He He He.
My wife tells me that I excel in stirring people. I have no idea what she means ;-)
But this little gem (menuetOS) has arisen from my jesting.
Thanks for the input. You never know what you will learn.
Cheers
Bill
-----Original message-----
> From:David Sommerseth <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday 12th January 2017 11:20
> To: Lamar Owen <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: SL7.3 RC Size
>
> On 11/01/17 21:01, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks a lot! That actually booted quite fast and nicely in a KVM VM
> ... quite impressive what they've achieved!
>
>
> --
> kind regards,
>
> David Sommerseth
>
>
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