On Tue, 14 May 1996 15:29:14 -0400 (EDT) 
 jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer) wrote:

 > i was gonna cheat though, and model the kit after the Xkernel i'm using
 > from columbia.edu that bases itself on sunos.
 > 
 > i have several 3/60's here which boot entirely off the network without need
 > of swap.  it is amazing how far you can push a 3/50 or 3/60 with 4 meg of RAM.

SunOS had a special "no swap" device that reported itself size 0, etc.  
It was basically a sink-hole.

I've often thought that the Columbia Xkernel package should ditch
SunOS and replce it with NetBSD and X11R6 ... Provide the same 
functionality, but using free code.  Sounds like that's what you're going 
to do with NetBSD/hp300 :-)  Let me know when your package is ready, and 
if you plan on making it public...I'd be happy to provide some space in 
the hp300 area of the NetBSD ftp server, and provide a link on the hp300 
NetBSD WWW pages.

"Old hp300s never die, they just get an OS upgrade."

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