From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 2 21:39:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA10104 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 21:39:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA10093 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 21:39:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id QAA09073; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 16:09:21 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199612030539.QAA09073@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: TCP/IP bandwidth bragging In-Reply-To: <199612030413.PAA05256@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "Dec 3, 96 03:13:31 pm" To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 16:09:20 +1030 (CST) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Birrell stands accused of saying: > > I have an 80186 with NO hard disk and a 16 line liquid crystal screen > that doesn't do graphics, 256K memory + 256K memory in the expansion > box which has *TWO* 5.25" floppies. It doesn't have a turbo switch! > It has a "speadsheet" program on a plug in EPROM. *shrug* I have a CP/M laptop (just retired) and the Olivetti rebadge of the Kyocera machine that was the TRS-80 Model 100. Neither of these make for very good BSD machines either 8) > Exactly which bit of FreeBSD do you put on that 40M disk? You can actually put an entire BSD system on a 40M disk. In fact, for some time around 1.1 days, there was a dialin server running in the spare bedroom on a 20M disk. (dotat.apana.org.au, IIRC). Now that 40M disks are getting harder to source (and less reliable when you _do_ source them), I don't bother with these tiny installs anymore, which is why I scream at people that complain about a few more 800K binaries in the system. > John Birrell CIMlogic Pty Ltd -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[