RE: how small is small? (was Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core)

2000-08-30 Thread Garrett Goebel
How small? I'd like to get barebones Perl and Linux on a 1.44MB floppy... If it is currently possible, I'd like to know... Perhaps someone has already created such a single disk linux distro? Garrett P.S. I know one group of developers who'd be interested in putting Perl on a microcontroller.

how small is small? (was Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core)

2000-08-30 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Fisher Mark wrote: > How small do we really need to go? Are we looking at implementing Perl for > microcontrollers, or are we only worrying about Perl for PDAs? > On the other hand, microcontrollers still don't have a lot of RAM, at least > as compared to PDAs. I heard that a major mobile te