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Not quite. As far as I can tell DOS 3.3 was distributed on one disk for the core OS and commands (~1MB). There were supplemental disks for Basic etc. Windows
by rogerbinns 14y ago
Not quite. As far as I can tell DOS 3.3 was distributed on one disk for the core OS and commands (~1MB). There were supplemental disks for Basic etc. Windows 3.1 was larger but so were "standard" disks of that time (it was on 7 1.44MB floppies, compressed, but parts were optional).
But there is one huge difference you have overlooked - with your 486 you could install any operating system you wanted. You could even delete bits of DOS you didn't use. With the Apple/Microsoft tablets you can only run the operating system they provide (cryptographically/hardware enforced) and you cannot delete any of the OS.
With that 20MB 486 you could choose what every single byte is used for - and that is true of PCs today. But not for the locked down hardware.
- tedunangst 14y agoThe surface pro is not afaik locked. It's a pc that happens to be made by Microsoft.
- toyg 14y agoI thought MS's ARM-based devices would refuse to boot anything that is not cryptographically signed with a set of MS-controlled keys. If that's still the case, then they're pretty locked in my book.
- recoiledsnake 14y agoThe Surface Pro is not ARM-based.
- rogerbinns 14y agoWe won't find out until mid-February exactly what the Surface Pro situation is in terms of device locking, administrative access etc is.