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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!news.cs.indiana.edu!cyliax@cs.indiana.edu From: "Ingo Cyliax" <cyliax@cs.indiana.edu> Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Running on a 2Meg machine. Message-ID: <1994Jan10.083325.9481@news.cs.indiana.edu> Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University References: <2gpi0m$f5b@fw.novatel.ca> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 08:33:22 -0500 Lines: 23 In article <2gpi0m$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 ;-) >It limped a little on the way up... But, it's not all that bad if all you needed was a network'ed controller of some sort, like a printer server. See ya, -ingo -- /* Ingo Cyliax, cyliax@cs.indiana.edu, +1 812 333 4854, +1 812 855 6984 (day) */