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[Don Y]

Zane H. Healy wrote:
> 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).

FreeBSD used to run "acceptably" on a 4-5M 386sx -- before bloat
set it.

One of my Opus PM's runs with *2* MB of physical memory -- and
currently 20MB of disk.