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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!usenet 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 Organization: GTE Federal Systems Division Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <21ej6g$m95@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> References: <1993Jul7.021818.15216@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com NNTP-Posting-Host: hengist.lab.oasis.gtegsc.com 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. --- David C. Niemi: David.Niemi@oasis.gtegsc.com My opinions are those of my fuzz-brained, cat-sniffing Norwegian Elkhound.