A Modern Operating System in 1.44MBs
Summary
TLDRThe video explores an obscure operating system called Calbri OS that can run on very low-end 90s computers with only 8MB of RAM. The host tests it out on a 1998 Pentium II system. He finds that despite the OS's tiny 1.44MB size, it includes many applications like games, image viewers, text editors, and even web browsers. However, issues like lack of sound, video, and networking support mean it can't be a true daily driver OS. Overall it seems useful for basic tasks but too limited for practical daily use.
Takeaways
- 😀 The video is about testing out an old operating system called Calbri OS that can run on vintage hardware
- 💻 Calbri OS is only 1.44 MB in size and can run on a Pentium CPU with just 8 MB of RAM
- 📀 The OS was loaded onto a floppy disk and tested on a 1998 IBM Aptiva with a Pentium 2 CPU
- 😟 Initially there were issues getting keyboard/mouse input working but USB peripherals worked
- 🌐 Without network connectivity, some features like the web browser could not be tested
- 🖥️ The OS includes basic apps like a file manager, text editor, and some games
- 🎮 The 3D graphics demos struggled and caused 100% CPU usage on the Pentium 2 system
- 🔈 Could not get audio working even with different sound cards tested
- 💾 Able to view images from a USB drive but video playback did not work
- 👍 Overall the OS shows impressive optimization to run on such minimal vintage hardware
Q & A
What operating system did the person find that runs on a floppy disk?
-The operating system they found was called Calbri OS. It is small enough to fit on a single 1.44 MB floppy disk.
What are the minimum system requirements for Calbri OS?
-Calbri OS has very low minimum requirements, only needing 8 MB of RAM and a 60 MHz Intel Pentium CPU.
What programming language is Calbri OS written in?
-Calbri OS is written completely in Assembly language rather than Linux or another common kernel.
Why couldn't the person get a mouse and keyboard working at first?
-Initially the PS/2 mouse and keyboard weren't detected. Switching to USB peripherals allowed them to work.
What kind of programs and utilities does Calbri OS include?
-Calbri OS includes games, demos, file managers, image viewers, text editors, spreadsheets, web browsers, and other basic utilities.
How well were the 3D graphics demos able to run?
-The 3D demos ran very slowly, using 100% CPU usage. This is likely due to software rendering and the limitations of the older Pentium II CPU.
Was the person able to get sound working on the computer?
-No, even after trying multiple sound cards, they were unable to get audio output working on the machine.
Could they play video files from a USB drive?
-No, the included video player was unable to properly play back the video files from the USB drive.
What are some limitations of using Calbri OS daily?
-Lack of support, very limited hardware compatibility, inability to play media, and lack of networking make Calbri OS impractical for daily use.
What other OS did the person recommend for old PCs instead?
-They recommended Tiny Core Linux as a good alternative OS for daily use on old computers, with better support and hardware compatibility.
Outlines
😄 Exploring an obscure operating system called Calbri OS
The paragraph introduces Calbri OS, an obscure operating system that can fit on a 1.44MB floppy disk. It describes the minimal system requirements of Calbri OS and the author's interest in trying it out on an old Pentium computer to see if it can breathe new life into old hardware.
🖥️ Booting up Calbri OS and examining the interface
The paragraph details the process of writing the Calbri OS image to a floppy disk and booting it on an old IBM Aptiva computer from 1998. It examines the graphical interface, built-in apps and games, and notes the heavy CPU usage of some demos.
