On 26 March 2013 08:38, Brian Jones (Trancendance) <[email protected]
> wrote:

>  +1
>
> And its about 2GB at its smallest.
>

Actually, you could probably drop Windows 7 to 1 GB (or maybe less) if you
stripped away all the unnecessary programs MS includes in
the Windows install (Internet Explorer, Noptepad, etc etc).

An OS should only provide the basic necessities to be able to:

* Support basic input hardware (keyboard mouse)
* Support basic monitor resolutions
* Support and access a hard drive
* Necessary APIs/Hooks for drivers/applications

Everything else is icing on the cake.

Anestis (who grew up in the good old days where DOS and your application
ran in 128K of memory and off floppy disks).


>  Sent from my Windows Phone
>  ------------------------------
> From: Mat Fisher <[email protected]>
> Sent: ‎25/‎03/‎2013 20:25
>
>   Hey! I owe half my career to Billy Gates and Microshop!
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Nick Andrews
> *Sent:* Monday, March 25, 2013 4:07 PM
>
> So I guess you don't work for Microshaft then?  Win 7 is how many GB?
>
> On Mar 25, 2013 8:58 AM, "Richard Williamson" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> :)
>
> They say that "art is in the eye of the beholder".
>
> And yes, there is a certain art to be found in a run of concise, tightly
> written, elegant and well-mannered code.
>
> I never could get my ex-wife to understand that, btw.
>
> rip
>

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