On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote:
> Freedos can give me fat 32 capabilities. Reading & writing to bigger chips. Why would you *need* to? I still have my original PC clone running DOS in a shelf. I has a replacement motherboard with a NEC V20 chip running at 10mhz, 640K of RAM, an AST 6-Pak addon card with a megabyte of EMS memory, allocated between a 512K ramdisk, a 256K disk cache, and EMS for apps that could use it, a Hercules graphics card that drove an amber monitor, dual 360K full height floppies, and two Seagate ST-225 MFM 20 *MB* hard drives. DOS was small, apps were small, and data wasn't all that large. I had space to burn. I have FreeDOS installed to multiboot on an old notebook with a 40GB drive that also boots Win2K, and Puppy and Ubuntu Linux. Win2K has a 20GB NTFS slice. Ubuntu and Puppy each have 8GB ext4 slices. FreeDOS is on a 2GB FAT32 slice. The rest is a swap area for Puppy and Ubuntu. I allocated the 2GB slice for FreeDOS expecting to use FAT16, and FAT32 support was a happy fringe benefit. Even with a full FreeDOS installation including pretty much everything on the ISO, and an assortment of other old DOS apps, I think I've used about a quarter of the 2GB FreeDOS partition. I'm trying to think of what I might store there using DOS that would *need* more space, and can't think of anything. The advantage to FAT32 was more efficient use of existing space, because a cluster could be a lot smaller. > Qpro 3 works great. I hate to mess with sucess. Sometimes the new version > isn't as good as the old - it happens. As long as QPro 3 does what you need from a spreadsheet, splendid. Most of us upgrade to get things the current versions of what we run *can't* do, and we get new versions to get those new features. > cheers > DS ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