😕 Trying to get sound working and testing media playback
The paragraph describes unsuccessful attempts to get sound working in Calbri OS by trying different sound cards. It then tests media playback by accessing a USB drive, viewing images successfully but unable to play video files.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Calri OS
💡Old computers
💡Floppy disk
💡Assembly language
💡Software rendering
💡Drivers
💡Everyday use
💡Alternatives
💡Compression
💡Demo
Highlights
The OS is called calbri OS, can fit on a single 1.44 MB floppy disc, and only needs 8 MB of Ram with a 60 MHz Intel penium CPU
Calbri OS is 100% written in Assembly Language and is a fork of Min menu bro am I stupid menu at OS
To get the OS image to a floppy disc, the process was downloading on Linux, copying to a Windows NT machine, then using disk write to write to the floppy
The test machine is an IBM AB diva from 1998 with a 400 MHz Intel Pentium 2, 96 MB of RAM and an ATI Radeon 7000
The OS desktop has many icons and looks very full featured for just 1.44 MB
The file manager looks very similar to Windows XP/Vista with its design
There are 3D and 2D demos, reminiscent of Silicon Graphics Iris workstation demos from the 90s
Running the demos uses 100% CPU - clear example of software rendering limitations
Impressive list of apps: spreadsheet, web browser, FTP, etc all in 1.44 MB due to compression
No sound card was detected, tried several cards unsuccessfully to get audio working
Images work from USB drive, but video does not play
OS can bring old computers to life, but lack of support limits daily use
Tiny Core Linux better for daily use on old hardware
Calbri OS good for getting old system running to copy files
Cool to run so much on 1.44 MB, but not very practical overall
Transcripts
one night I was hanging out with a
couple friends just looking at a bunch
of different operating systems until we
found one that actually looked kind of
interesting what we found was calbri an
operating system so small it can fit on
a single 1.44 MB floppy disc and it has
super low minimum requirements only
needing 8 MB of Ram with a 60 MHz Intel
penium CPU yeah this thing is so well
optimized that it could run on the OG
Pentium so I want to give this thing a
try and see really what calri OS is all
about and see if it could potentially
bring some new life some old
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computers while I was doing my research
on cbri OS I actually was really
surprised my first initial look of this
operating system I thought it would be
Linux based because W what other kernel
would it be but no this is actually 100%
written in Assembly Language and is a
fork of Min menu bro am I stupid menu at
OS okay yeah I guess I'm a little stupid
definitely want to check out minu in a
different video all right so now we got
to get this to a floppy disc which at
first I was kind of unsure on how to do
because while I do have an external USB
floppy Drive I don't have a way to write
the image to a floppy on Linux but if
I'm being honest I just didn't look hard
enough so what I ended up doing is I
downloaded the image off the website
extracted it copied it to my server then
I hopped on Windows
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NT
copied my files off the server and then
use dis right to write the image to the
floppy disc now with the image ready to
go we're all good now what computer am I
going to use to test this first well
that's where this computer comes into
play what I have here is an IBM AB diva
from 1998 equipped with a 400 MHz Intel
Pentium 2 96 MB of RAM and an ATI Radeon
7000 this computer was given to me by
some cowboy hat wear and viewer of the
channel this computer is actually quite
special because it's still running its
OEM copy of Windows 9 first edition I
will definitely be Imaging the contents
of this drive but with all that aside
it's time to actually plug in the
machine and boot off that
floppy oh okay uh ATI Radeon ve 640x 480
okay so this is options for before you
start I'm assuming so essentially what
this is doing is making a ram disc and
just decompressing the OS into the said
Ram
disc oh
oh wow wow
okay
so I don't have a
mouse or keyboard I don't know what's
going on there either I don't have a
mouse or keyboard or the thing is frozen
which I mean I don't know why but let's
give this thing a bit of a restart all I
want to to check this really quick so
you can change the video settings we can
do 1024x 768 with 32bit color okay let's
boot with this I pose uh here we
go uh okay it froze again and it froze
on setting Mouse you know I have an idea
so I'm currently using PS2 peripherals
which I mean they should work ideally
but uh I have this cheap uh USB Optical
Mouse and I have this cheap little USB
keyboard uh I'm just going to plug that
in and see if maybe it'll detect that
somehow it also could be that there's
the bio setting that I have to set that
I haven't done yet but uh we'll look in
the Bios if this doesn't
work oh oh oh my PS2 peripherals work
and this USB Optical Mouse does work too
okay well I mean it doesn't matter now
uh I can just use my normal peripherals
cuz we're we're in you know with the
amount of icons that I'm seeing on this
desktop this looks very ful featured for
just being 1.44 megab big Let's see we
have welcome oh my page not available
well I don't have a network card in this
machine uh because it was removed and I
don't have an extra network card I can
throw into this thing so we're just
going to live without networking so if
we go to game center okay wow that's a
that's a lot of games well we got to go
play my favorite game mind
sweeper oh yeah go for the corners
first
bro I mean I guess it's enough of that
[ __ ] okay so this thing has okay that's
a file manager uh what is that whoa okay
so immediately when I open this file
manager this looks like the same file
manager that you would see on Windows XP
or not not the same but like it looks
very similar to the file manager on
Windows XP or maybe like the file
manager on Vista like it has this like
design over here I don't know okay but
this thing
okay and there's another one so we have
three file managers why can this one
connect to FTP uh no I don't see any FTP
functions can this one do it
about okay I mean I don't know you know
it ain't that bad I mean we got
a what tiny pad tiny pad okay well yeah
that's that's enough there you know give
this credit you know this is actually
like really cool you know the fact that
