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> The whole world ran on 1.44mb as a hard limit on how large files could be. Not Microsoft, they used 1.68MB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_
by mkl 2y ago
> The whole world ran on 1.44mb as a hard limit on how large files could be.
Not Microsoft, they used 1.68MB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format
Not me either, I used some utility whose name I've forgotten (might be fdformat as mentioned on that page) to get something like 1.74MB pretty reliably. I think I needed a driver loaded for it to work, but seem to remember either Windows 95 or 98 supporting it natively.
- romanhn 2y agoSounds like DoubleSpace (later renamed to DriveSpace), which was built into MSDOS and early Windows versions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace
- mkl 2y agoThat was totally different. DoubleSpace made a virtual drive in a file and did software compression/decompression with a driver during writes and reads. It was a clone of Stacker, and both were slow as heck (but hard drives were only 40MB, so sometimes it was worth it).
- stuaxo 2y agoFDFORMAT is probably the one you are thinking of https://github.com/christoh/fdformat https://github.com/christoh/fdformat