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From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
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Date: 4 May 91 13:17:51 GMT
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In article <0o9Gv_t+1@cs.psu.edu>, Michael D Mellinger writes:

> Here is the size of Improv and its help.
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 me       wheel    1668841 Jan 23 09:57 Improv*
> -rw-r--r--  1 me       wheel    1397626 Jan 23 09:57 bbqref.hlp
> 
> To much for you to handle?  Amiga users have such high standards.  To
> bad the game companies are the only ones that can deliver products to
> your satisfaction.

Cor! Talk about code-bloat!

1.5Mb of executable code, eh!

And only 1.2Mb of help text: usually help runs at 2 - 3 * code size. 

Then again, I'm presupposing that this 'Improv' does something useful...

[:-) for the humour impaired.]

Dac
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