Hi, On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Michael B. Brutman <mbbrut...@brutman.com> wrote: > > I think I was pretty clear - "I think that 8GB is more than enough for > any DOS system I'm ever going to run ..."
That's your decision. ;-) > As much as I enjoyed DOS, when it was current the amount of user data > one would typically have was infinitely smaller. My point is that there's a lot of stuff out there, and it's easy to ignore, discount, downplay. But it really heavily depends on personal needs and usage. One size does not fit all. > If you are going to > store gigabytes of music and photos and use them on a day to day basis, > FAT16 is probably not a great filesystem and DOS is not a great OS. What about FAT32? And what's wrong with just storing files? Is the HD less of a HD in DOS? Heck, I can even see FreeDOS as a nice, lean server. I don't think simple file operations like that are somehow super crippled by FAT's minimalism. I suspect a newer "modern" OS (e.g Fedora, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB HD) is overkill in some cases. > So while it is possible, it is not probably. In fairness, I didn't mean me personally. I'm not very multimedia dependent. I can see where people encoding HD videos wouldn't use DOS, but that's far from making DOS useless or entirely obsolete for all circumstances and computers. > I hope you are not archiving source code, specs, docs, jpgs, books, web > pages, other OSes, etc. using DOS. Not for serious use, no. And most of that is just random stuff. So I'm not officially archiving anything big. Just lots of little stuff. It's almost exclusively DOS-related source code and similar stuff. > It is interesting to push the > limits, but often not productive. That is not a typical use-case for DOS. But the truth is that it's not pushing the limits, it's just average use. Obviously if I wasn't an (untalented) hacker, I wouldn't need compilers and source code and such. Then again, a lot of stuff you have to build or fix yourself, so it's (almost) mandatory sometimes, unless you want to nag or pay someone else (good luck with that!). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
