On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:52:44 +0100 Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
as DriveSpace. M$ had *stolen* the code for the compression or something
simular, so they needed to remove it, then paid 50 million $ for the
code (if I remember the numbers correctly, *don't* take this as a fact!)
I think you
Does anybody know of an application that can tell me the data flux and
rate coming in and out of my PC via ethernet or PPP?
Where can I find such a beas?
My interest is mainly in preventing unnauthorised hackers etc. , so, If i
see activity that I don't expect I know to suspect something.
From: Dale Mentzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:52:44 +0100 Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
as DriveSpace. M$ had *stolen* the code for the compression or something
simular, so they needed to remove it, then paid 50 million $ for the
code (if I remember the numbers
DoubleSpace was absent in 6.2 if I remember correctly and reappeard in 6.22
as DriveSpace. M$ had *stolen* the code for the compression or something
simular, so they needed to remove it, then paid 50 million $ for the code
OK... MS-DOS 6.0x had DoubleSpace (algorithms stolen from Stac, no
I don't think so, as the DRVSPACE.BIN suffers no change when you create a
CVF.
Yes, but might it see the DBLSAPCE.000 or DBLSPACE.CVF (I've seen DoubleSpace
use both, the 000 when I created an empty one and CVF when I compressed some
drive. Or was the CVF Stacker?) and think to itself 'hey, I've
Gates was born common, poor maybe, and used his talents ...
Snip--
Sounds somebody needs to do some biography reading. Bill Gates was born and
raised in a very wealthy family and encourraged from an early age to be
competitive and win at all cost. This attitude held whether he played
baseball,
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Brent Reynolds wrote:
... You could boost the speed of an XT
machine with that 8088 processor by replacing it with an NEC V-20
microprocessor. You could get 20-50 percent more performance that way. The
v-20 came in 4.77-, and 7.16MHz clock
At 11:11 AM 12/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
While we're on the subject of doublespace/drivespace, what is the largest
drivespace partition you can create under MS-DOS 6.22? I was on the MS
Knowledgebase last night and one article said something about 512MB, but I
couldn't tell if that meant a 512MB
Brent wrote:
Bill Gates got where he is partly, if not largely, by
ruthlesly stomping and smashing his competitors, licensing their products,
bastardizing them, and stealing the ideas, then marginalizing the licensors.
Yep, Worked briefly with him about 15 years ago and it was as you described.
