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- From: pdg@samal.demon.co.uk (Paul Goffin)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!samal.demon.co.uk!pdg
- Subject: Re: What is "stacker" and "shadow memory"
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:44:32 +0000
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- In article <downs.41.724708988@helios.nevada.edu> downs@helios.nevada.edu writes:
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- >shrink as much). There are several other commercial products on the market
- >that do the same thing, such as SuperStor; I've heard that DOS 6.0 will
- >include built-in compression software.
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- That's MS-DOS 6.0, of course.
-
- DR-DOS 6.0 already has compression software.
-
- (And other operating systems like WindowsNT, OS/2 2.0 and Unix
- don't usually work with compression software. Stac are
- currently Beta testing a version of Stacker for OS/2 2.0 though.)
-
- Paul
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