Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!!

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:16:57 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> 8bit micro people never got about about 3000bits/second off old cassette
> tape (MFM or FM encoded). Its just horrible stuff for distortion and
> stretching

Why bother with MFM or FM? They're bloody stale technology (and smells
like old socks too). We should be looking to the compression/encoding used
in modems for audio-tape storage.

Cheers,
Alex.

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