I think I was pretty clear - "I think that 8GB is more than enough for any DOS system I'm ever going to run ..."
As much as I enjoyed DOS, when it was current the amount of user data one would typically have was infinitely smaller. 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. So while it is possible, it is not probably. I hope you are not archiving source code, specs, docs, jpgs, books, web pages, other OSes, etc. using DOS. It is interesting to push the limits, but often not productive. That is not a typical use-case for DOS. Mike On 11/13/2012 9:50 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > > On Nov 13, 2012 8:39 PM, "Michael B. Brutman" <mbbrut...@brutman.com > <mailto: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. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
