Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!decwrl!pyramid!uccba!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Problems with Compress Message-ID: <4786@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 21:54:57 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.4786 Posted: Thu Oct 1 21:54:57 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Oct-87 04:26:48 EDT References: <13006@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <780@sugar.UUCP> <1493@cognos.UUCP> <1488@geac.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sources.d Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 27 Xref: mnetor comp.sources.d:1318 comp.sys.amiga:9023 As quoted from <1488@geac.UUCP> by satan@geac.UUCP (The Big One Himself): +--------------- | In article <1493@cognos.UUCP> brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell) writes: | >In article <780@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: | >! Will people who compress stuff for distribution PLEASE use 12-bit. 16-bit | >! uses a huge amount of memory and may not even be available on small machines | >! like PDP-11s and Intels. | > | > Don't suck Intel machines into this -- 16-bit compress is available for | >both DOS and Xenix. It also saves a considerable (meaning not negligible) | >amount of space. Try as I might, I just can't feel sorry for you. Surely | >you have access to some machine that can do 16-bit uncompresses? | | Sorry Brian, not all of us are on the fed's gravy train with access to ATs | and RTs and other expensive new hardware, we must cope with DOS or Venix on | PCs or XTs, or else old PDP-11s. None of which support 16-bit compress +--------------- Nor are small machines alone. Ncoast has fried its cache chips a few times as a result of 16-bit compresses... 68000, NOT an Intel or PDP-11! -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!mandrill!hal}!ncoast!allbery ARPA: necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu Fido: 157/502 MCI: BALLBERY <> "`You left off the thunderclap and the lightning flash.', I told him. `Should I try again?' `Never mind.'" --Steven Brust, JHEREG