[off-topic] Re: Reducing exe size?

To: Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se>
Subject: [off-topic] Re: Reducing exe size?
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:13:42 -0500
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Robert Feldt feldt@ce.chalmers.se on  2001-12-13 06:45 wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Bruce Hoult wrote:
> 
>> But in any case a MB or two overhead isn't that big a deal today.  It's
>> what ... a third of a cent of disk, and 10 cents of RAM?  Something like
>> that, and getting less each month.
>> 
> Yes, and as I said I even got down below 600k so even fits on a floppy!

I also abhor bloat, but a blank CD-R costs less than a floppy, so I wonder
if a floppy is still a useful metric?

Industry pundits still seem to razz Apple for not having a floppy drive any
more, but when was the last time you received anything on a floppy?  I think
the last thing I did was Quark 3.2 -- they had some decrepit locking scheme
that involved munging a floppy.

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Re: Reducing exe size?

From: Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se>