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 > >