• Beto
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    12 years ago

    To demonstrate the OS’s capability and relatively small size, in the late 1990s QNX released a demo image that included the POSIX-compliant QNX 4 OS, a full graphical user interface, graphical text editor, TCP/IP networking, web browser and web server that all fit on a bootable 1.44 MB floppy disk for the 386 PC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX

    • @elint@programming.dev
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      12 years ago

      Every demoparty in the link you mentioned with a beginning date and a dash but no end date is still happening. The demoscene is still very much alive.

      • Marshell
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        02 years ago

        Oh yes! And I didn’t intend to say it is dead! I merely wanted to point to the fact that these guys did and do incredible things in the 64kb class.

    • @alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org
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      12 years ago

      Is this supposed to be small or am I missing something? 400kb for hello world does not really sound small