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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Doubling Tape Capacity: Beware!
Message-ID: <413@demott.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 90 18:07:32 GMT
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA
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    Be careful about the "doubled" tape capacity.  One Exabyte OEM
mentioned this to me and explained that it was achieved by compressing
the data before it was being stored.  Since what we put on tape is
already compressed, we won't see any such gain.

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