HamsterOS Crams Complete Graphical Desktop onto 1.44 MB Floppy

According to Hackaday, developer John Swiderski is bringing HamsterOS to life — a new operating system for vintage 386 and 486 computers. The project's major accomplishment: squeezing a complete graphical desktop onto a single one point four four megabyte floppy disk. It's an impressive exercise in extreme optimization for retrocomputing fans.

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