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From: niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com (David C. Niemi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: ROMable 386bsd or linux ?
Date: 7 Jul 1993 13:30:56 GMT
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In article 15216@cs.ucla.edu, grw@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (George Wu) writes:
>
>  Has anyone used either 386bsd or linux with TCP/IP and XWindows
>support in an embedded environment (i.e. no hard disk).  Is it even
>doable ?  Any comment is appreciated.

Sure, if you have a few tens of megs of EPROM or flash or something.
Or you could hack out 90% of *ix and try to make it fit in something
smaller, but a hard disk is pretty much assumed unless you want to
run diskless.

What is your goal?  The proverbial UNIX in a toaster?  It would
probably make more sense to have an app run on your embedded machine
that displays on a machine with X across the network, in which case
the display side of X and most of UNIX would be unnecessary.
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David C. Niemi: David.Niemi@oasis.gtegsc.com

My opinions are those of my fuzz-brained, cat-sniffing Norwegian Elkhound.