From owner-freebsd-small Mon Oct 5 14:20:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03321 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rachel (mail.glenatl.glenayre.com [157.230.160.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA02963 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:17:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhicks@glenatl.glenayre.com) Received: from jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com by rachel (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA00469; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:09:46 -0400 Received: from jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA11605 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:09:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199810052109.RAA11605@jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Command-line i/f (Re: PicoBSD) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 13:41:01 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 17:09:41 -0400 From: Jerry Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Whats the big deal about cramming this onto a single floppy... > Wouldn't a real embedded FreeBSD application use a small flash drive? The > smallest chips that we use now are 4 M Bytes and about $12.00, cheaper > than a floppy drive! Good Point! Of course, flash drives are hardly ubiquitous just now. Older PC's with floppy drive are abundantly available to the average user. And I think you meant 4 Mbit are the smallest devices you are using (providing only 524288 bytes of raw capacity). Twelve dollars is the amount for flash chips, not a usable 'flash drive'. Those are still more expensive than a floppy drive. Cheers, Jerry Hicks jerry.hicks@glenayre.com > > Peter Wallace > Mesa Electronics > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message