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Shawn Hooper (he/him)

Just found this in my office closet. Got it at the Ottawa PC Users Group launch party for MS DOS 6.

#MSDOS #Nostalgia #RetroComputing
16 Apr 2023 at 21:42 | Open on fosstodon.org
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@shawnhooper Man! A true classic. I was going out of highschool...

16 Apr 2023 at 22:15 | Open on mstdn.ca
Ryan King

@shawnhooper Lordy I installed that so many times back in the day sysadmining for a tech startup out on colonnade road.

16 Apr 2023 at 22:59 | Open on defcon.social
Eric Goodwin
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@shawnhooper I think I never used it. I was a DRDOS user.

17 Apr 2023 at 7:08 | Open on xarxa.cloud
Erik Hollensbe

@shawnhooper i destroyed a drive messing with the compression ratio

17 Apr 2023 at 17:35 | Open on mastodon.social
fraggle

@shawnhooper I remember using DoubleSpace. Storage was so expensive back then. But ISTR it got some pretty bad press because of some high-profile data corruption bugs?

17 Apr 2023 at 19:02 | Open on octodon.social
Raymond

@fraggle @shawnhooper The data corruption seemed to be related to write caching by SmartDrv, where it could sometimes wait a few seconds at the doors prompt before writing. DoubleSpace just made it more severe, because the corruption could hit the filesystem.

Power failures could also cause problems, but didn't experience any that did corruption.

19 Apr 2023 at 23:07 | Open on ottawa.place
fraggle

@arem @shawnhooper apparently the "solution" was to flush write buffers whenever an application exited. So as long as you waited until you saw the C:\> prompt before powering off, you'd be safe. Kind of a hack but I can't imagine a better solution considering the limitations of the system and what people expected of it

19 Apr 2023 at 23:42 | Open on octodon.social
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