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Business & Productivity Software
Business & Productivity Software News:

Resolution 1.0 Windows Based Help Desk Mgmt Sys

Check+ Financial Software for Home & Office

Tyson Foods Selects Sybase over Oracle & RDB

Fileable Laser Form 4562 in Depreciation V3.02

Intergraph Transcend Natural Lang. Translator

ShowBasic 1.0 Tutorial/Demo Development Kit

Itty-Bitty Black Book/2 V1.25 PIM for OS/2

O-Matrix High-Performance Data Analysis Tool

Scan/US Geocoder - National Level Geocoding Swr

Hughes Aircraft Selects Sybase

DEC Signs Microsoft/Lotus Swr Resale Agreements

GroupQuest Application Catalog for Lotus Notes

Andyne PaBLO for Windows Decision Support Swr

Pixar Typestry 2 for Windows Ships

Forest & Trees Adds Essbase Connection

Softbridge Basic Standard Scripting Language

WinBrowse 1.0 Multiple Database Windows Utility

Innovative-Warehouse Data Warehouse Offering

Mailer's+4 List Management Software

Japanese Version of InConcert Workflow Launched

IBM - Right At Home Software Series on CDROM

Client/Server Transaction Processing to Desktop

CODEchange Updates New UK Phone/Fax Numbers

SilverPlatter & Info. Access Pub. Agreement

IMR Alchemy Receives Product of Year Award

Enhanced Imaging System with Reduced File Sizes

Pro CD Shipping Major Phone Directory Updates

Data Bank V2.20 Address Book-Type Editor/Mgr

IDate V2.01 Personal Organizer

HP Expands OpenWarehouse Portfolio

Scan/US Streets & Data USA CD-ROM V1.5 Released

Next Gen. Server-based Data Warehouse Reports


Professional/Engineering Software
Professional/Engineering Software News:

Kinetics Windows 1.0 Chemical Reaction Modeling

BSO/TASKING Toolkit for 196 Microcontroller

Application-Specific CD-ROM Server Packages

WESTLAW Intellectual Property Coverage Expanded

Fed Rules of Practice Committee Minutes

Immunization Status Determination System

Bill Tracking Materials Expanded on WESTLAW

Employment Coverage Expanded on WESTLAW

Federal Agency Coverage Expanded on WESTLAW

Federal Taxation Coverage Expanded on WESTLAW

State Admin Code Coverage Expanded on WESTLAW

Three Treatises Added to WESTLAW

Foreign Pub. Coverage Expanded on WESTLAW

SOAP - Sun-synchronous Orbit Analysis Program

SAGE - Multidimensional Self-Adaptive Grid Code

RCVRPROF - Receiver Noise & Gain Profile

OFFSET - Space Station Solar Power Sys Analysis

NASA-GRA Geared Rotor Analyzer

MSCSURV Manned Spacecraft Crew Survivability

MPGT - NASA Mission Planning Graphical Tool

CARES/LIFE Ceramics Analysis & Reliability Eval

Personal Injury Verdicts & Settlements on CDROM

Softdesk 7 Release of Details for AutoCAD

New S-MOS Semicustom Function Blocks & Libs

MicroSim Schematics for Windows Announced

Official GPO U.S. Code on CD from CD Book Pub.

MicroSim Enters PCB Design Software Market

New NASA Programs from COSMIC, Univ GA

PCB Design Conference March 20-24, Santa Clara


Personal & Educational Software
Personal & Educational Software News:

Warren Miller's Ski World CD-ROM

Delrina Echo Lake Captures Life Stories

Teach Your Children - Makes Math & Reading Fun

TipTap Lite Adds Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Storybook Maker Graphics CD-ROM Tool

Graphix Zone & Sony Music Extend Relationship

Two New Substance Abuse Education Releases

The Adventures of Hyperman - Cool Science CDROM

SilverPlatter to Publish CQ Researcher on CD

New Interactive Titles from Philips Media

Comfy Bridges Gap Between Toys & Computers

Earth Explorer Multimedia Encyc of the Env.

Hoops/2 College Basketball Pool Manager

Satellite Technology Gives Realism to 3D Atlas

3D Atlas Wins Top European Multimedia Awards


Games & Entertainment Software
Games & Entertainment Software News:

EA Completes Acquisition of Bullfrog

EA Takes Equity Stake in Visual Concepts

Tony La Russa Baseball 3 CD-ROM Game

Realms of Arkania Star Trail Best of 1994

Crossword & Word Search Puzzles

Around the World - Global Geography Game

Shipyards - Design Your Own GalCiv Star Ships

Union Logic Swr - Vinyl Goddess From Mars

Misc Video Game Software Tid-Bits

Desert Strike - Return to the Gulf for GameBoy

British Advertising Group Regulates Video Games

Sega Moves 32-bit Machine Production From Japan

Warner Music Group Invests In Accolade

Activision Japanese Games via Bandai Visual

GTE & Nintendo Video Game Joint Venture

Activision & Sony Team up in European Deal

Interplay 1995 Game Lineup

Computer Word SEarch V4.0 for Windows

Hang Man V2.0 Classic Word Game for Windows


System Software & Utilities
System Software & Utilities News:

CD Essentials Windows Utility Makes CDs Easier

Dell Enhances Server Management Application

FILECAT Windows File Organizer

Working Watermarker for Windows Print Utility

Over 60 New Product Announcements at SD'95

Qualit Defect Manager 1.0 for Windows

STAR 1.0 Windows Based Swr Test & Reporting Sys

Windows Software Tracks Online Activity

Softdesk S7 Imaging Product Family Enhancements

NetCensus V2.5 Hwr/Swr Inventory Solution

Results Marketing & Chili Pepper Swr Marketing

Graham Utilities for OS/2

Taskbar for OS/2 V2.0 For Rapid Task Switching

FrontDoor APX French Version Email System

VB Project Analyzer V1.0 Now Available Free

DAL Server for UNIX V1.5 Features DB2 Access

RexxBase V1.36 Update Released

Sparta Mac Like Pgm/File Mgr Replacement

New Frontiers Screen Savers on CD-ROM

Subtleware for C++ Database Mgmt Class Library

Andyne Computing & Arbor Software Partnership

SCO Integrates Windows Clients w/UNIX Servers

RoboHELP WinHelp Video Kit Sets New Standard

CANZ VBX Routines for Smalltalk-like Collections

Playground 1.0 Object Modeling Tool

New Menus for Windows V1.43

ZIP! Office Server for Lotus Organizer & Notes

QuickSearch CD-ROM Publishing & Archiving Swr

Attachmate Remote LAN Node (RLN)

Attachmate No Compromises Integrated Solutions

Attachmate Profs & OfficeVision Connectivity

MailBot - Microsoft Mail Personal Agent

Announcing Freeman Installer V2.0

Online/Scanned Signatures Verification Engine

BoundsChecker for Windows NT Upgrade (V1.5)

Bounds-Checker for Windows V2.5 Announced

Rockwell Deploys FastLink Paterners Program

VBXpert Rule-Based Expert System Dev. VBX

Advanced Media to Manage IBM Ultimedia Tools

ZipMe V1.21 Multi-Threaded OS/2 PM Zip Shell

ILOG DB LINK C++ Library for Database Interfacs

AceLaunch V1.05 Win Task Switcher/App Launcher

netWORX Companion 1.0 Network Monitoring Tool

nu/TPU V4.1 Multi-Platform Text Editor

Artisoft CorStream Server Add-On License Pckg

Oxford & Cambridge Compilers Algol 68 for OS/2

OS/2 WARP With Windows App Support Built-In

FreeMail Communicates Across Platforms

WinCat/PRO 4.1 Disk & CDROM Catalog for Windows

AM:PM LAN Distributed Resource Mgmt System

Microsoft Windows NT Resource Kit

WATCOM C/C++ 10.0 Technical Excellence Award

WATCOM C/C++ 10.0 Byte Magazine Award of Merit

Sybase Enterprise SQL Server Mgr Supports SNMP

RimStar Programmer's Editor for OS2/Win/WinNT

Bristol Tech. Wind/U 2.1 With Added Support

Crosstalk Wins Top Honors in Magazine Awards

Attachmate EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 Ships

IBM Comm Swr & OS/2 Warp Offer Winning Combo

NeXT & Insignia Sign Collaboration Agreement

IBM Releases PC DOS 7 with Integrated Stacker

WinMaker Pro 6.0 Makes C++ Easy As Visual Basic

HP Upgrades Colorado Backup for Windows


Macintosh Specific Software
Macintosh Specific Software News:

Apple Ships New MPW Pro & ETO to Mac Developers

Apple Announces QuickTime Conferencing

PacerShare & PacerPrint File/Print Server Swr

UPCTools V3.0 Macintosh Bar Code Font Tools

Trillium Remus 1.3 RAID Disk Array Software


Miscellaneous Software
Miscellaneous Software News:

Galacticomm Launches Internet Connectivity Opt.

Great Quotations Library CD (75,000 Quotations)

Galacticomm Shipping The Major BBS for UNIX

SilverPlatter & UMI Publishing Agreement

WC-Charge V4.03 for Wildcat BBS Adds Banking

SilverPlatter to Publish The CQ Researcher CD

F&S Index Plus Text & Health Reference Center

SilverPlatter & UMI Publishing Agreement

Blueridge Ports Optix Server to Sun SPARC

MCI Selects NextStep for Friends & Family Pgm

Process Software Web Server for Windows NT

CoSession PC2X for Remote PC Control

SlipStream Jet 1.0 Downloads USENET Newsgroups

Online Time V1.0 Tracks Online Service Usage

SilverPlatter Releases Biography Index

Biography Index from H.W. Wilson Co.


System Hardware
System Hardware News:

Compaq Increases LTE Elite Value/Functionality

Micro Express Intros 100MHz DX4 VL-Bus System

New Dell Latitude Notebook & Price Cuts

Integraph Offers Free AutoCAD Upgrade

Intergraph Intros Faster Workstations at Lower$

IBM ThinkPad AC Adapter Recall (Model AA19210)

IBM ThinkPad EasyServ Overnight Repair Option

Compaq Broadens Notebook Mfg With Inventec

Data General DataGenie Handheld Computer

ISO Adopts Fujitsu Mobile Computers

Compaq Raises Standard for Mainstream Servers

SCO & Unisys Cooperative Sales & Marketing

Windows 95 to be Promoted on Compaq PCs

Micro Express Enters 75MHz Pentium Market

DisplayPac DScan Flat Panel Industrial System

Dell Enhances Poweredge Server Performance

IBM Reduces Prices of Leading ThinkPad Models

DEC XL Server 590DP Dual Processor Upgrade

New Entry-Level DEC Alpha Workstation

AlphaServer Large System Features at Low Price

Apple, IBM & Motorola PowerPC Park at CeBIT'95

Digital Equipment Corp Background Info, Feb'95


Expansion Hardware
Expansion Hardware News:

EtherWave ISA 10Base-T Card Now $139

Sigma Unveils MPEG Authoring Solution Under $4K

HP Intros 100VG PCI Lan Adapter

High-Speed Networking with Adaptec ATM Products

DeviceNet Developer's Toolkit for DeviceNet


Peripheral Hardware
Peripheral Hardware News:

TruScan CS400 Large Document Color Scanner

DEC Unveils New StorageWorks Disk Drives

Colorado Jumbo 1400 1.4GB Minicartridge Tape

Delrina WinFax Scanner from Delrina & Fujitsu

Vidar VXR-8 8-bit Film Digitizer

New TrackMan Vista Desktop Pointing Device

Docking Station for Percon PT 2000

3D-MAX Low Cost, High Quality Shutter-Glasses

Breakthrough in Hard Drive Capabilities

Telebit Introduces Two V.34 Modems

QMS Accelerating Network Print System Dev.

IBM Supports Serial Storage Architecture

DEC Expands StorageWorks Tape Subsystem Line

Xante Laser Printer With Postscript for Japan

MediaLogic ADL Signs UNIX HSM Swr Deal


Macintosh Specific Hardware
Macintosh Specific Hardware News:

Apple Unveils 3D Technology for Power Macintosh

Cisco Systems Licensing Apple Multimedia Tech.

Apple & FujiFilm Developing FireWire Chip Set

FWB Chosen for America's Cup Louis Vitton Dbase

Pioneer To License Apple Mac OS for Computers

FWB Lowers Prices on Mac Storage Solutions


Miscellaneous Hardware
Miscellaneous Hardware News:

EtherHub 1500 Offers Intelligent Workgroup Mgmt

Digital NetRider Remote Access System Unveiled

ODS Intros Token Ring Cluster Controller Module

ACSYS Signs Powerhouse Integrators

Racal-Datacom Internext Hubs Offer Filtering

Telebit Expands Worldwide ISDN Product Offering

Telebit InternetBlazer Internet Router

DECNIS Virtual Router Cluster Capability

Telebit NetBlazer Routers via Distributors

Racal PremNet Helps Public Power Company Comm.


Books & Publications
Books & Publications:

Ent. Comm. Looks at Versit vs Microsoft/Intel

Desktop Musician: Creating Music

Internet Insider

That's Edutainment! Parents Guide to Educ Swr

The Power Mac Book! Wired for the Internet

POSIX.4 Programming for the Real World

V Series Recommendations, Stds for Data Comm

A+ Certification Success Guide for Technicians

CA-Clipper Developer's Library

Step Into Virtual Reality

Troubleshooting & Repairing Computer Monitors

X Series Recommendations, Stds for Data Comm

Ergonomic PC, Creating Healthy Computing Envir

Training for WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows

Ventana Updates AutoCAD Tutorials

Advanced Windows Developer's Guide to Win32 API

Developing Applications With Microsoft Office

Working Programmer's Guide to Serial Protocols

The Instant Marketing Plan

Performance Plus OS/2 Tuning & Utility Kit


Miscellaneous News
Miscellaneous News:

Apple Addresses Japan Earthquake Relief

eWorld Hosts Court TV On-Line & Simpson Trial

Musi-Cal Internet Music Events Calendar

Pro CD & OCLC Online Telephone Directory Deal

Houghton Mifflin/GNN K-12 Education Center

New Foundation Center Info Service on WWW

Breadth of Japan's Interactive Technology Trial

Online Electronic Banking for BBS's

Apple Direct Marketing at High Tech Direct 200

Stereographics 3D CrystalEyes at Movie Theaters

Sybase First Swr Vendor to Achieve ISO 9000

World-Wide Credit Reports Come To The Internet

Delphi Internet Tech Agreement With NetScape

Silicon Graphics & 3D Swr Innovators Merger

Sybase Forms New Product Division

DEC & OptImage Offer Interactive TV App Dev Sys

Sybase Announces World Wide Web Home Page

Sybase Grants Major Swr Donation to UC Berkeley

Racal-Datacom & MCI Improve Network Cost Saving

Hollywood As World's 3D Entertainment Capital

Dell CEO Sees Continued Computer Ind. Growth

Canadian Museum of Civilization WWW Site

How To Submit Press Releases For Distribution

23,000 Titles Added to TitleNet on Internet

Attachmate Completes Merger With DCA

Apple Hails FCC Data-PCS Frequency Allocation

Diamond Multimedia Relocates Headquarters

NeXT Sponsors NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days

New NeXT Computer World Wide Web Site

Sybase & Powersoft Merger Completed

Flat Panel Display Investment Conference 3/1/95

Potential Renewed Michelangelo Virus Threat

Media Vision Emerges from Bankruptcy

Apple Developers Get Increased Online Access

DEC to Provide Media Server Technology

MultiMedia WWW PC V2.0 Upgrade

Growing Use of Internet Email Addresses

Keynote Speaker for Embedded Systems Conf. East

1995 IBM Technical Interchange May 21-25

Farallon Joins Fast Ethernet Alliance

No Canadian License for Video Games on Cable

Slammer Whammers Online Network (BBS)

Pro CD Launches World Wide Web Site

eWorld Expands Personal Finance Offering

IBM System for NASA Data Over Internet

IBM Equips G7 Press Centre

IBM Sponsors Free G7 Live Magazine

XSoft Establishese Operations in Japan

StereoGraphics Announces Web Page

OS/2 Warp Sponsors Grammy Cybercast on Internet

Major Delphi Internet Services Corp. Reorg.


CD Essentials Windows Utility Makes CDs Easier
PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES RELEASES NEW VERSION OF CD ESSENTIALS

The Windows Utility That Makes Using CD ROM Drives Fast, Easy and Automatic

Chicago, IL., February 1, 1995 -- The Consumer Products Division of Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:PTEC), the world's leading supplier of system-level firmware, announced today the release of Version 2.0 of CD ESSENTIALS, its Windows software utility designed to give PC users an easier way to automatically access and manage their CD ROM drive and discs.

"Using CDs is much different than hard disk-based software -- and can be very confusing for the user," explains Consumer Products Division General Manager, Victor H. Schiller. "Using CDs in a PC is non-intuitive. A disc is inserted in the drive and nothing happens. Since most users' only experience with CDs is with their audio players, it's often a frustrating experience.

"With CD ESSENTIALS the process of installing and using CDs is fast and automatic. The program learns how you use your CDs and automates all the steps needed to access, play, and manage them.

"For example, the program senses when you insert a disc in the drive and automatically provides you with step-by-step prompts on what to do next. In fact, CD ESSENTIALS makes using CDs so easy, even children can effortlessly launch their favorite titles."

CD ESSENTIALS VERSION 2.0 AVAILABLE ON CD

Previously available only in 3.5" disk format, Version 2.0 is now available on CD. "Producing the program on CD not only adds convenience for CD ROM users, but also allows us to more effectively merchandise the product with other CD ROM titles," explains Schiller.

CD ESSENTIALS VERSION 2.0 INCLUDES THE FULL VERSION OF THE POPULAR WINDELETE PROGRAM

Now included with CD ESSENTIALS is the full version of WinDelete from International Microcomputer Software, Inc. A $40 value for users, WinDelete is the popular utility that allows users to safely install and uninstall Windows-based applications. Rated the easiest to use in its category by CD ROM Today, WinDelete effortlessly frees up hard disk space, improving Windows' speed and efficiency.

"WinDelete represents great additional value for CD ROM users. WinDelete monitors applications as they are installed, and thoroughly removes then when their time is done. If you use many different programs -and especially if you run software from CD ROM -- you know how difficult it is to remove all the program and support files these applications create. WinDelete offers a safe, fast alternative for uninstalling files -especially for non-techies."

CD ESSENTIALS, Version 2.0, includes a many other program enhancements, including:

- Full version of WinDelete as detailed above.

- An enhanced, more intuitive interface, providing even faster,

  easier access to CD ROMs.

- Options for quickly launching a program or media player are

  presented up-front for more experienced users. Step-by-step

  installation procedures for novices are only a click away.

- Oops Control makes it easy to undo installation steps.

- Bubble Help enables users to quickly navigate the program's

  feature rich control panel interface.

- Expanded Context-Sensitive Help

- Sound Effects empower users to customize CD ESSENTIALS buttons.

  Up to 39 different sound events are supported.

- Eject QuickKeys enable users to quickly eject, remove and insert

  CDs -- right from the keyboard -- without touching the drive door.

CD ESSENTIALS loads automatically from the Start-Up Group under Windows. When minimized, the program remains a small, desktop icon until the user double clicks or places a CD in the drive. The program requires a multimedia PC with a 386SX or higher microprocessor, Microsoft Windows 3.1 or 3.11. Phoenix registered users can receive a CD ESSENTIALS upgrade for $19.95, plus $7.50 for postage and handling, by calling Phoenix Technologies' End User Services Department at 800-452-0120. CD ESSENTIALS is available at all key resellers with a $39.95 street price.

About Phoenix Technologies

Phoenix Technologies Ltd. is the leading supplier of system-level software to PC manufacturers worldwide, and an emerging supplier of Phoenix-brand software to PC users. The Company's system-level software products, such as PhoenixBIOS, power management, PCMCIA, and Plug and Play technology, allow PC manufacturers to increase product differentiation, reduce product cycle time to market, as well as cut internal engineering costs. Capitalizing on its unique industry position and resources, Phoenix is developing an expanding family of software products for end users that will increase personal computer functionality, extend battery life, and make PCs easier to use.

Phoenix Technologies Ltd, Eclipse Division

Three First National Plaza, Suite 1616

Chicago, IL 60602

312-541-0260,  fax 312-541-0514


Resolution 1.0 Windows Based Help Desk Mgmt Sys
February 1995 - Chicago, IL. -- Hunter Development, Inc. will be releasing its new Windows-based help desk management system, Resolution 1.0, at the Support Services Expo '95 trade show in San Francisco, CA. March 5-8, 1995.

Resolution will provide two unique features not currently available from other PC help desk vendors:

* A smart scheduling feature that employs a genetic algorithm to

  constantly generate or "evolve" efficient schedules for any number

  of technicians/specialists for use in responding to help desk calls.

  This algorithm utilizes traditional sets of criteria ranging from

  skill sets to availability of the support staff. However, it also

  integrates such processes of evolution as crossover and mutation to

  rapidly generate near optimal schedules in a fraction of the time

  required by traditional methods.

* An optional floor layout module that provides an organization with

  an overhead view of its premises. Hot areas can be defined for any

  sized location, allowing a technician to click any area on a floor

  plan to retrieve everything from inventory to cabling information.

Other features include full call tracking capabilities, asset management, purchasing and inventory modules, cable/wiring management, full featured reporting, e-mail integration, and end-user customization.

Recognizing the fact that many companies will need to run client software on a variety of hardware platforms, Resolution ships with a full featured client and a "lite" version optimized for slower workstations.

Prices start at $995 per concurrent user.

Hunter Development, Inc. can be reached at (800) 435-5954.

Voice: (708) 437-2717 Fax: (708) 437-2683


Apple Addresses Japan Earthquake Relief
Apple Addresses Japan Earthquake Relief with Donation Drive

CUPERTINO, California--February 1, 1995--Continuing a long-standing tradition of providing assistance to international relief efforts, Apple Computer Inc. last week announced a donation drive that will match employee-donated funds dollar for dollar. Under this program, Apple will donate up to $100,000 to the American Red Cross/Japan Earthquake Relief Efforts. These funds will supplement a $300,000 donation by Apple Japan, the company's Japanese subsidiary, in support of recovery activities in Kobe.

"Historically, Apple employees have been very generous with disaster relief efforts around the world," said Fred Silverman, Manager of Worldwide Community Affairs. "Employees have spontaneously responded to assistance activities including famine relief efforts in Africa as well as earthquake recovery programs in Mexico City and the San Francisco Bay Area."

Every dollar contributed under this program, both employee donations and Apple's contribution, will go directly toward meeting emergency needs. The American Red Cross will then transfer the contribution to the Japan Red Cross for its in-country relief efforts, where the funds will be used to provide those affected by the earthquake with necessities including shelter, food, water and medical care.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the information industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy-to-use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, online services, and personal digital assistants. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) develops, manufactures, licenses and markets products, technologies and services for the business, education, consumer, scientific & engineering and government markets in over 140 countries.

Apple Computer Inc

20525 Mariana Ave

Cupertino, CA 95014

408-996-1010


Apple Ships New MPW Pro & ETO to Mac Developers
Apple Ships New Release of MPW Pro and E.T.O. to Macintosh Developers

Developers Benefit from Availability of Important New and Enhanced Software Tools and Runtime Software

Cupertino, California--February 1, 1995--Apple's commitment to providing key Macintosh development tools for improving programmer productivity and facilitating the creation of high performance applications was reinforced today by the shipment of the most recent releases (Release 16) of the company's MPW Pro and E.T.O.: Essentials*Tools*Objects products to developers.

Major new software releases included in Release 16 of both MPW Pro and E.T.O. are:

-- The first beta release of MrC and MrCpp, new C and C++ compilers for developing native Power Macintosh applications. These compilers operate up to four times as quickly as the native version of PPCC, Apple's first C/C++ compiler for Power Macintosh, and still produce the same high-performance code that is competitive with the best compilers available today for the PowerPC processor family.

-- An alpha release of the PPCLink, the MPW-based linker for development of native Power Macintosh applications. This version is a native tool and is considerably faster than before; in addition, it is now able to generate executable applications directly, saving a lengthy conversion step that was necessary previously.

-- Version 1.1 (final) of PPCAsm, the PowerPC assembler. This assembler now supports symbolic debugging.

-- A beta release of MPW p2c, an Object Pascal to C/C++ source code translation system. This handy tool facilitates the translation of procedural or object-oriented Pascal code into C and C++ code.

-- Version 3.1.2 (final) of MacApp, the leading Macintosh application framework for creating 680x0-based Macintosh applications and native Power Macintosh applications. Also included is an early, pre-release of MacApp 3.5 which adds support for AppleScript, PowerTalk mailers, and Macintosh Drag and Drop.

-- Version 2.0.1 (final) of Ad Lib, a powerful user-interface editing tool for building views for the MacApp 3.x application framework. Ad Lib replaces the ViewEdit application which was formerly provided with MacApp.

-- An alpha release of the Code Fragment Manager (CFM) runtime software for 680x0-based Macintosh systems. CFM-68K supports the development of shared libraries and drop-in code modules for 680x0-based applications using programming techniques similar to those used today for development of native Power Macintosh applications. Pre-release versions of MPW compilers, linkers, and debuggers that support the CFM-68K runtime are also included.

-- An alpha release of the System Object Model (SOM) runtime software. SOM is an object-oriented programming technology for building, packaging, and manipulating binary class libraries. SOM is an ideal choice for developing an object-oriented programming interface to a shared library since it enables binary compatibility between releases.

"Apple remains committed to improving the quality of its core development tools, particularly in the areas of runtime performance and programmer productivity," said Pat Harding, Apple's senior manager of Developer Tools Product Marketing. "The much faster compilation times delivered by the MrC/MrCpp compilers are important steps in this direction. And the availability of CFM-68K/SOM runtime software means programmers can now focus on a single shared library model for all Macintosh systems, thus simplifying their development efforts."

Price and Availability

MPW Pro, priced at U.S. $495, is provided on a CD-ROM and comes with a development environment, compilers (C, C++, Assembler), debuggers, and testing tools for development of 680x0- and PowerPC-based Macintosh systems. It also includes three introductory tutorial manuals and complete electronic documentation. Updates from previous versions of MPW Pro are U.S. $195. Upgrades from older MPW-based products (MPW Development System, MPW Development Environment, or Macintosh on RISC SDK) are U.S. $295.

E.T.O., priced at U.S. $1,095, is sold as a 3-issue-per-year CD- ROM-based subscription. Subscription renewals are U.S. $400 per year. E.T.O. includes all the MPW Pro software as well as Symantec C++ for Macintosh from Symantec Corporation, an electronic version of the Inside Macintosh programming reference, and a complete suite of 25 printed reference manuals.

Both MPW Pro and E.T.O. are available immediately through APDA, Apple's source for development tools and related programming products. APDA publishes the APDA Tools Catalog which describes hundreds of Apple and third-party products. Developers should contact APDA using the following address or phone numbers.

APDA

Apple Computer, Inc.

P.O. Box 319

Buffalo, NY 14207-0319

800-282-2732 (U.S.A.)

800-637-0029 (Canada)

716-871-6555 (International)

716-871-6511 (Fax)

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the information industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy-to- use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, online services, and personal digital assistants. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) develops, manufactures, licenses and markets products, technologies and services for the business, education, consumer, scientific & engineering and government markets in over 140 countries.


Check+ Financial Software for Home & Office
Computer Interface Ships Check+ Financial Software for the Home and Office

Natick, MA. -- Computer Interface Corporation announces the release of version 1.1 of its Check+ Financial Software. Check+ is a fully graphical OS/2 application that provides powerful financial management for the home and office.

Users may set up an unlimited number of accounts with Check+, including bank accounts, credit card accounts, and cash accounts. In just a few steps, users can enter and print checks, and record deposits, withdrawals, interest, charges, etc. Check+ allows complete flexibility in allocating these transactions to expense and income categories. Based on these allocations, Check+ provides budgeting information, analyses of income and expenses, and reports for tax preparation and accounting. Balancing statements is a simple task in Check+; from one screen users indicate cleared checks and deposits, processed charges, interest, and fees.

Check+ includes a Payment Prompter for those checks and deposits that are entered on a regular basis. Users can pay recurring checks without having to re-enter any information. The Payment Prompter also serves as a reminder of due dates for bills. Other features include minimum balance tracking to provide a warning if the balance in an account is too low, mailed balance tracking for unmailed and post-dated checks, and complete on-line help. Check+ can import data from and export data to Intuit's Quicken.

Computer Interface Corp. specializes in developing OS/2 software for both the home and office. For more information on Check+ or our other OS/2 products, please call (508) 651-8111.

COMPUTER INTERFACE CORPORATION

5 Whittier Road

Natick, MA 01760

508-651-8111, Fax: 508-651-8112


Compaq Increases LTE Elite Value/Functionality
COMPAQ INCREASES VALUE, FUNCTIONALITY AND FLEXIBILITY OF LTE ELITE WITH SMARTSTATION PROMOTION -- BUNDLE OFFERS $700 VALUE WITH SELECT MODELS

HOUSTON, January 31, 1995 -- Delivering on its commitment to provide higher value and flexibility to its customers, Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ) today announced a new three-month value promotion that includes the bundling of the innovative Compaq SmartStation desktop expansion unit with either of two models of its award-winning LTE Elite notebook PC family representing a $700 value.

An expansion option for these two powerful notebooks, the SmartStation will now be offered free-of-charge with the LTE Elite 4/50CX and 4/75CX so customers can easily convert their notebook computers into network-ready desktop units and gain instant access to external peripherals such as a pointing device, keyboard and monitor. The three-month promotion begins February 1 and continues through April 30.

"Compaq continues to look for ways to increase the value of our products for our customers," said Ross Cooley, senior vice president for Compaq North America. "With this announcement, we're providing mobile professionals with an exceptional value package in our high quality, high performance notebook family."

The LTE Elite family has won numerous awards, including PC World's 1994 "Best Buy" award for power notebooks and PC Laptop's 1994/95 Editor's Choice Award for World Class Technology.

The Compaq LTE Elite offers versatility in the choice of features, options and portability for today's power notebook users, both on the road and in the office. It features the industry's first built-in AC adapter in a full function notebook, thus eliminating the cumbersome AC adapter brick and cables formerly necessary for mobile users, without adding additional weight to the notebook. At 6.8 pounds, the Compaq LTE Elite provides customers with the lowest total carrying weight of any full function notebook computer.

The Compaq SmartStation delivers the ultimate Plug and Play convenience for hassle-free computing. In the office, the Compaq SmartStation's Plug and Play functionality lets users dock their notebooks even while turned on, and its VCR-style motorized latching mechanism assures secure docking. Should the user try to undock the notebook while applications are open, sensors send an alert to prevent data loss.

The Compaq SmartStation gives customers full function desktop capability, including built-in Ethernet and SCSI connections, two full-sized ISA slots, two half-height drive bays, 1024x768 video connects and a built-in spare battery charger compartment -- all in one unit.

Corporate Background

Compaq Computer Corporation is a world leader in the manufacture of desktop and notebook personal computers, and servers. Founded in 1982, the company reported 1994 worldwide sales of $10.9 billion. Compaq products are sold and supported in more than 100 countries through a network of more than 38,000 Compaq marketing partners. Compaq also sells directly to customers through Compaq Direct Plus at 1-800-888-5858.


eWorld Hosts Court TV On-Line & Simpson Trial
eWorld Hosts Court TV On-line with Detailed Coverage of Simpson Murder Trial

Online shopping options expanded with Online Bookstore and Gourmet a la ModeM; more fast modem connections available

CUPERTINO, California--February 2, 1995--Apple Computer, Inc. today announced that Court TV's Law Center--the on-line equivalent of the popular cable legal news network--has joined eWorld, the company's on-line service. The on-line law center currently features a special area dedicated to coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder trial, with up-to-the-minute analysis of the latest developments, daily transcripts of the proceedings, and all the key rulings. Additionally, Apple announced that it has broadened its online shopping offerings with the addition of On-line Bookstore and Gourmet a la ModeM. Separately, the company announced that more than 250 U.S. cities now have 14.4 mps modem access to eWorld. This extremely fast modem access is available at no additional cost to eWorld users, and represents a notable cost- saving opportunity for users who need to download large files or are heavy electronic mail users.

The Court TV Law Center offers a comprehensive sweep of information that's relevant to people interested in legal issues-- from laypeople involved in legal proceedings to law students and scholars. In addition to program guides, court documents, and transcripts of legal proceedings, the Law Center features practical tips on the law, listings of legal resources, legal games and discussion groups about the law. Not surprisingly, some of the most popular discussions take place in the O.J. Simpson trial area--with members voicing opinions ranging from who did a better job during the opening statements to what is in "the mystery envelope."

The addition of two new shopping areas make eWorld a more attractive offering to people who like the convenience of on-line shopping. eWorld is finding that online shopping is an especially compelling shopping alternative for busy parents, disabled people, rural residents, and people who dislike the hassle of going to the mall or market. Specifically, Online Bookstore offers thousands of general interest and computer books, audio tapes and multimedia titles at discount prices.

Operated by READ USA Mail Order, Inc. of New York, the Online Bookstore gives eWorld subscribers the opportunity to also talk online with authors, participate in conferences, and browse through thousands of title descriptions.

Gourmet a la ModeM lets people order gifts and delicacies online, including caviar, cheese, coffee, condiments, cookies, lobster, oils, pasta, sausage and tea from around the world. The service provides special seasonal recipes and cooking discussions as well. Herb and Sarah Miller, gourmet cooks and purveyors to the online world, are the creators of this very unique on-line food bazaar and market.

eWorld is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, global family of on-line services from Apple Computer, Inc., which include eWorld for Macintosh and NewtonMail--eWorld's messaging service for Newton personal digital assistants. Included on most Apple Macintosh computers, the software is also available free to all U.S. Macintosh users by calling 1-800-775-4556. A windows-based version of eWorld is expected to be available in 1995.

Apple Computer, Inc., an information industry innovator, creates powerful solutions based on easy to use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, on-line services and personal digital assistants. Based in Cupertino, CA., Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) develops, manufacturers, licenses and markets products, technologies and services for the business, education, consumer, scientific, engineering and government markets in more than 140 countries.


DELL ENHANCES SERVER MANAGEMENT APPLICATION

New suite offers comprehensive LAN server management

AUSTIN, Texas, January 31, 1995 -- Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL) today announced the immediate availability of the Dell Server Management package, providing customers with comprehensive server and network management capabilities. The Dell Server Management package allows network administrators to keep track of the major components of the network, such as the server and the PCs on the network, and to "look inside" the network to identify potential problems and correct them before they occur. If a problem does occur, the advanced technology features of the package not only send out an alert, but also allow the administrator to remotely connect to the network to correct the problem.

The Dell offering integrates Dell SafeSite server management software with the just announced Intel LANDesk Management Suite v. 2.0. for use with the Dell PowerEdge line of multiprocessing servers. The new package is the result of a cooperative engineering agreement between Dell and Intel to provide network administrators with unparalleled control and management of PC networks.

"We evaluated a number of local area network (LAN) management suites and chose Intel's LANDesk Management Suite as the best product to be integrated with our SafeSite server management product," said Mark Garver, vice president of Dell's advanced systems group. "Intel and Dell together engineered these products to provide our customers with a comprehensive server management package including a superior alert management system and the ability to manage both the network server as well as the other nodes connected to the network. These features provide customers with management tools that are well beyond the norm among leading PC server providers."

"In teaming with Dell our goal was to provide a PC network management solution that would meet our customer's network management needs," said Mike Maerz, vice president, Intel Products Group, general manager, Intel's Network Products Division. "The end result offers the best combination of the core capabilities of Dell and Intel."

DELL SERVER MANAGEMENT

The Dell Server Management package includes Dell SafeSite, a Dell engineered, Windows-based server management tool designed to "snap into" Intel's LANDesk Management Suite -- a network management software suite which helps network administrators more efficiently manage and control all the systems and components on the local network. Features include:

Dell PowerEdge monitoring and alerting to provide the network administrator with server management capabilities including:

A drive array performance monitor to give the network administrator the status and performance of the Dell SCSI Array (DSA) subsystem, the hard drives attached to the DSA controller.

A temperature monitor. Through the use of component-specific thermal probes, the network administrator has the ability to monitor thermal integrity within the server, preventing downtime due to potential overheating.

A power supply monitor. Individual power circuits are monitored so that the administrator is able to take corrective action should power integrity be threatened.

A server status to provide the network administrator with a management tool that tracks and graphs more than one hundred server parameters including: CPU utilization, memory utilization, cache buffers used, NIC status, and drive status, with the ability to graph and alert the network manager to threshold overruns.

A performance monitor to provide the network administrator with customized monitoring and analysis of application server usage and performance.

A traffic monitor to enable the network administrator to view, analyze and compare traffic on the entire network or on individually-specified servers, assisting in the task of load balancing traffic on the LAN.

An alert management system which allows the network administrator to define alert conditions which when triggered will evoke a robust response of pre-programmed alerting options including on-screen alerting, fax alerting, paging alert, paging alerts to more than one location, and the ability to execute applications at the time of an alert.

A desktop manager feature gives the network administrator complete control of any server console on the network with a remote control capability from any node on the network. The desktop manager feature also provides a comprehensive report on a server's assets for better inventory and configuration management.

A mobile network administration feature which gives the network administration staff the ability to login from any available desktop on the LAN, anywhere, anytime, optimizing the mobility of the technician.

Dell Server Management provides a powerful means of proactively managing not just the server, but all the local network assets using a single powerful suite of management tools.

"Running networked mission critical applications without the management of all the server and network attributes is risky," said John Dunkle, president of Workgroup Technologies, a New Hampshire-based industry research firm. "What Dell is offering in their alliance with Intel is an expansion in server and network management capabilities and a strategic advantage for those customers who choose Dell as their server platform for running LAN-based high availability applications. Through this alliance Dell and Intel lead the industry in providing a level of network management tuning and server management by which the competition should be measured. We don't think there are any competitors offering this feature set who will be able to measure up."

Available immediately from Dell, Dell Server Management is offered starting at $499 (U.S. suggested list) and will run on all existing Dell PowerEdge servers running Novell Netware.

A Fortune Global 500 company, Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL) designs, develops, manufactures, markets, services and supports a complete line of personal computers compatible with industry standards. Dell is the world's leading direct marketer of personal computers and one of the top five personal computer vendors in the world with annual revenues of nearly $3 billion. Information on the company and its products can be obtained through its toll-free number, 1-800-BUY-DELL (1-800-289-3355) or by accessing the Dell Worldwide Web server, at http://www.us.dell.com/.


Ent. Comm. Looks at Versit vs Microsoft/Intel
Enterprise Communications Looks at the Struggle to Create Interoperability Between Communications and Computing Systems

The Versit Group Takes on Microsoft and Intel in a Battle Over Standards

January 26, 1995- Santa Ana, CA-In its March issue, Enterprise Communications magazine takes on an explosive topic-the clash between Versit (industry leaders from AT&T, IBM, Novell, Apple and Siemens Rolm Communications ), and Microsoft/Intel over application standards in computer-telephone integration (CTI), device connectivity, personal data interchange (PDI) and conferencing and messaging. While there is a clear need for standardization in all four areas, EC notes it is obvious that the immediate battle is market-related, and raging on the CTI front.

The monthly publication, which focuses on business communications technologies, looks at how Versit is on the offensive with an attack on the growing Microsoft/Intel CTI market. It outlines how, by setting itself up to develop standard specifications, Versit has created a platform struggle between desktop and server-centric CTI. The author cites industry analysts who say Versit has a strong chance of succeeding if the group can meld disparate technologies effectively and ship them out quickly enough. Versit can also gain the advantage while Microsoft/Intel overcomes a cultural barrier-getting people used to the idea that they can use their PC for CTI.

 Microsoft scoffs at Versit's attempt to set standards as an example of "old mainframe thinking".

The article points out that although Versit has chosen to tackle a wide spectrum of technologies, they don't intend to reinvent the wheel with some of the specifications. And, they'll be satisfied, if 50% of their goals are accomplished. Finally, the author concludes that while in the short-term there may be a winner and a loser in this battle, the need will exist in the future for standard specifications that include, and not exclude, platforms. Down the road, there is probably room for both sides.

Enterprise Communications' sales and editorial offices are located at 201 E. Sandpointe Ave., Santa Ana, California 92707-5761, 714/513-8400. It is part of Advanstar's Business Communications Group which publishes InfoText magazine. The Business Communications Group also includes the following expositions and conferences: UMiiX (Unified Messaging and Interactive Messaging Exchange ), Call Center/CTI, ASAT (Advanced Speech Applications & Technologies) and Voice Mexico/InfoText Mexico-all sponsored by Enterprise Communications magazine.

Enterprise Communications is published by Advanstar Publishing, a division of Advanstar Communications, a global business information company serving more than 50 specialized business and professional markets worldwide. Advanstar's Publishing Division produces nearly 70 magazines, journals and newsletters. Its Exposition Division owns and manages more than 70 expositions and conference events held throughout the world. Its Marketing Services Division provides database, direct marketing and reference products, including direct marketing mailing lists, editorial and advertising reprints and industry directories, books and CD-ROM products.

Enterprise Communications

Advanstar Communications

(714) 513-8466

(714) 513-8406


FILECAT Windows File Organizer
CONNECTICUT DATA SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES PLANS TO RELEASE FILECAT

Rocky Hill, CT, January 15, 1995 - Connecticut Data Systems has announced the upcoming release of its new Windows file organizer, FILECAT, on February 1, 1995. FILECAT is a File Tracking Tool for Individuals and Workgroups which helps PC users to manage and organize files for easy retrieval.

FILECAT allows the user to track 5 pieces of information on each file in a directory: The DOS filename, 3 file characteristics (i.e. contact, company and subject) and a long text description. Using this information, the user can quickly hunt down the files that they need regardless of the file type. Unlike file viewers, FILECAT works equally well for all types of files including: word-processing documents, CAD drawings, Geographic (GIS) Data, spreadsheets, clip-art, sound bytes, database files and program files.

FILECAT is a simple and effective file cataloging system. To locate files using FileCat, the user simply specifies the criteria that files must meet from 1, 2 or 3 of the file characteristic fields and/or using DOS wildcards. FileCat returns a list of all files which meet the selection criteria, and the user can click on individual files to read the long- text description for each. Double-click on the filename to launch the associated application and open the file! FileCat supports full DOS wildcarding, and lets users select search criteria from a pull-down list of current entries in each field.

FILECAT's unique design provides an open solution to the user's need to classify and manage files with flexibility superior to other methods of file management. Unlike file viewers, FILECAT's text-based approach makes it effective with all file types. In contrast to full-blown document management systems, FILECAT is simple to use and inexpensive. Also, because FILECAT does not use a relational database engine, retrieving FILECAT information is FAST! FileCat information is kept in the directory with the files, too, so that this information can be easily shared amongst users and diskettes.

FILECAT is flexible, too. The three attribute fields can be used for different purposes in different directories. For example, in a directory of correspondence with customers, the three file attributes could be company, contact and subject, whereas in a directory of GIS files, the fields could be region, file type and data type. FILECAT works on both stand alone and networked personal computers. It works with floppy disks, too!

CDS also plans to license FILECAT to providers of content and to other software developers to bundle or integrate with their products. These other software products include: clip-art, animations, application developers and database providers. Imagine receiving a CD-ROM of clip art where you can easily identify files, or a disk full of database files clearly labeled as to their content!

FILECAT will be available beginning February 1, 1995 directly from Connecticut Data Systems and through value added resellers with a list price of $49.95. Special dealer and multi-user pricing is also available.

Connecticut Data Systems

1344 Silas Deane Highway

Rocky Hill, CT 06067

203-721-0048, 800-746-7797


Working Watermarker for Windows Print Utility
WORKING SOFTWARE INC SHIPS WORKING WATERMARKER FOR WINDOWS

Printing Utility Puts Text or Graphics on Page "Behind" Printed Documents

SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA -- Working Software, Inc. released the Working Watermarker for Windows background printing utility for Microsoft Windows. The suggested retail price of Working Watermarker for Windows is $49.95

Working Watermarker for Windows enables users to easily print a "watermark" graphic of any darkness and any size onto a page "behind" any document printed, from any application, including applications which do not support graphics. Watermarks can be a company or department logo, stationary letterhead, or text messages such as "Company Confidential", "Draft Copy".

"We know that the ability to print a watermark from any application combined with the ease of choosing between many watermarks at the time you want to print makes this application a winner. You can use the same watermark, with the same appearance on all of your documents no matter from what programs they are printed," said Dave Johnson, President of Working Software.

Working Watermarker for Windows comes with numerous ready-to-use watermarks including "Do Not Copy", "Draft", "Proof", "Copy", "File", "Original" and "Confidential". Users can readily create their own watermarks using existing graphics and by typing text messages. Multiple text and graphi objects can be combined into a single watermark. Text and graphic objects can be rotated to any angle.

Working Watermarker for Windows is an application which runs concurrently with any application that prints documents. Working Watermarker for Windows has a Watermarks menu which lists available watermarks. A watermark that is open in Working Watermarker for Windows will print on any page along with the document printed by the printing application.

Working Watermarker for Windows is useful for legal documents, desktop publishing applications, documentation writers, document security as well as for business and personal correspondence.

Working Watermarker for Windows requires Microsoft Windows version 3.1 or later running with 4 megabytes of RAM.

10-year old Working Software, Inc. also publishes a Macintosh version of Working Watermarker (currently bundled with Apple products, including the Quadra 605). Also for Macintosh are Toner Tuner, Working PrintStamper, Working PrintLogger, Spellswell 7, Lookup, Findswell, QuickLetter and Writeswell Jr; and Last Resort for Macintosh, DOS & Windows.

Working Software Inc

PO Box 1844

Santa Cruz, CA 95061

800-229-9675,  408-423-5696,  fax 408-423-5699

Internet: working@scruznet.com

AOL: WorkingSW

CIS: 76004,2072

AppleLink: D0140


Warren Miller's Ski World CD-ROM
Warren Miller's Ski World:

Multicom Publishing Captures White Powder Skiing Thrills on CD-ROM

SEATTLE (January 20, 1995)-- Skiers thinking about where to take their first turns of the season can now have their own personal expert on hand to create the ultimate ski experience. Warren Miller's Ski World, a new Windows (MPC) and Macintosh format CD-ROM from the lifestyle software experts at Multicom Publishing, is the complete multimedia guide to skiing. With hot action videos from Warren Miller, expert how-to ski instruction, an interactive resort database and ski trivia, everything you've wanted to know about great skiing is at your fingertips.

"I've spent a lifetime capturing the beauty of skiing on film, and I am thrilled to see my work enter the realm of multimedia," said Warren Miller. "To have such a wealth of information about skiing on one CD-ROM is truly a breakthrough."

Users looking for hot skiing action can pop Ski World into their computer for on-the-edge Warren Miller videos. Full interactive control provides the excitement of launching off of huge cliffs and shredding deep powder with the best skiers in the world. High energy music and dynamic video make you feel like you're on the mountain.

Ski World's interactive database of nearly 1,000 resorts and ski areas includes information on lodgings, lifts, services, amenities and more for resorts in North America and Europe. Hundreds of full-color photographs and ski run maps are available for top resorts. Users can zoom in on ski runs for a guided tour of the best slopes around, and can choose between the world's top 50 resorts by entering their level of skiing ability, price range, geography and other preferences, and Ski World creates a customized list of the best resorts for individual needs.

"We have teamed-up with Warren Miller to bring all the excitement of skiing into one CD-ROM," said Tamara L. Attard, Chairman and CEO of Multicom Publishing, Inc. "His amazing film footage, coupled with outstanding photography, an easy-to-use interface and vacation planning power makes Ski World the ultimate skiing experience."

Warren Miller's Ski World is available at major software retail chains at a suggested retail price of $49.95. As with all Multicom products, it comes with customer support seven days a week for today's busy lifestyles.

Founded in 1991, Multicom Publishing, Inc. develops and publishes consumer lifestyle multimedia titles for Windows and Macintosh multimedia computers. Multicom titles are widely available at software and computer stores and other retail outlets. The privately held company is headquartered in Seattle.

Multicom Publishing Inc

1100 Olive Way, Suite 1250

Seattle, WA 98101

206-622-5530,  fax 206-622-4380


Over 60 New Product Announcements at SD'95
OVER 60 NEW PRODUCTS TO BE ANNOUNCED AT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT '95

San Francisco, CA, February 1995 -- Miller Freeman Inc. presents the Software Development '95 Exhibition, February 14-16, 1995 in San Francisco. The Moscone Convention Center will be the site of SD '95 with 250+ exhibitors, 170+ speakers and an anticipated 15,000 attendees. Software developers will find a broad spectrum of development tools and services announced at the show. New products are designed to help software developers get their applications to the user faster, with improved quality, and within budget.

Key tools will be demonstrated in the areas of client/server application development, visual code development, rapid application development, localization support, testing tools and more. The following is a partial listing of the new products and services to be rolled out at the show:

AccuSoft Corporation will showcase AccuSoft Pro Imaging Toolkit, a full featured binary, greyscale, and RGB color image processing and analysis library. It includes over 400 functions for image enhancements, special effects and general image processing. (508-898-2770)

American Cybernetics will present Multi-Edit for Windows, a richly-featured, easy-to-use and completely reconfigurable programmer's editor which allows you to create your own integrated development environment for nearly any compiler, and much more! (602-968-1945)

AP Professional is announcing Secrets of the C++ Masters, by Jeff Alger. This book fills the gap between C++ as described in beginning and intermediate level books, and C++ as it is practiced by experts. (619-699-6745)

Basmark Corp. will demonstrate Visual QuickBASIC (VQB), a VB-libe point-and-click application generation environment, including a powerful graphical GUI design tool, integrated editor, and QuickBASIC language compiler engine and debugger. VQB is 32-bits from the ground up and runs on Windows, NT, UNIX and OS/2.  (216-8771-8855)

Blinkinc is announcing Blinker 3.1, the latest version of Blinkinc's royalty-free DOS extender, Windows linker and DOS dynamic overlay linker, with incremental linking for protected mode CA-Clipper programs.

Blinkinc will also announce NOVLIB 3.0, the latest release of Blinkinc's Novell network library that enables programmers to integrate NetWare into programs without increasing memory overhead or sacrificing program performance, and is now fully compatible with CA-Visual Objects and popular C compilers as well as with Windows enhanced mode and with real and protected mode applications. (804-747-6700)

Borland will be showing highlights of Delphi, a new high performance client/server application development environment. Delphi's unique features include: unlimited scalability between local database tables and external database servers; a visual development environment that facilitiates component-based design and code reuse; and an open architecture that supports easy integration of external products such as CASE tools, VBX components and version control. (408-431-5862)

Blue Sky Software Corp. will demonstrate RoboHELP 3.0, the ultimate Help Authoring Tool for Windows & Windows NT, which turns both Microsoft Word 6.0 & Word 2.0 for Windows into high performance hypertext authoring tools capable of producing Windows Help files as easy as plain text. It now supports all European versions of Microsoft Word 6.0.

Blue Sky Software will also show its WinHelp Video Kit which incorporates all the tools needed for playing video and sound in any Windows Help system.

Blue Sky Software additionally presents WinMaker Pro 6.0, the new version of WindowsMAKER Professional, Prototyper and C/C++ Code Generator for Windows, Win32, & Windows NT that immediately doubles the productivity of C/C++ compilers. (619-459-6365)

Bristol Technology Inc. will announced Wind/U 2.1 that enables developers to port existing Windows applications to UNIX or create new applications for Windows, Windows NT and UNIX environments in an efficient and cost-effective manner. (203-438-6969)

Cadre Technologies Inc. will introduce ObjectTeam/ProDev, a platform-independent suite of tools for testing and debugging large and complex C and C++ software programs. It provides state-of-the-art features to help developers more productively develop, analyze, compile, debug, browse, test and fine-tune the performance of their programs. (401-351-5950)

David Solomon Expert Seminars announces a new suite of seminar titles, personally developed and delivered by well-known Windows industry experts. (603-595-9059)

Dr. Dobb's Journal will introduce Dr. Dobb's/CD Version 2, the second release of Dr. Dobb's Journal on CD-ROM. This newest CD-ROM contains all the regular and special issues published from January 1988 to June 1994 and includes all the sourcecode and articles.

Dr. Dobb's Journal also introduces 386BSD Reference CD-ROM Release 1.0, a fully functional operating system including all the source code based on Berkeley UNIX for the PC.

Dr. Dobb's Journal's Alternative Programming Languages CD-ROM, also being presented, is your resource for the latest in cutting-edge programming environments. (415-655-4190)

EliaShim Microcomputers, Inc. will introduce PC-BASTION, the software only, security solution based upon specially formatted diskettes. Immediate benefits: viruses cannot infect secured PC's; illegal software cannot be brought into the company; data cannot be taken from the company. (813-744-5177)

FairCom Corp. announces the FairCom ODBC driver. Utilize the power and flexibility offered by FairCom's C-tree plus file handler and FairCom Server with your favorite ODBC application. (314-445-6833)

Fawcette Publications will introduce the VB-CD Quarterly, a one-stop source for more Visual Basic information than you'll find anywhere else. Each quarterly volume contains hundreds of megabytes of useful information, code, free software, discounts, tips and tricks for VB, FoxPro, Visual C++ and Access, compiled specially for the professional VB developer. (415-833-7100)

ICE, Inc. will introduce Object Manager++ (OM++), a C++, cross-platform, object-oriented, machine-independent application framework for creating high performance applications for Windows and Macintosh, enabling developers to create graphical, interactive and animated shrink-wrapped productivity or entertinment applications for both platforms simultaneously with a single set of source code. (415-931-9400)

IDG Books will present Unauthorized Windows 95, the first critical and realistic look at how Windows 95 will affect the computer software industry and programmers. Author Andrew Schulman will benefit the press in a Q&A format at SD'95. Topics will include: Who besides Microsoft reaps the benefits of Windows 95? What business opportunities are available to others: What are the connections between Windows 95 and the Justice Department settlement? (617-849-0800)

Imperial Software Technology will announce X-Designer 4, IST's new cross-platform GUI builder that creates powerful interfaces for Motif, Windows, and Macintosh applications without relying on proprietary code. It targets the Microsoft Foundation Class Library, assuring software developers of long-range compatibility with existing as well as upcoming Windows versions. (+44 734 587055)

Intellligent Objects Corporation will present SQL Objects, a C/C++ database access library designed to give developers a common access method to a number of SQL and non-SQL databases. It supports ODBC, IDAPI, an abstract SQL class interface, and direct database driver access. (404-382-6585)

INTERSOLV will present Intersolv Q+E 6.1, the enterprise-wide query and reporting system that gives everyone in your company easy, direct access to enterprise data in over 35 database formats, using a single consistent interface. This upgrade version features ODBC 2.0 drivers and includes five more than the previous version: XL5, Paradox 5, dBase 5, InterBase 4, Gupta SQLHost to DB2.

Intersolv also presents APS 3.1 - APS for Client/Server, Version 3.1, a scalable application development system offering significant enhancements to deliver client/server applications with the latest GUI features and high performance. New features include support for third party controls (including VBX controls), MDI support, and the creation of drag and drop objects.

Intersolv also presents XL II 3.0 - Excelerator 11.3, the leading object-oriented analysis and design tool for business applications. This new release creates an easy-to-use, team-based environment to building solid designss for the complexities of client/server. New features include SuperView and Project Desktop for easier navigation through project data, Workflow Models which guide you through your project using your chosen methodology, and integration to leading client/server tools.

Intersolv also presents MWB - Maintenance Workbench, Version 2.0 which moves software maintenance into a new world by offloading mainframe maintenance to the desktop. It delivers consistently fast performance for queries or impact analysis regardless of application size and creates an archive of data on your legacy systems for easier, thorough application maintenance.

