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Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by amyjess on Saturday August 20, 2022 @09:03PM (#32536504)
It's not just the tooling of the modern world.

I remember installing teTeX (the predecessor of TeX Live) back in 2003 and I despaired at the file size because I knew it would take days to download on the shitty dialup connection I had at the time. Yeah, it wasn't 5 GB big back then, but it was certainly big by 2003 standards.

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