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by smilespray 11 hours ago
Full network stack and a web server on a 1.44MB floppy!
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dredmorbius 5 hours ago
Do you recall which browser?

BrowseX, written mostly in Tcl/Tk, was included in one microdistro. Probably LNX-BBC, per Wikipedia.

<https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/BrowseX>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_card#Operati...>

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d3Xt3r 10 hours ago
And a Javascript capable HTML4 browser, and a decent-looking and performant GUI desktop too.

It's a shame QNX (desktop) died, used to be way more performant and stable compared to Linux or anything else back in the day.

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userbinator 9 hours ago
The problem is it wasn't really compatible with anything else, at a time when DOS/Windows and Unix-likes were the most common.
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