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From: madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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Subject: Re: Extended OS Part II
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Date: 3 Oct 90 06:19:50 GMT
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JPEG only approximately recovers the original and only works well on video
images anyway.  However, I saw mentioned in one of the NeXT blurbs on the
new machines that the 56001 is being used for sound and data compression.
I could easily imagine the Unix compress command running several times
faster on the DSP.

Mark Adler
madler@piglet.caltech.edu