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1998-01-23 - Re: Intel introduces new compression technology for surfers [CNN]

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From: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
To: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Message Hash: 158a18ff31f4231710b2009738bb4f52e47919de0a8c4af8465a7a88178d14d6
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UTC Datetime: 1998-01-23 03:51:27 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:51:27 +0800

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From: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:51:27 +0800
To: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Subject: Re: Intel introduces new compression technology for surfers  [CNN]
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At 3:31 PM -0500 1/22/98, Ryan Anderson wrote:
>> Maybe they dynamically turn off the modem compression feature at both ends during an image download.  LZW-like compression actually adds overhead to files which are non-text based.
>
>But any modern modem has v.42bis, and with v.42bis it automatically shuts
>off the compression anyway!   (Maybe that was just v.42, I forget, but it
>doesn't have the problems that MNP5 has with compressed files)  
>
>Either way, this feature already exists....

Thanks for straightening this out.  I was thinking of MNP5 and couldn't find my modem's referemce manual to consider v.42/bis.

--Steve

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