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From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A compression filesystem
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Date: 17 Feb 91 12:54:01 GMT
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In article <71.27BCCBB8@weyr.FIDONET.ORG>, David Plummer writes:

> 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.

And is universally touted as the worst piece of junk people ever used.

The 'KISS' approach is best. Keep It Simple, Stupid. If people want to put
more data on their devices, they should BUY larger storage capability
devices. As simple as that.

Dac
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