On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 at 21:17:08, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
>Tony Firshman wrote:
>>>48K.
>> yes, 48k - and not just superbasic - the whole O/S.
>> This was the great thing about the QL.
>
>Yes, amazing. But still you've always needed more than that to gain a
>really usable system. Space for WIN driver, FLP driver, maybe RAM disc,
>the whole extended environment and of course TK2!
>
>This puts the seemingly massive current SMSQ/E for QPC in perspective
>(currently at 287kb. However, last version for QPC1 was 191kb big! A lot
>has happened since then... the 3 included screen driver alone take up a
>whole lot of space).
... but measure SMSQ/E with the size of the code for PCs and it is
nothing. You have to go back to DOS on 5.25 disks to get less than
SMSQ/E (8-)#
Simple MSN messenger is over 4mb - I know you, Marcel, really hate that
(8-)#
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