13 Dec
2001
13 Dec
'01
3:49 p.m.
On December 13, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Oh yes, most definitely...I run NetBSD in production at a number of
sites, and it's wonderful. I only mentioned Linux specifically
because we were specifically discussing Linux. While I like Linux a
LOT, I don't consider it production-ready enough to bet my dinner on
it.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
But yes, I
agree...Linux can be made to work well on machines with
small quantities of memory. It's actually pretty good at it.
Hey! Don't forget about ... *waves NetBSD flag frantically* 
12 Dec
12 Dec
2:42 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
Oh yes, most definitely...I run NetBSD in production
at a number of
sites, and it's wonderful. I only mentioned Linux specifically
because we were specifically discussing Linux. While I like Linux a
LOT, I don't consider it production-ready enough to bet my dinner on
it.
Windows/Linux both need several meg to run. 32 bit addressing is the
killer here. The 386+ is optimized for 8 bit or 32 bit addressing.
Guess what gets used the most.
Now Give me OS/9, that was easy on memory.
--
Ben Franchuk --- Pre-historic Cpu's --
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
14 Dec
14 Dec
2:03 a.m.
Ben Franchuk wrote:
Dave McGuire wrote:
8 users, 2 drives, 2 printers, 192K of ram - the Gimix Ghost. Damn I wish
I had that system! I have 3 6809 systems that run modified Coco OS9 (level
I). I love it actually! :-) I think I have 2 or 3 68K OS9/OSK boxes.
--
Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry(a)home.net
http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
http://hcs.sourceforge.net/ (HCS II)
Oh yes, most definitely...I run NetBSD in
production at a number of
sites, and it's wonderful. I only mentioned Linux specifically
because we were specifically discussing Linux. While I like Linux a
LOT, I don't consider it production-ready enough to bet my dinner on
it.
Windows/Linux both need several meg to run. 32 bit addressing is the
killer here. The 386+ is optimized for 8 bit or 32 bit addressing.
Guess what gets used the most.
Now Give me OS/9, that was easy on memory.
12 Dec
12 Dec
5:22 p.m.
Neil Cherry wrote:
8 users, 2 drives, 2 printers, 192K of ram - the Gimix
Ghost. Damn I wish
I had that system! I have 3 6809 systems that run modified Coco OS9 (level
I). I love it actually! :-) I think I have 2 or 3 68K OS9/OSK boxes.
I had a Coco III and could run OS9/level II ( I just had level #1) but
my floppy controller died and could not get expansion memory to go past
128k. Later too the monitor died and there was no reason to keep the
coco as I had a PC with a HD at that time. A new 6809 level 2 system
would not be that hard to create from scratch but
parts are getting scarce.
--
Ben Franchuk --- Pre-historic Cpu's --
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
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