gzip on PDP-11: not so simple

Warren Toomey wkt at henry.cs.adfa.oz.au
Thu Mar 26 06:33:46 AEST 1998


In article by Allison J Parent:
> I find this situation funny as in the 8080/z80 (8 bit data 64kbyte address 
> space) world there is LZH, Crunch, ARK, ARC, LBR... compressors and 
> decompressors.  Atleast a handful are written in C.
> 
> Also PDP11 address space (no I&D) is 32kW... Instructions are always 
> words so code can eat up a fair portion of the 64k bytes.

Well, I've got uncompress working, but I thought having gunzip would
be good as it gives better compression results.

	Warren

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