RE: [MiNT] on a 4 Mb machine?

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 4:26 PM
> Cc: Mint mailing list
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] on a 4 Mb machine?
>
>
> On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz wrote:
> > original 4 MB RAM card with a 14 MB card removed from my
> computer and when
> > the cards were replaced, the stability was noticeably improved.
> I have no
> > clue if there is a failure of the original RAMs, or MiNT just cannot run
> > on a 4 MB machine (??)
>
> I have been asking myself this question a _lot_ lately, as I prepare
> my distribution, because binaries produced with the newer libs are not
> only larger in size, they also use more ram.  The kernel itself is a

Unless we start making progress with shared libraries :-)

> perfect example of this:   on the Stacy, if I use any of the 1.15
> kernels, I cannot run any application after PPPD is started.  Out of
> ram realy quick.  Of course, removing the AES frees about 1 MB, but
> it's still too tight for confort.  Therefore, I'm begining to think
> my distribution will be 020+ only, since only those machines have
> the possiblity of exceeding 4 Mb by design.  This also means I will

That's not true. There are RAM cards for STEs that handle the additional RAM
as "alternate" RAM, as in the TT.

> be able to use ext2fs as the default filesystem (it requires 020).

I guess that could be changed easily.