I remember the demo floppy, which had a GUI, networking and some other stuff. It was pretty cool for the time
> we implemented this: http://swain.webframe.org/squeak/floppy/
> (using Linux and modifying Squeak to work with SVGALib instead of X)
> in just 900mb
"Just" 900MB?
That is, er, not very comparable. Nearly a gigabyte, versus a single floppy? (Circa 1.4MB albeit very heavily compressed, so over 2MB of code, maybe 3.)
That is a difference of approximately 2 orders of magnitude, heading towards 3 OOM: 1000x bigger.
Am I misreading?
You definitely did not get 900MB on a floppy. It wouldn't even fit on a CD (~700MB uncompressed).
http://swain.webframe.org/squeak/floppy/
900 kB. Quite a big difference. 1,024 times smaller, in fact. :-)
Crazy, compared with the storage devices I could attach to my Timex 2068 in 1986.
And they are only useful on some computers and phones. Cars and measuring equipment are usually limited.