OT: computer nostalgia (was RE: Rapid once deployed too)

[D . Thomas Podnar]

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:22:06AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Only D . Thomas Podnar would say something like:
> > Of course. From 1986/1987 until 1993 we licensed CTAR, that is, the
> > /bin/ctar program which we packaged into the rest of our product,
> > from the original author, and built the CTAR name.
> > 
> > In 1993 UniTrends, the successor company to the original MedFlex, began
> > trading more heavily on the name, which they had every legal right to do.
> > 
> > We re-branded as BackupEDGE in '93, and continued to license that part
> > of the product for another 10 years, until we released our 2.0
> > product line back in 2003.
> 
> Okay, so where does Lone-Tar fit into the picture?  I remember being told
> at one point that both Lone-Tar and BE had the same core, which was CTAR.
> Did they [Cactus] also license it?

/bin/lone-tar uses/used the same archiving format as original CTAR, but had
a different source tree. It is not for me to comment on how that product
was licensed, or how it was compared to ours by others. They've always been
lumped into what was called a "SuperTar" category, but each was different.

Today, that difference is very large. The BackupEDGE data format alone in
2.x has 5,000 character pathnames, full-file checksums, ACL support and other
meta-data capabilities, the ability to compress and encrypt files without
taking temporary space, and a host of other features that the legacy
products do not offer.

Tom

> You know, '93 doesn't seem all that long ago.  Then I think, "Wait, that's
> 13 years ago!"  Then I feel bloody ancient.
> 
> mark->
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