Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS limits! and FDNPKG v0.93a released

2013-05-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Charles Belhumeur wrote: > > Thanks Steve! > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote: >> >> On Wed, 8 May 2013, Charles Belhumeur wrote: >> >>> The other point... DOS had some notable shortcomings like no spell >>> checker >>> and no pocket c

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS limits! and FDNPKG v0.93a released

2013-05-08 Thread Charles Belhumeur
Thanks Steve! On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2013, Charles Belhumeur wrote: > > Oh wait I couple of points though. One fairly embarrassing, I made a >> mistake on the size of the genome files. The big ones are in the range of >> 300 to 600 MB not GB!

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS limits! and FDNPKG v0.93a released

2013-05-08 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Wed, 8 May 2013, Charles Belhumeur wrote: Oh wait I couple of points though.  One fairly embarrassing, I made a mistake on the size of the genome files.  The big ones are in the range of 300 to 600 MB not GB!  So doable on 2 GB partition.  The trouble is some sources deliver them in Zip forma

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS limits! and FDNPKG v0.93a released

2013-05-08 Thread Charles Belhumeur
I use a virtual studio, Poser. I push it and my hardware right to their limits to generate high res files. I stuck with old fashioned methods not using computers for serious work until recently. I mostly used a freeware piece called Graphic Workshop since the early 1990s. It did a good job with

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS limits! and FDNPKG v0.93a released

2013-05-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Charles Belhumeur wrote: > > I also had a career as a commercial artist and photographer back in the > 1980s. Did you use DOS (for such) back then? Mac? Neither? FYI, sources for Photoshop 1.0.1 from 1991 were recently released for non-commercial use (75% Pas