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!


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kind regards,

David Sommerseth