From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 1 8:22:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079EB15460 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 08:22:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA27187; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:22:10 GMT Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id JAA07453; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:22:59 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199903011622.JAA07453@harmony.village.org> To: Wes Peters Subject: Re: FreeBSD for RISC Cc: "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Mar 1999 08:16:31 MST." <36DAAF4F.B558D7CF@softweyr.com> References: <36DAAF4F.B558D7CF@softweyr.com> <36D70B99.4A2DAF4E@psn.ie> <199902272026.NAA47747@harmony.village.org> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 09:22:59 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <36DAAF4F.B558D7CF@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes: : The NEC/Packard Bell outlet has refurbished MobilePro 450s for $99, : if you have beta testers who need machines, Warner. I have a back- : door contact there if you have enough to consider doing a group buy, : say 10 or more machines. I have gotten them on ebay for that price range. Too bad I dropped both of mine and shattered their screens. I have doubts about 4M being enough memory to do anything beyond proof of concept. However, the chipset in them is capable of memory mapping up to 16M of PCMCIA card space, which would effectively give them 20M of main memory (but some interesting swap issues). I am in contact with someone who is actively working on a linload-like loader that I helped design. It will boot kernels <= 256k now! Too bad my MobilePros are busted, or I'd focus my attention in those areas. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message