Re: Nitro

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From: Stuart Ritchie
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 01:49

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andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
>If you have a Turbo, try turning on the "swaptimizer" (see the swaptab
>man page).  The swaptimizer compresses pages before they go out to
>disk to reduce disk IO.

Does anyone know the compression algorithm used here?

Stuart

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Subject: Re: Nitro
Date: 6 Oct 1992 18:49:21 -0700
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