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