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[Patrick Finnegan]

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...

> What about a *1* MB machine?? 

None.  The Linux kernel copies itself to "extended" memory as a part of 
the booting process.

Well, I should say "none" unless you consider this, which is based off 
of Linux...

http://elks.sf.net

Pat
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