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Old Protocol Could Save Massive Bandwidth

Posted by Hemos on from the reduce-reuse-recycle dept.

GFD writes: "The EETimes has a story about a relavtively old protocol for structured information call ASN.1 could be used to compress a 200 byte XML document to 2 bytes and few bits. I wonder if the same could be done with XHTML or even regular HTML."

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  1. Better than that... by jmv · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I can do much better with "delete" and "undelete". DOS rules! It had filesystem compression (format/unformat) long before the others.

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