Unix vs. VAX/VMS and Windows vs. Unix/Linux/BSD -- seems like we'veseen this before

From: Roger Ivie <rivie_at_teraglobal.com>
Date: Mon May 8 13:25:44 2000

>Boy things have changed. When I first got into Linux, I ran it on a 40 MB
>MFM drive and had lots of space to spare. Of course that was no TCP/IP and
>certainly no GUI crap, and it didn't even have vi. But it might be a fun
>exercise to put together a similarly minimal config from the latest sources,
>it would probably still fit in a couple of cylinders of a modern disk drive.

I dunno. Seems like whenever I try to build a minimal kernel these days, LILO
tells me it's too big. Of course, it has been some time since I built
one without
networking...

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