In Forum: Microsoft Operating Systems
By User: os2fan2
I never used drvspace after the MS-DOS 6 drvspace debacle. I was going mainly on comments in System Commander, and the press. My mainstay for compression in those days was 'Stacker for DOS and OS/2'. Still that's 20 years ago. P!us includes DRVSPACE3, while Windows 95 had drvspace2. My bad.
Although ms-dos 6.x included all of these assorted utilities, like defrag, msav, compression, the general threads in the trade press was that these were well below par, and were not worth their money, even when free. Microsoft essentially licenced defanged Norton stuff, while IBM went for full one-version-older stuff for their DOS. Most of the time, i just installed DOS with little else.
Disk compression was the norm in the days when a fixed disk was 80 to 120 MB, and floppy disks were the norm on sneakernet. I built my first cd-rom for external burning, in 1995 at 200$ for two copies. Layout over three hard disks including two compressed ones, comes to a month's work, testing whether every configuration would work. Much was learnt.
My first burning cdrom came in 1997, with OS/2 drivers. It cost 600$ and the disks were 20$ ea. Money was worth more then, so you have to multiply these by three. Until cdroms dropped to 1/50 of this price, the usual rigour was to carefully plan every diskette, lay them out on a HPFS partition, and burn them under a customised (ie stripped) version of OS/2 3.0. That was the days when 20 MB of ram was considered excessive.
MS-DOS 7.0 came out in 1995. I was in the shop asking on "DOS 7" (ie PC-DOS 7), and i heard some weenie down the counter engaging in some sort of alarm, as if 'ms-dos 7' had come out without his knowing. By that time, I had gone through pc-dos 6.1 and pc-dos 6.3.
By the time this came out, i had been hooked on 4dos and rexx for the mainstay of my computer experience.
By User: os2fan2
I never used drvspace after the MS-DOS 6 drvspace debacle. I was going mainly on comments in System Commander, and the press. My mainstay for compression in those days was 'Stacker for DOS and OS/2'. Still that's 20 years ago. P!us includes DRVSPACE3, while Windows 95 had drvspace2. My bad.
Although ms-dos 6.x included all of these assorted utilities, like defrag, msav, compression, the general threads in the trade press was that these were well below par, and were not worth their money, even when free. Microsoft essentially licenced defanged Norton stuff, while IBM went for full one-version-older stuff for their DOS. Most of the time, i just installed DOS with little else.
Disk compression was the norm in the days when a fixed disk was 80 to 120 MB, and floppy disks were the norm on sneakernet. I built my first cd-rom for external burning, in 1995 at 200$ for two copies. Layout over three hard disks including two compressed ones, comes to a month's work, testing whether every configuration would work. Much was learnt.
My first burning cdrom came in 1997, with OS/2 drivers. It cost 600$ and the disks were 20$ ea. Money was worth more then, so you have to multiply these by three. Until cdroms dropped to 1/50 of this price, the usual rigour was to carefully plan every diskette, lay them out on a HPFS partition, and burn them under a customised (ie stripped) version of OS/2 3.0. That was the days when 20 MB of ram was considered excessive.
MS-DOS 7.0 came out in 1995. I was in the shop asking on "DOS 7" (ie PC-DOS 7), and i heard some weenie down the counter engaging in some sort of alarm, as if 'ms-dos 7' had come out without his knowing. By that time, I had gone through pc-dos 6.1 and pc-dos 6.3.
By the time this came out, i had been hooked on 4dos and rexx for the mainstay of my computer experience.