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

From: Boatman on the River of Suck <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Dec 13 21:21:46 2001

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:

> 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.

I've gotten NetBSD running fairly well in 2 MB.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Thu Dec 13 2001 - 21:21:46 GMT