Intersolv also presents INTERSOLV PVCS Version Manager 5.2 (Release Date February 1995), the standard for software configuration management on the LAN, supports stand-alone, distributed and team development in heterogeneous environments (DOS, Windows, Windows NT, OS/2 and UNIX platforms). It provides revision, version and promotion management on binary files, graphics o-o and text files. (301-230-3316)

ISDN*tek offers the first and only Visual Basic Software Development Kit for ISDN. The SDK includes: documentation of the WinISDN Application Program Interface; sample VB code including a Dialing application, as well as Voice Capture to disk; and optional hardware bundles of the CyberSpace Freedom Series ISDN cards. (415-712-3000)

Jetstream Software introduces InstallWizard for MFC, the source-code install and uninstall generator. InstallWizard -- 100% MFC-based and built around powerful classes for ultra-compression, environment and version checking, etc. -- can span multiple diskettes and use shared components. Generated source is easily modified and extended. (800-978-7978 or 206-827-9273)

KL Group Inc. will introduce XRT/graph for Windows, which enables developers to add virtually any 2-D chart or graph to their applications. It has hundreds of features including time-axis, fast updates and user-interaction hooks. VBX and 16-bit/32-bit custom control versions. (416-594-1026)

Knowledge Dynamics Corp. will unveil V4.0 of WINSTALL, the premier multi-platform install program for DOS, Windows, NT & OS/2. New features include: external .DLL and .BMP support, informercials, generalized dialog boxes, audio support, improved international support, disk/product completion bars, DOS .INI file editing, script file debugger, and a self-decompressing .EXE file. (800-331-2783)

Knowledge Quest introduces QuickSuccess, a tutorial scripting language used to create highly interactive, very compact tutorials for Windows-based applications that seamlessly integrate into the primary application. (714-499-5412)

LEAD Technologies Inc. will present LEADTOOLS WIN32, a complete imaging software development toolkit designed to run under NT WINGS WIN32s and Windows 3.X operating systems. It includes read, write, print, dither, display, process, convert, compress image manipulate, image file load, zoom, and scan (TWAIN) support, DIB support and a 24-bit DIB driver to allow calls to any GDI function. (704-332-5532)

Legent Corporation will present ENDEAVOR Workstation, a DOS, OS/2 and Windows-based software configuration management (SCM) tool that extends capabilities beyond basic version control to address needs such as security, parallel development, release management, synchronization, interpretability, and ease-of-use.

Legent will also present ENDEAVOR/WSX, a powerful UNIX software configuration management (SCM) system, designed for distributed, networked UNIX environments. It features maximum transparency and a unique graphical view of software projects, and allows continued use of existing equipment, tools, and data while adding full SCM capabilities. (508-460-6400)

Liant Softwrae Corporation will showcase C++/Views, a leading object-oriented application framework for developing native GUI programs that run on Windows NT, OS/2, Macintosh or OSF/Motif. It includes C++/Views Constructor, a unique visual development tool that unites an interface builder with a class browser. (508-872-8700)

McCabe & Associates will showcase The McCabe Tools Set for Windows 3.0 and Windows NT, allowing McCabe Tools to run on PC platforms in addition to UNIX workstation platforms. The Windows version of the tools offer the same visualization and metrics capabilities which are used by software developers worldwide for testing, maintenance, and quality assurance. (800-638-6316)

MetaWare Incorporated announces MetaWare High C/C++ Version 3.3 for IBM OS/2 for Intel including DirectToSOM. DirectToSOM allows the creation of direct SOM binaries from C++. MetaWare SOM objects can be interfaced with other languages through our C++ to IDL emitter. MetaWare High C/C++ compilers are known for creating compact, fast, and efficient executables. C++ features include C++ Templates, Exceptions, Name Spaces, and RTTI.  (408-429-6382)

MicroEdge, Inc. will present Visual Slick Edit 1.7 for OS/2, Windows, Windows NT, and Widnows 95. This high powered programmers' editor is now available for OS/2 and has great new features such as drag and drop editing. Also, you can now extend the editor using its C-style macro language or by using the DLL interface. (919-831-0600)

MicroQuill Software Publishing Inc. introduces HeapAgent. It detects and diagnoses memory errors, including overwrites, underwrites, leads, double-frees, invalid parameters, references to free memory, etc. GUI browsers display allocations, heap contents, and source code related to any error. "Intelligent agents" let you break or invoke specialized checking on specific heap events, eliminating the "insert debug code, recompile, relink cycle." (206-525-8218)

MKS Inc. will introduce MKS Source Integrity, the most comprehensive software configuration management (SCM) solution for client/server cross platform development. It tracks a project's entire history, rebuilding past versions quickly and accurately -- with 100% assurance of reliability. It's project-oriented, NetWare secure, and the only system offering sandboxes, ensuring each developer a safe personalized workspace. (519-884-2251)

Mystic River Software Inc. will present Softbridge Basic Language Version 3.4, an embeddable version of Basic that is licensed to software developers for inclusion in applications on Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, and the Macintosh. SBL leads the industry in VBA compatibility, ease of integration and power, and fully supports OLE 2.0 automation. (617-497-1585)

Oakley Publishing will introduce VB Tech Journal, the new independent magazine of Visual Basic programming from the publishers of Windows Tech Journal. Every issue features in-depth product reviews, head-to-head comparions of VB add-ons, authoritative how-to articles, and science fiction stories by leading authors like Harlan Ellison, Jerry Oldon, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. (503-747-0800)

Poet Software will showcase Poet 3.0, a C++ Object DBMS that supports encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. It is available for 14 different operating systems and comes as a single user or client/server version. Features include support for OLE and ODBC, schema versioning, check-in/check-out, on-line backup and Developer Workbench that includes class and object browsers. (415-286-4640)

Pure Software Inc. will release Quantify 2.0, a new version of Pure Software's award-winning performance improvement product. It analyzes a software program's run-time behavior and includes advanced analysis capabilities, developer productivity enhancements, and support for multi-threaded applications. Quantify 2.0 runs two times faster on most applications and allows users to more quickly and easily improve software speed and quality. (408-720-1600)

SELECT Software Tools Inc. will present SELECT OMT Professional, geared towards the development of large scale distributed client/server systems. It is an OO Analysis and Design tool based on Rumbaugh's OMT. The system features: integrated support for Jacobson's Use Cases and Rumbaugh's OMT, C++ code generation, reverse engineering, GUI animator, SQL Schema generator, and OLE 2.0 compliance. (714-957-6633)

Semaphore offers a New Suite of Courseware, including more than 35 courses in management, analysis and design, C++, Smalltalk, Object-Oriented Cobol, CORBA, and Object-Oriented Databases taught at introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels. (508-794-3366)

Software UNO Ltd. will present WM_CURSES, a library that implements the user interface functions of the MS Windows API on the Most popular UNIX character based platforms allowing developers of C and C++ applications to achieve cross platform portability at a reasonable cost and without runtime royalties.

Software UNO also presents WM_HELP, a hypertext viewer utility that reads WinHelp files for display on the most popular UNIX Motif and character based platforms. WM_HELP allows you to use help files that were developed for MS Windows.

Software UNO will also show WM_MOTIF, a library that implements the user interface functions of the MS Windows API on the most popular UNIX Motif platforms. The product allows developers of C and C++ applications to achieve cross platform portability at a reasonalbe cost and without runtime or per license royatties. (800-840-8649 or 809-723-5000)

Speech Systems Inc. will announce Speech Wizard, a speech-enabling hardware/software tool for adding speech to existing Microsoft Windows-based applications. No formal programming experience is required and there is no need to modify the underlying application. (303-938-1110)

Symantec Corp. will unveil Symantec C++ 7.0. It makes developing sophisticated 16- and 32-bit applications easy with powerful new tools for Windows 95 beta, NT, and 3.1 development. It features the first object-oriented browser/editor, network build tool (NetBuild) and new technologies to increase programmer productivity. (408-253-9600)

TakeFive Software Inc. will be announcing SNiFF+ 2.0, the industrial strength programming environment for UNIX C/C++ development that integrates extensive facilities for project management, code comprehension and reverse engineering, editing and documenting source code, and building support. (408-777-1440)

Tenberry Software Inc. will showcase InstantC for Windows, an enhanced debugging environment that enables developers to deliver reliable, maintainable applications on schedule. Its intermodule and run-time checking catch many bugs automatically and its incremental compiler lets you immediately execute and test source changes. InstantC's cross-referencing and browsing aid examination, udnerstanding and modification of your code. (508-653-6006)

Thomson Software Products will present Tele/Use Win which provides users with the most sophisticated and versatile cross-platform toolset available on the market today. It allows users to create an ost/Motif GUI in Unix then, using either of the two cross-platform tools available, translate the GUI to one that runs on Windows 3.x or NT. Included in TeleUSE/Win are TeleUSE/Win16 and TeleUse/Win32. (619-457-2700)

TopSpeed Corp. introduces Clarion for Windows, the only integrated development environment for Microsoft Windows to provide productivity and performance in a single package. Rapidly build royalty and run-time free EXEs with C-performance, and which connects to any database. (305-785-4555)

ViaGrafix is releasing Visual Basic for Access 2.0 video training. Included is a learning disk with sample files for optionally performing on the computer what is seen on TV. (800-842-4723)

Vireo Software presents VtoolsD for Widows 3.1 version 1.1, the toolkit for Virtual Device Driver (VxD) developers. VtoolsD is a comprehensive development system that allows both novice and experienced developers to build VxDs in C or C++ and version 1.1 will support Borland's 32-bit C/C++ compiler as well as NDIS network drivers for Windows for Workgroups. (508-779-8352)

Walnut Creek CD ROM will introduce CICA Shareware for Windows. This new edition expands our popular title into a new two disc set. Our CICA CD ROM offers directories for Visual Basic, Asymetrix Toolbook, Pascal, C, and Borland's C++ programs, plus many files on Access. (800-786-9907)

Western Wares will introduce CC-RIDER v5.1 for Windows NT, the industry's leading source code analysis, visual browsing and documentation tool for C/C++ projects. New features include: an improved user interface, built-in hypertext editor, new tree charts, background analysis, and much more. And CC-RIDER still seamlessly integrates with all editors and compilers. (303-327-4898)

XVT Software Inc. will present XVT Architect, their new object-oriented visual programming tool for developing portable C++ applications. XVT-Architect makes the in-depth functionality of the underlying application framework easier to access. It is used for the entire application development lifecycle and offers advanced GUI functions such as notepad, drag-and-drop palettes, toolbars, and tear-off palettes. (303-443-4223)

This year Software Development '95 boasts over 200 classes in four conferences. Industry experts will cover key topics of interest, such as: Programming in C++, Windows, UI design, Building a Software Component Strategy, Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Technology, Open/Distributed Systems, Rapid Application Development, Building Multimedia Software, and a suite of 40+ classes designed specifically for corporate development managers dealing with legacy code, Business Process Reengineering, and Client/Server deployment.

SD'95 is produced by Miller Freeman Inc.'s Software Development Conference & Show Group. Held twice each year, SD includes the Software Development Conference, Enterprise Application Development, Managing Software Development, and the Globalizing Software Conference. For more information on this event, call 800-441-8826 or 415-905-2784.


Kinetics Windows 1.0 Chemical Reaction Modeling
ARSoftware Announces Kinetics for Windows Version 1.0

LANDOVER, MD February 1, 1995 ARSoftware announced today that KINETICS for Windows, Version 1.0, a software package for modeling complex chemical reactions and reaction mechanisms will be available February 15, 1995. This unique program computes the concentrations of the chemical species in a system as a function of time for multistep reversible reactions, given the reaction mechanism, the forward and reverse rate constants, and the initial concentrations of reactants and products.

KINETICS easy to use Windows interface allows you to input complex chemical systems by simply typing in the reaction equations and the associated rate constants. The program automatically formulates the differential equations necessary to describe the kinetics of the chemical system. The rate equations are then numerically integrated using a modified GEAR algorithm.

Features:

- Systems containing up to 100 reversible reactions can be evaluated.

- Each reaction call contain up to 5 reactants and 5 products. Thus,

  mechanisms with individual reactions as high as fifth order can be

  examined.

- Computations on systems containing up to 50 chemical species are

  possible.

- A plotting routine is included for viewing results.

According, to Dr. Kenneth J. Tupper, Director of Computational Chemistry, "KINETICS was developed with ease of Use in mind. The program takes care of the complex mathematics associated with these types of studies, leaving the researcher free to focus on the chemistry of the system. It has a wide range of applications in industry, research and education."

Introductory pricing is $595 (commercial), $495 (academic) through June 30, 1995.

System requirements: 80386 PC (or later model) running DOS version 5.0 (or later) and Windows version 3.1, 2 Mbytes of RAM, VGA. A math coprocessor is recommended but not required.

ARSoftware

8201 Corporate Drive, Suite 1110

Landover, MD 20785

301-459-3773,  800-257-0073,  fax 301-459-3776


Qualit Defect Manager 1.0 for Windows

Welcome to the world of Qualit's defect tracking and analysis system. It is a system which allows you to improve product quality by tracking, assigning, prioritizing, and analyzing product defects. It is simple to use yet powerful with all its customizations.

Benefits of QDM

ENHANCE PRODUCT QUALITY THROUGH FEWER DEFECTS: Automate the entire defect resolution process with QDM. No defects will fall through the cracks.

IMPROVE PROJECT ANALYSIS AND REPORTING: Use our distribution and trend graphs, and professional reports; analyze your projects and communicate their status to others.

LOWER DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT COST: Make better project decisions and avoid costly mistakes by using QDM's powerful analysis tools.

KEEP YOUR CUSTOMERS INFORMED: Issue better and more meaningful reports for release notes using QDM. Keep your customers updated on specific defects.

ACHIEVE SEI CMM / ISO9000 COMPLIANCE: Utilize QDM's powerful analysis and reporting capabilities in achieving compliance with the ISO9000, SEI CMM, and TQM.

Highlights

OPEN SQL DATABASE: Based on Microsoft Access JET Engine, the database is accessible through a host of third-party tools. Easily integrate the database to your other systems on the enterprise network.

EXTENDABLE DATABASE: Add custom defect fields and access them the same way as others.

SCALABLE DATABASE ARCHITECTURE: Scalability is at the heart of QDM's design. We will provide Client/Server database support in future.

INTUITIVE USER INTERFACE: QDM is extremely easy to use with consistent user interface. Learn it in no time.

TEAMWORK ORIENTED: QDM facilitates teamwork with automatic notification, security, and more.

PROFESSIONAL REPORTS: Seamlessly run reports build with Crystal Reports. Add new ones as needed.

SOPHISTICATED GRAPHS: A number of intuite distribution and trend graphs are provided.

Contact us through phone, fax, or e-mail for a FREE demo!!!

QDM is priced at $345/seat with volume discounts available.

For More Information

Qualit, Inc.

801 W. El Camino Real, Suite 359

Mountain View, CA 94040

Phone:  415-964-4525 (8am-5pm Pacific Time)

Fax:    415-964-4512

Email:  qualit@netcom.com

WWW:    ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/qualit/qualit.html


STAR 1.0 Windows Based Swr Test & Reporting Sys
STAR 1.0 - a Windows based Software Test and Reporting System is now available. STAR 1.0 supports cross platform, cross operating system, and cross database management system software testing. Ideal for the IT organization that needs to control software QA and software metrics reporting. Cost is $49.95 per copy.

Software Design & Construction, Inc.

208 Lawrence Road

Cary, NC 27511 USA

(919) 467-6072 Voice & Facsimile


Musi-Cal Internet Music Events Calendar
AUTOMATRIX LAUNCHES "MUSI-CAL"--THE FIRST AUTOMATED, INTERNET, WORLD-WIDE MUSIC EVENTS CALENDAR

SCOTIA, NY -- (1/31/1995;1300) -- Today Automatrix, Inc., an Internet presence provider and consulting group, announced the debut of Musi-Cal, its free, Internet-accessible, music events calendar. Musi-Cal lists the dates and locations of upcoming concerts, festivals, and other musical events around the world, and allows promoters, record labels, venues, and even fans to submit tour and other event itineraries.

Musi-Cal uniquely emphasizes data quality over a glossy appearance and is never out of date. "The majority of calendars on the Internet either have very few entries, cover a single theme or performer, or are badly out of date," states Skip Montanaro, manager of Software Development for Automatrix, Inc., and a former computer scientist with GE Corporate Research and Development.

With Musi-Cal, Automatrix, Inc. offers a consumer service using Internet World-Wide Web technology, developed by research physicists for exchanging highly technical information. Musi-Cal may also be the only consumer information server on the web to support all functions via email. "Unlike most Web services, this makes the concert calendar available to everybody on the Internet," states Montanaro.

Another unique feature of Musi-Cal is that the system automatically eliminates out-of-date or duplicate entries. This latter feature enables distributed, simultaneous data entry.

Best of all, Musi-Cal is easy to access and use. Internet users with Web browsers such as Mosaic or Netscape can access Musi-Cal at "http://calendar.com/concerts/". Such users submit requests via a simple "fill-in-the-blanks" search form. An easy-to-use email interface is at "concerts@calendar.com". Searches by geographic location, date, and performer are currently supported. The user can also request performances within a specified radius of a selected city.

Adding events to Musi-Cal is easy too. A point-and-click input form is available on the Web. The email interface is more efficient, however, for submitting large numbers of events.

Automatrix began offering Web space and Internet publishing to organizations wishing to do business on the Internet in June 1994 and sees Musi-Cal as a way to improve its customers visibility.

The calendars have one shortcoming, however. "There's no way we can predict cancellations," laments Montanaro. ;-) Users are advised to verify scheduled activities with the venues hosting the events.

For information about becoming a Musi-Cal sponsor, contact Skip Montanaro at (518) 372-5583.


Windows Software Tracks Online Activity
NEW WINDOWS SOFTWARE TRACKS ONLINE ACTIVITY

January 30, 1995 -- Dover, DE -- If you're a regular user of online services, you know the difficulty of keeping track of your online sessions. Et Cetera, Inc. is now shipping a Windows version of its ONLINE LOG software which records online activity in a concise log file.

Like its DOS counterpart, ONLINE LOG for Windows is designed to track and log records of online sessions including vendor, date and time, database, subject or client designation, connect time, file name and session cost. The Windows version monitors both Windows and DOS-based communications software. It even keeps track of time spent on CD-ROM searches or any other computer activity.

Its advanced searching capabilities make it easy to find specific records and display, print, or save them in a file. With its sorting function, ONLINE LOG can produce various output formats for cost analysis, management reports, etc. Records can be sorted chronologically or alphabetically by vendor, database, client, or project. For example, you can search for all records of one vendor in a specified time period and sort them by client or subject.

In addition, ONLINE LOG for Windows allows you to combine records from separate log files or invoke script files in the user's own communications software. With one or two mouse clicks you can recall the file name or number used in the last recorded session or copy the session cost from an online vendor's output directly to your log record.

Users from other countries will appreciate the fact that the program displays dates, times, numbers and currency symbols in the format you choose from the international options in Windows' Control Panel.

The program runs on IBM 286 or higher compatible computers and operates with Windows version 3.0 or higher. It works in tandem with nearly any Windows or DOS-based communications software and can be used to track sessions on virtually any online service, BBS, or the Internet. ONLINE LOG for Windows normally sells for $79 plus S&H. However, the new program is currently being sold at a special introductory price of $59. Registered users of ONLINE LOG for DOS can upgrade for only $20.

For more information, write Et Cetera Inc., PO Box 312, Dover, DE 19903 or telephone 302-736-5110.


Tyson Foods Selects Sybase over Oracle & RDB
TYSON FOODS SELECTS SYBASE'S DATA WAREHOUSE SOLUTION OVER ORACLE AND RDB

Sybase To Help Tyson Foods Architect A Data Warehouse Solution for Rapid Business Change

EMERYVILLE, CA, January 25, 1995 -- Sybase. Inc. today announced that Tyson Foods has chosen SYBASE software, over Oracle and Rdb, to play a central role in supporting its data warehousing initiative and for use in a key application that supplies product information to more than 70 Tyson sites across North America. Tyson Foods is an important win for Sybase and reflects its ability to help Fortune 500 companies architect themselves for rapid business change. The application currently under development will contain comprehensive marketing and production information for all of Tyson Foods' 7,000 products. The flexibility of SQL Server 10 combined with SYBASE connectivity software provides Tyson Foods with a wide range of connectivity options to support the creation of new data warehouses while providing seamless data access. With $5.2 billion in annual revenues, Tyson Foods is approaching the ranks of America's Fortune 100 corporations.

The world's leading poultry supplier selected Sybase's SQL Server 10, over Oracle and its currently installed Rdb database, because of Sybase's ability to provide a flexible, client/server architecture coupled with connectivity software.

"SYBASE met our needs for an open, flexible client/server database. It proved to be the only vendor that could deliver connectivity software that would support our data warehousing initiative. Sybase also gave us the ability to support many more users in an easy fashion," stated Steve Hankins, vice president of management information systems (MIS) at Tyson Foods. "From A business partner perspective, Sybase came to the table ready to play.

Their support and responsiveness to our needs was outstanding. Consequently, we are looking closely at Sybase as an alternative to move our other mission-critical applications."

Tyson Foods' Product Specification Application

Sybase's SQL Server 10 relational database will support Tyson Foods' product specification application, using Sybase's OmniSQL Gateway, an enterprise client/server gateway that provides transparent distributed processing among heterogeneous databases, and Open Client, a client API that enables third-party software to access SQL Server. Upon deployment, 300 users will migrate from a text-based information resource to a distributed, on-line system. The application includes comprehensive product information vital to the company's sales, marketing, production, and purchasing departments. The marketing department, for instance, will be able to access information pertaining to product descriptions, packaging details, product labeling, handling, usage, nutritional data, and cooking instructions. The production department will be able to access information about processing, product formulation, product control standards, product build instructions, meat formulation, and quality control.

Users to Gain Improved Productivity and Broader Choice of Data Access Tools

Tyson Foods had been running Rdb for client/server processing. The system, however, required significant time and staff resources for many functions ranging from administration to porting applications. Employees could not use a variety of PC tools to access data, but rather had to learn a 4th generation language in order to efficiently access information in an existing data warehouse. The complexity caused Tyson Foods to search for a new database that would be highly flexible and support groups of up to 200 users throughout its 70 sites.

With SYBASE software, Tyson Foods gains increased connectivity options and scalability. The food giant expects to realize productivity gains, since users can now easily employ a range of widely-used PC tools to access the data warehouse. The MIS department has already realized productivity gains as a result of the inherent flexibility of SQL Server 10. Because of Sybase's open API, Tyson was able to move two Microsoft Access applications to SQL Server 10 in one afternoon. With Rdb, this would have required more time and resources.

"We're extremely pleased with Tyson Foods' decision to select SYBASE software," stated Richard Yanowitch, vice president of corporate marketing at Sybase. "Their decision underscores the need to provide highly flexible software that seamlessly links disparate systems together and can still be deployed quickly. The Tyson win demonstrates our ability to help customers architect their systems for rapid business change."

Why Tyson Foods Chose Sybase

During its evaluation, Tyson Foods considered Oracle, Rdb, and SYBASE. The company found that SYBASE software provided a solid client/server architecture, supported heavy processing loads, and gave users and programmers seamless connectivity to data. Because the MIS department plans to use more than one client/server application development toolset, it determined that SYBASE was very open and offered an extensive array of connectivity solutions. And, while Rdb performed adequately for handling large transaction processing, it lacked connectivity solutions and was overly complex for certain applications.

"SYBASE software provided better integration and better connectivity solutions than Oracle or Rdb," added Steve Hankins. "We discovered that Sybase helped us get our systems up and running very quickly, enabling us to be more responsive to rapidly changing business requirements."

The Marketplace

In response to shifting consumer tastes, Tyson Foods has successfully established itself as the market innovator by introducing new products such as pre-marinated chicken and ready-to-eat roasted chicken products. A large percentage of company revenues now come from Tyson's new products. Besides having to contend with global food conglomerates, the company also faces new business pressures that include shorter product life cycles and reduced distribution lead times, which stem from an increased market demand for poultry. To maintain its competitive advantage, Tyson Foods wants to provide employees with direct, easy-to-access data so they can be more responsive to market changes.

Tyson Foods Implementation

Tyson Foods operates one central Alpha server running VMS at its corporate offices. Eleven hundred PCs are networked via DEC Pathworks to a file server that resides at each distributed location and runs throughout Tyson Foods' enterprise. Standard PC tools are Microsoft's Office suite and Lotus 1-2-3. Sybase's OmniSQL Gateway and Open Client will support data warehouses. Tyson Foods will create its front-end applications using Powersoft's PowerBuilder. At a later stage of its implementation, the company plans to use Open Server, an application program interface that integrates non-SYBASE data, applications, and application services, as well as Replication Server, which provides realtime database copies to the company's remote sites. The first phase of the system is expected to be in production at Tyson's corporate offices in March, 1995, followed by a phased roll out to other sites.

Tyson Foods

Founded in 1934, Tyson Foods is the leading supplier of center-of-the-plate protein to the food service industry, retail! and wholesale channels. Besides poultry, Tyson Foods is also a provider of beef, pork, as well as seafood. Based in Springdale, Arkansas, Tyson Foods employs 52,000 and supplies its food products to 54 countries around the world.

Sybase, Inc.

Sybase, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBS) is one of the fastest growing suppliers of client/server-based software products and services for on-line enterprise-wide applications. Sybase's integrated family of software includes database servers, tools, connectivity and systems management products, providing complete desktop-to-mainframe solutions. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase markets its products worldwide through its direct sales force, telesales, distributors, OEMs, VARs and Systems Integrators.

Sybase Inc

6475 Christie Ave

Emeryville, CA 04608

510-596-3500;  Fax: 510-658-9441


Softdesk S7 Imaging Product Family Enhancements
Softdesk Announces Imaging Product Family Enhancements for S7 Release

ViewBase Adds MicroStation DGN File Viewing

HENNIKER, NH, January 30, 1995 - Softdesk announces new releases of the Softdesk Imaging Family products as part of the release of Softdesk 7 (S7), the next generation of Softdesk application software.

The Imaging Product Family includes CAD Overlay ESP, CAD Overlay LFX, ViewBaseTM, CAD Overlay GSX, and RAStationTM R2V. Softdesk Imaging products take advantage of the new Softdesk 7 features, including network support, localization and translation tools, and project management capabilities. The integration of the Imaging Products is enhanced through the new Softdesk Core module, allowing customers to call Imaging Products from the Core menu. S7 Imaging Products also feature redesigned pull-down menus making them easier to learn and use.

"S7 breaks new ground for our customers in the AEC industry worldwide," said Jesse Devitte, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Softdesk. "S7's new level of integration allows different design disciplines to work together as never before, with easy access to scanned drawings and grayscale imagery."

ViewBase 7, used to find, view, redline, and plot raster and vector files, adds support for MicroStation DGN files. The configuration program for ViewBase 7 has been moved to the Windows environment and 256 color display has been added. Display and printing speed has also been improved.

CAD Overlay ESP 7, used to convert and revise scanned paper drawings in AutoCAD, integrates the installation of add-on modules such as rubber sheeting and hybrid plotting into one procedure. CAD Overly ESP 7 also includes an auto- configuration option.

The S7 versions of CAD Overlay ESP, CAD Overlay LFX, a line following module, and CAD Overlay GSX, for grayscale and color imagery, will support AutoCAD Release 12 and 13 for DOS. The Softdesk 7 Windows version of these modules will support AutoCAD Release 13 only, including support for Win32s. These modules will also support AutoCAD's 32 bit "big vec" display space.

The Softdesk 7 version of RAStation R2V, automatic raster-to-vector conversion software, includes updated R2VIN support to bring converted files into AutoCAD Release 13.

Upgrade pricing for Softdesk Imaging Products current versions to S7 versions will be $150 per module in the U. S. For other pricing, contact Softdesk at 603-428-3199.

S7 is built on a new foundation called Softdesk Core. Core software provides true integration between Softdesk's Civil/Survey, Building Design & Engineering, Productivity, and Imaging product families. The software consolidates all of the commonly needed features for managing Softdesk applications into a single, easy to use interface that is consistent throughout all S7 products.

Networking is a key advantage to S7, requested especially by customers using Softdesk applications for multi- user, multi-discipline design. Now Softdesk applications can be easily and efficiently accessed by many designers and engineers over a network so that designers can work on different aspects of a project simultaneously and speed the project workflow. S7 features translation and localization tools that are critical to Softdesk products becoming a global standard. Translations will be produced more quickly, in more languages than ever before.

Softdesk Background Information

Softdesk, Inc. is the world's leading supplier of Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) application software for AutoCAD, offering integrated solutions or automating the entire building, site, infrastructure, and utilities project lifecycle. Softdesk products are sold by an extensive worldwide network of resellers and distributors who offer comprehensive implementation, training, and support services. Covering the range of AEC disciplines, Softdesk software applications are grouped into product families for Civil Engineering & Survey, Architecture & Building Services, the Productivity Series, Facilities Management, Mapping/GIS, AM/FM & Utilities, Process & Power Plant Design, and Imaging. Softdesk has an installed base of over 128,000 modules in over 18,000 customers sites.

The Softdesk Imaging Group (formerly Image Systems) provides affordable desktop imaging products, called Rasterware, which enhance the productivity of office and engineering document systems. These Rasterware products are used for storing, retrieving, editing and distributing paper drawings captured in raster format by a document scanner. With over 35,000 modules at 15,000 customer sites, Rasterware products represent the largest worldwide installed base of scanning application software for AutoCAD.

Softdesk Imaging Group

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NetCensus V2.5 Hwr/Swr Inventory Solution
PC MANAGEMENT CURE FOR THE POST PENTIUMS BLUES

NETCENSUS 2.5--THE INVENTORY SOLUTION FOR ALL OF YOUR PCS

HANOVER, NH--January 31, 1995--Tally Systems Corp. today announced the release of NetCensus version 2.5, a software package that automatically tracks hardware and software components on networked and stand-alone workstations. New to NetCensus is:

New features of NetCensus v2.5

* Pentium chip identification. Differentiates between chips

  manufactured before December 1994 versus after December 1994

* Native OS/2 Collector

  (similar to DOS/Windows and Macintosh Collectors)

* CD ROM drive recognition Video adapter recognition

* Enhanced brandname PC recognition

Pentium Identification and Differentiation

"Our customers are ecstatic about NetCensus' Pentium recognition. Right now, most of their machines have original Pentium chips. NetCensus 2.5 will help them identify chips that need to be replaced right away," states Ted Jastrzembski, president of Tally Systems. NetCensus differentiates between "original Pentiums" and "Pentiums" manufactured after December 1994, allowing administrators simple answers to "Who has which Pentium and what department are they in?"

OS/2 Collection

NetCensus 2.5's native OS/2 Collector takes full advantage of the OS/2 interface and multi-tasking capabilities. Like the DOS/Windows and Macintosh Collectors, it collects detailed hardware and software data from networked and stand-alone machines. OS/2 administrators will now be able to conduct the collection portions of their inventories directly from OS/2, allowing them to capture information that is critical to a thorough and detailed inventory.

New Hardware Identification

Enhanced system recognition and the addition of CD ROM drive and video adapter recognition provides organizations with an increased depth of inventory detail. Additionally, new Collector enhancements make NetCensus 2.5 even faster and easier to run.

NetCensus Collects on All Major Platforms

NetCensus' customers benefit from an accurate inventory of hardware and software that allows them to monitor changes, plan and budget for upgrades and growth, find under-utilized PC components, and control use of "nonstandard" and unauthorized software. NetCensus inventories DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Macintosh computers, plus file servers on many different network operating systems--resulting in complete inventory tracking from a single database. The Software Publishers Association (SPA) accepts NetCensus reports for the purpose of assessing software license compliance.

NetCensus is NOS Independent

NetCensus supports interoperability between various networks in a multi-vendor environment and is designed to operate over Novell, Banyan, LAN Server or LAN Manager LANs with the correct permissions, or any PC LAN that lets you pass DOS directories. NetCensus 2.5 requires an IBM-compatible PC to serve as an administrative PC (486 preferred); 10 Mb storage space on a hard disk or LAN server; 4 Mb RAM; a disk cache; DOS 3.3 or later; Windows 3.1.

Pricing and Availability

NetCensus 2.5 is currently shipping and is licensed on a per-PC basis. Price is dependent on total number of PCs; for example, $15.95 per PC for 100 PCs and $12 per PC for 1000 PCs. Product Recognition Updates (PRUs) and technical support (by phone, fax, BBS or e-mail) are free for one year. Additionally, full-featured product upgrades are free for a year with orders of 50 licenses or more.

Contact Information

NetCensus and CentaMeter, a software license management and metering package, are available directly from Tally Systems Corp., P.O. Box 70, Hanover, NH 03755, (800) 262-3877 or through major national and international resellers. Tally Systems will be demonstrating NetCensus and CentaMeter at Networks Expo in Boston, February 14-16, Booth #105 and at FOSE in Washington D.C., March 21-23, Booth #655.

Tally Systems

Tally Systems Corp. is the world's leading supplier of full-featured desktop inventory products, providing packaged software solutions to improve management of end-user computing resources in organizations around the world. Founded in 1990 by experts in the field of hardware and software inventory, Tally Systems' desktop asset management products are currently licensed on over 1,500,000 PCs at over 5,000 client sites worldwide.


BSO/TASKING Toolkit for 196 Microcontroller
BSO/TASKING INTRODUCES NEW RELEASE

SOFTWARE TOOLKIT FOR INTEL'S 196 MICROCONTROLLER

Features Extra Functionality and ApBUILDER Programmer Package

Dedham, Mass., January 30, 1995 -- BSO/TASKING has unveiled its second generation of software development tools for the Intel MCS96 microcontroller. The new MCS96 Compiler package from BSO/TASKING features significant improvements over the original release, with more features and functionality, and now runs on UNIX. The new release of the MCS96 Version 4 Compiler package will also contain support for the following new 196 variants: 8XC196MH, 80C196NU, 87C196CA and 87C196CB.

Director of U.S. Operations for BSO/TASKING Martin Nappi explains, "We developed this significant new release to provide the industry with the most advanced, integrated development solution for all 20/16-bit family members. We have added a powerful new programming design tool, ApBUILDER software, which provides a simple mechanism for programmers to configure an embedded processor, in addition to a high level language debugger."

ApBUILDER software offers peripheral design capabilities, an interactive instruction and register editor, a click-on highlight feature and access to hypertext hardware reference manuals. Another notable new feature of the MCS96 toolset is BSO/TASKING's Embedded Development Environment (EDE) which lets users access the complete toolset through a common interface. The Windows EDE includes a DLL for working with Codewright from Premia.

Additional improvements include uniform model control for the iC96 compiler, ASM96 assembler and rl196 linker, with a parameter that specifies which 196 processor is being used.

New SFR files for each 80C196 derivative, in addition to charged compiler controls, allowance for C++ comments, solving of reported problems and MS-Windows on-line manuals, round out the new features of the MCS96 tools from BSO/TASKING.

Development Systems Manager for Intel's Embedded Microcomputer Division Stephen Whally comments, "Continuous improvement has helped us to achieve a leadership position for the 8096/196 microcontroller, and BSO/TASKING has been very instrumental in improving the software development tools to provide full support for the MCS96."

BSO/TASKING is also announcing the availability of the first 196 family debugger, ChipView-196 from ChipTools. ChipView-196 is a PC-based C and assembly level debugger that works with BSO/Tasking's new MCS96 Compiler package. It communicates with RISM, Intel's monitor, which is placed in ROM on the target board. All available debugging information is displayed and updated on separately configurable windows; such as on-chip registers, call stack, variables, breakpoints, and execution trace.

The new MCS96 Compiler package, including compiler, debugger, ApBUILDER, assembler, linker/locator, and in-circuit emulator, is priced at $1,500.00, hosted on both PC/DOS and UNIX. ChipView-196 is priced at $995.00, hosted on PC/DOS.

BSO/TASKING is a leading developer and supplier of integrated software development tools for the embedded systems market, supporting a wide range of CISC, RISC and DSP semiconductor technologies. Headquartered in Dedham, Mass., BSO/TASKING has offices worldwide, located in the Netherlands, London, Milan, Stuttgart, Paris and Tokyo.

For more information contact BSO/TASKING at 617-320-9400, 333 Elm Street, Dedham, MA 02026; FAX 617-320-9212.


Micro Express Intros 100MHz DX4 VL-Bus System
MICRO EXPRESS INTRODUCES 100-MHz DX4 VL-LOCAL BUS SYSTEM

Santa Ana, CA, January, 1995....In a move that continues to bring the price down for powerful local-bus PCs, Micro Express introduces the MicroFLEX-VL/100, an energy-efficient PC offering local-bus graphics and a 100-MHz CPU speed. Upgradable to Pentium technology, the MicroFLEX-VL/100 is available for only $1899, including a high-quality 15" monitor, 16-MB of RAM and a 540-MB fast hard disk drive.

Energy saving is accomplished with the user-controllable "Green" AMI BIOS, putting the CPU, hard disk and monitor into a sleep mode after a specified period of lack of use. The BIOS also offers password protection and selectable shadowing of both system and video BIOS. A CMOS clock-calendar is included, as are built-in diagnostics.

The base configuration for the system includes: 16-MB of RAM; 540-MB hard disk drive; 256K of RAM cache; a VL video card with 1-MB of on-board RAM; 15" non-interlaced monitor; a 1.44-MB 3-1/2" floppy disk drive; mini-tower case; 101-type keyboard; a mouse; DOS 6.22; Windows 3.11; and self-teaching Windows tutorial software.

For an additional $25 each, PFS:WindowWorks Version 2 and PFS:Publisher for Windows will be bundled with the system.

A VESA (VL) video accelerator card is included to enhance Windows performance. Additional performance enhancement results from zero wait-state operation. High-performance graphic displays are viewed on the excellent Micro Express FM-590 15" non-interlaced Super VGA color monitor.

The MicroFLEX-VL/100 is shipped in a mini-tower case, measuring 7.1"[W] x 14.6"[H] x 18.25"[D]. The case has provision for three accessible 5-1/4" drives, one accessible 3-1/2" drive, two internal 3-1/2" drives and one internal 5-1/4" drive. The proprietary motherboard has eight expansion slots, including three VL slots and five 16-bit ISA slots. Up to 64 MB of RAM is supported on the motherboard.

The motherboard includes a switchable voltage regulator for either 3.3-V or 5-V CPUs. This allows you to use any CPU, regardless of its voltage requirement.

The Best Customer Support Anywhere

A full 2-year warranty is included on parts and labor for this PC, with shipping for the first 4 months paid both ways by Micro Express, as well as a 30-day money-back guarantee. Optional on-site service, through GE, is also available. If a board fails, Micro Express offers 24-hour express board replacement service. As with all other Micro Express computers, this machine is burned in for 72 hours before shipping to eliminate early failures. In addition, a toll-free number is provided for free unlimited technical support. Technical support is available 24-hours per day and 7-days per week as part of the exclusive Micro Express "Always" customer support program. When technical documents are required, Micro Express offers Automated FAX-back Service. Using this service, documents can be requested through voice-mail and will be FAXed directly to the customer without human intervention.

The MicroFLEX-VL/100 is available now, direct from Micro Express.

Micro Express is an award-winning manufacturer of notebook, laptop, portable and desktop microcomputers that are fully IBM compatible. Micro Express offers extremely high quality and a wide range of additional features at a very competitive price. Micro Express personal computers are regularly rated at the top of comparative reviews in computer trade magazines, having won such honors as PC Magazine Editors' Choice, PC World Best Buy, Computer Buyer's Guide Best Buy, BYTE Magazine One-To-Watch, PC Week Analyst's Choice and many others. The company also offers a selection of high-performance add-in peripheral boards and monitors.

For further sales information, contact Micro Express at 1801 Carnegie Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92705. Phone: (714) 852-1400 or (800) 989-9900.


Pro CD & OCLC Online Telephone Directory Deal
Pro CD and OCLC Sign Online Agreement for Phone America Telephone Directory

Danvers, MA. February 1, 1995--Pro CD, Inc., the leading publisher of telephone directories on CD-ROM, announced that it has signed an agreement to distribute Pro CD's United States telephone directory information through the online services of Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC). OCLC, a nonprofit computer library service and research organization whose computer network and services link more than 16,000 libraries in 47 countries and territories, will offer Pro CD's data under the name Phone America.

Phone America, which contains telephone directory information for over 83 million business and residential listings, will be available through the FirstSearch and EPIC online services. Phone America from Pro CD joins over 50 other key reference titles that can be accessed through OCLC. The FirstSearch service provides libraries with easy online access to Phone America via subscription or per-search options. EPIC is a command interface system designed for the information professional.

OCLC Vice President of Reference Services, Rick Noble commented "The addition of the Phone America file from Pro CD offers OCLC customers easy access to an important reference resource which libraries cannot possibly provide in print. Providing a cost effective solution for finding telephone numbers and addresses quickly fulfills an important reference requirement for librarians and their patrons."

The Phone America telephone directory will be available through OCLC during the first quarter of 1995. The data will be updated on a quarterly basis. Each update represents a revision of approximately 25% of the listings in Phone America.

Pro CD, Inc., a privately held firm based outside of Boston, has changed the way people access directory information. For product information contact: Pro CD Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923 Telephone: (800) 99-CD-ROM or (508) 750-0000, Facsimile: (508)750-0070, BBS: (508) 750-0077 Internet: sales@procd.com


Results Marketing & Chili Pepper Swr Marketing
RESULTS MARKETING AND CHILI PEPPER SOFTWARE SIGN MARKETING AGREEMENT

Results Marketing Group to Manage Channel Sales of Personal Archiver, Infinite Disk, & Infinite Disk Pro

January 30, 1995, Atlanta, Georgia -- Chili Pepper Software today signed an agreement with Results Marketing Group, Inc. of Irvine, California to manage all channel sales for it's complete line of Personal Storage Management products including Personal Archiver, Infinite Disk, and Infinite Disk Pro. Results Marketing will handle all day-to-day sales and marketing activities within the retail and distribution channels, as well as the development, negotiation, and implementation of all advertising and marketing vehicles within these channels.

"Chili Peppers' storage products are uniquely positioned to become top selling products in 1995," said Chili Pepper Software President Richard Onyon". "Results Marketing is the only firm with the experience and track record needed to manage this major launch into the retail market."

"Chili Pepper Software products are perfect for the distribution and retail channels. They have the necessary elements for success including competitive pricing, leading-edge technology, ease of installation and use, and features that both novice and power users alike require," said Tammy Gibbons, President of Results Marketing". "Our relationship with Chili Pepper Software is important to our goal of continuously providing the distributors and retailers with software that suits the needs of their customers."

Background

Personal Archiver is a file management system that allows you to manually archive files to a diskette on demand, based on frequency of use, file size, or file type. Every file archived by Personal Archiver still appears to be on the local hard drive, and the PC operates as usual. When an archived file is accessed, in any way, it is recalled from a specific diskette without disturbing the application in use. Simply put, Personal Archiver allows you to manually remove files never used, and automatically brings them back if they are ever needed.

Infinite Disk is an automated file management system based on HSM that relies on diskettes, optical, or removable hard drives for intermediate storage. The program automatically tracks file activity on the hard drive. Based on user defined thresholds, the software compresses and/or archives inactive files to intermediate storage and automatically retrieves them when needed.

Infinite Disk Pro, an extension of Infinite Disk is a totally automated file management system integrating disk drive backup and adding Quarter Inch Data Cartridge support. Infinite Disk Pro sports a list of new features such as "Space Wizard" for rule based management, Graphical Drive Analysis for analyzing disk drive usage, and LZS compression technology from Stac Electronics.

Founded in 1992, Chili Pepper Software is the leading manufacturer of HSM solutions for the desktop PC, including Personal Archiver, Infinite Disk, and Infinite Disk Pro. Chili Pepper Software products are marketed through software OEMs, resellers, distribution, software catalogs, and direct channels. For additional information, contact Chili Pepper Software, 1630 Pleasant Hill Road, Suite 180-200, Atlanta, GA 30136-5827; phone 800.395.1812 (sales) or 404.339.1812 (main); fax 404.513.7411.

Results Marketing Group, Inc is a national sales and marketing firm specializing in the channel management of software products within the U.S. and Canadian software markets. Results Marketing handles all marketing activities within the retail and distribution channels with special emphasis placed on the long term positioning of software publishers unfamiliar with the software channel. A partial list of clients includes MicroHelp (makers of UnInstaller), HarperCollins Interactive, Virgin Interactive Entertainment, and Virgin Sound and Vision. For additional information, contact Results Marketing Group, Inc., 19100 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 200, Irvine, CA, 92715, 714.724.1600 (voice) and 714.724.1690 (fax).


Galacticomm Launches Internet Connectivity Opt.
GALACTICOMM LAUNCHES INTERNET CONNECTIVITY OPTION

Sysops applaud product's versatility and user friendliness

Ft. Lauderdale, FL -- Virtual classrooms. Instant interaction across the universe -- without the astronomical phone bills. Medical, scientific and business research. Shared access to global databases. These are just a few of the applications users have found for Internet Connectivity Option (ICO), a new product that adds TCP/IP support to Galacticomm's leading BBS software, The Major BBS. ICO supports telnet, FTP, basic WWW server and more.

"This new release further cements The Major BBS's connectivity advantage," Galacticomm President and CEO Scott Brinker said. "Now, users can access The Major BBS via modems, LAN, serial links, and (optionally) ISDN, the Internet and X.25."

With ICO and The Major BBS, companies and individuals can launch their own sites on the Internet. ICO can support well over 100 simultaneous dial-up users and up to 64 TCP/IP connections on a single 486 or Pentium machine. Product information, photograph databases, online shopping, multiplayer games, and more can be offered to Internet users who telnet in. Users who FTP in can get and put files over the Internet.

World-Wide Web (WWW) uses hypertext to seamlessly link multimedia documents -- and objects within them -- to multiple Web sites around the world that contain related resources. With a WWW server, Sysops can disseminate information or promote their products or services with HTML pages that Internet users navigate with Mosaic and other browsers.

In addition, Sysops can offer Internet access to their users to telnet and FTP out to other sites. The Major BBS can attach to the Internet through either a dial-up SLIP connection (over a regular high-speed modem) or a dedicated line (56K, fractional T1, or T1) to any qualified host provider.

Satisfied and enthusiastic ICO users include corporations, nonprofit and government agencies, educational institutions, and consumer systems. One such user is Paul Smith, Sysop for Country Music Online, a Nashville, TN-based entertainment system. "We originally set up the Internet Connectivity Option to provide our users with Internet access, but we're finding it's bringing us a tremendous amount of business," says Smith. "Internet users from all over the world telnet in to our system. It's amazing really because we haven't even advertised yet; it's all been from word of mouth."

Smith says the speed of his 56K direct Internet feed and ICO's user friendliness has helped Country Online to pull ahead of the competition. "In the other systems I have seen with Internet connectivity, users have to go to special areas very deep in the menu tree to access the Internet," he said. "With ICO, users can go anywhere from any prompt. The response has been very favorable."

Greenpeace International, a branch of the world's largest environmental advocacy group, has also had a successful ICO debut. "For the first time, the European and worldwide staff of Greenpeace can inexpensively reach large indexed public and private databases across the world," says System Administrator Bob Lyons. His organization also plans to make its public database available over the Internet.

The Ed Lowe Foundation is also using ICO to offer its users convenient access to research materials. "With ICO, we can offer our callers access to our information and a wealth of resources on the Internet in one neat package," says Tido Ciaravino, Information Systems Administrator.

Students across the globe can now attend classes at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta with the help of ICO. "Now students can access databases on our LAN, download tests and assignments, and more, and we're assured of the same airtight secu rity we have with The Major BBS."

ICO lists for $995. The company has announced plans to integrate SMTP and NNTP -- the protocols for transporting mail and newsgroups across the Internet -- in a future release of ICO. Until that time, Galacticomm will include a free copy of its Major Gateway/Internet with ICO for dial-up UUCP access to Internet e-mail and newsgroups. The Developer's Kit will also be released early this year.

Galacticomm is a privately held Fort Lauderdale corporation. The company's flagship product, The Major BBS, is full-featured, multi-user software that organizations use to create their own online interactive service or corporate workgroup interface. It fe atures e-mail, teleconference, file transfer, public messaging, a polling facility, and more. The Major BBS can support well over 200 simultaneous users on a single PC connecting via modems, LAN, serial links, or (optionally) X.25 and the Internet. Galacticomm has been the leading developer of multi-user communications hardware and BBS software since 1985. Galacticomm products are available from any Galacticomm reseller or by calling Galacticomm direct at (800) 328-1128 or (305) 583-5990, outside of the U .S. and Canada.


Great Quotations Library CD (75,000 Quotations)
Largest Ever Electronic Database Of 75,000 Quotations

Reno, NV (February 1, 1995) -- AApex Software Corporation announced today its new Great Quotations Library CD Collection of over 75,000 quotations. AApex has combined seven great quotation collections from publishers that include Columbia University Press and The Houghton Mifflin Company. The material ranges from motivational to international, from ancient to ultra- modern. All of the quotes can be accessed with one powerful, yet simple to use retrieval engine.

There are several ways to search: if you are looking for a specific quote, but only know one or two words of it, you can enter just those words and find the quotation you are looking for within seconds. This kind of reverse search was never possible with the printed book.

You can also choose an author or a subject category from a list, and view all quotes by that author, or under that category. You can search all seven reference books at once, or select only one or two that you wish to search. If youre an advanced computer user, you can take advantage of hypertext links and Boolean search logic.  Our advanced indexing technology insures that all searches are comprehensive and lightening fast

The Library of 75,000 Quotations includes seven seperate references, including Websters Quotebase, Simpsons Contemporary Quotations, The Creative Impulse Collection, International Quotations, The Poor Mans University, Motivational Quotes, and the recently published Columbia Electronic Dictionary of Quotations.

The CD lists at $149 for a single user version, and $250 for a 10 user license. You can order direct from AApex Software Corporation at (800) 728-7650, or (702) 324-4580.


Galacticomm Shipping The Major BBS for UNIX
Galacticomm now shipping The Major BBS for UNIX

Ft. Lauderdale -- Jan. 23 -- Galacticomm, Inc. announced that the UNIX version of its best-selling, multi-user bulletin board system software, The Major BBS, is now shipping. Beta testers have extolled the product's user friendliness, portability, and tight Internet integration.

"The beta test period was an amazing demonstration of this product's portability," says Galacticomm's President and CEO Scott Brinker. "Generally, the developer receives input during the beta trial about minor glitches or other inconsistencies that need to be corrected. However, this trial period has been remarkably different because beta testers are telling us how the product is going beyond what we told them it would do."

The Major BBS for UNIX offers e-mail, group discussion forums, file transfer, real-time teleconference, polls and questionnaires, QWK-mail, and more for to 256 simultaneous users on a single machine. Users connect via TCP/IP, modems, or serial links. The BBS machine can be connected via SLIP, 56K, ISDN, X.25, or T1.

Chris Dunne, system administrator for the Houston Chronicle, says his publication is using the new release to improve communication with employees in the field. "We're a UNIX facility, so The Major BBS for UNIX gives us better compatibility with our existing network," he says. "It's more of a user-friendly remote access server than a bulletin board. I think it's what companies with UNIX platforms have been looking for."

Dunne was among the beta testers who is taking full advantage of the new release's capabilities. The Major BBS for UNIX offers remote management ability. As a result, he is able to keep the host machine in a computer room, which offers tighter security and the availability of computer operators 24 hours a day. Dunne says he is able to handle all management and maintenance duties without going near the machine.

The Houston Chronicle has also tested The Major BBS for UNIX's portability. Galacticomm's UNIX edition can support two operating systems -- BSD/OS 1.1 for the PC architecture and Solaris 2.3 for Sun SPARC platforms. However, the newspaper tested it on the less-powerful Classic. "I've had eight sessions running, and it has worked just fine," he says.

For companies wanting to offer Internet access to users or to launch their own interactive service on the Internet, The Major BBS for UNIX is ideal. The UNIX operating system offers built-in support for Telnet, FTP, Internet e-mail and USENET newsgroups via TCP/IP. In addition, the UNIX version offers a new feature, User-Defined Applications (UDAs), that integrates external text-based applications as seamless menu options.

Carlo Marazzi, owner of Caribbean Internet Services in San Juan, PR, says he's taking advantage of The Major BBS for UNIX's UDA feature and tight Internet integration to offer clients Internet shell accounts through the BBS. The shell account offers user s cost-effective access to a limited number of Internet functions through the BBS, such as gopher, telnet, FTP, WWW client, gopher, and more.

"Since UNIX is already a multitasking machine, we can add any application we want, such as gopher and World Wide Web, and it all runs on the same machine," Marazzi says. "It's a lot better than doors." (External applications are incorporated with "doors" to a second computer in the DOS platform).

The Major BBS for UNIX will also include an X Window interface for Sysops to perform maintenance while the system is running -- either locally or remotely over a network. The eight-line version has a suggested retail price of $2,995.

Galacticomm is a privately held Fort Lauderdale corporation. The company has been the leading developer of multi-user communications hardware and BBS software since 1985. Galacticomm products are available from your favorite Galacticomm reseller or by calling Galacticomm direct at (800) 328-1128 or (305) 583-5990, outside of the U.S. and Canada. For a hands-on demonstration of the The Major BBS for UNIX, telnet to Galacticomm's UNIX Demo System at unix.gcomm.com.


New Dell Latitude Notebook & Price Cuts
DELL CONTINUES TO TAKE THE HELM IN NOTEBOOK PRICE/PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP -- WORLDWIDE

New Latitude Notebook and Aggressive Price Cuts on Award-Winning Latitude XP Family Raise the Value Index for Portable Computing, Award-Winning XP Notebooks Available in 14 Additional European Markets

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 30, 1995 -- Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL) continued driving its aggressive push for notebook leadership today with the introduction of a new high-end model in its award-winning Dell Latitude product line. With prices starting at just $2,299, Dell's new Latitude 475C value-line notebook represents the most aggressive IntelDX4-based notebook offering on the market today.

The company also announced price reductions of up to 16 percent on its award-winning advanced-performance notebooks -- the Latitude XP product family -- popularized by its sleek design and record-setting battery life. The company noted that it plans to expand the availability of its Latitude XP notebooks worldwide, launching the product into 14 new countries in Europe during the month of February. In conjunction with today's announcements, Dell also introduced new disk storage and memory upgrade options for the Latitude and Latitude XP product families.

"It's no secret that part of our reentry strategy is to compete very aggressively in this market," said Dave Altounian, Dell's director of portables marketing. "With the introduction of the new Latitude system, aggressive new pricing on our XP family and availability of new hard drive and memory options, Dell continues to build on our commitment to deliver our customers the best price-performance value for notebook computing in the industry."

Referring to this month's Annual Notebook Torture Test in PC/COMPUTING magazine -- entitled 'Notebook Hell' -- Altounian also noted that "After an exhaustive battery of performance, quality and reliability tests, the Latitude XP emerged as the 'best' notebook system out of 13 leading notebooks tested." The notebook review included "torture and more torture," such as bake, freeze, drop and spill tests. In less than six months since their introduction, Dell's Latitude and Latitude XP notebooks have received more than 20 similar accolades -- worldwide -- including several product of the year awards.

LATITUDE ELIMINATES PRICE/PERFORMANCE COMPROMISES FOR NOTEBOOK USERS

The Dell Latitude 475C takes the performance lead within the value-line notebook category with the incorporation of a 75-megahertz (MHz) IntelDX4 processor. The sleek, lightweight system includes "best-of-class" ergonomics and features, such as a dual-scan color display; fast local-bus video for increased performance, higher resolution and greater color depth; a large, 19mm integrated trackball, located front and center for easy accessibility to both left- and right-handed users; and removable hard drives for meeting future storage needs and providing easy replacement.

"With the introduction of the Latitude 475C, Dell is bringing a whole new level of performance to the value-line notebook market," said Altounian. "The system delivers incredible overall performance, with internal benchmarks showing 50 percent greater performance than other manufacturers 75MHz IntelDX4 systems."

The Latitude 475C also incorporates advanced power management features and an innovative dual-battery option that doubles the system's battery life by replacing the removable floppy drive with an extra Nickel Metal Hydride battery -- offering outlet-free computing time comparable to the record-setting Latitude XP. The compact six-pound unit is available in 260-, 340- or 524-megabyte (MB) hard drive models. The company said that 260MB hard drives are now standard across all models within the Dell Latitude family, increasing the product's entry-level storage space from it previous 200MB capacity.

The Latitude 475C supports hot-swappable PC Cards with its single Type III PC Card slot, which also supports two Type II or Type I cards. The system is also outfitted with an Enhanced Parallel Port, making access to external devices faster and a 16550 FIFO (first-in, first-out) serial port, ensuring the system can communicate at full speed with external devices, such as high-speed modems. The Latitude 475C is designed to take advantage of Plug-and-Play -- while already supporting Plug-and-Play capabilities through its PC Card support -- with a simple FLASH BIOS upgrade when Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system is available.

