Bill Birrell wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 BB> Hi Roy,
 > What platform are you running on?

 BB>     That's part of the problem, Roy. It's desktop PC running
 BB> Windows ME. It has been upgraded from Windows 95 to Windows 98 and
 BB> then to Windows ME.

I decided after 98 that I wasn't gonna go any further in that direction.

 BB> As a result all three versions are on board including the CABs. 
 BB> That's the space hog, I think. 

I'll bet!

 BB> It also has all of Office 2000, the Fido and the internet 
 BB> messagebase, too. The best thing would be to reformat and load up 
 BB> XP new, but the hardware is pretty old and I very much doubt if 
 BB> signed drivers are availabe for it now.

Dunno what you're calling old hardware.  The "biggest" system I
have going here (two of them,  actually) is a K6-200 w/64M of ram.  Got a
P200 with somewhat less,  but as soon as I check out the ram I brought home
the other day and see what I've got I'll probably add some more to that
one.

 BB> There's about half a gigabyte nominally free but Windows wants 
 BB> half of that for virtual memory management.

I recently upgraded the 98 box here by adding what was supposed to be a 1G
IDE drive but which turned out to be SCSI (it's an all-SCSI Compaq) to it, 
doing the 98 install to that,  and having it take a bit of the original
500M drive for swap.  It complains to me from time to time that "Drive
D is too full" but none of what it suggests seems to do anything to
help that,  so I don't worry about it too much.  I'm planning to install
linux on the rest of that drive.

 BB>     So a C compiler for it has to about the size of MSC 7, or 
 BB> Zortech 3. 

Not familiar with those,  the last time I hung out in here MSC 6 was out, 
and I don't recall where Zortech was at that time.  Bob's Suggestion of Mix
Power C is a good one,  though.  I have that and have used it okay,  though
I haven't done much of anything with it lately.  Have it (and their other
stuff I own) on 5.25" floppies,  which should tell you something about
how long ago I got them.  :-)

 BB> Andrew listed a few, and I've asked him which is smallest. I can 
 BB> wait till he gets back. :-)

Thought I saw a reply to that earlier in this pile.

Sounds to me like you really oughta get rid of some of what's on that box, 
or something...

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