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From: hpeyerl@sidney (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: [NetBSD] Running on a 2Meg machine.
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Date: 9 Jan 94 18:22:14 GMT
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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.
NetBSD 0.9a (PORTER) #4: Sun Jan 9 08:45:37 MST 1994
hpeyerl@stout:/home/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/PORTER
CPU: i386DX (386-class CPU)
real mem = 1703936
avail mem = 929792
using 41 buffers containing 167936 bytes of memory
pc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on isa
pc0: color
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
wd0 at wdc0 targ 0: (unknown size) <Unknown Type>
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fd0 at fdc0 targ 0: 1.2MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 15 sec
ed0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 3 maddr 0xc8000-0xc9fff on isa
ed0: address 02:60:8c:9d:2c:2f, type 3c503 (8 bit)
biomask 4040 ttymask 2 netmask 8
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 31106 24485 3510 87% /
stout:/usr 173220 123541 32357 79% /usr
stout:/home 1188804 730687 339236 68% /home
# swapinfo
Device 512-blocks Used Available Capacity
/dev/wd0b 8208 584 7624 7%
This is most definitely the "Timex-Sinclair approach to computing".
It limped a little on the way up...
*chuckle*
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