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		_xy8h on Aug 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux 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.

int_19h on Aug 26, 2021 [–]

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

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