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The original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) compressor source code has been released

The original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) compressor source code has been released

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  • johndoe0815
    Whow, another well-known piece of software that was written by Fabrice Bellard. He's also the original author of qemu, tinyemu, tcc, ffmpeg and many more.https://bellard.org
  • userbinator
    Incidentally, PC BIOSes used the LZ* family of compression algorithms too. LZSS (also known as LZ12/4 for its allocation of indicator word bits), LZARI, LZHUF (which lead to the famous LHA/LZH, and then Deflate/Zlib, ZIP, etc.), and LZINT were all commonly encountered. Apparently Phoenix had a patent on it:https://patents.google.com/patent/US5836013A/en (search for LZSS)Despite the relative obscurity of Okumura's code, it has definitely had a huge impact.