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From: kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 24 bit IFF image compression
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.133005.20595@tc.fluke.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 90 13:30:05 GMT
References: <3925@mindlink.UUCP> <1990Nov28.192940.30995@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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Most of the nifty new image compression algorithms suffer from one or more
of the following problems

    * very time consuming to encode (fractal based algorithms)
    * require special hardware to do rapidly
    * patented (now that you can patent algorithms...)

This will make it hard on us poor hackers