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Stacker, to me, will always be the DOS hard drive compression software that Microsoft stole. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics

[the_af]

Wow. Brings back memories. I forgot on the fly disk compression used to be a thing. I didn't remember the lawsuit against Microsoft, though it doesn't surprise me.

[jwr]

I was about to write exactly that! I think it dates me.

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I remember installing it on a 20 megabyte hard drive, which I thought was enormous, and then seeing so much free space the next time I typed "dir".

It truly was a magical time in my life, before I had the opportunity to work with unix-like systems.