11 May
2020
11 May
'20
11:36 a.m.
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 01:55:21PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
The "Photon MicroGUI". I don't know if it is currently supported.
I remember reading an ad in Byte (I think) a long time ago (obviously) from QNX (before RIM bought them). They offered a floppy-size bootable system with this GUI. This is probably it:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VlI6IBEJ0>
<https://archive.org/details/QNX_incredible_1.44m_demo_v4.0>
Pretty amazing size for the PC world, even then. Not so amazing to the original Mac, Amiga, Atari ST, or CoCo III users.
I remember those floppies. The fact it included networking and a browser and some other apps was quite impressive. But yes as an Amiga user, it was only slightly impressive. -- Len Sorensen