The Dell Latitude line comes with a one-year limited warranty and Rapid Response return-to-depot service -- including overnight shipment paid by Dell. An optional one-year, next-business-day notebook replacement contract is also available and customers may purchase up to five years of extended service with return-to-depot repair.

The company reduced prices on the Dell Latitude notebook family by up to 13 percent earlier this month, delivering 50MHz IntelDX2-based performance with dual-scan color to value-conscious mobile users for less than $2,000. Dell's Latitude 450C was recently named Editors Choice in the Value Notebook category by PC Magazine in a January roundup of nearly 70 notebook computers.

DELL MAINTAINS COMPETITIVE EDGE WITH PRICE CUTS ON ADVANCED NOTEBOOK LINE

Effective immediately, Dell cut prices by 11 to 16 percent, or $400-$700, on all models within its high-performance Latitude XP notebook family. The largest cuts occurred on the 50MHz IntelDX2-based active-matrix color models, which were reduced by $700. Attached is a summary of the price cuts, which affect the U.S. market only.

Targeted at the corporate user, the Latitude XP family offers advanced features including exclusive 'smart' Lithium-Ion batteries and advanced power management capabilities to deliver industry-leading battery life. The systems feature a highly ergonomic design, removable hard drives, flexible system expansion and high-performance IntelDX2 and IntelDX4 processors. Each system comes standard with a host of integrated communications software and industry-leading service and support programs to deliver the best mobile computing experience to Dell notebook users.

In addition to the introduction of new models and price reductions, Dell also announced today that 8MB memory upgrade modules are now available for the Latitude XP family. As advanced notebooks have become more widely used as desktop replacement systems, many more customers are standardizing on higher memory configurations for meeting their applications requirements. Priced at $549, the 8MB modules can be used alone or combined with existing 4MB and 16MB memory modules to create a broader variety of configurations at the time of purchase or when future upgrades are required, including popular 12 and 16MB memory capacities.

Dell's entire line of Latitude and Latitude XP notebooks come standard with MS-DOS 6.21; Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11; and Dell's CommCentral software suite which now includes LapLink for Windows -- the award-winning file transfer utility from Traveling Software -- as well as a variety of useful software for connected and wireless communications, on-line services, travel planning and management of personal finances.

A Fortune Global 500 company, Dell Computer Corporation (NASDAQ:DELL) designs, develops, manufactures, markets, services and supports a complete line of computers compatible with industry standards. Dell is the world's leading direct marketer of personal computers and one of the top five personal computer vendors in the world with annual revenues of nearly $3 billion. Information on the company and its products can be obtained through its toll-free number: 1-800-592-3355 or by accessing the Dell World Wide Web server, at http://www.us.dell.com/.

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SUMMARY OF 1/30/95 PRICING ACTIONS FOR DELL LATITUDE XP

Model   Processor                               Former   New    Amount

Name    Type/Speed      Display Type            Price   Price  Reduced

450C    IntelDX2/50MHz  Dual-Scan STN Color     $3,199  $2,799   $400

450CX   IntelDX2/50MHz  Active-Matrix TFT Color $4,299  $3,599   $700

475C    IntelDX4/75MHz  Dual-Scan STN Color     $3,399  $2,999   $400

4100C   IntelDX4/100MHz Dual-Scan STN Color     $3,699  $3,299   $400

4100CX  IntelDX4/100MHz Active-Matrix TFT Color $4,799  $4,199   $600

All models noted above are configured with 8MB of memory and a 340MB hard drive. The Latitude XP family comes with a three-year limited warranty with one-year of next-business-day on-site service. Additional models are available with 524MB and 810MB hard drives, also reduced by the amounts noted above.


Desktop Musician: Creating Music
THE DESKTOPS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC...

NEW BOOK SHOWS HOW TO CREATE MUSIC WITH COMPUTERS

Berkeley, CA, January 17, 1995 -- Creating, composing, and recording music no longer requires an array of musical instruments or an expensive studio. The Desktop Musician: Creating Music with Your Computer, a new book recently published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill, describes how anyone can set up a desktop recording studio with a computer, some specialized software, and a few extra pieces of equipment.

Written by digital music expert David M. Rubin, The Desktop Musician is a comprehensive, highly visual guide that explains the concepts behind composing music on either a PC or Macintosh. Rubin starts with the fundamentals of electronic music and then delves into MIDI systems, sequencers, notation software, interactive composition programs, and audio editors.

The Desktop Musician:

* Describes the hardware components of a MIDI system and how to

  set up a music workstation.

* Reviews the most popular sequencers for the PC and Mac and describes

  the many models on the market.

* Outlines the best programs for music notation and manuscripts,

  digital audio editing, and learning about music basics.

* Describes a wide range of playing styles--from orchestral to big

  band--available when using synthesizers.

The Desktop Musician is packaged with a CD-ROM that contains sample programs from companies such as Opcode Systems, Passport Designs, Twelve Tone Systems, Dr. T's Software, and Steinberg. Computer musicians can try these programs out and start creating their own compositions immediately.

Ideal for both beginners and accomplished musicians, The Desktop Musician: Creating Music With Your Computer is a solid resource to the world of electronic music.

The Desktop Musician: Creating Music with Your Computer is soft cover, 442 pages, and has examples and illustrations throughout. A CD-ROM is packaged with the book. Suggested retail price: $34.95. ISBN: 0-07-881209-7. For orders only, phone (800) 227-0900, Monday through Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm, Pacific Time.

David M. Rubin owns a computer-music studio where he composes for film, video, and multimedia. He is the author of The Audible Macintosh and The Audible PC. He has a master's degree in music theory and composition, and his articles have appeared in a number of music and computer-related magazines.

Osborne/McGraw-Hill, headquartered in Berkeley, California, is a leading publisher of books about computers, software, and technology for people at all levels of computer and software proficiency. While all Osborne/McGraw-Hill books offer specific and timely information, selected books also include diskettes or CD-ROMs containing valuable software directly related to the text. Known for its best-selling Internet Yellow Pages as well as its Made Easy and Complete Reference books, Osborne/McGraw-Hill also has established strategic publishing relationships with Corporate Software, Inc., Oracle Corp., and several well-known McGraw-Hill magazines including Business Week and BYTE. A division of McGraw-Hill's Professional Publishing Group, Osborne/McGraw-Hill is targeting consumer support, emerging technologies, and innovative applications for future computer books.

Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2600 Tenth St, Berkeley, CA 94710

510-549-6600,  Fax: 510-549-6603,   orders: 800-227-0900


Internet Insider
AMAZING NEW BOOK BRINGS THE INTERNET TO THE MASSES

First Internet Tabloid to Hit Market in January 1995

Berkeley, CA, January 25, 1995 -- It was only a matter of time before the Internet became accessible to the masses--even for those people without a computer! The Internet Insider, with its outrageous and sensational tabloid format, brings all the surprising and sordid news direct from the Net to anyone brave enough to open the book.

Now available, the Internet Insider is the brainchild of Ruffin Prevost, long-time Net surfer and iconoclast. "In that it intentionally contains practically no useful information at all on how to use a computer, this book is unlike every other computer book ever written," states Prevost. "Instead, the Insider seeks to offer the best writings from the Internet, focusing on the humorous, offbeat, and outrageous--but with a generous sampling of serious, surprising, and downright touching items as well. It presents an insider's look at the Internet and its culture, but it is written in a style that will engage and enlighten outsiders."

The Internet Insider exposes the mysteries people have wondered about for years:

* Did Lee Harvey Oswald receive secret messages via the Internet?

* Is Elvis alive and well and surfing the Internet?

* Do space aliens plan to take over our modems and then the world?

* Will the dog-faced boy find love on the Net?

Readers need no experience with computers or the online world to read and appreciate the book. For the first time in nearly two years of relentless hype, myth, legend, rumors, conjecture, distortion, misrepresentation, and oversimplification, everyone will be able to find out what the much-touted information superhighway is really like.

Covering topics from the bizarre (haiku written by dogs) to the topical (news on how the Internet helped end Soviet communism), the Internet Insider casts its investigative light into the darkest corners of the Net.

In addition, readers will be able to access the electronic version of the Internet Insider via the Internet. The online Internet Insider will have up-to-the-minute news from the edge of cyberspace, secrets about the forces that shape the digital tabloid, and a submission zone for reader contributions to the next edition of the Insider. There will be an Internet Insider Home Page accessible from the World-Wide Web by February 1995, as well as an e-mail update subscription service and back issues and extra editions available via anonymous FTP. For more information about the Internet Insider online, please send e-mail to ruffin@cerf.net.

Internet Insider is soft cover, 304 pages, and has examples and illustrations throughout. Suggested retail price: $14.95. ISBN: 0-07-882084-7. For orders only, phone (800) 227-0900, Monday through Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm, Pacific Time.

Ruffin Prevost is the co-author of the best-selling book, Mac Shareware 500. He has written and edited several books about computers and technology. He lives in Los Angeles where he is sole proprietor of 4a.m. Studios, a communication and information consulting firm. He can be reached on the Net at ruffin@cerf.net.

Osborne/McGraw-Hill, headquartered in Berkeley, California, is a leading publisher of books about computers, software, and technology for people at all levels of computer and software proficiency. While all Osborne/McGraw-Hill books offer specific and timely information, selected books also include diskettes or CD-ROMs containing valuable software directly related to the text. Known for its best-selling Internet Yellow Pages as well as its Made Easy and Complete Reference books, Osborne/McGraw-Hill also has established strategic publishing relationships with Corporate Software, Inc., Oracle Corp., and several well-known McGraw-Hill magazines including Business Week and BYTE. A division of McGraw-Hill's Professional Publishing Group, Osborne/McGraw-Hill is targeting consumer support, emerging technologies, and innovative applications for future computer books.

Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2600 Tenth St, Berkeley, CA 94710

510-549-6600,  Fax: 510-549-6603,   orders: 800-227-0900


That's Edutainment! Parents Guide to Educ Swr
THAT'S EDUTAINMENT! REVIEWS THE 100 BEST HOME EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE TITLES

Enclosed CD-ROM Allows Parents to Try Before They Buy

Berkeley, CA, January 25, 1995 -- With public schools in trouble nationwide and parents concerned about the effects of TV and video games, entertaining learning ("edutainment") software is emerging as a healthy alternative and supplement. That's Edutainment! A Parent's Guide to Educational Software explores the new world of fun learning software in a comprehensive sourcebook about purchasing, using, and enjoying educational software--complete with a CD-ROM with both demos and full working versions of educational software.

Now available, That's Edutainment! reveals the concepts behind the new wave of educational software and helps parents choose the right programs to supplement the skills their children learn at school. That's Edutainment! shows how multimedia software can be amazingly effective in getting kids hooked on learning.

From the hundreds of consumer educational packages on the market, multimedia expert Eric Brown has chosen the 100 best titles--both CD-ROM and floppy-disk--and provided in-depth reviews, each loaded with lively illustrations and screens. The target age group of each product is indicated, along with a helpful index of skills that the product reinforces. Each review includes a Report Card detailing the price, platform, and quality rating of each program in 11 categories. That's Edutainment! also offers insight on how to choose The right components when buying a multimedia computer and avoid common hardware and software installation traps.

Valuable CD-ROM Enclosed

As a special bonus, That's Edutainment! includes a CD-ROM containing dozens of demos and full working versions of the top edutainment programs for children and parents to try out at home. If parents decide to purchase the software, they can do it with one simple phone call to CD-Direct, an electronic software distribution systems and encryption company. Upon payment by credit card, they will receive a simple code allowing them to unlock the program on the spot or receive the package through the mail.

Quality education is the best investment anyone can make for their child's future. That's Edutainment! A Parent's Guide to Educational Software will help parents build a strong foundation for lifelong learning.

That's Edutainment! A Parent's Guide to Educational Software is soft cover, 400 pages, and has examples and illustrations throughout. One CD-ROM is included. Suggested retail price: $29.95. ISBN: 007-882083-9. For orders only, phone (800) 227-0900, Monday through Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm, Pacific Time.

About the Author

Eric Brown, father of two, has been testing and using software for the last twelve years as an editor at PC World and NewMedia magazines. He is executive editor of features at NewMedia, the world's leading multimedia magazine with more than 250,000 subscribers.

About the CD-ROM Publisher

Founded in August 1993, CD-Direct, Inc. develops and markets unique Electronic Software Distribution Systems and encryption technology. Their products enable users to install and evaluate a full version of a software program on their hard disk for a set period of time, without the limitations of a demonstration version.

Osborne/McGraw-Hill, headquartered in Berkeley, California, is a leading publisher of books about computers, software, and technology for people at all levels of computer and software proficiency. While all Osborne/McGraw-Hill books offer specific and timely information, selected books also include diskettes or CD-ROMs containing valuable software directly related to the text. Known for its best-selling Internet titles as well as its Made Easy and Complete Reference books, Osborne/McGraw-Hill also has established strategic publishing relationships with Corporate Software, Inc., Oracle Corp., and several well-known McGraw-Hill magazines including Business Week and BYTE. A division of McGraw-Hill's Professional Publishing Group, Osborne/McGraw-Hill is targeting consumer support, emerging technologies, and innovative applications for future computer books.

Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2600 Tenth St, Berkeley, CA 94710

510-549-6600,  Fax: 510-549-6603,   orders: 800-227-0900


EA Completes Acquisition of Bullfrog
ELECTRONIC ARTS COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF BULLFROG PRODUCTIONS LTD.

SAN MATEO, Calif., January 24, 1995 - Electronic Arts (Nasdaq:ERTS), a leading global interactive entertainment company, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Bullfrog Productions Ltd., a premier European interactive game developer, based in Surrey, England. Bullfrog becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Electronic Arts (EA). Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Bullfrog is Europe's number one PC CD-ROM software developer and is best known for its innovative strategy and simulation games such as Populous, PowerMonger, Syndicate, Theme Park and Magic Carpet.

In line with the Company's long-term strategy to invest in key development and creative talent, Bullfrog is the third major interactive software company acquired by Electronic Arts in the past three years. Origin Systems, Inc., the Austin, Texas-based entertainment software developer of titles such as the Wing Commander and Ultima series, was acquired in 1992. Distinctive Software Inc. of Vancouver, Canada, developers of EA SPORTS properties such as NHL Hockey and FIFA International Soccer, was acquired in 1991.

Electronic Arts (EA), headquartered in San Mateo, California, is a leading interactive entertainment company. EA was founded in 1982 and has an annual sales rate of over $400 million. The company develops, publishes and distributes software worldwide for IBM-compatible PCs and Macintosh computers, as well as game machines such as Sega Genesis, Super NES, and 3DO Interactive Multiplayer.

Electronic Arts

1450 Fashion Island Blvd

San Mateo, CA 94404

415-571-7171


EA Takes Equity Stake in Visual Concepts
ELECTRONIC ARTS TAKES EQUITY STAKE IN LEADING SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, VISUAL CONCEPTS ENTERTAINMENT

SAN MATEO, Calif., January 25, 1995 - Electronic Arts (Nasdaq:ERTS), a leading global interactive entertainment company, today announced it has acquired a minority equity stake in Visual Concepts Entertainment, a leading interactive game developer, based in San Rafael, California. Visual Concepts will develop entertainment software on emerging advanced 32-bit platforms exclusively for Electronic Arts. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Visual Concepts Entertainment, founded in 1988, has had a four-year history with Electronic Arts designing and developing top-selling interactive game software in the sports and action categories. Visual Concepts is widely recognized for its ability to develop innovative and visually compelling interactive software. Key Electronic Arts properties developed by Visual Concepts include Super NES titles such as John Madden Football '94 and '95, NHL Hockey '95, Desert Strike, and the soon-to-be-released Toughman Contest for the Sega Genesis. Visual Concepts has also developed such successful titles as Clay Fighter and Tazmania.

"This agreement is part of our long-term strategy to invest in the very best creative talent in interactive entertainment," said Larry Probst, chairman and CEO of Electronic Arts. "The outstanding work by Visual Concepts has set a standard for interactive entertainment, establishing an increasingly high mark for realistic game play in sports and action games. The new advanced 32-bit entertainment platforms, based on CD-ROM technology, will provide an even broader canvas upon which to design brilliant new interactive titles."

The strategic investment in Visual Concepts follows yesterday's completion of Electronic Arts' acquisition of Bullfrog Productions Ltd. of Surrey, England. Bullfrog was the third major interactive software company acquired by Electronic Arts in the past three years. Origin Systems, Inc., the Austin, Texas-based entertainment software developer of titles such as the Wing Commander and Ultima series, was acquired in 1992. Distinctive Software Inc. of Vancouver, Canada, developers of EA SPORTS properties such as NHL Hockey '95 for PC-CD and FIFA International Soccer, was acquired in 1991.

Electronic Arts (EA), headquartered in San Mateo, California, is a leading interactive entertainment company. EA was founded in 1982 and has an annual sales rate of over $400 million. The company develops, publishes and distributes software worldwide for IBM-compatible PCs and Macintosh computers, as well as game machines such as Sega Genesis, Super NES, and 3DO Interactive Multiplayer.

Electronic Arts

1450 Fashion Island Blvd

San Mateo, CA 94404

415-571-7171


Houghton Mifflin/GNN K-12 Education Center
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN SCHOOL DIVISION AND MCDOUGAL LITTELL/HOUGHTON MIFFLIN TEAM UP WITH GLOBAL NETWORK NAVIGATOR TO PUBLISH INTERNET-BASED K-12 EDUCATION CENTER

Boston, MA -- January 31, 1995 -- Houghton Mifflin Company, a leading publisher of K-12 instructional materials, and O'Reilly & Associates' Digital Media Group, the leading Internet-based publisher, today announced a partnership to develop the Houghton Mifflin/Global Network Navigator (GNN) K-12 Education Center. The Houghton Mifflin/GNN Education Center is a free online service which will appeal to today's busy classroom teacher by providing unique curriculum and professional development materials and by organizing Internet resources for K-12 educators, students and parents.

According to Mr. Ray Shepard, Corporate Vice President, Editor-in-Chief, Houghton Mifflin School Division, "There is increasing interest in the information highway and how it can benefit collaboration among both teachers and students throughout the country and the world. The Houghton Mifflin/GNN Education Center will provide teachers with online professional development opportunities, connections to other teachers, online author interviews, and curriculum support to help meet the diverse needs of today's students."

The Houghton Mifflin/GNN Education Center will include a range of resources for K-12 educators, including Curriculum Centers in Reading, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Literature/Language Arts. Houghton Mifflin's elementary division and its secondary division, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin, will be developing the Curriculum Center materials, ideas, and projects both to support and extend their current curriculum programs, and to assist teachers in these general curriculum areas. In addition, the Education Center's online magazine will help organize and guide educators to resources, projects, and people on the Internet and provide schools with information on how to integrate online networks and projects in the classroom.

"A lively K-12 community on the Internet already exists. We want to join this existing community to nurture the growth and improve the quality of the current collaboration and resources on the Internet. We believe that we can contribute to this community by organizing as well as creating resources and new connections between people," said Dale Dougherty, publisher, GNN.

A recent QED report states that more than 25% of K-12 schools are connected to the Internet and the interest is growing daily. According to Ms. Julie McGee, Executive Vice President, President, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin, "We are already developing and selling a variety of multimedia products for the school market. We view our entrance into online publishing as the next logical step in our efforts to provide materials and services to help today's teachers prepare students for the next century."

Combining O'Reilly & Associates' Digital Media Group's expertise as a web publisher with Houghton Mifflin School Division and McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin's well-respected position in K-12 education, the Houghton Mifflin/GNN Education Center will provide dynamic and effective tools for the learning environment.

About Houghton Mifflin Company

Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading publisher of textbooks, instructional technology, assessments, and other educational materials for the elementary and secondary school and college markets, as well as an extensive line of reference publications, and fiction and nonfiction for adults and young readers.

About Global Network Navigator

Introduced in October 1993, GNN is an Internet-based digital publication and publishing platform for emerging digital publishers. As part of its service, GNN offers up-to-date news, the industry's most complete Internet directory, online advertising and special interest publications.

GNN is a free service and is available to anyone with full connections to the global Internet who has worldwide browser and/or Lynx. GNN is a product of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., a leading publisher of books for UNIX, X, and the Internet, including the best-selling The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog by Ed Krol.


New Foundation Center Info Service on WWW
New Foundation Center Information Service Launched on the Internet

                        http://fdncenter.org

January 1995 -- The Foundation Center launched its new World Wide Web information service on December 30. This service is the first step in the Foundation Center's initiative to distribute timely funding information directly to nonprofit organizations, grantmakers, libraries, the media and other interested users via their desktop computers.

The information currently available through this new service includes a directory of the Center's five libraries and more than 200 cooperating collections, a catalog of Center publications. and the Center's annual report. Also featured is Philanthropy News Digest. a service developed specifically for Internet publication. The Digest provides summaries of news articles on philanthropy from the major print media.

The Foundation Center's new information service extends the Center's reach to audiences in remote locations and offers users a flexible and convenient way to access information. "During this fourth week of operation, 200 World Wide Web users per day each viewed an average of SIX documents," reports Sherry Seward, Vice President of Marketing and Product Development "We're very encouraged by this positive response to our new online service and look forward to developing the service further to meet the funding information needs of the nonprofit field.

Ultimately, the Center will offer a full range of information services to grantseekers and grantmakers via the Internet and other online networks. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has made a lead grant in support of network development.

During 1995, the Center will extend the Internet information service to include Gopher-based access. According to Seward, the Center will be working actively with its nonprofit audiences to provide additional services, including offering assistance to grantmakers to make their funding information and publications available online. Future plans for the Center's online information service include access to the Center's data on grantmakers and their grants.

The Foundation Center's information service on the World Wide Web can be accessed by typing the Uniform Resource Locator http://fdncenter.org

About the Foundation Center

The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit organization established by foundations in 1956. The Center's mission is to foster understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects. The Center accomplishes its mission by maintaining a comprehensive and up-to-date database on foundations and corporate giving programs and their grants, by producing publications from this database in both print and electronic formats, and by analyzing trends in foundation giving. The Center makes funding information available to the public at no charge at five Foundation Center libraries and some 200 cooperating collections across the country. The Center's databases are available via DIALOG, an online service of Knight-Ridder Information,

The Foundation Center

79 Fifth Ave

New York, NY 10003-3076

212-620-4230,  fax 212-807-3677


Integraph Offers Free AutoCAD Upgrade
INTERGRAPH COMPUTER SYSTEMS CONTINUES FREE UPGRADE OFFER TO AUTOCAD USERS

HUNTSVILLE, AL, January 17, 1995 -- Intergraph Computer Systems (ICS), the independent hardware division of Intergraph Corporation, is continuing its offer of a $395 credit toward an upgrade of AutoCAD Release 13 to customers purchasing TD-3, TD-4, or TD-5 personal workstations.

"We are seeing a very positive response to the offer," said Loyd Tarver, executive manager for Intergraph Computer Systems marketing. "AutoCAD users who have experienced the performance and benefits of the personal workstation series have been very positive about our machines and offer."

Meeting the AutoCAD Users Needs

Building on more than 25 years of graphics excellence and innovation, ICS is able to offer high-performance machines designed help AutoCAD users get the most from Release 13. The new TD-3, with a single 100MHz Pentium processor, is the ideal choice for 2D and 3D AutoCAD designs in the DOS/Windows or Windows NT environment. The TD-4 and TD-5 models, running in the Windows NT environment, provide dual 100MHz Pentium processors for the heavy demands of applications such as 3D Studio. ICS' series of personal workstations also offers Windows support for digitizer operation and dual-screen graphics display.

TD Performance

The CADalyst benchmark measures features that determine AutoCAD productivity: CPU speed, disk throughput, and graphic performance. According to Sharp and Bacon, "While the speed of the CPU is certainly an important part of a machine's performance, other issues can be much more important, depending on the way the machine is being used." No other computer vendor understands how computers are used for CAD better than Intergraph Computer Systems.

TD-4 Wins Awards

Since its debut in May, the TD-4 dual Pentium personal workstation has received two major awards. The first, the Best Systems award from BYTE Magazine, was presented at the 1994 Spring COMDEX/Windows World in Atlanta, Georgia. The second, the CADENCE Editors Choice Award, was presented at Autodesk University in October, 1994. The CADENCE message to AutoCAD users: "You are getting high-end UNIX workstation performance without having to deal with UNIX or give up your PC-based productivity software. CD-ROM and network interfaces are standard -- something rarely seen as standard equipment in this market, yet important to a large percentage of our readers" (CADENCE, October, 1994, p. 56).

Credit Toward Personal Workstation Purchase

To receive an upgrade certificate, AutoCAD users can call 1-800-763-0242. The certificate entitles AutoCAD users to a $395 credit that can be applied toward an AutoCAD upgrade when they purchase a personal workstation. Callers will be referred to a dealer authorized to sell both AutoCAD and ICS personal workstations. The offer is valid only with the purchase of a new 100MHz TD-3, TD-4, or TD-5 personal workstation through a participating, authorized Intergraph Computer Systems dealer. This offer is not available on new reduced-price 90MHz TD-3 models.

Intergraph Background Information

Intergraph Computer Systems develops, manufactures, sells, and supports computer systems for the Technical Desktop -- the combination of compatible technical applications and personal productivity tools in a single desktop computer. Hardware products include personal workstations and servers. A member of the Fortune 500, Intergraph is the world's largest company dedicated to supplying interactive computer graphics systems.

For more information, call: 800-763-0242


TruScan CS400 Large Document Color Scanner
TruScan CS400 Large Document Color Scanner Includes Real-time Color Selection

January 31, 1995 -- Herndon, VA: Large document color scanning enters a new era with the introduction of Vidar's new TruScan CS400 Large Document Color Scanner. Using the latest tri-color CCDs, this new scanner outputs 24-bit full color images at 400 dpi from documents up to 36" wide. The CS400 can also separate the image into user-defined colors, or groups of colors, thus allowing the user to select only the elements of interest from a full spectrum original.

Many applications require the extraction of one or more specific colors from the original document-dropping out a colored background grid, for example, picking out highways from an atlas, or isolating red-lined annotations from an architectural drawing. The TruScan CS400 handles these requirements and is the only large document color scanner on the market that lists for less than $40K.

From a pie chart display of the spectrum the user can choose colors, or groups of colors to be captured. This allows the as-scanned full color image to be compressed to any desired degree--from 24 bits down to 8 or 4 bits per pixel, for example. The user can even select one or more color groups, each to be output as a one-bit-per-pixel image Once the color definitions have been established, extraction is performed in real time as the document is scanned.

Like other Vidar large document scanners, the CS400 is distinguished by its high performance and quality. Depending on the color separation mode selected, a typical E-size document may be scanned in less than one minute. In addition to full color and selected color scanning, the CS400 also outputs the traditional grayscale and bi-level formats.

TruScan CS400 lists for $39,995 and comes complete with SCSI interface and Microsoft Windows compatible software. Software compatible for the major UNIX platforms is also available.

In addition to the TruScan line of monochrome and color large document scanners, Vidar manufactures X-ray Film Digitizers for medical and scientific applications, and an automatic Aperture Card Scanner for document management applications.

Vidar Systems Corp

460 Spring Park Place

herndon, VA 22070

703-471-7070,  fax 703-471-1165


Fileable Laser Form 4562 in Depreciation V3.02
FILEABLE LASER FORM 4562 HEADLINES RELEASE OF DEPRECIATION VERSION 3.02

ATLANTA, February 1, 1995 -- CLR Professional Software (formerly Prentice Hall Professional Software) announced the shipment of version 3.02 of Depreciation, the company's fixed assets application that maintains depreciation records under multiple sets of "books" [Adjusted Current Earnings (ACE), Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), federal tax, state tax, book, earnings and profits]. The system now includes the capability to laser print Form 4562, allowing accountants to readily file the form with their clients' returns.

The new Depreciation and Amortization report included in version 3.02 provides the detail supporting the totals on the Laser Form 4562. The Client Profile reflects the new Taxable Income and Sec. 179 Carryover fields, as well as a new Entity Type field, used in the calculation of the allowed Sec. 179 expense deduction. The system also handles short tax years, including the consumer price index rate as it applies to luxury automobiles.

The suggested retail price for Depreciation is $395. Depreciation also comes with a full 30-day money-back guarantee and toll-free technical support. Depreciation requires an IBM or 100%-compatible PC with 384K RAM, one high-density 5 1/4" or one high-density 3 1/2" disk drive, a hard disk drive, and MS-DOS version 3.0 or higher.

CLR Professional Software is an industry leader in professional accounting, tax, and real estate management software, serving more than 10,000 customers. The company is a division of Computer Language Research, Inc. based in Carrollton, Texas. CLR/Fast-Tax is the largest software supplier to the professional tax market. CLR Professional Software can be contacted at P.O. Box 723597, 2400 Lake Park Drive, Atlanta, GA 31139 or by telephone at (800) 241-3306, or in Atlanta at (404) 432-1996.


SilverPlatter & UMI Publishing Agreement
SilverPlatter Information and UMI Enter into Publishing Agreement

Five UMI Databases to be available from SilverPlatter

January 23, 1995 -- SilverPlatter Information and UMI, A Bell & Howell Company, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announce a cooperative publishing agreement whereby five UMI databases will be available from SilverPlatter. The databases are ABI/INFORM, Periodical Abstracts Research 11 Edition, Newspaper Abstracts, Dissertation Abstracts, and Pharmaceutical News Index.

This publishing agreement marks a significant collaboration between two major companies in the information industry. Commenting on the new publishing arrangement, Nancy Knight, VP of U.S. Information Provider Relations at SilverPlatter, noted "We are extremely pleased to be able to offer UMI databases to SilverPlatter subscribers. These databases are outstanding additions to our collection of products. Working closely with UMI represents a major step in building a worldwide library. It is through these types of collaborations that we are able to move forward in offering a comprehensive collection, accessible from all major hardware and software platforms."

"This agreement will bring critical and timely information via UNI's databases to SilverPlatter customers," says Pat Guiant, UMI vice president, product development. "We are pleased to be working with SilverPlatter and look forward to a long and productive relationship."

ABI/INFORM is an essential source of business information. It offers comprehensive coverage of companies and products; business strategies and tactics; management tools and trends; case studies of successes and failures. Topics include: accounting, banking, computers, economics, energy, engineering, environment, finance, health care, human resources, insurance, international trends, law, management, marketing, public administration, real estate, taxation, telecommunications and transportation. This database provides complete bibliographic information, indexing, and 25- to 200-word abstracts for articles published in over 1,000 business journals, including more than 350 published outside the United States. Two coverage options are available: 1971 to present or 1985 to present. A full-text version contains the complete text of selected articles from 550 major publications since 1991.

Periodical Abstracts Research ll Edition is a complete reference to popular magazines, business periodicals, and academic publications. Primarily designed for the demanding research environments of large academic and corporate libraries Research ll Edition covers more than 1,600 general-reference publications. Years covered are 1986 to the present. A full-text version contains the complete text of selected articles from 300 major publications since 1992 and 1993. An additional 300 titles will be added in 1995. .

Newspaper Abstracts (27 Paper Edition) provides researchers with cover-to-cover access to articles appearing in the nation's leading newspapers: The New York Times, The Atlanta Constitution (includes selected articles from the Atlanta Journal); The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune; The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal; The Washington Post, USA Today and others. It combines complete bibliographic citations, precise indexing, and concise informative abstracts. For each newspaper, Newspaper Abstracts covers international, national, regional, and local news, business and finance, editorials, commentaries, letters to the editor from prominent people, arts and leisure, special series and supplements, sports, and obituaries of eminent persons. Coverage is from 1991 to the present. Backfiles covering material from 1989 to the present are also available.

Dissertation Abstracts is the resource for original academic research, past and present. It provides access to original academic research from over 1,000 universities throughout the world, including most North American graduate schools and many European universities. It is the most comprehensive information resource covering more than 1.2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Records in this database include abstracts, authors, advisors, titles, institutions, degrees, dates, author-assigned subjects and descriptors, number of pages, and availability of information. Coverage is from 1981 to the present with an optional backfile dating back to 1861 also available.

Pharmaceutical News Index covers essential publications related to the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and medical devices industries. This database contains bibliographic information and indexing for all articles published in 20 key U.S. and international pharmaceutical, health care, biotechnology, and medical device industry publications. It also includes citations to company and industry reports from Thomson Financial Networks' Investext database. The reports are prepared by leading brokerage firms and financial research organizations. Start dates of coverage range from 1974 to 1990.

The UMI databases are available for hard disk storage and over the Internet, and are accessible using SilverPlatter's ERL (Electronic Reference Library) Technology. Dissertation Abstracts and Pharmaceutical News Index are also available on SilverPlatter non-ERL platforms.

For further information about any of the UMI databases or to subscribe, contact:

SilverPlatter Information, Inc.

1 00 River Ridge Drive

Norwood, MA 02062-5043

Tel: 1-800-343-0064 (U.S. and Canada) or 1-617-769-2599

Fax: 1-617-769-8763

Internet: info@silverplatter.com


Application-Specific CD-ROM Server Packages
Meridian Data and SilverPlatter Information Introduce Application-Specific CD-ROM Servers

Systems Deliver Network-based CD-ROM Information to Health Care, Pharmaceutical and Educational Organizations

January 17, 1995 -- Meridian Data and SilverPlatter Information have jointly announced the availability of the CD Net SilverServer, a high-performance CD-ROM network system which allows health care, biomedical and educational organizations to easily share and access comprehensive SilverPlatter CD-ROM databases throughout the enterprise.

Available through authorized, specially-trained value-added resellers (VARs), the SilverServers include Meridian's award-winning CD Net 428 Enterprise network server and a choice of three SilverPlatter CD-ROM database packages, integrated in a turnkey software and system package. The SilverPlatter CD applications - for DOS, Windows and Macintosh platforms - include an intuitive interface for accessing vast amounts of networked information and are well-known for enhancing user productivity.

The product line includes Meridian's premier CD Net Plus Software, Ethernet- or Token Ring-based network server, 14 double- or quadruple-speed CD-ROM drives in a pressurized lock-secured cabinet and a series of complementary SilverPlatter databases. Available for Novell NetWare and NetBIOS LANs, the high-performance network systems are identified by vertical application specialty:

* CD Net Hospital SilverServer, with 1 3-CD Health Care Package, including these titles: MEDLINE Express (1990 to present), HealthPLAN-CD, Health & Drug Information Library, BIOETHICSLINE Plus, EMBASE Alert, MDX Health Digest, RNdex Top 100, and CANCERLIT;

* CD Net Pharmaceutical SilverServer, with 1 3-CD Biomedical Package, including these titles: MEDLINE Express (1983 to present), EMBASE Alert, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, BIOETHICSLINE Plus, Inpharma Database and Reactions Database;

* CD Net Academic SilverServer, with 11-CD Education Package, including these titles: ERIC Quarterly (1966 to present), GPO, Statistical Abstracts from the A Matter of Fact database, Peterson's GRADLINE, PAIS International, EconLit, sociofile, Choice, MDX Health Digest, and Access: the Supplementary Index to Periodicals.

"This unique Meridian/SilverPlatter relationship - a first for the CD-ROM industry establishes a network of authorized VARs, specializing in end-user vertical applications and trained to integrate, install, and support the complete networked-CD solution," said Bill Etheredge, Meridian's vice president of sales. "Now, health care, biomedical and educational professionals can rely on a knowledgeable one-stop shop for their CD database and network system needs. We are pleased to offer this attractively-priced CD Net SilverServer product line through our specially-trained and certified group of VARs, bundling Meridian's premier network management system and SilverPlatter's leading-edge CD-ROM applications."

According to Rob McKinney, director of network distribution for SilverPlatter, "We are very pleased with our partnership with Meridian, which provides our subscribers with a total solution for their CD-ROM system and database needs. With Meridian's excellent reputation, we know that customers will receive the best service and support for their CD-ROM network - plus access to the databases they need through the familiar SilverPlatter software. This relationship also furthers our commitment to make SilverPlatter's electronic information resources easily available to subscribers across the country."

Pricing and Availability

The CD Net SilverServers, bundled with system, software and application packages, are priced at savings of up to $4,795, compared to standalone pricing of individual Meridian and SilverPlatter products. The Hospital, Pharmaceutical and Academic CD Net SilverServers have a starting suggested list price (U.S.) of

$41,484, $43,068 and $39,906, respectively. Customers can expand the SilverServer capacity by upgrading the system to a total of 28 double- or quad-speed CD-ROM drives.

Meridian's products are backed by a comprehensive Reliance Support Program, including one-year warranty, toll-free technical hotline and bulletin board service. The CD Net SilverServers are available now through these authorized VARs:

* Western Integrated Systems

  San Francisco, CA

  415-989-1777

* Ascolta

  Los Angeles & Orange Counties, CA

  714-852-8811

* Western Office Systems

  Phoenix, AZ

  602-265-1566

* Amisys, Inc.

  Denver, CO

  303-450-2434

* Accudata Systems, Inc.

  Houston, TX

  713-440-7220

* CompuNet Engineering

  Kansas City, MO; St. Louis, MO; Wichita, KS

  913-491-3400

* Data Systems Network Corp.

  Detroit, MI; Chicago, IL; Columbus, OH

  810-489-7117

* Frederick Computer Plus

  Philadelphi, PA/NJ

  610-292-2200

* ISI

  Washington DC/Baltimore, MD Metro Area

  703-276-8933

VAR Program Participation

Resellers interested in participating in the CD Net SilverServer program in metropolitan regions not currently covered are advised to contact Meridian Data at 408/438-3100 for qualification requirements.

About SilverPlatter Information

SilverPlatter Information is a worldwide publisher and distributor of electronic information products. In partnership with more than 100 Information Providers, SilverPlatter offers a collection of over 200 databases, covering 175 different subjects. With offices in Boston, London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Berlin, SilverPlatter is committed to creating a more effective, worldwide electronic information industry.

About Meridian Data

Founded in 1986, Meridian Data is the leading provider of CD-ROM creation and network-based storage and access solutions. Meridian became a public corporation in 1994 through a merger with Parallan Computer (NASDAQ: PLLN). The combined company is headquartered in Scotts Valley, CA, and maintains offices in Lawrenceville, NJ, Herndon, VA and Naperville, IL. Meridian's products are available through leading distributors and value-added resellers, worldwide.

SilverPlatter Information, Inc.

100 River Ridge Drive

Norwood, MA 02062-5043

Tel: 1-800-343-0064 (U.S. and Canada) or 1-617-769-2599

Fax: 1-617-769-8763

Internet: info@silverplatter.com


Breadth of Japan's Interactive Technology Trial
NTT AND SILICON GRAPHICS REVEAL BREADTH OF JAPAN'S INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY TRIAL

THE COMPANIES SIGNED CONTRACT TO JOINTLY DEVELOP SET-TOP, INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS FOR 300 TO 500-HOME TRIAL THIS YEAR

TOKYO, Japan/MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (February 2, 1995)- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NYSE:SGI) today announced details of a definitive agreement to build an interactive multimedia service system as part of NTT's Joint Utilization Test of Multimedia Communication. The two companies will jointly develop technology and services for the 300 to 500-home trial, beginning installation this year in Urayasu City, a suburb of Tokyo.

"From Orlando to Urayasu City, Silicon Graphics is paving the visual superhighway by putting more computing on top of televisions than most people have on their PCs," said Edward R. McCracken, chairman and chief executive officer of Silicon Graphics. "NTT has a remarkable visi on of the interactive future. Together, we will define compelling and widely deployable next-generation interactive services."

Under the agreement, the system jointly developed by NTT and Silicon Graphics will combine NTT's digital network technologies, Silicon Graphics' visually intuitive viewer interface, interactive applications, and a powerful set-top device based on the MIPS microprocessor archtecture. The new system will implement Silicon Graphics' CHALLENGE media servers. Interactive Digital Solutions, a subsidiary of Silicon Graphics will also participate in the development activities. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

The interactive multimedia services system will provide information-on-demand, networked multi-player games, video-on-demand, telephony and CATV video. The 300 to 500-home trial is scheduled to begin in late 1995.

Silicon Graphics, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of high-performance visual computing systems. The company delivers three-dimensional graphics, digital media and multiprocessing supercomputing technologies to technical, scientific and creative professionals. Its subsidiary, MIPS Technologies, Inc., designs and licenses the industry's leading RISC processor technology for the computer systems and embedded control markets. Silicon Graphics has offices worldwide and headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation and its subsidiaries provide Japan's broadest range of telecommunications services, including telephone, telegraph, leased circuit, data communication facility and miscellaneous services. NTT continues in its long-standing commitment to international cooperation and procurement. NTT is developing a next-generation network in order to create advanced telecommunications services for the 21st century and its research and development is crucial to realizing this goal.


Online Electronic Banking for BBS's
Online Electronic Banking

Door & Modules to process checking information Online!

Look for our FULL page ad and information starting February 1995 in Boardwatch Magazine!

Automated Transaction Services, Inc. opens the doors to automated Sales and Subscriptions! Got a great new product line? Don't just show off your wares, take the order, and do it on-line, while you sleep, eat or play golf! Time's Up! for your customers? Let them upgrade their security themselves and take their payments on-line without lifting a finger.

*** Is this service needed? YES! ***

In 1994 The Gallup Organization, found nearly half of all consumers consider checks the MOST CONVENIENT way to pay for purchases; only cash came close to matching checks in popularity.

Those consumers surveyed by Gallup reported checks were used to pay for purchases 48% of the time; only 15% reported using checks less than 1% of the time, while 10% said they use checks all of the time to pay for retail purchases. Overall, Gallup found, 33% of consumers use checks more than 25% of the time at the merchant check out.

Convenience seems to be a big draw for check writing. Of those queried this year (1994) by Gallup's pollsters, 43% said they found it very inconvenient when retailers do not accept personal checks; only 24% said it was NOT inconvenient.

Do we have software to support this need for the online community? YES!

We have support for Excalibur, DOOR.SYS BBS, TBBS, Major BBS, PCBoard, Wildcat!, RemoteAccess, TriBBS, GAP, Renegade, KBBS, and even Unix/Internet/MAC Support.

RELEASED are several doors and modules for Excalibur, WildCat!, PCBoard, TBBS, Searchlight, FirstClass, Synchronet, Major BBS, RemoteAccess, TriBBS, PowerBBS, or any DOOR.SYS BBS.

This service allows callers to electronically process checks from a checking or savings account online as payment for merchandise, services, subscriptions, etc. FULLY automated. Full text logging of all transactions. Multi-node and DigiBoard compatible.

Transaction data can be sent automatically via modem using a built in communications program. Total security protection for the transaction.

*** WHAT DOES IT COST TO GET GOING? ***

Merchant Account Price Structure:

1. ONE time signup fee of $49.00

2. Transaction fee of 1.5% or $1.50 minimum. *DISCOUNTS* for AOP

   members as well as other associations and larger Online Systems or

   Internet Service Providers.

3. Postage and Handling charge of .50 cents for one to a million

   checks. In another words whether one check or thousands are mailed

   they are only .50 cents to cover postage and handling. Included in

   mailing is full reporting for NO extra charge.

4. NO Monthly Maintenance fee.

5. NO statement fee.

6. NO yearly renewal fee.

7. NO - NOTHING ELSE. NO HIDDEN CHARGES! YOU CAN READ THE FINE

   PRINT!<g>

*** DEMONSTRATION INFO - PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING ***

Call via modem at:

o CHECKIT!.DLL - EXCALIBUR VERSION:  Call today:

  407-275-6602.

o DOOR.SYS VERSION:  310-204-3249 login under the OEB DEMO

  password DEMO and follow the Menu. Full support for Wildcat!,

  PCBoard, RemoteAccess, SpitFire, TriBBS, Renegade, Searchlight,

  PowerBBS, or any door.sys supported platform.

o TBBS VERSION:  408-267-8734 login under the name OEB

  DEMO password demo (lower case only for password) for

  the TBBS version. At the Main Menu press 2.

o SYNCHRONET VERSION:  502-491-1340 login under the name

  OEB DEMO no password needed. Full Baja support.

o MAJOR BBS VERSION: Call via voice at 505-293-9045.

  Prodesign will provide more information on The Midas

  FULL accounting Major BBS module. Ask for Simon Clement!

o INTERNET/UNIX/MAC VERSIONS: Call 805-379-9271 for more

  information.

o PCBOARD VERSION:  Call 801-785-6286. Login under the

  name OEB DEMO with the password DEMO.

o BRAINEX/Shop Master: Call 310-275-2344. Login under the

  name OEB DEMO with no password. Brainex supports ALL

  Door.sys, Doorinfo.def, SpitFire, RemoteAccess, Wildcat!,

  PCBoard, WWIV, TriBBS, Renegade, PowerBBS, Searchlight

  and most other BBS types.

o WC-Charge 4.03: Call via modem at 610-478-1430. You can also

  Freq with the magic name CHARGE. FidoNet: 1:2607/401. This

  Door is Wildcat! specific. Automatic upgrade for Wildcat!

*** Is Online Electronic Banking(tm) Legal? YES! ***

This service is established as legal method of payment as provided in the Uniform Commercial Code, Title 1, Section 1-201(39) and Title 3, Sections 3-104, 3-401 and 3-403;Code of Federal Regulations, Title 12, Chapter II, part 210; and Regulation J, Federal Reserve Bank, Part 2, Sections 4A-201 to 4A-212. See Romani V. Harris, 255 md. 389.

Is there PROTECTION and SAFETY to the SysOp & the consumer? YES!

1. Processing center is regulated by the Federal Reserve. One call by

   a bank that reports fraud can freeze all accounts to the processing

   center. Processing center has direct line to the Federal Reserve

   has no interest in freezing their assets. They have a fiduciary

   responsibility.

2. It is a *FELONY* to commit bank fraud. There are very stiff

   penalty's and jail time. There are good audit trails to find any

   discrepancies. Sysops would never want to be put in the position of

   doing anything of a questionable nature. There are built in check

   and balances for large ticket items that are flagged in the system

   and voice verified.

3. Processing is regulated by N.A.C.H.A. (National Automated Clearing

   House Association). There are strict guidelines and policing within

   association.

4. Erroneous Debits are handled by a phone call to your bank or

   signing an affidavit at YOUR bank depending on the individual bank

   policy. You have a full 30 days from the time of your BANK

   STATEMENT to request an adjustment or credit to YOUR account. If

   you find something wrong or have a difference regarding services or

   product purchased the bank handles it similar to a credit card

   error. The bank will credit back your account and get the vendor

   side of the matter to make a determination as to who is liable for

   the charge. FULL CONSUMER protection! If the charge was fraud you

   are credited back the debit. If it is a difference of consumer

   against vendor then it will be decided upon by the banks similar to

   a decision by a credit card company. PROTECTION for BOTH!

*** What kind of accounts can I setup with A.T.S.? ***

o MERCHANT Account (paper trail):

  The best way to do business with your large-ticket sale or new or

  unfamiliar customers. All transaction records and documents are

  on-hand for scrutiny and verification by operations and bookkeeping

  staff. Do business as usual, just automated!

o PRODUCTION Account (paperless):

  Have a large transaction volume? Lots of repeat customers? Your

  ready to move into a Production Account with all the professional

  features you need to support high-volume business. Don't wait,

  automate!

****  Call by Voice: (805) 379-9271  ****

The Forms will be faxed or mailed to you with all the information you will need!  You can FREQ the forms at 1:102/641 with the word OEB. Printing utility can be FREQ'd with the name PS30.

               Automated Transaction Services, Inc.

                    (a California Corporation)

                      2026 Bridgegate Court

                   Westlake Village, CA  91361

                      Voice: (805) 379-9271

                      Fax:   (805) 379-9772

                   Internet: ats@ibsabbs.com

                       FidoNet: 1:102/641

      WWW Home Page: http://www.gate.net/~vidwiz/ats.html

A.T.S. offers products to enhance transaction processing for all types of business. With 15 years management experience in the financial industry and ten years background in banking automation, A.T.S. has the answers now for the needs of the On-line Industry. Call us today for a complete review of you business requirements and a solid recommendation for automating your sales/collection activity.

A.T.S. is a *Founding Member* of The Association of Online Professionals (AOP) and David Goldfarb serves on The Associate Membership Board of Governors.

A.T.S. is "Building Pathways for Tomorrow's Business Through Advances in Today's Technology"


Intergraph Transcend Natural Lang. Translator
INTERGRAPH OFFERS NEW DESKTOP COMMUNICATION TOOL TRANSCEND, NATURAL LANGUAGE TRANSLATION SOFTWARE

HUNTSVILLE, AL, January 16, 1995 - Intergraph Software Solutions is breaking the language barrier in today's fast-paced business environment with the introduction of Transcend, a 32-bit, natural language translator for Windows-based PCs. The new software product translates text to and from common European languages while preserving the format of the original document. For ease-of-use, it is designed to either act as a standalone translator or to be accessed directly from a pull-down menu in a word processor. Unlike lightweight PC translators on the market today, Transcend uses robust linguistic technology that was previously only available on high-end mini-and mainframe hardware running software that cost thousands of dollars.

Improves Global Communication

"The globalized economy presents businesses with a greater communication challenge than ever before," says Intergraph's Deane K. Dayton, Ph.D., Executive Manager, Natural Language Products. "Adding Transcend to your desktop provides quick translations with professional results. It's ideal for small- and medium-sized businesses that want to compete effectively in international markets. The obvious benefits are the time and cost savings in translating documents, manuals, e-mail and other daily business correspondence."

Professional Quality Translation

Transcend has been derived from Intergraph's full-blown UNIX-based machine translation system called DP/Translator. The DP/Translator translation engine has been seamlessly incorporated onto the Windows desktop and makes use of extensive dictionaries and a sophisticated set of linguistic rules. The software has been designed for ease-of-use and operates standalone or can be integrated with common word processors such as Microsoft Word or WordPerfect.

Transcend gives the same translation quality as used by companies such as McDonald's and AT&T Business Translations, and on CompuServe's MacCIM Help Forum.

Product Features and Benefits

"We're proud that Transcend has powerful features and a low cost that enables individuals and businesses to communicate straight from their desktop," says Dayton. "The ability to quickly translate a document, polish it with minor post-edits, and then distribute it opens many new opportunities for enhanced global communication."

Transcend provides tools that:

- utilize Intergraph's new word processor integration feature

  are Microsoft Office Compatible

- preserve the layout and type specifications of the original document

- integrate inside Word and WordPerfect

- are compatible with several applications and file formats

  (QuarkXPress, FrameMaker, AmiPro, SGML, ASCII and others)

- search the document, identify unrecognized words and phrases, and

  perform full-sentence translations

Product Availability

Initial release of Transcend (First Quarter, 1995) includes the language directions: English-Spanish, Spanish-English, English-French, and French-English. Later releases will include: English-German, German-English, English-Italian, and English-Portuguese. The introductory price will be $295 with a list price of $495.

Hardware requirements: IBM/compatible PC, 386 or higher

                       Windows 3.1 or later or Windows NT

                       8 MB RAM, and 15 MB of memory

For integration with Microsoft Word - 6.0 or later For integration with WordPerfect - 6.0 or later

Intergraph Background Information

A member of the Fortune 500, Intergraph Corporation (Huntsville, AL) is the world's largest company dedicated to supplying interactive computer graphics systems. Products range from point solutions, meeting individual and departmental needs, to integrated, enterprise-wide systems.

Noted for delivering interoperable systems and applications, Intergraph bases its products on Windows, Windows NT, and UNIX operating systems. As one of the company's business units, Intergraph Software Solutions (ISS) develops and markets integrated software for the technical desktop the combination of compatible technical applications and personal productivity tools in a single desktop computer. Technical applications include machine translation, computer-aided design, engineering, analysis, manufacturing, publishing and earth sciences. ISS also provides core system software, high-end applications and training, consulting and implementation services.

For more information, call: 1-800-222-9242 (within the U.S. and Canada), or 1-205-730-9832 (elsewhere), or send e-mail inquiries to: transcend@ingr.com. This will


Intergraph Intros Faster Workstations at Lower$
INTERGRAPH INTRODUCES FASTER PERSONAL WORKSTATIONS AT LOWER PRICES

HUNTSVILLE, AL, January 17, 1995 -- Intergraph Computer Systems (ICS) today announced lower prices and new configurations for their popular TD Series of personal workstations. The new machines include improved versions of current TD models and new configurations of existing models. ICS customers can expect the first shipments in February.

"These new configurations offer engineering professionals the fastest Intel-based machines available anywhere," said Wade C. Patterson, vice president of Intergraph Computer Systems. "With the new pricing structure, these high-performance machines compete aggressively in both the PC and workstation markets."

TD-3 Personal Workstation Configurations & Pricing

ICS' top selling personal workstation, the TD-3, will now be available in 90 or 100 megahertz Pentium versions. These TD-3s outclass comparably priced desktops with state-of-the-art components, including 16 megabytes of memory, expandable to 192 megabytes; a Fast SCSI-2, high-capacity disk subsystem; 512-kilobyte, zero-wait-state cache; G90 or G91 graphics accelerator; and PCI bus technology. An Ethernet interface, implemented directly on the system board, efficiently manages broad-based heterogeneous network operations. Intergraph supports dual monitors for the TD-3 with a second G91 card option.

TD-3s can be complemented with a CD-ROM, a variety of digitizer solutions, and add-on disk and tape drives. TD-3s are delivered with Microsoft Windows for Workgroups or Windows NT pre-installed.

The new TD-3 configurations start at $4,695, a 23 percent price reduction.

TD-4 and TD-5 Personal Workstations Feature Dual 100MHz Pentiums

The new TD-4s and TD-5s feature dual Intel 100 megahertz Pentiums and support for Windows NT multiprocessing and multithreaded applications. This makes theses powerful machines ideal for compute-intensive 3D design and rendering packages. Both incorporate leading-edge components such as 32 megabytes of memory, expandable to 256 megabytes; a Fast SCSI-2, high-capacity disk subsystem; 512-kilobyte, zero-wait-state cache; PCI bus technology; and CD-ROM. Like the TD-3s, TD-4s and TD-5s feature an Ethernet interface, implemented directly on the system board to efficiently manage broad-based heterogeneous network operations. Both support an array of digitizer solutions, as well as add-on disk and tape drives. TD-4s and TD-5s are delivered with Microsoft Windows NT pre-installed.

Graphics accelerator options for the TD-4 include G91 and GLZ. The TD-5 offers G91, GLZ and GLI graphics accelerator options. GLI and GLZ utilize the OpenGL graphics interface to enable real-time 3D manipulations and life-like walk-throughs in 3D designs.

TD-4 configurations start at $9,900. TD-5 configurations start at $11,900.

Monitor Configurations

Monitor configurations for the TD series include single or dual 17-inch and 21-inch multisync, flat square displays and Intergraph's premier two-megapixel monitors, available in 21- and 27-inch screens.

Intergraph Background Information

Intergraph Computer Systems develops, manufactures, sells, and supports computer systems for the Technical Desktop -- the combination of compatible technical applications and personal productivity tools in a single desktop computer. Hardware products include personal workstations and servers. A member of the Fortune 500, Intergraph is the world's largest company dedicated to supplying interactive computer graphics systems.

For more information, call: 800-763-0242


ShowBasic 1.0 Tutorial/Demo Development Kit
ShowBasic 1.0

Tutorial/Demo/Training/Presentation Development Kit

ShowBasic for Windows v1.0 is a new Windows development kit for creating interactive demos, tutorials, computer-based training materials, authoring presentation and multimedia titles. The unique approach of ShowBasic allows developers to create programs which control other Windows application by emulating Windows input devices - mouse and keyboard. The complete or partial interactive session can be either recorded using special recorder tool or written manually. In both cases result is the ShowBasic program code. Using this code as a basis, programmers then add code to create popup windows with text and/or graphics, dialogs and routines to handle special events. The presentation quality might be achieved by using special transition effects, sprite animation, decorations and highlighting effects. Multimedia sound and video (WAV, MIDI and AVI) are supported. CBT titles and tutorials employ ShowBasic's ability to watch and react on certain events: keyboard and mouse actions, window activation and deactivation, focus change, closing of windows and Windows messages. Numerous specialized functions support DDE, communications with Program Manager, compressed and compound files, wallpaper control and more.

