Re: (PM) STAC Cards

Brantley Jones (bjones@cte.net)
Wed, 20 May 1998 19:49:48 -0500

Would there be any point in this, though? Would you get that much better
compression ratios out of STAC as opposed to V.42 bis?

Brantley

At 05:40 PM 5/20/98 -0700, Josh Richards wrote:
>On 20 May 1998, Larry A. Weidig wrote:
>
>> I have a question based on a mail that I just recently saw. I was
>> under the impression that the STAC compression cards were only useful for
>> ISDN connections and not standard modems, is that true? If so, would the
>> previous mail even matter as he was running channelized T1's with the STAC
>> cards. Thanks for clearing this up for me.
>
>STAC has absolutely no relation or knowledge of what the underlying link
>is. You can run it over POTS, ISDN, CT1, or a tin-can and a string
>(although I'm not aware of any IETF standards covering that last one..)
>;-)
>
>The client software just has to support it. Windows 95/NT supports it
>with the latest updates installed. If you dial in with another router
>such as an OR using the async interface on it, you can do STAC just fine.
>I'm not sure about MacOS. Linux should have some patches that do it, or
>if not it will soon.
>
>-jr
>
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