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Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than

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<<Turbo Pascal 3 for MS-DOS was released in September 1986. .. The entire Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable--the compiler and IDE--was 39,731 bytes. How does that stack up in 2011 terms? Here are some things that Turbo Pascal is smaller than, as of October 30, 2011:

The minified version of jquery 1.6 (90,518 bytes).

The yahoo.com home page (219,583 bytes).

The image of the white iPhone 4S at apple.com (190,157 bytes)...>>

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@natecull About 2 kilobytes of that was Turbo Pascal error message in a text file. One could save valuable floppy space by deleting that file.

@natecull Aaaaaa We used Turbo Pascal in highschool, and now I'm watching Youtube vids and remembering lots, and current programming opinions and habits/tendencies of mine are making a lot more sense...