From: amund@itk.unit.no (Amund Skavhaug)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Stacker for OS/2, Yes!
Keywords: Stacker compression
Date: 8 Apr 92 10:06:07 GMT
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology / SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway

In article <21-PCNews-119beta@lancea.actrix.gen.nz>, lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz (Lance Andrewes) writes:
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|> The following is a Stac Electronics press release:
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|>              Stac Announces OS/2 Version of Stacker
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|>      Chicago, April 6, 1992 -- Stac Electronics announced today
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|> at COMDEX/Spring '92 that a new version of its award-winning data
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|> compression software is being designed for OS/2* 2.0, IBM's 32-
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|> bit operating system for 386SX PCs and above.
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|>      Stacker for OS/2 will allow users to start their systems
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|> with OS/2 or DOS and access their existing Stacker drives without
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|> any modification while running either operating system.  It will
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|> also be 100% compatible with Stac's line of coprocessor boards
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|> for maximum speed and compression ratios.
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|>      The OS/2 version of Stacker, like the entire Stacker line of
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|> data compression software and coprocessor boards, doubles a
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|> computer's storage capacity with the Stacker LZSTM technology,
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|> which is instantaneous, continuous, and totally transparent to
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|> the user.
|> 
|>      "Stac has received strong demand from its installed base for
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|> an OS/2 version of Stacker," said Gary Clow, Stac's president.
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|> "We have been quietly engaged in developing Stacker for OS/2 for
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|> more than a year now, and this summer we will supply a beta
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|> release to the 300,000 OS/2 2.0 beta testers."
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|>      Clow said Stacker for OS/2 will be available later this year
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|> through Stac OEMs, the company's existing retail channels or
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|> ordered directly from Stac by calling (800) 522-7822.  All
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|> Stacker products come with free technical support.
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|>      Stacker OS/2 will join the Stacker line of products that now
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|> includes Stacker 2.0 software for laptop, notebook and portable
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|> computers, and Stacker AT/16 and Stacker MC/16 compression
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|> coprocessor boards for desktop systems.
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|>      OS/2 2.0 offers true multitasking and will provide the
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|> broadest selections of applications in the industry, running DOS,
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|> Windows and 16- and 32-bit OS/2 applications unchanged, according
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|> to IBM.
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|>      Stac Electronics, based in Carlsbad, California, is the
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|> leading supplier of high-performance data compression software
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|> and silicon.  The company's products, designed for corporate-wide
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|> compression applications, are sold direct from the company and
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|> through traditional retail and OEM sales distribution.
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|> *OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business
|> Machines Corporation.
|> 
|> 
|> ----
|>  _______  Email: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz
|> ////      ZL2AJH    Wellington, New Zealand

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WONDERFUL ! I will definitively buy it.


Regards, Amund Skavhaug

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