From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] one reason ideas from Plan 9 didn't catch on
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:42:02 -0500
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I expect the compressed CD image would
be approximately as large as the compressed
distribution currently is -- 50-70MB for the
base package, maybe 150MB with tex, perl,
cvs, and various other enormous programs.

The format shouldn't change the size significantly.

Russ