In the days of Napster, when it took like 30 minutes to download a ~4mb mp3, and before thumb drives and cd burning was a thing, it was a life saver when you got a new computer. Took hours to transfer over all your songs, but at least you didn’t have to redownload and pray no one picked up the phone again.
Seems like winzip and pkzip had overlapping time frames for the same function, so it basically just came down to if people were more into windows or DOS. I was using mainly DOS for stuff like that through the mid 90s (distinctly remember getting Doom 2 from a friend on about a dozen floppies that I used pk(un)zip to install), even if I was using windows alongside it. In fact I remember being vaguely annoyed when I got a computer that had windows that ran DOS, rather than the other way around (maybe it was XP?).
In the days of Napster, when it took like 30 minutes to download a ~4mb mp3, and before thumb drives and cd burning was a thing, it was a life saver when you got a new computer. Took hours to transfer over all your songs, but at least you didn’t have to redownload and pray no one picked up the phone again.
Seems like winzip and pkzip had overlapping time frames for the same function, so it basically just came down to if people were more into windows or DOS. I was using mainly DOS for stuff like that through the mid 90s (distinctly remember getting Doom 2 from a friend on about a dozen floppies that I used pk(un)zip to install), even if I was using windows alongside it. In fact I remember being vaguely annoyed when I got a computer that had windows that ran DOS, rather than the other way around (maybe it was XP?).