> 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.
Striped and compiled with -O2? I've just heard about an Ultrix kernels < 256Kb. And don't forget that's compiled C. You _will_ get a smaller kernel if written in assembly..if feasable these days. > > > > 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)... But it's still (sort of) Unix. > > > > 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... :) Yeah. Well, most of the stuff was there before they split things into parts. It's very much of a one man job in there. > > > 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... Ehm..it's based on FreeX86 you know.... > > > 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...... Let me see...the last time I did anything in FORTH (7 years - but I guess there will never be an object FORTH? :), it was horrid with all the strange semantics and RPN :) -Frode
