Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 1, 2011 @02:05AM from the celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge dept.

theodp writes "James Hague has compiled a short list of things that the circa-1986 Turbo Pascal 3 for MS-DOS is smaller than (chart). For starters, at 39,731 bytes, the entire Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable (compiler and IDE) makes it less than 1/4th the size of the image of the white iPhone 4S at apple.com (190,157 bytes), and less than 1/5th the size of the yahoo.com home page (219,583 bytes). Speaking of slim-and-trim software, Visicalc, the granddaddy of all spreadsheet software which celebrated its 32nd birthday this year, weighed in at a mere 29K."

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Bytes? by Applekid · 2011-11-01 02:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Bytes are kind of weird. Can't they give these number in terms of Library of Congress?

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that chart by blaisethom · 2011-11-01 02:30 · Score: 5, Funny

At 88,225 bytes, the image showing the comparison is also bigger. Oh the irony
Re:39K ? Luxury! by Anonymous Coward · 2011-11-01 02:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Only if you enjoy choking on penises.