1st stage loader for IMSAI - need ascii to binary

Patrick Finnegan pat at computer-refuge.org
Wed Feb 27 23:43:06 CST 2008


On Wednesday 27 February 2008 19:12, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Andrew Burton wrote:
> > YouTube doesn't stream. It slowly downloads the flash video files
> > to the temporary internet files folder where it's usually named
> > "FlaXX.tmp". The XX is usually a hex  number depending on how many
> > tmp files you have in there. The file is also (99% of the time)
> > deleted the second you close the page it is linked to.
> >
> > The good thing is that you can watch the video before it's fully
> >  downloaded. A very good thing if you are on dial-up :)
>
> So what is the difference between "streaming" and "downloading a file
> while being able to view it while downloading"?  The second is the
> definition I usually allow myself when discussing streaming.

"Streaming" tends to imply no disk cache copy, more like listening to a 
radio station...

Pat
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