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November 1998, Week 2

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DDS2 Compression
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[log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 8 Nov 1998 13:41:29 -0800580_US-ASCII Hi,

Although off topic, I thought some people might be interested in:
http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/Projects/spacewar/

It's a java app that emulates a PDP-1 playing the original SPACEWAR!

SPACEWAR was important in my computer life ... I read the Analog S.F.
magazine article about it (circa 1969?), and got thoroughly hooked
on computers while writing a clone of it (on an IBM 1130 work-alike
called a Meta 4). Years later, I met one of the authors of the
original SPACEWAR, Bob Saunders. He also helped write MPE. Small world.40_8Nov199813:41:[log in to unmask]
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Our client is running Windows NT with a Sony SDT-5000 DAT tape drive, HP DDS2
4GB DAT tapes (120 meters) and ARCServe 5.0 backup software. With only 7.5GB
of info on the server, it takes us 3 tapes to do a backup (tapes are "Quick
Erase Plus" in ARCServe). We have spoken to Sony, Cheyenne, and HP. There
have been so many contradictions (even within the same company) we are at a
loss. Cheyenne says compression comes from the hardware, Sony says we need to
mark software compression... Does anyone know how to get reliable compression
with the above environment?

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