Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:03:02 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | RLE (was Re: Transparent compression in the FS) |
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:19:09PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> JMODEM was done in 1989 as stated. RLE was invented my ME in 1967 > and was first used for a digital telemetry link between the Haystack > research facility in Groton, Mass. and MIT's main campus. I was a > technician there during my senior year at Northeastern. Whether or > not it was patented by others is immaterial.
S.W. Golomb. Run-length encoding. IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 12(3), July 1966.
I'm sure there are earlier instances, but this is one that is commonly cited. I expect we can find coding theory stuff back to the at least the mid-40s with the formalization of regular expression theory and Kleene closures.
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