Verger

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:47:41 -0400, "Mike Hall - MVP"
<mikehall@mvps.org> sang the following hymns:

>Programs integrate with the OS so there is no value in installing them on a
>different drive or partition, because OS failure will require a re-install
>of all other programs anyway.. it is best to leave room in the primary
>partition for the additions and allow to have 25% free space after..
>
>I have Vista, Office 2007, various other utilities, Nero etc and 32% free
>space on a 40gb partition (80gb HDD).. much more, and I am looking at
>getting a larger drive..
>

I have a 320 GB. My PC is not operational yet, waiting for mobo and
CPU. But I have the HD in the case. If I am smart, I want try to be
too economical wityh my C drive. Reading a few posts and seeing signs
of Vista eating up space like...like...Pac Man
eating...what...dots...I plan on reserving a cozy 100 Gig for Vista.
Running XP now I allocated 6.52 GB for it...and although I always
carefully try to avoid having anything installed in the standard
program files directory and instead putting it on my D: drive for apps
and games on E and on, I have only around 700 MB left. And that is not
handy when it comes to swap files methinks.

Where are the days of Amiga and its fanatstic use of RAM and
diskspace? The things I could do in 2 MB chip RAm and 4 MB fast RAM
were incredible. I could browse the web, run an irc client, run a
picture viewer and have Dir Opus in the background all the time and
listening to some mods as I downloaded from Aminet utils and apps by
the dozens...and at that, if i wanted to, add or remove external
diskdrives when Gates hadn't even thought of plug 'n play.

Programmers these days care little, it seems, about disspace and
memory tidiness.

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Verger

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