Re: What services are NOT needed with EMC

[Paul <Paul.Corner-at-tesco.net>]

Hi Ray

 Have you been talking to Dan again <g>
I had this discussion in the New Year, and have given it a casual look from
time to time since.
X windows and the window manager would be the largest part of any install. If
this part could be dumped in favour of a framebuffer drive and a small
dedicated GUI implimented - I would think  you could sqeeze it into less than
32 Mb.
Rtlinux is available on a single floppy, used in conjuction with nano-X and
FLTK, an embedded EMC is a very real possibility.

Some usefull URLs:
http://linux-fbdev.org  for frame buffer drivers
http://www.microwindows.org for nano-X
http://www.fltk.org for fltk

Regards Paul.




On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Ray wrote:
> I have been talking with some fellows who think that they can get it all
> into a 64 meg disk-on-chip or compact-flash.  
> 
> Once we get matching rpm's for rt and emc we will be able to install in a
> much smaller space 'cause we won't need the development stuff.  Like Paul,
> I'd keep a network handy and use it for part-program storage and such.