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by KellyCriterion 2 days ago
Dont forget: Back then, after shoving tons of floppy disks (later 600MB CDs) for installing just the IDE and the compiler etc., you had to shovel another tower of media into the machine just to get the "help/doc" function installed :-D
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pjmlp 2 days ago
A customised mix of Turbo Pascal and MS-DOS 3.3 could fit in a 3.5 inch high density floppy, meaning 1.44 MB for the young folks.

I know that because I used to carry one for use on high school computer lab.

Then a couple others for programs.

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KellyCriterion 2 days ago
Visual C++ was one CD + at least 2 x MSDN CDs

Turbo Pascal for Windows: https://www.techspot.com/news/101067-turbo-pascal-celebrates...

This was, IIRC, several floppy discs?

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pjmlp 2 days ago
Except you are talking about mid-90s already.

TPW was about 7 disks, and when it got released, there were already 6 versions released for MS-DOS.

Followed by Turbo Pascal 7 for MS-DOS still, with TPW being replaced with Delphi.

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