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Subject: Re: Armeb removal before 12
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In message <CANCZdfpuV-97=3Du-p4iHki7nQ4Kg9z=3DfPnatQ02GOPpGzuQfERA@mail.g=
mail.com>, Warner Losh writes:

>One can, with a lot of effort, do 64MB too, but it's more effort than for
>i386. Even at 64MB on i386, though, the number of things you can do is
>quite limited. You can't build anything on that machine. =


Well, we *do* have code for something called "swap-devices", and
belive it or not, I actually ran make world in 64MB recently - just
to see if it would work.  Took most of a week.

PS: No opinion on the proposed removal.

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