I need to detect how much RAM is installed on a given machine, independent of the operating system it runs and the type of architecture.

I'd like to compile the resulting code as a stand-alone executable with PAR and see if I could fit it on a bootable floppy of some sort, like some linux flavor or DOS perhaps. That way I could run it on virtually any machine in here, except for those pesky cobalts.

If you are going to put the resulting program on a bootable floppy, does the solution have to be portable between OSses? Or are you going to cram multiple OSses on the same floppy? And the floppy is going to be run on say on both Intel x86 architecture and SUN Sparc architecture?

However, I very much doubt you'll be able to put a kernel *and* a Perl runtime environment one a floppy. Regardless of the OS. (Even with PAR, you need a Perl runtime environment - it's there, even if it's in one huge binary).

Abigail

In reply to Re: Using Perl to detect RAM amount by Abigail-II
in thread Using Perl to detect RAM amount by Tommy

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