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Radu Zaharia@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 2 年前

Let's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space.

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Let's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space.

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Radu Zaharia@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 2 年前
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MS-DOS applications: DriveSpace
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You probably have no idea how bad the storage space situation around the nineties was, right when the personal computer became a thing…
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    Didn’t speed disk do an optimised defragment operation, putting OS files at the start of the drive etc

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