*nix on "classic" systems

[Ken Seefried]

From: der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
>
>> Does somebody know of a modern Unix system which truly focuses on
>> resources consumption, which is lean and fast?
>
>I'd like to hear if you find one.

It seems that you could take a fork of NetBSD 1.x and have something useful 
to build on. 

> Especially, I'd like to hear about an open-source C compiler that (a)
> supports at least sparc, i386, mips, and arm - those being the CPUs I
> care about at the moment - and (b) is not a resource pig.

Old GCC (1.x or 2.x)?  Not a not-pig, but compared to 3.x or 4.x, it's 
lightweight.  Couldn't you build NetBSD 1.6 with 2.95.3?