On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:33:53PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 08:05 AM 8/30/00 -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> >How small?
> >
> >I'd like to get barebones Perl and Linux on a 1.44MB floppy...
> 
> That, I think, is unlikely to happen. Heck, you're hard-pressed to get 
> linux alone on a 1.44M floppy these days...

QNX can fit a multithreading memoryprotected POSIX-compliant OS with a
TCP/IP stack, a GUI, a shell (I think), and a web browser on a 1.b44 MB
floppy.  Not a joke: http://www.qnx.com/demodisk/

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