A disk compression software utility increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive of given size. Unlike a file compression...
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Stac Electronics (redirect from Stacker (disk compression))
known primarily for its Lempel–Ziv–Stac lossless compression algorithm and Stacker disk compression utility for compressing data for storage. The original...
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A disk compression utility increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive of given size. Unlike a file compression utility...
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disk compression capability. The use of separate disk compression utilities has declined sharply. A partition table is a table maintained on a disk by...
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memory compression (also referred to as RAM compression and memory compression) is a memory management technique that utilizes data compression to reduce...
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e. a RAM disk with on-the-fly disk compression. The block device created with zram can then be used for swap or as general-purpose RAM disk. The two most...
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DriveSpace (redirect from Compression Agent)
DriveSpace (initially known as DoubleSpace) is a disk compression utility supplied with MS-DOS starting from version 6.0 in 1993 and ending in 2000 with...
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can be kept and organized, a.k.a. list of files FOLDER (disk compression), a disk compression component of PTS-DOS Folding bicycle, a bicycle which can...
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by Disk Utility include: Creation, conversion, backup, compression, and encryption of logical volume images from a wide range of formats read by Disk Utility...
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Lempel–Ziv–Stac (redirect from Stac compression)
Stac Electronics for tape compression, and subsequently adapted for hard disk compression and sold as the Stacker disk compression software. It was later...
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every sector of a hard disk drive), but it is now common to only store allocated data to reduce storage space. Compression and deduplication are commonly...
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supported compression of floppy disk images is called DART. New Disk Image Format (NDIF) was the previous default disk image format in Mac OS 9, and disk images...
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a Canadian hypermarket chain founded in 1979 SuperStor, a brand of disk compression software manufactured by Addstor, Inc. in the 1990s Superstore (TV...
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or floppy disk), or to reduce the time and bandwidth customers require to access software distributed via the Internet. Executable compression is also frequently...
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MS-DOS (redirect from Microsoft Disk Operating System)
bundled SuperStor disk compression, Microsoft opened negotiations with Stac Electronics, vendor of the most popular DOS disk compression tool, Stacker. In...
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more convenient. Disk checkers scan an operating hard drive and check for logical (filesystem) or physical errors. Disk compression utilities transparently...
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article presents a timeline of events in the history of 16-bit x86 DOS-family disk operating systems from 1980 to present. Non-x86 operating systems named "DOS"...
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This option provides a systematic compression scheme. Infrequently accessed files are compressed to free up disk space while leaving the frequently used...
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IBMBIO.COM (redirect from Disk BIOS)
(IBMDOS.COM) and optional pre-loadable system components (like for disk compression or security), displays boot menus, processes configuration files (like...
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Double Tools for DoubleSpace (category Data compression software)
Park-based company Addstor, Inc. The utility functioned as an add-on to the disk compression software DoubleSpace, supplied with MS-DOS 6.0, adding a number of...
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(SO 639-3: jam), an English-based creole language JAM (disk compression), DOS disk compression software by JAM Software JAM Message Base Format Perforce...
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computers, used for both floppy disk and hard disk drives. Run length limited (RLL) controllers used data compression to increase storage capacity by...
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compression. Lossy data compression involves discarding some of the media's data so that it becomes small enough to be stored within the desired disk...
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DoubleDisk, a DOS disk compression software by Vertisoft This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Double disk. If an internal link...
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to: Stacker, disk compression software released by Stac Electronics Lempel–Ziv–Stac, also known as "Stacker Compression", a data compression method for...
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An explosively pumped flux compression generator (EPFCG) is a device used to generate a high-power electromagnetic pulse by compressing magnetic flux...
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A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using...
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Sundog Solar, an American solar energy company Sundog Software, a disk compression software developer Vädersolstavlan (The Sundog Painting), a Swedish...
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meaning that more tracks could be stored on each of the disks. Advancements in data compression methods permitted more information to be stored in each...
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S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) (sometimes also called DXTn, DXTC, or BCn) is a group of related lossy texture compression algorithms originally developed...
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