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Date:  Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:35:54 -0400
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To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] OS/2 based Router/AP

In <5760-SnapperMsg4EDDFFFDBDA4801D@68.246.129.162>, on 10/26/04 at 06:27
PM,
   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.

I thought the embedded ones just use the bare basic.  No PMSHELL, no WPS,
no MMOS2, no support apps and utilities, just the kernel and loader,
command processor, file system, minimal required drivers and a TCP/IP
stack.  I would think that would be pretty small compared to windoze if
you could even do it with windoze, but I have no idea what a stripped down
Linux is like.  Its my understanding that many if not most of the routers
out there already use a stripped down Linux, so I'm not sure what would be
the point of trying this with OS/2 other then to show it can be done.

Mark

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