Subj : Thin client PC to run MS-
To   : DUMAS WALKER
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Mon Dec 01 2025 08:17:35

RM>> Maybe I'm thinking of earlier systems but if I recall there was a
  >> huge storage waste reduction if you went to partitions of less than
  >> about 32 gig. I recall dividing a 160 gig drive into 5 drives.

DW>Yes.  This would have been on a DOS machine that didn't run Windows and
  >wasn't 32-bit.  IIRC, it was when DOS (under Windows) became 32-bit that
  >the storate waste was no longer considered a problem.... or maybe
  >it was just that HDs got so cheap no one cared!  :D

As I mentioned elsewhere even using DOS 7 with FAT 32 could give you
quite a bit of space wasted (up to 16kb) for every one of the oftem
tens of thousands of individual files on the drive.

I think it was my Suped up Win 98SE system where I was still having
to divide the drive into 4 or 5 parts.. but as you say, the drives
had started getting so big that it probably didn't matter that much.
It was just a leftover habit from older systems.

My first PC type computer (as opposed to Apple) was an 8088 with
a 32 meg (MEG!) hard drive (1985 or 86) so optimizing drive space
was a little more beaten into your head..   B)

Back then that 'cheap' hard drive could run you $1400, to go
along with your 5.25" floppy drive at $400..

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