Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:26:53 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] Re: OpenDOS to be released next week! (fwd)
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On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> > friends 1.2gig and he has a 800meg main, and a 400meg D:, even though the
> > main uses 8k's, it's fairly ok because most of his programs are those big
> > Win95 space occupiers.
> 
> Drives between 256 and 512M are 8k so the 800 should be 16k clusters
> and the 400 should be 8k.  From what I've seen analyzing Win'95

Ever commit a typo and not spot it till Pine reports that it's sending:)

> partitions, the file wastage is the same.  Unless there are BIG files
> taking up the majority of space on one of those drives, then the
> cluster wastage is still a concern.  I suggest testing out the wastage

Very Big Files, they tend to be anywhere from 160k on up.  He has no small
programs.  One of them is the IBM Speech to Text program, the main driver
program is about 800k, (I think, it's been a while since I got down and
dirty with his machine.)