A Brief History of Defragging

17 pointsposted a year ago
by zdw

3 Comments

cafard

a year ago

Back in the minicomputer days, we encouraged customers to defrag now and then. I spend one long night at a customer's in Utica, New York, defragging a 25 MB disk.

The whole doctrine of defragging seemed to lose popularity somewhere in the 1990s, though.

grahamj

a year ago

So like putting a body back together from the gibs?

user

a year ago

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