Japheth wrote:

> So faithfully expect point 1. to be realized
> somewhere in the second half of this decade!

I do (BTW, I have 2 CPU cores ... located in 2 PC's located
cca 20 Km from each other ... total frequency is 800 MHz).

>  Are yu going to complain about this?

Sure. But not today. Expect mail on this subject
somewhere in the second half of this century!

Eric wrote:

> Works for me and it is just VERY cool to have a factor
> 2, 3, 4 or 6 speed gain on a CPU with that number of cores...

Better idea: reduce bloat by factor 2, 3, 4 or 6 ...
and the best: 1 CORE is enough :-)

> Mencoder can recompress videos

So can I. In DOS and without Mencoder or any unnecessary bloat :-)

> The next problem is that FAT filesystems suck when you
> try to create 2 to 6 JPEG thumbs at the same time while
> not yet knowing how big each of them will be.

Right. Same for NTSC (tested).

> Not to mention the big cluster size and the inefficient disk
> I/O etc. None of that was ever made for multi tasking.

Right :-( How to fix those ? Will they be fixed in FreeDOS 2.0 ?

> I take the freedom to disagree with you here and use
> DOS and Linux separately

I take the freedom to agree with you here ... keep
them separate, no need for DOG-EMU.

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