How small?
I'd like to get barebones Perl and Linux on a 1.44MB floppy...
If it is currently possible, I'd like to know... Perhaps someone has already
created such a single disk linux distro?
Garrett
P.S. I know one group of developers who'd be interested in putting Perl on a
microcontroller. -Right now, they seem to think they'll have to use Python.
From: Bradley M. Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Fisher Mark wrote:
>
> > How small do we really need to go? Are we looking at
> > implementing Perl for microcontrollers, or are we only
> > worrying about Perl for PDAs?
>
> > On the other hand, microcontrollers still don't have a lot
> > of RAM, at least as compared to PDAs.
>
> I heard that a major mobile telephone manufacturer might be
> putting a JVM chip in one of their future models.
>
> I would like to be able to compile Perl programs to JVM so
> that they can run on such a device. I don't know if that's
> as small as a what you mean by microcontrollers, but it's
> still pretty small (probably smaller than a PDA, since RAM
> on the phone will be taken up by lots of phone-related
> stuff :).
