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Date: 13 Oct 2002 10:30:16 -0600
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 08:37, Alexander Kellett wrote: 
> > This talk of adeos reminds me of something that i'd
> > "dreamed" of a while back. Whats the feasability of
> > having a 70kb kernel that barely even provides support 
> > for user space apps and is basically just an hardware 
> > abstraction layer for "applications" that can be 
> > written as kernel modules?
> 
> Its called FreeDOS,

A 70KB kernel without device drivers, or anything much compiled
in is a reasonable target.   The whole "applications as modules"
thing is an entirely different animal.

The initial complaint about the size growth of the 
Anything is better that 200+KB compressed as a minimal size.

Eric
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