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SubjectRe: Memory Rusting Effect [re: Linux hostile to poverty]

Andrej Presern writes:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:

>> Linux 1.0 used to run in 2MB (not well, but it ran), 1.2 already pretty
>> much required 4MB, 2.2 will pretty much require 8MB and 16MB preferred.
>>
>> Don't get me wrong - I'll make sure it works on an 8MB machine, but I
>> won't consider it a showstopper if it is noticeably slower than 2.0.x
>> on such a machine.
>
> Windows have been there, done that. And people decided they didn't like
> it and went to Linux. History repeats?

No. Where do you place the limit? Shouldn't Linux run on machines
with only 640 kB of RAM? If that, then why not 64 kB too?

Can't we increase system requirements with time? If not, then we
must abide by the limits of the original PDP-7 hardware. That means
we should be able to run Linux in 4096 18-bit words.

An OS optimized for the PDP-7 just isn't going to be very good on
more normal 1998-2001 hardware. You can still get 1.0.9 too.

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