| Re: ISO CD image [message #411961] |
Sat, 23 October 2021 13:54 |
Harry Vaderchi
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Registered: July 2012
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 10:50:54 -0700 (PDT)
"muta...@gmail.com" <mutazilah@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, October 24, 2021 at 2:17:56 AM UTC+11, Scott Lurndal wrote:
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>>> Let's assume we have a real CDROM and a real hard disk
>>> and a real BIOS, but I'm writing the real BIOS and I'm making
>>> up my own specs for the BIOS, which OS vendors will need
>>> to comply to.
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>> No chance that any OS vendor would be at all interested.
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> I am an OS vendor myself, and I am interested.
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>>> Hard disks and CDROMs will be less than 2 GiB in size.
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>> That's not particularly useful. And hasn't been for two
>> decades.
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> 2 GiB is enough to contain all the source for an OS, a
> compiler for the OS, the rest of the toolchain, and BBS
> software, which is everything I actually want.
>
WIWAL 2M was plenty (*not* xposted to alt.fan^wfolklore.computers)!
Oh alright then.
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Bah, and indeed Humbug.
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