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...roommate and I, always searching for new ways to procrastinate, decided not to risk erasing our theses by booting up in the midst of a potential electrical blackout. (Yes, of course, we could have saved on disk every few minutes, but it seemed too good an excuse to claim the gods had decreed no electronic work be done that...
...list of Microsoft's "Innovations" in the new release is a disk-compression program, which can give the user more hard disk space by compressing data before writing them to the disk so they take up less space. When read from the disk, the data are automatically decompressed back to their original form...
While such a utility may be useful for those alarmed by the rapid shrinkage of available space on their hard disks, most users will probably still find it easier to delete unwanted application files to free up space. The biggest problem with disk-compression is that you can't undo it if dissatisfied: the entire hard disk has to be reformatted to make it uncompressed again. There is also a speed penalty, when data go through the processes of compression and decompression...
Also packaged with MS-DOS 6.0 are an improved backup program, an anti-virus utility, and hard disk management commands taken from the popular Norton Utilities...
...copy of every piece of software he or she uses, and who fully abides by every license restriction. Most people can't afford it, and the rest unwittingly violate license terms. For example, how many people actually place the software copyright notice on their one and only backup disk...