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There is a way to fit the kernel in 360 KB, but that's the most you'll get. Whole distros have been fit on a floppy disc. The kernel with ancillary embedded sof
by AstralStorm 2y ago
There is a way to fit the kernel in 360 KB, but that's the most you'll get. Whole distros have been fit on a floppy disc. The kernel with ancillary embedded software in half a megabyte of flash easily.
However, this kernel does much more than, say, C64 ever did. BPF and ACPI parser alone is bigger than BASIC, there's a network stack, multitasking etc.
Multiple people have claimed you cannot do it with new kernels. They are wrong. (E.g. Floppinux by Jankowski.)
Remember that a lot of the software back then took more than one disk. Amiga Workbench for example used 3 for 1.0 I believe... And that built off Kickstart, which is the true kernel and was extra 256 KB.