On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 01:23:31PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> BTW, am I the only one here bothered that his 250MB /boot partition > >> tends to fill up, even though a 500MB HDD was plenty to hold the whole > >> OS plus lots and lots of free space, on a 64bit workstation like the > >> original DEC Alphas? > > you may consider removing old images that you do not use as they are not > > removed automatically AFAIR. > > I keep n, n-1 and rearly n-2 > > Obviously that's what we all do, I think. My point was more > philosophical than asking for help, tho ;-) > > I just find it amazing that the kernel has grown to be so big as to be > comparable to a complete unix distribution on a workstation of some > years ago (with GUI, compilers, ...). > > And to a large extent they work identically (same windowing system, same > editor, same 1600x1200 screen resolution, ...).
Now just let me tell you about the Space Station's maxxed out A31p's - 1600x1200 was absolutely the bomb! No tan from CRT, font sizes small enough to fit a reasonable script file on the screen yet still enough pixels so that 6pt system was still entirely legible, AND portable. THEN what happened? I'll --tell-- you what happened sonny! The dang consumers got into this "small and light" LCD tee vee concept and destroyed the market for a literal tuck fun of years, a decade and a half basically! All the laptops, desktops and everything went bloody backwards forever! Those were shameful days, shameful I tell ya, where consumerism ran rampant and sanity absolutely did not prevail!
