Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!arisia!roo!mdixon From: mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Extended OS Part II Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 90 02:19:24 GMT References: <5122@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 13 In-reply-to: pegasus@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca's message of 2 Oct 90 08:27:45 GMT i've a single question: can' t NeXT use this chip (from Ccube i guess) to compress part of the Extended OS for buyer of a NeXTDimension Board? uh, no. there's no magic algorithm that gives you perfect 20-to-1 compression of arbitrary bit streams. jpeg compression and decompression is almost certain to give you a different set of bits than you started with; it's just that they'll look similar on a color monitor. that's not a satisfactory property when you're interested in compressing a file system. -- .mike.