Re: A83: ASM->PIC

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Subject: Re: A83: ASM->PIC
From: Stefan Lennartsson <stefan@infinity.hemmet.s-hem.chalmers.se>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 11:58:25 +0100 (CET)
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I don't like to call it compression since it just becomes the real z80
executable machine code.

/Stefan

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, John Kugelman wrote:

> 
> Scott Dial wrote:
> > 
> > ERR... Squish is NOT compression!!! I'm tired of ppl think it is! Squish
> > is just turning the tokens that respresent the bytes into the actual
> > bytes.
> > 
> > For example:
> > A squished program looks like this in a hex editor:
> > 01234567890ABCDEF
> > 
> > The unsquished looks like this in a hex editor:
> > 30313233343536373839414243444546
> > (which is the tokens for 0123456789ABCDEF)
> 
> That looks compressed to me - same data in half the space.  Just because
> the compression scheme is incredibly simple doesn't change what it is.
> 
> -- 
> John Kugelman.  kugelman@mnsinc.com
> 
> I believe we can change anything.
> I believe in my dream.
>     - Joe Satriani
> 
>

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Re: A83: ASM->PIC

From: John Kugelman <kugelman@mnsinc.com>