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Date:      Sun, 01 Oct 1995 13:30:57 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. 
Message-ID:  <199510012030.NAA02974@aslan.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Oct 1995 16:24:15 EDT." <Pine.BSI.3.91.951001162009.19034W-100000@trepan.io.org> 

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>On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, Terry Lambert wrote:
>>
>> > and You-Know-How in the alternative UNIX-like OS segment.
>                 ^^^ ("Who", of course)
>
>> I run Win95 on a 4M machine.  It isn't the fastest thing in the world,
>> but it runs just fine.
>
>    Great... FreeBSD will be known as the OS-that's-more-bloated-than-
>the-King-of-Bloat-MS-Windows.  Not to slam on the kernel developers,
>but there must be *some* way of being able to *install* the OS on a
>4-meg machine???

Win95 has loadable device drivers.  We don't.

>--
>Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
>System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
>"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
>

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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  Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM
  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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