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abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Nobody gave a fuck until they bought a 300gb hd with 277gb of free space

The difference was a lot smaller when you were dealing with 700 byte files - it was often a rounding error. Also - you needed two sectors (1024 bytes at the time) two store a 700 byte file, so what does it matter anyway?

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