03Aug2007 (UTC +8) On 8/2/07, ian sison (mailing list) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I remember the times when there was a shortage in high capacity disks, > we had to deal with applications like 'DriveSpace' and 'Stacker' to > get by. > I'll shut up now. My age is showing. :P
Dude, those were the same days that 5MB HDD were the norm, while my more affluent classmates had 10MB! :D Early versions of Stacker were notoriously unreliable and slow, but I still had to have it! During those days, "Kalok" (can't remember the correct spelling) brand had the reputation of being the toughest of all HDDs and Seagate was struggling upwards a bit... ...was comparing my own ASM kung-fu techniques on how to "park" my HDD versus the good code published by somebody in PC Digest (writers Manny Amador and Dan Escasa comes to mind, but I'm not sure)... ...and Byte magazine published a nice introductory article about this technical paper some guys from Berkeley came out with (i.e. RAID).... ...I had a fancy config.sys to personalize my 5.25" bootup diskette wherever I go... DOS v3.3 and Turbo C and TASM were all I needed... the new single-sided 3.5" diskettes were the "in" thing... ...Had bragging contests with my buddies on who can write the smallest ASM code, and produce a .com not a .exe file (remember the difference? he he he!!!), because drive space was so scarce... ...Had my first and very short introduction to unix via the very new AIX, but then later hanged around with college buddies in DOST-ASTI and got to explore SunOS (Solaris 1, a derivative of BSD). Forgot about Unix for a while because I was seduced by this lovely computer called the Amiga 400. ...There was no Internet, but lots of BBS'es... hanged out with the "Lighthouse" crowd... I wonder what Linus Torvalds was doing during those days? Tearing Minix apart, I'd guess. He must have had a lot of diskettes. Drexx Laggui; CISSP, ACFE Associate, CSA, CCSI; Singapore /Manila /California http://www.laggui.com (computer forensics, pentesting, QMS & ISMS developers) PGP fingerprint = 6E62 A089 E3EA 1B93 BFB4 8363 FFEC 3976 FF31 8A4E _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
