All this sounds nice but why in heaven should a basic "operating
system" need all this ?:
> A practical minimum for running FreeBSD with X on a PC is 80486DX/2-66,
> 16Mb RAM , 2Mb SVGA-card and 200Mb Harddiskspace.

If DOS showed anything then it's its use of just some 256 K mem in an
XT-type to run with, and (even in later versions, less than) 6 MB disk
storage.  I would consider everything more as "application"; which you
may or may not need to use in order to do certain tasks.

(The memory wall of 640 K is quite a different affair. I don't know
why nobody tries to get *this* wall down; those DOS-expanders and
DPMIs are work-arounds, not really next steps beyond the first
primitive DOS.)

// Heimo Claasen   //   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   //   Brussels 1999-12-26
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