December 30th, 1981:

IBM Corporation announced it’s release of DOS 1.1. The first ever OS Patch.The New release fixed over 300 bugs found in the original OS written by Microsoft under contract for IBM and released 5 months earlier.

One of the new features. The Ability to write on both sides of a 5 1/4 inch floppy. That gave the user the ability to only load one disk to boot up hugely memory intensive word processing programs that were over the 128KB limit of the single Sided Digital Disk (SSDD). The Double Sided Digital Disk (DSDD) and it’s incredible 1/4 Megabyte of data went through another revolution in 1983 with the advent of the 3 1/2 Disk. When the DSDD version of the 3 1/2 was released there was almost a 1/2 Megabyte of data on a single disk. The Operating System used 2 of these memory behemoths.

Ah the good all days.

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Toshiba Ltd. and Memory-Tech said this week that they plan to bring to market a hybrid DVD disc that can be used both for standard-definition and HD content.

The discs contain two layers, an upper DVD layer with a capacity of 4.7 GB and a lower HD-DVD layer with 15-GB capacity, executives from both companies said in a statement. “

By Sebastian Rupley

Have recording industry lawsuits slowed down P2P file sharing? That’s the consensus from many sources, but a new study from researchers at the University of California at Riverside and the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis begs to differ.

In an extensively detailed paper entitled “Is P2P Dying or Just Hiding?” the researchers report that previous studies have focused only on slowdowns at high-profile file-sharing services like Kazaa and have ignored ways that P2P network traffic is being camouflaged. P2P file sharing has never declined, concludes the report.

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