Re: Re: Re: RE: CNC upgrade

Jerry

Ditto to what Jon said except that BDI's kernel won't run at all. You
could make one that will run from source code on the BDI but you'd have
to compile it yourself on a different PC.

Ray

On Monday 12 August 2002 09:42 am, you wrote:
> Message: 10
>    Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:47:57 -0500
>    From: Jon Elson <elson@...>
> Subject: Re: Re: RE: CNC upgrade
>
> Carol & Jerry Jankura wrote:
> > Ray:
> >
> > Are you implying that you can run Linux on a system with only 8
> > Mbytes? Also, what about EMC in those constraints? If so, it might be
> > worthwhile picking up, as I wouldn't have to put Linux on a machine I
> > depend on.
>
> Yup, you can run Linux with Xwindows on a 4 MB system, and it works
> even better with 8MB.
>
> But, I get 133 MHz Pentium boxes with 32+ MB and sometimes 1GB+
> hard drives out of the dumpster at work.  I'm doing most of my EMC
> development work on one of these.
>
> There is a problem with the memory architecture on the 486 and below.
> The virtual page size is different, which requires some tweaks in how
> the shared memory is allocated between the RT and Linux sections of
> EMC.  But, yes, EMC will run in 4 MB with the character-cell GUI
> keystick.  It may run on Red Hat 5.2 with the XEMC GUI in Xwindows,
> but you'd better not run anything else.  With 8 MB, you can probably
> run the TkEMC GUI in X, if you restrict yourself to only one extra
> window for editing.
>
> But, don't expect Mandrake 8.2 or the latest BDI CDROM to work well
> on an 8 MB machine.  And, it may not even install on a 486.
>
>
> Jon