[colorforth] jpeg decoder

[Mark Slicker <maslicke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Dirk Harms-Merbitz wrote:

> 
> This is why I think that network support is so important for colorForth.
> 
> Linux is already the smallest solution that is compatible with everything.
> 
> Why don't we come up with our own lossy encoding scheme for pictures?
> 
> We don't have to be compatible when a Linux based proxy can be used to
> convert web images into our format.
> 

Perhaps you could explain his proxy. I'm not very knowledgeable about
networks.

Does this esentially make colorForth dependent on linux? Isn't this what
we are tring to avoid?

I agree linux is the most compatible free operating system. Certainly not
the most compact, not even close!

I believe a colorForth operating system can deal everything we need to
deal with, and can fit on a single floppy, source included. Jpeg is the
most common image format, and I believe we need to at least have the
capability to decode them.

Mark

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