From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 4 07:38:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA28184 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 07:38:08 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA28166 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 07:37:58 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA25491; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:37:44 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA02898; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:37:44 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA00989; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:35:20 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511041535.QAA00989@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: More nits To: grog@lemis.de Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:35:20 +0100 (MET) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511041418.PAA19341@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Nov 4, 95 03:18:11 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Greg Lehey wrote: > > I'm not really bitching about this. I tend to agree that 4MB is too > little memory for anything useful, but I still think it's worth > drawing to people's attention that we *don't* want a System V, and > that there are virtues in small, lean systems. Btw., this > 4 MB requirement is just only for an installation, due to the GENERIC kernel, and the built-in MFS the installer runs on. I've been succesfully booting a FreeBSD 2.0.5 kernel on a machine with 1820 KB RAM. :-) (Unfortunately, the kernel didn't have an FPU emulator, and this machine lacked an 80387. So i couldn't run the single-user shell.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)