Hmmm.... I have successfully run vi from a partition on a 32M flash card in 32M of RAM
The RAM also had memory disks for /var and /tmp. The entire system was dynamically linked so a lot of space was saved by that build technique The box was an embedded system running SNMP, gsmsmd and a few oter thing as a real time network monitor for the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games a year or so later in Doha, Qatar the box (still) runs on FreeBSD 4 and was built this way https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html the author did also make similar builds available for FreeBSD 5 and 6 NOTE all these have been replaced by nanobsd, but the techniques are still useful, especially if you are pushed for space. Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 -- |_|0|_| "Absence of evidence |_|_|0| is not evidence of absence" |0|0|0| Carl Sagan -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Giorgos Keramidas Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 3:48 AM To: Robert Bonomi Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text editor On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:36:53 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi <bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas <keram...@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >> Vim is much smaller than Emacs but it still a few MB's here: >> >> keram...@kobe:/usr/ports/packages/All$ ls -ld vim* >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 5757731 1 =CE=91=CF=80=CF=81 17:11 vim-lite-7.2.344.tbz > > Yeah, but EMACS is (currently) reputed to stand for <E>ighty > <M>egabytes <A>nd <C>onstantly <S>wapping! *GRIN* That's an old joke, but it's not particularly good anymore. The smallest laptop-size 2.5" SATA disk I have at home can hold more than 80 GB of data. The size of a program is now a limiting factor only if you are working with embedded applications. Normal, every-day computers have enough disk space to hold tens of thousands of full Emacs installations even without any sort of compression :-) --------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --------------------------------------------------------------- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
