Here's an update to the Windows 9X STREWTH! to 40MB story.
On Monday 17th March 2003, The Inquirer ran an article with the subject "Man claims he's reduce Windows OS to 40Mb". On reading the article I phoned the editor of The Inquirer (Mike Magee) to express my surprise that this chap had only managed to reduce Windows 9x down to 40Mb. I explained that around 1995/1996; I had created a version of Windows 3.11 which self booted from a single DOS floppy disk thus allowing me to carry around a 1 disk bootable version SOLitaire!
I went on to explain to Mike that I had also experimented with putting Windows 95 + Windows 98 onto a single floppy disk, and that from that work I had also established that a "basic" Windows 9x setup could be easily cut down to between 5Mb-10Mb (if not less) and therefor I thought 40Mb was still bloated. Hence the references to 5Mb-10Mb etc.
Slimming Down Microsoft Windows 9X To 5Mb
On Monday 17th March 2003, The Inquirer ran an article with the subject "Man claims he's reduce Windows OS to 40Mb". On reading the article I phoned the editor of The Inquirer (Mike Magee) to express my surprise that this chap had only managed to reduce Windows 9x down to 40Mb. I explained that around 1995/1996; I had created a version of Windows 3.11 which self booted from a single DOS floppy disk thus allowing me to carry around a 1 disk bootable version SOLitaire!
I went on to explain to Mike that I had also experimented with putting Windows 95 + Windows 98 onto a single floppy disk, and that from that work I had also established that a "basic" Windows 9x setup could be easily cut down to between 5Mb-10Mb (if not less) and therefor I thought 40Mb was still bloated. Hence the references to 5Mb-10Mb etc.
Slimming Down Microsoft Windows 9X To 5Mb
