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Coming from a time where 5¼ floppy disks were the norm, I'd say 8.6 gb undeletable garbage is rather wasteful.

• SketchySeaBeast 2y ago
  But it will soon be deletable. And coming from 5¼ floppy disks I expect you also consider Linux distros to be extravagant and wasteful. You must be gobsmacked every time you take a picture with your phone.
  • TheChaplain 2y ago
    > And coming from 5¼ floppy disks I expect you also consider Linux distros to be extravagant and wasteful. Not really, thankfully you have ability to slim them down to a small size. > You must be gobsmacked every time you take a picture with your phone. At least that is data I want?
    • SketchySeaBeast 2y ago
      But they are still way more than 360 KB. I assume that's why you brought that up, as that's the point of reference - 360 KB per disk, making anything on a modern PC monstrous. And I wish it was only the data I want in my photos. They keep adding more things to each photo, and you end up with HDR and a little video file if you're not careful.
      • AstralStorm 2y ago
        There is a way to fit the kernel in 360 KB, but that's the most you'll get. Whole distros have been fit on a floppy disc. The kernel with ancillary embedded software in half a megabyte of flash easily. However, this kernel does much more than, say, C64 ever did. BPF and ACPI parser alone is bigger than BASIC, there's a network stack, multitasking etc. Multiple people have claimed you cannot do it with new kernels. They are wrong. (E.g. Floppinux by Jankowski.) Remember that a lot of the software back then took more than one disk. Amiga Workbench for example used 3 for 1.0 I believe... And that built off Kickstart, which is the true kernel and was extra 256 KB.