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Date:      Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:55:42 +0100 (MET)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers)
Subject:   Re: More nits
Message-ID:  <199511041555.QAA20186@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <199511041535.QAA00989@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 4, 95 04:35:20 pm

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J Wunsch writes:
> 
> 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. :-)

Yes, I assumed that.  Unfortunately, the customer was getting a little
uneasy (he is moving his whole operation next weekend), and decided
that the time had run out.

Greg



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