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I remember the QNX Demo on a 1.44 MB floppy disk. It booted straight into a full blown window manager and had a basic web browser. That was 1999 and I never saw
by hilti 8mo ago
I remember the QNX Demo on a 1.44 MB floppy disk. It booted straight into a full blown window manager and had a basic web browser. That was 1999 and I never saw anything like that afterwards.
- throwup238 8mo agoWould that even fit the unicode tables today?
- userbinator 8mo agoMenuetOS/KolibriOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27249075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27249075 That was 1999 and I never saw anything like that afterwards. Now you have ;-)
- hilti 8mo agoWow! I never heard of them. KolibriOS looks promising.
- whalesalad 8mo agoThe first time I booted menuet OS (2005? high school?) I was absolutely floored at how capable (and decent looking) an OS that lives entirely on a 1.44mb floppy could be.
- xkriva11 8mo agoxwoaf-rebuild matches that https://web.archive.org/web/20240901115514/https://pupngo.dk/xwinflpy/xwoaf_rebuild.html https://web.archive.org/web/20240901115514/https://pupngo.dk...
- fix4fun 8mo agoI got the same feeling, whey I saw it first time. How they fit GUI, drivers all that stuff in 1.44MB.