this could even just like run on a
system that this old okay so I couldn't
help but notice when I was in here
there's a demos there's a well first
there's a 3D
folder oh okay so we have 3D demos here
oh what I don't know why but this kind
of reminds me of like 3D flower box the
screen saver and dozens of versions of
Windows wait what we're using 100% CPU
usage rendering a [ __ ] Cube really oh
Jesus Christ so this is software
rendering whoa what the
[ __ ] okay okay okay okay the frame is
are dropping the frame are the frame has
drop I can look around though can I oh
you can move with arrow keys except
maybe not because for some reason I
can't get out of this corn bro I okay
well something is moving me into the
back of this corner I don't know what
that is I'm not pressing anything oh oh
is it my
mouse it is you use the mouse to control
this this is kind of weird oh [ __ ] 30
FPS on Gears unsupported processor
instruction okay well you know that
makes sense with the CPU this old I
would expect to get that air at least a
couple times okay so these are just like
little 2D
demos whoa whoa these are like screen
savers what look at that okay so this
one really reminds me of like a silicon
Graphics demo from like the '90s you
know what I'm talking about like on the
older Iris workstations like they would
have some demos like this I don't know
it kind of looks like that to me I
cannot help but notice having most of
these demos open use like 100% of CPU
usage look let's open that again oh yeah
CPU load 100 system panel okay so this
is just settings graphic bench huh test
okay I don't know what's going on it's
testing my Graphics Hardware okay so all
of these are just CPU ID you can see CPU
clock speed 400 MHz Intel Pentium 2 Skin
config okay so this this is cool you can
just change basically what the entire
thing looks like through this little
menu here Ram discs oh okay ghost
monitor I like that it's called ghost
monitor that's
just okay system monitor I mean if you
wanted a second task manager I mean I
guess it's there this operating system
seems to have just like two of
everything that's like that's
interesting web view this is a very
basic web browser that's crazy there
even is a web browser in here and
there's a second one net surf uh okay so
we don't have a network adapter so we're
just not going to be able to use net
surf because I I don't have I don't have
Network and it's trying to download
something so H not mounted we're open
app plus anyway icon edit Easy Shot
guide table oh okay so we do have an FTP
client that's nice to have actually okay
this single floppy disc would be
actually great great to use when I'm
trying to fix old computers because
sometimes I just need something to work
so I can copy files to something or
whatever and this this kind of looks
like it would do the trick okay so this
is still download trying or trying to
download can I get this to go away
Graphics we have an image viewer we have
graph building utilities yeah
spreadsheets man we got spreadsheets we
have all of this in 1.4 megabytes that
is some mindblowing compression
algorithms that is crazy bro I'm just
too good
okay the computer is
losing the computer is
losing I am better than this penum 2o
look look guys
look [ __ ] you bro I could literally have
a field [ __ ] I could literally have a
field day on this dude all right so like
quick secret I've never been good at
Flappy Bird not even when I was younger
you know I might be monkey brain but
this is is actually kind of fun so I'm
wondering what kind of programs you can
like can you is there a package manager
on here can you like install their
programs is there like a repository what
kind of thing are we looking at here
okay well you know I'm going to grab a
USB drive with some stuff on it to test
on here actually hold on can we see if
we have sound
volume
uh okay so I'm going to go and just say
that we don't have sound do I throw a
sound card in here and see if that'll
work so uh I have two options if I
really want to get sound working since
it's not detecting the onboard sound
here it's some Crystal chip or whatever
I have this which is a sound blaster
autog platinum or I have this which is
an older Sound Blaster live this is an
older version of The Sound Blaster Live
card that I have in my 98 box but uh I
was thinking that maybe if I throw one
of these in there we can have sound
it'll have drivers for this I
don't I don't know if there's like a
like a hardware compatibility list
somewhere that I can look at or what all
right so it's a few days later and I
have a USB with some media just to test
this with and since the last time I was
looking at this thing I still have not
gotten sound to work I've tried all
different sound cards I even pulled the
sound card from my Windows 98 box and
put it in here still didn't work also
this screen saer is sick by the way but
uh let's wake this thing up I'm just
going to put in my USB and see if it
just pops up okay it is right there yes
all right so let's try the first image
here oh you look at that beautiful a11
MR2 huh
huh all right so now to try this video
Let's see uh is there not a video
there's dos boox on here okay well
that's kind of crazy there's dos box on
here I didn't even see that before I
mean f play looks like it's supposed to
be the uh like the the video player but
but it doesn't seem to be working can I
open that yeah uh okay well it doesn't
seem to be hm there's just like an
asterisk there it's does that mean it's
running I don't think that video is
going to play unfortunately but hey you
know what at least we got the uh the
images overall I think this OS is
actually kind of cool so going back to
the question I had in the beginning of
the video can it bring some new life
into these older computers I would say
yes kind of the only reason why I say
kind of is because yeah it's cool and it
works but there isn't really any real
support for it I kind of see it as like
a good way to maybe get a computer up
and running if you need to use something
to copy files to it or something like
that I I do not see how anybody could
use this as a daily driver if you wanted
to use an old computer as a daily driver
and have some Modern support for things
I would probably use tiny core Linux but
with that being said like it if you like
it dislike if you hate old computers and
calri Os or if you just hate me I have a
bunch of cool videos coming up soon so
definitely stay
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