From: nowhere@nevernet.at   
      
   On 23/10/2021 19:54, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:   
   removed link to Ann&Lynn   
      
   > On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 10:50:54 -0700 (PDT)   
   > "muta...@gmail.com"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   > WIWAL 2M was plenty (*not* xposted to alt.fan^wfolklore.computers)!   
   > Oh alright then.   
   >   
      
   just recently I tried to buy a 2TB HD.[we don't stock such old small].   
      
   C-programmers need 2GB, ASMers need 20MB and bare-metal coders <1MB.   
      
   as he is the only user and the only one interested "OS-author", the   
   whole story became a bit pornographic...it's masturbating in public.   
   __   
   wolfgang   
      
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