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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel!olivea!decwrl!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: *BSD on a 386 16/2/40? Date: 10 Mar 1994 05:03:11 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 22 Message-ID: <2lm9mf$qfi@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2llnm1$qj3@aurora.engr.latech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2llnm1$qj3@aurora.engr.latech.edu>, Alex Ramos <ramos@engr.latech.edu> wrote: >I'm currently running Linux on a 386 with 16 mhz, 2 meg RAM, 2 meg IDE >disk. It works fine and I can even use gcc for small programs... I don't believe you, since you can't get the complete gcc environment to fit on a 2MB disk along with the kernel. :-) Also, where did you find a 2MB IDE disk? >My question is: how does BSD (FreeBSD or NetBSD) compare to Linux in >this environment? How big is the kernel when running? Depends on what you have loaded. One of the developers has a machine running with 1MB of memory, but I wouldn't recommend that configuration. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.