Show HN: The operating system I built as my high school project (2016)

Post by yaleman » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 12:04 AM UTC

qubex wrote: post #69

nickpsecurity wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll add MO discs. They were supposedly more durable, longer-lasting, and (at one point) GB than CD's and DVD's. I discovered them playing Resident Evil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive I also had a drive for 100MB, Zip disks. Only ever owned one since I couldn't justify the expense. Hardly anyone else had them. What's point of a tech for moving data if you can't use it to share the data with frie…

While on the (off-) topic of magneto-optical drives, do you remember how every cyberpunk film of the 1990s seemed to feature (MO) MiniDiscs as ‘future’ storage? I remember them appearing in some form or another in Strange Days , Johnny Mnemonic , and The Matrix (amongst others). Lawnmower Man featured CD drives in external caddies, a type of drive system that virtually disappeared with the advent of ‘2x” CD-ROM drive…

Post by imtringued » Wed, Feb 06, 2019, 12:21 PM UTC

kazinator wrote: post #18

Those who say this is more about bravery than raw skill or intellect have momentarily forgotten that OS's have to not only be coded, but debugged.