I have been puzzled by the connection between inserting QLAY and huge discs. Qlay can be tucked away anywhere, even a memorystick.
The handling of large discs by older PC's is not just a factor of MSDOS but many BIOS had limitations, I recall one (686 500Mhz) that saw no more than 15gig untill an overlay was installed - fine for the space but some MS proceedures didn't like it much. I too have allways been a multi disc/partitioner, my first computer - Newbrain - had double cassette drives. Then the QL standard was progs on mdv1 and data to mdv2. Which grew naturally to OS on C - Bill's sandpit in constant process of fragmenting. D for progs only E Data F swap/pagefile and storage of installation packages. Broadly only C and E need defragging from time to time. >. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/694 - Release Date: 20/02/2007 13:44 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
