[Pc_Support] .NET based on Java?

[Damien McKenna]

> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:47 -0400, Damien McKenna wrote:
> > The reality I've seen is that *very* *few* people understand the
> > connection.
> 
> Of IT people, yes.

I've had Java and .NET developers dispute it also.

> And they wouldn't think to realize that NTFS uses the libz (GZip)
> algorithm for its LZ77 compression either.

Interestingly the CAB archive format used, in part, the LZX file format
devised by Jonathan Forbes for the AmigaOS platform who was later hired
by Microsoft.  http://xavprods.free.fr/lzx/ has more in item 7 in the
FAQ.

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