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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:44:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
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Subject: Re: News...
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On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Tim Rightnour wrote:

> #       The slot can take a lot more than 10MB (I have a 32MB in mine,
> #       I think the current max is 128MB :)
> 
> One has to wonder how stripped down the OS will have to be in order to fit on
> something that small, and still be useful though.. Its too bad they have so
> little internal space..  I certainly wouldn't mind having one if I could do
> some compiling on it.. ;)

	All the more reason for better granularity in the install system
	:)

	Seriously, if you were prepared to have a single root/usr, and
	make _everything_ shared, I think you could get a basic little C
	and perl development system up in the 32MB flash.

	My biggest concern would be the ability to share the device
	between NetBSD and EPOC (its native OS), in that I'd want a NetBSD
	boot to save the current RAM contents to an area on the flash so
	I could go back to using it as my agenda/addressbook/organiser
	afterwards! :)

		David/absolute

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