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Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))
From: Alexis Rosen <alexis () panix com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:33:21 -0400 (EDT)
Neil J. McRae writes:
Well if you're talking i386. For NetBSD/i386 work is being done to make gzip'ed kernels boot at thi time.
So the author told me. Thing is, he's as bad in some ways as I am. Maybe it'll be done in two weeks, maybe not. But whenever it's done, I'm sure it'll be great. BTW, I'm curious why some people don't seem to like the idea. At the speed of modern systems, I suspect that loading uncompressed off flopy isn't much faster (if at all) than loading compressed off floppy and decompressing. In fact it may be slower. I'd test it right now but my arms aren't 4 miles long, which they'd have to be to reach the closest floppy drive on one of my NetBSDs... Heh. I can just see it. gzip becomes a kernel function. Although that's not really a joke- compressing filesystems aren't far off that mark... /a - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Alexis Rosen (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Vadim Antonov (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Robert Sanders (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Alexis Rosen (Oct 21)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Rob Liebschutz (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Neil J. McRae (Oct 21)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Rob Liebschutz (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Craig A. Huegen (Oct 20)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Rob Liebschutz (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Vadim Antonov (Oct 21)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Alexis Rosen (Oct 21)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Peter Galbavy (Oct 21)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) dave o'leary (Oct 27)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Peter Lothberg (Oct 28)