Re: Asimov ftp site still available?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <46f84a4f$0$14063$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
Andy McFadden  <fadden@fadden.com> wrote:

> Don <coach41@pacbell.net> wrote:
>> On the subject of Asimov, has anyone counted just how many program/
>> applications are available on the site?
> 
> You can find the MDC output for Asimov on http://faddensoftware.com/.
> Looks like 7046 files, of which 3625 are disk images with a recognizable
> format.  Many disks contain multiple programs, and some programs span
> a few disks, making a precise count difficult.

There's also the matter of deciding whether a particular program is an
"application" or whether it's something else, e.g. a system tool.  Do
games count as applications?  Large games may have a separate program
to administer the game - is that tool an "application" of its own or
not?  All this is of course a matter of judgement.  And even if some
people took the trouble to obtain a precise count, different counters
would most likely get different counts.

Finally, the contents of Asimov changes from time to time, so the
precise count changes too.

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