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[Zane H. Healy]

At 10:27 AM -0400 8/4/06, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>On Friday 04 August 2006 00:35, Don Y wrote:
>  > If you want to burden the implementation with "this has to
>>  run on ANY conceivable x86 machine built since 1980", then
>>  you're imposing a lot on the design.  How many Linux kernels
>>  will boot on a 4MB machine? 
>
>I've done it before, the main issue is that there's so little space left
>over for userspace apps to run in...

I used to have a 386sx/16 Twinhead laptop with 4MB RAM, Math 
Coprocesser, and a 320MB HD running Linux *AND* X-Windows (the system 
had been upgraded from 1MB RAM to 4MB, the Coprocessor added, and 
from a 40MBHD to a 320MB HD specifically to run Linux and BSD).  Of 
course about the only thing I ran under X-Windows was xdvi and a 
couple of xterms.  The main use for the system was running TeX, sed, 
and awk.  The interesting thing was, I had thought that MGR would be 
the more efficient windowing system, but I discovered that X-Windows 
did better.  I forget what I used for a window manager, I think it 
was something pretty light weight, it wasn't twm, it was probably 
either olvwm, or fvwm.

		Zane


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