Heimo:
I think comparing older technology's standard operating procedures is a
valuable learning tool.
However, I remember a guy who used to put on local drag races and he
used to say:
"there is a point in time at which you have to pony up the bucks for the
entry fees to be in the race." His other often hear comment was: when
the green flag drops the bs stops. When the checkered flag drops you
know who was full of road apples and who can actually do it." The above
recreated comments were slightly edited for family entertainment email
reading :-)
Something I know about an ftp server. IF you want one to approach the
24/7/365 operating ratios for a web site then you have to have at least
a '386 with 8 MB of RAM and PicoBSD OS as an entry sized system. A
'486/33 with 8 MB of RAM can now be as small as a pack of cigarettes -
see <http://wearables.stanford.edu/> for an example.
Computing 1A:
Memory in RAM is not the same as nonvolatile memory on some form of
permanent media per most folks understanding of how computers work :-)
IF anyone wants to use M$-Windoze 3.1 and expect 24/7/365 for 24 months
and does it. Then they are a better man/women than most of the folks I
know around here. Because we are real cheap skates we have tried that
one and found out it doesn't work for us.
Hope you have a sense of humor when you read this one :-))
John O
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 22:27:32 +0300
From: hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP Server?
This, for me, seems quite contradictory:
> If you have at least 16megs of RAM, then you can boot Linux from a floppy
If the whole OS fits on one floppy why does it need 16 MB of RAM to run
?!
I remember an old Spark system which ran some kind of *nix on systems
with less than 512 KB (must have been mid '80s) - what happened with
this development which made it such memory hogs by now ? I strongly
suspect inherently bad mem (non)management with C[+[+]] as one of the
reasons (cf. the eternal mem problem of BobCat), for instance.
Another motor may have been the sheer (and seeming) availability of
ever more RAM (and a certin predisposition from the *nix/mainframe world
to consider mem as almost "illimited"). The weird and arbitrary DOS
limit to 640K at least had *one* healthy effect - it forced to be
economical with resources.
Heimo Claasen / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / Brussels 1999-02-24
HomePage of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.inti.be/hammer
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 02:24:07 GMT
From: Steven Darnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux
Heimo wrote:
-
-> This, for me, seems quite contradictory:
->
-> -> If you have at least 16megs of RAM, then you can
-> -> boot Linux from a floppy
->
-> If the whole OS fits on one floppy why does it need
-> 16 MB of RAM to run ?!
-
It needs 16 meg (actually 10 meg) to run because the files
on the floppy are compressed and will only run on the ramdrive
(after they have been uncompressed by the boot routine). So
about half of the RAM gets used as a ramdrive and the other
half functions as ordinary RAM memory.
-
Keep in mind that that the floppy installs a complete Linux
system: OS, filesystem, binaries, libraries, scripts, editor.
It's damn impressive for a single floppy.
-
Cheers,
Steven
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