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Is that before or after the floppy-based QNX?
by kingsuper20 5y ago
Is that before or after the floppy-based QNX?
- schoen 5y agoThe QNX floppy was apparently from late 1999 (http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html), so I'd say "almost contemporaneous with" because, in my recollection, the Linuxcare project would have dated to sometime in 2000. The QNX floppy was extremely impressive for our group and we never really thought about how to get closer to its size. (Today one part of the answer might be "use busybox for your whole userspace".)
- gattilorenz 5y agoI suspect Yggdrasil came before the QNX floppy, at least the one I played with at the time (http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html). Even if I'm wrong there have probably been earlier Linux boot floppy disks (e.g.tomsrtbt, mulinux - which was great!). Somewhat related, at some point even SCO made a demo boot floppy for SCO Unix (or perhaps Openserver), it's still available on ftp.sco.com somewhere. No X and very few useful utilities in there.