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- From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
- Subject: Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
- Organization: NullNet r.y.
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:40:24 GMT
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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.
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- 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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