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4MB to download the installer, back in the days when programs just did the thing they did and didn't include runtimes for entire virtual environments.

Rinzler89 3y ago
An average PC also had 64-256MB of RAM instead of 8-32GB.
- vitro 3y ago
  I told my friend once: - "I have 8MB of RAM" - "That's cool, imagine having 16..."
  - stevesimmons 3y ago
    My first computer had 3583 bytes of RAM...
    - Squeeeez 3y ago
      Were those 8-bit bytes?
      - Minor49er 3y ago
        Is there any other kind of byte?
        hawski 3y ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte > The size of the byte has historically been hardware-dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size. Sizes from 1 to 48 bits have been used.[4][5][6][7] The six-bit character code was an often-used implementation in early encoding systems, and computers using six-bit and nine-bit bytes were common in the 1960s. These systems often had memory words of 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, or 60 bits, corresponding to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, or 10 six-bit bytes. In this era, bit groupings in the instruction stream were often referred to as syllables[a] or slab, before the term byte became common. > The modern de facto standard of eight bits, as documented in ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993, is a convenient power of two permitting the binary-encoded values 0 through 255 for one byte, as 2 to the power of 8 is 256.[8] The international standard IEC 80000-13 codified this common meaning. Many types of applications use information representable in eight or fewer bits and processor designers commonly optimize for this usage. The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided in the ubiquitous acceptance of the 8-bit byte.[9] Modern architectures typically use 32- or 64-bit words, built of four or eight bytes, respectively. [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Buchholz_1956_1-4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Buchholz_1956_1... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_ref-Buchholz_1956_1_4-0:~:text=used.%5B4%5D-,%5B5%5D,-%5B6%5D%5B7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_ref-Buchholz_1956_1_... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Rao_1989-6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Rao_1989-6 [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Tafel_1971-7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Tafel_1971-7 [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-ISO_IEC_2382-1_1993-9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-ISO_IEC_2382-1_... [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-CHM_1964-10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-CHM_1964-10
    - Thorham 3y ago
      Must be a VIC20.
- deleted 3y ago
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AlienRobot 3y ago
But what if you want to display Full HD video in the image viewer from an URL? Wouldn't you need Electron for that? Also I was under the impression just the DLLs for all the image formats would be over 4 MB. I wonder how large is it uncompressed.
- nolok 3y ago
  FYI, Irfanview might not be able to pull it from an url, but it's playing ful hd video just fine although I wouldn't use it for that.
  - AlienRobot 3y ago
    >it plays full HD video WHAT? IN 4 MB??? WHAT??? That's amazing!
    - pixelpoet 3y ago
      I'm just at the Revision demoparty in Germany, you should see the audiovisual stuff people are doing in 4kb (yes, 4096 bytes)! Modern operating systems and especially web dev have made entire generations forget how powerful computers and software are / can be.
      - genewitch 3y ago
        https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/ https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/ 256 bytes the mp3 is 2.1MB ;-)
- boltzmann-brain 3y ago
  The Windows standard file open dialog allows you to paste a http(s) link in, which will be downloaded and opened from the Temp folder. This works with all applications that use that dialog.
- smusamashah 3y ago
  https://mpc-hc.org https://mpc-hc.org This is the lightest fastest yet feature rich media player for windows I know. Its 12 MB compressed though. Didn't know irfanview could do that

Rinzler89 3y ago

An average PC also had 64-256MB of RAM instead of 8-32GB.

vitro 3y ago
I told my friend once: - "I have 8MB of RAM" - "That's cool, imagine having 16..."
- stevesimmons 3y ago
  My first computer had 3583 bytes of RAM...
  - Squeeeez 3y ago
    Were those 8-bit bytes?
    - Minor49er 3y ago
      Is there any other kind of byte?
      - hawski 3y ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte > The size of the byte has historically been hardware-dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size. Sizes from 1 to 48 bits have been used.[4][5][6][7] The six-bit character code was an often-used implementation in early encoding systems, and computers using six-bit and nine-bit bytes were common in the 1960s. These systems often had memory words of 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, or 60 bits, corresponding to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, or 10 six-bit bytes. In this era, bit groupings in the instruction stream were often referred to as syllables[a] or slab, before the term byte became common. > The modern de facto standard of eight bits, as documented in ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993, is a convenient power of two permitting the binary-encoded values 0 through 255 for one byte, as 2 to the power of 8 is 256.[8] The international standard IEC 80000-13 codified this common meaning. Many types of applications use information representable in eight or fewer bits and processor designers commonly optimize for this usage. The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided in the ubiquitous acceptance of the 8-bit byte.[9] Modern architectures typically use 32- or 64-bit words, built of four or eight bytes, respectively. [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Buchholz_1956_1-4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Buchholz_1956_1... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_ref-Buchholz_1956_1_4-0:~:text=used.%5B4%5D-,%5B5%5D,-%5B6%5D%5B7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_ref-Buchholz_1956_1_... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Rao_1989-6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Rao_1989-6 [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Tafel_1971-7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Tafel_1971-7 [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-ISO_IEC_2382-1_1993-9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-ISO_IEC_2382-1_... [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-CHM_1964-10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-CHM_1964-10
  - Thorham 3y ago
    Must be a VIC20.
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AlienRobot 3y ago

But what if you want to display Full HD video in the image viewer from an URL? Wouldn't you need Electron for that? Also I was under the impression just the DLLs for all the image formats would be over 4 MB. I wonder how large is it uncompressed.

nolok 3y ago
FYI, Irfanview might not be able to pull it from an url, but it's playing ful hd video just fine although I wouldn't use it for that.
- AlienRobot 3y ago
  >it plays full HD video WHAT? IN 4 MB??? WHAT??? That's amazing!
  - pixelpoet 3y ago
    I'm just at the Revision demoparty in Germany, you should see the audiovisual stuff people are doing in 4kb (yes, 4096 bytes)! Modern operating systems and especially web dev have made entire generations forget how powerful computers and software are / can be.
    - genewitch 3y ago
      https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/ https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/ 256 bytes the mp3 is 2.1MB ;-)
boltzmann-brain 3y ago
The Windows standard file open dialog allows you to paste a http(s) link in, which will be downloaded and opened from the Temp folder. This works with all applications that use that dialog.
smusamashah 3y ago
https://mpc-hc.org https://mpc-hc.org This is the lightest fastest yet feature rich media player for windows I know. Its 12 MB compressed though. Didn't know irfanview could do that