Beto@lemmy.studiotoProgramming@programming.dev•A fully self-contained natively compiled C# Hello World, including GC and everything can be as small as ~440 kBEnglish
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1 year agoTo demonstrate the OS’s capability and relatively small size, in the late 1990s QNX released a demo image that included the POSIX-compliant QNX 4 OS, a full graphical user interface, graphical text editor, TCP/IP networking, web browser and web server that all fit on a bootable 1.44 MB floppy disk for the 386 PC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX
My favorite comment about this from Mastodon: “X is just a sans serif swastika”.