RE:Re: The end of embedded Linux?

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oops didnt see that..

Cheers, Dean.

On 	09 Oct 2002 12:49:48 +0100 	Alan Cox <[e-mail]> wrote:

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On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 08:37, Alexander Kellett wrote: 
> This talk of adeos reminds me of something that i'd
> "dreamed" of a while back. Whats the feasability of
> having a 70kb kernel that barely even provides support 
> for user space apps and is basically just an hardware 
> abstraction layer for "applications" that can be 
> written as kernel modules?

Its called FreeDOS,