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From: perley@galaxy (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PP 68040 card
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Date: 7 Nov 90 16:13:13 GMT
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In-reply-to: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland)

In article <13967@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, cleland@sdbio2 (Thomas Cleland) writes:

>Progressive Peripherals' 68040DC card for the Amiga 3000 lists
>in the $1200 range 

>includes circuitry for real time peripheral-storage data
>compression, transparent to the user and without slowdown.
>Floppies, hard disks, Syquests, optical disks, whatever--all are
>compressed to store 3 to 10 times their stated capacity.  This
>can of course be turned off 

I have used computers with hardware compression for disk files
(Wang VS). It helps a lot.  BUT.. if they can do random seeks on the 
compressed files without slowdown, it will be a neat trick.

-don perley
perley@trub.crd.ge.com