->SINCE WHEN ZIP IS THE PROGRAM USED FOR THE PC?
IS IT TRUE THAT THE NAME IS TAKEN FROM THE NAME OF ITS MAKER?
In the late ’70s, memory prices are very expensive and can only be used for only few megabytes. After that in 1977 began
a national researcher israel,
Jacob Ziv dan Abraham Lempel doing research a formula that is used to shrink the data.
In 1984, this formula be integrated into the compression format, with the name ‘LZV’ in accordance with the name of the inventor, Lempel, Ziv dan Welsh. As standard in the world,
just a little PC program that can compete,
such as ‘PKZIP’ and ‘ARJ’ suffix the word ‘ZIP’ is just
a word.
reference:
computer easy 02.2004
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