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Early versions (3?) could fit an amazing editor, assembler, compiler, debugger and whole IDE in just 120kb(!!!) of disk space.

Vim looks pathetic in comparison to it...

Aztec-C on the Apple II had a vi editor that ran on a 64K machine, but you had to exit it before you could run the compiler.

> vi editor [...] you had to exit it

I didn't know that was possible.

On the II you could always cold start the computer when you are done.

I have a small collection of "curated" CP/M software, which works alongside a CP/M emulator I wrote:

The distribution of Borland's Turbo Pascal v3.01A is approximately 180k.