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From: msf10759@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: New MS Windows (?)
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Date: 31 May 90 00:43:00 GMT
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In article <1990May29.214054.21609@portia.Stanford.EDU>
aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes...

>Windows 3.0 takes up 6 Mb of *disk space*  It runs well in 2 mb of RAM.  Most
>of the 6 Mb is non-essential stuff--reams of on-line context-sensitive help,
>background bitmaps, assorted "DA"-type stuff, and so forth.  Win 3.0 can be
>pared to about 2 Mb of disk space.  Compare/contrast to System 7...

While I don't have a copy of System 7 handy  ;)  System 6.0.5 was distributed
on four 800K floppies and took up about 2.8 Mb in all.  That's including all
the goodies like MacroMaker, the Apple-supplied fonts and desk accessories,
various printer drivers, the HD Setup program, the Installer and its scripts,
etc. etc.  The "Minimum Macintosh SE" installation of System 6.0.5 takes up
about 400 - 500 K on one floppy disk.

(Does this mean that System 7 *won't* fit on one floppy disk?)

Scott Forbes
msf10759@uxa.cs.uiuc.edu