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What's the story with the "end of XP"?

Yeah, use Linux on a system with almost 1 Mb of DRAM memory and have your application running in it, too.

Anything that has less than 4 Mb of memory (excluding storage) is often unusuable for Linux. I tried to make a terminal out of an old 486 box using a floppy drive as kernel and rootfs source. I failed because the memory wasn't enough to use squashfs, the kernel and busybox.

I stuck using DOS with packet driver, DOSVNC, SSH2DOS and TELNET. And I _still_ have enough memory to hold everything uncompressed in a ram disk (and have it compressed on the floppy to spare load times). Do that with Linux. You don't even get a VNC client on SVGALib to work in more than

640x480x4 if it's not VESA compliant. Using DOS, I simply load a TSR-VESA driver and everything is fine.

Nice, huh?

Regards, Sebastian

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BSD has been used in many embedded applications with small memories and with filesystems resident on floppies, very small flash, etc. One of my BSD-based favorites is the Netblazer operational code which can run over TFTP or from 1.44MB floppy in 1MB RAM on x86 and it includes TCL for scripting.

Regards,

Michael

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