From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "jerryc@innerpeace.org" Subject: Re: New Member VERY hot on 8086's Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 23:27:00 -0500 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E239194.2070605@innerpeace.org> References: <3E21D8FC.1050305@innerpeace.org> <1042414135.16288.52.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3E2220A6.7050500@innerpeace.org> <1042470345.18624.17.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org Jerry: >>security as these will all be free standing machines. With those >>parameters, would you say ELKS would work better than Minix for this? Alan: > ELKS is smaller, Minix is a hell of a lot more tested. Jerry: I'm assuming smaller is faster running, and maybe faster loading. Since we're doing so little, mostly echoing text to the screen, there isn't much to test.