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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I used the proprietary predecessor, Stacker.

It was pretty magical. It turned my 40 MB hard drive into a (seemingly) 80 MB hard drive.

I don't remember there being a significant performance penalty, because it was presumably overshadowed by the relatively (compared to processor speed) slow disk speeds.

[–] Tathas 5 points 1 year ago

Both times I used either one of them, it crashed in the middle of compressing my hard drive and I had to reformat. But they worked fine the 2nd try!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Stacker was the one I used also. It really did work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"I don't remember a performance penalty, because everything was so slow it didn't matter"