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"SST - Seek Stopper Hard Disk Optimizer" found (Developers)

posted by Arjay, 11.03.2010, 16:13

> On Wikipedia I found a link to the "SST - Seek Stopper Hard Disk
> Optimizer", a very early defrag utility,

Very interesting find. See also Alfred's informative page about DS Optimize which is what SST became - sadly currently without the source!

> It was written in Turbo Pascal 3.0,

which (for anyone who doesn't know) is now freely available from "Borland's museum" which is now here: http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum - a nice easy to remember URL.... or search "Borland Museum"

> I didn't try running or building this tool. Maybe it's useful to someone.

The same author of SST; Alfred J. Heyman has also kindly made the source available for at least one other program: BigShell for autocad (ASM/C source) See also other project tabs for interesting background on his other legacy programs (without source) and newer systems. Thanks Alfred!

Complete thread:

• "SST - Seek Stopper Hard Disk Optimizer" found - rr, 08.03.2010, 22:36 (Developers)
  • "SST - Seek Stopper Hard Disk Optimizer" found - Arjay, 11.03.2010, 16:13
    • "SST - Seek Stopper Hard Disk Optimizer" found - Rugxulo, 11.03.2010, 19:25
      • "SST - Seek Stopper Hard Disk Optimizer" found - RayeR, 12.03.2010, 02:13
  • "SST - Seek Stopper" -- Caching Needed, Too! - Jack, 12.03.2010, 22:35