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[Clinton MacDonald]

Mr. Duffy:

Cian Duffy wrote:
>> I am sure Windows XP ships on 5 or 6 CD-ROMs, at least,
>> and Mac OS X is on 4 or 5 (or one multi-gigabyte DVD-ROM).
> 
> Not so. One CD-700. Longhorn is 2 CD-700's or 1 DVD at the
> moment.

Really?! I stand corrected!

> OSX is on TWO DVD's, or at least the 10.3.5 discs I have
> are. Ones much smaller than the others. And then there's
> the third disc for Classic.

The 4 or 5 CDs I quoted for Mac OS X included all the iApps and the 
developer tools I remember installing. But, you are right: two CDs is 
the main installation.

> Linux and OSX are both just BIG. I've never been sure
> why. Windows just uses compression to yesterday and back
> - the installed OS is around 1.8GB.
> 
> In comparison BeOS uses around 600MB for the OS, the
> development tools and a decent browser and office suite.

A full install of Mac OS 9 is still less than about 150 MB (though I 
guess one should include the motherboard ROMs to be fair). Mac System 
6.0.8 could fit on a 800 kB floppy disk and still have room for an 
application or two and some documents. Whew.

Best wishes,
Clint
(who will have to fire up his old Mac Plus when he gets home -- which 
boots in just a few seconds)

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT net>