Rich Bryant <rfb6435@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> said:
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 18:35:00 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Rich Bryant <rfb6435@osfmail.isc.rit.edu>
> > Thanks for the response(Both Ted and Steve) I agree that changing the
> > kernel isn't something easy and I am being asked to make or atleast look
> > into some very major changes in order to fit a linux system into a very
> > small system.
> > How small is small in this case?
> About as small as it gets. 486 microprocessor, 8254, 16550, 8259 a boot
> ROM and A 32M SIMM. Originally the system was supposed to be burned to the
> ROM and operate out of ram disk, but we didn't realize how large the
> libraries required by the executables were.
My home workstation + development + kitchen sink machine used to be
something like that until last august... that isn't really small.
Your worries won't be the kernel here.
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