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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by skoczymroczny on Friday April 22, 2016 @10:38AM (#11549506)
> Apollo software got us to the moon. Doom wasted millions of man-hours on a video game.

Well, to be honest, Episode 1 and Episode 2 of Doom takes place on Phobos and Deimos, so you could say Apollo software got us to the moon but Doom got us to Mars :)

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by jordigh on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:02AM (#11549691)
Since 2.1 megs is only the compressed size of the shareware distribution[1], we are not going any further than Phobos. Since this is only for v1.0, it is going to be a buggy Phobos.

[1] http://www.doomarchive.com/ListFiles.asp?FolderId=216&Conten...

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