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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:31:00 -0800
From: "John Barham" <jbarham@gmail.com>
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Subject: [9fans] [OT] 43 MB installer to share CD/DVD drive w/ MacBook Air
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I found this Engadget story amusing:

http://tinyurl.com/363ojs

Summary:  Since Apple's new MacBook Air doesn't include a CD/DVD
drive, they bundle a program to enable sharing of a disc drive from
another machine.  Apparently the (Mac) installer is 43 MB.  It would
be interesting to know why it needs to be so big when the equivalent
functionality in Plan 9 would take, what, 3 lines of shell script?
Might have been less work just to embed Inferno and be done with it!
;)

One wonders at what point the law of diminishing returns kicks in when
it comes to software...

  John