San Francisco OKs $212M plan to finally replace aging train system run by floppy disks
The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...
Meet KolibriOS, the lightweight OS that can even boot from a 1.44MB floppy
The boot time is remarkably speedy, too. In a recent video, YouTuber Michael MJD demonstrated KolibriOS booting within a few minutes off a 3.5" floppy disk and in around five seconds off a CD-ROM on ...
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
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San Francisco is paying millions to end reliance on this iconic, but ancient technology — floppy disks still powering the Muni Metro light rail system on DOS software
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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 ...
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The MBR's boot code uses the volume boot code of that specific partition to identify where the system partition is. That ...