From: "Carl Gehr" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:19:22 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: "Carl Gehr" <Carl.Gehr@attglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: eCS or OS/2 on T60 [Was:  Re: Next wave of portable device architecture]
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On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:01:50 +0200 (CEST), Jan van Wijk wrote:

>Hi Carl,
>
>On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:28:33 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote:
>
>>>I have found that for a Windows-XP that is actually USED over a longer period, 
>>>something like 6GB is about the minimum, unless you do a lot of tweaking and 
>>>removing unneeded stuff, or move lots of data to other partitions ...
>>>
>>>Regards, JvW
>>
>>In order to have anything resembling a usable Windoze2K, I had to go to
>>12GB.
>
>Yes, but that depends on what kind of applications you have and use.
>
>On a dedicated machine that I use for web-browsing and photoshop only,
>I have been running Windows-XP in 6GB for a few years now ...
>
>On my T42, that has the same plus a few other applications,  and is 
>used more, I also have something like 12GB (which is 75 full :-)
>
>Regards, JvW

You're probably right that 12GB is a little large.

I really don't use Win2K much, primarily for updating my Palm-based
Treo.  I used to use it for Delorme Mapping software, but a combination
of the on-line maps that have gotten so much better and a navigation
system in my car, I've not done that much.

Possibly one thing that makes a difference is that I restrict Windoze
to ONLY its own C-Drive.  So, that one partition has to include all
data that Windoze will access.  I do no allow access to any of my other
eCS drives.  If I have to move data between systems, I use a USB flash
drive and wipe it clean after each use.  [Paranoid?  Probably.  But, I
refuse to take any chances.]

Carl