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[OM] Re: OT Computer trivia, was Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 question

Subject: [OM] Re: OT Computer trivia, was Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 question
From: "Daniel Tan" <daniel.tan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 20:38:51 +1000
There's a linuxBIOS project somewhere.
It's not exactly a tiny OS, but they pretty much load the linux kernel
directly into the BIOS NVRAM space. 3 second boots.

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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of David Thatcher
Sent: Wednesday, 3 March 2004 8:31 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OT Computer trivia, was Polaroid Sprintscan 4000
question


180k? LUXURY!!!   how about less than 16k  (e.g. CP/M)...

imagine an OS like that on today's hardware...!!!!

davidt


On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:13:41AM -0000, Piers Hemy wrote:
> 
> Ahh, those were the days, when you could fit an OS into, what, 180k of
disk
> space? 
> 
> Piers 
> 


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