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by 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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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?

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.