I was at work and thinking....

[NotTheBritish]

i was thinking... lots of ppl have 486's and classic pentiums under their beds, or holding doors open, why not write minature os'es to run on these things and do jobs like bridge networks, or if you've got 2 netwok cards of diffrent kinds, ie, rj45 and coax/bnc make a media changer outa them, or if your like me and experementing with lasercomm convert network data into something suitable for transmission over light or radio, or even (i like 2 call em) hard-drive-warmers, where you have loadsa small value hdd's lyin abt that you want 2 make usefull agin. basically (after alot of talkin) minature specialised bootable programs.

[carbonBased]

Linux is great for a lot of these tasks... especially embedded Linux.

But I agree, there should be more small ("embedded style") OSs for use on 386+ machines.

Jeff