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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 32 Meg limit
Message-ID: <262@demott.COM>
Date: 31 May 90 18:51:19 GMT
References: <4933@plains.UUCP>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA
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In article <4933@plains.UUCP> kperson@plains.UUCP (Kerry Person) writes:
>In article <19450060@hpfinote.HP.COM> pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes:
>>> 
>>You are all wet  :-).  Previously the limit was 32 MB and now it is
>>512 MB (and 32 MB squared is a lot bigger than 512 MB). That's all I
>>konw about DOS 4.0. --- I never use it.
>>
>>
>>Regards,                       ## Life is fast enough as it is ........
>>
>
>Whoa, now!  Are we sure about this?  I thought it was at least in the Gig's!
>512 MB sounds way too small.  Seems I remember it was either 2 or 4 GB.
>

	(Note: the following is not a flame of the above persons).

    Who cares? Most of my files, and I suspect yours, are farily small,
with a couple of large ones thrown in.  Back in the bad old days when
clusters were 4K, I found a way to force them to 2K, and gained 30% of
my disk back. 

    What would be useful would be to have more clusters, not larger
clusters.  The latter just waste space and fool you into thinking you've
got a lot more storage than you actually do. 
-- 

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