Intel introduces new compression technology for surfers [CNN]

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>               INTEL INTRODUCES TECHNOLOGY TO SURF THE WEB FASTER
>                                        
>      January 19, 1998
>      Web posted at: 9:35 p.m. EST (0235 GMT)
>      
>      HILLSBORO, Oregon (AP) -- The World Wide Wait may be over.
>      
>      Computer chip giant Intel on Monday announced a way for Internet
>      surfers to download images twice as fast over regular phone lines
>      without any special equipment or software -- but it will add about
>      $5 to monthly access fees.
>      
>      The technology called Quick Web is installed on the computers called
>      servers that Internet services use to store and relay data. The
>      combination of Intel hardware and special software compresses all
>      the graphic images that are piped through the server, boosting
>      access speed.
>      
>      "The more pictures on the screen, the faster it is," said Dave
>      Preston, Internet marketing manager for Intel.
>      

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At 08:59 AM 1/20/98 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
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>>    
>>               INTEL INTRODUCES TECHNOLOGY TO SURF THE WEB FASTER
>>                                        
>>      January 19, 1998
>>      Web posted at: 9:35 p.m. EST (0235 GMT)
>>      
>>      HILLSBORO, Oregon (AP) -- The World Wide Wait may be over.
>>      
>>      Computer chip giant Intel on Monday announced a way for Internet
>>      surfers to download images twice as fast over regular phone lines
>>      without any special equipment or software -- but it will add about
>>      $5 to monthly access fees.
>>      
>>      The technology called Quick Web is installed on the computers called
>>      servers that Internet services use to store and relay data. The
>>      combination of Intel hardware and special software compresses all
>>      the graphic images that are piped through the server, boosting
>>      access speed.
>>      
>>      "The more pictures on the screen, the faster it is," said Dave
>>      Preston, Internet marketing manager for Intel.

This sounds like a real interesting scam.  Graphic files on servers are
already compressed.  Have they found some way to compress already
compressed files?  And if it does not require special software at the
client end, then they must be decompressing it before sending the file.

Or maybe they just convert all the images to low quality jpegs.

This has "Idea from Marketing" written all over it.

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On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Alan Olsen wrote:

> This sounds like a real interesting scam.  Graphic files on servers are
> already compressed.  Have they found some way to compress already
> compressed files?  And if it does not require special software at the
> client end, then they must be decompressing it before sending the file.
> 
> Or maybe they just convert all the images to low quality jpegs.
> 
> This has "Idea from Marketing" written all over it.

>From the sounds of it, it's a glorified caching scheme.

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At 03:46 PM 1/21/98 -0800, Steve Schear wrote:

>Maybe they dynamically turn off the modem compression feature at both ends
during an image download.  LZW-like compression actually adds overhead to
files which are non-text based.

How do they do that from the server side?

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>>Maybe they dynamically turn off the modem compression feature at both ends
>during an image download.  LZW-like compression actually adds overhead to
>files which are non-text based.

>How do they do that from the server side?

If someone can fuck with my modem settings over the "net" I will be
placing a call to Boeing (formaly USR) first thing to see what they are
going to do to fix it.

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>At 08:59 AM 1/20/98 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
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>>Forwarded message:
>>
>>>    
>>>               INTEL INTRODUCES TECHNOLOGY TO SURF THE WEB FASTER
>>>                                        
>>>      January 19, 1998
>>>      Web posted at: 9:35 p.m. EST (0235 GMT)
>>>      
>>>      HILLSBORO, Oregon (AP) -- The World Wide Wait may be over.
>>>      
>>>      Computer chip giant Intel on Monday announced a way for Internet
>>>      surfers to download images twice as fast over regular phone lines
>>>      without any special equipment or software -- but it will add about
>>>      $5 to monthly access fees.
>>>      
>>>      The technology called Quick Web is installed on the computers called
>>>      servers that Internet services use to store and relay data. The
>>>      combination of Intel hardware and special software compresses all
>>>      the graphic images that are piped through the server, boosting
>>>      access speed.
>>>      
>>>      "The more pictures on the screen, the faster it is," said Dave
>>>      Preston, Internet marketing manager for Intel.
>
>This sounds like a real interesting scam.  Graphic files on servers are
>already compressed.  Have they found some way to compress already
>compressed files?  And if it does not require special software at the
>client end, then they must be decompressing it before sending the file.
>
>Or maybe they just convert all the images to low quality jpegs.
>
>This has "Idea from Marketing" written all over it.

Maybe they dynamically turn off the modem compression feature at both ends during an image download.  LZW-like compression actually adds overhead to files which are non-text based.

--Steve

> Maybe they dynamically turn off the modem compression feature at both ends during an image download.  LZW-like compression actually adds overhead to files which are non-text based.

But any modern modem has v.42bis, and with v.42bis it automatically shuts
off the compression anyway!   (Maybe that was just v.42, I forget, but it
doesn't have the problems that MNP5 has with compressed files)  

Either way, this feature already exists....

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At 3:31 PM -0500 1/22/98, Ryan Anderson wrote:
>> Maybe they dynamically turn off the modem compression feature at both ends during an image download.  LZW-like compression actually adds overhead to files which are non-text based.
>
>But any modern modem has v.42bis, and with v.42bis it automatically shuts
>off the compression anyway!   (Maybe that was just v.42, I forget, but it
>doesn't have the problems that MNP5 has with compressed files)  
>
>Either way, this feature already exists....

Thanks for straightening this out.  I was thinking of MNP5 and couldn't find my modem's referemce manual to consider v.42/bis.

--Steve