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FreeDOS 1.4: Still DOS, still FOSS, more modern than ever
The 1990s called – they're impressed The FreeDOS Project has released version 1.4 of its fully open source DOS-compatible OS ...
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The Latest Linux – On A Floppy In A 486!
If you have ever studied the early history of the GNU/Linux operating system in its many forms ... a current Linux kernel and stick it on a floppy in a machine from the early 1990s, with ...
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The Legacy Of The Floppy Still Looms Over Windows
We no longer use floppy ... of MS-DOS 2.0. Disks, especially floppy disks, are slow compared to computer memory. A disk cache is a piece of memory into which the operating system puts frequently ...
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Super-lightweight operating system boots off a 1.44MB floppy disk — KolibriOS lets you do simple tasks and even play games on your legacy PC
A curiosity recently caught our eye—that curiosity is KolibriOS, a super-lightweight, ultra-fast OS designed for legacy PCs with its floppy drive-friendly install size of just 1.44 MB.
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PC floppy disks
The 720KB 3.5" floppy was introduced on IBM's Convertible laptop. Capacity doubled to 1.44MB with the PS/2 line, and 1.44MB drives supported both media. The visible difference between the two was ...