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I'd appreciate any correction to my estimate of the settlement details. Microsoft ended up saying in its 1994 10-K that it recorded a net pretax charge of $90 million to settle the Stac patent litigation. Elsewhere I have read that Microsoft invested $39.9 million in Stac, hence my claim in the article that there was a $39.9 million investment and a $50 million payment. Tempshill 18:24, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
was stacker better than doublespace/drivespace or was doubling and often overoptimisic estimate? Plugwash 01:07, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
Having worked for Tech Support for Stacker (WAY back in 1991/92) I was under the impression that Stacker was more stable than DoubleSpace. Easier to fix if something went wrong also. Compression only really worked on Non-Graphics/Video files. In other words, it could compress a document/text/exe/com/sys file pretty good, but could not further compress graphics or video files because they are already about as compressed as could be (at that time). So these types of files seemed to take "twice" as much space on a stacked drive. Doc —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.21.162.200 (talk) 22:23, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
The external reference to http://web.archive.org/web/20051214104645/http://www.altiris.com/previo/ is broken. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RodrigoValin (talk • contribs) 02:13, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
One detail I heard about was that not only did MS steal the doubling software, they left the Stac copyright notice in the source code. Anyone have any confirmation of that? Jokem (talk) 16:20, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
I never heard anything about the Stac copyright notice being left in the source code. But then I never read all the trial transcripts. One main issue was they left in part of the patented compression algorithm that was subsequently removed in Stacker because it was found to worsen the compression rate. Also as far as I know, DoubleSpace was never looked at when developing the algorithm. I don't know if the people coding the software version of Stacker looked at it to see how it hooked into the OS, but the algorithm itself was designed before DoubleSpace came out. The original market was quarter-inch cartridge tape drives which Stac was heavily involved in at the time through its chip business. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.215.138.231 (talk) 00:27, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
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