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From: Armin Steinhoff <armin@steinhoff.de>
Subject: Re: TinxCore and PREEMPT_RT
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:51:36 +0200
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  David Kastrup wrote:
> Armin Steinhoff<armin@steinhoff.de>  writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> yes, it's running !
>>
>> TinyCore is very small (10MB) , works with the PREEMPT_RT patch (at
>> least version 2.6.29.6), full SMP support and boots in few seconds!
>> The MicroCore version needs only 6MB ...
> Anybody else nostalgic about the times where it took around 10kB to host
> a realtime multi-tasking operating system including self-hosting target
> compiler?
>
> And the challenge was to fit bootstrap loader and operating system on
> one track of the floppy disk?
>
> Heck, the first UNIXes I used regularly were quite workable with 4MB of
> main memory.

   I developed years ago a control system for an automatic store system 
based on Xenix 1.x and Informix for a 512kB machine.
   So 4MB seems to be very huge :)

  --Armin

   PS: TinyCore is an issue for the guys addicted to the embedded 
real-time stuff ... based on the 2.6 kernel !