GSOC 2013 project " Kernel Size Reduction for Embedded System "

[Lars Engels]

Am 10.04.2013 15:27, schrieb Matthew Jacob:
> On 4/9/2013 11:53 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>> this host can run x11 apps! so 'Huge' is a relative matter, my first 
>> PDP11/45 has 64K :-) danny
> Bah. Real old farts ran munix on a 32k PDP 11/03- shell and apps in
> the low 16k and the kernel in the upper. Or was it the other way
> around? At Tektronix, a PDP 11/70 supported 64 users runing vi and
> compiling simultaneously, although starting a link job meant going out
> for coffee.
> 
> As a point of comparison with huge and speed: in 1987 my Sun 3/50
> with a 15MHz 68020 and 4MB of memory could open the mailtool and I
> could be reading email within a second.
> 
> My current desktop with 8GB of memory and running 8 cores @ 2.2GHz
> and Thunderbird running almost entirely memory before being
> un-iconified still takes a couple of seconds to be usable.


That's why I use mutt. :-)