On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:42:50PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Sorry if my ignorance of the install process is showing.  But would
> going to three floppies create a new situation where systems with
> small memories (think 4MB) cannot function?
> 
> I've got NetBSD running in 8MB, and I can tell you, it isn't much fun.
> Losing even more space to an MD is likely to make 4MB systems (even
> more) unusable.
> 
> Or do we just not care about systems with memories less than X (FSVO
> X)?

on the low-end i386 tip, 
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=6986
still needs to be reopened.

next up the list of underpowered low-end boxes are the decstation 2100s,
although those can have up to 24MB RAM...

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