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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!olivea!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Running on a 2Meg machine. Message-ID: <hastyCJGLDB.B4C@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2gpi0m$f5b@fw.novatel.ca> <1994Jan10.083325.9481@news.cs.indiana.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 09:36:46 GMT Lines: 26 In article <1994Jan10.083325.9481@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Ingo Cyliax" <cyliax@cs.indiana.edu> writes: >In article <2gpi0m$f5b@fw.novatel.ca>, Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@novatel.ca> wrote: >>Just for humor value; I took one of my Compaq 386SX-16's sans >>'387, with 2meg of ram, 20 meg ide and booted NetBSD-current. It's >>running multi-user now. > >I too have tried this on a 2.5Mb machine (386sx 20Mhz) with 80Mb ide. >Compiling a "Hello World" program takes about a minute...after killing >off all unneeded daemons and building a tiny kernel (on another machine, >of course), I was able to get it down to 45 seconds.... running 'small' >programs like tip, rlogin wasn't that bad at all. Even vi ran OK. > >What's amazing is that it works at all. > >>This is most definitely the "Timex-Sinclair approach to computing". >Yes, maybe someone has a Basic interpreter that will run under NetBSD ;-) > Instead of Basic, I would run tcl/tk ;-) Amancio -- free unix, tcp/ip, X, gcc, sound: freebsd at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X