Subject: Re: Booter with >1MB miniroot
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From: Rick C. Petty <pett0019@gold.tc.umn.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/30/1996 18:38:34
On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Allen Briggs wrote:

> Largely because the miniroot and the kernel both have to be loaded into
> memory before booting.  That's in addition to the system, finder,
> application, extensions, etc...  You could probably kick the hard limit
> up, but I don't want to distribute a miniroot larger than 1MB because a
> lot of macs only have 4-5MB of RAM...

What about those, like me, with 36 Meg?  Could that at least be a 
user-specified option which defaults to 1 Mb.  I mean, Most of my memory 
is wasting away being unused anyway...  :)

--Rick C. Petty,  aka Snoopy
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