I want it on punched cards 😜

This is excellent information. My brain seems to be filled with knowledge like this as I age. So if my calculations are correct, roughly 30 to 40 hours to install without sleeping.

Grzyb wrote on 2022-02-11, 14:53:

I want it on punched cards 😜

I'm guesstimating over 20 Million cards and would take 2 shipping containers to deliver.

I thought I knew weird.
I was wrong.

That's been around a while. The original is for Windows 8

Someone changed the name but forgot to update the copyright date which is still 2013

somehow I had huge doubts that Microsoft would ever touch the Arial font again while 10's only Segoe ever

Didn't even Windows 95 use DMF with size of 1.7MB?

Yes, and with quite efficient LZ4 compression, as well. So, 1713 disks is a vast overestimate. I'd be pretty confident that with good, high-dictionary .7z compression, and 1.8 mb floppies (20-sectors, 82 tracks), you could get Win10 LTSC down to under 100 floppies!

Well, we should consider that normal HD floppy disks can hold up to 32 MB of data - when used in a LS-240 drive.

Oh yeah, I've developed a way to compress a whole DVD onto a 720Mb floppy, but can't get volunteers to help me write the decompression routine. 😉

.

edit: ruined the joke by mistyping MB when I mean kB.. because of course DivX was well used for getting a DVD movie onto ~700MB of CD

Seriously, I'm wondering what's the record diskette count for a single software product?
My candidate is Microsoft Office 97, with 46 diskettes.

Just imagine this: shuffle around for hours with forty-six floppies, and finally... Clippy! 🤣
The Ultimate Masochist Experience 🤣

Went ahead and pulled the trigger on this one lads

This is nothing, what if last floppy is corrupt. In the old days i had one of last floppy corrupt in a Windows 95 floppy installation.

Grzyb wrote on 2022-02-13, 07:49:

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Seriously, I'm wondering what's the record diskette count for a single software product?
My candidate is Microsoft Office 97, with 46 diskettes.

Just imagine this: shuffle around for hours with forty-six floppies, and finally... Clippy! 🤣
The Ultimate Masochist Experience 🤣

Cyberdyne wrote on 2022-02-13, 09:06:

This is nothing, what if last floppy is corrupt. In the old days i had one of last floppy corrupt in a Windows 95 floppy installation.

That's why my father bought PC Tools Deluxe in the 1980s..
It had an awesome backup program with compression, error correction etc.
He used that to setup those PCs he sold and to create recovery diskettes.
That worked fine in the MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.0/3.1 times and before.
Because back then, such software did not require registration.
The competition, Novell DOS and DR DOS, sadly, did require this.
That hindered pre-installations.. Silly Novell/Digital Research! 🙄