"Windows 95 was 30 MB" is such an ignorant, obnoxious, trite take. a triple buffered framebuffer (which you want for smooth scrolling) for my 4K display is 70 MB in *pixels alone*. Obviously a complete webpage with precomposed textures would take more.https://twitter.com/julienPauli/status/1042113172143067138 …
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Replying to @whitequark
I don't think the 4K triple buffered framebuffer is stored somewhere at install time, so that's 70mb you can't claim.
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Replying to @zehavoc
talking about RAM footprint. if we're talking about JS sizes on the order of 10 MB, well, that compares very favorably to the size of the offline app it replaces, which is usually on the order of 100-1000 MB (e.g.: Office, Outlook)
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Replying to @whitequark
you may have a point but that article was actually talking about the disk space footprint of OSes and apps. If anything, using only web-based apps should actually reduce the disk space but he noticed the reverse effect.
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Replying to @zehavoc
Firefox OS was quite compact; Android apps drag a ton of stuff in apks these days because every older version of Android they support comes with compatibility libraries for that specific version. This is an issue with the design of Android but not modern computing in general
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Replying to @whitequark
QNX too was super compact, there was even a version on one 1.4mb floppy disk, that's not the point. The fact that every app has to ship with all its libraries tells something about the current most widespread platform.
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that open ecosystems with independent software vendors are inherently inefficient in some ways, yes. see also: PC/Windows
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Replying to @whitequark
yeah, let's go back to mainframe computing and vendor locked in.
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