The Windows SDK today is still huge. The download for the Vista version is over a Gig...and that's compressed. I didn't install the whole thing so I can't say how big it expands, but my install is at 1.26 Gig.

>Speaking of the "good old days" of product documentation, did you ever see the Windown SDK documentation? It came in about 30 binders and weighed, guessing, a couple hundred pounds. I talked my company into buying it for me -- not a trivial task given that it cost $3000, in 198s dollars -- and the documentation filled up three shelves of my bookcase.
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>Now we get far more voluminous information in VS 2005, for example, on a single DVD weighing a couple of ounces.