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From: Susan Bugher on 22 Mar 2010 11:05 Brian (Groups) wrote: > On Mar 22, 11:04 am, Susan Bugher <sebug...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> That's NOT "tiny" in *my* book. . . grumble, grumble. . . ;) > I was thinking about that very thing the other day Susan, and how the > perceptions and expectations of people have changed, as I saw GenX and > GenY appear. <snip> > Amazing - it's like watching evolution unfold within your own > lifetime. Yup. Floppies and diskettes imposed one size limit. Then came CDs, then DVDs. . . and Shareware apps grew bigger and bigger. . . IMO broadband has made the most difference in the size of Freeware apps - since the most common method of acquisition is downloads. Susan (still on dial-up) -- Posted to alt.comp.freeware Search alt.comp.freeware (or read it online): http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=+group:alt.comp.freeware Pricelessware & ACF: http://www.pricelesswarehome.org Pricelessware: http://www.pricelessware.org (not maintained)
From: badgolferman on 22 Mar 2010 13:09 Zombie Elvis wrote: >I think that the smallest program I use regularly is ClipX -- 414 KB. PuTTy 444K http://212.13.197.229/~sgtatham/putty/ Neutron 7K http://keir.net/neutron.html
From: Bill Day on 22 Mar 2010 14:39 On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:04:58 -0500, Susan Bugher <sebugher(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Back in the day. . . we used to talk about "boomer size" apps (less >than 50 KB). > >Now programs that are close to one MB in size are described by their >authors as "tiny". > >That's NOT "tiny" in *my* book. . . grumble, grumble. . . ;) > >Susan I have used WatchCat for maybe 10 years... still runs fine on XP. It is 147KB full download, and exe is only 93KB. It is in my startup, and I wouldn't like to be without it. http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/LFWV/WatchCat.html -- remove nonsense for reply
From: Bill Day on 22 Mar 2010 14:45 On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:39:07 -0400, Bill Day <somethingextreeNONSENSE(a)comcast.net> wrote: >On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:04:58 -0500, Susan Bugher <sebugher(a)yahoo.com> >wrote: > >>Back in the day. . . we used to talk about "boomer size" apps (less >>than 50 KB). >> >>Now programs that are close to one MB in size are described by their >>authors as "tiny". >> >>That's NOT "tiny" in *my* book. . . grumble, grumble. . . ;) >> >>Susan Oh, and I forget about the famous text editor "the Gun" http://www.movsd.com/thegun.htm 6K written in assember. "TheGun does not use any additional runtime DLLs and is coded in Microsoft Assembler (MASM) using the Windows API functions.. It does not use or write to the registry at all and will run on Windows versions from Win95b upwards. In common with the last version, it uses a very high speed dispatcher internally for system message processing, it now tests for read only files and handles the XP style of file dialog correctly. It uses an extended version of the system "MessageBox" to display various forms of information." I have it, but seldom use it. -- remove nonsense for reply
From: Thip on 22 Mar 2010 18:11
"badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:xn0grxyqq1l9al001(a)reader.albasani.net... > Zombie Elvis wrote: > >>I think that the smallest program I use regularly is ClipX -- 414 KB. > > PuTTy 444K > http://212.13.197.229/~sgtatham/putty/ > > Neutron 7K > http://keir.net/neutron.html PopSel 116K |