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All this, and only 16MB of RAM and 11MB of disk space required! I'm sure today this would be an Electron app that used at least an order of magnitude more resources. We certainly live in interesting times.


"Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container." — Nathan Myhrvol


Well back in '95 you might have been running a 486 with a whopping 33Mhz clock speed, or a Pentium at 133Mhz if you were a baller.

Your hard drive might have been over a gig, but was most likely still measured in megs.

The entire system itself would most likely have 16MB of RAM, upgradable to 32MB for the power users.


My first Windows system was a Win 95 Pentium 75 with 8 megabytes of memory. Can't remember how big the hard drive was. At the time - coming from an Amiga with 1 megabyte - 8 megabytes seemed like an obcene amount of memory but due to the demands of that OS I pretty much instantly upgraded to 16.


Hey, you could almost double that hard drive space with DRVSPACE.EXE!


Well of course, my dude. The target resolution alone went from 640x480 to 4K. That's almost 30x the image data. You'd probably pack in every resolution in between, too.


An order of magnitude is not even enough for an electron app.


Wait, but that was a lot back then.




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