[Thinkpad] T43

[Alex Austin]

See if LIST runs any better with TameDOS. (www.tamedos.com) It fixes many
DOS-in-Windows problems.

- Alex

On 10/11/06, David Ross <ross at math.hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hmm... Actually not... The file size limitation is the deal breaker
> for me.
> > Plus I use the encrypted and compressed folders all the time. So FAT32
> > doesn't work for me anyway.
>
> I use TrueCrypt for the most sensitive documents (student records), and
> only use FAT32 for system file partition; any truly big files (like
> multmedia for travel) go on an NTFS partition.
>
> > > I was doing this for a while, but the overhead on the
> > > particular machine where I need it most (both in disk space,
> > > load time, and overhead) was just too great.
> >
> > I wonder if we are talking about the same thing. My simplest DOS VM
> boots
> > from a virtual floppy, which is a 1.44MB file on the physical
> computer.
> > There are a couple other files of a few K each, so it's less than a
> couple
> > of megabytes for the whole VM.
>
> This was the product from VMware.  It took around 2 minutes to boot up
> on my X30, and really bogged down the machine while running.  Perhaps it
> would run better on a machine with more ram, I never tried it on our
> desktops.
>
> > A virtual floppy runs at hard drive speed, not floppy speed. My
> > "floppy"-based VM boots much faster than a physical floppy on the same
> > machine.
>
> That's after the VM player is already running, I'm including loading the
> player.
>
> > meant that you don't have to take the trouble of setting up the VM? If
> the
> > DOS software is something you use very often,
>
> No, not very often - once or twice per month.  Just enough for it to be
> an issue.
>
> David
>
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