June 18, 2006
megabytes
As regular gapingvoid readers will know, I have a small stake in a software company called Thingamy, which was founded my my crazy Norwegian friend, Sigurd Rinde.
So yesterday Sig and I were talking about megabytes. Here’s the skinny:
Microsoft Internet Explorer: 20 megabytes
Skype: 27.7 megabytes
Thingamy: 30 megabytes
Firefox: 46 megbytes.
One of Ben’s Hammersley’s high-resolution digital photographs (raw format): 50 megabytes.
The memory card on my Nokia N70: 61 megabytes
Microsoft Office: 200 megabytes.
SAP: 10,000 megabytes for the basic skeleton, plus the data.
Less code good, more code bad etc.
Firefox 4.9mb
Skype 10mb
These are the sizes of the install files or are you talking about the folder sizes after intall?
Sig took the figures right off his Mac, so I’m assuming it’s post-install.
I couldn’t agree more and if you haven’t seen this yet, you can read here about Windows XP having around 40 million lines of code. I don’t know how many megabytes that becomes but I’m guessing it’s quite a lot.
http://blogs.msdn.com/philipsu/archive/2006/06/14/631438.aspx
Must have a whole bunch of plugins installed, because my Firefox directory is only 19MB, and I’ve got 20 plugins installed.
This is very unscientific; it needs better selection criteria for what should be included.
“This is very unscientific”.
That’s why I’m the cartoonist and you’re the software engineer, Barry
BrainStorm .exe — less than 1MB
BrainStorm help file — less than 1MB
Usefulness — astonishing
Unless you’re a Mac user.
It’s for Windows.
Why so small? Written in C++
Why so fast and powerful? Ditto
Windows Vista Beta 2 DVD .iso file = 3.5 gigabytes
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