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Microsoft's current OS has been shrunk to a ridiculous 100MB in size, but only by getting rid of windows from Windows (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh, good, they reinvented DOS.

I wonder if Microsoft put a team of a couple hundred people on it for a few years how small they could get the current OS. Given, obviously, it's a fool's errand, but how much of the size of the current OS is just because disc and ram are cheaper now?