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> 8.2.1 Do You Have Enough Disk Space? If you build and install all of core+contrib you might need as much as 900 megabytes of disk space. Outrageous!

• jdofaz 4y ago
  The first Mac I had was released in 1993 and had an 80 megabyte hard drive
  • dmd 4y ago
    I had a 5 MB hard drive for my Commodore 64 (D9060)!
  • kjs3 4y ago
    My SE/30 had a 20Mb disk. Such a luxurious amount of storage at the time.
• kjs3 4y ago
  One summer many years ago I had to figure out how to build X11 on a VAX split across a couple of RA60 disk drives (~200MB). Learned a lot about filesystems, mounts and links (not to mention build environments), but considering it would be a couple of days to crash out each build and figure out what I'd done wrong it was less than fun. We got a couple of RA81s later (~450MB) which gave significantly more elbow room.
• adrianmonk 4y ago
  Many of the SPARCstations we had at work around that time had a 200MB hard drive. So yeah, it kind of was a lot. So we stuck a build of X11 on our servers and mounted it over NFS. It started up a bit slower, but you generally only started an X session once a day (or for some people, once a month), so it was OK.