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And yet: Windows 8: 20gb (vs 1gb Ubuntu) Visual Studio: 2gb (vs 300mb Intellij) SQL Server: 5gb (vs 100mb Postgres) .net: 2gb (vs 20mb Python) (All guesses and
by willemmerson 13y ago
And yet:
Windows 8: 20gb (vs 1gb Ubuntu)
Visual Studio: 2gb (vs 300mb Intellij)
SQL Server: 5gb (vs 100mb Postgres)
.net: 2gb (vs 20mb Python)
(All guesses and silly comparisons, admittedly)
There seems to be quite a lot of lines of code there.
- differentView 13y agoBill Gates has about as much to do with Windows 8 as William E. Boeing has to do with the 787.
- soperj 13y agoYou can say that about all of Microsoft's operating systems.
- jimmaswell 13y agoDidn't he have some contribution to MS DOS?
- joezydeco 13y agoOther than writing the check?
- enraged_camel 13y agoIn some circles, that's the most important contribution. ;)
- nols 13y agoHe and Paul Allen wrote Altair BASIC, a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800. I believe they just bought MSDOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC
- skywhopper 13y agoTo be fair, even Microsoft doesn't use the binary size of their applications as a measure of their capabilities. Yes, they are ginormous, but they aren't advertising "Windows 8: The Binaries are Bigger, so It Must Be Better!"
- kirse 13y agoMore on that: http://ianmurdock.com/platforms/on-the-importance-of-backward-compatibility/ http://ianmurdock.com/platforms/on-the-importance-of-backwar... Original ASP.NET blog entry was gone, best I could find.
- ekianjo 13y ago> There seems to be quite a lot of lines of code there. Oh yeah, that's Moore's Law at work here too!
- laumars 13y agoWindows binaries (PE file format) stores more than just executable code. You can store any resource data you wish; from string tables to images and icons through to zip archives (hence how self-extracting archives work).