if you hadn't already known this about the PDP-8

From: Jeffrey S. Sharp <jss_at_subatomix.com>
Date: Thu Dec 13 20:59:46 2001

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Tony Duell wrote:

> Since when has linux needed a video display card at all, let alone one
> with 16M of RAM?

I'm pretty good at making small distros of FreeBSD. Some people like me
have gotten in to run in 4MB. The least I have ever done is 8MB. And
it's not unbearably slow on a 25MHz 386 embedded card. I suspect Linux is
similar.

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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss_at_subatomix.com
Received on Thu Dec 13 2001 - 20:59:46 GMT

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