Dave W. Plummer's RetroPad squeezes XP Notepad into 2,749 bytes
The Windows veteran's assembly project is less a Notepad rival than a reminder of what modern software abstraction hides.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Tom's Hardware
Why it matters
RetroPad turns a tiny byte count into a critique of modern software bloat, but the strongest claims still hinge on unverified details: what was counted, which XP Notepad features are matched and where the code can be inspected.
Dave W. Plummer, the programmer associated with Windows Task Manager, Zip support for Windows and the Windows NT port of Space Cadet Pinball, is the developer behind RetroPad, a tiny x86 assembly text editor that Tom's Hardware reported as a "full-feature-parity version of Notepad from XP" weighing 2,749 bytes.…
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