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To: Scumbria who wrote (73378)	2/11/1999 2:24:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<My point was that Intel's internet performance claims are silly. There is no need to buy an expensive microprocessor to do a simple task like compression/decompression. Do you disagree with my assertion?> Aw, come on Scumbria. We're engineers. They're marketing guys. A lot of things marketing says aren't necessarily things that we'd say. I hope you understand that I didn't get your point at first. Sometimes I can be a little slow. Tenchusatsu

To: Scumbria who wrote (73378)	2/11/1999 7:20:00 AM
From: Haim Barad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

You are responding to this message from Scumbria on Feb 11 1999 2:14AM EST Ten, My point was that Intel's internet performance claims are silly. There is no need to buy an expensive microprocessor to do a simple task like compression/decompression. Just for arguments sake... compression/decompression can be much more abstract than simple encoding/decoding schemes. Take for example real-time NURBS tessellation of 3D models. That'll be a form of data compression that I doubt your FPGA chip will do so well... I might have to transmit several hundred control points (NURBS data) instead of several thousand vertices (polygon data). If I can tessellate on my local PC (let's say you might need a more powerful one to do this...), then that sounds like a 10X compression of data that has to travel across the internet... all without changing your Internet Service Provider, modem, etc... And my NURBS algorithm has plenty of other features: level of detail control, deformable surfaces, etc... Just an example... Haim