> Since your into small systems ...
>
> > > > > > > > Linux'll run on a 386 with only 8meg!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 8meg!!!! nobody told me!! One of my Linux boxes has been running
> > > > > > > on a 4meg 386 for years just fine.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > One of our boxes is an
> > > > > > AMD 386sx/40 with 4MB RAM and an 80 MB hard drive.
> > > > >
> > > > > Why, when I was a child, we ran Linux on a Radio Shack Trash-80 with a Z-80
> > > > > CPU, 64K of memory, and a 5.25" floppy drive. And we were glad for it!
> > > >
> > > > You were lucky! When I was a child, I ran Linux on an Atari 400 with a 6502,
> > > > 256 bytes on Page 0, 8K of memory, and a cassette tape drive, and had to do
> > > > virtual memory using FORTH...
> > >
> > > Well when I was starting out, we didn't have no fancy Ataris. I had to run
> > > Linux on an Underwood manual typewriter. Uphill.
> >
> > You think THAT was hard. Try running Linux on an abacus, like they did in my
> > great-grandfather's day. Compiling the kernel was extremely hard on ya
> > fingers, and many died trying.
>
compiling Linux on 32-fingers is absolutely no problem.
since you have too much time...maby you would like to try out tinyRTL , its
a non-network version that runs in 4MB total , that is 2MB-RAM + 2MB-RAMDISK
kernel 2.2.14-rtl2.2 , with a fiew things stripped out.... its not done yet
but I would be interested in feedback.
ftp://ftp.thinkingnerds.com:/pub/projects/minirtl/tyniRTL-i386-V2.2.img
thx !
hofrat
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