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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by masonic on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @03:52AM (#17857218)
For perspective, imagine installing such a low-utility program spanning 39 high-density 1.44MB diskettes... and considering that not bloated.

(Isn't that more than the entire original Linux distributions from the copyfest era?)

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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by scarface74 on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @12:01PM (#17869255)
That reminds me, imagine installing it on my first Mac with an 80MB hard drive. My entire SoftPC install with a disk image was only about 10MB.

And Windows 95 was only 55MB install.

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1060820-how-big-were-the-...

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