Hi,
On Nov 13, 2012 8:39 PM, "Michael B. Brutman" <mbbrut...@brutman.com> wrote:
>
> I think that 8GB is more than enough for any DOS system I'm ever going
> to run ...
Sarcasm or serious? :-) We all know the (false) 640k quote attributed to
Bill Gates. But nothing ever stays the same. While I agree that 8 GB is a
ton for DOS (or even XP, right?), it's not that hard to imagine "user data"
going beyond that.
Say you install a lot of games. Or a lot of music files. Or tons of
compilers. Or just lots and lots of source code. Or just tons of specs,
docs, etc. Even lots of .JPGs. Or maybe books, web pages, email archives,
other OSes, etc.
My desktop has a 4 GB FAT32 partition for FreeDOS, but now I've "only" got
400 MB free left, heh. And it's not all wasted slack space either
(thankfully!). Sure, I could clean up or backup (USB HD or CD-R) or even
delete a large part of that. But the point is that it's sometimes hard to
decide in advance how much will be needed. (Sometimes having multiple
versions is good for regression testing.)
BTW, I'm far from the biggest hoarder or most obsessed and experienced DOS
power user (I think??), but I could easily fill a DVD with lots of
"optional but nice and hard to find" DOS stuff, even if personally don't
use it that often (if at all).
BTW, I think the iBiblio mirror for FreeDOS is over 6 GB these days
(probably due to big distros and lots of older versions of stuff). No idea
what a full DJGPP mirror would take (rr? any guess?). Or even how big
Simtel's /msdos/ is or (defunct) Garbo, etc.
And yes, I prefer small size, but not everyone else does. So there's always
room for improvement.
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