Phil Katz

Phillip W. Katz, better known as Phil Katz (November 3, 1962   April 14, 2000), was a computer programmer best-known as the author of PKZIP, a program for compressing files which ran under the PC operating system DOS.

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He received a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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His first compression product was released in the mid-1980s with a program called PKARC. PKARC was compatible with the then-popular ARC program. ARC, which was distributed along with the source code, was written in C. PKARC, written partially in assembly language, was much faster. PKARC's speed quickly made it more popular than the earlier program.

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