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    2.7KB RetroPad: Dave Plummer’s XP Notepad Clone Sparks a Windows “Bloat” Debate

    Dave W. Plummer released RetroPad in early June 2026 as a tiny x86 assembly re-creation of Windows XP-era Notepad, claiming feature parity in roughly 2.7KB and publishing both source code and an executable on GitHub under Apache 2.0. The stunt is funny because it is small, but it lands because...
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