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Phil Katz, RIP, born November 3, 1962
Phil Katz, RIP, born November 3, 1962
If you dialed for files on bbs’s (bulletin board systems) in the late 1980s, you may recall the war between System Enhancement Associates (“SEA”) and Phil Katz, born exactly 50 years ago and the creator of the PKArc program. SEA published Arc, an MS-DOS program which compressed multiple files into one “arc” file. Phil’s subsequent PKArc program compressed files better than SEA’s Arc. Phil caved…
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