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to: CHARLES ANGELICH
from: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
date: 2005-03-15 07:51:30
subject: dual boot

-> WC> I'm leaving Windows behind so it won't be an issue for me. 

-> The probability that you will continue to read/write to FAT12
-> floppies is high. Even though people like to complain about
-> Microsoft and poke fun at DOS it is very much in use, exists in
-> the vicinity of almost every home computer and will for the
-> foreseeable future. :-) 

You've a point there.
As I'm running ramdrive I keep a floppy with e-mail addresses, bookmarks
and such in the A: drive and it's formatted DOS.

If the power drops I cp those files after mounting the floppy
then import them.

So far I've always remembered to umount.

Approaching six weeks up without a hard drive or reboot!!!
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