Subj : Re: Early PCs
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Apr 24 2024 09:44:58

  Re: Re: Early PCs
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Blue White on Wed Apr 24 2024 07:17 am

 BW>> IIRC, the early versions of DOS 6 were not a big improvement over DOS 5.0
 BW>> and were actually buggy.

 PF> Buggy in a serious way -- early disk compression software had some serious
 PF> issues and ate filesystems occasionally.

Also, I remember hearing about a lawsuit against Microsoft because they apparently used code from another product (I believe it was Stacker) for their DoubleSpace disk compression software.  Microsoft removed DoubleSpace in MS-DOS 6.21, and then added DriveSpace in MS-DOS 6.22, from what I recall.

Nightfox
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