ShowBasic's ability to call functions in external DLLs provide access to Windows API and allows to extend functionality of ShowBasic applications. For example, Autodesk Animator Windows Player can be integrated with any ShowBasic program by using API in AAPLAY.DLL. At the same time ShowBasic programs can be controlled from another Windows applications which allow to call functions in external DLL.

ShowBasic is designed to be very cooperative with other Windows tools and applications. This means that in most cases the power of ShowBasic can be combined effortlessly with the power of other tools and use the best features of each one. For example, ShowBasic doesn't have a hypertext capabilities, but WinHelp or MediaView do. However ShowBasic application can control WinHelp application and/or can be controlled by it. This is how cooperation and integration of different tools can be achieved in one project.

ShowBasic demo is avalable on CompuServe (sbdemo.zip in WINSDK forum) and on Internet (ftp.cica.indiana.edu  /pub/pc/win3/demo/sbdemo.zip).

MIKSoft, Inc.,

37 Landsdowne Road,

East Brunswick, NJ 08816

tel/fax (908) 390-8986

CompuServe: 74127,3671

Internet: mik@cnj.digex.com

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Features outline.

ShowBasic allows to build stand-alone applications or add-ons to another applications in the following areas:

 - Computer Based Training (CBT) materials for any Windows

   applications;

 - automated product demos/presentations which control application

   itself (do not depend on snapshots of the application's screens);

 - independent Windows based tutorials which may use any other

   Windows applications or be self-contained;

 - independent presentations;

 - integration of existing applications;

 - macro-extension for existing applications;

 - Windows utilities;

Scripting engine:

 -  Full featured Basic language implementation includes:

      * Source code interpreter;

      * P-code compiler;

      * Run time P-code interpreter;

 -  Unlimited language extensions by means of using custom dynamic

    link libraries, access to full Windows API or any other DLL;

 -  Interpreter can be "embedded" into user's application or called

    from WinHelp or any other program which allows to start another

    Windows application or able to access functions in an arbitrary

    DLL;

 -  Ability to multithread: any Basic program can spawn another Basic

    program either suspending until the "child" is terminated or

    running with the "child" concurrently;

 -  Ability to handle certain events which are triggered as a result

    of interaction with user, therefore allowing asynchronous, event

    driven subroutines.

Emulation, application and interaction control:

 -  Ability to start any application and wait until it is terminated

    (optionally).

 -  Locating any window (control) based on its caption text or class;

 -  Window or application forced termination;

 -  Switching focus/activation;

 -  Complete emulation of standard Windows input devices: keyboard and

    mouse;

 -  Virtualization of screen/application dimensions in order to

    uniform emulation in different video modes;

 -  "Smart" mouse actions: ability to emulate mouse actions in

    Windows controls and menus based on control/menu labels instead of

    physical screen coordinates;

 -  Ability to watch and react to certain Windows events:

     * keyboard and mouse actions;

     * window's activation/deactivation;

     * window's focus change;

     * closing of windows;

     * Windows messages;

 -  Extensive system, window or current state information;

 -  DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) support;

Interaction features:

 -  Dialog boxes templates defined as part of the Basic language and

    allow to use any standard Windows controls and custom Windows

    controls implemented in DLLs;

 -  Several enhanced controls included and supported: "picture-button"

    and "progress bar";

 -  "Event handlers" can be attached to any control or a dialog itself

    ("event handler" is a subroutine which is called asynchronously

    when some event is triggered by user's interaction with a

    control);

 -  3-D control effects;

 -  Pictures on the background: bitmaps (BMP, DIB, RLE) or Windows

    metafiles (WMF, CLP).

Presentation features:

 -  Sprite animation;

 -  Dynamic popup windows presenting graphics from bitmap files

    (BMP, DIB, RLE) or Windows metafiles (WMF, CLP);

 -  "Transparent" graphics support;

 -  Dynamic replacement of the picture (or part of the picture) on

    a popup window;

 -  Dynamic construction or extension of the picture on a popup window

    using typical graphical constructors: lines, rectangles, polygons,

    filled areas, ellipses, text blocks; picture clips

    (bitmaps or metafiles);

 -  Transition effects as in "slide show" type presentations for popup

    windows (a very rich set of effects);

 -  Special window decorations including "shadows" and "pointers";

 -  Special highlighting effects as dynamic color change,  "zoom" and

    "spotlight";

 -  Animation or sequencing using Microsoft Video AVI files;

 -  Sound support:

     * MIDI sounds;

     * WAV sounds;

     * ability to play tunes using PC internal speaker;

Miscellaneous:

 -  Program Manager DDE control support;

 -  Compound files with compression support;

 -  File copying;

 -  Wallpaper control;

 -  Ability to combine in one executable P-code of several

    programs and required presentation files: bitmaps, metafiles,

    sound files, etc.

 -  Self-extracting compressed executables including ShowBasic

    run-time;

Utilities:

 -  ShowBasic DialogThief - Dialog Description Generator;

 -  ShowBasic Recorder;

 -  ShowBasic Executable Compressor;


IBM ThinkPad AC Adapter Recall (Model AA19210)
RECALL NOTICE -- AC Adapter Model AA19210

Jan. 20, 1995 -- Recently, during internal testing, IBM discovered that one model of AC adapter shipped with certain models of ThinkPad mobile computers could malfunction. The affected AC Adapter is Model AA19210 with a date code of 9452 or lower (i.e., 9451, 9450, etc.). The ThinkPad computer itself is not affected by this recall.

No incidents have been reported. However, in keeping with strict IBM quality procedures, IBM is issuing a recall of these adapters, which may pose an exposure to electric shock. IBM has implemented an easy process for you to get a replacement adapter as quickly as possible, at no charge. Details are attached.

In the U.S. and Canada please call 1-800-238-1967 (Mon. -Fri., 6 a.m. to midnight; Sat., 6 a.m. to 3 p.m.) to reach a representative who can help determine whether your adapter is affected. If your adapter is the affected part, IBM will send you, via overnight express, a replacement adapter and a postage-paid, return-mail carton for you to return your old adapter. In other countries we're asking customers to visit their authorized IBM resellers. In the interim, IBM recommends that all customers with an affected AC Adapter only use it with a properly wired, grounded outlet or use battery power.

We apologize for any disruption this may cause. Thank you for your patience.

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RECALL NOTICE FROM IBM FOR AC ADAPTER MODEL AA19210

If you purchased or accepted delivery of one of the following ThinkPad models (See bottom of ThinkPad unit for model number) your adapter may be subject to recall. In all cases the affected part is AC Adapter model AA19210 with a date code of 9452 or lower (i.e. 9451, 9450, etc). See bottom of AC Adapter unit for AC Adapter model number and date code.

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IN THE U.S., AC ADAPTER MODEL AA19210 SHIPPED WITH THE FOLLOWING THINKPAD MODELS (PURCHASED DURING OR AFTER OCT. 1994) MAY BE AFFECTED

ThinkPad 755C:

Models 9545-FOE; 9545-LOE; 9545-L9E; 9545-FOG; 9545-LOG

ThinkPad 360Cs:

Model 2620-20F

ThinkPad 755CE:

Models 9545-7BC; 9545-7BD; 9545-7BE; 9545-7PC

ThinkPad 755CD

Model 9545-9BE

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IN CANADA, AC ADAPTER MODEL AA19210 SHIPPED WITH THE FOLLOWING THINKPAD MODELS (PURCHASED DURING OR AFTER OCT. 1994) MAY BE AFFECTED

ThinkPad 755C

Models 9545-FYC; 9545-FYE; 9545-LYE; 9545-LYG; 9545-LCE

ThinkPad 755CE

Model 9545-7PC

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IN EUROPE, AC ADAPTER MODEL AA19210 SHIPPED WITH THE FOLLOWING THINKPAD MODELS (PURCHASED DURING OR AFTER JAN. 1994) MAY BE AFFECTED:

ThinkPad 360: All models.

ThinkPad 360C: All models.

ThinkPad 360CS: All models.

ThinkPad 360P: All models.

ThinkPad 360CE: All models

ThinkPad 360CSE: All models.

ThinkPad 750: All models.

ThinkPad 750C: All models.

ThinkPad 750CS: All models

ThinkPad 750P: All models.

ThinkPad 755: All models.

ThinkPad 755C: All models.

ThinkPad 755CE: All models.

ThinkPad 755CD: All models.

ThinkPad 755CS: All models.

ThinkPad 755CSE: All models.

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IN SOUTH AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO, AC ADAPTER AA19210 THAT SHIPPED WITH THE FOLLOWING THINKPAD MODEL (PURCHASED DURING OR AFTER NOVEMBER 1994) MAY BE AFFECTED:

ThinkPad 755C:

Model 9545-F3E

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IN AUSTRALIA, AC ADAPTER AA19210 THAT SHIPPED WITH THE FOLLOWING THINKPAD MODELS (PURCHASED DURING OR AFTER JUNE 1994) MAY BE AFFECTED

ThinkPad 750CS: All models

ThinkPad 755C: All models

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IN NEW ZEALAND, AC ADAPTER AA19210 THAT SHIPPED WITH THE FOLLOWING THINKPAD MODELS (PURCHASED DURING OR AFTER JUNE 1994) MAY BE AFFECTED

ThinkPad 750CS: All models


IBM ThinkPad EasyServ Overnight Repair Option
IBM's ThinkPad EasyServ Overnight Repair Option Goes Live

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Jan.30, 1995 -- IBM today announced that overnight repair for the ThinkPad series of products is now open for business.

The ThinkPad EasyServ Repair Option, announced in November and available in the continental U.S., provides an additional repair option for U.S. customers covered by an IBM warranty or an IBM Maintenance Service contract.

This new service option for IBM mobile products targets the wide range of business and professional users who rely on IBM products as essential tools for their businesses.

The premium ThinkPad EasyServ option will allow owners to ship IBM mobile products via FedEx from most locations in the continental U.S. and have the repaired unit returned the next business day. Customers may also specify a different return location; for example, a customer can ship his mobile product from New York on Monday and get the repaired unit in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

This next-day, premium repair service, marks a major enhancement of ThinkPad EasyServ, which already provides convenient pickup-and-return repair service.

To provide this overnight repair service, IBM will use the capabilities of Technology Service Solutions (TSS), an IBM-Kodak joint venture set up to provide support services for computer products and systems. TSS has created a round-the-clock National Service Depot in Memphis working with FedEx Logistics Services, a division of Federal Express Corporation, to expedite the entire repair and shipment process.

"This unique repair service spells peace of mind for mobile product owners, should they ever encounter a problem with the reliable IBM ThinkPad," said Richard J. Hernandez, chief executive officer of Technology Service Solutions.

Owners of IBM mobile products now have the assurance of knowing that ThinkPad EasyServ is available on an overnight basis, even if they're traveling across the country.

Standard ThinkPad EasyServ service, with an average turnaround of three business days, is offered at no charge to customers with IBM mobile products that are under warranty or IBM maintenance agreements. There will be a charge of $99.00 (by credit card only) for premium ThinkPad EasyServ next-day service.


WC-Charge V4.03 for Wildcat BBS Adds Banking
SoftWare presents WC-Charge v. 4.03!

WC-Charge for Wildcat 3.xx - 4.xx is happy to announce it now has. . .

FULL BUILT IN SUPPORT FOR ONLINE ELECTRONIC BANKING by: ATS! Call Automated Transaction Services, Inc. (805) 379-9271 for more information!

Sell merchandise and subscriptions! Accept payment ONLINE using CHECKS, CREDIT CARDS, or TABS 900 services! WC-Charge will accept the order, then upgrade the caller to the security profile that you choose. When it is used with Wildcat 4.xx, WC-Charge will also set the expire date as well as the profile.

Features include, ten (10) categories with unlimited items in each category. Access to each category is fully controlled by security profile or age! Full, carefull, and complete testing of credit card and checking numbers. Badnumbers list, Badnames list. Custom log files and custom drop files. Private Codes retreival system allows you to sell your own access codes! WC-Charge creates receipts, notices and all required ascii drop files! Full logging in its GUEST.LOG, WC-CHG.LOG, and TABS.LOG! Now with 3 ansi hello screens that you can create. Also ansi help screes, goodby screens, and thank you screens. All can be created by the SysOp! (examples included)

Download your copy today from The Glass Menagerie BBS at (610) 376-1819

Filename is WCCHG403.ZIP -*- File Request CHARGE from 1:2607/401 or 1:102/641

WC-Charge can be downloaded and previewed at: (310) 204-3249

OEB DEMO as the firstname/lastname, and DEMO as the password!

WC-Charge can also be found on MSI's BBS!

WC-Charge version 4.03 is still only $40.00!

FREE Upgrade for registered WC-Charge version 4.02 SysOps!

Pre-Version 4.02 registered SysOps can upgrade for only $20.00.

H. Allen Cravener

GlassWare SoftWare

allencra@gmiibbs.com


Apple Direct Marketing at High Tech Direct 200
APPLE'S LATEST INTEGRATED MARKETING PROJECTS TO BE SHOWCASED AT HIGH TECH DIRECT 2000

Key Apple Executive To Discuss New Infomercial and Online Projects

February 6, 1995 -- Jericho, NY -- Apple Computer's strongest integrated marketin efforts to date will be explored in-depth at High Tech Direct 2000, the premier forum for cutting-edge marketing techniques for high-tech companies to be held February 27 - March 1, 1995 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in CA. The event will feature a keynote address by Peter Friedman, vice president of Apple Online Services, as well as an exclusive one-on-one conference session with Yvonne Nava, direct marketing manager and the driving force behind Apple's newest marketing effort: The Performa infomercial.

Among Friedman's responsibilities include the continued development of Apple's global online service, eWorld. States Friedman, "The online services business is still in its infancy. The real winners in this market will not be those who apply today's technology to this media, but rather those that marry next-generation technology to a next-generation medium." Others addressing online services as a potent marketing tool at High Tech Direct 2000 include executives from Compaq, Tandem, NECX and Southwest Bell.

Apple's firrst television infomercial will be the focus of a conference spearheaded by Yvonne Nava. "We thought an infomercial for the Performa would be a good complement to a larger integrated marketing program consisting of print and TV. An infomercial can really address the questions first-time buyers have, but they also do so in a friendly way, which fits in with the strategy for attracting Performa's audience."

High Tech Direct 2000 is a production of CMP Publications Direct Marketing Services and CMP Trade Show & Conference Services. The event is co-sponsored by Prodigy, Advertising Age, Tandem, Select marketing, Business Marketing, and CMP Technology.


Stereographics 3D CrystalEyes at Movie Theaters
STEREOGRAPHICS ANNOUNCES NEW 3D CRYSTALEYES PRODUCTS FOR MOVIE THEATERS

CrystalEyes to Enable Domed Theaters to be Equipped for Stereo Big Screen Movies

San Rafael, CA -- February 6, 1995-- StereoGraphics Corporation, the world's leading supplier of stereo three-dimensional electronic display equipment, announced today new theater products and services to the movie industry.

A new model of the company's flagship untethered 3D CrystalEyes eyewear will enable filmgoers to enjoy 3D in domed and curved-screen theaters. CrystalEyes, along with associated products and consulting, will be available to the film industry -- from studios and producers, to theater owners, and distributors -- enabling affordable, three-dimensional visual effects to filmgoers in large equipped theaters for the first time.

In addition to theater-compatible3D eyewear, projection systems and wireless control electronics, StereoGraphics is available for consultation based on the expertise that is necessary to implement its products and technology in a wide variety of theater situations .

"3D CrystalEyes is the key enabler to a whole new movie experience which will create an entire new industry," said Lenny Lipton, founder, CrystalEyes inventor and StereoGraphics' vice president of R&D. "This is the first time that the new theater multiplexes can offer a revolutionary movie experience to filmgoers in addition to the traditional flat-appearing screens. New attractions heretofore found only in theme parks -- with movement, virtual reality, and interactivity -- can now be added to traditional movies. We have packaged 3D technology into a dynamic and profitable form of entertainment that is well-suited to mass audiences.'

The heart of StereoGraphics' theater products is the 3D CrystalEyes eyewear, which enables a new, low-cost, high-impact large-audience venue with modular easy-to-install, easy-to-use stereo products. Filmgoers will wear lightweight 3D CrystalEyes eyewear for physical comfort. The glasses' high resolution provides ghost-free, flicker-free viewing of the most realistic true-to-life images for high-intensity viewing and comfort. Because the untethered high-speed liquid-crystal shuttering lenses of the glasses are synchronized with the on-screen 3D stereo image by infrared sensors located on the back of theater seats or at the movie screen, any number of users can simultaneously view the display with complete freedom of movement. Master control of the interlocked glasses and sensors is through centrally-located electronics.

StereoGraphics' 3D CrystalEyes weigh one-fifth that of the competition (3 oz. versus 14 oz.), with five times the dynamic visual range (100.0:1 versus 200:1). This results in a normal wearing experience for the user, along with much higher resolution and no ghosting, versus unwieldy goggles with a tight head band.

RECENT ENTERTAINMENT USES OF CRYSTALEYES

StereoGraphics and Futurescope, a virtual reality production company based in Santa Monica, CA, have announced that Futurescope's new 3D Rave Experience is now packaged as an easy-to-use system available to Rave video jockeys and promoters for worldwide distribution. The 3D Rave Experience is based on Futurescope's highly successful underground dance party, commonly called a Rave, held at the NEXSUS Project in Montreal, Quebec,. Canada, late last year. At that event, close to 3,000 people wore StereoGraphics' CrystalEyes 3D passive polarizing glasses to view integrated two- and three-dimensional images projected by an Electrohome Large Screen Projector System onto a 20-foot screen. Futurescope produces 3D visuals for film, broadcast video and high-definition video (HDTV) projects for marketing, corporate promotion, professional sports, broadcast television, travel and tourism industries.

CrystalEyes VR 3D virtual reality eyewear are featured in "Big Future," the first-ever interactive theme house/family entertainment destination which recently opened in St. Louis, Missouri. Multiple users can simultaneously enter virtual worlds wearing StereoGraphics patented interactive CrystalEyes VR shuttering liquid crystal eyewear. Also used for viewing by large groups are the firm's low-cost, passive polarizing glasses designed to utilize the Projection ZScreen, which is attached to a large screen data projector.

The 13,000-square-foot center is designed to stimulate the imagination of kids of all ages and their parents with more than 80 different positive experiences, such as diving into virtual adventures, embarking on surrogate travel expeditions, jumping into interactive movies and conversing with large-screen, multimedia computers.

Exhibits include the "Temple of Horus," a meticulous recreation of an authentic long-gone Egyptian Temple projected on a four-foot-by-five-foot screen. Wearing CrystalEyes passive polarizing glasses, guests can explore this archeological landmark as if they were actually there. Visitors use either a trackball or joystick as the navigational device to explore the temple. The projected scene responds to their movements as they turn corners to discover crypts, walk through chambers containing relics and interact with ancient hieroglyphics.

CRYSTALEYES TECHNOLOGY

CrystalEyes incorporates liquid crystal (LC) shutters that alternate between transparent and opaque at 120 frames per second and are synchronized with a stereo-ready projector or monitor (at 120Hz) using wireless, infrared signals. For example, when the left image is on the video screen, the left lens of the eyewear opens while the right lens closes -- thereby channeling the appropriate image to the appropriate eye. The result is a non-flickering true stereo 3D image. When 'closed,' CrystalEyes' liquid-crystal shutters are opaque enough to ensure that the unwanted half of the stereo pair doesn't leak through, and when open, the shutters are transparent enough to ensure that the overall image is realistically bright. This high dynamic range results in virtually 'ghostless' 3D images.

StereoGraphics' patented CrystalEyes depth perception products utilize true 3D stereo to improve and dramatize viewing for a broad and diverse user universe. CrystalEyes products provide high-resolution, realistic and flicker-free stereo viewing for scientific visualization, animation, medical imaging, surgical endoscopy, molecular modeling, computer games, photogrammetry, location-based entertainment, motion simulation, inspection systems, remote vehicle control, flight simulation, corporate presentations and all types of education and training.

As part of its efforts to bring stereo viewing (and virtual reality) products into mainstream computing and video, StereoGraphics' CrystalEyes VR, a high-resolution, full-color, affordable interactive stereo virtual reality viewing system, offers head tracking with six degrees of freedom. The firm's Projection ZScreen and low-cost passive CrystalEyes glasses configuration enables large groups of 100 or more to simultaneously view 3D objects, while reducing the cost of eyewear.

As part of its efforts to bring stereo viewing (and virtual reality) products into mainstream computing and video, StereoGraphics has made three dimensional stereo viewing possible on non-stereo ready computers (using stereo-ready monitors) with CrystalEyes PC. The product works with most popular desktop system platforms, including IBM PCs and compatibles, Apple Macintosh, Power Mac and Power PC, as well as Amiga computers. It includes the CrystalEyes lightweight, untethered eyewear and combines stereo electronics and an infrared emitter into a single small package which sits on top of the monitor.

StereoGraphics Corp., founded in 1980, invented and developed the market for modern stereo imaging hardware. Due to its capability, reasonable price and state-of-the-art technology backed by 15 patents, CrystalEyes systems are accepted as the industry standard for stereo viewing. StereoGraphics is located at 2171 East Francisco Boulevard, San Rafael, California 94901, phone 415/459-4500, fax 415/459-3020, email stereo@well.com.

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Questions Regarding StereoGraphics' New Theater Products

Answered by Lenny Lipton

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Lenny Lipton is the vice president of research and development and the chairman of the board of StereoGraphics Corp. Mr. Lipton founded StereoGraphics in 1980, after seven years of independent research in the field of electronic stereoscopic displays.

Mr. Lipton is the inventor of the modern electro-stereoscopic display. His inventions include the multiplexing technique used for workstations to produce flicker-free stereoscopic computer graphics, and the multiplexing technique which is the basis for StereoGraphics' video products used for applications such as medical imaging and corporate communications. He led the design team that created the CrystalEyes(g) 3D eyewear, and made a significant contribution to electro-optics with his invention of the achromatic surface mode device, the shutter which enabled the development of CrystalEyes eyewear. He has been awarded fourteen patents.

Prior to his work in stereoscopy Mr. Lipton made contributions in several fields. He is the author of the standard textbook on filming, "Independent Filmmaking," and he independently produced a number of documentaries which have been screened on television and in theaters. He received grants from the National Foundation for the Arts and the American Film Institute for his film work. He also wrote the words of the classic song, "Puff the Magic Dragon," for the singing trio, Peter, Paul & Mary.

Mr. Lipton attended Cornell University where he received an A.B. degree, having majored in physics. He has worked as a journalist for Time Inc., Ziff-Davis, and other publications. On several occasions has been a columnist for national magazines.

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Q: What does StereoGraphics do?

StereoGraphics is the most experienced 3D company and the industry's dominant player, the holder of 15 patents in 3D visualization technology. We've shipped more advanced stereo systems than anyone in history.

Q: What does StereoGraphics make?

A full line of stereo products, centered around CrystalEyes technology, for over thirty imaging market applications, including film, video, large and small projection systems, personal computers, computer-aided design, and virtual reality.

Q: What is significant about 3D CrystalEyes?

CrystalEyes is far removed from the 3D eyewear used in theaters in the past. It features superb optical qualities including a neutral transmission of colors -- no unwanted coloration -- and a high dynamic range, preventing unwanted light during the lens occlusion phase. CrystalEyes eyewear is as comfortable and convenient as a pair of glasses due to its light weight. CrystalEyes produces a true 3D image used with projection screens and computer monitors. CrystalEyes are the only economical eyewear to produce true, flicker-free, full color depth perception demanded by the precise tasks performed on today's modern electro-stereoscopic displays.

Q: How does stereo vision work in people? How do 3D CrystalEyes work?

The effect of three dimensionality is a combination of what the human eye sees and the brain processes. Human eyes are positioned a few inches apart, thus each sees an image from a slightly different perspective. The brain then fuses the two images into a single image that has depth --- an effect known as "stereopsis." Three-dimensional images projected on a theater or video screen, or computer monitor actually contain two images, called a stereo pair, which are delivered separately to the left and right eye. StereoGraphics' CrystalEyes eyewear produces stereopsis by electronically replicating the way people view their surroundings in the real world.

Q: What makes 3D CrystalEyes significant for the film industry?

CrystalEyes technology allows 3D movies to be projected on large curved screens with excellent image quality. The drawback to previous processes is ghosting or cross-talk in which one eye sees the other eye's image. 3D CrystalEyes has vastly lower cross-talk so that 3D image appears clearer, sharper. Also, this is the only way to project color movies on curved screen for a good result. The polarized method, more or less standard, doesn't work well on deeply curved screens.

Q: What is a domed (Solido-type) theater, and what makes it different

   from conventional and other 3D theaters?

The Imax Solido theater projects images on a dome, like a planetarium. The film is huge, each frame the size of a postcard. the sheer size of the film and its expense make it an unlikely candidate to replace the present cinema. However, you don't have to use the giant Imax format to make CrystalEyes work. Ordinary 35- or 70mm formats will do as well for almost every application. The photography is done with two interlocked cameras and the projection is done with two interlocked projectors. The shutters of the projectors are synchronized with the shutters in the 3D CrystalEyes eyewear.

Q: What does the technology involve for film producers and theater

   owners?

It costs more to project stereo movies. How much more depends on the installation.

Q: What are the elements involved in 3D movies? Which are technically

   feasible for mass market movies, which are not, and why?

All technical issues have been resolved. The 3D CrystalEyes eyewear is the farthest along due to size, ease of wearing, resolution, etc. At this time, the market is expanding rapidly, which will lead to eyewear that is inexpensive enough for the neighborhood theater. As for cameras and projectors, StereoGraphics has pioneered a 3D video camera and recording system, which has solved the technical hurdles for a 35- or 70mm film camera. For 3D projectors, most issues have been resolved by the advances made in 3D camera technology.

Q: What changes in film production and theater equipment are required

   for 3D CrystalEyes technology?

For production, it takes a little more time and effort -- maybe 10 percent -- than a conventional film. Film and processing are doubled.

Theater equipment involves the use of dual projectors and making the infrared link work in synchrony with these projectors. The house will be equipped with infrared emitters driven by a centrally-located electronics package. Alternatively, long range infrared sensors can be mounted on the theater screen. The emitters are the link to the eyewear, ensuring that the shuttering of the eyewear corresponds to that of the screen image as projected.

Non-theme park or special venues will need a projectionist in attendance.

Q: How does the industry get started with StereoGraphics?

StereoGraphics offer the movie industry a proven technology. This can be easily demonstrated by the products and applications in which the company has broad and deep experience. StereoGraphics can assist with the technology for cameras and projectors required to compete with Imax. Imax is limited by its peculiar, expensive technology. The industry, with StereoGraphics' help, can bypass the Imax bottleneck, and satisfy the demand for inexpensive 3D movies.

Q: What does the filmgoer get from this?

Filmgoers get a vivid virtual reality-like experience with the kind of 3D that only science fiction writers talk about. Images of amazing beauty and clarity, with depth, will involve, engage and stimulate the viewer.

Q: What are the cost implications for the industry?

It will cost more to produce and exhibit than standard 2D, but the StereoGraphics 3D CrystalEyes approach costs less than the expensive Imax approach, because it doesn't have to be used in conjunction with their giant film format.

Q: How does the 3D CrystalEyes modular approach in the theater differ

   from competitive packages which market a package only?

The modular approach allows the producer to combine existing products into packages that make sense in terms of price/performance specifications. The are many models of cameras and projectors which can be used in 35- and 70mm formats. There are people presently offering stereoscopic camera rigs which take advantage of existing gear. People in the industry know how to put such systems together. We offer them the eyewear/infrared link component, which is the critical, enabling component. We offer them something with lighter weight and better quality than the competition, with the ability to mix and match equipment to their specifications.

Q: What technical issues need to be overcome in implementing 3D

   CrystalEyes in theaters?

What about sound and sound synchronization? Sound is not an issue. Sophisticated stereo sound is present in most movie theaters today.

Q: Which studios, producers and/or theater owners is StereoGraphics

   working with now?

At this time, StereoGraphics is working under non-disclosure with several studios and production houses.

Q: What is the impact going to be of 3D movies, and specifically,

   what impact will 3D CrystalEyes have and why?

3D CrystalEyes will allow people to have the most realistic movie experience ever, and if the filmmaker is good, it will be the most fun they've ever had in a movie theater.


Itty-Bitty Black Book/2 V1.25 PIM for OS/2
Itty-Bitty Black Book/2 V1.25

Replaces/Upgrades Itty-Bitty Black Book/2 Version 1.24

Itty-Bitty Black Book/2 is a personal information manager which may be used to store and manipulate the names, address, phone numbers, and other pertinent information about groups of individuals. It is capable of storing up to five different groups of people in each phone book. These groups could be business contacts, friends, relatives, Christmas card lists, etc, they are determined solely by you. It is further capable of dialing the phone, printing mailing labels, printing a cardfile, and printing a personal address book to take with you when a computer is unavailable. It also capable of displaying pictures and playing sounds through the assistance of other OS/2 Presentation Manager aware applications (not included in Itty-Bitty Black Book/2). Registration is $15.

Itty-Bitty Black Book/2 Version 1.25

February 5, 1995

Copyright (C) 1993-1995

James E. Johnson Jr.

All Rights Reserved.

Available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.cdrom.com & via dialup modem from the OS/2 Shareware BBS at (703) 385-4325 (online registration available at OS/2 Shareware BBS).


Graham Utilities for OS/2

 now also in German language available!

The Graham Utilities for OS/2 are a comprehensive suite of disk, file and general utilities for OS/2 systems. They have been written from the ground up to fully exploit the advanced capabilities of OS/2.

 - Enhance system performance with the HPFS file defragmenter

 - Recover from accidental data loss with the undeletion utility

 - Rebuild damaged low level disk structures with the disk editor

 - Low level edit disks and files

 - Wipe disks and files for added security

 - Report on system information

 - All applications are fully HPFS aware

 - Supports the 1.x, 2.x and 3.x versions of OS/2

 - Comprehensive 240+ page manual in both hard copy

   and on-line form

 - And MUCH, MUCH MORE!

The utilities includes versatile HPFS utilities. For example:

HPFSView gives you the ability to view the locations and disk layout of files and optionally visually defragment them.

You can also use the disk editor and HPFS utilities on remote network drives!

The utilities include:

 BE         Batch file enhancement for easy construction of

            interactive routines; includes screen manipulation,

            semaphore management for synchronising parallel tasks,

            delayed execution and calendar functions

 DI         Disk Information reports physical and logical layout of

            drives

 DT         Disk Test tests the readabilty of the disk structure

 FA         File Attributes manipulation on all disks simultaneously

 FD         File Date sets date and time stamp of files

 FF         File Find locates files on your hard drives

 FI         File Information adds file descriptions stored in extended

            attributes

 FS         File Size lists the size of all matching files

 GCD        Graham Change Directories allows graphical selection of

            current directory

 GI         Graham Integrator integrates all utilities in an intuitive

            shell

 LD         List Directories displays directory structure graphicaly

 SA         Screen Attributes sets color and layout of text screens

 SI         System Information shows technical informations on your

            system

 TM         Time Mark supports multiple timers

 VL         Changes the disk Volume Label

 WC         Word Count analyzes text files

 2LZH       Automatic archive conversion

 Beep       Plays tunes

 DiskEdit   Edit disks in a sector oriented manner

 EABind     Automatically bind EA's to files

 EADump     Dump the EA's of a file

 FromUNIX   UNIX to OS/2 text conversion utility

 GREP       Text search utility

 HexDump    Dump a file in Hex format

 HexEdit    Edit a file in Hex format

 HPFS-Bad   Set bad sectors on HPFS disks

 HPFS-Ext   List the extents of files on HPFS disks

 HPFS-UD    Undelete and recover files on HPFS disks

 HPFSDfrg   Defragment HPFS disks

 HPFSInfo   Report internal HPFS information

 HPFSView   View the layout of HPFS disks and defragment files

 NullDisk   Wipe Disk data irrecoverably

 NullFile   Wipe File data

 Space      Disk Drive Space

 SUM        Check Sum Files

 ToUNIX     OS/2 to UNIX text conversion utility

 UUDecode   Decode UU files

 UUEncode   Encode UU files

For only 150 US$ / 250,- DM you get one year free upgrade service via BBS or disk.  For a first impression of the utilities see OS/2-Magazine October 1994 and OS/2 Inside 01/95.

Please direct inquiries and orders to:

        Hermann Reissig

        Danziger Str. 7

        D-91555 Feuchtwangen

EMail: reissig@oshalbe.an.eunet.de

CompuServe: 100120,2406

Fax  : ++49-9852-4654         Fido : 2:2490/7000

Voice: ++49-89-1405322        BBS  : ++49-9852-4393


Taskbar for OS/2 V2.0 For Rapid Task Switching
NEW RELEASE: Taskbar for OS/2 version 2.00 by Rick Yoder

Taskbar is a shareware program that allows rapid switching among multiple running programs by providing a popup button bar containing a list of all running programs in the system. The taskbar is activated by moving the mouse cursor to the bottom edge of the screen. The desired task can then be selected by clicking on the appropriate button with the mouse. In order to re-hide the taskbar, simply move the mouse cursor outside of the taskbar. Following is a list of the changes made in this version:

 1) Program settings reorganized into a settings notebook.

 2) The icons for seamless Windows applications now show up correctly.

    (Getting these icons requires the use of several undocumented

    features in OS/2. If you should come across a version of OS/2

    where this doesn't work, *please* let me know so I can (hopefully)

    fix it.)

 3) Double-clicking with mouse button 1 on a program's button in the

    taskbar will hide/minimize the program.

 4) Any shift key + mouse button 2 will close a program.

 5) The width of the indicator bar can now be adjusted.

 6) Added option to sort taskbar entries by window z-order.

 7) Added hot key capability similar to the Windows Alt-Tab feature.

    The hot keys on program installation are Ctrl+Alt+'>' (go forward

    through window list) and Ctrl+Alt+'<' (go backward through window

    list).

 8) The taskbar activation hook now checks whether a mouse button is

    being pressed or if a window has captured the mouse and does not

    activate the taskbar if either of those conditions are true. This

    will hopefully reduce the problem of accidentally activating the

    taskbar when dragging items around at the edge of screen.

 9) Increased the speed of the display of the bubble-help text,

    especially when the text overlaps a seamless Windows window.

10) Added ability to remove programs from the task list.

11) In order to deal with ill-behaved programs such as the OS/2 system

    editor, we now get a program's title from the text in its titlebar

    rather than its window list title.

The current version of Taskbar can be downloaded from the following sources:

    Internet:   ftp-os2.cdrom.com (TskBar20.ZIP)

                ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (TskBar20.ZIP)

    Compuserve: lib #1 in the OS2BVEN forum (TskBar.ZIP)

    OS/2 Shareware BBS: lib #11 (TskBar20.ZIP).

Please direct any questions or comments about Taskbar to one of the following e-mail addresses:

    Internet:   ryoder@ibm.net

    Compuserve: 73457,521


Sybase First Swr Vendor to Achieve ISO 9000
SYBASE BECOMES THE FIRST U.S. SOFTWARE VENDOR TO ACHIEVE MOST STRINGENT LEVEL OF ISO 9000 COMPLIANCE

ISO 9001/TickIT Certification For Engineering and Customer Service Makes Sybase the Most ISO 9000-Compliant Of Any U.S. Software Vendor

EMERYVILLE, CA, January 31, 1995 -- Sybase, Inc., The Enterprise Client/Server Company today announced that it has achieved the most stringent level of ISO 9000-compliance in the United States of any independent software vendor. The company was awarded ISO 9001/TickIT certification for three of its engineering groups - Navigation Server, Replication Server, and connectivity- and for its customer service and support operations. Sybase is the first major software vendor to earn ISO 9001 /TickIT certification in the United States. The company expects to achieve ISO 9001 /TickIT certification for its SQL Server engineering group by the end of March.

Combined with the ISO 9002 certification of its European operations and previously announced certification of its manufacturing and logistics groups, Sybase believes that it is now the most ISO 9000-compliant independent U.S. software vendor. The certification audits were performed by the London-based Bureau Veritas Quality International (BVQI) registrar in September and November 1994.

"We're proud of the breadth of our ISO 9000 compliance and especially the ISO 9001 /TickIT certification," said Mark Hoffman, president and CEO of Sybase. "Many U.S. based software vendors go through the motions of obtaining small levels of ISO 9000 compliance, primarily so they can do business more easily in Europe. Sybase is aiming for full compliance. To us, ISO 9000 isn't a checklist item: it's a way to continuously improve the quality and consistency of what we sell. This ultimately leads to better products and services

for our customers."

ISO 9000

ISO 9000 is an internationally recognized quality standard that measures the degree to which an organization has instituted consistent, repeatable quality processes. ISO 9000 is widely used in Europe where it helps to ensure consistency of products and services produced by companies in different countries. It's becoming increasingly popular in the U.S. where telecommunications companies, governmental agencies, and others use it to judge a vendor's commitment to quality. More than 40,000 companies in 90 countries have adopted the ISO 9000 standards.

The ISO 9000 series consists of three standards: ISO 9001, 9002, and 9003. The only difference between the three is scope. ISO 9001 is the most comprehensive, covering the entire range of activity within an enterprise. ISO 9002 is similar to 9001 except that software design and development are omitted. ISO 9003 focuses only on final inspection and test.

Sybase's Commitment

To date, Sybase has invested more than $1 million in ISO 9000-related efforts and more than half of the company's worldwide development, manufacturing, order management, and customer support operations have been ISO 9000 certified. The company expects to have 95 percent of its operations ISO 9000-compliant by the end of 1995.

Perhaps most important is Sybase's ISO 9001/TickIT certification. 'TickIT' refers to British software quality standards sponsored by the U.K. Department of Trade (DTI) and the Computing Services Association (CSA), and which are maintained by the DISC TickIT Office in London.

"TickIT certification is tougher because it requires the use of highly trained auditors who have been in the software industry and know how the business works," said Mike Macfarlane, vice president of quality at Sybase. "We expect to get the most out of our certification by achieving ISO 9001 /TickIT certification in all our engineering and support groups."

Putting ISO to Work

An example of ISO 9000 in action is the way it has helped Sybase's customer service and support operations. "ISO is a concrete set of standards that helps us provide better, more consistent service to our customers," said Lou Muggeo, vice president of technical support operations for Sybase. "The standardization mandated by ISO 9000 has helped us create a uniform service and support operation around the world. This gives our customers especially multinational corporations - a look, feel and quality of service from Sybase that is nearly identical no matter where the customer site is. We believe that this gives us a leg up on competitors who are still wrangling with consistency of service around the globe."

International Organization for Standardization

The International Standardization Organization (ISO) was founded in 1946 to develop a common set of manufacturing, trade, and communication standards. The organization is based in Geneva, Switzerland and is composed of 91 member countries. The United States member organization is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). All standards developed by the ISO are voluntary; no legal requirements force countries to adopt them.

Sybase, Inc.

Sybase, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYBS) is one of the fastest growing suppliers of client/server-based software products and services for on-line enterprise-wide applications. Sybase's integrated family of software includes database servers, tools, connectivity, and systems management products, providing complete desktop-to-mainframe solutions. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase markets its products worldwide through its direct sales force, telesales, distributors, OEMs, VARs, and systems integrators.

Sybase Inc

6475 Christie Ave

Emeryville, CA 04608

510-596-3500;  Fax: 510-658-9441


FrontDoor APX French Version Email System
FRONTDOOR APX FRENCH VERSION!

Bangor, ME, February 1 -- Now available in French!

Online Communications, Inc. is pleased to introduce our French language version of FrontDoor APX, the premier electronic mail system for points. Our commitment to international standards, and to our international customers continues with the release of our French language version of FrontDoor APX.

This latest release compliments the popular English and Spanish versions of APX. Intercontinental electronic communications have never been easier than using APX for your communication needs.

FrontDoor APX (pronounced "APEX") is the first and only COMPLETE electronic mail and file transfer system specially designed for points, requiring no additional software, such as conference mail processors, compression software, FOSSIL drivers or external utilities and will operate in a minimum system environment of 400kb of disk space and 384k of RAM.

Electronic mail brings new dimensions of usefulness to the Personal Computer. With FrontDoor APX, it is easy to set up new paths of communications within an organization using equipment that in most cases is already present. Requiring no more than a laptop or a PC, a telephone line and a modem, FrontDoor APX transfers mail and files with a designated server. If the final destination is somewhere other than the designated server or another FrontDoor APX user not serviced by the same designated server, the message and files will be transferred to the recipient's designated server via your server.

Many companies are using modems and ordinary terminal programs to transfer information. For example, a spreadsheet has to be transferred from a branch office to the main office several times a week. With ordinary terminal software, this requires two employees, one at each end to initiate the transfer. It often takes several failed attempts before the file goes through properly. In addition to the cost of having personnel supervising something that two machines should be able to accomplish on their own, it may also require hours of telephone time at unnecessarily high phone rates.

In contrast, FrontDoor APX can accomplish the same task in a session that automatically dials the server and negotiates a session with multiple security check-points to ensure the protection of valuable information. It will then transfer the files, along with any messages, to the server using reliable file transfer protocols with advanced (32-bit CRC) error checking to guarantee data integrity. Waiting messages and files are received during the same session, and then FrontDoor APX automatically terminates the completed session.

Reliable communication means that nothing is distorted or corrupted during the transfer, even across extremely poor line conditions. If a FAX were to be used to send a manuscript back and forth for repeated editing and revisions, it would very soon be completely illegible. With FrontDoor APX, the actual file can be sent back and forth an unlimited number of times without ever losing a single character. An added advantage is that the same software can be used to edit the document at both locations.

FrontDoor APX makes inter-connectivity a reality today!

With the easy installation, coupled with an extensive on-line help system available at the touch of a key, FrontDoor APX can be installed and configured in less than 15 minutes by most users. Anyone can configure and use FrontDoor APX in minutes, experience in electronic mail systems is not required.

Security comes naturally with FrontDoor APX, providing session and packet password security. FrontDoor APX is designed to operate with a single server, such as FrontDoor. All transactions are with the server system, affording management control of all transfers. A network can be configured to include as little as a single FrontDoor Server and a single FrontDoor APX point, or it can include unlimited FrontDoor APX points operating under multiple FrontDoor Servers. FrontDoor APX and FrontDoor can meet your requirements, whatever they are.

FrontDoor APX is clearly the front runner in electronic mail systems for networks utilizing the point concept. Combined with the power of a FrontDoor server, an effective, secure and manageable electronic mail network provides the ultimate in electronic communications.

Minimum hardware/software requirements:

- A PC, XT, AT, 386, 486, PS/2, or 100% BIOS compatible machine.

- 384kb of available RAM

- MS-DOS/PC-DOS 3.3 or above.

- Asynchronous modem utilizing the AT command set

- FrontDoor or another EMSI or FTS-6 ZedZap capable server

  (Zmodem only)

Features:

- Simple installation and operation, up and running in less than

  15 minutes

- On-line help system at the touch of a key, no manual required

- Secure sessions, utilizing session and packet password protection

- 200 message folders capable of:

    1 Private mail folder supporting:

        Name macros (with addresses)

        Message replying

        Reply comments

        Carbon copies

        Hidden carbon copies

        Blind carbon copies

    1 Trashcan folder for holding deleted messages until maintenance

    Up to 198 Conference folders supporting:

        Name macros (without addressing)

        Message replying in the same conference or via private mail

- Message base capable of:

    Up to 65000 messages

    Messages up to 16kb can be created/displayed

- Export/Import of messages to/from ASCII files.

- Macro manager allows up to 50 frequently used names and addresses

  to be configured for utilization with a simple macro command

- File requests/attaches

- Automated and manual conference maintenance

- Automatic detection and unpacking of mail archives in PKARC 3.6x,

  PAK 2.51 and PKZIP 1.1 x formats

- Full mouse support

- Full support for real reply threads

  (as opposed to 'subject linking')

- FSC-39 and full 4D addressing support.

- Automatic maintenance

- Can be command-line driven

- Supports DTE speeds of up to 115.2 kbps

- Supports the use of NS16550A[FN] FIFOs for high speed modems

- EMSI and FTS-6 support (Zmodem only).

- Does not utilize a nodelist.

- Available in English, German, Swedish, Spanish, and Slovene;

  with other languages to follow.

FrontDoor APX is now available at the introductory price of $79 (regular $95), with quantity discounts available. For additional information on FrontDoor APX and FrontDoor, contact: Online Communications, Inc. 22 State Street, Bangor, Maine, 04401, (voice) 207-941 -1110, (bbs) 207-990-3511, (fax) 207-990-2293, E-Mail: 1:132/300@fidonet and 255:2001/1@fdnet.


The Power Mac Book! Wired for the Internet
The Power Mac

Wired for the Internet . . . and More

You've heard that the Power Mac is the machine to have the machine that sold over one million units and outsold Intel's Pentium. In fact, it's fast, it runs PC software, and it's Internet ready . . . right? You bet!

Whether you're using a new Power Mac now or are planning to upgrade your existing Macintosh, let America's leading Power Mac and PowerPC expert Ron Pronk show you everything you need to know about using this amazing machine in The Power Mac Book! Between its covers you'll find answers to all your Power Mac questions, from upgrading and troubleshooting to connecting to cybershpace. Pronk reveals the truth about the machine--how it works and what you can do with it. You ll discover:

* How to get the best Power Mac-native software, including utilities,

  games, and shareware, and how much it will cost you.

* Undocumented troubleshooting tips that will save you time and money

* How to run Windows software on your Power Mac.

* Whether to upgrade now or wait.

* Which 68000-based applications will have trouble running in

  emulation.

* The future of the Power Mac and where it will take you.

* How to get native Internet software for the Power Mac and how to

  find an Internet provider.

* The inner workings of the Power Mac and System 7.5.

and more!

The Power Mac Book! comes complete with a CD-ROM that's loaded with Power Mac software--all of it native. You'll find multimedia programs, demonstration versions of commercial software, entertainment, software utilities, and more:

- Screen savers galore

- Multiple-format compression/uncompression utilities

- Internet utilities

- Great games

- Finder utilities

- System 7.1.2 and 7.5 bug fixes

- Graphics viewers and converters

- CPU speed and performance testers

- Programming utilities

The Power Mac Book! gives you everything you need to get started with your Power Mac. You'll even be able to set up your Power Mac as an Internet server!

About the Author

Ron Pronk (Scottsdale, AZ) is the author of over a dozen books on computing including and Windows 3.1 INSIDER, Mosaic Explorer Pocket Companion, and the bestselling Inside the PowerPC Revolution.

Product Snapshot:

The Power Mac Book! by Ron Pronk

ISBN: 1-883577-09-8

Date of Availability: February 1995

$34.95 trade paper

380 pages; Graphics and illustrations throughout

Includes 1 CD-ROM

How to Order

The Power Mac Book! can be ordered directly from The Coriolis Group at 1-800-410-0192 or can be ordered in quantity from IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. at 1-800-434-3422.

About The Coriolis Group

Founded in Scottsdale, AZ in 1989 by bestselling authors Keith Weiskamp and Jeff Duntemann, The Coriolis Group is a leading publisher of innovative books and book/software kits. They are the publishers of the well-known PC TECHNIQUES Magazine, and have won critical acclaim for the bestselling Inside the PowerPC Revolution and FREE $TUFF from the Internet. The Coriolis Group publishes a complete line of books for graphics programming and game developers including PC Game Programming EXplorer and Action Arcade Adventure Set. Coriolis Group Books are distributed to the trade by IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.

The Coriolis Group

7339 E. Acoma, Suite 7

Scottsdale, AZ 85260

602-483-0192,  FAX 602-483-0193


WESTLAW Intellectual Property Coverage Expanded
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COVERAGE EXPANDED ON WESTLAW!

West Publishing announces the addition of the European Patents Fulltext database (PATENTS-EURO), a DIALOG on WESTLAW database, and the ability to print select patent images on WESTLAW, West's computer-assisted legal research service. Information in the PATENTS-EURO database is provided through an agreement between DIALOG and West Publishing.

The PATENTS-EURO database includes all European patent applications and granted European patents published since the opening of the European Patent Office (EPO) in 1978. All technologies patentable under European patent law and PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) applications transferred to the EPO are covered. Information in the PATENTS-EURO database is updated weekly.

Derwent World Patents Index Latest database (WPIL), a DIALOG on WESTLAW database, will now have offline print capability for images. If a document contains an image, WESTLAW will display a message at the end of the document stating that an image is available. Images can be printed on a WESTLaser Plus or a WESTLaser II, or any fax machine.

For more information about the PATENTS-EURO database and printing images in the WPIL database, contact the West Reference Attorneys at 1-800-REF-ATTY (1-800-733-2889). For technical assistance, call West Customer Service at 1-800-WESTLAW (1-800-937-8529).


O-Matrix High-Performance Data Analysis Tool
Seattle - WA. Harmonic Software Inc. has released O-Matrix for Windows. O-Matrix is a high-performance interactive data analysis and visualization tool. Extensive graphics and data analysis capabilities are built into the O-Matrix environment. O-Matrix provides a concise matrix-oriented language with a menu-driven interface to plotting and analysis capabilities. Calculations that take hundreds of lines of code in other languages can be done interactively or with just a few lines.

Plotting Capabilities:

 * Vector Plots                 * Linear/Logarithmic scaling

 * Histograms                   * Graph rotation

 * Bar Plots                    * User-selectable fonts

 * Error bars                   * Mouse interaction with graphs

 * Stair plots                  * Variable aspect ratio

 * Polar plots                  * Movable axis intercepts

 * Scatter plots                * Multiple plotting areas

 * Contour plots                * Variable plot colors

 * Surface plots                * Exportable graphs for publication

Analysis Capabilities:

 * Curve fitting                * Statistics

 * 2-D FFTs                     * Matrix exponentiation

 * Matrix factorization         * Eigenvalue solver

 * Spectral analysis            * Numerical integration

 * Stiff Differential equation  * ARMA simulation

 * Optimization                 * Signal processing

O-Matrix for Windows requires Microsoft Windows 3.1, a hard disk with at least 3MB of free space, and 4 MB of memory.

O-Matrix is priced at $395, comes with an unconditional money-back guarantee and unlimited technical support for two years. Academic pricing of $50 is available to currently registered students. For further information contact the vendor at (206) 367-8742, FAX (206) 367-1067.


World-Wide Credit Reports Come To The Internet

Thursday, 7th February, 1995 -- The potential of the Internet is just being realised by businesses around the world. With the development the World Wide Web, comes increased opportunities for international trade and an ever increasing demand for quality business information and services.

A commercial credit reporting service, introduced on the web this week by London-based Dynamic Business Information Ltd., offers Internet users the unique facility of 'tapping into' a network of corporate information specialists covering more than 200 countries throughout the world.

Any company engaged in international commerce is faced with the challenge of finding the right information to minimise the risks of customer payment problems, non-performance by suppliers, or financial loss from potential acquisitions.

Even with today's quick and easy access to on-line databases, information content available so often falls short of users' requirements for focused and up-to-date information to support commercial decision-making.

Dynamic Business Information offers the highest quality reports, always freshly researched by reliable local sources, quality controlled and expertly analysed by professionals with years of experience in the evaluation of commercial credit risks; included, as a top-page summary, are unbiased opinions about the subject company's financial condition, payment reliability and commercial reputation.

Accessible from anywhere in the world, Dynamic Business Information's WWW site offers Internet users everything from a comprehensive overview of the service, sample reports to review, a choice of payment options, a personal and efficient help desk, with user-friendly forms for interactive report ordering. Reports are delivered by e-mail as standard, but can also be faxed as required.

Dynamic Business Information's web site is accessible at http://www.dbinfo.co.uk/dbinfo/. For users without Internet access, the service is also available by contacting Anthony Wolff at the company's help desk on telephone +44 (0)171 637 5505.

Dynamic Business Information Ltd.,

12, Harley Street,

London W1N 1AA, England

Freefone        : 0800 132034 (UK customers)

Freefone        : 1 800  8404097 (U.S. customers)

Telephone       : +44 (0)171 637 5505 (International)

E-Mail          : info@dbinfo.co.uk

Web page        : http://www.dbinfo.co.uk/dbinfo/


POSIX.4 Programming for the Real World
POSIX.4: Programming for the Real World

By Bill Gallmeister

570 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-074-0, $29.95 (US)

We have just released this book covering the POSIX.4 standard for portable real-time programming.  The POSIX.4 standard itself is a massive document that defines system interfaces for asynchronous I/O, scheduling, communications, and other facilities.  However, this book does more than explain the standard.  It provides a general introduction to real-time programming and real-time issues: the problems software faces when it needs to interact with the real world and how to solve them.  And, unlike most books about standards, this one isn't just readable -- it's enjoyable!  If you're at all interested in real-time applications -- which include just about everything from telemetry to transation processing -- this book will be an essential reference.

Chapters include:

  - The Basics of Real-Time:  Multiple Tasks

  - Better Coordination:  Messages, Shared Memory, and Synchronization

  - On Time:  Scheduling, Time, and Memory Locking

  - I/O for the Real World

  - Measuring Real-Time Performance

Includes programming exercises, solutions, and reference manual pages.

Author Bill O. Gallmeister initially trained in BSD code at Valid Logic Systems and Sun Microsystems. At Lynx Real-Time Systems, he developed the first complete implementation of POSIX.4 and POSIX.4a threads. During this time, he was vice-chair of POSIX.4.  He can now be found at First Virtual Corporation, doing high-velocity file system work for a networked monster multimedia machine.

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These and other O'Reilly products are available in the Americas, Japan, Oceania, and Eastern Europe through bookstores, or directly from the publisher (credit card orders 800-889-8969; Email order@ora.com).  GSA # GS-02F-6095A

For Information: Phone 707-829-0515 (800-998-9938 in US & Canada); Fax 707-829-0104; Email nuts@ora.com; or write O'Reilly & Associates, 103A Morris St., Sebastopol, CA, 95472, USA.

O'Reilly's list of international distributors, US and Canadian booksellers, catalog and resource center can be accessed online through the Web (e.g., mosaic or lynx).  The URL is http://gnn.com/ora/ Or, through gopher or telnet to gopher.ora.com (telnet login: gopher).

O'Reilly & Associates

103A Morris St.

Sebastopol, CA 95472

707/829-0515 Fax 707/829-0104


Fed Rules of Practice Committee Minutes
Federal Rules of Practice and Procedure Committee Minutes Available on WESTLAW

West Publishing announces the addition of the Federal Rules of Practice and Procedure Advisory Committee Minutes database (US- RULESCOMM) to WESTLAW, West's computer-assisted legal research service.

The US-RULESCOMM database contains documents released by the five advisory committees to the Judicial Conference of the United States. Documents include the minutes of advisory committee meetings as prepared by the reporter of that committee. Coverage includes the minutes from the Advisory Committees on Appellate Rules, Civil Rules, Criminal Rules, Evidence Rules and Bankruptcy Rules. Coverage varies by committee.

For more information about US-RULESCOMM, call the West Reference Attorneys at 1-800-REF-ATTY (1-800-733-2889). For technical assistance, call West Customer Serv ice at 1-800-WESTLAW (1-800- 937-8529).


Compaq Broadens Notebook Mfg With Inventec
COMPAQ BROADENS NOTEBOOK MANUFACTURING IN JOINT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH INVENTEC

HOUSTON, February 2, 1995 -- Underscoring its goal to broaden its range of portable computing products, Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) today announced the formation of a joint development agreement with The Inventec Group of Taiwan. Compaq and Inventec, working together on design and engineering, are developing a new line of Compaq notebook computers to be manufactured by Inventec and available later this year.

"This agreement enables us to expand our engineering resources, ultimately broadening Compaq's family of portable products," said Hugh Barnes, senior vice president and general manager, Portable PC Division. "Inventec brings to the relationship an excellent blend of talent and resources to develop innovative new products -- an excellent complement to Compaq's own pool of resources. As part of our ongoing effort to deliver a broad range of high quality products designed to meet customers needs, Compaq will continue to examine these types of alliances that enable us to extend or enhance our own capabilities and resources."

"We are very proud to have Compaq as our new co-development partner in this new line of portable products," said Inventec Group President Richard Lee. "Through our joint development efforts, we are committed to providing Compaq and its loyal customers with superb products."

