Subj : Re: Computers
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : tenser
Date : Tue Jul 23 2024 03:16:31

On 22 Jul 2024 at 06:53a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
 
 pF>  Hard drive space was at a premium, too - I remember people switching
 pF>  archivers to ARJ when it came out for a single-digit improvement over
 pF>  PKZIP. Then, some people liked LHArc. Some people said to hell with it
 pF>  and stuck with ARC. Back then, it made a material difference when your
 pF>  perimary storage was an 80mb hard drive.

I remember people being upset when we went from `compress` to
`gzip` because now the file suffix was 2 characters, not 1.

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