From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 30 11:19:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA07950 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:19:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA07941 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id TAA12131; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 19:17:38 +0200 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 19:17:38 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199706301717.TAA12131@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: ANNOUNCE: The 1.44 Mbyte Web Challenge (comp.windows.x.apps) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Apologies if this is off topic, but I found this on the news, and it sounds interesting. I haven't been able to try it because the site is quite slow from here. Now if only they had the ability of running telnet sessions over the ppp link that would be even more useful for me... [of course we can dump an installed FreeBSD version on a bootable CD and achieve the same effect...] Cheers Luigi In article <5opuds$td@qnx.com>, danh@qnx.com (Dan Hildebrand) writes: |> The challenge: Put a Web browser, a web server, a POSIX-certified |> realtime 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 -- -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________