Re: UTF-8, OSTA-UDF [why?], Unicode, and miscellaneous gibberish
Matthias Urlichs (smurf@lap.noris.de)
26 Aug 1997 14:28:01 +0200
Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> writes:
>
> Don't forget that vi should be able to work on boot/recovery floppy _and_
> support regexps correctly in any environment. Boot floppy size is limited
> to 1.44 megabytes and, as opposed to the size of Unicode font and tables,
> isn't going to be increased any soon.
>
Three MB, actually, if you load a compressed version into RAM. Four and a
half if you then mount another floppy. Six if you load two floppies, but
then you'll run into problems with 8-MByte machines.
That leaves support for four-MByte machines out in the cold, unfortunately...