Hello Bill, On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 07:43:53 -0500 GMT (20/02/2004, 19:43 +0700 GMT), Bill Blinn Technology Editor wrote:
This is quickly moving into the OT realm, but I'll reply anyway. > Back in the old days when the big (40MB shared by 35 people) hard > drives on the DEC PDP-11 RS/TS system reached 80%, we got warning We had 10MB Winchester drives (removable, about the size of the things you use for curling) in 1980/81. I was assigned 1MB on it. This seemed like unlimited space! I never filled it with my programs, which were written in Pascal. Not Turbo-Pascal, mind you, that hadn't been invented yet. But I was a wizzard with pointer types. Oh well, the "good old times". ;-) When I got a 2GB drive a couple of years ago, my friends classified it a "football-field size" HD. When I upgraded my mobo later on, it wouldn't support such "old small drives" and I had to buy a new HD as well. k>> Windows doesn't even like to defrag without 15-17% free space. I can k>> imagine the performance issues one would encounter with a 95% filled HD. > Doesn't Windows start carping when free space drops below 85% or so? I > may be remembering something that didn't occur, but I seem to recall > some version of Windows grumbling about this. What is carping? I noticed that something called carp.exe is running on my PC, but I have no idea what it is. f'up2tbot. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. If God dropped acid, would he see people? Message reply created with The Bat! 2.04.3 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 256MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.04.04 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
