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Comment by gmueckl | original | Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
[−]gmueckl · 2026-11-15 Sun 17:35 UTC · link
Is it such a stupid comparison? It's an absolutely trivial amount of data now, but back in the 80s, a few files of that size would fill out a floppy disk. It's also a source file - the input to a compiler.