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Windows 95 in 4.47MB

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the seriously-small-operating-systems dept.

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."

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  1. I know what this is: by cliffy2000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    PicoBSD made EVIL!

  2. Die, server, DIE! by mu_wtfo · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

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    1. Re:Die, server, DIE! by The+Tyro · · Score: 4, Funny

      If he's truly the BOFH, he'll find a way to pin the bandwidth spike on his PHB's pr0n downloading.

      Go man go.

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    2. Re:Die, server, DIE! by Vindicator9000 · · Score: 4, Funny

      As Sideshow Bob would say, "That's German for The, server, the."

  3. Doesn't seem very solid... by KFK+-+Wildcat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Already /.ed and not yet 5 comments? Oh wait, it's Windows95.

  4. w00t! by GregoryD · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great! Now I can crash my PDA with 8mb of storage space! Thanks!

  5. BSOD by MesiahTaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it have a full-featured blue screen of death?

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    1. Re:BSOD by TrancePhreak · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, but you have to read it in encoded form. You get used to it after a while.

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  6. Famous last words on their message board by loomis · · Score: 4, Funny

    #126 - Slashdotter - Aug 8, 2003 02:58
    Slashdotting, coming your way....

    #127 - /. - Aug 8, 2003 03:04
    Here comes the flood of Slashdotters....Prepare for server meltdown

    Loomis

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  7. Re:wow. by Tailhook · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's 3:00 on the East coast. I wonder if the site is based on that Windows 95 thingy he's made...

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  8. Slashdotted by bazik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heh, the Contiki server was up for a longer time ;)

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  9. 4.5 megs, that's nothing... by GrodinTierce · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm still waiting for Windows 95 on a floppy.

    Tierce

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    1. Re:4.5 megs, that's nothing... by sharkey · · Score: 3, Funny
      Back then the joke was "Double your hard drive space! Deltree windows!"

      It's still appropraite to XP. Hard drives are only up to, what, 172GB?

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  10. what's next, DOS 5.0 on a single floppy? by wardk · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other breaking news, the crew at DOSBeta.org have created a fully bootable DOS 5 system on a single 3.5 inch floppy.

  11. usable win95? by imipak · · Score: 4, Funny

    This HAS to be a hoax. Windows95 ain't usable by any reasonable definition of the word.

    1. Re:usable win95? by peculiarmethod · · Score: 4, Funny

      You never tried, obviously.. i wrote four albums, did 4 years worth of work (semi-high dollar work) AND found 2 long term girlfriends via windows 95. Yes.. real live women. (see *breathing*)

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    2. Re:usable win95? by Lxy · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dude, just because your date is leaking air does not qualify as "breathing".

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  12. Uses by john_smith_45678 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Complete list of uses for this:










    [end list]

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  13. Re:Point being? by evilviper · · Score: 4, Funny
    Smallest Win32 compatible system in existance... I'd say that's a good goal.

    I can go down to the Fry's and get myself a nice 200 gig drive for a couple of hundred and change nowadays.....

    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.
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  14. Re:Wow, that was fast. by CrowScape · · Score: 5, Funny

    Haha! Got it down below five megs WITHOUT ditching Solitare. The boy sure does have his priorities straight ^_^

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  15. he thinks that OC12 is enough for /. ;) by radek · · Score: 5, Funny

    From their forum:
    <BLOCKQUOTE>
    #7 - BOFH - Aug 7, 2003 00:52<BR>
    Eek... I think we're on an OC12, though, so we should be okay... :: prays :: I hope that b/w limit doesn't kick in
    </BLOCKQUOTE>

  16. Re:Why? by Tyreth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cheaper than an SCO/Linux solution :)

  17. Heh, that's cool, but... by inode_buddha · · Score: 4, Funny

    several times I've been able to make Windows fit into 0 MB.

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  18. making windows 95 useable by tychoS · · Score: 5, Funny

    making it the world's first sub-5mb bootable, registry editable, command-promptable, usable version of Windows 95


    Making Windozz 95 useable - now that is an accomplishment!
  19. True Windows 95 is... by jkrise · · Score: 3, Funny

    5 MB of proper code, and
    645 MB of added junk.

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  20. Re:how soon and EULA by yanestra · · Score: 5, Funny
    What's next, a clause that says you can't ever remove Windows?

    Remove, err, Windows? How? By removing the computer?
    Everybody knows that without Windows, no computer is able to work.

  21. Re:5 megs.. that actually means a lot of things.. by zerocool^ · · Score: 5, Funny

    most of the extra bloat in windows is the enourmass device driver database (that makes the automagical plug and play thing work).

    A lot of it was also the weezer buddy holly video in .avi format.

    ~Will

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  22. D'OH! by Bruha · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like he tried to use Win95 to run the site maybe?

    Error: No site configured at this address. /.'d

  23. Bloated by Michael_Burton · · Score: 4, Funny

    4.47 megabytes? Some guy told me I'd never need more than 640K!

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  24. bah. by pb · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  25. They are coming by weston · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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