On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 08:55:00PM -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
> 4MB before RAM is too big, John. :-(
4MB is a generous amount which lets me include my favourite tools. The
bare essentials should fit in about 2MB.
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> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:37:41 +0100 John Poltorak <jp@warpix.org> wrote:
> >I never saw the original reply - don't know why...
> >
> >On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 07:35:54PM -0400, madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:
> >> Lewis G Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com> said:
> >>
> >> >You'd need to squeeze the OS/2 install down quite a bit. From where I
> >> >sit, that's the biggest problem, John. Check out the size of one of the
> >> >embedded Linux distros...
> >>
> >> >I know that OS/2 has been used in embedded apps before, but I doubt
> that
> >> >the installs have been that small.
> >
> >You are joking!
> >
> >I can boot OS/2 from a floppy disk. I can have a networking system in 4MB.
> >
> >OS/2 is *extremely* flexible and configurable. What it lacks is driver
> >support for odd bits of hardware like ADSL NICs, although it probably
> >doesn't have support for protocols that run over ADSL like PPoA or
> >whatever is used, but as far as embedding OS/2, I don't see any reason why
> >it wouldn't work. One day I hope to have it installed on a Disk On Chip.
> >
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> >John
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