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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: PKWARE AND ASI AGREEMENT
- Message-ID: <3044@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 20:54:43 GMT
- References: <1467.1021.uupcb@meaddata.com>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
- Lines: 68
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- In <1467.1021.uupcb@meaddata.com> tim.meade%theweb@meaddata.com (Tim Meade) writes:
-
- Comment conserns the article, not its poster!
-
- >...
- >operating environments," said Tim Meade, president of ASi. "The
- >computer
- >industry as a whole has never had a data compression standard, we intend
- >to change that."
-
- A commercial "standard"? Sounds dangerous to me.
-
- >Interactive, Pyramid), MacIntosh, MVS, Amiga, Ultrix, and other
- >environments as needed. The products will include PKZip, PKUnzip, PK
- >Data Compression Library, PKLite, PKSFX, and future PKWare products.
-
- PKLite for all these platforms? Impressive. How many of the Amiga version
- do they expect to sell, 1 or 0 :-)
-
- >...
- >Second, the companies are moving forward with their joint efforts to
- >raise public knowledge about data compression and its advantages in
- >day-to-day operations. While used extensively in the DOS environment,
- >common binary file storage with data compression is not widely used in
- >the other platforms and environments.
-
- Where does this idea come from?
-
- >Immediate products available through existing ASi and PKWare distributor
- ^^^^^^^^^
- As in PKZIP 2.0 :-)
-
- >channels will include PK Data Compression Library for Unix, MacIntosh,
- >Ultrix, and MVS along with PKZip for UNIX. Soon to be released
- >...
-
- >The Data Compression Library for UNIX and MacIntosh is available
- >immediately for a cost of $495. PKZip for UNIX is also available for a
- >shareware registration fee of $87.
-
- Amazing, is this true? Did anyone actually see this products or is it
- as usual with PKWARE just the announcement ;-(.
-
- >...
- >PKWare Inc. is an internationally known supplier of data compression
- >products and services. Their PKZip compression product has become the
- >standard on DOS based personal computers. The company's products and
-
- From where do they get the idea they are a standard? For OS/2 and UNIX
- and Internet ZOO is very widely used, in e.g. Germany ARJ is much more
- used than PKZIP etc.
-
- >services are used throughout the world. With product's such as PKZip,
- >PKLite, PK Data Compression Library's, and PKZMenu they are the world's
- >standard of data compression.
-
- Huge claims for such a small company. The only "standards" I know of are
- those like JPEG and MPEG which BTW don't involve PKWARE at all.
-
- Nico E. de Vries
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-
- MS-DOS + DR-DOS + X-DOS + Geoworks + Windows + Windows NT + OS/2 2.0 +
- DesqView/X + Solaris + Interactive UNIX + multiuser DOS + NextStep = confusion
-