From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:40:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:39:53 -0500 Received: from ns.sysgo.de ([213.68.67.98]:46587 "EHLO rob.devdep.sysgo.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:39:36 -0500 From: Robert Kaiser Reply-To: rob@sysgo.de To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eccesys@topmail.de Subject: Disk is cheap? Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:29:54 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01013114393200.01502@rob> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Everyone who says, disk is cheap, ought to donate me one. > Everyone who says, memory is cheap, has to send me some. :-) Perhaps a more convincing argument may be that in embedded devices, disk as well as memory and CPU power are _not_ cheap. The more resources Linux requires, the less are it's chances of being accepted as a viable alternative in embedded systems. > I'm still stuck with a P-133, 56 MB RAM (60-70 ns, some EDO, > some FPM) and not only Linux but also W2K on a 2.1 and a 0.8 GB > HDD. That would be _a_ _lot_ for an embedded system! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Kaiser email: rkaiser@sysgo.de SYSGO RTS GmbH Am Pfaffenstein 14 phone: (49) 6136 9948-762 D-55270 Klein-Winternheim / Germany fax: (49) 6136 9948-10 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/