Re: JPEG viewer?

[bbry@bu.edu (Bryony Bechtold)]

David Empson (dempson@actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
: In article <BK.BW.780200769.1103527590.jlange@yvr.cyberstore.ca>,
: Jamie B Lange  <jlange@yvr.cyberstore.ca> wrote:
: > Reply:
: > 
: > > I know there is a GIF viewer for the IIGS (can someone remind me where, 
: > > please?) but I was wondering if there is one for JPEG?
: > >
: > 
: > I found one on cco.caltech.edu
: > 
: It isn't a viewer, only a converter.  (DJPEG).  It worked fine for me,
: but took a very long time - a 300k-ish JPEG took about three hours to
: convert to a 1.2MB GIF file on my unaccelerated IIgs.  I couldn't
: display the resulting file, but it worked fine on a PC-based GIF
: viewer on a friend's computer.

: He later got hold of the same JPEG conversion program and ran it on
: his 486 DX-2/66, and it took 12 minutes to do the same conversion.  :-)

Uh...  There's something seriously wrong with that sentence if you really
meant 12 MINUTES.  With this 486/66 running NeXTSTEP a 300k jpeg takes about
6 seconds to come up...