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Subject: Re: 20 pounds in a 5-pound sack
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Date: Thu, 17-May-84 11:26:01 EDT
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    It's not a product. It's not a product. It's not a product!

    I've been bugging these people for several months ( in fact, it is
time to bug them again ) because they supposedly can compact 19.2 kb/s
async into 9.6 kb/s async ( want to use with my 9600 A/B UDS modems ).
Yes, I know that Ms. Chung keeps claiming that the compression is 2:1
regardless of data content, but I don't believe it...yet.

    Another product, the Racal-Vadic Scotsman III, uses about 4 different
algorithms based on the statistical occurance of each ascii character
coming in (kinda like a dynamic Huffman code). It is totally worthless
unless you are sending plain English text. One of its modes actually encodes
frequently used words.

     When they have a product, I'll post to the net a full road test with
really scrambled data ( delta-modulated 256kb TV pictures. )

dya