In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, walt writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> Because few if any 80386 computers have the ram it takes to run sysinstall.
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>Was sysinstall around when 386 was new?  Just curious what's changed since
>then to make it bigger.

sysinstall arrived in the 486 days.

Lots of junk has been added since, but I think most of the bloating
is from added kernel stuff, IPv6, PCcard, PCI, USB and so on.

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