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Re: increasing memory...

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From: Andrew McCallum
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:46
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From denaumow@vela.acs.oakland.edu (David Naumowicz)
>Stacker (either software version only or with a card for better
>efficiency)-  This will keep all your files in compressed format on
>the harddrive and uncompress them on-the-fly when you need them...  I
>personnally don't use it, but I have some friends who swear by it.
>However, I am not sure if it will work on a 286 machine (I don't see
>why not - but you might want to check into it...)

    Stacker will run on anything down to an 8088.  I know, I've done it.
Slightly slow, but if it give you space some people don't care.

    It won't compress ZIP files.  I've heard that it will actually make them
larger than the origional media wise.

    There is a VERY slow but workable Stacker freeware clone called SQUISH.
If you get it, I suggest you only use it for storing DATA, not programs
since it's pretty slow.

                                                  Andrew
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:46:00 GMT
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