From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, October 24, 2021 at 2:17:56 AM UTC+11, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
      
   > >Let's assume we have a real CDROM and a real hard disk   
   > >and a real BIOS, but I'm writing the real BIOS and I'm making   
   > >up my own specs for the BIOS, which OS vendors will need   
   > >to comply to.   
      
   > No chance that any OS vendor would be at all interested.   
      
   I am an OS vendor myself, and I am interested.   
      
   > >Hard disks and CDROMs will be less than 2 GiB in size.   
      
   > That's not particularly useful. And hasn't been for two   
   > decades.   
      
   2 GiB is enough to contain all the source for an OS, a   
   compiler for the OS, the rest of the toolchain, and BBS   
   software, which is everything I actually want.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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