A Modern Operating System in 1.44MBs

[doener]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SATYQyIcimM

[ametrau]

It would be better if this was a blog post. I cbf clicking on a YouTube link.

[_mlbt → ametrau]

Here's the link to the OS the YouTube video is talking about...

http://kolibrios.org/en/

It's been around for a very long time and is actually a fork of MenuetOS...

http://menuetos.net

Both are very impressive feats of assembly language engineering.

[dmitrygr → ametrau]

Same. People need re-discover writing. I was looking for how to reset a particular electronic device I have yesterday and the manufacturer has no manual. Only videos. Google also only showed videos. Soon we’ll be an illiterate species.

[jj999 → dmitrygr]

For millenia humans was divided between the illiterate mass and a literate elite. Mass literacy is a localised phenomenon historically and geographically. Youtube users chose their side. Choose your.

[aebtebeten → jj999]

HG Wells forecast a division of humanity into eloi and morlocks in AD 802701; we may be just a little ahead of his schedule.

[nxobject → dmitrygr]

Gotta get that sweet, sweet YouTube monetization, apparently. We grit our teeth and take it on YouTube, but we (rightly, but also with consequences) have higher standards for text.

[al_borland]

Projects like this make me wonder how small/large operating systems and programs would be today if people still felt the need to care about disk space.

[earleybird]

Around 1998 (into the early 2000's) I ran LRP[0] on a 486 which provided NAT & firewall services behind my cable modem. It booted from a 1.44mb floppy and ran out of ramdisk iirc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project

[mdekkers]

Fond memories of being completely blown away by the QNX disk that came with some magazine

[ufocia → mdekkers]

You must be talking three decades ago or so.

[mdekkers → ufocia]

Yes! It was complete with a complete GUI, browser, networking stack, ISDN dialler, everything there :)