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Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app by ryandrake on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @12:06PM (#30443342)
Just for some perspective, the entire installer package for the Shareware version Doom took up about 2.39MB of space. This included the EXE and all art assets. The installer for WordPerfect 5.1 (DOS) was about 3.6MB. The full on-disk footprint of Microsoft Office 95 was less than 100MB, including all documentation, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

I'm not entirely convinced value-per-byte is a measure of software quality that a lot of users care about, but it undeniably trends down every year.

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Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app by bombcar on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @12:14PM (#30443461)
The one I like is that the Finder icon on macOS is larger than the entire system on the original Mac.
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Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app by testplzignore on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @12:33PM (#30443763)
DOOM2.WAD has always been my measuring stick for software size, as I remember how frustrating it was to download such a huge file (15MB!) in the dial-up days. I never did get it to complete - I couldn't justify to my parents that the phone line would be busy for a whole day :)
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