This, for me, seems quite contradictory:
> If you have at least 16megs of RAM, then you can boot Linux from a floppy
If the whole OS fits on one floppy why does it need 16 MB of RAM to run ?!
I remember an old Spark system which ran some kind of *nix on systems
with less than 512 KB (must have been mid '80s) - what happened with
this development which made it such memory hogs by now ? I strongly
suspect inherently bad mem (non)management with C[+[+]] as one of the
reasons (cf. the eternal mem problem of BobCat), for instance.
Another motor may have been the sheer (and seeming) availability of
ever more RAM (and a certin predisposition from the *nix/mainframe world
to consider mem as almost "illimited"). The weird and arbitrary DOS
limit to 640K at least had *one* healthy effect - it forced to be
economical with resources.
Heimo Claasen / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / Brussels 1999-02-24
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