4 Aug
2006
4 Aug
'06
7:58 a.m.
At 10:27 AM -0400 8/4/06, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Friday 04 August 2006 00:35, Don Y wrote:
I used to have a 386sx/16 Twinhead laptop with 4MB RAM, Math
Coprocesser, and a 320MB HD running Linux *AND* X-Windows (the system
had been upgraded from 1MB RAM to 4MB, the Coprocessor added, and
If you want to burden the implementation with
"this has to
run on ANY conceivable x86 machine built since 1980", then
you're imposing a lot on the design. How many Linux kernels
will boot on a 4MB machine?
I've done it before, the main issue is that there's so little space left
over for userspace apps to run in... from a 40MBHD to a 320MB HD specifically to run Linux
and BSD). Of
course about the only thing I ran under X-Windows was xdvi and a
couple of xterms. The main use for the system was running TeX, sed,
and awk. The interesting thing was, I had thought that MGR would be
the more efficient windowing system, but I discovered that X-Windows
did better. I forget what I used for a window manager, I think it
was something pretty light weight, it wasn't twm, it was probably
either olvwm, or fvwm.
Zane
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