> A technical reason is that the miniature version of Windows 3.1 compressed to only 441,906 bytes, or just under a third of the capacity of a single floppy disk.
Microsoft used DMF, a custom format, for Windows 95 install floppies that held 1680 KB, so 441 KB would be about a quarter of one.
Another article where my first thought before even clicking the link was "I bet this was written by Raymond Chen" :)
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> A technical reason is that the miniature version of Windows 3.1 compressed to only 441,906 bytes, or just under a third of the capacity of a single floppy disk.
Microsoft used DMF, a custom format, for Windows 95 install floppies that held 1680 KB, so 441 KB would be about a quarter of one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format
The disk you boot from cannot use a non-standard format, at least not for the entire disk.