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Which came first, DriveSpace or Norton Speed Disk? I thought Norton was first.
Different tools. Speed disk was a disk defragmenter, DriveSpace was whole disk compression. The Norton tool you’d have used a lot if you used DriveSpace was Norton Disk Doctor.
And as I recall, Norton had all the tools long before MS-DOS included them by default. It was sort of a dick move by Microsoft, the sort of thing they're famous for now.
Raise your hand if you used to sit and watch Norton's defragger do its thing! 🤩