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> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen)
> IIRC, then even gzip started with less than -9 as default.
Yes, I believe -6 or -7 is default.
> >Actually, thinking back on when I did that, it wasn't gzip but old
> >compress running with 10, 12, 14 and 16 bit compression on a super
> >powerful SunOS server with four 68040's (or so). State of the art in
> >1990. :-(
>
>
> Mmmm in 1989 I already had a Sparcstation-1 at home and ths was really fast
> compared to a MC680x0. In 1989 we got a SS-2 in the company and Intel needed
> development until ~ 1995 to catch the speed of the SS-2.
I had some uni-SPARC, but there were stability issues with SMP which
scared management for a bit.
>
> BTW: in 1992 the compression hype was a program called freeze from Russia/Moscow.
> It if better than gzip but a bit worse than bzip2.
I think that's the compression used in lharc and the "high compression"
mode of the zoo archiver. Really good for the time, but S__L__O__W.
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