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Something I got to thinking of while sorting out a pile of driver floppies for windpws XP & 2003...

Of all the software products ever released, what came on the highest number of floppy disks? Windows 95 used 13, but I doubt that was the upper limit as things moved towards dual-release on floppy and CD before becoming CD only.

Thor
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DrStalker
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I don't know if it was publicly released, but I remember that when I was with one customer who had a very old (but powerful) machine and were licence customers of Microsoft, they requested XP on disk and it was delivered on around 250+ floppys

William Hilsum
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MS Office 97 Professional came on 45 floppies 55 floppies (97 Standard came on 45).

pelms
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OS/2 Warp v3 was 25 (39 if you include the bonus pack) - and i know because i just dusted it off and counted :) now can i find a working floppy drive?

Zypher
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I still have the disks for Microsoft C++ 7.0 here in my drawer. There are 16 of them.

fretje
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Slackware Linux came on 33 disks.

Mark Harrison
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I recall hearing that MS SQL Server was quite a few disks (I want to say around 40), but can't find the exact number anywhere...

Jimmy
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MS Office Pro, 40+ disks, as far as I can remember...

Daniel Mošmondor
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How about for games? Monkey Island 2 came on 11 disks for the Amiga - and hard drives weren't that common!

therefromhere
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I remember Lotus SmartSuite used 23...

yhw42
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squillman
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i remember that Borland C++ was on 15 disks

Remus Rigo
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