Re: A modest experiment

[vagrant@vpnet.chi.il.us (Guy Umbright)]

Andy McFadden (fadden@uts.amdahl.com) wrote:
: For those of you wondering what the difference between HardPressed and
: AutoArk is...

: I recently booted a copy of System 6.0 with HardPressed installed.  Big
: deal.  Well, the trick is that it was on a write-protected 800K floppy, and
: even after installing all of the HardPressed files, it had more space on it
: than it did before compressing stuff.

: The best part is, it only took a few seconds longer to boot.

: In case you want to nit-pick, it was a single 800K floppy all by its
: lonesome; no other volumes were involved in the process.  I stuck it into the
: disk drive and booted all the way into the Finder.  And yes, it really
: was write protected.  I have witnesses. :-)


: I don't want to give out any specific numbers, because it's still in the
: "almost done" stage, and they will likely change.  I don't really want to
: give out a release date either, for a variety of good reasons.  "Soon."

: -- 
: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
: [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]

(CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, ...)

Congratulations.    I look eagerly forward to its release.

But why does one software vendor (I dont recall who) have it listed in
the lastest Incider/A+?   (Damn those deadlines!   :)  )
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