Frode Tenneboe wrote... > > SOME of the drivers??? My guess is that you can junk around 70% of > everything that's in there. What is the point of having support for > Appleshare, 387 emulation, support for X number of filesystems, umsdos- > support, cd-rom (perhaps in the future? :), etc.
Well, in my current kernel, all I have is IDE support, filesystems (msdos, minix,ext2), networking (slip,ppp) and a cdrom driver (because it's ATAPI, not standard IDE). My kernel is 334k compressed. No idea how big a minimal kernel is. > > I've got ArmLinux on my 4MB A5000 (Archimedes). That doesn't run at > > all... :( > > Minix ran on an 8086 with 640K. Ah, but Minix is a bit grotty (from what I've read/heard)... > > I'll be in it if people are going to give it a go... > > I might. If we do a propper design, we might be able to split > the thing up into parts that can be coded indvidually. Much like the original Linux... :) > Running X on a machine with only 4Mb is darn slow. I suffered this for exactly 3 days before I went to buy more memory. Mind you, the X server that comes with linux could probably be trimmed a bit... > I'd rather have multiple virtual terminals, You should see me trying to use DOS. Flailing wildly at the CTRL+ALT+Fx keys... > Forth for SAM - isn't that a step backwrds? :) In what sense? Small(ish) programs, 'dumpable' as executables, 'suspendable' if I can figure out how to do it cleanly. Someone wanted a text editor which could sit in high memory until called... I'm working on it, but it'll be written in FORTH if anything. Progress reports when I can get the bloody thing working...... Rob
