Surely it was 256 Mb of memory, he wouldn't have limited his marketing opportunities, Would he? <G>
My spec below is for disk storage and a 40Gb partition would probably be the maximum for an OS for the currently common hardware and you don't need a car, a bike, legs, or a cash income (two hands on normal arms and a wheelchair - you can feed and 'care' for yourself) It just aint anywhere near what could be called 'easy' For XP I would recommend at least 512Mb memory, and preferably 1Gb memory or possibly more depending on the application mix run and the disk usage you can accept within the system. ( more than 3Gb would be a 'special usage system') JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 11:02 PM Subject: Re: Reformatting HD > At 22:39 03/09/2005, you wrote: > >Me - I reckon, for XP.. 10GB minimum - but better calculations are.... > >5GB for the OS, > >1GB working space for the paging file ( or memory size if larger, unless > >pagefile size is limited > >Memory size for 'hiber.sys file if you have not removed Hibernate from the > >available closedown options > >3GB per user > >5GB for a DVD drive's software workspace > >5GB more if it's a DL DVD > >5GB or 10GB if you are going to have a DVD 'drive' image on the OS drive > > > >5GB for Goback and the other 'update backout facilities if you are going to > >use them - they're gonna eat space as they keep 'restore image filesets' > > What was it that Gates said about home users never needing more than > 256mb of storage? > -- > Andy > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned > LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: > http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html > > -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
