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From: joel@peora.ccur.com (Joel Upchurch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows-the interface that may never happen...
Message-ID: <4209@peora.ccur.com>
Date: 12 Jun 90 16:25:20 GMT
References: <210@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> <60@raysnec.UUCP>
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In article <60@raysnec.UUCP>, shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
> In article <210@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> nfs@cs.Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker) writes:
> >off - C:\WINDOWS ate 7.5Mb of my hard disk.  If I want to swap, I need
> >(probably) another 2-3Mb of disk space.
> 
> In InfoWorld's recent Windows supplement (page S10) they write:
> 
> 	Windows requires a large amount of hard disk space - 4-1/2
> 	megabytes of free disk pace to install it and its included
> 	utilities, not counting other applications. By eliminating
> 	some features, such as background art, you can pare Windows
> 	down to under 2 megabytes.
> 
> We've got a real discrepancy here. Can anyone shed light on how much
> space is occupied by the various Windows components?

My installation is pretty close to what Infoworld got. I suspect your
mileage may vary a lot depending on what options you specify. Maybe
the guy was using several different printer drivers or something. Also
I have a 286 machine. The 386 installation may take up more space.

As far as cutting down the size to 2 megs, I think you could do it. You
could get down to 3 megs easy by getting rid of all the text files, BMP
files and all the help files. To get down to 2 megs it looks to me like
you would have to cut out all the accessories, like write and pbrush.
I suspect that some of the other files aren't needed either, but until
I know what they do, I'm not inclined to experiment.

I don't consider 4.5 megs excessive for what it is doing, but I'll be
glad when I get upgrades to my applications, so I can delete the old
Windows software off my disk.
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