Compaq will manage all design, engineering, manufacturing and test procedures with Inventec, assuring customers of the Compaq quality and reliability they expect from the Company. Compaq will to continue to manufacture its existing portable products -- the Compaq Aero, Contura and LTE Elite families -- in its Houston, Texas; Erskine, Scotland; and Singapore factories.

In a similar relationship, Compaq worked for five years with Citizen of Japan to design and manufacture the Compaq LTE Lite notebook products.

Inventec Background

Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, The Inventec Group is recognized as a leading Taiwanese manufacturer. The Company, which like Compaq has been awarded the coveted ISO 9002 certification, operates two manufacturing facilities in the Asia Pacific Rim, located in Taipei and in Penang, Malaysia.

Inventec employs 4,900 personnel in seven countries. The Company announced 1994 sales of $450 million.

Corporate Background

Compaq Computer Corporation is a world leader in the manufacture of desktop and notebook personal computers, and servers. Founded in 1982, the company reported 1994 worldwide sales of $10.9 billion. Compaq products are sold and supported in more than 100 countries through a network of more than 38,000 Compaq marketing partners. Compaq also sells directly to customers through Compaq Direct Plus at 1-800-888-5858.


Immunization Status Determination System
Cybermed Corporation has released a Windows based Immunization Status Determination System for the Health Care Industry. ISD uses a table driven design to provide automatic vaccine and patient level immunization status determination. Using the Centers for Disease Control ACIP vaccine recommendations, ISD computes immunization status for patients based upon date of birth, immunization history, and visit date. Contraindications are considered at both the patient and vaccine levels. Outreach and Government reporting requirements are supported. Electronic transmission of vaccine related data is also supported. ISD is ideal for the medical organization, private or public, that provides vaccination services. Cost is $499.95.

Cybermed Corporation

208 Lawrence Road

Cary, NC 27511 USA

(919) 467-6072 Voice & Facsimile


VB Project Analyzer V1.0 Now Available Free
NEW!!! Shareware VB Project Analyzer 1.0

Now available *for free*

Project Analyzer is an easy-to-use shareware tool for professional and not-yet-professional Visual Basic programmers. It helps creating and maintaining VB programs. Project Analyzer reads VB code and gives reports about the modules, forms, procedures, procedural dependencies and commentation in the code. It works with Visual Basic 3.0 (all versions).

Features:

- Detailed information about single files and procedures

  * Functions and subs called by this procedure - and where

    to find them

  * Functions and subs that need this procedure

  * Files needed for this module to work

- Detailed file and procedure lists - great for documenting the entire

  project

- Project file archiving using ARJ or PKZIP

- Your code is safe, Project Analyzer won't modify it

- Project Analyzer gathers information in the background, you

  can do something else while waiting

You can get Project Analyzer easily by replying via Internet Email. I'll send you a fully functional version of Project Analyzer 1.0 uuencoded and *free*. After evaluating you can register it for $20 if you want to get the registered version and the coming new versions.

My Internet address is Tuomas.Salste@Helsinki.Fi.


Apple Unveils 3D Technology for Power Macintosh
Apple Unveils 3D Technology for the Power Macintosh

DEMO 95, Palm Springs, California--February 6, 1995--Apple Computer, Inc. today announced that the Apple Power Macintosh computer will soon become the first mainstream, high-volume personal computer with built-in 3D-graphics capabilities. At the Demo 95 show today, Apple publicly unveiled Apple QuickDraw 3D, a 3D-graphics extension to the Mac OS operating system, which developers can use to offer easy-to-use 3D graphics in their applications. Expected to ship with Power Macintosh computers beginning this summer, QuickDraw 3D takes advantage of the computing performance of the Power Mac's PowerPC processor to deliver 3D-graphics capabilities and performance that previously were available only on graphics workstations.

Graphics capabilities have always been a key strength of the Macintosh computer, and a wide range of 3D-graphics applications currently are available for the Macintosh. Using QuickDraw 3D as a technology foundation, developers can more easily create powerful, full-featured 3D applications. And, QuickDraw 3D-based applications can have a consistent user interface, as well as a common file-format that lets users move 3D data from application to application. 2D-graphics and productivity applications also can be modified slightly to take advantage of QuickDraw 3D, allowing users to drag and drop 3D objects directly into those applications.

"With QuickDraw 3D on the Power Macintosh, Apple is providing a foundation for a completely new user experience and dramatically lowering the price point for high-quality 3D,"said David Nagel, Apple senior vice president and general manager of the AppleSoft division. "Soon it won't just be graphics pros who can competently work with 3D images -- we'll see the well-known Macintosh ease-of-use applied to creating and using 3D graphics. We'll see interesting new software in areas such as publishing, entertainment and education. And, because workstation graphics performance will be available at personal computer prices, we'll see a significant expansion of the overall market for graphics- intensive applications."

A number of important software developers today are announcing their commitment to QuickDraw 3D, including: 3Dlabs, auto-des-sys, Inc., Byte by Byte Corp., Diehl Graphsoft, Inc., EA Research, Inc., Electric Image, Inc., ElectroGIG, Graphisoft, Hash, Inc., Matrox Graphics, Inc., Ray Dream, Inc., Spatial Technology, Inc., Specular International, Strata Inc., Syndesis Corporation, Viewpoint DataLabs International, Vertigo Technology Inc., Virtus Corporation, and Yarc Systems Corporation.

"Apple is showing tremendous innovation in the field of 3D graphics," said Osman Kent, president of 3Dlabs. "They are doing for 3D what they did for 2D--making it easy to use and truly useful for the everyday user. Apple's vision, combined with the processing capabilities of the PowerPC, is going to make the Macintosh a platform that will change the face of 3D computing."

"The introduction of the Power Macintosh has already had a major impact on Strata's market," said Scott Lovell, president of Strata. "With Apple's new QuickDraw 3D, users can achieve even greater performance through hardware acceleration of the interactive modeling view for enhanced realtime feedback. Photorealistic feedback in realtime is breakthrough technology, we're pleased Apple is bringing this high-end workstation performance to 3D software on the Macintosh."

"As a leader in graphics and design hardware, Apple's entry into the 3D marketplace is an exciting move, and reinforces the fact that 3D graphics is core technology in the multimedia equation. The addition of Apple to our company's list of supported hardware platforms will take Vertigo's 3D media authoring software to a new level," said James Stewart, president, Vertigo Technology, Inc.

"Because visual interaction breaks down communication barriers, 3D will be integral to how we work, learn and play in the future," said John Wright, president and CEO of Viewpoint DataLabs. "We believe QuickDraw 3D and the Apple 3DMF format represents a significant step toward broadening the market by putting the power of 3D at the fingertips of desktop users. With Viewpoint's support of Apple's 3DMF, users can store, move and share 3D geometric and appearance information among applications and through an entire production process--the same way they share PICT images today."

Cross-Platform Support

For Macintosh developers who need to leverage their development efforts onto the Microsoft Windows platform, Apple plans to make QuickDraw 3D available for Windows.

Standard File Format

The new 3D metafile (3DMF) format is a cross-platform file format that supports 3D data--not simply geometric data, but all the information that represents a particular view or scene, such as textures, lights and cameras. 3DMF can be used by any developer for importing and exporting 3D data from one application to another. Using this file format, 3D data can be exchanged among applications on the Power Macintosh as well as on other computer platforms. Users can also expect to see libraries of 3DMF-based "clip models" that they can use with their 3D and 2D applications.

Architecture

QuickDraw 3D is an application program interface (API) for creating, manipulating, and rendering 3D graphics. It consists of human interface guidelines, a high-level modeling tool kit, a shading and rendering architecture, and a device and acceleration manager for hardware acceleration.

Each part of the API is extensible, making QuickDraw 3D one of the most open graphics architectures in the industry. The file format, interface, architecture, high-level modeling tool kit, and "plug- in" shading and rendering architectures are all designed to allow developers--and ultimately customers--to add their own capabilities to the system. Using 3D acceleration, the user can add a 3D accelerator card to a Macintosh, and the interactive renderer can be accelerated in any application that makes use of it.

Availability

It is anticipated that QuickDraw 3D will be widely available to developers for evaluation in spring, 1995. The final software is expected to be available as a software developers kit in summer, 1995, and developers will be able to license the technology to ship with their applications. Apple also expects QuickDraw 3D to be included with Power Macintosh systems, beginning in summer, 1995, and to be incorporated into the next major release of the Mac OS, in summer, 1996. The Windows version of QuickDraw 3D is expected to be available within six months of the availability of the Power Macintosh version.

System Requirements

To run QuickDraw 3D, Power Macintosh systems will require Version 7.1.2 (or later) of the Mac OS, a hard disk drive and 16 MB of memory.

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Bill Tracking Materials Expanded on WESTLAW
BILL TRACKING MATERIALS EXPANDED ON WESTLAW!

West Publishing announces the addition of several new bill tracking databases on WESTLAW, West's computer-assisted legal research service. The information in these databases is provided through an agreement between West Publishing and Information for Public Affairs, Inc.

The North Carolina Bill Tracking - Full Text database (NC- BILLTXT) contains the full text of enacted legislation from the 1993-94 regular session of the North Carolina legislature. Beginning with the 1995-96 legislative session, all available introduced and amended bill versions will also be included. The North Carolina Bill Tracking - Summaries & Full Text Combined database (NC-BILLS) is a multibase that combines NC-BILLTXT with the existing NC-BILLTRK database. The NC-BILLS database contains both summary information on bills and their status, as well as the full text of bills from North Carolina.

The Utah Bill Tracking - Full Text database (UT-BILLTXT) contains the full text of all available bills from the 1994 general session of the Utah legislature. Beginning with the 1995 legislative session, all amended bill versions will also be included. The Utah Bill Tracking - Summaries & Full Text Combined database (UT-BILLS) is a multibase that combines the UT-BILLTXT database with the existing UT-BILLTRK database.

All of these databases contain a legislative session status calendar providing the latest information about session status, adjournment dates and action deadlines for all states. The NC- BILLTXT, NC-BILLS, UT-BILLTXT and UT-BILLS databases are updated daily.

For more information about these databases, contact the West Reference Attorneys at 1-800-REF-ATTY (1-800-733-2889). For technical assistance, call West Customer Service at 1-800-WESTLAW (1-800-937-8529).


Employment Coverage Expanded on WESTLAW

West Publishing announces the addition of four employment-related databases to WESTLAW, West's computer-assisted legal research service.

The Qualified Retirement and Other Employee Benefit Plans database (RETBEN) contains the full text of Qualified Retirement and Other Employee Benefit Plans, 1994 Edition, by Michael J. Canan, a one-volume treatise published by West Publishing Company.

The New York Public Employee Reporter database (NY-PER) contains the full text of official decisions, opinions, and related matters of the Public Employment Relations Board of the State of New York. Included are full-text decisions of the New York Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), including opinions of counsel and declaratory rulings, and important state and federal court decisions in the public sector labor relations field. Coverage begins with volume 15 (1982). This database is updated monthly.

The Occupational Safety and Health Law database (OSHL) contains the complete text and supplement of the treatise Occupational Safety and Health Law, Third Edition, by Mark A Rothstein. OSHL includes practical considerations and comprehensive analyses of legal problems involving occupational health and safety law. The single-volume text and supplement, part of West's Handbook Series, are published by West Publishing. The treatise is current through 1994.

The Medical Proof of Social Security Disability database (MPSSDIS) contains the full text of Medical Proof of Social Security Disability, by David A. Morton III, M.D., a treatise published by West Publishing.

For more information about the content of these databases, call the West Reference Attorneys at 1-800-REF-ATTY (1-800-733-2889). For technical assistance, call West Customer Service at 1-800- WESTLAW (1-800-937-8529).


Federal Agency Coverage Expanded on WESTLAW

West Publishing announces the addition of four federal agency- related databases to WESTLAW, West's computer-assisted legal research service.

The Antitrust and Trade Regulation-Antitrust Releases database (FATR-ANTI) contains documents released by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Antitrust Division. Coverage begins with January 1994 and includes new documents as they are released by the agencies.

The Antitrust and Trade Regulation-U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Materials database (FATR-CPSC) contains documents issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Coverage begins with 1981 and includes new documents as they are released by the agency.

The Code of Federal Regulations-1993 Version database (CFR93) contains documents from the 1993 version of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). This database includes all titles of the 1993 CFR and incorporates changes to each title from the Federal Register.

The Department of the Interior Decisions database (INTDEC) contains opinions and orders from the Department of the Interior (DOI) published in Decisions of the Department of the Interior. Coverage is from 1881 to the present.

For more information about the content of these databases, call the West Reference Attorneys at 1-800-REF-ATTY (1-800-733-2889). For technical assistance, call West Customer Service at 1-800- WESTLAW (1-800-937-8529).


Federal Taxation Coverage Expanded on WESTLAW

West Publishing announces the addition of three new federal taxation databases and the expansion of one to WESTLAW, West's computer-assisted legal research service.

The Federal Taxation-IRS Market Segment Specialization Program (FTX-MSSP) contains documents released by the IRS and includes market segment audit guidelines developed by the Market Segment Specialization Program (MSSP) of the IRS. Coverage begins with 1993 and includes new documents as they are released by the IRS.

The Federal Taxation-IRS Exemption Rulings database (FTX-EXEMPT) contains documents released by the Internal Revenue Service's Exempt Organizations Technical Division. A document is a ruling issued under procedures announced in Notice 92-28, 1992-25 I.R.B. 5, 1992-1 C.B. 515. A ruling is a form letter that recognizes tax exemption under the Internal Revenue Code. Coverage begins with 1994 and includes new documents as they are released by the IRS.

The Federal Taxation Congressional Research database (FTX-CRS) contains documents released by the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service (CRS). The CRS works exclusively for the Congress, conducting research, analyzing legislation, and providing information at the request of committees, members, and their staffs. A document is a report or an issue brief prepared for members and committees of the United States Congress. Coverage begins with 1989 and includes new documents as they are released by CRS.

The Federal Taxation-IRS General Counsel Memoranda database (FTX-GCM) contains more-documents released by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). A document is a memorandum prepared by the IRS Office of Chief Counsel in support of revenue rulings, private letter rulings and technical advice memoranda issued by the IRS. Coverage now begins with 1962 and includes new documents as they are released by the IRS.

The Tax Notes Today database (TNT), a DIALOG database now available on WESTLAW, contains analytical summaries combined with the full-text of all important legislative, regulatory, judicial, and policy documents regarding federal taxation. TNT is updated daily and coverage begins with 1987.

Taxation databases on WESTLAW contain documents that relate to taxation by federal, state, or local governments. Among the subjects included are excise, gift, income, inheritance, property, sales and other taxes, and collection and prosecution proceedings.

For more information about the content of these databases, call the West Reference Attorneys at 1-800-REF-ATTY (1-800-733-2889). For technical assistance, call West Customer Service at 1-800- WESTLAW (1-800-937-8529).


State Admin Code Coverage Expanded on WESTLAW
State Administrative Code Coverage Expanded on WESTLAW

West Publishing announces the addition of two state administrative code databases to WESTLAW, West's computer- assisted legal research service.

The Connecticut Administrative Code database (CT-ADC) contains the complete Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, including recent amendments published in the Connecticut Law Journal. This database is current with materials published in the Connecticut Law Journal through November 8, 1994.

The Arizona Administrative Code database (AZ-ADC) contains the complete Arizona Administrative Code (A.A.C.). This database is updated quarterly and is current through September 30, 1994.

WESTLAW currently offers state administrative code databases for twelve states. They include: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Washington.

For more information about these and other WESTLAW databases, call the West Reference Attorneys at 1-800-REF-ATTY (1-800-733- 2889). For technical assistance, call West Customer Service at 1-800-WESTLAW (1-800-937-8529).


Three Treatises Added to WESTLAW
THREE TREATISES ADDED TO WESTLAW!

West Publishing announces the addition of three treatises to WESTLAW, West's computer-assisted legal research service.

The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations database (JW-TAXEXEM) contains the full text of the treatise The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations by Bruce R. Hopkins. The JW-TAXEXEM database is provided through an agreement between West Publishing Company and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Information in this database is current through the 1993 Cumulative Supplement.

The Criminal Law Defenses database (CRLDEF) contains the complete text of Criminal Law Defenses by Paul H. Robinson, which is part of West's Criminal Practice Series. Documents within this database provide a conceptual framework within which all criminal defenses can be considered, along with separate sections for each criminal law defense. The CRLDEF database presents practical points collateral to the substantive law of criminal defenses. Information in this database is current through 1993 and includes pocket parts written by Myron Moskowitz and Jane Grill.

The FPP database contains the full text of the treatise Federal Practice and Procedure by Charles Alan Wright and Arthur R. Miller, including the 1994 annual pocket parts, and various prior supplements. Information in this database is updated annually.

For more information about the JW-TAXEXEM, CRLDEF or FPP databases, contact the West Reference Attorneys at 1-800-REF-ATTY (1-800-733-2889). For technical assistance, call West Customer Service at 1-800-WESTLAW (1-800-937-8529).


Foreign Pub. Coverage Expanded on WESTLAW
FOREIGN PUBLICATION COVERAGE EXPANDED ON WESTLAW!

West Publishing announces the addition of seven new DIALOG databases on WESTLAW, West's computer-assisted legal research service. These databases are provided through an agreement between DIALOG and West Publishing.

The Asia/Pacific Business Journals database (APBUS) contains the full text of the newsletter Business News Indochina. New business publications of the Asia-Pacific region will be added as they become available to West. Coverage begins May 1, 1994, and information in the database is updated monthly.

The TRADEMARKSCAN - Austria database (IP-AUSTRIA), TRADEMARKSCAN - France database (IP-FR), TRADEMARKSCAN - International Register database (IP-WIPO), TRADEMARKSCAN - Italy database (IP-ITALY), TRADEMARKSCAN - Liechtenstein database (IP-LIECH) and TRADEMARKSCAN - Monaco database (IP-MONACO) all contain trademark applications and registrations filed with the respective trademark registries. The IP-AUSTRIA, IP-FR, IP-WIPO and IP-ITALY databases include all active records and inactive records from January 1, 1989, to present. Each of these databases is updated monthly.

For more information about the content of these databases, contact the West Reference Attorneys at 1-800-REF-ATTY (1-800- 733-2889). For technical assistance, call West Customer Service at 1-800-WESTLAW (1-800-937-8529).


Apple Announces QuickTime Conferencing

Open, Cross Platform Conferencing, Collaboration and Multimedia Communications Technology

SAN FRANCISCO, California--February 7, 1995--Apple Computer today announced a cross platform conferencing, collaboration and multimedia communications technology that allows personal computer users to share real-time information, images and sound anywhere in the world. Apple is currently making the technology, called QuickTime Conferencing, available to corporate allies who plan to create or have announced they are creating end user applications based on the technology. QuickTime Conferencing is a standards-based architecture that allows users to:

-- video conference and collaborate--to share and annotate text, images, screen capture, sound, video and virtual scenes real-time among fellow-conference participants in a variety of locations worldwide. QuickTime Conferencing allows users to record conversations and transform those conversations into QuickTime movies. All of this can be done on a variety of networks such as an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), the worldwide internet, local area and wide area networks and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. QuickTime Conferencing can be used by a number of simultaneous users, the total number being only by available network bandwidth.

-- conduct cross platform video conferencing connectivity between Macintosh computers, PCs, UNIX systems and room-based conferencing systems through the use of the H.320 worldwide teleconferencing standard.

-- broadcast and view multimedia content--digital audio, music and video on a local or wide area network.

Through alliances QuickTime Conferencing technology is expected to yield product bundles such as:

-- Apple Media Conference Kit--Consisting of the QuickTime Conferencing system extension, the Apple Media Conference application and a high quality, color video camera.

-- Apple Media Conference Pro Kit--Consisting of the QuickTime Conferencing system extension, the Apple Media Conference application, a color video camera and an H.320 codec/ISDN adapter board. Being developed by Sagem/SAT, a leading international communications product company, the board is designed to allow interoperability between platforms (Power Macintosh to Macintosh, PC, UNIX and room systems) and full-screen image sharing.

--Complete Media Conference System--Consisting of an Apple Media Conference Kit, a Power Macintosh 7100 AV, a 17 inch color monitor, external speakers and a keyboard.

Because QuickTime Conferencing is software-based, it is easily incorporated into new and existing third party products. As such, Apple believes that QuickTime-compatible products could yield extremely affordable prices:

 -- Apple Media Conference Kit--under $200

 -- Apple Media Conference Pro Kit--under $1,750

 -- Complete Media Conferencing System--under $6,000

Apple is working with a wide range of companies including telcos, network, software and hardware providers and developers to provide a range of solutions that take advantage of the benefits of QuickTime Conferencing. These allies have announced that they expect to make products available in the second quarter of 1995.

From the home office to university campuses to the multinational enterprise network, QuickTime Conferencing will allow users to communicate with people across the country or across the world. Users won't have to worry about whether their hardware equipment, networking equipment and applications are compatible with the solutions being used on the other end of the network line. QuickTime Conferencing is designed to be fully operational with H.320 standards-based systems.

"The introduction of QuickTime Conferencing will not only extend Apple's leadership in multimedia, but will make an important difference in the video conferencing and collaboration market," said Rick Shriner, vice president of Apple's Core Technologies Group. "Our goal in designing QuickTime Conferencing was to develop a solution that allowed people the opportunity to communicate and collaborate. By making it open in every sense of the word, our users can metaphorically break down the walls of their homes, schools and offices and expand the boundaries of their lives."

QuickTime Conferencing users can have access to people, information, sights and sounds that could never be combined before. For example:

-- An author in Tokyo, Japan and her publisher in San Francisco, California can view and discuss cover art for a new novel. They can each view the design at several different angles, change the visual perspective of the artwork, and annotate the image and accompanying text for the other to see.

-- A sixth grade class in Dallas, Texas can discuss and view the effects of global warming with an environmental scientist at U.C. Berkeley's Lawrence Labs in California by using QuickTime Conferencing over the internet.

-- A special effects producer in Hollywood, California can take a movie director on the East Coast through a virtual tour of a proposed set design. While the producer records their discussion as a QuickTime movie, the director can pan around the scene, zoom in to look at props and view the set design from a variety of angles.

-- A breast cancer patient and her doctor in Fargo, North Dakota can consult with a leading oncologist in Boston, Massachusetts on her prognosis and course of treatment. The Boston physician can view her mammograms and annotate her medical chart as they converse.

-- A CEO's company-wide address can be broadcast for easy viewing by all employees at their personal desktop.

Because QuickTime Conferencing allows for sharing of multimedia data and reduces the time and expense of travel, it allows people to be more productive than ever before.

"In the past people found video conferencing easy to resist because prices were high and the number of people they could communicate with was extremely limited," said Rick LeFaivre, senior vice president of the Apple Technology Group. "Now for what we expect to be very aggressive prices, people can conduct a media conference with virtually anyone, anywhere in the world. A Power Macintosh QuickTime Conferencing user can share QuickTime VR (virtual reality) images, annotate text documents and share digital music over networks from basic rate ISDN to the internet to ATM."

Because QuickTime Conferencing is a software-based architecture, application developers, communications providers and hardware vendors can easily develop compatible solutions. For example, Crosswise Corporation, the maker of Face to Face, a cross-platform document conferencing application, developed a QuickTime Conferencing-compatible version of their software in just one month. A QuickTime Conferencing compatible application shares the interface of other QuickTime Conferencing-enabled third party applications, so customers can begin using applications quickly and easily.

QuickTime Conferencing is based on Apple's award winning QuickTime technology. It is a conferencing architecture which allows support for both industry standards such as H.320, as well as proprietary architectures, and codecs such as Indeo by Intel Corporation. QuickTime Conferencing is transport, compression and media-device independent. Apple's built-in AV capabilities combined with the performance of the PowerPC RISC architecture, make it easy for users to make multimedia connections with others on the information superhighway almost as soon as they pull QuickTime Conferencing out of the box.

"Having QuickTime Conferencing available in my home, office, and studio literally allows me to be in multiple locations at one time--it's the next best thing to having a Star Trek transporter," said Los Angeles-based screenwriter and multimedia special effects consultant Michael Backes, co-author of the screenplay for Jurassic Park and other motion pictures. "Within the next few months, I'll be counting on QuickTime Conferencing as the backbone for my business."

"The short and sweet of QuickTime Conferencing is that it requires less network bandwidth and uses innovative technology," says Matt Ghourdjian, National Director of Technology at Howrey & Simon, a 300-lawyer law firm serving Fortune 50 clients. Howrey & Simon intends to use the product to send QuickTime movies of depositions and re-enactments for lawyers to use in court; for live document sharing; for consultation between partners; and to conduct tours of the firm's Washington, DC office from Los Angeles. "It's simply outstanding," says Chris Masten, Howrey & Simon's Technical Litigation Support Manager.

To use the Apple Media Conference Kit on the Macintosh, users need at least 16 Megabytes of RAM, a 68040 or PowerPC-based Macintosh, System 7.5, a network interface such as Ethernet, ISDN, Token Ring, and optionally the ability to digitize audio and video using the built-in AV subsystem or a third party digitizer card. To use the Apple Media Conference Pro Kit on Macintosh, users need at least 16 Megabytes of RAM, an AV PowerPC-based Macintosh and an ISDN connection. To communicate with QuickTime Conferencing users from the PC and other platforms, users will need an H.320 compatible codec on their machine, available from a variety of vendors. QuickTime Conferencing technology is currently under development and products using the technology have not yet been completed. Apple will provide pricing and availability information when products are completed and ready for release.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the information industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy to use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, online services, and personal digital assistants. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) develops, manufactures, licenses and markets products, technologies and services for the business, education, consumer, scientific & engineering and government markets in over 140 countries.

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Delphi Internet Tech Agreement With NetScape
DELPHI INTERNET SIGNS STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY AGREEMENT WITH NETSCAPE COMMUNICATIONS

Internet Standards-Based Strategy to Bypass Consumer Online Competitors

New Technology Direction Underscores Strong Commitment to Delivering Innovative Services and Enriching Internet Access

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS * February 8, 1995 * Delphi Internet Services Corporation, one of the nation's largest online services and since 1992 a leading provider of complete Internet access, today announced that it has signed a license and distribution agreement with Netscape Communications Corporation under which Netscape will provide client and server software to Delphi Internet.

This agreement with Netscape marks the first step in Delphi Internet's plan to deliver the most accessible interactive content and services for personal computer users. Through the licensing of Netscape Navigator and Netsite Commerce Server software, Delphi Internet begins to implement its plans to build its online service on a totally open, Internet standards-based platform. Netscape Navigator and Netsite* server software will bring secure communications, performance and advanced functionality to Delphi Internet's new platform.

"We are aggressively moving forward toward an open architecture * away from the older, proprietary technologies of the 'big three' online service providers," said Dr. Alan E. Baratz, Delphi Internet's Chief Executive Officer. "By adopting an open system, we are ensuring that our delivery platform will consistently incorporate the latest technology and that our members and partners can instantly access the richest resources and most innovative services that the Internet has to offer. At Delphi, we understand and fully embrace the principles of openness and adherence to technological excellence on which the Internet is founded, and bring that same commitment to the development of our new platform."

"Delphi Internet's selection of Netscape as a strategic partner will give online subscribers easy access to the vast resources available on the Internet as well as to a broad range of other exciting information and entertainment services," said Jim Barksdale, President and Chief Executive Officer of Netscape. "Delphi Internet's online expertise and access to unrivaled media content, combined with Netscape's easy-to-use, standards-based secure software, will create a powerful platform for delivery of online services."

Delphi Internet's "Third Generation" Interface Development

Delphi Internet is re-building its online service based on a sophisticated platform that will readily accommodate the latest products and services that are being developed for the Internet. The Company is developing a "third generation" interface * one that will deliver on the promise of new media types incorporating audio and video, as well as hyperlinking capabilities * evolving from a first generation ASCII, text-based system to leapfrog second generation proprietary, menu-based point and click interfaces.

Delphi Internet's third generation interface will differ dramatically from earlier interfaces because it will be built around emerging Internet standards like TCP/IP, POP (for mail), Gopher, Worldwide Web (WWW) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). "Because these standards are set by public use and discussion, they evolve quickly and take into account the latest technology," said Baratz. "Also, many complementary products based on these standards are and will continue to become available. In addition, because Delphi has been a 'Net citizen for a long time, we know that these standards work, and are at the core of the explosive growth and utility of the Internet. Basing our interface on these standards is the soundest strategy for providing secure communications and solid performance to our subscribers * now and into the future."

A News Corporation company, Delphi Internet develops and markets interactive entertainment, information and communications services for consumers worldwide. Delphi Internet is one of the nation's top online services and a leading provider to consumers of comprehensive access to the Internet, the data superhighway. News Corporation, led by Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch, is one of the largest global media companies with diversified international operations that include: TV GUIDE, Fox Broadcasting Company, Twentieth Century Fox, HarperCollins Publishers, Times Newspapers Limited, British Sky Broadcasting, STAR Television and others.

Netscape Communications Corporation is a premier provider of open software to enable people and companies to exchange information and conduct commerce over the Internet and other global networks. The company was founded in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc., a Fortune 500 computer systems company; and Marc Andreessen, creator of the NCSA Mosaic research prototype for the Internet. Privately held, Netscape Communications Corporation is based in Mountain View, California.


Cisco Systems Licensing Apple Multimedia Tech.
Cisco Systems, Inc. Licensing Apple Networked Multimedia Technology

SAN FRANCISCO, California--February 7, 1995--Apple Computer today announced that Cisco Systems, Inc., leading vendor of internetworking equipment, is licensing networked multimedia technology from Apple. The technology area of this licensing arrangement allows end-users to broadcast digital audio and video from their personal computers on stand-alone or enterprise networks. Apple's networking technology is included in the QuickTime Conferencing architecture, also announced today.

Using QuickTime Conferencing technology, audio-video broadcasts can be viewed by network users from their desktop or portable computers, while using a minimum of network bandwidth. For example,

-- A seminar on advanced mathematics is being given in a large university. Students can view the seminar on their desktop networked computers from their dorm rooms, labs or offices.

-- A speech is being given on environmental effects of heavy commuter traffic. The home office of a telecommuter is wired into the corporate local-area network, and the speech can be viewed in real-time and recorded into a QuickTime movie for archival purposes.

-- A variety of new CD-audio releases for big-band, classical and pop music are being broadcast 24 hours a day on the corporate-wide, high-speed network of a West Coast record company. Employees all over the country can sample the musical tracks from their desktop and portable computers from any point on the nationwide digital network.

-- A company-wide communications meeting can be broadcast for easy viewing by all employees at their desktop.

Apple's multicast protocols minimize the amount of network bandwidth required to distribute multimedia data streams on distributed networks. Instead of flooding the entire network with broadcast packets for this type of application, multimedia data only flows to those users on the network who request the data, thereby producing an efficient distribution of multimedia streams.

"The licensing of Apple's multicast protocols to Cisco is an exciting event for users of Macintosh and Power Macintosh computers. This is the first step towards making it easier to allow multimedia data streams to be broadcast and viewed from any point on the network with high performance", said Tony Moraros, product manager of AppleTalk network protocols, at Cisco Systems Inc.

Cisco is licensing from Apple the Simple Multicast Routing Protocol (SMRP), a specialized network protocol for routing multimedia data streams on enterprise networks. The protocol licensed by Cisco Systems, Inc. works in conjunction with multicast extensions to the AppleTalk protocol, in use today on millions of Macintosh and Power Macintosh personal computers. Apple's newly developed multicast protocols are included in the QuickTime Conferencing software products, also announced today.

QuickTime Conferencing is based on Apple's award winning QuickTime technology. It is an architecture which allows support for both industry-standards and proprietary technologies. QuickTime Conferencing is transport, compression and media-device independent. Apple's built-in AV capabilities combined with the power of the PowerPC RISC architecture, make it easy for users to make multimedia connections with others on the information superhighway almost as soon as they pull QuickTime Conferencing out of the box.

Cisco Systems, Inc., is the leading global supplier of enterprise networks, including routers, LAN and ATM switches, dial-up access servers, and network management software. These products, integrated by Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS), link geographically dispersed LANs, WANs and IBM networks. Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and in the U.S. is traded under the NASDAQ symbol CSCO.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the information industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy to use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, online services, and personal digital assistants. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) develops, manufactures, licenses and markets products, technologies and services for the business, education, consumer, scientific & engineering and government markets in over 140 countries.

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Apple & FujiFilm Developing FireWire Chip Set
Apple and FUJIFILM Announce Agreement to Develop FireWire (IEEE P1394) Chip Set For Multimedia Applications

FujiFilm Adopts Breakthrough IEEE P1394 Technology

SENDAI, Japan/CUPERTINO, California--February 7, 1995--FUJIFILM Microdevices Co., Ltd.(FFM), a subsidiary of Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. and Apple Computer, Inc. announced today that FFM is licensed to develop products that support Apple Computer's FireWire technology, based on the IEEE P1394 High Speed Serial Bus interface.

The IEEE P1394 standard is the first industrial and consumer standard that makes it practical to put a digital interface on consumer products like a camera. FFM FireWire chip sets will make it easy to "hot plug" a camera into a printer, storage device, computer or other multimedia product.

For example, a user with a digital camera and computer containing future FFM chip sets could download pictures from the camera into the computer for editing 500 times faster than possible with current input/output connections. Or, a notebook computer with a future FFM chip set could control an entire digital sound studio.

Apple's new FireWire technology, based on the emerging IEEE P1394 standard, enables high speed isochronous* or real time data transfers at more than 100Mbps and the "plug and play" addition of multimedia devices.

"The FFM chip sets will make it convenient for audio and imaging manufacturers to join the digital revolution. This cooperative effort between Apple and FFM will make photography and sound recording easier for everyone," said Jonathan Zar, Business Manager, Apple's New Media Group.

"We are expecting that FireWire technology will provide a revolutionary solution to the emerging home multimedia market in addition to the PC market for high speed and easy-to-use interfacing and networking of various digital video, audio, printer and storage devices," said Kazuyuki Masukane, Manager of VLSI Design Department of FFM.

Headquartered in Sendai Industrial Park, Japan, FFM is dedicated to design, manufacture, and marketing of electronic imaging LSI products such as high resolution CCD image sensors, digital image compression or video processing LSI, and Flash memory products including PCMCIA cards. As a fully authorized FireWire licensee, FFM will support the IEEE 1394 Serial Bus architecture and will focus on the development of semiconductor products optimized for consumer electronics and multimedia such as digital video cameras, printers and audio systems.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the information industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy to use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, online services, and personal digital assistants. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) develops, manufactures, licenses and markets products, technologies and services for the business, education, consumer, scientific & engineering and government markets in over 140 countries.

*Isochronous means equal, or having uniform duration in time or recurring at regular intervals in time.

Apple Computer Inc

20525 Mariana Ave

Cupertino, CA 95014

408-996-1010


SilverPlatter to Publish The CQ Researcher CD
SilverPlatter to Publish The CQ Researcher on CD-ROM

SilverPlatter Information announces a publishing partnership with Congressional Quarterly, Inc. (CQ). CQ, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is widely respected for its tradition of nonpartisan editorial excellence covering Congress and national issues. Among the many CQ publications which contribute to this reputation is The CQ Researcher, a favorite research starting point for many librarians. Under this new publishing agreement, SilverPlatter Information will make The CQ Researcher's unequaled current-events coverage available in electronic form.

The CQ Researcher is a library's link to factual information on the subjects that have captured the nation's attention and are hotly debated around the country. An ideal research tool for both high school and college students, The CQ Researcher is the starting point for research on current, emerging, and often controversial, topics of the day. It presents many facets of opinion, provides milestone dates, details the latest developments and projections, explores the merits of opposite viewpoints, and provides sources for further research.

Acclaimed by both college and high school librarians, The CQ Researcher is an excellent resource for students because it covers topics that are hard to pinpoint and for which it is hard to find accurate, up-to-date material.

Now, through this publishing partnership, The CQ Researcher will be available on CD-ROM, allowing librarians and library researchers to access this information faster, easier and more comprehensively than ever before.

The CQ Researcher on CD-ROM in the second quarter of 1994. It will be updated quarterly and will run in both Windows and DOS environments.

SilverPlatter Information, Inc.

100 River Ridge Drive

Norwood, MA 02062-5043

Tel: 1-800-343-0064 (U.S. and Canada) or 1-617-769-2599

Fax: 1-617-769-8763

Internet: info@silverplatter.com


Delrina Echo Lake Captures Life Stories
Delrina Expands Presence In Home Consumer Market with Echo Lake for Windows

Exciting new software for capturing and sharing life stories

SAN JOSE, CA and TORONTO, ONT -- February 6, 1995 -- Delrina Corporation (NASDAQ: DENAF, TSE:DC), acclaimed for its award-winning animated screen savers, communications and electronic forms software, today announced its first interactive multimedia consumer program, Echo Lake, designed to be a special place on the home computer where people can capture and share family memories. The product will be available this spring on CD and diskette.

Echo Lake is a high-quality creative package that takes full advantage of multimedia technologies supporting a photo-realistic and inviting 3-D interface. The program presents several ways in which individuals of all ages can create vivid accounts of their life experiences and prepare copies of their personal "books" in print, or in electronic form to share with others on diskette or through on-line services.

"Very few home PC software titles captivate and sustain consumer interest," said Mark Skapinker, Delrina president. "There is tremendous potential for a product that can redefine the way families use their home computer, taking its use beyond games and financial planning. Echo Lake is an engaging program that appeals to the widespread interest in nostalgia, recording our lives and experiences for ourselves and generations to come. It+s a product that brings people together."

Echo Lake+s flexible format allows individuals to write any number of stories, and add voice and sound clips and other media to enhance them. It also works with a wide range of complementary products and services, ranging from scanners, digital cameras and video capture cards, to Kodak Photo CDs, giving users the option to add photographs and video to further bring to life their personal and family memories.

"Delrina+s Echo Lake software presents the user with rich visual imagery right from its first screen," said Paul McAfee, director of worldwide Photo CD marketing at Kodak. "The program invites its users to include pictures of their lives. Because Delrina has included simple access to Photo CD images, users of Echo Lake software will find it easy to enrich their life stories with their own photos."

"Within the last three years, I have evaluated over 500 software titles," said Gary Kinsey, Entertainment Evangelist at Creative Labs. "In my opinion, Echo Lake is a truly ground-breaking product, with the potential to fit into every household. It also gives consumers a wonderful reason to learn more about how to use multimedia capabilities such as sound and video."

According to Dataquest, a market research firm in San Jose, CA, it is estimated that over 35% of US households currently own a personal computer. Dataquest predicts the home PC market will show a compound annual growth of 21%, while the rest of the US computer markets will grow at 8.9%. It has also recently reported that 2 million of the 5.6 million personal computers shipped in the United States during the fourth quarter of 1994 were for the home market. Echo Lake will enable these computer users to maximize the enjoyment of their investment in multimedia computing.

"Echo Lake is a first-of-its-kind software program that makes the computer truly personal," said Greg Long, Delrina product manager and the creator of Echo Lake. "We think it will draw family members and friends together at the computer to recall, recreate, laugh, cry and reminisce about their experiences."

Although aimed at home computer users, Echo Lake will also appeal to students, schools, clubs, and other organizations seeking to create stories and capture history. The diskette version will enable these groups, as well as others who do not own a multimedia PC, to enjoy Echo Lake to create journals using text, graphics, and photos.

Delrina Corporation designs, develops, markets and supports innovative PC software products and services in the fax, data and voice communications, electronic forms and consumer software markets. Founded in 1988, the Company is ranked in sales among the top 15 software publishers in North America and is recognized as the worldwide leader in PC fax and electronic forms. Delrina employs more than 600 people with headquarters in Toronto, Canada and offices in San Jose, CA; Kirkland, WA; Washington, DC; Lexington, MA; the United Kingdom; France; and Germany. Delrina can be contacted at (416) 441-3676.

Delrina Corp

895 Don Mills, 500-2 Park Center

Toronto, Ontario M3C 1W3 CANADA

416-441-3676,  fax 416-441-0774


Data General DataGenie Handheld Computer
DATA GENERAL ANNOUNCES DATAGENIE HANDHELD COMPUTER

Simplifies Data Collection for Mobile Professionals

WESTBORO, Mass., January 31, 1995 -- Data General Corporation today announced the newest member of its family of handheld computers, DataGenie, a low-cost, durable, lightweight data collection device that allows mobile professionals to collect, enter and access data and system information in the palm of their hand.

"More and more, customers are demanding tough, affordable, and low- cost hand-held computers to make data collection more efficient for mobile professions," said Michael Schneider, vice president, Data General. "DataGenie has a true price/performance advantage. It offers powerful features and true portability for a low cost, helping mobile professionals collect and use data more efficiently."

Users can download data from a host computer directly to the DataGenie computer before going into the field, making current information available for mobile applications. After information is collected, mobile professionals can use DataGenie on the spot to compare, compute or graph results. Users can also upload the data to the host computer, through an RS-232 connection, either directly or through a telephone link.

The product is an ergonomically designed, water-resistant, rugged computer suitable for use in tough environments. Using four standard AA batteries, DataGenie offers 200 hours of battery life (actual usage), the longest power uptime available in the industry.

Examples of industries that might use DataGenie include:

 - Automotive

 - Banking and Insurance

 - Travel and Accommodations

 - Food and Beverage

 - Shipping and Distribution

 - Utilities

 - Real Estate

 - Retail

 - Industrial and Manufacturing

DataGenie requires no technical skill or training and is designed to simplify data collection in portable computing applications and environments. The computer fits in the palm of the users hand and the menu-driven, point and select functions can be operated with the thumb.

DataGenie is 7.5" high x 3" wide x 1" deep and weighs 15 ounces. Options include barcode scanners, printers and other RS-232 devices. The product is immediately available, at a list price of $745, for end users, OEMs, VARs and systems integrators.

Data General markets a series of handheld computers and bar code scanners that provide economical and compact data collection solutions.

About Data General

Data General is an open systems company that specializes in providing enterprise servers, storage systems and services to information technology users worldwide. The company, which is headquartered in Westboro, Mass., reported revenues of 1.12 billion in fiscal 1994.


EtherWave ISA 10Base-T Card Now $139
New EtherWave ISA Card now at $139.00

EtherWave ISA Card for PCs is a daisy-chainable 10Base-T card for PCs.  It has the following key features:

--Includes 3Com's Parallel Tasking Architecture for highest

  performance and compatibility

--Supports leading operating systems

--Includes NDIS and ODI drivers with agents for SNMP manageablity

You can use the EtherWave ISA Card in any IBM PC or compatible with an available 16-bit ISA or EISA interface slot. It includes 3Com's Parallel Tasking Architecture for the highest performance available, according to tests performed by PC Week Labs. Installation is simple with an auto-configuration utility, and the EtherWave ISA Card supports leading network operating systems such as Novell NetWare, MS Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups, LANtastic, and FTP Software PC/TCP. EtherWave lets you add a PC to your network quickly and economically when it's inconvenient or too expensive to add a hub or pull more wire.

U.S. street pricing for EtherWave ISA Card has been lowered at least 30% to $139, or for a 5-pack, $629 ($126 per card).

FOR MORE INFORMATION

By e-mail:  info@farallon.com

By Fax Center: 510-814-5040,  Document 2300

By phone:  510-814-5000 or 510-814-5003

By anonymous ftp:  ftp.farallon.com/pub/farallon.products/etherwave.products/

By WWW:   http://www.farallon.com

NOTE: Farallon Computing, Inc. does not sell direct, but contact Farallon for the name of the reseller in your area.


F&S Index Plus Text & Health Reference Center
SilverPlatter Information and Information Access Company Enter into Publishing Agreement

February 4, 1995 --- SilverPlatter Information and Information Access Company (IAC) have announced a joint publishing agreement. Under this agreement, SilverPlatter will initially be publishing F&S Index Plus Text and Health Reference Center with other databases to follow.

F&S Index Plus Text and Health Reference Center will be compliant with SilverPlatter's ERL Technology. Because of this compliancy, these products will be available in CD-ROM and hard disk format, and will be accessible using SilverPlatter's retrieval software for DOS, Windows, Macintosh and UNIX. In addition, F&S Index Plus Text and Health Reference Center will also be accessible by other ERL retrieval clients that are developed by third-party vendors.

With this partnership, SilverPlatter will be publishing, in the near future, other IAC databases, including Expanded Academic Index and Business Index, which will be compliant with ERL Technology.

Commenting on the publishing partnership, Nancy Knight, vice president of Information Provider Services, noted "It is a pleasure to be working with IAC. IAC is well-respected in the industry for the quality products that it brings to academic and public libraries. Our relationship with IAC illustrates SilverPlatter's commitment to building a Worldwide Library by establishing collaborations which add quality information to the Library's content."

Sean Devine, general manager for the Library division at IAC, added: "SilverPlatter's ERL Technology was instrumental in our decision to collaborate with SilverPlatter. Because ERL Technology supports multiple searching environments and offers a choice of interfaces, making our products ERL-compliant will only increase access to our information to users around the world."

F&S Index Plus Text is a comprehensive source for research on companies, products, markets, and industries. This database provides business information from over 1,000 trade periodicals and general business journals with abstracts for most citations and full text from 180 titles. It's an ideal source for information on activities in thousands of public and private companies in the U.S. and abroad.

Health Reference Center is a unique and comprehensive integrated database designed to meet a variety of health and medical information needs. The database provides index and abstract citations and full text from a broad range of periodicals, pamphlets, and medical reference books.

SilverPlatter Information, Inc.

100 River Ridge Drive

Norwood, MA 02062-5043

Tel: 1-800-343-0064 (U.S. and Canada) or 1-617-769-2599

Fax: 1-617-769-8763

Internet: info@silverplatter.com

   -or-

IAC

362 Lakeside Drive

Foster City, CA 94404

Tel: 1-800-227-8431

Fax: 1-415-378-5369


Scan/US Geocoder - National Level Geocoding Swr
Scan/US Geocoder adds latitude and longitude to street address file.

Los Angeles, CA -- Scan/US Inc., announces the Scan/US Geocoder, a national-level geocoding software product for the United States, available immediately.  This product  comes on a single CD-ROM disk.

Geocoding is the process of translating street addresses into latitude and longitude coordinates which can be used to display the locations on a map.

Scan/US Geocoder Functionality:

-- Assigns latitude and longitude coordinates to each record in

   a file of street addresses.

-- Standardizes addresses to U.S. Postal Service guidelines,

   including ZIP+4s.

-- Assigns a census ID code for the block group, census tract,

   or county.

The Scan/US Geocoder uses both the 1992 TIGER street database from the U.S. Census Bureau and the ZIP+4 database from the U.S. Postal Service. You choose from three levels of geocoding.  A 'Best Geocode' option searches both databases.  'Address Geocode only' uses only the street database, and 'ZIP Geocode Only', the ZIP+4 database.

File formats and size:

Scan/US Geocoder processes files in either xBASE or delimited ASCII format.  xBASE files must be compatible with dBASE III or dBASE IV. There is no limit to the number of records that can be processed in a file. Delimited ASCII text files are limited to 500 fields.

Demo Disk available:

A demonstration copy of the program, limited to processing 100 records at a time, is available for geocoding addresses in a limited area: Washington D.C.

System requirements

Computer:  An IBM or 100% compatible Intel 386SX-based or higher with one 1.44MB floppy drive.  A CD-ROM drive (the program fits on just one CD).

Memory:  Minimum 8MB RAM, 12MB or more recommended.

Hard disk: 4MB storage for the software.  Additional space is needed for your address files which could more than double in size after processing.

Operating system:  DOS 5.0 or higher recommended.

Environment:  Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher, running in 386 enhanced

mode, or Windows NT 3.5.

Pricing

The following introductory promotional prices, valid through Feb 28, 1995, are for a single-user license.  If you would like a multi-user license or other information, please  call 1-800-272-2687, or email Michael Kim at 75540.1103@compuserve.com

One state or MSA        US $650.00

Any 8 states            US $1195.00

National                US $1995.00

Using with other mapping applications:

The Scan/US Geocoder processes files in dBASE or delimited ASCII text format.  After processing, it outputs latitude and longitude coordinates in  decimal degree format, and the longitude value can be shown with or without its negative sign.  Census IDs can be output in Scan/US format, the standard census format or as digits only.  By supporting different formats, Scan/US Geocoder can be used with other applications.

Using with the Scan/US Streets and Data CD ROM product:

The Geocoded address file can be loaded into Scan/US for Windows so you can see where the address locations appear on a map of the United States or some portion of the United States.

More Information on WWW:

More information about the Scan/US Geocoder, as well as a complete and comprehensive description of the Scan/US Streets and Data CD ROM geomarket analysis program and additional demographic data products can be found at the following WWW page, along with cool sample color maps produced with the product:

http://www.deltanet.com/scanus/4windows.html


DAL Server for UNIX V1.5 Features DB2 Access
PACER'S ODBC-COMPLIANT DESKTOP-TO-UNIX DATABASE CONNECTIVITY TOOL OFFERED TO WINDOWS USERS

DAL Server for UNIX Version 1.5 Also Features DB2 Access

WESTBOROUGH, MA, Feb. 6, 1995 -- Pacer Software, Inc. announced today Version 1.5 of its DAL Server for UNIX, which now offers Windows users the same high level of data access that Macintosh users have had to information contained in UNIX data base systems. This is accomplished by providing support for both DAL and ODBC application programming interfaces (APIs). With DAL for UNIX 1.5, customers can now use desktop applications, such as Microsoft Excel, Lotus Development Corp. 1-2-3 and Blyth Software's Omnis 7, to directly access key decision support data contained in UNIX databases -- all from their desktop of choice.

In addition, the company announced Version 1.5 provides an adapter for IBM DB2 UNIX database environments. DB2 access means that DAL Server for UNIX users can now easily access data from a complete selection of popular relational databases, including DB2, Informix, Ingres, Oracle and Sybase.

"Pacer's DAL Server for UNIX provides more access methods to database management systems on a wider selection of computers than any other data access technology available," said David Hudson, Pacer Software vice president of sales and marketing. "This is important to customers operating in open systems environments, who need flexibility to access data regardless of which desktop machine is being used or popular relational database the information may be stored in."

"IBM is committed to partnerships with industry-leading client/server software providers to ensure the delivery of open systems solutions to our customers," said Janet Perna, director of database technology, IBM Software Solutions. "DAL's interface for accessing data from DB2 for AIX will enhance productivity and help users leverage information for a competitive business advantage."

DAL Server for UNIX allows Macintosh and Windows users to access information without having to understand UNIX programming or networking. DAL insulates users from the complexities of today's multi-vendor information systems to enable easy access. Data reporting and analysis applications become independent of the network connection, server platform, DBMS and SQL dialect being used.

Pacer's DAL Servers supply a fully integrated middleware solution that runs on the leading operating systems, including SunSoft Solaris, Hewlett-Packard Co. HP-UX, Digital Equipment Corp. OSF/1 and IBM AIX.

DAL Server for UNIX 1.5 will be available in April starting at $4,000. The product will be sent free of charge to all corporate and educational customers under maintenance contract. DAL Server is available by calling Pacer Software at 508/898-3300.

Founded in 1981, Pacer Software specializes in networking products that provide pathways to and from the Macintosh for large corporate and university sites. Headquartered in La Jolla, CA, with development and marketing facilities in Westborough, MA, the privately held company's full range of products gives users access to other computers, networks, information and people.

Pacer Software's product line includes PacerTerm, multi-session, multi-protocol Macintosh terminal emulation; Pacer AppleTalk Protocol Family, AppleTalk protocols for non-Macintosh platforms; PacerShare, AppleShare file services for UNIX and VMS systems; PacerPrint, PostScript spooling for UNIX and VMS systems; and DAL Server, desktop-to-UNIX database connectivity. Among its more than 10,000 customers are Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Corp.(3M); BellSouth Information Systems; BP America, Inc.; Motorola, Inc.; NBC News; Northern Telecom, Inc.; Federal Express Corporation; and Walt Disney Pictures.


PacerShare & PacerPrint File/Print Server Swr
PACER SOFTWARE RELEASES VERSION 3.0 OF ITS MACINTOSH FILE, PRINT SERVING SOFTWARE

PacerShare, PacerPrint Offers Unlimited Sessions, NIS Integration

WESTBOROUGH, MA, Feb. 6, 1995 -- Pacer Software, Inc. announced today Version 3.0 of its PacerShare and PacerPrint file and print serving products, featuring unlimited simultaneous user sessions and increased NIS integration. PacerShare and PacerPrint enable Macintosh networks to be successfully integrated with high-performance UNIX servers using industry standards.

The unlimited user sessions feature eliminates restrictions placed on high concurrent usage sites, while NIS integration dramatically reduces password and user administration by centralizing these functions in a single name server.

According to David Hudson, Pacer Software vice president of sales and marketing, "PacerShare and PacerPrint Version 3.0 is an important enhancement because it will reduce the overall administration of the product while broadening its potential use."

PacerShare and PacerPrint Version 3.0, includes the following enhancements:

PacerShare

- Customers will be able to make an unlimited number of simultaneous

  connections.

- PacerShare users whose UNIX account is managed by NIS, will be able

  to manage their NIS passwords from their desktop.

- PacerShare users who log on and remain idle are taking up system

  resources. Inactive users will be warned, then automatically logged

  out. This feature is configurable.

- HP/UX systems will be configurable to run with file names of either

  14 or 255 characters.

PacerPrint

- PPD file integration will improve the speed and font-handling of

  PostScript printing.

- IP printer support will allow customers to set up spoolers to

  printers that communicate via TCP/IP.

PacerShare is an AFP 2.1-compliant implementation of AppleTalk Filing Protocol (AFP) that lets Macintosh users mount directories as if they were Macintosh volumes. Clients access the PacerShare file server via Apple's standard AppleShare client software.

PacerPrint integrates Macintosh and UNIX printing resources by allowing Macintosh users to print directly to UNIX server print queues as if they were Apple LaserWriter or HP LaserJet families. Sites can design a network topology that makes printers simultaneously accessible to host and Macintosh print jobs.

PacerShare provides complete interoperability with PC-NFS, PATHWORKS for UNIX, NetWare for UNIX and LAN Manager for UNIX. This high level of compatibility lets system managers integrate file sharing services for Macintosh, DOS, Windows and UNIX users on a single high-performance server.

PacerShare and PacerPrint 3.0 will be available in April starting at $3,000 for a 20-user license. The product will be sent free of charge to all corporate and educational customers under maintenance contract. Pacer Share and PacerPrint are available by calling Pacer Software at 508/898-3300.

Founded in 1981, Pacer Software specializes in networking products that provide pathways to and from the Macintosh for large corporate and university sites. Headquartered in La Jolla, CA, with development and marketing facilities in Westborough, MA, the privately held company's full range of products gives users access to other computers, networks, information and people.

Pacer Software's product line includes PacerTerm, multi-session, multi-protocol Macintosh terminal emulation; Pacer AppleTalk Protocol Family, AppleTalk protocols for non-Macintosh platforms; PacerShare, AppleShare file services for UNIX and VMS systems; PacerPrint, PostScript spooling for UNIX and VMS systems; and DAL Server, desktop-to-UNIX database connectivity. Among its more than 10,000 customers are Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Corp.(3M); BellSouth Information Systems; BP America, Inc.; Motorola, Inc.; NBC News; Northern Telecom, Inc.; Federal Express Corporation; and Walt Disney Pictures.


Silicon Graphics & 3D Swr Innovators Merger
SILICON GRAPHICS AND 3D SOFTWARE INNOVATORS ALIAS RESEARCH AND WAVEFRONT TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCE MERGER AGREEMENTS

Combined Company to Provide Key Tools to Emerging Digital Media Industry

NEW YORK, NY (Feb. 7, 1995) -- Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: SGI), Alias Research, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADDDF), and Wavefront Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: WAVE) today announced that they have entered into definitive merger agreements. The combined organizations bolster Silicon Graphics' commitment to the entertainment and creative design markets, and allow the company to architect the foundation necessary for software partners and customers to build the digital studio of the 21st Century.

As a result of the mergers, Silicon Graphics will form a wholly owned, independent software subsidiary that will focus on developing the world's most advanced tools for the creation of digital content. Rob Burgess, currently president and CEO of Alias, will become president of the new company, and Mike Noling, currently president and CEO of Wavefront, will report to Burgess as vice president of operations. Martin Plaehn, currently Wavefront's executive vice president of corporate and product development, will also report to Burgess to lead the technical team.

