Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 20:23:27 +0100 (BST) From: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Think Small. (The 1.44M Web Challenge) Message-ID: <20998.199706061923@wrasse.csv.warwick.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <97Jun6.111931pdt.177489@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Jun 6, 97 11:19:25 am"
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> Anyone know of a tiny windowing system? We could use lynx in a > terminal window as the browser (cheating, I know...) MGR? IIRC it's only about 200K, but there's hardly any software and it only does black/white. > > ------- Forwarded Message > > From: danh@qnx.com (Dan Hildebrand) > Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system > Subject: The 1.44M Web Challenge > Date: 5 Jun 1997 14:51:47 -0400 > Organization: QNX Software Systems > Message-ID: <5n71s3$b9f@qnx.com> > NNTP-Posting-Host: gateway.qnx.com > > In the interests of laying out a friendly little challenge, can a > Linux system be configured to put a web browser, a web server, > the OS, TCP/IP and a windowing system on a single 1.44 Mbyte > floppy disk? > > Impossible? > > QNX Software Systems Ltd. announces the QNX Demo Disk > (downloadable from http://www.qnx.com/iat/). This single 1.44 > Mbyte floppy disk contains: > > 1. Voyager Web Browser (Full HTML 3.2, frames, tables, etc.) > 2. Voyager Embedded Web Server > 3. The QNX Realtime Operating System > 4. TCP/IP (with PPP including CHAP/PAP support) > 5. Photon microGUI Windowing System > 6. A "remote control" device to simulate a TV set top box > 7. An Internet Phone Dialer > 8. A Graphical File Browser > 9. A Graphical Text Editor > 10. A Vector Graphics Animation > 11. Over 180 Kbytes of HTML and image content > > With this floppy disk and a desktop PC, you can browse the web or > turn that PC into a web server accessible to other computers on > the Internet. > > To download a copy, visit the http://www.qnx.com/iat/ website. > To run the demodisk, you'll need a PC with a 386 or better, 6 > Mbytes of RAM minimum, a mouse, VGA or better video and, > optionally, a modem. > > A floppy drive is required, but the hard drive is not. :-) > -- > Dan Hildebrand (danh@qnx.com) QNX Software Systems, Ltd. > http://www.qnx.com/~danh 175 Terence Matthews > phone: +1 (613) 591-0931 Kanata, Ontario, Canada > fax: +1 (613) 591-3579 K2M 1W8 > > ------- End of Forwarded Message >
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