The tables of channel capacities of the (O, G/I) constrained systems a
re presented. It is shown that for the given timing parameter G them e
xists a critical path memory length of the Viterbi algorithm, I(cr), o
ver which it is not possible to improve the code efficiency if data an
d codeword lengths are limited. These maximal code efficiencies for pr
actically interesting values of G are listed.