Under terms of the agreements, which were approved by the boards of directors of the respective companies, Alias stockholders will receive the equivalent of 0.90 shares of Silicon Graphics' common stock for each share of Alias common stock owned. Wavefront stockholders will receive 0.49 shares of Silicon Graphics' common stock for each share of Wavefront common stock owned. The closing prices for Silicon Graphics, Alias and Wavefront common stock on Friday, February 3, 1995, the last trading day prior to the board meetings to approve the transaction, were $31.25, $20.875 and $12.625, respectively. The shares to be issued by Silicon Graphics have a current market value of approximately $500 million.

The merger will be accounted for on a pooling of interest basis and is expected to be non-dilutive to Silicon Graphics' fiscal year 1996 earnings. The transaction is expected to be tax-free for U.S. purposes for Wavefront shareholders. In the case of Alias, which is an Ontario, Canada corporation, the share exchange will be tax-free for Canadian resident shareholders but taxable for U.S. shareholders. The combined entities will receive approximately 9 percent of Silicon Graphics' resulting outstanding common stock. The merger is expected to close by June 30, 1995.

"With the creation of this new subsidiary, Silicon Graphics extends its reach in defining the standard for visual realism and interactivity in the world's most demanding computing environments: entertainment and industrial design," said Edward R. McCracken, chairman and CEO of Silicon Graphics. "Leading-edge products from Alias and Wavefront are unique and immensely valuable. Embracing these assets will enable us to design the power tools that artists and innovators need to create the digital studio of the 21st Century."

"The applications that will result from this merger will revolutionize the way our customers will work," said Rob Burgess, president and CEO of Alias. "Entertainment and creative design users will see amazing things happen to the software they're using today, and even greater capabilities emerge from our engineering labs tomorrow."

"Over a decade ago, Wavefront Technologies and Silicon Graphics lite rally lit the fuse of the digital explosion in entertainment, and this merger is a natural next step," said Mike Noling, president and CEO of Wavefront. "By merging our talents and resources, collectively we will create products and solutions that articulate a powerful, exciting future for customers."

The new subsidiary will continue to develop, market, sell and support existing product lines to a wide range of creative professionals, including 3D animators for film and video, game and multimedia developers, automotive stylists, industrial designers and graphic artists. Silicon Graphics' enhanced ability to provide sales, support and training services to customers will fuel growth in these markets.

This new subsidiary will team with Silicon Studio, a subsidiary Silicon Graphics formed last year to focus on the entertainment market, to develop the world's most advanced system-level tools for creating digital content. This collaboration is expected to result in an open architecture that will provide significant benefits to customers who use multiple applications. The two organizations will also work together to accelerate development and delivery of FireWalker, a set of tools from Silicon Studio that will allow filmmakers and other entertainment authors to take original digital source materials and use them to create interactive titles. Through a dramatically new approach called Multimastering, these source materials can not only be used for the initial project-such as a film or game title-but can be redeployed to other interactive media, including CD-ROM, location-based entertainment and interactive television programming.

The mergers follow Silicon Graphics' announcement last month that a total of 22 software companies and production studios have joined its Keystone(tm) software initiative. Pioneered by Silicon Graphics, with Alias and Wavefront as charter members, this new initiative provides the entertainment community with common application standards that greatly streamline the creative and production process with minimal data administration.

Completion of the transactions are subject to customary conditions, including approval of Alias' and Wavefront's stockholders, and required governmental approvals.

Alias Research, Inc. is a world-leading developer of software for digital media creation, providing strategic technology for markets such as design (automotive styling, product and packaging design), entertainment (film & video production, advertising, video games, and corporate communications), and graphic design (digital image compositing and 3D illustration).

Alias was recently chosen as the authorized graphics development system for Nintendo Ultra64 developers. The company's software has been used throughout the entertainment industry by innovators such as Industrial Light & Magic, The Walt Disney Company, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Digital Domain, Crystal Dynamics, Electronic Arts, US West, Spectrum Holobyte, Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Telezign and CNN. High-end industrial design and automotive styling customers include BMW, Caterpillar, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Apple Computer, Motorola, Rollerblade, Inc., Mattel, Black & Decker, Timex Corporation, and Hamilton Beach/Proctor-Silex. Alias is based in Toronto, Canada and has sales offices across North America, Europe and Asia with worldwide distribution.

Wavefront, founded in 1984, is a leading innovator in 2D and 3D computer graphics imaging and animation software products. Wavefront software is in widespread use by professionals in the entertainment market, including electronic games development, location-based entertainment, and premier special effects feature films such as Stargate, StarTrek Generations, True Lies, Speed, Drop Zone, and Clear and Present Danger. Industrial applications include engineering illustration, visualization, and computer-based training. Scientists use Wavefront to render complex data into easily interpreted visual images.

Innovative entertainment companies worldwide are maximizing their creative impact with Wavefront software to communicate, educate, and entertain. These companies include all major TV networks, Acclaim Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company, SOHO 601, Sony Pictures, Walt Disney, and Warner Bros. Industrial clients include 3M, Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Kodak, Mattel, McDonnell Douglas, Mercedes-Benz, Renault, and Rubbermaid, as well as government and research-oriented customers such as NASA, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Wavefront markets its product line globally through sales offices in North America, Europe, and Asia, as well as through a network of over 150 resellers, systems integrators, and country distributors.

Silicon Graphics, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of high-performance visual computing systems. The company delivers interactive three-dimensional graphics, digital media and multiprocessing supercomputing technologies to technical, scientific and creative professionals. Its subsidiary, MIPS Technologies, Inc., designs and licenses the industry's leading RISC processor technology for the computer systems and embedded control markets. Silicon Graphics has offices worldwide and headquarters in Mountain View, California.


DEC Unveils New StorageWorks Disk Drives
DIGITAL UNVEILS NEW DISK DRIVES FOR PC NETWORK AND UNIX ENVIRONMENTS

New StorageWorks 4.3 GB Disk Drives, and 1 and 2 GB Wide Disk Drives, Provide Additional Flexibility For I.S. Environments with Robust Storage Needs

MAYNARD, Mass. -- January 31, 1995 -- Digital Equipment Corporation today introduced a range of new StorageWorks disk drives, providing I.S. and networking managers in Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun, Novell, and Windows NT environments with high-performance options for configuring disk storage solutions in their organizations. The new StorageWorks 4.3 GB disk drive offers the highest capacity currently available on a single 3.5 inch disk drive. For applications requiring fast I/O performance, Digital now provides StorageWorks 1 and 2 GB wide disk drives featuring a 16-bit data path, and a new StorageWorks pedestal that accommodates the wide drives.

In a separate announcement today, Digital's Storage Business Unit introduced the newest member of its RAID subsystem family, the StorageWorks RAID Array 410 for Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun environments. The RAID Array 410 provides reliable, expandable, cost-effective RAID storage.

"StorageWorks subsystems solutions are designed to meet the growing market demand for powerful, competitively-priced products that have the flexibility to meet the storage requirements of multi- vendor client/server environments," stated Paul Feresten, vice president of sales and marketing for Digital's Storage Business Unit. "Our new disk offerings allow users to optimize performance, capacity, and cost considerations for their applications with the industry's fastest and highest capacity drives."

The new StorageWorks 4.3 GB disk drive and 1 and 2 GB wide disk drives are fully compatible with a range of storage subsystems for Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Workstation environments, as well as the Novell NetWare and Windows NT PC network environments. The 4.3 GB disk drive is priced at $2,949. The 1 and 2 GB wide disk drives are priced at $999 and $1,749 respectively. These products are now available exclusively from select value-added resellers (VARs). Call 1-800-STORWORKS for more information.

StorageWorks is a comprehensive family of disk, tape and optical storage subsystems, offering modular, competitively-priced, industry-standard solutions in customizable desktop, deskside, and datacenter enclosures. StorageWorks products are available on multiple operating systems and hardware platforms, including Novell and Windows NT environments, plus Digital workstations and midrange computers, and Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun workstations and servers.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry- focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.


SilverPlatter & UMI Publishing Agreement
SilverPlatter Information and UMI Enter into Publishing Agreement

Five UMI Databases to be available from SilverPlatter

SilverPlatter Information, Norwood, Massachusetts and UMI, A Bell & Howell Company, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announce a cooperative publishing agreement whereby five UMI databases will be available from SilverPlatter. The databases are ABI/INFORM, Periodical Abstracts Research II Edition, Newspaper Abstracts, Dissertation Abstracts, and Pharmaceutical News Indexr.

This publishing agreement marks a significant collaboration between two major companies in the information industry. Commenting on the new publishing arrangement, Nancy Knight, VP of U.S. Information Provider Relations at SilverPlatter, noted "We are extremely pleased to be able to offer UMI databases to SilverPlatter subscribers. These databases are outstanding additions to our collection of products. Working closely with UMI represents a major step in building a worldwide library. It is through these types of collaborations that we are able to move forward in offering a comprehensive collection, accessible from all major hardware and software platforms."

"This agreement will bring critical and timely information via UMI's databases to SilverPlatter customers," says Pat Guiant, UMI vice president, product development. "We are pleased to be working with SilverPlatter and look forward to a long and productive relationship."

ABI/INFORM is an essential source of business information. It offers comprehensive coverage of companies and products; business strategies and tactics; management tools and trends; case studies of successes and failures. Topics include: accounting, banking, computers, economics, energy, engineering, environment, finance, health care, human resources, insurance, international trends, law, management, marketing, public administration, real estate, taxation, telecommunications and transportation. This database provides complete bibliographic information, indexing, and 25- to 200-word abstracts for articles published in over 1,000 business journals, including more than 350 published outside the United States. Two coverage options are available: 1971 to present or 1985 to present. A full-text version contains the complete text of selected articles from 550 major publications since 1991.

Periodical Abstracts Research II Edition is a complete reference to popular magazines, business periodicals, and academic publications. Primarily designed for the demanding research environments of large academic and corporate libraries Research II Edition covers more than 1,600 general-reference publications. Years covered are 1986 to the present. A full-text version contains the complete text of selected articles from 300 major publications since 1992 and 1993. An additional 300 titles will be added in 1995. .

Newspaper Abstracts (27 Paper Edition) provides researchers with cover-to-cover access to articles appearing in the nation's leading newspapers: The New York Times, The Atlanta Constitution (includes selected articles from the Atlanta Journal); The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune; The Christian Science Monitor; The Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal; The Washington Post, USA Today and others. It combines complete bibliographic citations, precise indexing, and concise informative abstracts. For each newspaper, Newspaper Abstracts covers international, national, regional, and local news, business and finance, editorials, commentaries, letters to the editor from prominent people, arts and leisure, special series and supplements, sports, and obituaries of eminent persons. Coverage is from 1991 to the present. Backfiles covering material from 1989 to the present are also available.

Dissertation Abstracts is the resource for original academic research, past and present. It provides access to original academic research from over 1,000 universities throughout the world, including most North American graduate schools and many European universities. It is the most comprehensive information resource covering more than 1.2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Records in this database include abstracts, authors, advisors, titles, institutions, degrees, dates, author-assigned subjects and descriptors, number of pages, and availability of information. Coverage is from 1981 to the present with an optional backfile dating back to 1861 also available.

Pharmaceutical News Index covers essential publications related to the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and medical devices industries. This database contains bibliographic information and indexing for all articles published in 20 key U.S. and international pharmaceutical, health care, biotechnology, and medical device industry publications. It also includes citations to company and industry reports from Thomson Financial Networks' Investext database. The reports are prepared by leading brokerage firms and financial research organizations. Start dates of coverage range from 1974 to 1990.

The UMI databases are available for hard disk storage and over the Internet, and are accessible using SilverPlatter's ERL (Electronic Reference Library) Technology. Dissertation Abstracts and Pharmaceutical News Index are also available on SilverPlatter non-ERL platforms. .

For further information about any of the UMI databases or to subscribe, contact:

SilverPlatter Information, Inc.

100 River Ridge Drive

Norwood, MA 02062-5043

Tel: 1-800-343-0064 (U.S. and Canada) or 1-617-769-2599

Fax: 1-617-769-8763

Internet: info@silverplatter.com


UPCTools V3.0 Macintosh Bar Code Font Tools
SEATTLE- Azalea Software, Inc. has announced UPCTools ver 3.0 for the Macintosh, a totally hip set of font tools used to create UPC, Bookland, EAN, and JAN bar codes. UPCTools is targetted at desktop publishers creating package designs, book covers, CD covers, and other camera-ready artwork that requires high-quality bar code symbols.

UPCTools ver 3.0 is the first Azalea Software product to feature a Universal Widget. The Universal Widget can be installed as an Xtra for MacroMedia FreeHand, an Addition for Adobe PageMaker, a Plug-In for Adobe Illustrator, and/or an XTension for QuarkXPress. Install it as both an Xtra and an Addition, or as an XTension, a Plug-In, and an Xtra, or any combination thereof! No other add-ons does this.

UPCTools is a sophisticated collection of Type 1 bar code fonts. The Univeral Widget and the stand-alone utility in UCPTools do all of the error checking and check digit calculations involved in creating a bar code. An RTF (Rich Text Format) file is then imported into the host application (MacroMedia FreeHand, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress or Adobe PageMaker) or written to disk. This RTF file is the bar code itself.

With UPCTools, users can control the bar width reduction to compensate for ink spread on the printing press, optionally print the human-readable digits under the bar code itself, make full-height or half-height symbols, apply any color available in the host application's color palette, and make white knock-out or transparent backgrounds. UPCTools comes with complete online documentation and is easy and fun to use.

UPCTools ver 3.0 is US$149, is available directly from Azalea Software, comes with free tech support via our 800 number, and has a no-questions-asked money back guarantee. The packaging is on recycled material and we're fun to do business with.

Azalea Software, Inc. specializes in quality bar code printing tools, including fonts and utilities for Microsoft Windows, the Macintosh, and other platforms. They also do custom development work. Azalea Software, founded in 1992, is a small, privately-held, minority-owned business located in Seattle WA.

All trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Azalea Software, Inc.

PO Box 16745

Seattle WA  98116-0745  USA

800 48-ASOFT

206 932.4030

206 937.5919 FAX

Internet: azalea@igc.apc.org


RexxBase V1.36 Update Released
Feb 6, 1995 -- RexxBase (V1.36) - American Coders released an update to its product RexxBase. RexxBase is an external REXX DLL. RexxBase allows you to write REXX programs to access dBase III DBF, DBT and NDX files. Many functions are included such as database creating, sorting and more.

Included with this release of RexxBase is a PM front-end program to assist you in maintaining your databases. This includes database and index creation and maintainance, simple file reporting and a database viewer.

Copies of Rexxbase are available via shareware from the following locations:

    CompuServe GO OS2SHARE LIB - filename: rxbase.zip

    OS2SHAREWARE BBS  - 1-703-385-4325. filename: RXBAS136.ZIP

    FidoNet FREQable from 1:3641/1 or 1:3641/224.

                 Magic Name: REXXBASE.

    PsychoTronic BBS 1-919-286-4542.

                 Use logon: AMERICAN CODER (no password)

For more information, contact:

American Coders LTD

POB 97462

Raleigh, NC 27624

(919) 846-2014.


Blueridge Ports Optix Server to Sun SPARC

Flint Hill, VA ---February 6, 1995--Blueridge Technologies announces that the Optix Network; Document Management System now supports SPARC-based servers from Sun Microsystems, running the Solaris (UNIX) operating system.

In 1994 Optix became the first complete electronic document management system to offer workflow, document imaging, archival/retrieval, and natural language text search for both Macintosh and Windows-based clients. With the addition of Sun's SPARC as a server platform, Optix becomes one of the most scalable solutions in the document management industry. Using Sun servers, Optix can now provide a cost-effective solution for everything from a workgroup system running on an entry-level SPARC, to an enterprise-wide application running on a top of the line Sun SPARCserver with multiple processors and mainframe performance.

By porting to the Sun platform, Blueridge continues it's policy of supporting off-the-shelf, industry- standard hardware platforms, so that our clients can implement document management systems on platforms that they already own and support.

Available in April, an Optix Network System with a Sun SPARCserver will begin at $150,000 and include Optix server software, client software for both Macintosh and Windows-based PC's, installation, training, and support.

Blueridge Technologies

Flint Hill Square

Flint Hill, VA 22627

703-675-3015,  fax 703-675-3130

1505 Bridgeway Ave

Sausalito, CA 94965

415-332-3264,  fax 415-332-3263


Sparta Mac Like Pgm/File Mgr Replacement
Sparta 1.5,  Macintosh/Windows95 on your PC!

Sparta replaces the Program and File Manager with an easy to use Macintosh like operating environment.

Totally icon driven file environment.

 - Drag'n'Drop.

 - Aliases.

 - Network and CD-Rom support.

 - Small icon views.

 - Trashcan.

 - etc.

Additional features in version 1.5 include:

 - Virtual desktop.

 - QuickBar.

 - Moveable drive icons.

 - Password proctection.

 - And much more.

ShareWare $29.

Uploaded to winftp.cica.indiana.edu and its mirrors.

       pub/pc/win3/desktop/sparta15.zip

The file is currently in the uploads directory but it should be moved shortly to the desktop dir.

Sparta 1.5 is also available from isgate.is in directory pub/pc/windows.

   Karl Thoroddsen                       | Email: karlth@rhi.hi.is

   Gerdakot 4 225, Iceland               | Phone: 354 5653704

   -----------------------               | Fax:   354 5653704


New Frontiers Screen Savers on CD-ROM
Ocean State Publishing Corp. Achieves Lift-Off With New Frontiers Screen Savers on CD-ROM

Over 400 NASA Space Mission Images, Many New to CD-ROM, For Screen Saving, Desktop Wallpaper and Royalty Free Art

WOONSOCKET, RI, February 6, 1995 -- Ocean State Publishing Corp. offers CD-ROM users a desktop exploration of the universe: New Frontiers Screen Savers, featuring over 400 full-color NASA images from historic satellite, orbital and lunar missions. Many of the images featured on New Frontiers Screen Savers have never before published on CD-ROM format.

This CD-ROM celebration of space and those who seek to conquer it includes the popular Image Carousel screen saver software, which is quickly becoming the new standard for this product genre. In addition to traditional screen saver and desktop wallpaper usage, New Frontiers Screen Savers allows the user to use its wealth of images for royalty free art in desktop publishing.

"Begging Neil Armstrong's pardon, New Frontiers represents one small step for man and one giant leap for screen savers," said Eric Robichaud, CEO of Ocean State Publishing. "By bringing the most exciting explorations of the century to the most exciting technology of the day, we have linked the infinity of space to the infinite possibilities of CD-ROM."

New Frontiers Screen Savers retails for $24.95 and requires PC compatibility of 386 or higher, 4 MB RAM, Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, 1 MB hard drive space, a CD-ROM drive and a VGA monitor supporting 256 colors. For more information, contact Ocean State Publishing, P.O. Box 747, Woonsocket, RI, 02895-0784; tel. (401) 767-3376; fax (401) 767-3108.


ISO Adopts Fujitsu Mobile Computers
INSURANCE SERVICES OFFICE ADOPTS FUJITSU MOBILE COMPUTERS TO STREAMLINE COMMERCIAL INSURANCE RISK ASSESSMENT

New Mobile "Toolkit" Employs Digital Camera, CAD Drawing Program And Electronic Forms Application To Automate Risk Assessment Process

SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 6, 1995 -- Fujitsu Personal Systems, Inc. and Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) are getting together to automate property risk assessment for the insurance industry. ISO has developed a mobile computing application, known as FR Toolkit, that the insurance industry is now using in their property risk exposure analysis. Based on the Fujitsu Stylistic 500 pen-based tablet computer, FR Toolkit greatly reduces the time required to process comprehensive property risk assessments. The system is being deployed by Commercial Risk Services, Inc. (CRS), an ISO subsidiary chartered to advise insurance companies on how to underwrite properties based on the risk involved.

At the heart of the ISO system is the Fujitsu Stylistic 500, the world's lightest and fastest tablet computer. The system includes a high resolution color digital camera, Computer Aided Design (CAD) software and a high speed modem. FR Toolkit runs ISO's electronic forms application software, allowing CRS field representatives to significantly reduce the time required to process risk assessments.

"The Stylistic 500 was designed for precisely this type of solution, where high-end decision support capabilities, such as the ability to run CAD programs, are required in a mobile environment," said Lou Panetta, executive vice president of Fujitsu. "Furthermore, we believe that incorporating standard ports and expansion slots into our products is absolutely essential. The fact that peripheral technologies, namely the digital camera and high speed modem, are key to ISO's solution confirms this belief."

Prior to automating with the Stylistic 500, risk assessment was a time consuming procedure that required an average of 27 days. To assess a property, CRS field representatives would visit the site, manually complete any number of required inspection forms, draw sketches, and take and develop photos, then mail the entire package back to a local office. There, the forms would be subjected to a rigorous quality check for such factors as consistency, thoroughness, and legibility. Once this process was completed, the package would be mailed to the insurance company.

Now, the Stylistic 500-based FR Toolkit allows CRS field representatives to complete and submit the required forms electronically. It also eliminates repetition and ensures consistency among the nearly 1,000 forms used in the risk assessment industry. At the site, CRS field representatives simply select the form they need for a given type of inspection, then enter the requested data into the system using the stylus.

The Fujitsu system allows photos and sketches to be performed and stored electronically as well. CRS field representatives use a high definition digital camera to capture images in color, which are loaded directly to the Stylistic 500. And, while CRS field representatives' former method required them to sketch the sites they inspected on paper, now they can draw their sketches directly onto the Stylistic 500 using a CAD drawing application, eliminating the need for paper completely.

"Our field representatives aren't sitting at a desk when they conduct risk assessments -- they're inspecting attics, basements, crawl spaces. Under these circumstances, a compact, light weight pen computer is ideal," said Wayne Lattuca, assistant vice president-CRS Systems at ISO. "We chose the Fujitsu Stylistic 500 because its fast processor speed and high storage capacity make it the only tablet computer on the market today able to accommodate the CAD and digital photography programs fundamental to our application."

The system also features note-taking software and a split screen function which allows CRS field representatives to jot down handwritten notes as they proceed through their inspection. Afterwards, they can attach a keyboard to the system to enter in the notes.

At the end of each day, CRS field representatives upload the electronically completed forms, digital photographs and CAD drawings to a regional processing center via the fastest modem available -- a 28.8-Kbps modem -- eliminating the need to mail hard copies and shortening the process by 4 days. At the regional processing center, color documents are reproduced for the insurer on high quality laser printers. The need for an extensive quality check of the documents has all but been eliminated, and CRS is able to store the information for its own record keeping purposes.

The Stylistic 500 is a 2.6-pound tablet computer designed for mobile workers involved in high-end decision support activities. Powered by an Intel 486DX2-50 CPU, the system features RAM expandable to 20 MB; two Type I/II/III PCMCIA version 2.0 slots; and an 8-inch transmissive backlit, 64-level VGA screen. It is the only tablet computer to operate on standard Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) batteries, which can be purchased in most consumer retail outlets.

Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) is a nonprofit corporation that provides information about the property/casualty insurance business, including statistical and actuarial information. ISO also provides advisory policy forms and a variety of related services.

Fujitsu Personal Systems, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., is a leader in providing solutions for data collection and decision support applications through the development of super portable palmtop, pen-based and communicating computers. Its solutions are designed to meet the needs of applications where light weight, small form factor and long battery life are essential. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu, Ltd. Fujitsu Personal Systems has North American offices in Santa Clara, Calif.; Irvine, Calif.; Chicago; Atlanta; Houston; Dallas; Philadelphia; New Jersey; Rhode Island; Toronto and international offices in England; France; Germany; and Italy. Product information can be obtained by calling 800-831-3183. Fujitsu Personal Systems, Inc. corporate headquarters can be reached at 1-408-982-9500.

Fujitsu Personal Systems Inc

5200 Patrick Henry Drive

Santa Clara, CA 95054


EtherHub 1500 Offers Intelligent Workgroup Mgmt
EtherHub 1500 Offers Intelligent Workgroup Management for As Little As $44 Per Port

Accton's New Stackable Hub Offers Versatility with Multi-Segment Architecture, SmartWatch Diagnostics, and Built-In SNMP Agent

February 6, 1995 -- SAN JOSE, Calif.--Accton Technology Corporation today announced that its new EtherHub 1500 Series, a comprehensive LAN integration strategy that gives network architects a simple, cost-effective way to create SNMP-manageable workgroups, is now ready for market. The EtherHub-16i (EH-1501) is a 16-port 10BASE-T hub capable of supporting a multi-segment Ethernet architecture The EtherHub-16mi (EH-1502) is a 16-port Ethernet hub with a built-in SNMP agent capable of providing Simple Network Management Protocol support for up to 10 EtherHub units or 170 ports at only $44 per port. For a limited time, the EtherHub-16mi includes AccView/Open, Accton's Windows-based network management software that provides total mouse-driven control over EtherHub connections.

"The EtherHub 1500 Series marks the next step in the evolution of Accton's EtherHub products," explains Al Gounod, Director of Sales for Accton USA. "It's the ideal solution for larger workgroup environments that continue to expand to the point where network management becomes critical. Network architects can design their networks to support up to 16 users at a time, then add SNMP to support the entire infrastructure by adding the EtherHub-16mi. And with the help of AccView/Open and new features such as our SmartWatch LED monitoring system, troubleshooting connectivity problems is a snap."

"After evaluating hubs from several manufacturers, we decided to work with the EtherHub 1500 Series," said Bob Pasdar, President of PasTek Information, a network solution provider based in Palisades Park, N.J. "We really like the fact that you can install up to nine EtherHub-16i units at various points around the network and manage them all from one EtherHub-16mi without having to stack the hubs. In comparison to other manufacturers, Accton's EtherHub 1500 line offers us a feature-rich, manageable hub at nonintelligent hub prices, and we like the fact that it comes with its own network management software. We are currently using a combination of Accton's AccView/Open and HP OpenView as a network management platform, but we can see how customers gain a real advantage with AccView/Open since it gives you the same network management capability as more expensive software packages, and you don't need a Sun SPARCstation to run it."

New Features Make EtherHub Versatile and Easy to Manage

The EtherHub 1500 Series features a multi-segment architecture that improves network efficiency and bandwidth utilization. This multi-segment architecture allows multiple EtherHub segments to be connected in a single stack, thus creating three or more collision domains for greater flexibility and load balancing. In fact, by creating three collision domains users can achieve an aggregate throughput of up to 30 Mbps. Up to 10 hubs can be interconnected across 100 meters for single segment applications.

Both EtherHubs also come with Accton's exclusive front panel SmartWatch LED diagnostic system. SmartWatch is controlled by an internal CPU that drives an array of 58 color-coded LEDs, giving network managers meaningful data about the workgroup's operational status at a glance, without having to rely on SNMP software. These LEDs indicate real-time status of power; CPU activity; inter-hub connection status; partitions; and twisted-pair connections, traffic, and network partitions, all at a glance. Accton's SmartWatch provides much more comprehensive data than other LED hub displays. For example, the color-coded bar graph displays network utilization and collision rates, rather than merely displaying active ports.

Both the EtherHub-16i and the EtherHub-16mi are "hot-swappable" to facilitate maintenance without incurring any noticeable system downtime. Both the EtherHub-16i and the EtherHub-16mi have redundant port links, with 16 10BASE-T ports, and either a BNC, AUI, or fiber-optic port, for backup connectivity. The EtherHub-16mi also feature a backup SNMP agent so the network administrator doesn't have to worry about losing SNMP support capabilities.

The Etherhub-16i

The EtherHub-16i is a 16-port, multi-segment 10BASE-T hub. In a standalone configuration, it can be used to interconnect from two to 17 workstations into a single workgroup LAN. These hubs can be connected to other compatible hubs to form larger networks or they can be stacked with other EtherHub16i concentrators and an EtherHub-16mi to form a single SNMP-managed LAN.

Up to ten EtherHub-16i units can be stacked into a single network using twisted-pair cable interconnecting up to 170 workstations. It comes with 16 RJ-45 ports to support 10BASE-T connections, either a 10BASE2 (BNC), 10BASE5 (AUI), or fiber-optic port to connect the hub to the backbone, and a standard 10BASE-T I/O FlexBus link.

The EtherHub-16i retails for $699, or about $44 per port.

EtherHub-16mi

The EtherHub-16mi can also serve as a standalone 16-port 10BASE-T hub. Yet the EtherHub-16mi includes an on-board SNMP agent capable of adding SNMP intelligence to an entire LAN infrastructure.

The SNMP agent incorporated into the EtherHub-16mi is capable of managing up to 10 interconnected EtherHubs. SNMP data can be shared across 100 meters per single segment application using twisted pair cabling. The network configuration itself is "stack-and-play" thanks to the system's automatic hub ID and automatic terminator technology. The system can also be configured manually through the panel.

The retail price for the EtherHub-16mi is $1,299, or about $81 per SNMP-managed port.

AccView/Open

To administer the entire EtherHub 1500 System, Accton is including AccView/Open, the company's Windows-based network management software, for a limited time. AccView/Open allows users to create their own network map to click on specific devices and ports to view the status of the network. Using AccView/Open, the user can activate and deactivate EtherHub ports. AccView/Open also allows the user to set alarms that are triggered when network traffic exceeds a specified threshold. It also includes a unified alert log that combines all the network alerts into a single log that can be exported to any Windows-based database, spreadsheet, or word processor for analysis.

AccView/Open is compatible with Novell's NetWare, Microsoft LAN Manager, and Microsoft's Windows for Workgroups so users can be logged into the network and perform other tasks while still monitoring the network using AccView/Open. It has a non-dedicated packet driver interface so that a single workstation can be logged in to a network while running the program, and can support any ODI, IPX, NDIS, or PD-based network.

AccView/Open is included free with the purchase of any EtherHub-16mi for the next three months. It normally sells separately for $495.

The entire EtherHub 1500 Series is available now.

Accton Technology Corporation manufactures workgroup connectivity hardware and software, including a complete product line for Ethernet applications. Accton has been ranked as one of the top six manufacturers of Ethernet adapters by International Data Corporation, and the first Ethernet adapter vendor to receive ISO-9001 certification. Accton Technology Corporation is headquartered at 1962 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95112; telephone (408) 452-8900; FAX: (408) 452-8988.


Tony La Russa Baseball 3 CD-ROM Game

Stormfront Studios Releases First Comprehensive Multimedia Baseball Game

SAN RAFAEL, CA, February 1, 1995--Stormfront Studios today announced the spring release of Tony La Russa Baseball 3, the first multimedia baseball game to take full advantage of CD-ROM technology to integrate hi-res graphics, 3D models, photographs, digitized speech, music and video.

The company has spent almost two years since the introduction of Tony La Russa Baseball 2 creating a next-generation version that is new in every way. With a versatile and user-friendly install program, this is the closest a DOS CD-ROM title has gotten to "plug 'n' play."

"Now there's a baseball game that's visually dazzling for the action game player and strategic enough for the seasoned fan who wants the most accurate and authentic baseball experience," said Don Daglow, founder of Stormfront Studios.

Stormfront Studios is pushing the technology envelope once again by creating the fastest, most accurate baseball simulator on the market. The award-winning, graphics-rich La Russa series has sold more than half a million copies to date and has consistently been ranked as the best baseball game by leading game magazines.

Pennant-winning manager Tony La Russa has continued to work with Stormfront Studios' designers on this third version of the game, creating a precise statistical model and an unparalleled ballpark experience.

"When we created the original game engine, we approached Tony to help us develop the artificial intelligence for the game," said Daglow. "We wanted to make the most authentic game possible because we felt that great graphics and great artificial intelligence are the ingredients of a really special game."

"My managing instincts are culled from events on the playing field, not the computer," said La Russa. "But when I was introduced to Stormfront Studios' definitive computer baseball simulation game and asked to join the development team, I accepted the challenge. They really know baseball."

Tony La Russa Baseball 3 features TV-style graphics with 256-color hi-res screens to present all 28 major league stadium in richly detailed 3D models. Video-rendered professional player animations, three digitized announcer voices led by Hall of Famer Mel Allen and veteran announcers Lon Simmons and Hank Greenwald, and the latest complete major league statistics are other major features.

Tony La Russa Baseball 3 reaches beyond all other baseball games with complete offensive and defensive stats for every MLBPA player, along with digitized color photos that really look like photographs. For players who want complete up-to-date gameplay, statistics may be downloaded via modem throughout the season.

In addition to its richly detailed video animations, Tony La Russa Baseball 3 has been enhanced with two selectable camera angles, to watch each pitch behind the plate or from center field, complementing the real television feel of the game. The player will almost duck out of the way of a high hard one as it screams toward the plate.

A General Manager feature lets the player manage aging veterans and promising rookies through future seasons. For the player who wonders what his favorite team's roster will look like five or ten years from now, this game provides an opportunity for the user to see how he or she would do as a General Manager.

This game's powerful statistical engine lets the player set up any number of scenarios, then replays the complete season in less than fifteen minutes. Comprehensive draft functions, rotisserie draft options and video tips from La Russa round out every baseball enthusiasts' gaming experience.

Tony La Russa Baseball 3 IBM CD-ROM will be distributed by Electronic Arts through its Affiliated Label Division for a street price of $59.95.

San Rafael-based Stormfront Studios designs, develops and publishes entertainment and education titles for the multimedia, video game, home computer and interactive network markets. The company is privately held.

Electronic Arts

1450 Fashion Island Blvd

San Mateo, CA 94404

415-571-7171


Hughes Aircraft Selects Sybase
HUGHES AIRCRAFT SELECTS SYBASE AS STRATEGIC SUPPLIER

Leading Worldwide Defense Contractor Standardizes on Sybase To Integrate Enterprise-Wide Operations

EMERYVILLE, CA, February 3, 1995 -- Sybase, Inc., The Enterprise Client/Server Company, today announced a strategic agreement with Hughes Aircraft Company in which Hughes will standardize on SYBASE technology as the foundation for its company-wide enterprise client/server information system. Hughes, a $9 billion leading global electronics supplier, has chosen SYBASE technology as a key part of its largescale, multi-year systems consolidation and reengineering efforts. Over the next several years, Hughes will leverage its partnership with Sybase to help transition its current mainframe legacy systems to client/server applications. Sybase SQL Server, Open Client, Open Server, and Net-Gateway were named as key components of the Hughes enterprise architecture. Hughes is also piloting use of Sybase's OmniSQL Gateway product to access its heterogeneous DBMS environments.

The new SYBASE-based client/server information system will help Hughes to control IS costs while implementing re-engineered business processes, and is expected to eventually support Hughes' operations which include over 52,000 employees worldwide. The migration to client/server will enable the integration of Hughes' mainframe hardware and legacy application software, distributed networks, personal computer platforms, and distributed client/server components.

"We chose Sybase as a strategic partner for the integration of our heterogeneous internal systems because it offered us the flexibility and reliability that an organization as large as ours requires to meet its business goals," said James Woods, chief information officer at Hughes. "Sybase strategy and products fit very well with the distributed computing and database management portions of our Hughes Enterprise Architecture."

"Client/server systems are increasingly deployed in functions that are critical to the success of a business, making the performance and reliability of SYBASE software more important than ever. We look forward to working with Hughes to enhance its ability to compete during the evolution of the defense electronics market," said Dave Peterschmidt, chief operating officer and executive vice president at Sybase. "We are particularly pleased with this contract because Hughes' decision to standardize on SYBASE was based on the proven success of our product performance in existing Hughes applications."

Business Requirements

As the defense electronics industry downsizes, Hughes is changing business processes and making investments in new technologies in order to stay competitive. Already, several Hughes divisions have standardized on SYBASE technology. For example, at Hughes Space and Communications, the space satellite manufacturing arm of Hughes Aircraft Company, SYBASE technology is being used to build applications that do more for less money. Integrated Sybase RDBMS-based client/server solutions have replaced mainframe-based systems for program business management applications. Using SYBASE technology has helped reduce processing costs, while increasing functionality by 10-fold.

Sybase, Inc.

Sybase, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBS) is one of the fastest growing suppliers of client/server-based software products and services for on-line enterprise-wide applications. Sybase's integrated family of software includes database servers, tools, connectivity and systems management products, providing complete desktop-to-mainframe solutions. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase reported 1993 sales of $427 million, an increase of 61% over 1992. For the first nine months of 1994, revenues grew 66% to $479 million. Sybase markets its products worldwide through its direct sales force, telesales, distributors, OEMs, VARs and Systems Integrators.

Sybase Inc

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SOAP - Sun-synchronous orbit analysis program

SOAP calculates orbital parameters needed for the thermal analysis of spacecraft in Earth-monitoring Sun-synchronous orbits. These orbits produce a solar beta angle variation that depends on the launch time, altitude and Sun-synchronous orbit crossing time. Written in FORTRAN 77 to be machine independent.

PROGRAM NUMBER: LAR-15301

DOCUMENTATION: $14.00   PROGRAM: $250.00

NASA's Software Technology Transfer Center

COSMIC, The University of Georgia

382 East Broad St, Athens, GA 30602-4272

(706) 542-3265;  Fax: (706) 542-4807

Internet Email: service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu


SAGE - Multidimensional self-adaptive grid code

SAGE provides an efficient method to improve the accuracy of CFD flow solutions while simultaneously reducing computer processing time. SAGE enhances an initial computational grid by redistributing the mesh points into more appropriate locations. The movement of these points is driven by an equal-error-distribution algorithm that utilizes the relationship between high flow gradient and excessive solution errors. The method also provides a balance between clustering points in the high gradient regions and maintaining the smoothness and continuity of the adapted grid. Written in FORTRAN 77 to be machine independent.

PROGRAM NUMBER: ARC-13359

DOCUMENTATION: $20.00   PROGRAM: $1500.00

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COSMIC, The University of Georgia

382 East Broad St, Athens, GA 30602-4272

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Internet Email: service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu


RCVRPROF - Receiver Noise & Gain Profile
RCVRPROF - Receiver noise and gain profile spreadsheet

RCVRPROF, a Computer Aided Design (CAD) tool useful in the analysis and design of communication receivers and downconverters, is a customized spreadsheet with formulas and graphs that produces a detailed description of receiver performance. Performance parameters such as noise temperature, gain, noise power, noise spectral density, and dynamic range are analyzed for the component's overall contribution to the receiver. Written in Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Excel for IBM PC compatible computers running MS-DOS.

PROGRAM NUMBER: NPO-19472

PROGRAM & DOCUMENTATION: $50.00

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382 East Broad St, Athens, GA 30602-4272

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Internet Email: service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu


OFFSET - Space Station Solar Power Sys Analysis
OFFSET - Ray tracing optical analysis of offset for space station solar dynamic power system

OFFSET is a ray tracing computer code for optical analysis of a solar collector. The code models the flux distributions within the receiver cavity produced by reflections from the solar collector. In addition to primary output files, OFFSET produces PATRAN and P/PLOT files for post-processing. Written in FORTRAN 77 for IBM PC series and compatible computers running MS-DOS.

PROGRAM NUMBER: LEW-14778

DOCUMENTATION: $48.00    PROGRAM: $250.00

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COSMIC, The University of Georgia

382 East Broad St, Athens, GA 30602-4272

(706) 542-3265;  Fax: (706) 542-4807

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NASA-GRA Geared Rotor Analyzer
NASA-GRA - Geared rotor analyzer

NASA-GRA is designed to solve for the steady-state dynamic responses of multi-geared rotor systems. It is based on the transfer matrix method combined with the harmonic balance method, which includes an accurate gear-mesh model for spur and helical gears containing time-varying mesh stiffnesses, gear-mounting errors, and gear-profile errors. The analysis frequencies are chosen by the user. Written in FORTRAN 77 to be machine independent.

PROGRAM NUMBER: LEW-15148

DOCUMENTATION: $23.00     PROGRAM: $500.00

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COSMIC, The University of Georgia

382 East Broad St, Athens, GA 30602-4272

(706) 542-3265;  Fax: (706) 542-4807

Internet Email: service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu


MSCSURV Manned Spacecraft Crew Survivability
MSCSURV - Manned Spacecraft Crew Survivability Program

MSCSurv is designed to quantify the conditional probability of losing crew members following an orbital debris penetration into a manned module cluster. Contributions are quantified from three significant hazards: pressure wall rupture, fragment-induced injury, and "slow" depressurization. Written in FORTRAN 77 for IBM PC series and compatible computers.

PROGRAM NUMBER: MFS-31022

DOCUMENTATION: $40.00    PROGRAM: $100.00

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COSMIC, The University of Georgia

382 East Broad St, Athens, GA 30602-4272

(706) 542-3265;  Fax: (706) 542-4807

Internet Email: service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu


MPGT - NASA Mission Planning Graphical Tool
MPGT - The mission planning graphical tool

MPGT provides spacecraft mission analysts with a graphical representation of up to six spacecraft orbit tracks overlayed on 2-D or 3-D projections of the Earth plus environment data used in spaceflight planning. Additional overlays include ground station antenna masks, solar/lunar ephemeris, TDRSS satellite coverage, a field-of-view swath, and orbit number. Analysts can determine communication coverage, interference zone infringement, sunlight availability, and instrument target visibility. MPGT is written in FORTRAN, C, and Macro Assembler for use on IBM PC compatibles.

PROGRAM NUMBER: GSC-13669

DOCUMENTATION: $70.00        PROGRAM: $850.00

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COSMIC, The University of Georgia

382 East Broad St, Athens, GA 30602-4272

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Internet Email: service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu


CARES/LIFE Ceramics Analysis & Reliability Eval
CARES/LIFE - Ceramics analysis and reliability evaluation of structures life prediction program

CARES/LIFE calculates the fast-fracture reliability or failure probability of monolithic ceramic components as a function of their service lives. CARES/LIFE can analyze a wide range of materials, allowing the finite element model reliability to be function of many different ceramic material statistical characterizations. Written in ANSI FORTRAN 77 to be machine independent.

PROGRAM NUMBER: LEW-16018

DOCUMENTATION: $61.00     PROGRAM: $800.00

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382 East Broad St, Athens, GA 30602-4272

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Internet Email: service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu


V Series Recommendations, Stds for Data Comm
Pragmatic Guide to the V Series Recommendations Now Updated to Cover New and Revised Standards

BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, PA--Data communications professionals, vendors, and others who use the public telephone network to transmit or receive data must deal with the ITU-T's V Series Recommendations, the specifications for defining data transmission between computers by telephone. These protocols are important because they ensure systems compatibility, but unfortunately, they also are complex and highly technical. Author Uyless Black's peerless guide, The V Series Recommendations, effectively 'translates' these protocols into plain English, making them much easier to understand and implement.

Now in a second edition, this practical tutorial and reference containsCommunications over the updated coverage of all of the new and revised standards, including the transfer standard used with fax modems. Black provides invaluable guidance and information on:

* Interfaces--with a tutorial on physical-level interfaces

* Voice- and wide-band modems--including a discussion of North

  American, European, and Far Eastern implementations

* Error control standards--featuring an examination of the new error

  control modem standards as well as the data compression modem

  standards

* Diagnostic procedures--including loop-back testing for transmission

  quality measurements

* Internetworking--treating modems, terminal adapters, and the

  Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)

Every data communications professional can benefit from this user-friendly guide to the V Series data exchange protocols.

About the author

Uyless Black is the founder of the Information Engineering Institute, Linden, Virginia. A lecturer and consultant, the Front Royal, Virginia, resident also has written several pioneering books on computer communications, including TCP/IP and Related Protocols and The X Series Recommendations, 2nd Edition.

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The V Series Recommendations:

Standards for Data Communications over the Telephone Network,

2nd Edition

Uyless Black

Hard $45.00 - ISBN 0-07-005592-0

Publication Date: April 1995

224 pp., 86 illus., 6 x 9

Available In bookstores or from the publisher (1-800-822-8158)


Sybase Forms New Product Division
SYBASE FORMS NEW PRODUCT DIVISION AND APPOINTS 20-YEAR VETERAN AS VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER

Russell Werner will Run New Media Division at Sybase

EMERYVILLE, CA, February 6,1995 -- Sybase, Inc., The Enterprise Client/Server Company, today announced the appointment of Russell Werner as vice president and general manager of the New Media Division, a newly formed business unit also announced today. Sybase has created the new division to provide software for an emerging market where companies and consumers interact over networks to buy and sell goods and services.

Sybase first started offering its SYBASE Intermedia software in May of 1994 and has since won contracts with major telecommunications and cable companies to provide SYBASE Intermedia products for interactive services into the home. The New Media Division will further develop and market technology for other emerging markets, such as the Internet and commercial on-line services.

Russell Werner has been appointed vice president and general manager for the division, in charge of product development, sales, and marketing for the SYBASE Intermedia product family. Noel Leca, vice president of Intermedia products, will report to Mr. Werner. Mr. Werner has been involved in marketing and product development in the personal computing industry since 1982, including senior management positions at Microsoft, where he was general manager for MS DOS and for Windows 3.0, the highly successful graphical operating system found on the majority of personal computers today. He will report directly to Dennis McEvoy, vice president of products group at Sybase.

According to Bob Epstein, Sybase's co-founder and executive vice president, "The market for third parties to provide products and content is as large for the interactive marketplace as it has been for Windows. Mr. Werner's knowledge in developing such markets will be invaluable for Sybase."

The New Media Division

The New Media Division of Sybase was formed through the integration of the Gain Momentum and Intermedia business units and is targeted at developing and distributing software for the emerging interactive market. This new market, according to leading analysts, will change and enhance the way companies and individuals buy goods and services, obtain information, and communicate with each other. The interactive market is created through the convergence of several industries, including computer software, hardware, telecommunications, entertainment, publishing, and cable industries. According to Forrester Research, the interactive marketplace (which includes interactive television and on-line services) will be valued at a minimum of three billion dollars by 1998.

Sybase provides the SYBASE Intermedia product family, an end-to-end software architecture which consists of Gain Momentum, Gain Interplay, and the Intermedia Server. Sybase believes that, together, these products currently provide the most scalable and interoperable software architecture for interactive multimedia systems on the market today. In addition, Sybase's Intermedia Server is based on the company's core technology SQL Server and the open application program interfaces (APIs) Open Client and Open Server This provides customers with the benefits of leading edge interactive software while taking advantage of Sybase's proven and reliable core technology.

Sybase has been chosen to provide Intermedia software by leading telecommunications and cable television companies including BellSouth, Southern New England Telephone, Singapore Telecom, and ICTV for use in the Cox Cable trial.

Mr. Werner commented, "I am convinced that the convergence of several traditionally separate industries such as publishing, entertainment, computer hardware and software, and telecommunications is a fundamentally important trend that will greatly benefit both consumers and industries. I am extremely excited to be joining Sybase, who I believe will be a leader in this emerging market."

Sybase, Inc.

Sybase, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBS) is one of the fastest growing suppliers of client/server-based software products and services for on-line enterprise-wide applications. Sybase's integrated family of software includes database servers, tools, connectivity and systems management products, providing complete desktop-to-mainframe solutions. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase markets its products worldwide through its direct sales force, telesales, distributors, OEMs, VARs and Systems Integrators.

Sybase Inc

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510-596-3500;  Fax: 510-658-9441


A+ Certification Success Guide for Technicians
Computer Service Technicians Can Ace the A+ Certification Exam by Preparing with Authoritative New Handbook

The only official A+ study guide on the market

BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, PA--Many computer hardware and software companies are requiring their technicians to take the A+ Certification exam, an integral part of the first industry-wide program designed to establish a new standard for service technician competency.

Written with the complete support of Drake Technologies and Testing, which develops and administers the test, and the Computer Technology Industry Association, which sponsors the test, the A+ Certification Success Guide thoroughly prepares readers for this important exam. But this book is much more than just a study guide it also tells technicians how to make the most of their A+ credentials after they've passed the exam.

Starting with an insightful overview of the A+ Certification Program, authors Sarah T. Parks and Bob Kalman explain why certification is becoming so important to the computer industry. They cover everything readers need to know before taking the exam, including

- Prerequisites for taking the test

- How to register for the exam

- Pertinent rules and regulations

- What and how to study

- How to save money on the cost of the exam

The A+ Certification Success Guide also contains sample test questions, giving computer service professionals an opportunity to quiz themselves, check their progress, and take the exam with confidence.

About the authors:

Sarah T. Parks, of Los Gatos, California, has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of training and support. Bob Kalman, of Arlington Heights, Illinois, also has more than 20 years of business experience. Together, they helped develop and implement the A+ Certification Program.

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A+ Certification Success Guide: For Computer Technicians

Sarah T. Parks and Bob Kalman

Paper $29.95  ISBN 0-07-048596-8

Hard  $44.95  ISBN 0-07-048595-X

Publication Date: June 1995

304 pp., 150 illus., 7 x 10

Available In bookstores or from the publisher (1-800-822-8158)


CA-Clipper Developer's Library
CA-Clipper Users Can Save Hours of Programming Time with New Book's Library Functions

BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, PA--In the CA Clipper Developer's Library, author James Occhiogrosso presents more than 70 user-defined functions (UDFs) that Clipper users can put to work immediately in a wide array of applications. The UDFs in this value-packed book/disk combination not only serve as a handy source of functions for application development, but also as a practical learning tool for developers new to Clipper. Fully documented source code and examples included with each function make it easy for beginners to incorporate library functions into their programs, while more advanced Clipper users can combine the library with their own functions to customize it to their specific needs.

Occhiogrosso, whose unmatched expertise in writing Clipper programs comes from years of supporting applications in the field, includes all the tools necessary to regenerate the library, along with a standardized description of each function and its use. These time-saving library functions perform tasks such as:

* Data conversion

* Application database and index management

* Array manipulation

* Database, file, and network operations

* Screen manipulation

Complete instructions for installing the files on disk, and function listings Available In bookstores organized by category, are provided in the appendices.

Disk includes all of the programs in both library and source code form

About the author:

James Occhiogrosso is an independent consultant specializing in the custom design of software systems. A resident of Holbrook, New York, he is the author of Clipper Power Utilities and is BBS SYSOP for the Suffolk County Clipper User's Group. He is also a regular speaker at Computer Associates' technical conferences.

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CA-Clipper Developer's Library

James Occhiogrosso

Paper $44.95 ISBN 0-07-911883-6

Publication Date: March 1995

Available in bookstores or from the publisher (1-800-822-81 58)


Step Into Virtual Reality
Amazing New Book Brings VR Power to the People by Making it Accessible and Affordable

Exciting VR software is contained on bundled disk, including BIKE and 3DV

BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, PA--Virtual reality is being highly touted on television and in print, but the technology hasn't yet become widely accessible and the cost of equipment is still prohibitive. Eager would-be cybernauts have had to cool their heels waiting for the technology to mature until now. In the one-of-a-kind new book, Step Into Virtual Reality, author John Iovine delivers a breakthrough guide to creating and entering VR worlds today, without spending a lot of money.

Readers will discover how to build and assemble their very own VR system using just a PC and available software. Through a dozen simple projects, Iovine tells readers to make their own equipment and interfaces, including:

- LCD stereoscopic shutter glasses

- Tactile actuators

- Head-Mounted Display (HMD) unit

- Data glove

- Telepresence robot car explorer

- VR exercise bike

Readers can generate a Martian landscape and view it in 3-D with the stereoscopic shutter glasses, or pedal an exercise bike in a VR environment using the HMD and a PC. It's all possible with this groundbreaking book.

About the author:

John Iovine is a writer, electronics hobbyist, and science experimenter who has written a number of articles for popular electronics publications. A resident of Staten Island, New York, he has also written several books, including Kirlian Photography and Homemade Holograms.

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Step Into Virtual Reality

John Iovine

Paper $32.95 - ISBN 0-07-911906-9

Hard  $49.95 - ISBN 0-07-911905-0

Publication Date: March 1995

304 pp., 209 illus., 7 x 10

Available In bookstores or from the publisher (1-800-822-8158)


Troubleshooting & Repairing Computer Monitors
Virtually Any Computer Monitor Problem Can be Cured with Help of New, One-Stop Guide

Fact-filled appendices contain troubleshooting charts, lists of vendors, glossary, and problems and solutions

BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, PA--With the enormous variety of monitor types and configurations on the market today, the time is ripe for a comprehensive guide to the essential diagnostic and repair tools and techniques. That's exactly what troubleshooting and Repairing Computer Monitors delivers, filling a tremendous void in the literature.

Electronics technicians and intermediate- to advanced-level hobbyists who want to take advantage of the ever-expanding market for monitor repair technicians will need the critical information presented in this authoritative, A-to-Z guide. Readers will learn how to tackle virtually any monitor problem with either CRT-based monitors or the growing number of LCD varieties.

After beginning with an overview of concepts, components, technologies, and test equipment, author Stephen J. Bigelow presents details about:

* CRT alignment and degaussing

* Specifications and architectures of monochrome,

  CGA, EGA, and VGA monitors

* State-of-the-art Plasma displays

* Linear, switching, and high-voltage power supplies

* Logic and drivers supporting both CRT and LCD monitors

* Major graphics standards used in today's monitors

. . . and many other important topics. Bigelow also tells how to obtain, install and use helpful diagnostic programs such as Monitors and Burnin.

About the author:

Stephen J. Bigelow is the founder and senior PC consultant of Dynamic Learning Systems, a Marlboro, Massachusetts, consulting firm. The Westboro, Massachusetts, resident is also the author of several books, including the bestselling Maintain and Repair Your Computer Printer and Save a Bundle.

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Troubleshooting and Repairing Computer Monitors

Stephen J. Bigelow

Hard $36.95 - ISBN 0-07 005408-8

320 pp., 150 illus., 7 x 10

Publication Date: June 1995

Available In bookstores or from the publisher (1-800-822-8158)


X Series Recommendations, Stds for Data Comm
Updated Guide to the X Series Recommendations Describes The Latest Standards for Data Communications

BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, PA--Every day, vast communications networks transmit billions of bytes of data around the world. To ensure the systems compatibility required for this enormous data exchange, the ITU-T X Series Recommendations for data communications systems and data networks have been adopted by virtually all manufacturers, vendors, designers, and users of communications systems worldwide.

Now revised to cover all the latest standards, including X.400 and the new ITU-T X Series, this second edition of The X Series Recommendations serves as an authoritative, unique guide to the most commonly used data communications protocols in the world. Written as both a tutorial and handy reference, this book describes the detailed technical definitions of the X Series Recommendations in plain English, making these important standards much easier to understand and implement. Author Uyless Black provides clear and complete explanations of:

* Services and facilities--the X.2 facilities and X.1 service classes

* Interfaces--the X.25, X.28, and X.29 PAD protocols, the X.31

  internetworking standard, and the X.32 dial-and-answer, and

  authentication protocol

* Transmission and signaling--X.75 and other key protocols

* The OSI Model--focusing on the X.200 Recommendations

* Internetworking--connecting ISDN, telephone, packet, and satellite

  networks through X.300

* Message handling systems--including a tutorial on all X.400

  Recommendations

* Directory applications--with a complete guide to X.500

About the author:

Uyless Black is founder of the Information Engineering Institute, Linden, Virginia. A resident of Front Royal, Virginia, he is the author of several groundbreaking articles and books on computer communications, including TCP/IP and Related Protocols and The V Series Recommendations, 2nd Edition.

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The X Series Recommendations:

Standards for Data Communications, 2nd Edition

Uyless Black

Hard $55.00 - ISBN 0-07-005593-9

Publication Date: April 1995

368 pp., 123 illus., 6 x 9

Available In bookstores or from the publisher (1-800-822-8158)


Ergonomic PC, Creating Healthy Computing Envir
The Ergonomic PC is Must Reading for Employers, Managers, and Computer Users

Expert advice on how to reduce computer-related hazards and boost employee productivity

BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, PA--Computers have revolutionized the way we work and play, but the old "too-much-of-a-good-thing" adage has already begun to ring true. Ailments related to the prolonged use of computers--carpal tunnel syndrome, eyestrain, headaches, back problems, and others--now account for fully one-third of all worker's compensation claims. What can be done to stem this rising tide? Plenty, according to The Ergonomic PC, a pragmatic look at how to ward off or reduce potential PC health hazards.

