[asterisk-users] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEW CHANNEL DRIVERFORASTERISK RELEASED TODAY

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:27:17AM -0500, Cary Fitch wrote:
> It uses proprietary EDC.  (Extreme Data Compression)  The 140 bytes at 8
> bits each, and that is 2^140^8, a nearly inexhaustible key number which is
> related to audio and video data simultaneously stored on a Google Database,
> which is then sent to the user.
> 
> Thus with the 140 byte message, full audio and video can be retrieved.
> 
> This is an outgrowth of the data compression program circa about 1992, when
> disks were much smaller than today.  A very small compression program would
> infinitely compress data on a disk to allow storage of more data.  It was
> only a 200 bytes or so in size (DOS days):-) and worked perfectly.  Running
> it once resulted in lots of storage space.  It took very little time.  Of
> course rewriting the MBR (Master Boot Record) takes very little time.
> 
> Recovering the "compressed" data was tough though.

There were some later implementations of that idea. Here's a rather
efficient one:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010405094403/http://lzip.sourceforge.net/

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