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37 MB for the deb package... Wow. That's incredibly small compared to some other Electron apps.
by jannes 8y ago
37 MB for the deb package... Wow. That's incredibly small compared to some other Electron apps.
- Redoubts 8y agoWhat do you mean, that’s like 27 disks!
- the_duke 8y agoWas Windows 95 really still distributed on floppy disks?
- extrapickles 8y agoYes, I installed it that way. CD-Roms were not on all computers until after the game Myst came out.
- Redoubts 8y agohttps://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050819-10/?p=34513 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050819-10/?p=...
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- mikestew 8y agoYup, I still distinctly remember installing it on my Toshiba Portege that way, because I don't know that external CD drives were even available yet. If they were, I couldn't afford one.
- MarekKnapek 8y agoYes, English version was on 15 (or 13 specially formatted) 3½ discettes. Localized into my language was on 28 3½ discettes.
- watersb 8y agoOh my yes. I signed up for a Microsoft Developer Network subscription, only $2000 per year, and they sent me just about every product they made, on CD-ROM. The Windows 95 CD ROM had a script that would write out the set of floppy disks. It was a long and tedious process, but to keep you entertained, you could watch the Weezer music video that sprawled across the unused hundreds of megabytes of the rest of the CD. If you had a workstation powerful enough to handle video. (I used those floppy disks to load up Windows 95 in a virtual machine on a Mac. Connectix Virtual PC, soon afterwards aquired by Microsoft. I started the boot process once it was installed, then I had to go to a meeting. Came back about 30 minutes later, just in time to see the boot process complete and display the Windows 95 desktop.)
- Endy 8y agoThis is how I got Win95. In fact, if memory serves, even Win98 was available on floppy, and possibly WinME Upgrade as well. I'm pretty sure when we were forced from 9x FAT16 to NTFS + FAT32 was when they demanded CD-ROM drives.
- watersb 8y agoArt poster of contemporary software distributions as floppy-disk sets: http://www.antreposhop.com/product/3-5-inch-poster-set-4-posters http://www.antreposhop.com/product/3-5-inch-poster-set-4-pos...
- sudhirj 8y agoWell, yeah. It's just a complete operating system with an all new GUI that completely revolutionized the world of computing. It's not like it can send emoji to your co-workers.
- tambourine_man 8y agocompletely revolutionized Not quite :) The rest of the comment is spot on.
- vinylkey 8y agoIf not "completely revolutionized," then "had a really, really, really, big impact"?
- tambourine_man 8y agoBy sheer volume only. When you have 90% of the market, everything you do has a really big impact.
- IMTDb 8y agoYep and every concept you introduce is a revolution for the general population. That's the idea.
- jakamau 8y agoWhen you contextualize it like that it makes sense - emacs is something like 38MB.
- WalterGR 8y agoThe default distribution of Emacs 26.1 x64 for Windows is 677 MB. Emacs 26.1 for Mac, built from code via `brew install emacs-mac` is 136 MB.
- MaysonL 8y agoCompare the size to Mac System 7…