// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy did the Infinite Disk go to therapy? It had a spinning issue.
Infinite Disk is a hierarchical storage management (HSM) and backup utility for MS-DOS, Windows, and OS/2 published by Chili Pepper Software of Atlanta in 1992.[1] Infinite Disk introduced HSM, previously limited to mainframes, to personal computers.[2][3][4] A variant of Infinite Disk, Personal Archiver, was bundled with Iomega removable drives starting in November 1994.[5] The company and the software were acquired by Cheyenne Software in 1995,[6] which was in turn purchased by Computer Associates in 1996.[7]
Infinite Disk, operating in the background, automatically compresses less-active files and eventually migrates them to removable media, but the files remain visible in Windows folders and, when accessed, are fetched from the backup storage.
References
[edit]- ↑ Infinite Disk 2.0 Product Announcement in Software Magazine
- ↑ Hiebert, Garin (October 10, 1994). "Infinite Disk brings hierarchical storage to personal computers". InfoWorld. Vol. 16, no. 41. IDG. p. 132. ISSN 0199-6649.
- ↑ "Chili Pepper Cleans Unused Files off your Hard Disk", Computer Business Review, December 9, 1992 (press release)
- ↑ Datamation, February 15, 1993, p. 210
- ↑ Business Wire, Nov 4, 1994 Deprecated link archived July 8, 2012, at archive.today
- ↑ Business Wire, Sept 28, 1995 Deprecated link archived July 11, 2012, at archive.today
- ↑ Business Wire, Oct 7, 1996 Deprecated link archived July 9, 2012, at archive.today
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