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Also the whole OS was a 1.44' bootable floppy disk which booted in 10 seconds on a 486

• sleepydog 4y ago
  I think you meant it fit on 3.5” floppy drive (1.44 MB). Fitting on a 1.44 foot floppy disk would be much less impressive :P
  • slim 4y ago
    absolutely :)
  • mod 4y ago
    Bigger is better! I'd love to see that disk. Maybe you'd wheel it out on one of those TV carts all my teachers had.
    • Bluecobra 4y ago
      I think they did make 14" WORM optical disks at some point: https://i.redd.it/dgvtw0tmgxk81.png https://i.redd.it/dgvtw0tmgxk81.png
      • aliqot 4y ago
        8 inch floppies for the rest of us Phillistines https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Floppy_disk_2009_G1.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Floppy_d...
        • karmakaze 4y ago
          I remember those 8" (WANG) floppies.
• suprjami 4y ago
  Is there an image of this floppy floating around anywhere?
• cfbsoftware 4y ago
  We now have the whole Project Oberon OS running on an Artix-7 100T FPGA without any external RAM. It just uses the 512KB of Block RAM (BRAM) on the chip itself: https://www.astrobe.com/RISC5/Workstation.htm https://www.astrobe.com/RISC5/Workstation.htm