On 5 Sep 01 at 17:31, Steven wrote:
>>> What would be wrong with 2 different releases, one
>>> for < 16 megs and another for > 16 megs, other than
>>> the obvious time involved in supporting 2 releases?
>>
>>If it were just a matter of giving people a larger
>>ramdisk to play with, there would be no problem.
>>But my motivation in going to an 8meg ramdisk
>>would be to increase functionality. In particular,
>>I'd be heading toward some sort of GUI option. A
>>very slim one, naturally. It's inevitable that I
>>would concentrate solely on this project and that
>>computers with less than 16meg RAM would be out in
>>the cold. As a keen supporter of survivor PCs,
>>I'm not ready to slam the door on all those 486s
>>with eight 30-pin SIMM slots.
Agreed.
>>Also, it seems to me that there is a fundamental
>>flaw in using more and more RAM just to hold the
>>filesystem. Sure, if you've got 256meg RAM, you
>>can affort to tie up 8meg or 16meg for a ramdisk;
>>but (again) those survivor PCs don't have that
>>luxury. I'm desperately trying to avoid getting
>>into the position where I end up saying: "Sorry,
>>your computer is not powerful enough. Go out and
>>buy a better one (you luser)."
>>
>>So, since a survivor PC is short of memory anyway,
>>I should be looking for a way to free up the 4meg
>>currently lost to the ramdisk (instead of trying
>>to steal even more). This leads me to the HD
>>version of BasicLinux (which is just about ready
>>for release) and a loop version (which I have
>>only just begun to think about).
I look forward to giving it a spin.
>>> BTW, BASLINUX works pretty good on this Compaq
>>> Contura 4/25CX w/ 8 megs RAM
>>
>>Imagine how much better it would perform if we
>>gave it back 4meg RAM.
I'll let you know how much diffeence it does make. I appreciate your
efforts with BASLINUX, Steven. Keep up the good work.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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