64-bit OS on a floppy Carlos 4/21/2007 12:26:00 AM Slightly off-topic but for those who want a little distraction you might want to try this free 64-bit OS that fits on a floppy. http://www.menuetos.net/ Just download the OS (1.44 MB) and prepare your floppy. Download link is: http://www.menuetos.be/download.php?CurrentMenuetOS It boots to a GUI and it even worked with a wireless mouse/keyboard. If you are bored you can play freecell there. In a 64-bit era of DVD sized OS's this seems like a miracle. Carlos

Re: 64-bit OS on a floppy "S.SubZero" <ssubzero[ at ]gmail.com> 4/21/2007 7:58:39 PM People with computers that can run 64-bit OS's still have floppy drives? I haven't owned a floppy drive in almost 10 years. Do they have it on punch cards too?

Re: 64-bit OS on a floppy "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst[ at ]msn.com> 4/21/2007 8:19:48 PM I have two 64bit computers, one an AMD64 x2 4400+ and one a Core 2 Duo E6600, and I ordered each of them with a floppy drive because I still find uses for floppies, especially with legacy Windows operating systems that I run under VPC. "S.SubZero" <ssubzero[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1177185519.792549.74610[ at ]b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > People with computers that can run 64-bit OS's still have floppy > drives? > > I haven't owned a floppy drive in almost 10 years. > > Do they have it on punch cards too? >

Re: 64-bit OS on a floppy Carlos 4/21/2007 10:32:01 PM SubZero: That was not my point. These guys have managed, in the era of Gigabyte OS's, to squeeze a mimum functionality 64-bit OS on a single floppy. My point was regarding the size and not the media. Machine language programming is still alive. Give this OS a try, if you can borrow a floppy drive :) and you will be surprised how many things can be achieved still with a few of bytes. Carlos "S.SubZero" wrote: [Quoted Text] > People with computers that can run 64-bit OS's still have floppy > drives? > > I haven't owned a floppy drive in almost 10 years. > > Do they have it on punch cards too? > >

Re: 64-bit OS on a floppy miso[ at ]sushi.com 4/22/2007 12:59:05 AM On Apr 21, 1:19 pm, "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarha...[ at ]msn.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have two 64bit computers, one an AMD64 x2 4400+ and one a Core 2 Duo > E6600, and I ordered each of them with a floppy drive because I still find > uses for floppies, especially with legacy Windows operating systems that I > run under VPC. > > "S.SubZero" <ssubz...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:1177185519.792549.74610[ at ]b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > > > People with computers that can run 64-bit OS's still have floppy > > drives? > > > I haven't owned a floppy drive in almost 10 years. > > > Do they have it on punch cards too? If you have nvidia software RAID, you need to load the drivers via floppy. You press f6 to request to load the drivers. Speaking of obsolete hardware, I did a system restore lately, trying to clear up the problems I'm having with photoshop. Techically, I did a system "repair", but will probably do a system rebuild since the repair isn't fixing the problem. Anyway, during the install, I get to a point where the program pops up a window and asks for an ATI driver. The window gives you the opportunity to find it on the hard drive. Unfortunately, the USB gets locked, so I can't interface with the window. The mouse locks up as well, so I assume it is a USB problem. Luckily I had a PS2 keyboard handy and was able to get that keyboard to work with the window. Since PS2 isn't hot swap, it cost me quite a bit of time since I had to start from scratch after powering down to insert the keyboard.