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Let's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space. (raduzaharia.medium.com)
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[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 3 points 1 year ago

"I don't remember a performance penalty, because everything was so slow it didn't matter"