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From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need input for future DOS release
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Date: 29 Mar 90 21:10:05 GMT
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georgf@polari.UUCP (George Forsman) writes:

>"Unlimited partition size?"  how about 2gig?  DOS version 4.0 has this 
>already.  (And yes, it does break things, but not as many as you might expect)

I would be upset if they made the partition limit 2 GB.  We're seeing 1 GB
5.25" disks now, so 2 GB is fairly close.  I've seen ads for WORMs with 
2.5 GB on a side.  I want something that we won't need to change until the 
21st century.  If you're going to change something, change it to something 
that you won't hit anytime soon.  I would prefer 1 TB.

In case you think I'm crazy to ask for all that space, we regularly take
data on wind turbines that generate files that are tens of megabytes.  We
are working on a PCM based system that will generate 300 MB files.  That's
THIS year - not 2000.  The situation will only get worse.  2 GB just won't
cut it for the long haul.
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Marshall L. Buhl, Jr.                EMAIL: marshall@wind55.seri.gov
Senior Computer Engineer             VOICE: (303)231-1014
Wind Research Branch                 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO  80401-3393
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