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Those were the quick view / quick boot festures that old Dell and the likes had. Usually booting into some bars ones productivity apps.

I did see a video on YT that did a deep dive into this. I beleive you are correct they were originally stripped down Linux or other custom OSes but then eventually switching to UEFI apps before falling okay of favor.

parent pests 2 years ago

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