As authors Baird Peterson and Richard Patten explain in their unique guide, creating a more user-friendly work environment often is merely a matter of making minor adjustments to existing workspaces and making more informed decisions about hardware, software, and furniture purchases. In The Ergonomic PC, readers will learn how to:

- Select a Video Display Unit

- Arrange lighting to eliminate eyestrain

- Select and arrange furniture

- Choose input devices such as keyboards, mice, trackballs, and

  touchscreens

- Decide on the most user-friendly software

- Evaluate worker's compensation law and office workplace standards

The book also contains an extensive bibliography followed by appendices listing furniture and equipment suppliers and pertinent organizations.

About the authors:

Baird Peterson (Excelsior, Minnesota) is a software development consultant and contributing writer for ComputerUser. He holds a PhD. from the University of Minnesota. A board-certified human factors expert, Richard Patten (Minneapolis, Minnesota) has a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He also is a certified practitioner in human factors who has worked for major corporations.

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The Ergonomic PC: Creating a Healthy Computing Environment

Baird Peterson and Richard Patten

Paper $27.95 - ISBN 0 07 049664-1

Publication Date: June 1995

320 pp., 100 illus., 7 x 10

Available In bookstores or from the publisher (1-800-822-8158)


DEC Signs Microsoft/Lotus Swr Resale Agreements
Digital Signs Software Resale Agreements With Microsoft And Lotus

Partnerships with leading software companies are part of Digital's effort to help customers manage their computing environments more cost-effectively, productively

MAYNARD, Mass. -- February 3, 1995 -- Digital Equipment Corporation today announced it is now participating in both the Microsoft and Lotus volume purchasing and upgrade programs. The move enhances Digital's capability to provide large corporate users with an easy, cost-effective and flexible way to make volume purchases of the industry's most popular business software and reduce the lifecycle costs associated with keeping a computing environment up-to-date.

Both Microsoft "Select" and Lotus "Passport" are comprehensive programs for purchasing and upgrading each company's software worldwide. By partnering with Digital, both Microsoft and Lotus are giving their customers access to the power of attractive volume- based pricing with Digital's proven software management experience and expertise.

Digital's agreements with these leading software vendors are part of its Software Utility program. Software Utility provides leading-edge tools and services to help customers leverage their software budgets and achieve the most efficient use of their staff and software assets throughout the software life cycle. It comprises three components, Software Acquisition Programs, part of which includes partnerships such as the Select and Passport programs; Asset Management offerings, including the recently announced POLYCENTER AssetWORKS; and Support Service, which includes a full-range of user support services for technical information and technical support for Help Desk staff.

"Microsoft is committed to helping businesses streamline the process of software acquisition and distribution and lower their total cost of software ownership," said Eliza Ward, Microsoft Select Group Marketing Manager. "Digital's 10-year record of serving customers' increasingly complex support needs, combined with Microsoft Select's strategy to help customers efficiently acquire all the software they need when and where they need it, positions Digital as an ideal partner to participate in the Select program."

"Lotus is committed to helping businesses achieve optimal return on investment from their mission-critical computing environments," said Bob Weiler, Lotus' senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. "Following through on that commitment means supporting customers' enterprises on a worldwide basis. Digital, with its global service and support capabilities and its core competencies in networking and integration, is an ideal partner to help us meet this objective. Digital's experience in working with a number of Lotus products, including Lotus Notes, will bring to our customers the confidence that they will receive high-quality service and support regardless of the geographical composition of their enterprise.

"Digital is aggressively helping customers manage their desktop assets by reducing the cost of buying and upgrading their PC software," said John Rando, vice president of Digital's worldwide Multivendor Customer Services organization. "As part of our Software Utility program, the partnerships with Microsoft and Lotus help reduce the direct and "hidden" software support and maintenance costs users incur over the life of their PCs. Analysts estimate that these costs can run into the tens of millions of dollars for large corporations over a five-year period."

For global companies with multiple offices throughout the world, having one vendor overseeing its software purchasing, update subscriptions and maintenance worldwide is especially critical. Since purchase discounts are based on volume, Digital, through its participation in the Select and Passport programs, allows customers to leverage their savings by buying software for their entire global organization.

In addition, customers save on administrative costs, since one transaction process can cover purchasing for the organization's entire chain of sites. Distribution costs are also reduced because Digital, with its worldwide network of locations, can cost-effectively deliver an order quickly to a customer site.

Both the Microsoft Select and Lotus Passport programs include a variety of licensing and maintenance options. Available now to customers in 25 countries, both programs will be expanded by Digital over the next year. The programs can be purchased directly through Digital. Cost will vary depending on program options and volumes selected.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry-focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.


DEC & OptImage Offer Interactive TV App Dev Sys
Digital and OptImage Align to Offer Interactive Television Application Development System

Intermedia, San Francisco -- February 7, 1995 -- Digital Equipment Corporation and OptImage today announced they are working collaboratively to create the industry's first comprehensive interactive television application development system. The system, available this summer, will include the complete set of tools necessary to develop and test interactive television applications for public and private networks.

OptImage will sell the complete system, so that developers can rely on a single supplier for all of the hardware and software required for interactive television application development. Developers will also benefit from working with one source for all of their training, support, update and maintenance needs. Gail Wellington, vice president of marketing and sales at OptImage, elaborates, "With this agreement, we are empowering interactive television application developers. By providing all the hardware and software tools that developers need, we enable them to spend their time on creative content development and not equipment procurement and compatibility issues."

The interactive television application development system consists of the following components: OptImage's MediaMogul authoring, conversion and simulation tools; a software module from Digital enabling users to make server calls from MediaMogul applications; Digital's application development media server; a DAVID-compatible set-top decoder; and an authoring board for the Macintosh or PC platforms.

"This turnkey system will enable content creators to develop and debug an application, then run it using a real set-top," explained Sultan Zia, general manager of Digital's Video and Interactive Information Services group. "Content will drive the entire industry, and together with OptImage, we're taking the lead in making it easy for content developers to create high-quality applications for interactive video networks," Zia said.

Commenting on the initial applications expected to be created with this system, Bill Wilson, president of ITO, Inc., an interactive applications developer based in Indianapolis, said, "This arrangement between OptImage and Digital creates a big advantage for companies like mine -- the ability to go to one place for a turnkey system. Now I expect to have applications ready in a much shorter time than I originally anticipated."

OptImage's acclaimed authoring tool, MediaMogul, has been enhanced to allow producers to create applications for interactive television systems. MediaMogul is a full-featured multimedia authoring package which makes it easy to combine video and audio assets -- images, drawings, animation, full motion (MPEG) digital video, voice, music and sounds -- into sequences and interactive branches that respond to user input. MediaMogul has been used to create thousands of titles for playback on CD-i players, which are television-based systems with limited memory. The technical parameters for CD-i playback closely match the playback requirements for interactive television set-top decoders, making MediaMogul a natural choice for interactive television application development.

Digital's media server has already been selected by more cable and telephone companies worldwide than any other media server provider. The company's Video and Interactive Information Architecture provides a full-service solution for delivering interactive video applications over many types of networks. Currently the industry's only second-generation media server, Digital's platform features object-oriented middleware that links the world's fastest server systems -- based on 64-bit Alpha processors -- with the company's StorageWorks disk arrays and digital tape library systems. VIIA also provides network, subscriber, and billing management capabilities in an open framework that supports third-party and legacy applications.

OptImage was formed to provide leading edge authoring solutions for developers of software titles for consumer and professional markets. OptImage's product line has grown to include additional multimedia tools such as audio and image conversion utilities, MPEG compression tools, CD recording software, disc building (including CD-i, CD-ROM XA and Video CD) and emulation tools. The company offers a complete line of authoring tools for both the programmer and non-programming designer. Products are available for use in a variety of authoring environments including Macintosh, IBM PC and compatibles, SUN and Philips CD-i.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry-focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.


Colorado Jumbo 1400 1.4GB Minicartridge Tape
HP ANNOUNCES LOW-COST, HIGH-CAPACITY MINICARTRIDGE TAPE BACKUP SYSTEM

1.36GB Exceeds Hard-disk Capacity of Vast Majority of Today's PCs

Palo Alto, California. January 31, 1995 -- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced a low-cost, high-capacity minicartridge addition to the Jumbo family of QIC-compatible tape backup systems -- the Jumbo 1400. The new drive from HP's Colorado Memory Systems division provides 680MB native capacity on a single minicartridge (1.36GB using data compression). Price is $429 (U.S.).

This affordable tape backup solution gives advanced PC and entry-level network users a system with low cost-per-megabyte and fast backup rates, plus comprehensive backup software for DOS and Windows(tm) environments. Conformance to QIC-3020-MC industry standards ensures backward-read compatibility to earlier QIC-40-, QIC-80- and QIC-3010-MC tapes.

"The Jumbo 1400 drive exceeds the hard-disk capacity of the vast majority of today's PCs," said Robert F. LiVolsi, marketing manager for HP's Colorado Memory Systems division. "It gives most users -- even advanced PC users -- significant room for growth and opens the door for increased use of QIC minicartridge backup systems in network environments."

The Jumbo 1400 is an internal drive that installs in a 3 1/2-inch or 5 1/4-inch half-height bay. Consistent with QIC standards, it can interface to a PCs floppy-disk controller, however, the system also includes a separate high-speed controller that takes full advantage of the drive's maximum data-transfer rate of 2Mb/s and provides backup rates of up to 15 MB/minute. The system also includes one preformatted minicartridge and two backup software programs -- Colorado Backup for DOS and Colorado Backup for Windows -- both of which include network compatibility and an unattended backup scheduler. The Windows backup program also includes a librarian feature, which is an excellent file-archiving tool that automatically keeps track of all files backed up on various tapes.

Colorado Memory Systems, a division of HP, is located in Loveland, Colo. It manufactures a wide range of tape backup solutions and accessories, including Jumbo, Trakker, PowerTape and PowerDAT backup systems. According to Dataquest reports, Colorado was the clear market leader in minicartridge drives in 1994. Colorado Memory Systems sells its products through a network of computer OEMs, major national distributors and retail outlets.


Subtleware for C++ Database Mgmt Class Library
Subtle Software announces Release 1.5 of Subtleware for C++, an open toolset and portable class library that simplifies using relational database management systems with C++ applications.

Unlike database class libraries, Subtleware for C++ completely supports the C++ object model and generates all the database "glue" code needed to map C++ objects to and from relational databases.

Subtleware for C++ provides the object capabilities and benefits of an OODBMS while allowing users to share data with and retain their investments in relational database management systems, tools, and applications.

Release 1.5 adds support for ad-hoc queries, persistent pointers, and persistent collections as well as the ability to generate C++ class definitions from relational database schema. Release 1.5 also extends direct database support to include Oracle and Sybase in addition to Subtleware's existing support of ODBC, ANSI SQL, and Watcom SQL.

Release 1.5 of Subtleware for C++ is available for Windows, DOS, HP-UX, and Sun Solaris.

Subtle Software

email: subtle@world.std.com

phone: (508) 663-1852


Teach Your Children - Makes Math & Reading Fun
Teach Your Children 2.0 makes math and reading fun for you and your child. Visual and audio effects provide hours of fun and make learning a pleasure. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, spelling, and word recognition. Quiz Mode allows unobtrusive recording of your child's answers and giving you the opportunity to assess his or her strong points and problem areas. Reports can be viewed on-screen and/or via printer. Handy pointers guide you and your child every step of the way. Includes full windows help system.

Available as shareware. Download from

a) Compuserve - GO PCAPP (file name is TYC.ZIP)

   or

b) anonymous ftp -- oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/educate/tyc2_0.zip

Dave Verschleiser

Q&D Software Development

dversch@gti.net


Personal Injury Verdicts & Settlements on CDROM
NEW CD-ROM PROGRAM PROVIDES INSTANT ACCESS TO MORE THAN 70,000 PERSONAL INJURY VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

HORSHAM, Pa.--A new CD-ROM program provides instant access to a national database of more than 70,0()0 personal injury verdicts and settlements. Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements on CD-ROM, from Jury Verdict Research, provides fast, easy and flexible search capabilities in a Windows environment.

Known for its personal injury reference sources and statistical analyses, Jury Verdict Research's CD-ROM offers detailed search options without on-line charges.

"The personal injury verdicts and settlements database is an excellent fit for the CD-ROM medium," said Brian Shenker, director of JVR. "With key information broken out into searchable fields, users can search for key words by a specific field and avoid unwanted cases, saving them time."

Subscribers to the program can search cases in any county, state or the entire nation, with the touch of a key. By typing the words to search, users know the number of cases that match the parameters they have set--in minutes. Users can also quickly narrow or broaden a search to fit their specifications; and the parameters of the search can be set and changed as preferred--with no additional cost.

Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements on CD-ROM offers instant access to:

- verdict or settlement amount;

- names and locations of expert witnesses;

- description of the plaintiffs injuries;

- brief description of the incident;

- names and locations of counsel, and more.

The CD-ROM also provides easy-to-use menu options to search by injury, permanent scarring, secondary injuries, internal fixation or defense injury contentions. Searches can also be performed for: verdicts over a specific dollar amount; experts who testified in a certain county or state; cases involving plaintiffs of a particular age group; and cases where punitive damages were awarded.

"A unique feature is the export capability," Shenker said. "Because we [JVR] took the time to input information into fields, the program allows the user to send data into a spreadsheet or statistics program for their own specialized analyses."

A one-year license to Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements on CD-ROM includes an updated disc every six months and assistance through JVR's toll-free technical support line.

For more information on the CD-ROM or for a free 30-day demo disc, call John McNeff at 800-34l-7874, ext. 233.

LRP Publications

747 Dresher Rd, PO Box 980

Horsham, PA 19044-0980

215-784-0941,  fax 215-784-9639


Sybase Announces World Wide Web Home Page
SYBASE ANNOUNCES WORLD WIDE WEB HOME PAGE WITH BAYCAM

Internet Surfers Obtain Information on Company Plus Views of San Francisco Bay

EMERYVILLE, CA, February 6, 1995 -- Sybase, Inc., The Enterprise Client/Server Company, today announced the availability of its World Wide Web home page with BayCam. The home page, available on the Internet at http://www.sybase.com, provides information on Sybase products and services through easy-to-use hypertext links. In addition, users can glimpse views of the San Francisco Bay by clicking the home page "BayCam" button.

"Our home page represents an important first step for Sybase in promoting and supporting our products and services over the Internet," said Russell Werner, vice president of the newly-announced New Media division at Sybase. "We plan to be a leader in terms of utilizing the full capabilities of on-line services to serve and inform our customers."

The Sybase home page, designed jointly by Organic Online and Sybase, offers detailed information about Sybase products and services including daily and historic stock prices, information on user conferences and access to Sybase class schedules. Users can also submit resumes to Sybase via the home page and download sample source code.

The BayCam video camera, mounted atop Sybase's corporate headquarters building in Emeryville, gives Internet surfers views of the San Francisco Bay including the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco city skyline. Still images from BayCam will be refreshed periodically through February. Live images from the camera will be available beginning March 1.

"BayCam is a bit of Internet candy," said Werner. "It also points to our seriousness regarding the video and on-line markets. We will be capitalizing on the strong momentum we've built in this area."

Sybase has been chosen to provide Intermedia software by leading telecommunications and cable television companies including BellSouth, Southern New England Telephone, Singapore Telecom, and ICTV for use in the Cox Cable trial. On the product side, Sybase offers the SYBASE Intermedia suite of products which enable companies to author, deliver, and manage interactive video services over networks.

Sybase, Inc.

Sybase, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBS) is one of the fastest growing suppliers of client/server-based software products and services for on-line enterprise-wide applications. Sybase's integrated family of software includes database servers, tools, connectivity and systems management products, providing complete desktop-to-mainframe solutions. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase markets its products worldwide through its direct sales force, telesales, distributors, OEMs, VARs and systems integrators.

Sybase Inc

6475 Christie Ave

Emeryville, CA 04608

510-596-3500;  Fax: 510-658-9441


Sybase Grants Major Swr Donation to UC Berkeley
SYBASE GRANTS MAJOR SOFTWARE DONATION TO UC BERKELEY COMPUTER SCIENCE DIVISION

$194,000 Gift Marks the Debut of Sybase's Higher Education and University Relations Program

Emeryville, CA, February 6, 1995 -- Sybase, Inc., The Enterprise Client/Server Company, today announced that it has donated Sybase SQL Server 10 relational database management software and Gain Momentum software to the Computer Science Division at the University of California at Berkeley. The software will be used for undergraduate and graduate computer science courses in database, multimedia technology, and for research projects.

According to Mark Hoffman, chairman and CEO of Sybase, the donation is evidence of Sybase's continued commitment to supporting the advancement of education. "Client/server technology is the solution for today's business problems and we are happy to be providing our technology for the advancement of today's students. Education is key to our future technology and the technology of our customers."

Founded in 1984, Sybase employs over 4,000 people worldwide. Sybase is committed to supporting community and educational efforts, and recently donated $10,000 to the Eugene H. Lawler Fellowship at UC-Berkeley. The Lawler Fellowship assists disadvantaged minority and women students pursuing computer science careers.

The donation of Sybase SQL Server 10 and Gain Momentum software to UC Berkeley inaugurates Sybase expansion into Higher Education Marketing. In partnership with Sybase University Relations, Higher Education Marketing intends to build relationships with key universities by providing new client/server technologies for academic use.

Robert Wilensky, chair of the Computer Science Division at UC-Berkeley, expressed gratitude for Sybase's support. "On behalf of the students and staff who will benefit from this gift, I want to thank Sybase. This software donation will provide major improvements in our computer science capabilities. We look forward to enhancing our relationship with Sybase."

Sybase, Inc.

Sybase, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBS) is one of the fastest growing suppliers of client/server-based software products and services for on-line enterprise-wide applications. Sybase's integrated family of software includes database servers, tools, connectivity and systems management products, providing complete desktop-to-mainframe solutions. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase markets its products worldwide through its direct sales force, telesales, distributors, OEMs, VARs and system integrators.

Sybase Inc

6475 Christie Ave

Emeryville, CA 04608

510-596-3500;  Fax: 510-658-9441


Sigma Unveils MPEG Authoring Solution Under $4K
Sigma Designs Unveils the First MPEG Authoring Solution for Less Than $4,000

RealMagic Producer is the first product to take advantage of Microsoft's newly announced AVI Editable MPEG file format

FREMONT, Calif, February 7, 1995 -- Sigma Designs, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIGM), the world's leading manufacturer of MPEG interactive multimedia computer products, today debuted RealMagic Producer, the easiest, most affordable solution for creating professional MPEG full-screen, full-motion video multimedia presentations and titles. RealMagic Producer also represents the first MPEG authoring product to fully comply with AVI Editable MPEG, a new file format recently introduced by Microsoft Corporation and co-defined with Sigma Designs.

RealMagic Producer is a complete MPEG authoring solution including a 32-bit PCI-bus audio/video MPEG encoder board, Adobe Premiere editing software, Caligari trueSpace 3-D animation and graphics software, and a frame accurate video tape recorder (VTR) controller. Carrying a suggested retail price of just $3,995 for the entire package, RealMagic Producer is priced significantly below traditional MPEG encoding products which sell for more than two to three times as much without allowing any video editing. This dramatic price reduction enables MPEG encoding and editing to be accessible to the average developer of titles, games, kiosks, corporate presentations, educational titles, and training applications.

RealMagic Producer takes complete advantage of AVI Editable MPEG, a new MPEG file format allowing frame accurate video editing using any off-the-shelf AVI-compatible editing and authoring software tools. AVI Editable MPEG is made up exclusively of MPEG intra-frames (I-frames) and interleaved, synchronized MPEG audio. The image quality of the original file is preserved through multiple compression/decompression cycles without degradation. - more

"RealMagic Producer demonstrates a major breakthrough in video editing on the PC," said Julien Nguyen, co-chairman and chief technical officer of Sigma Designs. "Now any multimedia author can create professional-looking applications incorporating the video realism that only MPEG delivers. With RealMagic Producer, authors have all the tools they need on a single platform with a consistent user interface -- making MPEG authoring extremely easy."

"The fast growing demand for MPEG-based content in the form of new and innovative titles and applications has established the market for RealMagic Producer," said Thinh Tran, chairman and chief executive officer of Sigma Designs. "The ease of developing titles with RealMagic Producer will cause an explosion of MPEG-1 titles to hit the market. In turn, we expect this to create a tremendous increase in the demand for MPEG decoders."

Multimedia developers can now produce an endless number of titles in-house, maintaining full control over the entire process and dramatically shortening the production process. RealMagic Producer allows developers to capture and compress video and audio in real-time and store the information as AVI Editable MPEG. The previewer allows adjustment of the video bit rate while monitoring the quality of the playback image so the best setting can be achieved for each video segment. The frames can be edited with any AVI-compatible video editing tool -such as the included Adobe Premiere 4.0 -- allowing easy addition of tides and animation.

"Adobe supports the new AVI Editable MPEG format by Sigma and Microsoft because of its creation as an open standard," said Joyce Chung, product marketing manager for Adobe Premiere for Windows. "This revolutionary new technology increases the applications for Premiere, allowing users to effectively capture, encode, edit and compress MPEG files."

RealMagic Producer accelerates the video editing, animation and titling process by providing hardware assisted video compression. Following animation and sequencing, edited video is processed by RealMagic Producer to create a fully-compressed MPEG- 1 data stream that can be included in a multimedia presentation or for distribution on CD-ROM or over a network.

"RealMagic Producer allows title developers looking to include eye-catching, photorealistic stills and animation to do all digital production," said Konstantin Guerieke, executive vice president fort Caligari. "3-D is making tremendous in-roads into multimedia production and our users will be thrilled to use trueSpace in an all-digital production environment such as RealMagic Producer."

The processor at the core of RealMagic Producer is a C-Cube Microsystems' next generation CL-4000, the industry's first single-chip, real-time encoder and decoder, with custom microcode developed by Sigma.

"Sigma Designs is once again demonstrating its industry leadership with the introduction of RealMagic Producer," said Alexandre Balkanski, COO and co-founder of C-Cube Microsystems. "By leveraging C-Cube's single chip encoder/decoder technology, Sigma is able to deliver the first low-cost MPEG authoring system for the desktop."

System Requirements

RealMagic Producer requires a PC-compatible computer system with Pentium processor or equivalent, a 32-bit PCI bus slot, a VGA or Super VGA graphics card capable of displaying 256 or more colors, a RealMagic-compatible MPEG playback board (driver release of 2.20 or later), MS-DOS 5.0 or later, Microsoft Windows 3.1 or later, and one serial port for controlling a video tape recorder.

A fully configured system for video capture and editing should also include at least 16 megabytes of RAM, a SCSI hard disk drive and controller with at least 500 megabytes of free disk space for video files, SoundBlaster-compatible sound card, speakers, TV monitor and, of course, a video source.

Pricing and Contents

RealMagic Producer has a suggested retail price of $3,995 and includes a 32-bit Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) controller card with audio/video capture and MPEG encoding capabilities; a frame-accurate software video tape recorder (VTR) controller, Adobe Premiere Version 4.0 video editing software; Caligari trueSpace Version 1.0 3-D graphics and animation software; a training CD-ROM; required cables; and a user's manual.

Availability and Warranty

Initial quantities of RealMagic Producer have already shipped to select RealMagic developers. Volume shipments will commence in mid-March. A one-year warranty on parts and labor comes standard with the RealMagic Producer MPEG encoder board.

Sigma Designs, headquartered in Fremont, Calif., is the world's leading manufacturer of MPEG-based multimedia products, including affordable MPEG video and audio encoding and decoding hardware. All Sigma Designs products are sold worldwide through a network of dealers, distributors and original equipment manufacturers. For more information, call (800) 854-8086, (510) 770-0100, or fax (510) 770-2641.

Sigma Designs Inc

46501 Landing Parkway

Fremont, CA 94538

510-770-0100,  fax 510-770-2640


Training for WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows
TRAINING FOR WORDPERFECT 6.1 FOR WINDOWS NOW AVAILABLE ON AUDIO CASSETTES

February 10, 1995 -- Addison, IL -- WordPerfect users who want a patient tutor to talk them through the myriad features of the new version 6.1 for Windows can turn to self-paced audiocassettes.

How to Use WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows from OneOnOne Computer Training is especially valuable for DOS users of WordPerfect migrating to a Windows version for the first time.

In 4 taped lessons of about 2 hours each, the learner will move easily beyond basic word processing functions to gain hands-on experience with special features such as columns, tables, graphics, merges, macros, styles, templates and customizing the Power Bar and Tool Bar.

"It is so much easier to work directly with WordPerfect while listening to step-by-step instructions than it is to keep track of your place in a manual," said Lee McFadden, OneOnOne president. "And hands-on learning is far more effective than passively watching someone else."

How to Use WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows is available for $125 (Canadian $180) directly from the publisher. In addition to the 4 audiotapes and data disk, the reusable training package includes a fully-indexed guide for quick reference.

For complete information, write OneOnOne Computer Training, 2055 Army Trail Road, Addison, IL 60101, or call (800) 424-8668. The OneOnOne division of Mosaic Media, Inc. is the leading developer of audio-based software training since 1981, and also publishes Working Smarter with WordPerfect, a bi-weekly bulletin for ongoing training.


Racal-Datacom & MCI Improve Network Cost Saving
RACAL-DATACOM AND MCI JOIN FORCES TO IMPROVE NETWORK COST SAVINGS AND PERFORMANCE

SUNRISE, FLA. (February 7, 1995) -- Racal-Datacom and MCI announced today that they have signed an agreement to jointly market the combined capabilities of MCI tariffed services and Racal network equipment at reduced rates to their customers.

Under the agreement, Racal becomes a member of MCI's Affinity program which makes Racal customers eligible for term discounts ranging from 12 to 29 percent* on MCI's broad range of voice and data services. Additionally, customers gain the benefits of Racal's and MCI's combined strengths in an integrated solution.

"With the Affinity program, we are boosting both the cost savings and performance of our customers' communications networks," said James Norman, president of Racal-Datacom, Inc. "Customers don't have to question the compatibility of their network equipment and carrier services. They gain unified support in the design, installation and ongoing operation of their network."

"The Racal relationship leverages MCI's state-of-the-art transmission capabilities with one of the world's leading network equipment manufacturers," said Mort Aaronson, vice president, market management, MCI Business Markets. "MCI understands that the synergy created by these powerful business partners can greatly simplify the customers' buying process and enhance the way they do business."

MCI data services available through the Affinity program include: Voice Grade Private Line, Digital Private Line, Digital Data Service, Fractional T1, TDS 1.5 and Frame Relay.

Racal-Datacom products delivering these services include: the Excalibur digital access product family with Single-Ended Tl, shared switched 56 and ISDN backup; fiber optic distribution systems; hubs, routers and frame relay access devices, all under common network management.

Through Racal and MCI products and services, customers can manage their entire network -- from the telecommunication lines through local area and wide area networking systems, all the way to the desktop.

"Our customers are increasingly turning to the cost savings and efficiency improvements available through new LAN/WAN technologies and evolving carrier services," said Norman. "The MCI/Racal Affinity gives them the opportunity to cost effectively migrate their networks to these technologies and services. The relationship enables us to jointly pursue new business and to expand customer satisfaction."

In addition to the Affinity program, Racal and MCI also participate in a comarketing alliance which offers discounts on Racal equipment to MCI customers. The two firms have been involved in co-marketing since 1990.

"Our partnership with Racal benefits both companies," added Aaronson, "and most importantly, customers benefit from a complete network solution."

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*Rates and discounts are subject to the terms and conditions in MCI Tariff F.C.C. No. 1, which may be amended from time to time.

Company Backgrounds

Racal-Datacom provides network solutions for the delivery and management of information between headquarters and remote locations. The company's broad product line includes local area wide area and metropolitan area networking systems. All Racal products are managed by a single, open and integrated network management platform and backed by a full range of services including network design, operation and integration, worldwide maintenance and support.

MCI Communications Corporation is one of the world's largest communications companies with 1993 revenues of nearly $12 billion. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., MCI has more than 65 offices in 58 countries. Atlanta-based MCI Business Markets provides a wide range of communication and information services to America's businesses, including networkMCI BUSINESS software, long distance voice, data and video services and consulting and outsourcing services.

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Racal-Datacomm, 1601 N. Harrison Parkway, Sunrise, FL 33323-2899

Mailing Address: PO Box 40744, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33340-7044

305-846-1601;  Fax: 305-846-3935


FWB Chosen for America's Cup Louis Vitton Dbase
FWB Chosen to Supply Storage for the America's Cup Louis Vitton Database

San Francisco, January 31, 1995. FWB, Inc., manufacturers of the award winning Hammer brand of high performance mass storage products! today announced that the America's Cup Louis Vitton Database has chosen FWB to supply storage for the corporate media center in San Diego, California.

The purpose of the Louis Vitton Media Center Database is to offer the media on-line access to up to the minute information about the world's greatest sailing event throughout the duration of the races. The reliability and power of FWB's world class storage solutions are the perfect match for the rigors that the media center will put on storage systems. The database is divided into three computer based on-line services: PPL Medialink, AC95 on the InterNet and Compuserve. Depending on the level of media support required, interested parties may access the database to download broadcast quality video and press conferences, publication quality photographs, press releases, background information and even virtual reality files.

The Louis Vitton Database is running on 3 workstations, two Power Macintosh 8100/80s and one Quadra 840av. Each station will be attached to a PocketHammer4100FMF high performance four gigabyte hard disk drive from FWB. The "Fast Media Format" of the PocketHammer will speed file access times ultimately reducing on-line costs.

Since 1984, FWB, Inc. has been developing mass storage and backup products specifically for the Macintosh platform, including the Apple PowerBook, the Apple Workgroup Server 95 and the Power Macintosh. FWB products include SledgeHammer RAID Arrays; Hammer, Hammer-PE, PocketHammer and HammerPB hard drives; HammerDisk optical and removable drives; HammerTape and HammerDAT tape backup systems; and the SCSI JackHammer SCSI-2 accelerator board. FWB also publishes RAID ToolKit, Hard Disk ToolKit, Hard Disk ToolKit-Personal Edition disk management software, and CD-ROM ToolKit accelerator software for CD-ROM drives. FWB's products have been consistently rated the best in their class by publications such as MacWEEK, MacUser, Macworld, PC WEEK, PC Magazine, and BYTE. FWB's PremiumService has won the "Best Technical Support" award from The Macintosh Consultants Network. Inc. Magazine ranked FWB as #109 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing privately held companies in 1993 and #257 in 1994.

FWB, Inc.

2040 Polk St, Suite 215

San Francisco, CA 94109 USA


Hollywood As World's 3D Entertainment Capital
STEREOGRAPHICS, FUTURESCOPE TURN HOLLYWOOD INTO WORLD'S 3D ENTERTAINMENT CAPITAL

Firms' First 2D/3D Rave Video Experience Wows 3,000 In Montreal, 3D Visuals Package Set To Tour World With Rave VJs, Promoters

San Rafael, CA -- February 12, 1995 -- StereoGraphics Corporation, the world's leading 3D enabler to the imaging market with stereo three-dimensional electronic display equipment, and Futurescope, a virtual reality production company based in Santa Monica, CA, have announced plans to turn Hollywood into the world's 3D entertainment capital by making affordable, three-dimensional visual effects available to all levels of the industry.

As the first step in this ambitious undertaking, Futurescope is announcing that their new 3D Rave Experience is now packaged as an easy-to-use system available to Rave video jockeys and promoters for worldwide distribution. The 3D Rave Experience is based on Futurescope's highly successful underground dance party, commonly called a Rave, held at the NEXSUS Project in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, earlier this year. At that event, close to 3,000 people wore StereoGraphics' CrystalEyes 3D passive polarizing glasses to view integrated two- and three-dimensional images projected by an Electrohome System onto a 20-foot screen.

'The CrystalEyes system is ideally suited to events like this, where audiences require freedom of movement,' said Patrick Fraioli, Jr., president of Futurescope. 'The inexpensive CrystalEyes 3D glasses can be distributed to the entire audience for a true, group experience. Plus, the resolution is infinitely better than head-mounted devices sometimes used for virtual reality. Because StereoGraphics offers an infinite variety of solution s to fit the needs of specific events, they remain the unquestioned leader in 3D technology.'

Futurescope used proprietary blue-screen techniques to produce the eye-popping 3D visuals for LCD-25, the group of Montreal VJs who foresaw the added impact of stereoscopic visuals. Futurescope has since been contacted by various firms in Hollywood, New York and Silicon Valley to produce 3D visuals for film, broadcast video and high-definition video (HDTV) projects.

'To borrow a term from the Wall Street Journal, Hollywood will soon be Hollywired,' said Wil Cochran, StereoGraphics' vice president of sales and marketing. 'Futurescope has packaged 3D technology into a dynamic and profitable form of entertainment that is equally well-suited to mass audiences or individualized experiences for the home or other markets.'

Futurescope's roots in the traditional entertainment industry, combined with their experience with interactive and digital media, have given them an edge over other companies attempting to marry cutting edge technologies with traditional entertainment industry principles. On New Year's Eve, they will travel to Switzerland to produce another 3D Rave. Until then, the company is immersed in projects for the marketing, corporate promotions, professional sports, broadcast television, and travel and tourism industries. Futurescope can be reached at 1148 4th street, Suite #113, Santa Monica, CA 94043-1436, phone 310/395-9910, fax 310/394-1471, and by electronic mail at FScopel@AOL.com or Compuserve ID 74447,3575.

StereoGraphics' patented CrystalEyes depth perception products utilize true 3D stereo to improve and dramatize viewing for a broad and diverse user universe. CrystalEyes products provide high-resolution, realistic and flicker-free stereo viewing for scientific visualization, animation, medical imaging. surgical endoscopy, molecular modeling, computer games, photogrammetry, location-based entertainment, motion simulation, inspection systems, remote vehicle control, flight simulation, corporate presentations and all types of education and training.

As part of its efforts to bring stereo viewing (and virtual reality) products into mainstream computing and video, StereoGraphics has made three dimensional stereo viewing possible on non-stereo ready computers (using stereo-ready monitors) with CrystalEyes PC. The product works with most popular desktop system platforms, including IBM PCs and compatibles, Apple Macintosh, Power Mac and Power PC, as well as Amiga computers. It includes the CrystalEyes lightweight, untethered eyewear and combines stereo electronics and an infrared emitter into a single small package which sits on top of the monitor.

StereoGraphics Corp., founded in 1990, invented and developed the market for modern stereo imaging hardware. Due to its capability, reasonable price and state-of-the-art technology backed by 14 patents, CrystalEyes systems are accepted as the industry standard for stereo viewing. StereoGraphics is located at 2171 East Francisco Boulevard, San Rafael, California 94901, phone 415/459-4500, fax 415/459-3020, email stereo@well.com.


Andyne Computing & Arbor Software Partnership
Andyne and Arbor Announce Partnership to bring cross-platform multidimensional analysis to the desktop

Andyne's PaBLO to access Arbor's Essbase Analysis Server

February 14, 1995 -- Orlando, FL, The Data Warehousing Conference -- Andyne Computing Limited of Kingston, Canada, and Arbor Software of Sunnyvale, CA, announced today a cooperative development and marketing agreement as part of Arbor's Essbase Ready Program. Andyne and Arbor customers now have a one-stop OLAP solution that lets decision makers harness the power of Essbase Analysis Server through Andyne PaBLO on Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh desktops. A single copy of PaBLO for Windows is offered for a limited time and an introductory price of just $350. Additional copies cost $695, and volume discounts are available.

PaBLO provides decision makers with timely data access and analysis for multidimensional data sources Unlike other multidimensional decision support applications, PaBLO provides a scalable solution with an easy-to-use visual interface. PaBLO for Microsoft Windows is also being announced today.

Essbase is used for planning and analysis applications that require a defined analytical structure and consolidate actual, projected, and derived data, multi-user, read/write data access, and consistently last response regardless of database size. Essbase operates effectively within a data warehousing strategy or as a standalone, departmental solution. It operates on servers running Microsoft NT and OS/2 across all major networks connected to Windows and Macintosh clients. Pricing starts at $43,250 for a multi seat, five-concurrent user license.

The Andyne-Essbase solution gives customers what experts call a Managed Query Environment (MOE). An MQE synchronizes IS expertise and end-user freedom: it provides enterprise-wide consistency and security harmonized with decision makers' needs for flexibility and timely reporting.

A. Cameron Thompson, President and CEO of Andyne, stated, "We've chosen to join the Essbase Ready Program so that we can provide speed and capacity for data consolidation and complex calculations in a multi-user client/server environment. Essbase complements PaBLO in that it reaches the broad segment of the market that requires analysis of large volumes of data for complex business planning and analysis applications."

"We're excited that Andyne has joined the Essbase Ready Program," said James Dorrian, President and CEO of Arbor. "PaBLO lets users navigate effortlessly through summarized business data. It's a highly visual report metaphor that lets users see the relationships between multiple variables. Decision makers can annotate, compare, calculate, and illustrate a multitude of business variables on the fly. When they're ready, they can integrate text, graphics, tables, and c harts, providing unlimited views of their data. PaBLO complements the robust server capabilities contained in Essbase."

The PaBLO/Essbase Advantage

As a result of today's announcement, customers of both companies gain significant benefits. The primary benefits include:

Multi-platform support -- PaBLO clients running on Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows For Workgroups 3.11, 32-bit Windows NT, and Apple Macintosh System 7 are now able to access the Essbase server running on OS/2 or Windows NT.

Scalability -- PaBLO HyperCubes are advanced multidimensional data structures that provide unparalleled access to summary information stored on laptops, desktops, or Arbor's Essbase Analysis Server. PaBLO and Essbase combine to deliver a highly scalable client/server solution for multidimensional analysis.

Open Architecture -- PaBLO uses popular client/server middleware such as Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and Data Access Language (DAL). PaBLO supports Open Systems standards with Microsoft's OLE, the Messaging Application Program Interface (MAPI), and Apple's Publish and Subscribe.

Arbor Software Corporation develops and markets multidimensional database software for complex, business planning and analysis applications. The company's flagship product, Essbase Analysis Server, is used by more than 300 corporations spanning a broad range of industries and business analysis applications. Arbor's products are sold directly, as well as through systems integrators and VARs worldwide. Sales offices are located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and London.

Andyne is a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol "ADYNF" and on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) under the symbol "ADY." Andyne is the leader in the development and marketing of leading-edge Decision Support Systems (DSS) software for businesses. Andyne's applications offer a Managed Query Environment (MQE), balancing end-user needs for access, analysis, and reporting with Information Systems (IS) needs for security and enterprise-wide consistency. Andyne GQL is a query and reporting tool. Andyne PaBLO is an analysis and reporting tool. Andyne's applications offer an easy-to-use, visual interface, customizable to business needs. Andyne services all of its products through consulting, training, and technical support.

Andyne Computing Ltd

552 Princess St

Kingston, Ontario

Canada K7L 1C7

613-548-4355,  fax 613-548-3608


HP Intros 100VG PCI Lan Adapter
HP INTRODUCES 100VG PCI LAN ADAPTER

HP Also Cuts Prices on 10Base-T ISA Adapters by up to 20 Percent

Palo Alto, California. January 30, 1995 -- Filling out its 100VG-AnyLAN adapter product line, Hewlett-Packard Company today introduced a PCI version of its 10/100VG local area network (LAN) adapter.  The PCI local bus provides a key networking performance boost because it operates at the clock speed of the computer's CPU, which is generally between three to eight times faster than the ISA or EISA bus' speed.

HP also cut U.S. prices of its ISA 10Base-T adapters by up to 20 percent, effective Feb. 1.

Introduced for $249 (U.S.), HP's 10/100VG Selectable PCI Adapter (J2585A) is the industry's lowest price for a 100 megabits-per-second (Mbit) version of the increasingly popular PCI bus interface.  It is expected to begin shipping March 1. HP's 100VG products provide 10 times the speed and up to 16 times the throughput of 10Base-T at only twice the price.  Fully compatible with existing network infrastructure, 100VG lets users take advantage of emerging applications such as multimedia, imaging and groupware, and improve the performance of existing applications.

This product offering complements HP's 10/100VG ISA and EISA LAN adapters, which have been shipping since Aug. 1, 1994.  They were the industry's first 100 Mbit Ethernet products based on the emerging IEEE 802.12 standard.

"PCI is essentially the ISA of the future," said Gary McAnally, general manager of HP's Roseville (Calif.) Networks Division.  "By first introducing ISA and EISA 100VG adapters, we quickly were able to provide customers with 100 Mbit adapters for the buses they are using today.  HP's VG PCI adapter provides customers with 100 Mbits for the bus they will be using tomorrow."

Built with an auto-sensing capability, HP's 10/100VG PCI LAN adapters support 10 Mbit 10Base-T and 100 Mbit 100VG-AnyLAN operation, letting network managers replace network adapters gradually and switch to high-speed networking at their convenience.  When the 10/100VG adapters are used in the 10-Mbit mode, they provide full-duplex operation, which allows data to be sent and received simultaneously.  HP's VG set software, included with all HP 10/100VG adapters, provides configuration and diagnostic support, eliminating the need for jumpers or switches.

The leading supplier of 10Base-T stackable hubs, HP's Roseville Networks Division developed 10Base-T and network printing and codeveloped 100VG-AnyLAN.  HP's full line of networking products includes AdvanceStack routers, AdvanceStack 100VG hubs, AdvanceStack 10Base-T hubs, OpenView network management applications, JetDirect print servers, 10Base-T and 100VG LAN adapters.

Information in this release applies to products available in the United States.  Product availability and specifications may vary in non-U.S. markets.


Dell CEO Sees Continued Computer Ind. Growth
DELL CEO SEES OPPORTUNITY FOR CONTINUED COMPUTER INDUSTRY GROWTH

NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 1995 -- Emerging markets, technology advances and increased price-performance will continue to drive computer industry growth well into the next century, Dell Computer Corporation chairman and chief executive officer Michael S. Dell told investors and analysts here today.

"There exists among investors today an under-appreciation of the outlook for sustained growth in the computer business," Mr. Dell, founder of one of the worlds top five personal computer companies, said in keynote remarks to the Goldman, Sachs & Co. 1995 Technology Investment Symposium.

According to industry analysts, annual worldwide PC shipments will more than double over the next four years to 103 million units in 1998. In 1986, the industry was shipping only about 13 million PCs worldwide.

Mr. Dell told the annual gathering of hundreds of the countrys foremost technology investors and analysts that several compelling arguments suggest dramatic growth will continue.

"I see strong opportunity for growth and change for the industry," Mr. Dell said.

Mr. Dell said the industrys dynamic growth track will be sustained in the future by continued dramatic improvements in semiconductor technology, increases in electronic communications capabilities, greater acceptance of PCs as general purpose devices, price-performance gains, demand for technology in developing countries, and an expanding replacement market. "Perhaps the most under-appreciated of all developments is the fact that the computer industry sells a device that now requires replacement every three years," Mr. Dell said.

In 1994, he noted, industry analysts estimated that replacement systems represented 37 percent of the total PC market.

Another area driving market growth, Mr. Dell said, is burgeoning demand in developing countries, which are currently investing billions annually in infrastructure and telecommunications, thereby indicating a future explosion in demand for PCs. "In this decade and beyond, developing countries will skip past entire stages of technology--instead investing in things like wireless networks and high speed digital links," Mr. Dell said.

Continually improving price-performance will advance use of computers in the development of other technologies, Mr. Dell said. "By the year 2000, our $2,000 desktop computer will have the processing performance of todays $20 million mainframe," said Mr. Dell.

This trend is very apparent in two interdependent areas: increased mobile computing, and exploding "bandwidth," or the speed that data can be communicated.

Mr. Dell, the longest-tenured CEO of a major PC company, said it is easy to enter the computer industry, but much harder to succeed in it, particularly with the rapid pace of technological change. "The most important thing is the ability to win in the technology transitions. The companies that win in the transitions, win in the industry.

"I believe our industry is going to continue to deliver a great deal of economic value, and the dynamic changes represent an opportunity for those who understand and appreciate them," Mr. Dell said. "There will be some volatility, but ultimately the industry provides economic value to its customers and to its investors. "

A FORTUNE Global 500" company with headquarters in Austin, Texas , Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq: DELL) designs, develops, manufactures, markets, services and supports a complete line of personal computers compatible with industry standards. Dell is the world's leading direct marketer of personal computers with annual revenues of more than $3 billion. Information on the company and its products can be obtained through its toll-free number, 1-800-289-3355, or by accessing the Dell Worldwide Web server, at http://www.us.dell.com/.


TipTap Lite Adds Text-to-Speech Synthesis
February 8, 1995 -- PolyVision officially announced today that it has licensed a high quality text-to-speech synthesis module for its flagship program TipTap Lite. The new module will allow users with _any_ 8-bit or better Wave compatible soundboard to have TipTap speak back words. This replaces the Monologue for Windows interface. The module will be available with either 11kHz 8-bit or 22kHz 16-bit wave playback.

Also using the new module will be a robot typing tutor. The robot is an animated character that teaches in 20 separate lessons the basics of typing. It will be using a new section of the TipTap Lite interface.

Although the new module is state-of-the-art, TipTap will continue to use its human voice sound data to teach phonics.

All current users of TipTap Lite version 1.2 will be getting a free upgrade to version 2.0. The new version will suffer a price increase from the current $19.95 to $24.95. The new version is expected to be available within the next few weeks. Until then, version 1.2 will continue to be available and honor the free upgrade.

TipTap Lite is a multimedia phonics, reading, and writing shareware program. See the shareware version documentation and program files in the PC and Educational forums to learn more about TipTap Lite.

PolyVision Software

PO Box 16074

West Palm Beach, FL 33416-6074

Phone/Fax: 407-791-9415

AOL: Rigo12

Delphi: RMuniz

CIS: 72712,2305


Canadian Museum of Civilization WWW Site
Canadian Museum Of Civilization Announces Its Official Entry Into Cyberspace

HULL, Quebec -- December 16, 1994 -- We're on the "Net." The Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC), has become Canada's first Human History Museum to officially enter the Global Village by inaugurating its World Wide Web Information Service, a system for disseminating multimedia information on the Internet. The Museum invites the millions of Internet users in Canada and abroad to visit the Museum and to tour its exhibitions by accessing on-line information, in French or in English, through the World Wide Web. The service offers "surfers" an educational and visual window on the history and mandate of the institution; its educational materials; collections; current and future exhibitions; public programs; as well as facilities, services and products available to the public.

This is the first stage of a multi-phase plan to create a "Museum Without Walls", which will allow "virtual visits" to the Museum from anywhere in the world. One component of the new service will be virtual gallery tours through the Museum's exhibitions. Already available is a tour of the Canada Hall -- a 900-year voyage through Canadian history. Tours of the Grand Hall -- CMC's spectacular exhibition of Northwest Coast Native art and culture, and the newly expanded Children's Museum -- a world-wide journey of adventure and discovery -- are planned in the new year. Through interactive imagemaps, World Wide Web users will be able to visit exhibitions, obtain detailed multimedia information concerning the Museum's collections, and electronically purchase items from the Museum's cyberboutique.

To realize its vision of the future, the CMC has entered into a partnership with Digital Equipment of Canada Ltd., which will provide the technical and management expertise required to implement this leading-edge approach to information access.

As part of a five-year strategic alliance, Digital and the CMC have established a joint project team of experts to create an electronic "Museum for the Global Village." The Digital team is part of the company's Internet Expertise Centre, recently created in the National Capital Region to serve its government and commercial customers currently becoming part of the Internet system.

The CMC Web server is a pilot project which provides a prototype service available to other museums and organizations who wish to purchase access to the Global Village.

Dr. George MacDonald, Executive Director of the CMC, sees the new service as an important early step in achieving the institution's strategic goal of using new technologies to make information on Canadian heritage more widely accessible nationally and internationally. With this outreach program, the Museum will begin its transformation from a "traditional" museum which collects, documents, conserves, exhibits, and interprets, to a more accessible, participatory museum contributing to the understanding between the various cultures that make up the Canadian mosaic and which are part of the Global Village.

This outreach program will be the springboard to exciting new exhibition technologies, increased information accessibility and enhanced communications capabilities, and will assist the CMC in attaining its vision of becoming a global world-class information resource for Canadians and the world.

The Canadian Museum of Civilization welcomes all Internet users and future Cyberspace travellers to come and tour its exhibitions and to experience the "Museum Without Wall." To access CMC's World Wide Web server on the Internet, connect to:

       http://www.cmcc.muse.digital.ca/

For information on purchasing access to the CMC World Wide Web server, please contact Digital Equipment of Canada Ltd.


Digital NetRider Remote Access System Unveiled
Digital Delivers The Industry's Highest Value, Lowest-Priced, Complete Remote Access Solution

Digital NetRider Remote Access Systems Unveiled

MAYNARD, Mass. -- February 6, 1995 -- Digital Equipment Corporation today introduced the industry's lowest-priced, most complete remote access solution that now brings telecommuters and remote locations into the network easily and reliably, as a result of Digital's worldwide product and service leadership in this market.

The Digital Netrider 90 and Digital Netrider 900 systems enable IS managers to extend the reach of their network services through an all-inclusive combination of software for multivendor client connections, unlimited client licensing for remote node capabilities, and Internet browser software. In addition, the system incorporates a multiprotocol access server that can be used either in a standalone mode or as a module in Digital's DEChub backplanes.

"With today's trends towards telecommuting, remote offices, and a mobile sales force, the need for remote access is growing at a rapid rate," said Dr. Laurence Walker, vice president and general manager of Digital's Network Product Business. "The Digital NetRider solution further exemplifies our commitment to provide customers with a complete networking solution -- from the backbone out to the remote user."

Designed for Today's Networks -- Extending to the Remote User

The Digital NetRider systems:

      deliver the industry's only complete, low-cost solution for

      different connection requirements, including client software for

      TCP/IP, IPX, and AppleTalk environments;

      provide remote users with their favorite method of network

      access, including Mosaic for Internet browsing capabilities;

      ensure ease of administration for the network manager by fitting

      into existing networks and by providing accounting facilities

      and robust security;

      offer unmatched configuration flexibility and scalability as a

      member of Digital's award-winning DEChub family, the industry's

      only stackable and hub-based solution integrated in one product

      set;

      are supported by Digital's portfolio of global service and

      support built on more than 35 years experience.

"Based on our recent study of the remote access market, the Digital NetRider system addresses all the critical needs of the IS manager," stated Michael Howard, president of Infonetics Research Inc. "It offers a very low price, good value, and has features for both the IS manager and the remote user."

Total Solution from One Vendor

Since remote access is a relatively new application, users often purchase their own remote access client software, leaving IS managers with a variety of different applications to manage. In addition, multiple types of laptop systems need to be supported from the IS manager's perspective, since users have already purchased their Powerbooks and laptop PCs. As such, network managers face a real challenge in implementing remote access capabilities.

The Digital NetRider system includes client software for multivendor environments with unlimited licensing for remote node connections, Mosaic from Digital, and either an 8-port or 32-port access server. The NetRider Remote Office software, licensed from Stampede Technologies, provides remote users with several methods of network access, including fully-integrated remote control/remote node capabilities from DOS and Windows over IPX and TCP/IP concurrently.

"The Digital NetRider systems are easily the most comprehensive and sophisticated remote access solution we've seen," stated David Flournoy, executive vice president of Stampede Technologies. "This superior product offering is the result of Digital's keen understanding of the market and user requirements, coupled with their ability to develop and deliver state-of-the-art technology."

William Maro, Digital's vice president of Network Product Marketing and Engineering added, "The Digital NetRider system provides the IS manager with a choice of network access styles for the remote user, while also helping to maintain network security and administrative control. These are the requirements we have heard from our customers, and we are delivering them today."

Pricing and Availability

The Digital NetRider 90 is priced at $3,400 and is available immediately.

The Digital NetRider 900 is priced at $9,345 and will be available in March 1995.

Digital Netrider software upgrade kits are immediately available for DECserver access servers starting at $1,295.

Digital, an industry leader in networking, continues to be a significant contributor to the development of many popular networking technologies including Ethernet, FDDI and ATM LANs, network hubs and switches, routers, bridges, network adapters, and servers. Also known for its expertise in network integration services, Digital has networked more than 12 million users worldwide.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software, and services, together with industry-focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.


Delrina WinFax Scanner from Delrina & Fujitsu
Fujitsu and Delrina to Develop & Market New Low-Cost Fax Scanner Solution

SAN JOSE, Calif. and TORONTO, Ont -- February 13, 1995 -- Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc., the leader in document imaging products, and Delrina Corporation (NASDAQ:DENAF, TSE:DC), the makers of WinFax, the world's most popular fax software, today announced plans to develop and market a new desktop fax scanning solution, competitively priced for the mass market.

One of the only limitations with computer-based fax is that the user can only send documents created on the computer. Delrina and Fujitsu will introduce their first solution, the Delrina WinFax Scanner, which enables users to combine paper-based information with faxes originating from the computer. The product is aimed at the small-office, home-office, and WinFax users, and is expected to ship within the next two months. The Delrina WinFax Scanner will be marketed by Delrina through its established distribution channels.

"This initiative seeks to redefine the category for personal desktop scanners and maximize the importance and use of fax on the computer," said Tony Katz, product manager at Delrina. "Our long term plan is to leverage the hardware expertise of Fujitsu and our software strength to foster further joint ventures in the future."

"Fujitsu is broadening its leadership in the scanner marketplace to address a growing base of users who depend on their computer for their everyday faxing, scanning and document management needs," said Mary Ann Burns, marketing manager for Fujitsu's imaging products. "Partnering with Delrina combines our experience with the world+s leading provider of fax software to offer the most complete and most affordable computer-based fax scanning solution available."

Delrina+s WinFax is the leading fax communications software for Windows with more than six million copies shipped. More than 100 computer manufacturers and fax modem vendors include WinFax with their own products.

About Fujitsu Computer Products of America

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., is a part of $30 billion Fujitsu Limited, the world's second largest computer company. Primarily responsible for data input, output, and storage solutions in the United States, Fujitsu Computer Products is part of Fujitsu+s worldwide design, development, manufacturing and marketing operations. The company encompasses research and development operations in Longmont, Colorado; manufacturing in Hillsboro, Oregon; marketing operations in San Jose, California; and sales operations throughout the United States. Fujitsu Computer Products of America is headquartered at 2904 Orchard Parkway, San Jose, Calif., 95134, and can be reached at (408) 432-6333.

About Delrina

Delrina Corporation designs, develops, markets and supports innovative PC software products and services in the fax, data and voice communications, electronic forms, and consumer software markets. Founded in 1988, the Company is ranked in sales among the top fifteen software publishers in North America and is recognized as the worldwide leader in PC fax and forms. Delrina employs nearly 600 people with offices in Toronto, Ontario; San Jose, CA; Kirkland, WA; Washington, DC; Lexington, MA; the United Kingdom; France; and Germany. Delrina can be contacted at 1-800-268-6082.

Delrina Corp

895 Don Mills, 500-2 Park Center

Toronto, Ontario M3C 1W3 CANADA

416-441-3676,  fax 416-441-0774


Ventana Updates AutoCAD Tutorials

New Release 13 titles now contain Companion Disk

Chapel Hill, N.C., February 27, 1995--AutoCAD's Release 13 now brings full Windows functionality to this premier design program. Helping users keep pace, Ventana Press offers updates to its popular AutoCAD Reference Library with the release of two new revisions--AutoCAD: A Concise Guide to Commands and Features, Fourth Edition, and AutoCAD 3D Companion, Second Edition.

By carefully working through each section in AutoCAD: A Concise Guide, readers gain a solid understanding of the software and learn how to increase efficiency and productivity. AutoCAD: A Concise Guide includes:

* Overviews of new features of solid modeling and rendering in

  Release 13.

* A guide to mastering AutoCAD's Windows features--using OLE and DDE

  to copy, cut and paste vectors and bitmaps on the Clipboard, and

  more.

* Appendices packed with supplementary information on tablet menus,

  overlays and attributes.

* A Companion Disk containing a library of drawing and editing

  exercises, custom menu files, and 2D and 3D AutoLISP utility

  programs.

Targeted to more advanced users, AutoCAD 3D Companion, Second Edition, addresses the key three-dimensional capabilities that highlight Release 13, including:

* An examination of basic tools--including the User Coordinate System,

  DVIEW, view ports, surfaces and Paper Space.

* Special sections on the new features of solid modeling and rendering

  in Release 13.

* Practical applications of concepts in mechanical and architectural

  tutorials.

