I used to have a perfectly good word processor which lived on a 180kB (single sided) floppy together with its operating system[1] (the spelling dictionary lived on another floppy). Are Word or OpenOffice actually 1000 times better than Wordstar 2? (And if you take into account the difference in processor speeds -- another factor 1000 -- it gets even worse.)
But yes, my basic website (less the loads of gzipped tar files holding my backups) will still fit easily on a floppy, and the UK filkcon ones I've done will as well (less the PDF files for the forms and progress reports, but that's because OpenOffice doesn't compress them well).
[1] CP/M. Again, is Win7 (or Ubuntu for that matter) actually 1000 or more times as powerful?
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Date: 2011-10-21 04:09 pm (UTC)But yes, my basic website (less the loads of gzipped tar files holding my backups) will still fit easily on a floppy, and the UK filkcon ones I've done will as well (less the PDF files for the forms and progress reports, but that's because OpenOffice doesn't compress them well).
[1] CP/M. Again, is Win7 (or Ubuntu for that matter) actually 1000 or more times as powerful?