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# Brilliant.
Only flaw is that some new computers come with no floppy drive. Ah, the good old days when OSes came on 4 floppy disks...

*reminisces*
(MooCow_Byter, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 13:55, archived)
# Hmmm
Dos 3.30 came on only ONE 3.5" Disk, and it was not even a high density one!
(I helped save b3ta! Squiggy Alloria makes theme parks., Sun 27 Jun 2004, 13:56, archived)
# :o
(I helped save b3ta! Delete Me, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 13:57, archived)
# what do you mean "used to" ?
You can still get versions of linux that run off a single floppy
(Ravenous Bugblatter Beast This content may not be working. Please try again., Sun 27 Jun 2004, 13:57, archived)
# yeah but nobody uses them do they? you cockchomper
(I helped save b3ta! Delete Me, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 13:58, archived)
# They have niche uses
I use coyote linux as a DHCP server for running mulitple virtual machines on an internalnetwork.

But anyway, back to the world of things that are actually interesting, you Urs Meier's Hairy Buttocks
(Ravenous Bugblatter Beast This content may not be working. Please try again., Sun 27 Jun 2004, 14:09, archived)
# hahahaha
Harsh but, ultimately, fair.
(I helped save b3ta! routine has perfected burgers, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 14:16, archived)
# I used to use them all the time in my old job.
To repair fucked Windows installations.
(nugchuts, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 14:20, archived)
# Yeah, OK.
But they're the ones that you can only use to run MAME or play movies and so on. I mean ones that can do (almost) everything you'd ever want to use your computer for.
(MooCow_Byter, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 13:59, archived)