In the 1990s, it was essential to keep the read-write speed of the disk high in order to increase the performance of the computer. For this, users had to periodically defragment their disks. This was called merging in our language. This was a process that often made terrible noises from the computer and no other operations could be done at the time.
Developers Andrew LeTournaeu and Connor McCall of ShipLift LLC want to help us remember this pain with an excellent new Vuex project they call defrag. In fact, the web application is so new that it doesn’t even have a proper readme file. But it’s fun to watch.
Disk Defragmentation is the process of defragmenting data held on a magnetic hard disk. When a file was deleted on old disks, a space was left in the middle, when a new file was written, as much as possible from the beginning of the file was written to this space, and the rest to the empty spaces in the future.
The disk defragmentation process combined and queued such fragmented files. LeTournaeu’s app simulates this process with a familiar DOS app image from that time. It looks like a Windows application, but a DOS application.
The app: https://defrag. shiplift You can find it at dev/. . .
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