[N8VEM-S100:1811] S-100 68K CPU board V3

This is true only if you insist on using all the latest bloatware. NetBSD/i386 4.x is perfectly usable with 64M, provided the things you use are not themselves gobbling RAM as if megabytes were free. (I expect 5.x is too, but I run it on only two machines, neither of which has less than multiple gigs of RAM, so I can't be sure.) 32M works, but can't self-host (which for my purposes amounts to "broken") because the gcc it comes with is too much of a pig. I suspect 16M would install just fine and might even run OK provided you're careful what you do, though I haven't tried it. Older NetBSD works on much smaller machines; I even ran a 5M 1.4T machine, though that was tight. Of course, using the latest in flashy bloatware may be what you mean by "sophisticated", in which case what you say is true but tautological. Linux? Other BSDs? I don't know. My relationship with Linux is probably best described as mutual antagonism; my relationship with the other BSDs is approximately equal to my relationship with Botswanan stock-trading houses - ie, nonexistent. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B