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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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[–] xmanmonk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Which came first, DriveSpace or Norton Speed Disk? I thought Norton was first.

[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Different tools. Speed disk was a disk defragmenter, DriveSpace was whole disk compression. The Norton tool you’d have used a lot if you used DriveSpace was Norton Disk Doctor.

[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And as I recall, Norton had all the tools long before MS-DOS included them by default. It was sort of a dick move by Microsoft, the sort of thing they're famous for now.

[–] ksaj@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Raise your hand if you used to sit and watch Norton's defragger do its thing! 🤩

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