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To: John Hull who wrote (73352)	2/10/1999 6:18:00 PM
From: Jeff Fox	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

John, re:"the more you can compress and decompress" Do you know this for a fact? My modem already compresses the data to about 2x on average. Are you implying that with a PIII on my end that this will improve? How much? My understanding that this is like squeezing a sponge. You can do so much to get most the moisture out, then you need 10x the umpth to get one tenth more value, but the sponge never becomes completely dry. Lossless compression is like this and internet transmissions have already been "squeezed". But... is Intel proposing lossy compression for the internet? I understand that lossy compression achieves between 10:1 to 20:1 data reduction. But note that images are already highly compress with Jpeg format, clips with .rm and audio with MP3, so there is likely little left here too. Now just what is Intel proposing here? Jeff