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To: Utilizer
Anyone who knows anything about assembly knows that any operating system which takes several hundred megabytes to load is a kludge.

I've long been astonished that no one has done this before.

Does it implement any of the Microsoft function calls, or does it have replacements for them?

3 posted on 05/15/2015 9:01:31 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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Since it is a different OS, I would guess “no”. I also see no reference to needed .dll files in the article, although it does mention that it doesn’t require a special graphics card API to function properly.


4 posted on 05/15/2015 9:05:28 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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It’s a neat project, but impractical and kind of dumb for modern hardware.


5 posted on 05/15/2015 9:07:17 PM PDT by dinodino
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Where do you get “several hundred megabytes”? The article says that it can load from a floppy disk. The largest of those IIRC was the 1.44 meg 3.5” floppy.


8 posted on 05/15/2015 9:18:55 PM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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