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- From: cse_stu@memstvx1.memst.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Compression
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.121537.2859@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 12:15:37 -0600
- References: <cheungc.711801996@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> <1992Jul23.053515.4271@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <sheldon.711902145@pv1413.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- > But, at any rate, I am not aware of anything similar to Superstor for the
- > Amiga. It's entirely possible that this could be done. But I don't know
- > if the speed would be acceptable on a 68000 based machine. And I'm sure
- > the user base would not support the development effort, as there is a
- > great deal of beta testing that must be done with a product of this nature.
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- Last I heard someone was coming out with a 68040 card for the Amiga that would
- have compression to the harddrive build end to the hardware. Supra or someone
- back last year when everyone was saying they had a card real soon now. I have
- not heard of anything lately.
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