Subj : Re: Computers
To   : tenser
From : Mhansel739
Date : Wed Jul 24 2024 05:47:36

TT>  pF>  Hard drive space was at a premium, too - I remember people switch
TT>  pF>  archivers to ARJ when it came out for a single-digit improvement 
TT>  pF>  PKZIP. Then, some people liked LHArc. Some people said to hell wi
TT>  pF>  and stuck with ARC. Back then, it made a material difference when
TT>  pF>  perimary storage was an 80mb hard drive.
TT> 
TT> I remember people being upset when we went from `compress` to
TT> `gzip` because now the file suffix was 2 characters, not 1.

This was the time when you had to have all of the different compression
tools, not for the compressing, but the decompressing of files. Depending
on what you downloaded (or whatnot), as stated someone used the
compression of their choice. Fast-forward to today and now we have tools
that are "all-in-one" such as 7-Zip or WinRAR to handle compression and
decompression of various formats. My how things have changed. 
--Matt

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