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Let's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space. (raduzaharia.medium.com)
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[–] LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Didn't speed disk do an optimised defragment operation, putting OS files at the start of the drive etc