TONT 34513 Windows 95 的安装程序用了多少张软盘才装下？

原文链接：https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050819-10/?p=34513

Thirteen.

13张。

In case you were wondering.

如果你真那么想知道的话。

And those were thirteen of those special Distribution Media Format floppies, which are specially formatted to hold more data than a normal 1.44MB floppy disc. The high-capacity floppies reduced the floppy count by two, which resulted in a tremendous savings in cost of manufacturing and shipping.

并且这13张软盘都是所谓的『分发媒体格式』（Distribution Media Format）的软盘，经过特殊的格式化，可以存储比普通的1.44MB软盘更多的数据。这些高容量软盘让（一套Windows 95安装程序）所需的软盘数量减少了2张，从而在制造和运输的过程中减少了海量的成本。

(I’m sure there are the conspiracy-minded folks who think that DMF was invented as an anti-piracy measure. It wasn’t; it was a way to reduce the number of floppy disks. That the disks were difficult to copy was a side-effect, not a design goal.)

（我觉得肯定有些阴谋论者认为DMF软盘是某种反盗版措施，然而实际上并非如此，它只是一种减少软盘数量的方式而已。这些磁盘难以复制只是副作用，而不是设计目的。）

(For comparison, Windows 3.1 came on six floppies. Windows NT 3.1 came on twenty-two. And yesterday, one of my colleagues reminded me that Windows NT setup asked for the floppy disks out of order! I guess it never occurred to them that they could renumber the disks.)

（作为对比，Windows 3.1 用了6张软盘，Windows NT 3.1 用了22张。并且昨天，有个同事还告诉我 Windows NT 安装程序要求用户提供软盘的时候是不按顺序的！我觉得这个问题他们应该从来没有遇到过，因为他们可以给磁盘重新标号。）