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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MOD PARENT DOWN!!! by Ossifer · 2011-11-01 02:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Crazy. Even today I see review code where programmers have implemented exponential sorting algorithms. It's almost as if the existence of faster CPUs and larger memory has enticed some to be extremely lazy. But it's never enough for some. Example, my MacBook Air goes from "ding-chord!" to signed in and usable in about 15 seconds. For Windows 7 on the very same machine the number is about 3:30, including 30 seconds of watching a fucking white cursor blink on an otherwise black screen! What the hell is it trying to do?