Am Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:20:43 +0000 schrieb "Don" <x...@nospam.com>:
> On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 08:18:32 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad > wrote: > > On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 08:08:23 UTC, Kagamin wrote: > >> But that downloaded file is bloatware, because it has to > >> implement functionality, which is not provided by the system. > >> That tiny pe file doesn't download anything, it's completely > >> done by the system. > > > > Yeah… > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/284797/hello-world-in-less-than-20-bytes > > My personal best -- > > At my first job, a customer once made a request for a very simple > DOS utility. They did mention that they didn't have much disk > space on their machine, so they asked me to try to make the > program small. > That was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Naturally, I wrote it > in asm. > The final executable size was 15 bytes. <g> > The customer loved it. Vladimir: Good job! Don: Nice story. What did it do? During my time at a vocation school I wrote some stuff like a tiny Windows media player with some of the ASM in the DOS/PE header area. And an animated GIF player in ASM as a .com executable with the GIF included in it. (Easy since GIF algorithms are 16-bit and they use 8-bit color palettes) -- Marco
