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- From: oleg@crumpet.cts.com (Oleg Rovner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Ways to double hard drive capacity???
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- Message-ID: <oleg.034c@crumpet.cts.com>
- References: <oleg.031b@crumpet.cts.com> <2ywn+sn.fuzzy@netcom.com>
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
- Date: 12 Sep 92 22:51:32 PST
- Organization: Church O' Lantern
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- In article <2ywn+sn.fuzzy@netcom.com> fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
- > oleg@crumpet.cts.com (Oleg Rovner) writes:
- >
- > >Can't the
- > >Stacker people be sued for false advertisement? I mean, is it so hard to
- > >say "compress the information" instead of "double the capacity of the
- > >drive"?
- >
- > Since the compression is transparent to the user (in most cases),
- > Stacker really does effectively double the capacity, since for most
- > intents and purposes, it does work that way! Is that so hard for you to
- > understand?
-
- Read my lips. Nothing will double the 'capacity' of your drive. X number of
- bytes will fit on it. X+1 will not. It does not matter what form the data comes in,
- you will not automagically add a single damn byte to the capacity of the drive.
- Is it so hard for you to understand the point I am trying to make here?
- "Effectively", "in most cases" and "most intents and purposes" are the weasel
- words.
-
-
- > >If you want something that compresses data, I think the Amiga approach which
- > >lets one choose WHICH files get compressed and is transparent only after
- > >compression is better. Try PowerPacker or Turbo Imploder. Turbo Imploder is
- > >PD, PowerPacker is not.
- >
- > Is that all you have on your hard disk? Programs? What about data
- > files, like anims, pictures, fonts, mods, text files, and other useful
- > things? Imploder can't do any more for these than LHA, and constantly
- > archiving and dearchiving data is something that users want to avoid.
- > They want a package that will do it for them, on the fly. This is what
- > Stacker does for the PC user, and it's only a matter of time before
- > there is a similar product for the Amiga. Whoever creates that system
- > first and makes it work, stands to make a lot of money, since the market
- > is demanding it.
- >
-
- Powerpacker compresses data files.As for "market is demanding it" if the market
- 'demanded' something, it would be there. The Stacker approach is not particularly
- attractive to me.
-
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