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2 unusual facts about Phil Katz


NetWare

Phil Katz noticed the problem and added a switch to his PKZIP suite of programs to enable 32-bit register use only when the NetWare TSRs were not present.

WinZip

The ZIP file archive format (ZIP) was originally invented for MS-DOS in 1989 by Phil Katz.


University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee College of Engineering and Applied Science

Phil Katz ('84, BS Computer Science), a computer programmer best known as the author of PKZIP.


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