RE: GLUG: 386

[Francois Hensley <fhensley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was saying no because of the 270K Ram scenario. I knew that it could run
on 1 MB Ram but less i was not certain.

Francois Hensley (Software Developer @ Hyphen Technologies)
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On Monday, July 03, 2000 10:01 AM, Mark Musson [SMTP:Mark.Musson@xxxxxxxxx]
wrote:
> morning all
> 
> just to follow up on the 386 thingy.
> 
> i got it up (linux, that is) with 2 megs of ram.
> 
> then some fancy footwork with a ramdisk, suspended to disk, and some more
> fun stuff saw a basic kernel, doing io, and running a shell up with 1 meg.
> 
> looks like that is the limit as far as practicality goes.
> 
> i was booting from a stiffy.
> 
> now just need to boot from the flash drive !!!!!!!
> 
> or not.
> 
> anyway, just to let the naysayers know that we got halfway there
> 
> l8er
> 
> mark
> 
> 
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