The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

the resultant drawings—take up? You want enough space on your disk for spreadsheets, word processing, and other programs _if_ you change your tasks often. But you don’t change often? Then don’t worry as much about this. Frugal use of space, of course, is one advantage of integrated programs combining graphics with word processing and spreadsheets or communications. You might also worry about the lengths of the files. One chart can take up the equivalent of page after page in disk space if you’re storing the image of the chart rather than the instructions for creating it.