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	Stacker Disk-Compression Utility with Windows
		STAC Electronics' Stacker disk-compression program creates logical drives and makes exact copies of the old drives, except that the files are compressed to save space.
		If you are using the STAC coprocessor card and are trying to run Windows in 386 enhanced mode, you must add an EMMEXCLUDE statement to the [386Enh] section of the SYSTEM.INI file to exclude the area of memory that the card uses.
		The product included here is manufactured by STAC Electronics, a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's performance or reliability.
	support.microsoft.com /kb/71787 (582 words)

	MS-DOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a response to Digital Research's DR-DOS 6.0, which bundled SuperStor disk compression, Microsoft opened negotiations with Stac Electronics, vendor of the most popular DOS disk compression tool, Stacker.
		Stac was unwilling to meet Microsoft's terms for licensing Stacker and withdrew from the negotiations.
		Stac successfully sued Microsoft for patent infringement regarding the compression algorithm used in DoubleSpace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MS-DOS (2698 words)

	RFC 1974
		When the Stac LZS compression protocol is successfully negotiated by the PPP Compression Control Protocol [2], the value is 00FD hex or 00FB hex as described in section 2.
		Friend and Simpson Informational [Page 13] RFC 1974 Stac LZS August 1996 (A single logical connection.) When the History Count field is set to a value greater than "1", separate history buffers, error detection states, and signaling states are maintained by the decompressing entity for each history.
		The Stac LZS protocol provides a means to detect these error conditions: LCB or CRC for erroneous datagrams, and sequence number for dropped or mis-ordered datagrams.
	www.kefk.net /CIE/RFC/bynum3d86.html?1974 (5176 words)

	Dr. Dobb's \| Undocumented Corner \| July 22, 2001
		While the large patent-infringement award to Stac seems like the big news, the smaller trade-secret award to Microsoft is at least as interesting, because of its direct connection to reverse engineering and the use of undocumented interfaces in the PC software industry.
		Stac never saw Microsoft's source code; it learned everything it needed using Soft-ICE on the binary MS-DOS code, but the jury may have thought that Stac had taken MS's source code, viewing this as parallel to MS's infringement of Stac's patent.
		Still, the Stac verdict does seem to establish the right for a company such as Microsoft to declare, out of the blue, that one of its undocumented interfaces is suddenly a trade secret.
	www.ddj.com /184409244;jsessionid=3AJEWGGV0RKDIQSNDLQSKHSCJUNN2JVN?_requestid=1323591 (2194 words)

	Installing MS-DOS 6.2 over Stacker Version 3.11
		You are installing the Upgrade or Step-Up (BBS or retail version), your C drive is compressed using Stacker 3.11, you have less than 4,200,000 bytes free on the host drive for C, and at least 4,200,000 bytes free on drive C. When you run Setup, you receive this error message:
		Stac Electronics has released Stacker version 3.11, (the box and disks still indicate version 3.1).
		You can order the 62STAC.EXE file from STAC Electronics, or you can download it from the STAC Electronics bulletin board service at (619) 431-7405.
	support.microsoft.com /kb/107526 (919 words)

	Making Microsoft Safe for Capitalism by James Gleick
		One company that tried was Stac Electronics, which had developed software that used a compression technology to effectively expand the capacity of users' disks.
		Microsoft wanted to build Stac's technology into the operating system and negotiated in its usual scorched-earth style, demanding a worldwide license for a one-time flat payment and threatening to move ahead with or without Stac's license.
		Stac now exists as a happy Microsoft partner and the disk-compression business is no more.
	www.around.com /microsoft.html (8199 words)

	AEL - (Association Electronique Libre) WikiWiki - Patent Players Microsoft
		STAC sued MS on charges of infringement of one of it's patents for the Stacker Product which MS copied into MS DOS 6.0
		In settling, MS bought $ 40 Mill of non-voting stock from STAC, closed a cross-licensing deal on all of STAC's patents and made STAC just a department of MS.
		The $120 million verdict for Stac comes at a delicate time for Microsoft, which is under investigation by the Justice Department and the EU for alleged anti-competitive practices.
	wiki.ael.be /index.php/PatentPlayersMicrosoft (1284 words)

	Computer History
		WynnWilliams is the first to use large-scale electronic counters for constructing a binary counter to keep track of events in experiments.
		The Ferranti MARK I, also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer MARK II (a copy of the original MARK I, not an improvement), is installed at the University of Toronto.
		Stac Electronics later sues Microsoft for patent infringement in regards to the DoubleSpace utility.
	www.prof-soft.com /CompHistory.htm (8860 words)

	LangaList 2000-06-19
		Still other readers railed at some of Microsoft's past bad conduct--- and I completely agree that Microsoft has done some truly reprehensible things to competitors, with its treatment of Stac Electronics in the 1980s leading the list.
		But Stac properly sued and won a large settlement from Microsoft.
		And there are venues for doing so, as Stac's enormous (and justified) settlement shows.
	www.langa.com /newsletters/2000/2000-06-19.htm (3181 words)

	An Industry at Risk
		A recent example is Stac Electronics, a small company making data compression software, who apparently bought a software patent from Ferranti in England so that they could prevent Microsoft from including a data compression feature "Doublespace" in MSDOS V6.0.
		Microsoft is being sued by Stac Electronics as a result of Microsoft's incorporation of transparent data compression in MSDOS 6.0.
		Cambridge, MA 02139 The League is always happy to assist those threatened or concerned about the above issues, or to simply provide further information on these matters to any party that may be interested.
	lpf.ai.mit.edu /Patents/industry-at-risk.html (12490 words)

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		Stacker is a registered trademark of Stac Electronics.
	www.unoverica.com /copyright.html (1122 words)

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