<storage> (DLT) A kind of magnetic tape drive
originally developed by DEC and now marketed by Quantum.
DLT drives implement the Digital Lempel Ziv 1 (DLZ1)
compression algorithm in a combination of hardware and
firmware. They use a popular chip by Stac (now hi/fn)
to do the string searching. Counting, sorting and Huffman
encoding are done in firmware (with hardware support for the
Huffman algorithm?).
In April 1997 DLT drives can transfer 5 megabytes per second
and can store 35 gigabytes on a single cartridge.
Compression might roughly double these figures.
(1997-04-05)
Nearby terms:
Digital Express Group, Inc. « Digital Lempel Ziv 1 « Digital Library Initiative « Digital Linear Tape » digital logic » Digital Multimeter » Digital Radio Mondiale
