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by Avamander 37 days ago
Your comment reminds me of HP's obscure EFI OS called QuickLook. I would guess there are a lot of obscure OSs out there.
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philistine 37 days ago
I'd watch this if I were you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssob-7sGVWs

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Elfener 36 days ago
I knew what video that was going to be before I clicked it. I highly recommend watching the whole series, including more cursed OSs created because windows booted slowly (?): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLec1d3OBbZ8IBeFODHXLy...
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philistine 36 days ago
> I knew what video that was going to be before I clicked it.

A man of culture.

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lproven 33 days ago
Text article, instead of video, for other video-haters like me...

https://gekk.info/articles/hp-quickweb.htm

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a1o 37 days ago
Oh, yeah! I think ASUS also had something like that at some point.
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lproven 33 days ago
There were multiple ones, including some by BIOS vendors offered to many hardware OEMs.

Hyperspace was one of the most widely-seen.

https://gekk.info/articles/hyperspace.htm

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