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From: David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer)
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Subject: Re: A compression filesystem
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Date: 15 Feb 91 04:47:26 GMT
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You know, for a very simplistic compression system, it should be able to 
keep up with hard drive speed, shouldn't it?  We're not talking 
Lempel-Zev at 400K/sec, but even repeated-pattern checking.  I know
that a data compression loader we wrote for the 64 years back really
sped up transfer, but of course the Amiga is nothing lioke a 1541 (hate 
to even mention them both in the same message). 
 
There is a HD card (albeit this is hardware) in the AT world that does 
something similar, and reportedly almost doubles your HD capacity in a 
quite transparent manner.
 
- Dave



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