BSD 2.9

From: Brian Hechinger <wonko_at_4amlunch.net>
Date: Wed Oct 9 13:23:00 2002

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 09:03:41PM -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> My recollection is that the primary distro fits on a single RL02; you'll
> need a second one for the source archives (to remake the kernel). It
> runs in 256K, but that doesn't leave lots of RAM for user processes.
> ISTR that I could run rogue, but not dungeon (an older version of
> Bob Supnik's FORTRAN port, not 3.2A).

this is of course going to be a very limited system, but the memory requirements
for 2.9BSD are 192Kbytes of ram.

2.11BSD on the other hand requires 1MB ram and split I&D.

big difference there. ;)

-brian
Received on Wed Oct 09 2002 - 13:23:00 BST