We need docks!
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10 Jan 00 17:57, Nicolas Davidov wrote to Kirill Frolov:
ND> PS: I specifically found i286 and launched RAR v2.06 - for _packing_ it
ND> 370Kb of RAM is enough for it... For unpacking, in theory, even less.
ND> The volume of the dictionary is 64Kb..
Only you forgot one thing - on the IBM-PC, even on the XT, these 370Kb are available
in their entirety, only a little mess with 64Kb segments. And on the Spectrum
these segments are already 16kb, access to two different ones at the same time is impossible
and switching them is also difficult.
Kirill Frolov. [ZX]
A long time ago Thu Jan 20, 2000, Kirill Frolov and Nicolas Davidov thought on the topic:
We need docks!
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KF> Only you forgot one thing - on the IBM-PC, even on the XT, these
KF> 370kb are available
KF> in its entirety, just a little hemorrhoids with segments of
KF> 64kb. And on the Spectrum
KF> these segments are already 16kb each, access to two different
KF>s at the same time is impossible
KF> and switching them is also difficult.
But this does not mean that it is not possible to make unrar on the spec.
For this Au Revoire, CompoWellcome. [Team GS]
22 Jan 00 19:32, Nicolas Davidov wrote to Kirill Frolov:
KF>> 64kb. And on the Spectrum these segments are already 16kb, access to two different ones at the same time is impossible and switching them is also difficult.
ND> But this does not mean that it is not possible to make unrar on the spec.
And it does not mean that UNRAR will ever be made.