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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.us.world.net!ns2.mainstreet.net!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!rootbear.a2i!rootbear From: "James W. Williams" <rootbear@rahul.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: AMD 386sx with 4 megs; can it be done? Date: 4 Dec 1996 00:32:40 GMT Organization: a2i network Lines: 19 Message-ID: <582gr8$64j@samba.rahul.net> References: <b58_9611301919@usbbs.com> <57vlqq$a93@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: foxtrot.rahul.net NNTP-Posting-User: rootbear Cc: williams In article <57vlqq$a93@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>, Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> wrote: > >Well, I've got it on a 4MB 386sx/16 downstairs, which I used quite >frequently ~6 months ago... Worked great, especially considering I >limited it to ~70MB hdd space. It did crash, though, if I tried logging >in 5 different times simultaneously... Other than that, it was just >slow. Even had a fake dumb terminal hooked up to it. > I once ran a very small version of Linux, called minilinux, that ran well on small hardware, came on five floppies, and included X and networking! It occured to me it might be fun to put together a minimalist version of FreeBSD that would be suited to small systems, especially when I realized that it would have to be called WeeBSD... Sorry, Jim