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- From: west@ntmtv.UUCP (Andrew West)
- Subject: Re: TimesTwo disk doubler???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.221629.16824@ntmtv>
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- Organization: Northern Telecom Incorporated
- References: <104061@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:16:29 GMT
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- From article <104061@netnews.upenn.edu>, by warden@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Robert T Warden):
- >
- > I saw an ad for a new program from Golden Triangle called
- > TimesTwo which claims to double your HD's space
- > WITHOUT using file compression.
- >
- > Does anyone have any experience with this program, or
- > know how it works? Thanks...
- >
-
- I can't comment on this program (I haven't seen it yet although GT has
- been hinting at it for the last year) but I saw a competing program at
- the MacWorld '93 Expo. It's called Stacker and works in about the
- same way as TimesTwo. The company indicated it would be available at
- the end of the first quarter of '93. I believe is a Mac version of an
- IBM version of the same name ("over 4M users...").
-
- I *think* TimesTwo replaces the harddisk drivers to do the
- compression. The rep showing the Stacker demo claimed that Stacker
- was "next to" the drivers so that you can continue to use any driver
- software. The Finder window showed the disk space at the compressed
- value (e.g. 120M before "stacking," 220M after stacking). They also
- indicated that the disk could be moved to other machines without
- putting a new copy of Stacker on each machine (since the compression
- was at the driver level) or decompressing files in advance. They also
- said you can use it in parallel with AutoDoubler, Disk Doubler, etc.
- although you won't see any additional space savings.
-
- Andrew West
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