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by gaius 4557 days ago
The finished MacPaint consisted of 5,804 lines of Pascal code, augmented by another 2,738 lines of assembly language, which compiled into less than .05 megabytes of executable code

To put that into perspective, the date command alone on this Linux box is 49k.

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The one that breaks me is the Clock application on my Android phone is using 20.29 MB of the phone's memory at the moment. What could it possibly be doing to justify that?