Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Apr 1996 20:32:54 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Edward S. Marshall" <> | Subject | Re: Solved: 1.3.94: open () still slower than 1.2.13 |
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On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote: > This is a real problem for development, actually - most of the people > who test out the development kernels have reasonably high-end hardware, > if only because on low-end hardware it can take longer to compile a > kernel than it takes for me to release a new one ;-). Anyway, that kind > of leads to the kernels getting much more testing on high-end machines. I > hope we're still usable on a 4MB machine ;-/
Just a note: you're still usable on a _2MB_ 386SX/40 (as of 1.3.72, anyways). The only real modifications were to the ide and floppy drivers (extraneous devices were ifdef'd out); everything else was stock. I even managed to fit the whole system into a little 40MB partition. No compiler, mind you... :-)
Kids, don't try this at home.
(I'll also note for the record that the same kernel runs on a P133 with 64MB. Kernel compiles are marginally faster. ;-)
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