Comment by pjsg
2 years ago
Yes -- that is right. Back in those days, you could build the linux kernel from scratch on a laptop with 16MB of memory! I used to commute (on a weekly basis) from Boston to NYC, and you could build and boot and test a kernel between taking off from Logan airport and landing in La Guardia! I can't recall the vendor of the laptop that I used, and the internet is indicating that maybe the 16MB was an overestimate.
I think that the adjtime call went in in Linux 0.99pl15 (there were different numbering conventions back then).
I first got Linux (Slackware) around about that time. I had a desktop with 4MB (later with 8), so I'd say 16MB in a laptop would've probably not been right too.
I remember the interesting "plXX" patch numbers too.
16MB of memory in 1992? Boy oh boy, ain't you the most spoiled kid ever? When I got 4MB in 1994 I though I caught God's foot.