[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:41:45 UTC, "Richard B. Gilbert" 
<rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

> P. Sture wrote:
> > In article <gs2e2g$2nd$3 at pechter.motzarella.org>,
> >  pechter at bandit.pechter.dyndns.org.pechter.dyndns.org (Bill Pechter) 
> >  wrote:
> > 
> >> In article <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-KUhwpuvoZjLb at rikki.tavi.co.uk>,
> >> Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:22:48 UTC, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Note the percentage of fragmentation.  And, no, there are no de-frag
> >>>> programs for BSD Unix.  The question does come up from a windows weenie
> >>>> periodically in the BSD Newsgroups.
> >>> Remind me when DEC finally provided a defragmenter for VMS...! :-)
> >>>
> >>> -- 
> >>> Bob Eager
> >> 197x
> >>
> >> DSC.
> >>
> >> Oh, you mean on-line defragmenter 8-)
> >>
> > 
> > $ defrag
> > Disk File Optimizer for OpenVMS DFG V2.5
> > Copyright ? Compaq Computer Corp. 1991,1999.   All rights reserved
> > DFO>
> >                                   ^^^^
> > 
> > Before that there were third party solutions - Diskeeper and RAXCO's 
> > PerfectDisk were a couple.
> > 
> 
> There was even a freeware defragmenter.  ISTR that the author's given 
> name was "Mike".  He was out in California somewhere.  I ran his program 
> for a few years while I was at Princeton.  At McGraw-Hill we had a 
> commercial package; I no longer recall which one; it might have been Raxco.

But it was a very, very long time before DEC produced anything that they
supported.

-- 
Bob Eager