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- From: N.W. Choe <nwc1@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Subject: times two AND AD? anyone brave enough?
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 11:26:19 GMT
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- In article <977677.2B1A1F7E@cmhgate.fidonet.org> Adam Frix,
- Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG writes:
- >MS> TimesTwo is a compressing disk driver. Everything written
- >MS> to your hard drive is compressed, everything read from it
- >MS> is decompressed. Because this is driver-level, it requires
- >MS> no init and compresses everything written to the drive. If
-
- So, since the two use completely different and equally invisible
- schemes
- to compress data, does this mean that it is theoretically possible to
- quadruple the amount of data per disk-sector by using the two of them
- together? Or does one supplant the other- ie just as
- already-compressed
- items like JPEGs don¬t compress further, TimesTwo wouldn¬t be able to
- compress AD things further? What a scary thought, though.
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