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Hello David - 

DD>>>>> The point is Charles that DOS is no longer "the Ghost
DD>>>>> in the Machine". Many modern machines have never seen
DD>>>>> it. Very little will fit on a diskette any more so
DD>>>>> their use is becoming far less prevelant. Many new
DD>>>>> machines don't come with a floppy drive. 

CA>> You always refer to "new machines". Do you not realize
CA>> that new machines do _not_ outnumber machines in the
CA>> installed base of computers out there in use today? 

DD> Yes, I forget that you live in the boonies. 

Worse than that, I am now back in the Detroit area in Michigan
where we kill the weak and eat them. ;-) 

DD> Machines have been available without floppy drives for more
DD> than 4 years now... 

Machines _without_ hardware are now the bleeding edge.
Interesting. 

DD> [re Partition Magic] 

DD>>> what do you do with your machines there?) 

CA>> I use BootitNG to manage my multiboot, image backups, and
CA>> any requirements to repartition or resize existing
CA>> partitions. What do you use? 

DD> I don't have mutliboot machines, I tend to have one OS per
DD> machine. 

Chicken? 

DD> I don't make image backups, I just copy my data directories
DD> (usually to tape). DD> I find with MS based machines that
DD> if the OS dies, it has been decomposing for a while, and
DD> restoring an image backup is putting back a faulty system. 

So basically if anything goes wrong you do a complete reinstall
and lose any/all tweaks configuration changes etc. that you had
added since the last (most recent) install? Also interesting. 

DD> I haven't felt the need to resize partition in an awful
DD> long time... 

Let me guess, you have one HUGE partition with everything on
it? LOL 

You certainly do march to your own drummer David Drummond. 

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