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RAR was invented by a Russian (Eugene Roshal) and still popular in Russia (compresses better than zip and faster than 7z).
by atemerev 7y ago
RAR was invented by a Russian (Eugene Roshal) and still popular in Russia (compresses better than zip and faster than 7z).
- userbinator 7y agoInterestingly, 7z is also of Russian origin (Igor Pavlov), and a lot of data compression research comes from there too --- possibly a legacy started by Markov.
- atemerev 7y agoThat, and the fact that our computers were really shitty. :) It also helped in development of very clever analytical and numerical integration techniques, e.g. Sobol sequences.
- mikorym 7y agoThat's really interesting. When working under constrainst people get creative. I think it just happend so that most computers that I've worked on don't handle RAR by default so I never knew the background.