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Re:Pacman in 512 bytes of x86 boot sector machine code on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:51PM (#20387499)
just to put into perspective how little 512 bytes is, here is 512 ascii bytes (including 8 newlines)

   pacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacman
   pacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacman
   pacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacman
   pacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacman
   pacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacman
   pacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacman
   pacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacman
   pacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacmanpacman
   pacmanpacmanpacmanpacman
that's it. That's 512 characters/ascii bytes.