MUSIC Specs 0.0 [djo4-ish]

Dan Odom danodom@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Thu, 29 Apr 93 16:24:42 CDT


Michael David WINIKOFF Said:

> > 2) We'll be hard pressed to fit it in 80 meg.  The best 32-bit PC OS
> > that I have seen is Linux, and the SLS distribution requires 90 meg for
> > a full installation, plus about 670k of RAM for the kernel.
> 
> Sheesh.
> The Amiga OS comes on 2 floppy disks (800K, none of this 1.2M) -- I'll let
> you add another disk for the 512K ROM and includes
> 
> 	- pre-emptive multitasking
> 	- devices
> 	- libraries
> 	- GUI
> 	- TUI
> 	- utilities
> 
> Need I go on? It CAN be done.
> The reason Linux is so huge is that it includes gcc and X.
> (and source? :-)

I don't use X, and it still needs 70 meg.  GCC is huge, but we're going to
include it, right?  EMACS, too.

Just a note of interest:  the latest release of AmigaDOS (for the AGA)
was written using GCC.

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Dan Odom
danodom@matt.ksu.ksu.edu -- Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

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