Even QNX seems pretty cool - I've tried the demo. If I can get my hands on one
of these nifty things and just drop the generic QNX dialup stuff from the demo
disk in place of their hardwired one, I'm hoping I can run QNX with the ISP
of my choice. If not, I'll probably put BeOS on it.
>
> <One of the links I posted earlier mentions that there are two related Linu
> <distro's in the works. One will fit on a 500MB HD, the other will fit on
> <the SanDisk.
>
> Gee, I hate to tell you this but, I just installed RH5.2 on a 500mb drive
> no problem. So I put Openlinux2.3 on it to see the difference. It's very
> doable. I've got an old copy of FreeBSD 2.2.6 that would runs just fine
> on a st3660(500mb). Also I've been running NT4.0/sp4 worktstation on
> 486dx2/66 in 500mb (310mb free). NT for that box may be problematic due
> to drivers for video and all.
>
> Another OS that is a good candidate is MINIX2.02 as the whole can fits on
> 40mb with sources. I've run it on 10mb disk and 4mb ram. There is MinixVM
> also.
>
> I think there are plenty of possible OSs for that toy. Most all of them
> run some emulator we'd like to use.
>
>
> Allison
>
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Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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