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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!ee.gatech.edu!lockhart
  3. From: lockhart@eecom.gatech.edu (John B. Lockhart)
  4. Subject: Re:  stripping (was Ramdisk coming for NeXT)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug28.014442.18043@ee.gatech.edu>
  6. Sender: news@ee.gatech.edu
  7. Organization: Computer Engineering Group, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250
  8. References: <1992Aug25.152745.21635@menudo.uh.edu> <dillon.0mci@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> <15175@umd5.umd.edu>
  9. Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:44:42 GMT
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  12. In article <15175@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:
  13. >>    Sounds like one huge bandaid to me.... compressed????  Are they out of
  14. >>    their mind?  It's *already* too slow!
  15. >Compare the speed of the '040 in compressing to the speed of a typical hard
  16. >disk.
  17.  
  18. Uh, people, don't they mean just shrinking down to lowater if possible, and
  19. not actual LZH compression?
  20.  
  21. --John
  22.  
  23.  
  24. -- 
  25. ::|  Think of it as evolution in action.                                    |::
  26. ::|                                          --Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle  |::
  27. ::::::::::| John B. Lockhart |::::::::::| lockhart@eecom.gatech.edu |::::::::::
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