15 Jan
2005
15 Jan
'05
6:08 a.m.
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
(A future brainstorm: when/(if) we swap 386BSD into
the existing NOS
boxes, the one-floppy, 2meg machines will have zero space for Unix
utilities, beyond the routing tables and VI. This news box could also
act as the server for additional, optional binaries etc for the routers;
the routers would remain reliable, stand-alone boxes.)
This struck me overall as how we used to be able to do so much with so
little. Now, a 2MB Unix machine would be some embedded router type
product the size of a modem.
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