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From: Nicetameetya on 22 Mar 2010 18:23

[Default] On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:11:17 -0400, "Thip" <me(a)privacy.net>
told us in complete confidence:

>
>
>"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

Caffe1ne: 546 bytes
From: John Corliss on 22 Mar 2010 21:19
Susan Bugher 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. . . ;)

I agree that it's getting larger, but to me that kind of seems
inevitable and something that's been occurring as time goes by.

I wonder whatever happened to Boomer.

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From: Dave on 22 Mar 2010 23:26
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:11:17 -0400, Thip wrote:

> "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

Cathy 47 kB
http://www.mtg.sk/rva/

dsCrypt 25 kB ,14 kB for the cli version
DVDsig 10 kB
CryptNote 17 kB
dsMD5 6 kB
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/

Dave

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From: Franklin on 23 Mar 2010 08:46
Bill Day wrote:

> 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.

The antivirus I was using at the time always complained about The Gun. I
never got around to checking if it was a false positives.

ISTR there were three different Gun editors.
From: Susan Bugher on 23 Mar 2010 09:50
John Corliss wrote:
> Susan Bugher 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. . . ;)
>
> I agree that it's getting larger, but to me that kind of seems
> inevitable and something that's been occurring as time goes by.

Yup. For example in 2003 1by1 was around 40 KB. It currently weighs in
at a still modest 124 KB.
http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html

It's also inevitable that *some* authors will use "ad-speak" in their
program descriptions. By way of contrast Martin Pesch describes 1by1 as
a *small* program. That's my kind of guy. :)

> I wonder whatever happened to Boomer.

Dunno.

Susan
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