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This is missing vc - Volkov Commander - written in assembly. It was tiny, had amazingly complete functionality and was blazingly fast.
by notyourday 4y ago
This is missing vc - Volkov Commander - written in assembly. It was tiny, had amazingly complete functionality and was blazingly fast.
- cestith 4y agoYes, sorry. I meant it to be illustrative of many of them being out there and influencing one another. I'm not sure I could put together a definitive list in the scope of an HN comment. vc was definitely worth mentioning, so thanks for bringing it up.
- ihateolives 4y agoThere were more, eg DOS navigator, Far manager. The latter is still in development.
- warpech 4y agoI loved VC. Its tiny size (less than 100k) made it fit on any floppy disk, even when it was already almost full. It inspired me by showing how powerful our computers are. It was an order of magnitude smaller than NC, if I remember correctly. Here's some short story about VC: https://web.archive.org/web/20201027035410/http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/Ch03/volkov_commander.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20201027035410/http://www.softpa...
- IlliOnato 4y agoI loved Volcov commander. Apart from a tiny size and super-fast speed, I remember it could handle Cyrillic admirably, contrary to Norton Commander.