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      STACKER NOTE                                         STACKER NOTE
                 STAC MAKES OS/2 WARP, VERSION 3 COMMITMENT
       New Release of Stacker to Ship Within 90 Days of OS/2 Shipments
      STAC FAX  1126 (10-25-1994)
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      NEW YORK, October 11, 1994 - Stac Electronics (NASDAQ:STAC), the
      leading supplier of compression products for data storage and
      communication, today announced it will ship a new version of
      Stacker for IBM's new OS/2 Warp, Version 3 within 90 days of
      its release.
      
      "Stacker for OS/2 users have told us they need better
      performance, more storage capacity and new features that make
      Stacker drives easier to use," said Bruce Behymer, Stacker for
      OS/2 & DOS product manager. "We intend to fulfill those
      expectations by bringing Stacker 4.0
      technology to OS/2."
      
      Behymer added that the new release of Stacker will also include a
      special conversion utility that make drives compressed with
      DoubleSpace, DriveSpace, or SuperStor/DS compression
      software fully accessible to OS/2 by converting them to the
      Stacker format.
      
      The new version of Stacker for OS/2 & DOS will be fully
      compatible with hard disks compressed with Stacker 4.0 for
      Windows & DOS.  The Stacker family of award-winning data
      compression products is relied upon daily by millions of computer
      users worldwide to increase the
      storage capacity of DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Macintosh computers.
      
      Stac Electronics is the leading supplier of high performance
      compression products for data storage and communications.
      Implemented in software and silicon, Stac's products are sold
      direct from the company and through retail and OEM sales
      distribution channels.
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