So how did they do it in 880K?

[desiv]

Well, 1 floppy, plus the Kickstart.

Some more of the power of the Amiga.
The Kickstart ROM held many of the functions..
Still, the Kickstart was only 256k, and that WB floppy wasn't quite full...
In fact, I have a "Kickwork" floppy for my Amiga 1000 that has kickstart and workbench 1.3 on it..
(Although I had to remove some Workbench Utilities)

The power of Intuition!!  ;-)

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[desiv]

You can get a floppy image of Menuet OS.

Yep, there was (is?) a QNX floppy with a full GUI for x86 around too that was fun.

It's just not appreciated much anymore, because most people have GOBS of RAM and CPU and disk space....

But it's still really nice when it's done right..

desiv

[desiv]

Not to me, I only see tremendous room for improvement on the same specs.

That's kind of sad...
I was very impressed, but instead of just "seeing room for improvement," I saw potential based on what I'd already seen...

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