> On Jun 19, 2020, at 3:51 PM, Johnny Billquist <b...@update.uu.se> wrote:
>
> On 2020-06-19 20:19, matthew sporleder wrote:
>> git clone with --depth 1, over http (instead of ssh), and with a few
>> simple settings changes will make it work inside of 128M.
>
> Well, the whole point of virtual memory and demand paging is that you don't
> have to have enough physical memory. I would hope that still applies... My
> comment about have 128M (which, by the way, can be considered a lot, when we
> talk about VAXen), was just about the potential speed I possibly could
> expect. If git really requires that people have at least 128M of physical
> memory to work, then I'd first ask when did NetBSD break so badly that the
> amount of physical memory becomes a limitation in this way, and second, why
> would a tool like this require that much memory in the first place?
>
> Johnny
>
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I don’t know what to tell you. It works.
I personally think running such an old and inefficient computer is, literally,
immoral when a modern $30 machine can emulate it perfectly using as much
electricity as a small CFL light bulb and leave over 700mb of memory to spare.
