Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 07:41:50 -0700 (MST) From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com> To: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net> Cc: Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102070738040.23420-100000@workhorse.iMach.com> In-Reply-To: <20010207081758.B16642@peorth.iteration.net>
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Michael C . Wu wrote: > The point is that modern (or old) embedded systems have flash or > other forms of non-volatile storage rather than using floppies. > And the 1.44mb limit is somewhat too small. And seeing as you can now get a 8mb flash disk which plugs directly into the IDE port from several sources for around $35-40, and a 16mb version for $55 ish (and bigger versions also for slightly more), a floppy looks less and less attractive. That said, I think the real attractiveness of PicoBSD is the small utilities and the methods developed of squeezing "every" unneeded byte out of the kernel as 8 or 16mb is not endless... - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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