From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 11:43:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA13981 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 11:43:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA13975 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 11:43:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from border.com (ns.border.com [199.71.190.98]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id LAA25222 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 11:43:00 -0800 Received: by janus.border.com id <20482>; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 14:35:58 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 14:32:16 -0500 From: Jerry Kendall To: dennis Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pppd vs ijppp In-Reply-To: <199601111824.NAA00402@etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <96Jan11.143558est.20482@janus.border.com> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, dennis wrote: > > >> >Or, we could all of those features in the kernel, increase your memory > >> >use by a couple 100K (always, even if you don't use it), and it would > > it indicates you're either very young or very inexperienced...as even the > semi-old > like myself remember doing fairly powerful things in tiny bits of > memory...if you > just spend a little time thinking about it. > I tend to agree.... I wrote(as an experiment) a multi-tasking OS(sort of) for the C-64(commodore) a while ago... Not much memory(only 64K) but I did manage to get ALL the basic stuff in there.... I even wrote a fully loaded spreadsheet and word processor for it.... Wrote it in 'C'...(Yes there was a C compiler for the C64). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any comments or opinions in this message are my own and may or may not reflect the comments or opinions of my present or previous employers. Jerry Kendall Border Network Technologies System Software Engineer 416.368.7157 ext 303 jerry@border.com Fax 416.368.7178