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by susam 806 days ago
In case there are any DOS enthusiasts out here, a "hello, world" program written in assembly/machine code in DOS used to be as small as 23 bytes: https://github.com/susam/hello

Out of these 23 bytes, 15 bytes are consumed by the dollar-terminated string itself. So really only eight bytes of machine code that consists of four x86 instructions.