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If I remember correctly, QNX 4 demo was the first graphical OS that I've seen booting and running from a floppy. That was somewhere in late 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VlI6IBEJ0

https://web.archive.org/web/19991128112050/http://www.qnx.co...



As impressive as it was at the time (and still is), a floppy is writable.

Booting from read only media and having a fully functioning OS was completely groundbreaking. Especially when you consider how much hardware was supported without configuration.


As I recall, it worked exactly like a modern live CD, with no state saved to the disk.




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