-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 MK> I forgot about that.  Mind you it wasn't an issue for me when first
 MK> pursuing a pure 64 bit OS as that particular system had less than 2G
 MK> ... I forget exactly how much it did have but offhand I think it was
 MK> 512M.

My first 64 bit system was a VM with less than 1G RAM.  I didn't plan on it,
but that's the OS they supplied.  On real hardware, I didn't really go 64 bit,
until I hit the 4G RAM mark.

 MK> The first 64 bit system I built from scratch was on a dual p3 system
 MK> which were
 MK>  32 bit processors.  It was a cross compiler for 64 bit seeing it
 MK> couldn't boot
 MK>  it but it did manage to kickstart the first x86_64 system that crossed
 MK> my path

Interesting you were playing with 64 bit them, long before 6x86_64 processors
came along.

 MK>  which was the one with 512M of ram (if I recall correctly).  No GUI or
 MK> anything that is usually considered "desktop".  I am old school from
 MK> the VAX/VMS era and haven't managed to shake that.

I don't bother with installing a GUI for servers, unless there's software that
needs it.  At least some GUI components often make it due to dependencies, but
generally not intentional directly.


... If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
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