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by hilti 142 days 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.
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userbinator 142 days ago
MenuetOS/KolibriOS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059961

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27249075

That was 1999 and I never saw anything like that afterwards.

Now you have ;-)

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whalesalad 141 days ago
The 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.
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hilti 142 days ago
Wow! I never heard of them. KolibriOS looks promising.
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xkriva11 142 days ago
xwoaf-rebuild matches that

https://web.archive.org/web/20240901115514/https://pupngo.dk...

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fix4fun 141 days ago
I got the same feeling, whey I saw it first time. How they fit GUI, drivers all that stuff in 1.44MB.
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throwup238 142 days ago
Would that even fit the unicode tables today?
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