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I remember getting the Borland C compiler as a ten or eleven year old and thinking, twenty megabytes! What in the world could they need twenty megabytes for?
by gavinpc 12y ago
I remember getting the Borland C compiler as a ten or eleven year old and thinking, twenty megabytes! What in the world could they need twenty megabytes for? That was like, my entire hard drive.
N.B. you have a typo
Z:/> mount c ~/systen/c
- fabien_sanglard 12y agoThanks for taking the time to report it. I fixed it now.
- zura 12y agoHonestly, I still think that 12MB for a system like Borland C is overkill.
- ghshephard 12y ago00:18 shephard-osx2:bin shephard$ ls -lh /usr/bin/clang -rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 35M Jul 15 16:27 /usr/bin/clang
- self 12y ago$ ls -lh ~/p9/386/bin/6c -rwxr-xr-x 1 fn staff 326K May 6 2011 /Users/fn/p9/386/bin/6c $ -- Plan 9's C compiler for the Intel 386 platform. It doesn't use shared libraries, either. The linker is 141KB, and assembler (6a) is 123KB.
- fit2rule 12y agoI've got my Atari Portfolio still loaded up with Turbo C .. 384k. Its enough for everyone. ;)
- bluedino 12y agoThen use Turbo Pascal, fits on a floppy.
- rbanffy 12y agoI remember using it on an Apple II (with a Microsoft Softcard and CP/M 2.2). It was running off a 140K floppy disk.