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slim | karma 3135 | avg karma 1.95 2022-08-26 06:59:59 | [–] update item

Also the whole OS was a 1.44' bootable floppy disk which booted in 10 seconds on a 486

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sleepydog | karma 784 | avg karma 3.24 2022-08-26 08:29:09 | [–] similar comments

I think you meant it fit on 3.5” floppy drive (1.44 MB). Fitting on a 1.44 foot floppy disk would be much less impressive :P

slim | karma 3135 | avg karma 1.95 2022-08-26 09:06:12 | [–] similar comments

absolutely :)

mod | karma 3866 | avg karma 1.75 2022-08-26 10:03:03 | [–] similar comments

Bigger is better!

I'd love to see that disk. Maybe you'd wheel it out on one of those TV carts all my teachers had.

Bluecobra | karma 1637 | avg karma 2.74 2022-08-26 14:33:20 | [–] similar comments

I think they did make 14" WORM optical disks at some point:

https://i.redd.it/dgvtw0tmgxk81.png

aliqot | karma 4118 | avg karma 2.84 2022-08-26 15:57:36 | [–] similar comments

8 inch floppies for the rest of us Phillistines

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Floppy_d...

karmakaze | karma 8189 | avg karma 1.25 2022-08-26 16:42:44 | [–] similar comments

I remember those 8" (WANG) floppies.

suprjami | karma 2080 | avg karma 2.41 2022-08-26 17:46:39 | [–] similar comments

Is there an image of this floppy floating around anywhere?

cfbsoftware | karma 6 | avg karma 1.5 2022-08-27 19:58:39 | [–] similar comments

We now have the whole Project Oberon OS running on an Artix-7 100T FPGA without any external RAM. It just uses the 512KB of Block RAM (BRAM) on the chip itself:

https://www.astrobe.com/RISC5/Workstation.htm

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