Re: CMS SCSI card

[John L <jdl@biogate.com>]

On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:47:57 -0600, phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com>
wrote:

>> But you are correct in that 8 bit machines don't need a whole lot of
>> space.  I have a 61 MB AMR hard drive that I think will give my IIe
>> lots of storage space.
>
>This is an amazing computer phenomenon. As another verification
>of this, look at the difference between 16 bit MsDos files and 32 bit
>Windows files. As the cpu gets bigger, the storage requirements get
>bigger too.

Somewhat true, although if you look at 32-bit Amiga software you won't
find excessively large file sizes for 32-bit programs.  However, the
Amiga has a substantially different hardware design which makes the
software less bloated and ;much less CPU dependent.

> This is part of the reason MS went to the fat32 file system.

Well, the real reason MS adopted FAT32 was to support MSDOS partition
sizes > 2.1GB and to provide more efficient cluster usage.

>Just wait until the 64 or 128 bit processors.

I'm hoping that most users will wise up and choose non-microsoft
operating systems when these processors become commonplace - although
I do believe this looks far-fetched right now.