Comments on: megabytes

By: mirian

mirian — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:16:20 +0000

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By: Keith Combs

Keith Combs — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:01:48 +0000

Windows Vista Beta 2 DVD .iso file = 3.5 gigabytes

By: David Tebbutt

David Tebbutt — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:47:09 +0000

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

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:25:26 +0000

“This is very unscientific”.
That’s why I’m the cartoonist and you’re the software engineer, Barry

By: Barry Kelly

Barry Kelly — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:23:16 +0000

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.

By: john dodds

john dodds — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:36:22 +0000

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

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:30:24 +0000

Sig took the figures right off his Mac, so I’m assuming it’s post-install.

By: Damien Mulley

Damien Mulley — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:26:47 +0000

Firefox 4.9mb
Skype 10mb
These are the sizes of the install files or are you talking about the folder sizes after intall?