Re: Why *are* the kernels monolithic?

[Henning Brauer <lists-openbsd_(_at_)_bsws_(_dot_)_de>]

* Marsh J. Ray <marsh-obsd_(_at_)_mysteray_(_dot_)_com> [2004-06-02 12:28]:
> I can recall _one_ time where I had to compile a smaller kernel to 
> shoehorn some old version (maybe 2.9 or something) on a laptop with 8 MB 
> RAM. How I wish I had the time I spent doing that back.

oh, I have that too, a really old 486 laptop with 8MB I use as cereal 
console in our data center. it doesn't have any network connection, and 
guess what, it still runs 2.9 (or was it 2.8? 2.7? who knows, it doesn't 
really matter). changing that is too painfull. I'll never upgrade that 
box again, before that I'll use some other random old notebook which 
has at least 32 MB so GENERIC fits.

and this is an irrelevant corner case.

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