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Comment by brassattax

4 years ago

Reminds me of 20 years ago, working with a fledgling "internet appliance software" company.. our existing software was on QNX and we wanted to transition it to Linux. I got a working system up with web browser, email, and chat (irc/jabber) up on a system with a 32MB Disk-On-Chip. Couldn't have done it without busybox! We used Qt Framebuffer instead of X Window... but same idea. :) Well done getting it to boot off a floppy!

Sounds like the browser and chat system was in-house, to be able to just switch out X for Qt?

Very cool.