Computing (FOLDOC) dictionary
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originally developed by
DEC and now marketed by
Quantum.
to do the string searching. Counting, sorting and
Huffmanencoding are done in firmware (with hardware support for the
Huffman algorithm?).
In April 1997 DLT drives can transfer 5
megabytes per second
and can store 35
gigabytes on a single cartridge.
Compression might roughly double these figures.
(1997-04-05)