[tz] [PROPOSED PATCH 2/2] Use lz format for new tarball

[Guy Harris]

On Sep 1, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Clive D.W. Feather <clive at davros.org> wrote:

> Deborah Goldsmith said:
>> RFCs are still plain text. .tar format hasn???t changed in decades. Bytes are still 8 bits.
> 
> Actually, no they aren't. I've spent the last several years programming on
> a processor where a byte is 16 bits - that is, the C type "unsigned char"
> can hold values from 0 to 65535 inclusive.
> 
> Incidentally, that's something like the third commonest processor in the
> world. I suspect most of you have owned one at one time or another.

...as part of some larger machine you own, doing digital signal processing inside that machine.