On 01/11/2017 10:25 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 10/01/17 12:53, Bill Maidment wrote:
>> There used to be a day when a single floppy was enough for an OS install. Oh! how we have progressed(?)
> Right ... where you had just a full screen command line, single tasking
> OS with odd memory management and no TCP/IP stack, no internet software
> at all, not office package, no real graphical desktop environment, no
> package management ... and the list is soooo much longer.  But why
> bother comparing apples with apples ;-)
>
Sounds like Bill wants something like MenuetOS ( http://menuetos.net/ 
).  Single floppy, GUI, TCP/IP, SMP (up to 32 processors), 
Editor/assembler, USB, hard real-time, preemptive multitasking, media 
players (drives up the amount of storage needed), etc.  Active development.