Windows XP CD, there was still about 30 megabytes of storage capacity remaining.
Somebody decided to fill that extra capacity on the CD with dummy data and to have the Windows Setup program verify that the dummy data was still there.
Really? This feels like a Microsoft urban legend. I'm not convinced because I have an original ISO image of the first release of Windows XP Pro and it is (~500MB) much smaller than the size of even the smallest regular CD. It works, I've used it for many installs.
Edit: in fact only the i386 folder on the CD, which is < 500MB, is needed to install XP so if there was a hidden copy of Bob in there, it certainly doesn't fit the "30MB remaining" nor are there any files in there which are of that size with the exception of the ~75MB driver.cab; the latter contains only device drivers and the biggest one, te_protu.qm, appears to be ISDN modem firmware.
Also, Windows XP was released on October 25, 2001. Broadband wasn't pervasive at that point, but it was definitely available to many people, and and extra 30 MB wouldn't have slowed many people down.
Somebody decided to fill that extra capacity on the CD with dummy data and to have the Windows Setup program verify that the dummy data was still there.
Really? This feels like a Microsoft urban legend. I'm not convinced because I have an original ISO image of the first release of Windows XP Pro and it is (~500MB) much smaller than the size of even the smallest regular CD. It works, I've used it for many installs.
Edit: in fact only the i386 folder on the CD, which is < 500MB, is needed to install XP so if there was a hidden copy of Bob in there, it certainly doesn't fit the "30MB remaining" nor are there any files in there which are of that size with the exception of the ~75MB driver.cab; the latter contains only device drivers and the biggest one, te_protu.qm, appears to be ISDN modem firmware.