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Re:Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by Half by Fnoord on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @04:31PM (#21207694)
Weren't (the) BMPs large in size?
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Re:Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by Half by oblio on Thursday October 10, 2019 @07:48AM (#21213333)
I'm pretty sure that even at that time compressed formats were used :-)

JPG was released in 1992, GIF in 1987.

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Re:Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by Half by Fnoord on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:11AM (#21213982)
These were used, yes. I am pretty sure Windows in most of 90s used BMPs, e.g. for backgrounds and in MS Paint. [1] Also, GIF is no replacement for BMP.

[1] https://www.fileformat.info/format/bmp/egff.htm

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