On a sunny day (Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:58:04 -0800) it happened Mike Easter
 wrote in :

>Eli the Bearded wrote:
>>> Mike Easter wrote:
>>>> Lighter weight distro/s such as Raspian and others should continue to
>>>> get the most attention from ARM devices.
>>
>> Is Raspbian really "light" though? It's a lot lighter than conventional
>> desktop Linux, but still kinda heavyweight. I had an used a functional
>> GUI Unix in the 1990s that installed to some 60 megabytes of disk, and
>> worked with my 4 megabytes of RAM.
>
>In the 90s, I preferred the GUI of a modified Win98se, litePC dev
>98lite, which came in variants, sleek, chubby, overweight, and micro,
>which could do fine in as little ram as W95.  But that was more like 32
>megs of ram.

Here teh  Z80 OS I wrote, CP/M clone, it ran the Softwaretoolworks C compiler
too::
 http://panteltje.com/panteltje/z80/system14/index.html

And I designed and build the hardware:
 http://panteltje.com/panteltje/z80/system14/diagrams/index.html

I was faster then than the IBM PC cause I used a special RAMDISK..
Graphics card:
 http://panteltje.com//pub/z80/graphics_card_top.jpg
  had a lightpen too ;-)
Sound, of course I had sound:
 http://panteltje.com//pub/z80/soundcard_top.jpg
Ramdisk:
 http://panteltje.com//pub/z80/ramdisk_top.jpg
It would load a floppy into ramdisk and do everything from there...
no seek rrr rrr rrrr instant computing.

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