From owner-freebsd-small Wed Feb 7 6:45:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from workhorse.iMach.com (workhorse.iMach.com [206.127.77.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42A637B4EC for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 06:45:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (forrestc@localhost) by workhorse.iMach.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA23463; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 07:41:51 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 07:41:50 -0700 (MST) From: "Forrest W. Christian" To: "Michael C . Wu" Cc: Paul Jansen , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <20010207081758.B16642@peorth.iteration.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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