I frequently hear statements like that, but I doubt that it is literally true. Just the localization files in this app are easily a third of its size, and back

I frequently hear statements like that, but I doubt that it is literally true. Just the localization files in this app are easily a third of its size, and back in the Windows 3.1 era nobody could afford to casually install 40 megabytes of strings for languages they could not read. My entire hard drive held just 40 megabytes back then! (Also, Unicode didn’t quite exist yet.) Incidentally, the TreeMaps provided in this article are really amazing. If every scientific paper provided this level of access to their data, we would be a lot better off.