MistyOnce upon a time, an enormous hard drive install was 43MB. It was so big they just made it an option, because most people wouldn't be able to do it.
Jamie Neander@misty Sounds like some websites these days, except for the "optional" part.
@jeremy I wish there were a 43MB webpage that was even 1/1000 worth that price as Total Distortion is.
Leifur Halldór Ásgeirsson@misty omg, there are actually clear labels explaining what the buttons do!
Krishean Draconis@misty now there are cpus that you could fit 26 copies of it in the L3 cache and still have some space leftover
alys@misty reminds me of the "A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering" article https://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html
moralrecordings@misty do I want to know how they made Macromedia Director copy files without any file copying API
@moralrecordings I hope it doesn’t, like, read it all into RAM
@misty oh good, the answer is it uses mCopyFile in Misc_X, which we don't have
@moralrecordings Well good news is no one should need to actually use this
@misty sorry to anyone after a MASSIVE SPEED INCREASE
Jernej Simončič �@misty The first computer we had at home had a huge 40 MB hard drive. It was so big, it had to be split in two partitions, because DOS at the time couldn't handle more than 32 MB at once!