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I think you could barely fit one OS in your 64MB hard drive at the time…

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• Kye 5y ago
  Windows 3.11 (1993) was ~15MB once installed.
• bluedino 5y ago
  Computers came in towers back then which could contain many hard drives
• kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
  250MB was common by then and Linux distros only took up a dozenish MB. Lilo existed by then and everyone dual booted to DOS/Win3. If you didn't want to modify the MBR you could boot Linux from DOS with loadlin.exe.
• smhenderson 5y ago
  1993 is roughly when I bought my first computer and it came with 120 MB HD. I dual booted Linux (Slackware) on it in 1995. Still on Win 3.11 though, I believe I bought a bigger hard drive before upgrading to Windows 95, but still dual booting with Linux on another partition. You could fit a lot more OS on an HD in 1993 than you can now!
• dredmorbius 5y ago
  Windows 3.11 required 14 MB HD space. https://www.technologytips.com/windows-system-requirements/ https://www.technologytips.com/windows-system-requirements/ At 64 MB, you wouldn't have a whole lot of space for data and applications / utilities, but you could certainly cram a couple of OSes on it. The first "user-installable" linux was arguably SLS, which came on 24 1.5 MB floppies. I'm unsure what the installed size was, but likely in the 24 -- 48 MB range. https://opensource.com/article/18/8/first-linux-install https://opensource.com/article/18/8/first-linux-install