Oct. 7, 2021
8:26 p.m.
On 10/7/21 13:10, Russ Allbery via tz wrote:
tzdata.zi is 112KB out of 7.2MB total size
And tzdata.zi is only 22,577 bytes when compressed with 'lzip -9'. I was a bit taken aback just now, when I realized that all of tzdb can be compressed into a size that would nearly fit into the RAM of the first computer I ever programmed, a circa-1961 GE-225 mainframe that weighed nearly a ton and had only 8192 20-bit words. https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-4/mainframes