1998-01-22 - Re: Intel introduces new compression technology for surfers [CNN]

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From: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
To: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
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From: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 14:18:44 +0800
To: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
Subject: Re: Intel introduces new compression technology for surfers   [CNN]
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At 03:46 PM 1/21/98 -0800, Steve Schear 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.

How do they do that from the server side?

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• 1998-01-20 (Tue, 20 Jan 1998 22:31:48 +0800) - Intel introduces new compression technology for surfers [CNN] - Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
  • 1998-01-21 (Thu, 22 Jan 1998 06:10:53 +0800) - Re: Intel introduces new compression technology for surfers [CNN] - Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
    • 1998-01-21 (Thu, 22 Jan 1998 07:24:02 +0800) - Re: Intel introduces new compression technology for surfers [CNN] - Ray Arachelian <sunder@sundernet.com>
    • 1998-01-22 (Thu, 22 Jan 1998 14:18:44 +0800) - Re: Intel introduces new compression technology for surfers [CNN] - Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
      • 1998-01-22 (Thu, 22 Jan 1998 14:33:46 +0800) - Re: Intel introduces new compression technology for surfers [CNN] - “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@invweb.net>
  • 1998-01-21 (Thu, 22 Jan 1998 07:50:05 +0800) - Re: Intel introduces new compression technology for surfers [CNN] - Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
    • 1998-01-22 (Fri, 23 Jan 1998 04:46:10 +0800) - Re: Intel introduces new compression technology for surfers [CNN] - Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
    • 1998-01-23 (Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:51:27 +0800) - Re: Intel introduces new compression technology for surfers [CNN] - Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>