MB. : I doubt the other PC vendors will be far behind. I knew there would be some machines like this, but I guess my suggestion, if it turns out to be workable, would cover enough of the cases to be worth while, and would be easy to implement (in terms of brain power). However, it looks like there may be other solutions to this problem, so I'm not going to push it... Warner