XDA Developers on MSN1mon
This modern-day operating system can fit on a floppy disk
and now we have Windows 11 taking up 9GB of space for no reason. However, one operating system has gone the other direction ...
Hackaday1mon
KolibriOS: The Operating System That Fits On A 1.44 MB 3.5″ Floppy Disk
While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure x86 assembly and as a result small and lightweight enough to run off a standard 1.44 MB floppy disk, as ...
tom's Hardware on MSN1mon
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 ...
New York Post1mon
San Francisco OKs $212M plan to finally replace aging train system run by floppy disks
Floppy disks were the ... DOS, which stands for disk operating system, was used to power IBM personal computers through the 1980s and 90s. But the rising popularity of Windows and other graphical ...
Hackaday5y
The Legacy Of The Floppy Still Looms Over Windows
It seems Windows disk cache ... especially floppy disks, are slow compared to computer memory. A disk cache is a piece of memory into which the operating system puts frequently loaded items ...