Dave Plummer

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And at the time, encryption was like ammunition.

So you couldn't just add encryption willy-nilly to various parts of the operating system.

So we took out some things like that.

Multi-volume support, I think, was taken out just to simplify it.

It was really born out of the BBS era when people were dialing in on modems to download trialware and shareware and other things from BBSs online.

And to compress them, executables compressed about half their size.

Other stuff compresses much more.

But a guy named Phil Kass came up with a command line program for MS-DOS called PKZip, which was able to do compression of programs.

And

He has a rather tragic arc, but it became ubiquitous in the entire PC industry, and pretty much everybody was using it.

So when Windows came out, there was no way to open up a zip file, but everybody had been creating them for a decade.

And so that really drove the desire to have the zip support right into Windows.

Yeah, and that's another piece of software that just kind of

And it could be vastly improved, but you know, it was written in a single core day, so it doesn't do anything multithreaded.

And you've got a 96 core, 79, 95.

Well, it uses one of them to unzip your file.

I worked on the initial prototypes of Windows Media Center.

So we did that in 96, I believe.

And we didn't have, at the time, any sources.

So we had like a CD of MPEG video files of Raging Rudolph and I think the original South Park video, the Christmas one.

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