Re: hows the ascii os??
From Richard James <thi...@all.will.it>
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· 30 Mar 2003 00:15 · View full thread
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Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote: > For a 800 x 600 display at moderate 16 bit color depth you need about > 1 MB. In other words: You need a compression ration of 1:200 to > reduce the graphics data to what Huffman-encoded ASCII needs. In real > life it is rather a factor of 1:400 because ordinary compression > routines like bzip2 give you 2.5 KB or even less. You don't send the picture across you just send the commands to draw it. This is efficient until you say surf the web and you have to send across images to draw. Richard :) -- Will kill for Documentation. A Vic 20 is faster than a C64: 8bit roxs http://dogmilk.homelinux.com/
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