Re: So, how big ARE the archives?

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From: Juha Laiho
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:40

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In article <4fMgagG00Uh_01k6sp@andrew.cmu.edu> pm3z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Joseph Mitchell) writes:
>wondering exactly how big they are.  I know that simtel at least has to
>be around 600 megs or so, because of the periodic CD-ROM of the archives
>that is released now and then.

Well, the simtel20 disk only has the MSDOS-stuff from simtel, and I think
there's other archives as well. So there's more than that 600M. And cica..
the cica Windows3 disk has about 200M programs on it (June 1992 edition).

..Wolf

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