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hiltitoday at 5:12 AM4 repliesview on HN

I remember the QNX Demo on a 1.44 MB floppy disk. It booted straight into a full blown window manager and had a basic web browser. That was 1999 and I never saw anything like that afterwards.


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userbinatortoday at 5:59 AM

MenuetOS/KolibriOS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059961

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27249075

That was 1999 and I never saw anything like that afterwards.

Now you have ;-)

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fix4funtoday at 8:53 AM

I got the same feeling, whey I saw it first time. How they fit GUI, drivers all that stuff in 1.44MB.

throwup238today at 5:27 AM

Would that even fit the unicode tables today?