On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 01 August 2003 21:44, you wrote: > > Does anyone remember the old princeton tube (early > > 1950 vintage) that was on the Johnniac and other old > > tube machines? it was about 12 inches high, six inches > > in diameter, and held ... (wait for it ) .... 64 bits > > for RAM. > > > > How big would a computer have to physically be today > > to hold Linux in memory? Say a 32MB router? > > The smallest I've used was 82*28mm (http://www.dilnetpc.com/). > There probably are smaller ones, but it's close to the limit.
Those sure beat stuff I used/saw back in the time of the 808x, z80s and early 808x, burning (E)PROMs or using expensive gizmos that pretend to be (E)PROMS. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
