Re: (ASCEND) Software compression ?? (fwd)

[Vesa Halkka <vhalkka@cc.helsinki.fi>]

> Seriously, the Ascends are doing LZS in hardware using the appropriate
> Hi/Fn (Stac) chips. The Win95 DUN implementation is pure software, so
> they call it "software compression".

DUN uncompression is reasonably well coded, and a Stac chip would be an
overkill in workstation use. 

My old 60MHz Pentium uses about 20% CPU to a compressed 128k ISDN ftp
download. Passive Siemens chip ISDN card (Teles). 

VesA
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