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From: jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
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Subject: Re: Problems with Compress
Message-ID: <1779@killer.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 04:59:56 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 10 04:59:56 1987
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Summary: Sorry to tag onto Peter - but ... ... latest word in da' compress war.

In article <858@sugar.UUCP>, 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.

You go to a 8088 machine to try this out on?  I did learn today that there
is a decompress program out there that does't need the mega-tables like
compress.  Don't know what to say ...

OK - the response was good to `So you want to beta-test my latest compress
hack?'.  What just about everyone forgot was - what is your operating
system this week?  Seriously guys and dolls, I don't recall seeing one
single unix-clone in the bunch of letters I got.

Just for your info - I did manage to decompress a 16 bit compressed (actually
had only gotten to 15 bit compression) file in only  2 times the normal time
using right at 64K text+data on a 68020.  Unfortunately, 16-bit compression
in 64K or less is VERY slow.  Works real well in 256K, and almost like
a dream in 512K or more (wonder why ;-)

So - if you wrote before let me know what the OS of the week is.  I should
have my compress tested on a 3B2 tonight and ready for bizarreware
by tomorrow.

- John.
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