Compaq Deskpro boards/hard drives from the late 1990s

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 3:20 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> On 7/23/21 10:23 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 at 18:56, Grant Taylor via cctalk
> > <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> If memory serves, that mass of floppies was dwarfed by Windows 95,
> >> particularly later versions.
> >
> > Win95: 13 disks.
> >
> > Win98: 38 disks.
>
> Some of the early Xenix distros were about as massive, when you included
> development tools.  And OS?2 on floppy when accompanied by the relevant
> CSDs could also run into many disks.
>

Venix/86R for the Rainbow shipped on 8 RX50 floppies.... BSW additions were
another 6 floppies, though that replaced about 2 floppies worth of binaries.

Warner

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