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During this era, it gained attention for significantly outperforming established formats like ZIP by offering through its modular architecture. Key Features of 7z in 2002

Unlike proprietary formats, 7z was built to be modular, allowing it to support any new compression or encryption method as they were developed. 2002 7z

Even in 2002, it was designed to handle massive archives, theoretically up to 16 exbibytes (2^64 bytes). Historical Context During this era, it gained attention for significantly

The debut of the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm (LZMA), which provided a high compression ratio even on the hardware of the time. During this era

This feature allowed multiple files of a similar type to be treated as a single data stream, drastically improving efficiency for groups of small files.