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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