Jacco,
> > > > That's why the hard job is made by a server running WISE...
> > > What about a HW to de/compress JPG images ? It's not so difficult to do
> > > a guy expert in HW ...
> > 1. Price (HW has costs)
> > 2. Complexity (it's not an easy HW)
> > 3. Availability (ordering, sending, paying, etc, etc)
> > 4. The HTML parsing and all will be still heavy for Z80 3.5MHz
> > WISE solution is the best cost/benefit solution.
> High costs? Complex HW?
> Hmmm, think of this, there are sony digital camera's that store your
> pictures directly to floppy disk, compressed in JPEG.
> Those camera's use a chip, capable of realtime JPEG compression. I don't
> know about decompression, I haven't had the opportunity to examine the
> camera up close, but I can imagine that it exists.
> Don't invent the wheel twice, look around...
Hey, you want to compare mass-procuced Sony's digital camera's
with home-made hardware for MSX? You want to compare the costs?
It's so ingenuous as saying "hey, MoonSound is much more expensive
than my PC Creative Labs sound-card, it should be more cheap because it's
worse!"...
Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Engenharia de Computacao - UNICAMP
http://www.adrpage.cjb.net MSX-TR:I have one.And you?
* Calm down. It's only ones and zeros. *
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