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Early versions (3?) could fit an amazing editor, assembler, compiler, debugger and whole IDE in just 120kb(!!!) of disk space. Vim looks pathetic in comparison

Early versions (3?) could fit an amazing editor, assembler, compiler, debugger and whole IDE in just 120kb(!!!) of disk space. Vim looks pathetic in comparison to it...

rbanffy 2mo ago
Aztec-C on the Apple II had a vi editor that ran on a 64K machine, but you had to exit it before you could run the compiler.
- selcuka 2mo ago
  > vi editor [...] you had to exit it I didn't know that was possible.
  - rbanffy 2mo ago
    On the II you could always cold start the computer when you are done.
stevekemp 2mo ago
I have a small collection of "curated" CP/M software, which works alongside a CP/M emulator I wrote: https://github.com/skx/cpm-dist https://github.com/skx/cpm-dist The distribution of Borland's Turbo Pascal v3.01A is approximately 180k.