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From: darrylo@hpsrlc.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Re: Problems with Compress
Message-ID: <4860003@hpsrlc.HP.COM>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 11:23:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 11:23:34 1987
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In comp.sources.d, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:

> 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 is *possible* to get an 8088 to handle 16-bit compression; you just
need the right compiler.  Just for fun, I hacked at compress to run with 16
bits on an 8088 and managed to get it to work.  The only problems are (1) it
does use up gobs of memory (the program needed 450K just to load!) and (2)
it is slower than molasses in January due to the way the compiler handled
arrays spanning multiple segments.

     [ ... ]
> -- 
> -- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
> -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.
> ----------

     -- Darryl Okahata
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