On Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003, at 09:58 US/Pacific, D. Jay Newman wrote:
>
>> David & D. Jay, I wonder how long a compact flash card would last
>> in a PC with Windows or Linux. You'd have to limit swaps & be careful
>> of writes. I guess you could take advantage of a RAM fs. It would
>> be difficult to run something like MisterHouse to accomplish this.
>> I'm not saying possible.
>>
There are linux systems designed for things like disk repair or routers
that manage to put an awful lot of utility on a single floppy disk,
which
is uncompressed to a ramdisk where it actually runs from.  Requires
something
like 16M of ram to work, total.  Includes internet utils (but not a full
web browser or server.)

The implication is that you can fit an internet capable linux plus a
sizable
custom application in something like 2M of permanent storage an run it
on an
ancient PC. Shades of DOS, but a lot more modern.

The one I've played a with a bit is "tomsrtbt": http://www.toms.net/rb/

BillW

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