COOL!!!!! As is, that is perfect for a stand alone system. Of course being online
is much funner. Another method has occurred to me that offers many benifits. Web
Thin Client:
1. Boot disk loads boot strap OS, TCP/IP, PPP, and FTP.
2. Binary program or shell script facilitates connection, download, execution
of REBOL and other needed components.
The main benifit is of course the boot disk contains the bare minimums, to get on
the web anyways, leaving more room for drivers. Once online you could download as
much junk as you need to make things go--like a web browser, printer drivers, etc.
Best of all, I have a disk at home that already does the first step.
Now all we need is office and desktop app's in REBOL. Anybody working on this sort
of thing?
BTW, excellent work Steve. You should post what you have somewhere for someone who
just needs a stand alone View system. Although, if you can fit the TCP/IP lib's,
all the better!
--Ryan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I did finally play around with this this morning, and came up with a
> bootible View diskette, using 498k of 880k.
>
> This is without adding the TCP/IP libraries yet.
>
> Here are the contents of the bootable diskette.
>
> df0:c/LoadWB
> df0:s/Startup-Sequence
> df0:libs/asl.library
> df0:libs/mathieeedoubtrans.library
> df0:libs/diskfont.library
> df0:rebol/rebol
> df0:rebol/user.r
>
> And I opened a window with view, after booting with the floppy.
>
> Got a rush of excitement comparing this to Multimedia players of old
> (AVision, Scala, etc.)
>
> Steve Shireman
> "The future is here, the future is now..." Firesign Theatre in "We're
> All Bozos On This Bus"
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > An Amiga would would be awesome, but unfortunately this is a mass production
> > lowest cost type of thing.
> >
> > If I could get /View running on a floppy I would go into an ecstatic seizure
> > of convulsionary back flips.
> >
> > --Ryan
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Bootible Workbench floppy is the only way I can imagine.
> > > Haven't tried it, but I suspect it would work. (Even View, I suspect)
> > >
> > > But do you have an Amiga?
> > >
> > > Steve Shireman
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I would like to run REBOL/core on a system without a hard drive, only a
> > > > mere floppy. Any recommendations?
> > > >
> > > > --Ryan
> > > >
> > > > Ryan Cole
> > > > Programmer Analyst
> > > > www.iesco-dms.com
> > > > 707-468-5400
> >
> > --
> >
> > Ryan Cole
> > Programmer Analyst
> > www.iesco-dms.com
> > 707-468-5400
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Ryan Cole
Programmer Analyst
www.iesco-dms.com
707-468-5400
