From: Rick Miller - Linux Device Registrar <rick@ee.uwm.edu> Subject: Re: Unix CAN be used on a minimal system! (Re: Unix OS for 286) Date: 21 Apr 1993 09:38:29 GMT
sjsobol@tiny.com (Steven J Sobol) writes:
>
>I use Coherent 4.0, the 32-bit 386-specific version, on a 16-mhz 386-SX.
>It has 2 MB of RAM, and the 45 MB hard drive is divided evenly down the middle.
>22.5 MB for DOS/Windows3.1 (which I can run just fine, thank you), and 22.5
>for Coherent. Obviously, I'm not running gcc or X11R5 on my computer, but
>I can use Coherent very well...
It wasn't obvious to ME that you couldn't be running gcc. How can you say
"very well" if you can't run gcc?!? It worked fine under Linux on an even
*smaller* machine.
I had Linux on my 386SX/16 w/ 2MB RAM on a mere 20MB partition for a while
(until I scrapped MS-DOS!), and it could re-compile its own kernel while I
ran kermit (a big memory-hog, as far as comm-programs go) to post articles
to comp.os.linux!
...and you don't fool me! You can *NOT* run DOS/Windows3.1 "just fine" on
a 16 MHz processor with only 2MB of RAM, unless you're not DOING anything.
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