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From: perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why ARC?
Message-ID: <2974@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 18 Feb 90 17:34:33 GMT
References: <2572@sactoh0.UUCP>
Reply-To: perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <2572@sactoh0.UUCP> mholtz@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark A. Holtz) writes:
>I noticed that aprx. 95% of the files stored on simtel20 are stored
>in a ARC format. The question is, WHY?

Because nobody has taken the time and trouble to port this new plethora of
compressers/archivers to TOPS-20. And time is often worth more than disk,
especially on a DEC-10 engine.

Per
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Per Andersson
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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