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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Problems with Compress
Message-ID: <858@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 20:41:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.858
Posted: Sat Oct  3 20:41:12 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 7-Oct-87 04:08:25 EDT
References: <13006@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <780@sugar.UUCP> <1493@cognos.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: I do today, but I didn't 2 jobs back.
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.amiga:9070 comp.sources.d:1330

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.

Xenix 286, yes. Not on the 8088, though. And it still takes up something
in the vicinity of half a meg to hold the tables for 16 bit compression.

> 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?

I do now... a Xenix 286 machine. I can also run it on my Amiga if I throw
away ALL other programs and libraries, a rather distasteful action.

Since the posting I'm talking about was a bunch of compressed Amiga images
it's a bit strange. At the very least people should refrain from 16bit
compressing data intended for machines with under half a meg of free RAM
easily available.

A couple of jobs back I was restricted to machines with 128K maximum
code+data.
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