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		mgkimsal on Sept 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than (2011) "The entire Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable--the compiler and IDE--was 39,731 bytes." Many icons are bigger than that these days (and with Retina displays, will continue to grow).

klodolph on Sept 30, 2012 [–]

OS X 10.0.4 was released in 2001 and had 128x128 pixel icons in 24-bit color with 8-bit alpha, at 66k each. It was not typical to compress them.

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