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Windows 95 in 4.47MB
Silvorgold writes "BOFH of MSBetas.net has been able to compress Windows 95 into 4.47 megabytes, making it the world's first sub-5mb bootable, registry editable, command-promptable, usable version of Windows 95.
He has written a small description about what he did, and also included screenshots (with his digital camera), and don't worry, these aren't fake screenshots."
PicoBSD made EVIL!
"Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the screenshots :) Oh, and don't hot-link to them, my host will kill me. Thanks!"
Yes. Yes, he will.
If all the world's a stage, anyone who says they want better lighting spends far too much time in a dark theatre.
Already /.ed and not yet 5 comments?
Oh wait, it's Windows95.
Great! Now I can crash my PDA with 8mb of storage space! Thanks!
Does it have a full-featured blue screen of death?
Are you an open source warrior?
#126 - Slashdotter - Aug 8, 2003 02:58
/. - Aug 8, 2003 03:04
Slashdotting, coming your way....
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Here comes the flood of Slashdotters....Prepare for server meltdown
Loomis
"The television is the retina of the mind's eye" - Videodrome
It's 3:00 on the East coast. I wonder if the site is based on that Windows 95 thingy he's made...
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Maybe next story posted should be a collection to pay his ISP bill.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Heh, the Contiki server was up for a longer time ;)
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I'm still waiting for Windows 95 on a floppy.
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In other breaking news, the crew at DOSBeta.org have created a fully bootable DOS 5 system on a single 3.5 inch floppy.
This HAS to be a hoax. Windows95 ain't usable by any reasonable definition of the word.
Some people like to step on bugs to hear the sound it makes.
Same principle here.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Complete list of uses for this:
[end list]
John Kerry is a Joke!
Yes you could do that. You could also jump up and down like a monkey, but that, like your comment, is completely and totally unrelated to the project.
Do you really think he shrunk Windows 95 because he didn't have a big enough hard drive? Come on now.
Maybe it's just that these "Hard drives are cheap" posts are getting to be the replacement for the "In Soviet Russia" posts.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
Haha! Got it down below five megs WITHOUT ditching Solitare. The boy sure does have his priorities straight ^_^
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What those who are ignorant of the subject matter think; usually wrong.
wanna bet?
From their forum: :: prays :: I hope that b/w limit doesn't kick in
<BLOCKQUOTE>
#7 - BOFH - Aug 7, 2003 00:52<BR>
Eek... I think we're on an OC12, though, so we should be okay...
</BLOCKQUOTE>
I guess that is what he was using as an OS for his server, he got /. 'ed when the post went up
Whats A sig anyway
I've run Windows 95 in 4MB RAM "just to see if it would". {well, alright; I was waiting for some 16MB SIMMs to be delivered, and found some 1MB ones in a drawer}. It did. Eventually!
I can't honestly recommend it to anyone, though.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
Cheaper than an SCO/Linux solution :)
several times I've been able to make Windows fit into 0 MB.
C|N>K
Step 1. compress win 95 to 5 megs
Step 2. compress win 95 to 4 megs
Step 3. compress win 95 to 3 megs
Step 4. compress win 95 to 2 megs
Step 5. compress win 95 to 1 megs
Step 6. compress win 95 to nothing
Step 7. Repeat process with all Microsoft products and Microsft itself until there is nothing.
Making Windozz 95 useable - now that is an accomplishment!
5 MB of proper code, and
645 MB of added junk.
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If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Here is Win95 reduced to about 33K..and if I reduce the color palette, I think I can get it under 25K at the same resolution...
Mordor...a magical, mythical land where women are more rare than dragons--but where every man would rather find a dragon
Remove, err, Windows? How? By removing the computer?
Everybody knows that without Windows, no computer is able to work.
Err... eine megabyte unt konstantly schwapping? ;-)
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most of the extra bloat in windows is the enourmass device driver database (that makes the automagical plug and play thing work).
.avi format.
A lot of it was also the weezer buddy holly video in
~Will
sig?
Looks like he tried to use Win95 to run the site maybe?
/.'d
Error: No site configured at this address.
I saw "Die, Server, Die" back in 1995 when it was released. Despite the protests of adults who really did know better, I watched it. The ferocity of the article in parts literally made me back away from it, starting and screaming with the slightest noise; it made my skin crawl. Damn, but it was good!! Though the article is old, it's still in color, and I can still to this day remember the lurid splashes of red in some of the bloodier scenes.
The plot of "Die, Server, Die" is very simple. Cowboy Neal plays the part of a wealthy, but crippled, BOFH, on whose property Windows crashes one day. After noticing that the area where Windows landed becomes lush with abundant vegetation, he has his servants retrieve pieces of Windows, and he tried to replicate the effect the installations had, first in his greenhouse, then with other living things, like animals.... Of course, you don't get to know this until the latter part of the article.
The preceding information is revealed grudgingly by the landowner only after his guests, an attractive couple, become increasingly alarmed by the things they discover on his grounds. One of them is a bestiary of...things...kept under lock and key; a zoo of the failed experiments on animals with installations of Windows. The worst is an attack by a deranged, zombie-like clippy-thing one night during a storm; after fighting it off, it literally decays in the rain as they watch.
Not only do you get unusual moments of Slashdot like these in the article, but they are staged with masterful direction, especially the suspense building to the moment of shock; it is unbearable. Very few articles could make my hair stand on end, even that long ago, and "Die, Server, Die", was one of them. Of course, in the grand old tradition of Slashdot articles, the best is saved for last, and you're not disappointed. Even the BOFH, who, repenting, tries to destroy the Windows installations in his possession, is infected with what they carry, and in turn, he must be destroyed. But will the hero carry the day? And if he does, what of the other Windows installations still in the ground? And the things in the utzoo?
"Die, Server, Die" is a superb showcase for one of Slashdot's legendary performers, Cowboy Neal, and it's a fantastic example of intelligently directed and made Slashdot. Run, don't walk, to wherever you can get a mirror of this article.
... all but 256 were duplicates. So that's 195312500 per unique byte!
Man, if I had that job, just sit and make up bytes all day long...
4.47 megabytes? Some guy told me I'd never need more than 640K!
When all you have is an axe, everything looks like a grindstone.
I'm both saddened and relieved to hear this. I never managed to get a stripped-down version of win95 onto a floppy. However, I did manage to get win31 on a single 1.44mb floppy, back in the day; (using a self-extracting rar archive that uncompressed to a RAM drive, of course) I even had sound support, via the PC Speaker Driver for win31, so it could go 'tada' on boot-up! ;)
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but I have OS 8 running on my Sharp Zaurus. (thanks basilisk and xfree!)
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They have taken the bridge and the firewall.
We have barred the ports, but cannot hold them for long.
The server shakes. Drums, drums in the deep.
We cannot get out. A shadow moves in the dark.
We cannot get out...
They are coming...
Tweet, tweet.
So, we now have a Windows OS small enough to fit on a 5 meg BIOS chip... *evil laughter*