Hi again, On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 3:55 PM, <peasth...@shaw.ca> wrote: > From: Carl Spitzer <cw...@safe-mail.net> > Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:14:38 -0800 >> ... likely there will still be uses for some things with floppies for a >> while. > > To illustrate, the basic PC Native Oberon system is > installed from one diskette. Another 3 diskettes provide > the complete system including GUI, network connectivity, FTP > client, elementary Web browser, regular expression processor, > file comparitor and other commonplace applications.
Just for the record, this goes to both the machines Wirth had access to at the time as well as his spirit for simplicity. Unfortunately, his "plea" went unheard. http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ A Plea for Lean Software, IEEE Computer, 28, 2, (Feb. 1995), 64-68. http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/LeanSoftware.pdf P.S. Haven't tried lately, but I assume the DJGPP (DOS) port of XPDF can still read this. ;-) http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/xpdf/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
