>> This is an HP all in one machine with scanning, printing, 
>> photo cards,
>> etc.  No fax, though.

> Nothing is so much fun as rambling along without looking 
> at the facts, it
> seems

If you say so.
:-)

In fact, the XP drivers are even larger - 298MB and 48 MB 
full and basic.
But, that doesn't alter the initial bare statement or the 
general principle.

I still have the recollection of seeing a competent 
Basketball scoring system with twin multiple 7 segment 
displays, timers etc, implemented by a friend on an SC/MP 
(ack!) in 512 BYTES of memory. (Just maybe that was 256 
BYTES.). N decades on you can add as much functionality as 
you like to a printer driver and, if it tops 10 MB in size, 
let along 100 MB then the term "madness" is well enough 
used.

We accept with little or no complaint or comment the most 
ludicrous of offerings just because it has no great apparent 
impact on us. The resultant overall bloated unresponsive 
buggy and cotton-wooled nature of the outcomes just may have 
something to do with this. Maybe not ;-).



        Russell

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