On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Miguel A Paraz wrote:

> Found these reminiscences - follow the threads for more.
> 
> Doc Mana: http://lists.q-linux.com/pipermail/plug/2001-August/008747.html

snipped ...

A few months later, I visited Jonathan Marsden at Asian
Theological Seminary (street parallel to Timog) with a box of
diskettes, and copied all eight or ten diskettes of the SLS
(Soft Landing System) distribution from his portable PC.
This was the version that I installed for my C programming class.
The machine was an 386 with 8MB of ram, and I had between
10-20 students.  The 386 was hooked up to our network on the
same bus as a 16-port terminal server.  Linux was then 0.99pl13,

It was definitely 0.99 pl 12 as I copied it from Jonathan Marsden
too later.

> Eric Pareja: http://lists.q-linux.com/pipermail/plug/2001-July/007398.html


snipped...

>Compiling the kernel back then took a long time. Long enough to grab a
>pizza and/or watch a movie and then some while waiting for it to churn
>out. 

Comments ... it took me 14 hours to compile the kernel (back then, in
order install support for a particular hardware, you need to compile
it in the kernel.  Modules were unheard of then)...on a 386DX with 4 MB.
I later realized the reason why it took that long....I did not
enable the swap (you need to configure this yourself) -- it was swapping
in memory...or literally thrashing in a very limited amount of memory --
but it did not hang!!!


> I emailed Jonathan Marsden a few months ago. He's into FreeBSD now!
> 
> 
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:46:52 +0800, Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If Doc Mana has it, I guess we need to ask him... or find his
> > presentations online.
> > 
> > Ah, Softlanding Systems (SLS)...
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