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iberatorlast Thursday at 2:58 AM2 repliesview on HN

Early versions (3?) could fit an amazing editor, assembler, compiler, debugger and whole IDE in just 120kb(!!!) of disk space.

Vim looks pathetic in comparison to it...


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rbanffyyesterday at 8:50 PM

Aztec-C on the Apple II had a vi editor that ran on a 64K machine, but you had to exit it before you could run the compiler.

stevekempyesterday at 9:06 PM

I have a small collection of "curated" CP/M software, which works alongside a CP/M emulator I wrote:

https://github.com/skx/cpm-dist

The distribution of Borland's Turbo Pascal v3.01A is approximately 180k.