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

89 pointsposted 15 hours ago
by elvis70
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5 Comments

johndoe0815

13 hours ago

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

egorfine

12 hours ago

One of the most influential programmers of our time, if not the most.

mrkramer

13 hours ago

His track record is exceptional, he must be a Godlike programmer!

ddalex

a minute ago

I'm big fan of Monsieur Bellard, not because he made things complicated, but because he made things simple.

I read through the original source of qemu and the tiny C compiler and the simplicity and beauty of the code are outstanding.

userbinator

5 hours ago

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.