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Wait I think I've already been here
I remember this trash:
Why does it look like a heatmap of someone stroking their giant dick?
this one was one of the bullshit ones. iirc, underneath it just made your swap bigger
Time is a flat circle
And I was remembering Drivespace and Stacker.
Ya, but those worked. Wasn't it originally called Disk Doubler (think it might have changed names when MS purchased it).
I remember finding a bug in it that took forever to figure out. You had to install windows 3.1 before enabling it or it would fail to read one of the floppies.
Took me a LONG time to figure that one out....