* A Companion Disk containing a complete 3D toolkit with more than

  50 unique ready-to-run AutoLISP routines.

A unique feature of both AutoCAD: A Concise Guide and AutoCAD 3D Companion is their Online Companion, developed by Ventana Online and residing on Ventana's World Wide Web server. The Online Companion provides access to an archive of free AutoCAD programs available on the Internet and hot links to other Internet CAD resources. The URL for the AutoCAD Reference Library is http://www.vmedia.com/autocad.html.

AutoCAD: A Concise Guide and AutoCAD 3D companion are the latest titles in Ventana Press's AutoCAD Reference Library, which also includes: 1,000 AutoCAD Tips and Tricks, Fourth Edition; AutoLISP in Plain English, Fifth Edition; The AutoCAD Productivity Book, Sixth Edition; and The AutoCAD Reference Library Deluxe CD-ROM.

Author Steven Elliot is president of Visual Language Systems Inc., and teaches AutoCAD and multimedia applications in Palos Hills, Ill.

Author George O. Head is co-owner of Associated Market Research, a Rhode Island-based consulting firm for architects and engineers, and authored three other titles in the AutoCAD Reference Library series.

Author Ronald W. Leigh is ranked "Master Teacher" in the drafting/CAD Technology Program at Indiana Vocational Technical College.

Author and editor Brian Matthews is department head and director of the AutoCAD Training Center at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, N.C. Matthews also serves as technical editor for all AutoCAD Reference Library titles.

AutoCAD: A Concise Guide to Commands and Features, Fourth Edition

696 pages, illustrated, with disk and an Online Companion.

Leigh, Elliot, Matthews. ISBN: 1-56604-139-2. $27.95.

AutoCAD 3D Companion, Second Edition

616 pages, illustrated, with disk and an Online Companion.

Head. ISBN: 1-56604-142-2. $34.95

Ordering Information: All titles are available in bookstores and computer stores; by writing Ventana Press, PO Box 2468, Chapel Hill, NC 27515; by calling Ventana's toll-free order line, 800/743-5369; by faxing Ventana at 919/942-1140; by sending e-mail to orders@vmedia.com; or via the World Wide Web at http://www.vmedia.com/index.html.


SCO Integrates Windows Clients w/UNIX Servers
SCO SHOWCASES NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR INTEGRATING WINDOWS CLIENTS WITH UNIX SERVERS

Visionware Acquisition Extends SCO's Leadership for Windows Friendly Client/Server Solutions

PALM SPRINGS, CA , DEMO 95 (February 6, 1994) -- (NASDAQ: SCOC) The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (SCO), the leader in system software for Business Critical Servers, today demonstrated its next generation Windows Friendly technology for seamless integration of Windows clients and UNIX servers. SCO showcased several new technologies resulting from its recent acquisition of Visionware, the leader in PC- based software for Windows client to UNIX server integration, and previewed "Envision," code name for SCO's unified client/server architecture spanning the Windows desktop and UNIX server.

SCO's Windows Friendly strategy combines the strengths and user benefits of Windows PCs and UNIX servers in integrated solutions. SCO's 1994 acquisition of Visionware advanced the strategy by broadening SCO's presence to the PC and preparing the way for a Windows Friendly client/server architecture.

"Our customers want to access their company's business- critical databases and applications with the same point and click ease that they access their word processor or spreadsheet," said Mark Yahiro, SCO director of strategic marketing. "Through our acquisition of IXI and Visionware, SCO is positioned to meet these requirements with a cross-platform architecture. Our goal is to deliver the best products for developing and deploying Windows clients and UNIX servers to run your business."

Complete Windows/UNIX Integration

The SCO demonstration featured technology meeting user requirements in several key areas:

o Windows clients access to major databases on UNIX servers via Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)

o Transparent access of Windows personal productivity applications and business-critical UNIX server applications Windows from client desktops

o Centralized management of Windows desktops, applications and data through a UNIX server supporting activities including software distribution, upgrades, critical file management, etc.

"Where other UNIX server companies are trying to placate the masses of Windows desktop users, SCO is delivering products and technologies to truly integrate Windows clients and UNIX servers, said Chris Holmes, president, Visionware USA and SCO vice president. "Our Windows Friendly client/server architecture addresses the needs of both developers, implementors, and users who want to leverage the strengths of Windows clients and UNIX servers."

Businesses and governments worldwide use SCO Business Critical Servers to run their critical operations, accessing and distributing information across local and global boundaries and networks. SCO's mission is to continue leading the growth of this important new market by delivering the most robust system software for Business Critical Servers. SCO is recognized worldwide as the leading supplier of UNIX System multiuser server systems (source: IDC). a


Storybook Maker Graphics CD-ROM Tool
Storybook Maker, a new graphics CD-ROM tool for the Macintosh and IBM compatibles using Windows, lets young learners give free rein to their creativity by writing their own stories complete with engaging pictures and sound.

Using a collection of settings, characters, and objects, children can write and publish their stories in a risk-free, interactive environment. Easy-to-understand symbols help students choose backgrounds, pictures, and words, as well as manipulate sizes and orientation. A "Say It" command activates the computer voice to read text, and students can even change the voice, decide whether it "speaks" as the letter and/or words are being typed-or record their own voices using a "Record Sound" feature. Pages are easily added or erased.

If the learner doesn't find just the right picture out of the hundreds available, he or she can create one or change an existing one, using a "Make Pictures" paint creation module.

Though designed for children in kindergarten through third grade, Storybook Maker can also be used with older learners. Teachers can print reports that identify the amount of time each student has spent on an activity and list the work files the student created.

Storybook Maker is published by Jostens Home Learning in San Diego, California.

The program costs $49.00. For more information, write Hartley Courseware, 3451 Dunckel Rd., Suite 200, Lansing, MI 48911 or call 1-800-247-1380


Vidar VXR-8 8-bit Film Digitizer
VXR-8, Vidar's 8-bit Film Digitizer: The Market Leader in Quality and Value

Herndon, VA: Vidar Systems Corporation announces the introduction of the VXR-8, an 8-bit film digitizer designed for medical and scientific applications that need an easy-to-use digitizer with quality performance features.

The VXR-8 shares many high performance features with Vidar's 12-bit film digitizer and its award winning design simplifies routine operations. The VXR-8 captures the subtle detail in any medical X-ray, CT, or MRI film, including those with optical densities ranging from zero to 3.0. The VXR-8 accepts all standard film sizes.

With the VXR-8, translation tables allow you to concentrate or spread the 8 bits of data anywhere within the optical density range. These translation tables minimize the need for post-processing of the image.

The VXR-8 handles films from 5 to 14 inches wide, with no length limitation, and offers a choice of four spatial resolutions ranging from 1k x 1k (423 um spot) to 4k x 4k (85 um spot). The VXR-8 is easy to use, with automatic film size detection, automatic calibration, and a reversible film transport that allows multiple scans of a single film without operator intervention. Fast throughput increases productivity--a full 14" x 17" chest x-ray, with a resolution of 1k x 1k, can be scanned in as little as 11 seconds. The introductory price for the VXR-8 is $12,995.

Vidar has been at the forefront of image scanning technology since 1985, when we introduced our first large format scanner for engineering and architectural drawings. As a leader in the medical imaging field since 1988, Vidar has exhibited in the past six RSNA shows.

Vidar Systems Corp

460 Spring Park Place

Herndon, VA 22070

703/471-7070,   Fax: 703/471-1165


ODS Intros Token Ring Cluster Controller Module
ODS Introduces New Token Ring Cluster Controller Module for Infinity Hub

The 1094-IBM-CC to provide migration path from proprietary SNA-based 3174 architecture to standard TCP/IP-based Token Ring LAN's

Boston, MA--February 13, 1995--Today, Optical Data Systems, Inc (ODS), (NASDAQ-NMS:ODSI) announced a new 1094-IBM-CC cluster controller module at the Networks Exposition in Boston, MA, booth #2530. The 1094-IBM-CC provides IBM 3174 users with a migration path from IBM's SNA SDLC transport to Token Ring LANs.

In the past, users who needed SNA host access were connected remotely to the larger host processors through a 3174 Establishment Controller on a low-speed communication line. Today, the 1094-IBM-CC cluster controller module, with embedded 3174 features, makes it possible for users to access the SNA host through a connection to the Token Ring LAN. In other words, the module makes it possible for users to be connect to both SNA and LAN worlds, as well as delivering a broad range of workstation connectivity options for each environment

The 1094-IBM-CC provides several ways to incorporate 3270 terminals, cabling and host applications into the LAN hub For example, it is possible to attach up to thirty-two 3270 category devices to the module using standard IBM 3299 terminal multiplexers. Or, the module could be configured as a Token Ring gateway to a remote SNA host providing speeds up to 64 Kbps and supporting up to 250 Downstream Physical Units (DSPU).

The 1094-IBM-CC takes up two slots in the Infinity chassis and can be attached to any one of the four Token Rings on the backplane. The module is hot swappable and is supported by redundant power supplies within the Infinity Hub chassis The module supports:

* SDLC and X.25 host protocols

* 3174 RAS functions

* Advanced peer-to-peer networking

* SNA Physical Unit 2.0 functions

* TCP/IP Telnet server

* Token Ring Gateway (group poll/duplex multipoint)

Availability and Pricing

The 1094-IBM-CC was officially introduced today at the Networks Expo in Boston, MA, and will begin shipping in volume quantities immediately The module is priced at $16,000.

Corporate Position

"The 1094-IBM-CC module is an ideal way to consolidate your network infrastructure while moving into the LAN environment and integrating your current 3270 equipment," said Robert Hoskins, Product Marketing Manager, ODS He added, "It makes an especially attractive upgrade for current 3274 control unit users who want higher functionality than the old 3174 Establishment Controllers had to offer, as well as users who are looking for a clear migration path to Token Ring networks."

Optical Data Systems Inc. (ODS)

Optical Data Systems provides intelligent hubs and related computer networking and internetworking products ODS' products support the four industry standards currently in use today: Ethernet, Token Ring, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) ODS' products--intelligent hubs-- integrate user modules, network management modules, multi-protocol bridges and routers and other accessory products into complex LANs, MANs and WANs enabling customers to create an integrated, highly reliable network infrastructure to support their heterogeneous computing environment

Optical Data Systems Inc

214-301-3811,  fax 214-301-3893


RoboHELP WinHelp Video Kit Sets New Standard
WinHelp Video Kit Sets a New Standard for Windows Help

Another Breakthrough from Blue Sky Software

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The new bundle of RoboHELP 3.0, Help Authoring tool for Windows and Windows NT, and Blue Sky' s new WinHelp Video Kit incorporates all the tools needed for integrating and playing Video and Sound in any Help system. Best of all, the WinHelp Video Kit enables Help authors to easily create "live" product demonstrations and tutorials with the included Software Video Camera program. In addition, RoboHELP 3.0 allows Help authors to take full advantage of special Word 6.0 features not supported by the Windows Help compilers. RoboHELP 3.0 also supports the European versions of Microsoft Word 6.0 and sets the standard worldwide for Windows Help authors.

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San Francisco, Software Development '95, Booth #410 - February 14, 1995 - Version 3.0 of RoboHELP, the award-winning Help Authoring Tool for Windows and Windows NT will be shipping in February. RoboHELP 3.0 turns the U.S. and all major European versions of Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows into high-performance hypertext authoring tools capable of producing Help files as easily as they do plain text.

New & Improved

New WinHelp Video Kit Revolutionizes Windows Help with its new Software Video Camera program which enables Help authors to capture on-screen actions and create video product demonstrations and tutorials. Help authors can add narration to these recordings (using a sound card) and integrate the resulting .AVI files into any Help file.

WinHelp Video Kit also includes all the tools needed for playing video and sound in any Help system. The WinHelp Video Kit features:

* Software Video Camera, a full-motion screen action recording program

* Video Wizard for adding video and sound functionality to any Help

  project

* Video Tester for previewing video and sound files

* WinHelp Video/Sound Player for video and sound playback in Help

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* Video for Windows 1.1 Runtime

256 color bitmap and textured background support - Help authors can now easily add rich 256 color bitmaps and textured backgrounds to their Windows Help files.

New Word-To-Help Technology - Several Word 6.0 features not supported by the Windows Help compilers, are distorted when displayed in a Help system. Blue Sky's new Word-To-Help RTF Postprocessor Technology overcomes this limitation of the Help compilers and enables RoboHELP 3.0 users to display special Word features in Windows Help such as smart quotes, em-dashes, en-dashes, bulleted lists, numbered lists and hanging indents exactly the same way they are displayed in Word 6.0.

International Support - RoboHELP now supports the U.S. and the major European versions of Word 6.0 for Windows - all in one product.

Import Existing Files - Existing .RTF source files, graphics and documents can be imported. Users can also import existing Help systems not originally created with RoboHELP, utilizing all pre-existing hypertext links and keywords.

With HelpCheck Tools, simulation and testing of the Help file no longer require the time-consuming compile process and Help authors become more productive and effective. HelpCheck Tools include:

* Check Mode, to detect any potential syntax errors before compilation

* Error Wizard, to instantly locate and explain any errors

* Link  Tester, to test changes without needing to compile

* Topic QuickView, to instantly view the compiled version of any topic

New Macro Hotspot Editor lets Help authors instantly access, edit and use any macro supported by the Windows Help engine. RoboHELP gives users a complete definition of the functionality provided by each macro. Using the Macro Hotspot Editor is so easy that users do not need to be Help experts or have any special technical knowledge to integrate macros into their Help files.

Two-way Conversion - RoboHELP automatically converts existing documentation into a Help system or vice-versa. RoboHELP allows users to import existing Word files, and to have document headings converted to topics and index entries converted to search keywords.

New Document Templates streamline the creation and layout of printed documentation. These templates include styles for headings, text, bullets and tips, and can be used when converting a Help system into documentation.

Enhanced Visual Interface with a new sixteen-icon tool palette gives users instant access to all functionality needed for creating a Help system - from standard Help features such as jumps, topics, and popup windows to more advanced features such as macros, secondary windows, color settings and more. The RoboHELP tool palette now includes four new icons for easy navigation through topics and for instant access to the Macro Hotspot Editor and the Topic QuickView feature.

VBX and Custom Controls included in RoboHELP provide an easy solution for quickly integrating context-sensitive Help into any applications written in Visual Basic, C, Visual C++, Borland C++ and PowerBuilder applications. Users simply drag and drop the included PushHelp button in the application's screens and dialog boxes, and visually select the desired Help topic.

Special Offers for Help Authors

Windows Help Style Guide

The Windows Help Style Guide, created by Blue Sky's Windows Help experts, gives tips and techniques on how to create Help files. Contact Blue Sky Software to receive the Guide at no charge or call the Blue Sky B.B.S. at 619-551-2495 to download the Guide (hlpguide.zip). This Guide can also be found in the WinHelp section of the WinSDK Forum on CompuServe.

Pricing and Availability

The new bundle of RoboHELP 3.0 and WinHelp Video Kit will be available in February 1995 at a special promotional retail price of $499. WinHelp Video Kit can be purchased separately at a suggested price of $99. WinHelp Video Kit includes a royalty-free license to distribute the video/sound player .DLL. Registered users of RoboHELP 2.0 & 2.6 can upgrade to the new bundle of RoboHELP 3.0 and WinHelp Video Kit for $129. For more information, contact the Blue Sky Software Sales Department at 1-800-677-4WIN, 619-459-6365 (for international) or fax: 619-459-6366.

Blue Sky Software Corp

7486 La Jolla Blvd, Suite 3

La Jolla, CA 92037

619-459-6365,  800-677-4WIN,  fax 619-459-6366


ACSYS Signs Powerhouse Integrators
ACSYS SIGNS TWO POWERHOUSE INTEGRATORS

Company Continues to Roll Out National Roster of Integrators to Resell and Support NetGain Remote Office Service

Boston, Mass., February 14, 1995 -- ACSYS Incorporated, a global provider of networking solutions, today announced that it has signed partnership agreements with two powerhouse integrators, continuing the roll-out of the company's strategy to unite integrators throughout the nation into a virtual support organization.

In addition to reselling ACSYS' offerings, the agreements call for American Communications Company (ACC, Chantilly, VA.) and CCS, Inc. (Manhattan) to provide local pre- and post-installation services to NetGain customers. Introduced last quarter, ACSYS' NetGain Remote Office Support offering is a cost-effective service designed to proactively support and manage remote office end-users and networks.

"We are putting in place a national roster of integrators who, together with ACSYS, will provide today's networked organization and its geographically-dispersed remote offices with an unparalleled level of support," explained Larry Gormley, managing director of ACSYS Network Services. "With the addition of ACC and CCS as charter integrators, we're well on our way to a nationwide organization."

ACSYS' NetGain Remote Office Support service provides LAN management and end-user application support while reducing a company's costs, relieving central IS and enhancing end-user productivity. Monitoring of a company's remote sites is provided from ACSYS' central NetCenter. Local integrators, such as ACC and CCS, resell NetGain and provide on-site problem resolution.

"We team with local integrators so that our customers can be assured of a quick response time and speedy problem resolution through on-site inspection and diagnostics when called for," said Gormley. "The integrators are our partners in the field. In return, integrators receive an increased revenue steam, access to new opportunities and a chance to add high-margin services to their repertoire of offerings."

The opportunity to significantly broaden the scope of services and options it offers prompted ACC to sign on with ACSYS. "Many of our clients are tying disparate LANs at multiple sites together into enterprise-wide networks. However, these same companies are not able to manage these LANs and the users that reside on them. That is where we'll come in. Using NetGain, we'll be able to provide our customers with the dedicated monitoring and support to ensure that remote-office networks stay up and running," said Anthony Tarsia, ACC's manager of marketing and sales.

CCS views the addition of NetGain to its offerings as a natural fit. "The combination of advanced technologies, expert-level personnel and truly-high service levels means that our customers will enjoy a full-service, competitively-priced solution to managing remote and branch office sites," explained Dave Schuette, executive director of CCS Inc. "NetGain is a value-add to our current maintenance and support service offerings."

ACSYS selected ACC and CCS as charter members because of the expertise each organization brings to the table. ACC has been focusing on providing networking and communications solutions for twenty years while CCS is a Novell network integrator with eight years experience in installing, maintaining and supporting LANs.

"Both ACC and CCS are among the most progressive networking integrators currently in business. We look forward to a long and mutually-rewarding relationship with both companies," said Gormley. "We also look forward to partnering with additional high-caliber integrators who posses the same drive and expertise that ACC and CCS have exhibited."

American Communications Company (ACC), an operating division of American Systems Corporation, specializes in local- and wide-area network integration as well as the design and installation of high-performance cable-plant distribution systems for voice, data and video networks. Over the past 20 years, ACC has established a strong reputation for delivering high-quality technology solutions to clients in government, defense, education, healthcare and commercial businesses and industries. LAN Magazine's 1993 annual survey ranked ACC as the 17th largest LAN integration firm in North America.

Since 1979, CCS Inc. has been providing systems integration services to the greater New York City area. Over fifty percent of CCS' staff is comprised of systems engineers and hardware technicians that have expertise in network integration, communications, document management and document imaging. CCS delivers customer solution, hardware sales, network implementation and support. The primary industries that CCS supports are small- to medium-size companies in the professional services arena with an emphasis in the legal market.

Founded in 1993 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of AMP, ACSYS Incorporated is a global provider of LAN workgroup and departmental solutions. The company recently launched NetGain Remote Office Support, a cost-effective service designed to proactively support and monitor remote networks. Remote Office Support is the first in a series of network service offerings from ACSYS which provide the most cost-effective method of supporting workgroup and departmental distributed LANs.

ACSYS Inc

617-270-5566, 800-GO-ACSYS


High-Speed Networking with Adaptec ATM Products
Adaptec Enters High-speed Networking Market with ATM Products

Aggressive Strategy for ATM Builds on Adaptec's Engineering and Manufacturing Leadership in I/O Hardware and Software

Milpitas, Calif. - February 6, 1995 - Adaptec (NASDAQ:ADPT) announced today that it will leverage its leadership in I/O technology to penetrate the high-speed networking market. Adaptec introduced ten new network interface cards (NICs) that allow desktop computers and departmental servers to link to corporate computing resources and the enterprise network backbone -- all with the scalability and performance advantages of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology. Adaptec's new ATM NICs support 25 Mbps and 155 Mbps for the Desktop line and 155 Mbps for the Server/High Performance line.

These first ATM products are from Adaptec's InterNetworking Technology (INTO) business unit and mark a long-term strategy to relieve networking bottlenecks for desktop computers and network servers. Relying on its world-class ASIC, engineering and software development resources, Adaptec's NIOBE (network input/output bottleneck eliminator) family of NICs is a complete set of hardware and software solutions.

"For the past 10 years, Adaptec has successfully solved storage bottlenecks," said John Adler, chairman and CEO of Adaptec. "The proliferation of compound documents and multimedia applications plays right into our strengths: relieving the bottlenecks that have inhibited users from receiving information as efficiently as possible to their desktops. Given the steep growth trajectory for bandwidth-intensive applications over the network, our new NIOBE family of ATM NICs strategically positions Adaptec as a major force in the high-speed networking market."

The ATM NIC Market

The market research firm In-Stat expects the ATM NIC market to grow to more than $500 million in 1998 -- with a compound annual growth rate in excess of 150 percent. Applications expected to fuel this growth include CAD/CAM, distributed databases, teleradiology, desktop videoconferencing, imaging solutions and multimedia content creation.

"ATM delivers enormous quantities of bandwidth for users today, while serving as a launching pad for the exciting new video-oriented applications that will traverse the LANs and WANs of business and academia," said F. Grant Saviers, Adaptec's president and COO. "ATM is the future of networking. We are making ATM affordable by leveraging Adaptec's technology and interoperability skills. Our strategy is to aggressively implement the ATM Forum standards."

Taking Advantage of Core Competencies

"In addition to standards-based interoperability, there are five crucial keys to success in the ATM market," said Saviers.

"The first is ASIC expertise. Adaptec's custom silicon expertise allows us to improve NIC performance while lowering costs. Second is software. The value added by Adaptec's IOware solutions is heavily based on developing and integrating system-based, network-oriented applications software and device drivers. Third is strategic relationships with operating system developers, which Adaptec has enjoyed for years. Fourth is manufacturing the adapters. Adaptec is already a high-quality, high-volume, low-cost manufacturer of a wide variety of host adapters. Fifth is distribution. Adaptec's distribution channels are firmly in place and extend to all major OEMs, VARs, system integrators and traditional resellers," adds Saviers.

Saviers concluded, "Adaptec has been active in ATM development for well over a year. In addition to the products being announced today, we are also pleased to note significant ATM development relationships with DEC and IBM. Adaptec is definitely in the right place at the right time."

Introducing the NIOBE Family of ATM NICs

The NIOBE ATM NICs will be available in three product lines: the Server/High-Performance line, the PowerDesktop line and the Desktop25 line.

The Server/High-Performance NICs are designed for enterprise network servers and corporate computing resources. The PowerDesktop line is designed for departmental servers and workstations. The Desktop25 line satisfies the demands of decision-support systems, including the new Pentium and PowerPC systems as well as 486-based computers.

Adaptec, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADPT), designs, manufactures and markets IOware(tm) solutions to eliminate performance bottlenecks between microcomputers, networks, and peripherals. Solutions range from simple connectivity products for single-user and small-office desktops, to intelligent subsystem, high-performance SCSI, RAID and ATM products for enterprise-wide computing and networked environments. Adaptec I/O solutions are incorporated into the products of virtually all the major computer and peripheral manufacturers around the world.

Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., Adaptec is a recognized market leader in high-performance I/O technology. Adaptec currently employs approximately 1,700 people, and with its global distribution network, serves customers worldwide.


CANZ VBX Routines for Smalltalk-like Collections
CANZ PROVIDES LINKED LISTS, STACKS, QUEUES, AND TREES FOR VISUAL BASIC

Cz Software Corporation is pleased to announce that it is shipping CANZ, a VBX containing over 125 routines which, for the first time, provide Visual Basic programmers with the Smalltalk-like collections that simplify the development of professional quality software. Included are Linked Lists, Stacks, Queues, Balanced Trees, and Indexes on Balanced Trees.

A free demo can be downloaded from

ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/local/czsoft/canz.exe.

  --Cz Software Corporation

    czsoft@halcyon.com


Compaq Raises Standard for Mainstream Servers
COMPAQ RAISES THE STANDARD FOR MAINSTREAM SERVERS -- NEW PLATFORMS PROVIDE CUSTOMERS MISSION-CRITICAL CAPABILITIES AT UNEXPECTED ENTRY-LEVEL PRICES

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Compaq today announced:

Two new servers, the Compaq ProSignia 300 and Compaq ProLiant 1500. These servers, targeted primarily at the Novell NetWare server market, incorporate mission-critical features previously found only on high-end server products. New FlexSMP dual-processing capability for the ProLiant 1500 offers additional processor scalability and performance.

Compaq SmartStart enhancements -- support for NetWare 4.1, IBM OS/2 Warp 3.0 and LAN Server 4.0. New Express Install and Replicated Install make installing and configuring NetWare on Compaq servers even easier.

New Storage Options provide customers with increased performance, greater storage capacity and enhanced data security.

Disaster Recovery Services, through a partnership with Comdisco, which provide Compaq customers access to disaster recovery service bundles and planning software as part of CompaqCare for Systems.

Price reductions of up to nine percent on Compaq ProSignia 500 models.

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HOUSTON, February 13, 1995 -- Recognizing that customers consider every network server to be "mission critical," Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) today announced two new servers, the ProSignia 300 and ProLiant 1500, primarily targeted at the mainstream NetWare server market. These servers answer customer demands for robust, fault-tolerant, manageable workgroup and departmental networking platforms at unexpected prices. Engineered with functionality previously found only in high-end mission-critical servers, the ProSignia 300 and ProLiant 1500 redefine the value standard for mainstream servers.

Compaq, the number one provider of NetWare servers worldwide, also reinforced its market leadership role by announcing the following: significant enhancements to Compaq SmartStart and Compaq Insight Manager; new storage options that increase the storage capacity of Compaq servers to over 300 GB and provide high performance, high capacity and more reliable back-up; an agreement with Comdisco to provide disaster recovery services; and price reductions of up to nine percent on Compaq ProSignia 500 models.

"Networked servers have become critical to the productivity and operations of both large and small organizations. To address this, we've incorporated into our mainstream servers features once associated only with "mission-critical" networking platforms," said Michael Lambert, vice president, Marketing, Compaq Systems Division. "By moving these high-end features into our mainstream line, at unprecedented prices, the reliability of even the smallest workgroup network is significantly increased. This translates into benefits that customers value highly: increased productivity and reduced costs."

The ProSignia 300: A Mainstream Workgroup Server Priced Like a Desktop PC

Starting at under $3,400 (NOTE 1), the ProSignia 300 is the only mainstream server to incorporate high-end server dependability and manageability features such as ECC (Error Checking and Correcting) memory, ASR (Automatic Server Recovery) technology, Compaq SmartStart, Compaq Insight Manager, CD-ROM capability and optional rack-mountable platform -- previously found only on the Compaq ProLiant 2000 and Compaq ProLiant 4000 and higher-end competitive products. Available today with either a 75 MHz or a 90 MHz Intel Pentium processor, the ProSignia 300 is up to 41 percent faster (NOTE 1) than competitive systems and is targeted primarily at price-sensitive medium-to-small businesses, as well as small workgroups and remote sites within large companies, that use Novell's NetWare operating system. To ensure that the ProSignia 300 can accommodate future business computing needs, the processor subsystem is board- or chip-upgradable to future Intel processors and the latest Intel Pentium OverDrive technology, when they become available.

The ProSignia 300 also utilizes Compaq's TriFlex/PCI system architecture. This architecture is the first and only true PCI system architecture optimized for the second-generation Intel Pentium processor. Compaq's TriFlex/PCI delivers all the speed and power of Intel's Pentium processor by optimizing the three critical server subsystems -- processor, I/O and memory -- into three separate high-bandwidth buses. Just as Compaq's TriFlex/PCI architecture is optimized to take advantage of Intel's second-generation Pentium processor, the ProSignia 300 has also been optimized for maximum performance under Novell's NetWare operating system.

Offering flexibility and increased efficiency to customers looking to consolidate workgroup servers into one location, the ProSignia 300 can be placed into highly serviceable rack-mountable platforms. Using the optional ProSignia 300 Rack Mounting kit, customers can obtain all the advantages associated with a rack-mountable server such as centralized management, security and control.

The ProLiant 1500: An Affordable, Mission-Critical Server

Starting at under $5,700 (NOTE 1) the ProLiant 1500, like the ProSignia 300, is targeted primarily at the NetWare server market. The ProLiant 1500, with either a 75 MHz or a 100 MHz Pentium processor, now incorporates mission-critical functionality to deliver new levels of dependability, manageability, and performance. Up to 64 percent faster (NOTE 1) than competitive systems, the ProLiant 1500 can be deployed as a departmental file server (using NetWare) or entry-level application server (using Microsoft Windows NT).

Expanding on the award-winning ProLiant 1000, the new ProLiant 1500 offers standard features previously found only on the ProLiant 2000 and ProLiant 4000 servers including: ECC memory, TriFlex/PCI systems architecture, as well as support for Fast-Wide SCSI-2, ASR-2, hot pluggable drives, disk arrays and optional redundant power supplies. The ProLiant 1500 system processor is board (incorporating faster Intel processors as they become available) and chip (via future Intel Pentium OverDrive processors) upgradable.

Responding to customer needs, Compaq also announced a rack-mountable model of the ProLiant 1500. This model, called the Rack-Mountable ProLiant 1500R, provides customers with the same features and functions of the ProLiant 1500 in a rack-mountable form factor.

For those customers whose environments require additional performance scalability from a mainstream server, Compaq will begin shipping its first FlexSMP dual-processor upgrade board for the ProLiant 1500 late in the first half of 1995. This implementation, a dual-processor single cache design, will be fully compliant with the newly developed Intel Multi-Processing Specification Version 1.1. The FlexSMP processor board upgrades will be supported only on ProLiant 1500 models. In the second half of 1995, Compaq expects to offer an additional FlexSMP upgrade board based on a two-processor, two-cache design.

Compaq SmartStart Enhancements

With today's announcement, SmartStart Version 2.10 makes installing and optimizing NetWare on Compaq servers even easier. For customers with a small single-server network environment and relatively little network installation and integration expertise, today's release of SmartStart offers Express Install. The fastest way to get a server up and running, Express Install prompts customers to answer three or four simple questions (language spoken, country lived in, etc.) and then conducts a full NetWare software installation, hardware configuration and software/hardware optimization using predefined parameters. (Compaq Insight Manager is installed as a part of this process.) Express Install is supported on all ProSignia and ProLiant servers and is available for use only with NetWare Version 3.12 and Version 4.1.

To make duplicating server configurations easier for customers who typically purchase and identically configure a large number of servers at one time, today's release of Compaq SmartStart supports Replicated Install. Replicated Install allows customers to reproduce the exact installation, configuration and optimization parameters of one server on others. This process is supported only with NetWare and NetWare/Oracle installations and can be used only on servers with identical hardware configurations. Replicated Install is supported both on the ProSignia and ProLiant families of computers.

Additional enhancements supported on SmartStart Version 2.10 include: proactively selecting database disk partitioning and the ability to install, configure and optimize Cheyenne's ARCServe tape backup software directly from SmartStart (support for NetWare Version 3.x and Version 4.x only). SmartStart also now supports NetWare Version 4.1, IBM OS/2 Warp Version 3.0 and LAN Server Version 4.0, in addition to Windows NT Version 3.5 and SCO Unix.

Finally, with this announcement, Compaq Insight Manager Version 2.40 provides greater Telnet support (interoperable with Novell's XConsole; auto-detection of Telnet connection), as well as support for NetWare Version 4.1 and OS/2 Warp.

New Storage and Retrieval Options

Compaq also introduced today four new storage options which provide customers with increased performance, greater storage capacity from the same number of drives, and enhanced data security. The new 32-Bit Fast-Wide SCSI-2/E EISA and 32-Bit Fast-Wide SCSI-2/P PCI controllers maximize data throughput and minimize CPU utilization. Both controllers support both Fast-Wide SCSI-2 and Fast SCSI-2 hard drives.

For high-capacity, high-throughput storage of mission-critical data, Compaq now offers 4.3 GB and 2.1 GB Fast-Wide SCSI-2 hard drives. With the introduction of the 4.3 GB hard drive, Compaq servers can accommodate more than 300 GB of storage capacity.

To help customers combat the shrinking time window for data backup, Compaq is introducing a new tape backup unit. The 10/20 GB DLT (Digital Linear Tape) Tape Drive, a more reliable, high-capacity, high-performance storage system, supports all the major network operating systems (NetWare, OS/2, SCO Unix, Windows NT) and two leading network backup software packages -- Cheyenne ARCServe and Legato Networker. Available immediately in an external table-top form factor (and later in an internal format for tower and rack models of the ProLiant and ProSignia families), the 10/20-GB DLT Tape Drive transfers 10 GB of uncompressed data or 20 GB of compressed data to a single tape.

The ProLiant Storage System has also been upgraded to offer support for both hot-pluggable Fast SCSI-2 and Fast-Wide SCSI-2 hard drives.

A Service First: Disaster Recovery Services

Recognizing that unexpected disasters often wreak havoc with the best laid plans, today Compaq announced an agreement with Comdisco, the world's leading provider of disaster recovery services ranging from the workgroup to the enterprise. Through this agreement with Comdisco, Compaq customers will have access to disaster recovery service bundles and planning software. These services will become a part of CompaqCare for Systems, Compaq's extensive service and support program for server customers.

For $495 (NOTE 1), the Recovery Planning Software product, a condensed version of Comdisco's full-service planning software focused on the LAN environment, provides customers with a proven methodology for creating a disaster recovery plan.

For protection against the unexpected loss of a Local Area Network (LAN), Compaq and Comdisco offer the Mobile Cluster. Starting at $3,500 (NOTE 1), the Mobile Cluster gives customers access to the essential equipment needed to rebuild a LAN, which will be shipped to a Comdisco warm-site or customer-designated location within twenty-four hours of disaster declaration. Twenty-four hour technical support to help rebuild the LAN is included in the fee for the Mobile Cluster.

For customers who desire more extensive services, Compaq and Comdisco offer the Emergency Response Bundle. Starting at $22,000 (NOTE 1), the Emergency Response Bundle provides customers immediate access to a Comdisco Work Area Recovery Site, annual test time and five days of business recovery consulting and LAN planning.

ProSignia 500 Price Reductions

Continuing to provide extraordinary value to customers, Compaq today announced price reductions on all ProSignia 500 models by up to nine percent. Compaq ProSignia 500 models now start at under $4,150 (NOTE 1). Introduced in November 1994, the ProSignia 500 offers a 90 MHz Pentium processor; TriFlex/PCI architecture; the flexibility of both EISA and PCI; and an integrated PCI network interface card and Fast SCSI-2 controller.

Company Background

Compaq Computer Corporation is a world leader in the manufacture of desktop and notebook personal computers and servers. Founded in 1982, the company reported 1994 worldwide sales of $10.9 billion. Compaq products are sold and supported in more than 100 countries through a network of more than 38,000 Compaq marketing partners. Compaq also sells directly to customers through Compaq Direct Plus at 1-800-888-5858.

For Compaq Customer Support and Information, Call 800-345-1518.

NOTE 1: Estimated selling price; actual price may vary.


Trillium Remus 1.3 RAID Disk Array Software
TRILLIUM BRINGS DRIVE CONTROLS TO ITS REMUS 1.3 SOFTWARE

Hudson, Wisconsin - Febraury 13, 1995 - Trillium Research, Inc. today announced Remus 1.3 and Remus Limited 1.3, updated versions of its RAID disk array software. Remus software allows multiple hard drives to be used as a disk array, providing high performance and protection against drive failures. Remus 1.3 runs on all Macintosh computers with a 68020 or better, including Power Macintosh computers.

Designed with the Power Macintosh and future improvements in Apples system software in mind, Remus 1.3 provides high I/O performance through support of SCSI Manager 4.3 and its direct memory access (DMA) capabilities on Power Macintosh computers, and through the use of PowerPC native code for time-critical operations. Asynchronous I/O support ensures optimal performance with AppleShare, QuickTime, and database servers.

Remus 1.3 adds the capability to mount arrays which have been turned on or inserted in a hot plug-in box after the system has been booted. The user interface has been improved based on customer suggestions. Perhaps most importantly, Remus 1.3 includes Remus Disk Control, software which allows users to configure the mode page settings on their drives. This can significantly improve performance with digital video and other high-speed applications.

Remus Limited supports striping and mirroring (RAID levels 0 and 1), providing high speed or data integrity. Remus adds RAID levels 4 and 5, which are more efficient in redundant environments.

Remus 1.3 and Remus Limited 1.3 are priced at U.S. $590 and U.S. $295 respectively, and will be available in late February. Upgrades will be available to all registered users for $34.95.

Trillium Research, Inc., based in Hudson, Wisconsin, specializes in software for storage products, and is a leading developer of RAID disk array software for the Macintosh computer.

Trillium Research Inc

715-381-1900

AppleLINK: Trillium

AOL: TrilliumRs


SCO & Unisys Cooperative Sales & Marketing
SCO AND UNISYS LAUNCH A NEW COOPERATIVE SALES AND MARKETING AGREEMENT TO DELIVER BUSINESS CRITICAL SERVERS

SANTA CRUZ, CA -- February 13, 1995 -- The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (SCO) and Unisys Corporation today announced a cooperative marketing agreement to deliver business critical client/server solutions. Under the agreement, Unisys will resell SCO Open Server products with Unisys PW2 Advantage Series server and client hardware, providing complete UNIX system solutions for small-to medium-sized businesses and for departmental server, replicated network and other business critical applications in large commercial enterprises.

The relationship will target Unisys retail, financial, and government markets where the two companies have jointly sold thousands of systems since their original OEM agreement was initiated in 1985. Unisys and SCO sales, marketing, service, and support personnel will jointly provide customers with the best available client/server solutions based on industry-leading hardware, operating systems, and application software. One of the first byproducts of the relationship will be a solution bundle including Lotus Notes and the SCO Open Server Enterprise operating system pre-installed on Unisys Intel processor-based servers.

"This agreement enables SCO to leverage Unisys expertise in planning, developing, integrating, and supporting multivendor/multiplatform solutions to increase our presence in key vertical markets and large commercial enterprises which Unisys has long dominated," said Alok Mohan, SCO president and COO. "In addition, SCO will provide Unisys with a valuable entree into small- and medium-sized businesses where SCO UNIX has long been the UNIX of choice."

"Unisys Personal Computer Division is committed to offering customers a wide range of the most mature, well-supported client and server environments available in the industry. For customers who want UNIX on Intel processor-based servers, SCO is an outstanding choice," said Norm Clenshaw, Unisys vice president and general manager. "In addition, the SCO Open Server family of system software products complements the PW2 Advantage family of desktop, single-processor, and symmetric multiprocessing systems, providing customers with a seamless growth path and a range of configurations on which to build their client/server architectures."

COMPLETE BUSINESS CRITICAL SOLUTIONS

One of the industry's most comprehensive server families, the Unisys PW2 Advantage Series spans a range from single 66 MHz Pentium processor or dual 90 MHz Pentium processor models, to high-capacity, high-performance scalable, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) servers supporting up to four 90 MHz or 100 MHz Intel Pentium processors. At the top end of the family, Unisys adds to its four-processor SMP server a fault-resilient storage subsystem supporting RAID levels 0, 1, and 5 with hot-swap and hot-spare capabilities, ensuring the high availability and data integrity demanded of mission critical client/server applications in a PC LAN environment. All Unisys PW2 Advantage servers are qualified for a range of PC LAN operating environments, including single processor and multiprocessor versions of Microsoft Windows NT, SCO, Novell NetWare, and IBM OS/2.

Unisys will join a select group of OEMs offering customers the SCO Open Server Enterprise System bundled with Lotus Notes. For Lotus Notes and other client/server applications, the SCO Open Server Enterprise System provides a full range of UNIX system and Windows support for networks of PCs, UNIX workstations, and other business systems. The SCO Open Server family is the only Intel processor-based UNIX system compatible with Lotus Notes.

SCO and Unisys have agreed to promote Lotus Notes servers and other Business Critical Server solutions in an aggressive marketing campaign celebrating the renewed relationship. The joint campaign will include new product bundles, increased advertising, Unisys and SCO field sales training, and cooperation in sales and application development efforts.

THE SANTA CRUZ OPERATION, INC.

Businesses and governments worldwide use SCO Business Critical Servers to run their critical operations, accessing and distributing information across local and global boundries and networks. SCO's mission is to continue leading the growth of this important new market by delivering the most robust system software for Business Critical Servers. SCO is recognized worldwide as the leading supplier of UNIX system multiuser server systems (source: IDC).

UNISYS CORPORATION

Unisys Corporation is a leading information management company with more than 60,000 customers in more than 100 countries. The company is a major supplier of information services and technology to financial services, government, telecommunications, transportation, health care management, and other commercial markets.

UNISYS CLIENT/SERVER SYSTEMS INTEGRATED BUSINESS UNIT (IBU) Headquartered in San Jose, California, Unisys Client/Server IBU provides a complete range of server and desktop systems, operating system and user interface environments, interoperability and connectivity solutions, development tools and support services to expedite the rapid development and deployment of mission critical client/server applications.

UNISYS PERSONAL COMPUTER DIVISION

A part of the Client/Server IBU, the charter of the Personal Computer Division is to bring mobile, desktop, and PC server products to government and commercial organizations worldwide. PCD applies mission-critical quality standards to hardware and qualifies all industry-pervasive software environments for Unisys PC platforms.


GroupQuest Application Catalog for Lotus Notes
GroupQuest Software Announces Application Catalog for Lotus Notes

Lotus Business Partner Now Distributes and Supports Over 50 High-Quality Notes Applications and Utilities

February 15, 1995 - Phoenix, AZ. GroupQuest Software today announced the availability of its Application Catalog for Lotus Notes. The Application Catalog lists over 20 premier Notes applications and utilities that are being distributed and supported by GroupQuest. The catalog offers customers a way to get started quickly with Notes by leveraging applications that best meet their needs. Other Lotus Business Partners will find the catalog an easy single source for a wide variety of high quality Notes applications which can be integrated into their custom solutions.

"We saw a tremendous need both among customers and Lotus Business Partners for a single source for Notes applications," said Lisa Petrucci, president of GroupQuest Software. "The Notes industry is expanding so rapidly, customers are often not sure where to turn for high-quality applications, and for Business Partners it's difficult to locate and maintain relationships with many different independent Notes application developers. Our catalog identifies premium applications and gives Business Partners one source for a variety of solutions."

GroupQuest's Application Catalog for Lotus Notes lists a broad range of products including Notes applications for sales automation, human resource management, ISO9000 certification, and Notes administration. Listed products are available to Lotus Business Partners at discounted rates.

All applications represented by GroupQuest are tested by the company on a variety of platforms, including IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, Novell NLM, HP-UX, IBM AIX, SCO and Sun Solaris. GroupQuest supports all products listed in its catalog and offers a 30 day money back guarantee and two free support incidents per SKU purchased.

AT&T GIS has selected GroupQuest Software to be an official 'Solutions Partner' for their Notes efforts. AT&T PDS, has selected GroupQuest as one of nine partners who will provide applications for the AT&T Network Notes environment.

Application Catalogs are available from GroupQuest by calling (800) 864-5061.

Located in Phoenix, Arizona, with offices in Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, and Seattle, GroupQuest Software delivers proven applications and utilities, professional support, and the Notes expertise required by today's growing Notes community. GroupQuest applications are sophisticated, yet designed to be easily modified, for powerful corporate solutions. GroupQuest solutions are available through Lotus Business Partners.

GroupQuest Software

1661 E. Camelback Rd., Suite 265

Phoenix, AZ 85016

(602) 234-6949


How To Submit Press Releases For Distribution
HOW TO SUBMIT PRESS RELEASES & OTHER INFORMATION FOR DISTRIBUTION

There is *NO CHARGE* to anyone submitting material for distribution and we generally distribute everything submitted, with very little selection or re-editing on our part. All material is currently distributed electronically via our areas on America Online (keyword = NEW PRODUCTS) and Delphi (Go BUSINESS PRODUCT), with daily updates to both areas. Plus, we are now distributing our newswire via affiliated local BBS's in coordination with BBS Press Service on a weekly basis (see below for contact information).

At the end of every month we distribute a news archive containing all news articles distributed during that month. The news archives are available in two formats - ASCII text or a WinHelp hypertext format. The files are located in our download areas on both services, as well as in our BAKERNWS subdirectory on SIMTEL and all Internet mirror sites worldwide.

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As an added benefit, all PC related company/author and product information from submitted news is cataloged in our PC industry reference database that currently appears as an online searchable database (the PC Vendor Database) on America Online. The same material is also distributed on disk and CD-ROM by EMS Prof. Software as their PC Products Database ($25+S&H, see below for contact information). Our data currently includes over 23,800 companies/authors and over 68,500 product listings, covering the entire PC market - including shareware authors! Company/author information includes mailing addresses, telephone numbers, Email addresses and more. Product information is a brief 60 character record per product that simply lists the product name and a brief description or associated keywords. If you don't have any current news for distribution but want to be included in our database - feel free to write or Email us your company address, phone, Email and product information for free inclusion in the next monthly release.

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Graphix Zone & Sony Music Extend Relationship
GRAPHIX ZONE AND SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT EXTEND NEW MEDIA RELATIONSHIP

Companies Will Collaborate on Additional CD-ROM Titles

IRVINE, Calif., January 27, 1995--Graphix Zone, Inc., the leading publisher of Interactive Music CD-ROMs (IMCD), and Sony Music Entertainment, have agreed to collaborate on future interactive CD-ROM music titles featuring Sony Music artists.

"This relationship evolved as a result of the excellent working association created between the two companies on the Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Interactive project," said Chuck Cortright, president and CEO of Graphix Zone.

"Sony Music is extremely pleased with the quality of work and expertise exhibited by Graphix Zone in the Dylan project and looks forward to continuing this strategic relationship with future endeavors," stated Fred Ehrlich, senior vice president and general manager, new technology and business development for Sony Music

Graphix Zone continues to lead the multimedia industry, having produced the hit CD-ROM, * Interactive (by the artist formerly known as Prince), which sold over 60,000 copies within just six months of its release. Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Interactive is expected to set a new high water mark for quality as well as sales.

Founded in 1989, Graphix Zone develops and markets interactive multimedia products and services for the personal computer and entertainment industries. In addition to its reputation as a producer of CD-ROM titles, the company is also known for its high-quality multimedia production services division, and for its Graphix Zone Resource Center and related national seminars. The latter are designed to promote multimedia vendors' products and provide education and information to end-users.

Graphix Zone

38 Corporate Park, Suite 100

Irvine, CA 92714

714-833-3838,  fax 714-833-3990


Two New Substance Abuse Education Releases
Substance Abuse Education, Inc. announces the release of (2) new educational software programs: Problems & Solutions: A Guide to Conflict Resolution and Communication Essentials.

Problems & Solutions: A (Guide to Conflict Resolution: A program designed to help unravel the mystery of conflict. How to avoid conflict. What to do when conflict does occur and how to master the art of conflict resolution to solve difficult situations and help those around you.

After using the program the learner will be able to: 1) Recognize potential conflicts before they happen. 2) Identify constructive criticism and be able to give and receive constructive criticism. 3) Differentiate between feelings and defenses. 4) Understand the importance of timing when communicating in difficult situations. 5) Give and receive feedback. 6) Use "I" messages and understand how they help in defusing conflicts. 7) Use a three step process when faced with conflict to bring about a resolution to a situation.

Communication Essentials; A program designed to help students learn basic communication skills and explore ways to be heard and understood when difficult situations arise with adults as well as peers. The student will learn how tone of voice, body language, and word choice affect communication. This program illustrates relevant situations and scenarios from which young people can relate and learn.

After using the program the learner will be able to: 1) Identify and communicate feelings. 2) Express "I" messages. 3) Demonstrate personal communication style. 4) Discuss styles and levels of communication. 5) Effectively communicate and listen.

Grade level (5-12). Available for MS-DOS computers. Single copy price $49.95. Networkable and Community Site License versions are also available.

Substance Abuse Education Inc

670 South 4th St

Edwardsville, KS 66113

913-441-1868,  fax 913-441-2119


Andyne PaBLO for Windows Decision Support Swr
Andyne launches PaBLO for Windows

February 14, 1995 -- Orlando, FL., The Datawarehousing Conference -- Andyne Computing Limited announced today the release of Andyne PaBLO for Windows. PaBLO is decision support software that lets decision makers harness the power of multidimensional data sources.

Andyne is marking the new PaBLO release with a limited-time, single-copy price for the Windows version of just $350(US). Regular pricing is $695 a copy, with discounts for volume purchases. PaBLO is also available for Macintosh computers. PaBLO for Windows will be generally available on March 15,1994.

PaBLO serves up what experts call a Managed Query Environment (MQE), synchronizing IS expertise and end-user freedom to provide enterprise-wide consistency and security in harmony with decision makers' needs for flexibility and timely reporting.

PaBLO's own HyperCubes are advanced multidimensional data structures that provide unparalleled access to summary information stored on desktops, file servers and relational database management systems (RDMSs). PaBLO also accesses existing multidimensional database systems, such as Arbor Software's Essbase, and offers native accessible to many RDBMSs, including AS/400, DB2, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Teradata, and Ingres. PaBLO utilizes popular client/server middleware, such as Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and Data Access Language (DAL). Open systems standards are supported through Microsoft's OLE and Messaging Application Program Interface (MAPI) and Apple's Publish and Subscribe. Multi-platform support includes Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, 32-bit Windows NT, and Apple Macintosh System 7.

Andyne President and C.E.O. Cameron Thompson says PaBLO allows any business to tap into the power of sophisticated multidimensional data sources. "If you've got data to analyze, PaBLO gives you the tools to look at that information in ways that truly reflect the many facets of your business," he said. "With PaBLO's multidimensional HyperCube data sources, the corporate data warehouse can begin right on the desktop and grow seamlessly through large relational database systems. No matter where the data is stored, access is always consistent for PaBLO users. They get to concentrate on what they know best -- their business -- as they analyze the data that record business performance."

At Cisco Systems, the world's leading supplier of internetworking products and services, PaBLO was chosen to satisfy a mission-critical need for multidimensional decision support. "With PaBLO, navigating through data is simple for the user; there is no need to understand SQL code or the complexity of the data sources," said Ed Terpening, IS Tools and Technology Manager, Cisco. "Ease of use and the visual user interface are compelling. The combination of PaBLO and GQL (Andyne's query and reporting tool) is very synergistic GQL accesses the information and PaBLO slices and dices it. They are the best one-two punch available."

Cisco Systems, Inc., is the leading worldwide supplier of high-performance, multimedia and multiprotocol internetworking products, including routers, bridges, workgroup systems for 10-Mbps/100-Mbps data transmission, ATM switches, internetwork servers, and router/switch management software. Cisco technology is used to build enterprise-wide networks linking an unlimited number of geographically dispersed LANs, WANs and IBM SNA. In the United States, Cisco is traded over the counter under the NASDAQ symbol "CSCO".

Andyne, is a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol "ADYNF" and on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) under the symbol "ADY". Andyne is the leader in the development and marketing of leading-edge Decision Support Systems (DSS) software for businesses. Andyne's applications offer a Managed Query Environment (MQE), balancing end-user needs for access, analysis and reporting with Information Systems (IS) needs for security and enterprise-wide consistency. Andyne GQL is a query and reporting tool. PaBLO is an analysis and reporting tool. Andyne's applications offer an easy-to-use, visual interface, customizable to business needs. Andyne services all of its products through consulting, training, and technical support.

Andyne Computing Ltd

552 Princess St

Kingston, Ontario

Canada K7L 1C7

613-548-4355,  fax 613-548-3608


23,000 Titles Added to TitleNet on Internet
McGraw-Hill & Greenwood Publishing add 23,000 titles to TitleNet

- Most Comprehensive Publishers' Catalog Service on the Internet

- Sophisticated Information Search and Retrieval Capabilities

February 14, 1995 -- McGraw-Hill and Greenwood Publishing Group add their lists to TitleNet, Inforonics' Internet Catalog.

The McGraw-Hill catalog offers the complete list of publications from the Professional Book Group, Medical Healthcare Group, and the McGraw-Hill College Division. The list covers subject areas ranging from Architecture, Aviation, History, and Medicine, to Business Management, Computing, and the Humanities. McGraw-Hill serves worldwide markets in education, business, industry, and government.

Greenwood Publishing Group brings together 5 imprints, offering reference, professional, text, and scholarly resources in the humanities and the social and behavioral sciences. These, and an impressive offering of subscription publications, enable Greenwood to comprehensively serve the scholarly, library and professional communities.

Launched in 1993, TitleNet now has 34 participating publishers and associations with more than 200,000 subject listings to date. TitleNet encompasses books, journals, software packages, audio tapes, microform, and electronic media.

Internet users visiting our TitleNet site have access to bibliographic information, table-of-contents, descriptive text, and reviews. Every title in TitleNet is linked to an online order form. This gives customers the option of either e-mailing or faxing their orders to the publisher, or placing orders by conventional means.

Inforonics, Inc. was founded in 1962 to provide information technology services to publishers and libraries. Today, we are at the forefront of change, working with organizations to enhance the value for their information through innovative Internet and CD-ROM technologies.

TitleNet can be accessed via the following:

   gopher.infor.com

or, on the Web at:

   http://www.infor.com

Inforonics, Inc

550 Newtown Rd

P.O. Box 458

Littleton MA 01460

508.486.8976


Playground 1.0 Object Modeling Tool
COAD'S NEW OBJECT MODELS BOOK INCLUDES AUTOMATED TOOL

Features GUI That Surpasses Many Others

Playground is an object modeling tool aimed at business experts and the analysts who work with them.

SAN FRANCISCO CA at the SD-West Conference (Thursday, Feb. 16, 1995). Object International officially released Playground 1.0, an object modeling tool for the niche "business expert and software analyst" market.

The GUI features a new "fast-connect" option. With it, users can drag-and-drop one of four connecting lines from one symbol to another, without a side-trip to a pull-down menu or a tool palette. Users report that this feature makes the tool "sketchpad-like," in that they can sketch out a model as fast as they would on paper or on a whiteboard.

Thomas Murphy, product manager for Digitalk's Visual Smalltalk, said, "Playground is a great tool with an easy-to-use interface. It provides a good way to learn OOA/D and for building initial designs."

Playground features:

- drag-and-drop classes, attributes, services, connections

- multiple views, always in-sync

- view management, with view categories,

  selective hiding/showing, and view update options

- full control over connections, including routing points,

  right-angled or diagonal connections, and more

- extensive customization with preferences.

Playground is free for classroom use and for personal study.

The "classroom and personal study only" version is included on diskette in the just-released book, "Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, and Applications" (Coad, with North and Mayfield, Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 0-13-108614-6). It's also available by ftp from ftp://ftp.oi.com/pub/oi/playground.

Playground is shareware. The registered version pricing is set at two levels. For individual use, it's $40. For individual use within a company or organization, it's $95. Playground comes with 30-day money-back guarantee.

Object Intl., Inc. is a leader in object-oriented education, tools, and consulting---helping people deliver frequent, tangible, working results. Key personnel: Peter Coad and Mark Mayfield. Founded in 1986, Object Intl., Inc. is located at 8140 N. MoPac 4-200, Austin, Texas 78759 USA (1-512-795-0202 fax 1-512-795-0332.

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New Menus for Windows v1.43

What's new

- A password protected user login is available. For the different

  users different restrictions can be configured.

- An integrated clock, memory and resource monitor

- The submenu controls will be build dynamically in the same way

  CONTROL.EXE it does.

- The submenu drives will be build dynamically and lists all

  available drives.

- and countless bug fixes in virtual desktop, visual menu editor, etc.

In this version are also some features, which aren't still completed:

- Copy/move/delete files and directories with sticked menus. Look at

  'Undocumented' in the help file for more information.

- With the tool PatchDrv you can patch your display driver with new

  standard Windows buttons. This is an alpha version. The program

  and its files are packed in the file PTCHDRV.ZIP. Please read the

  PATCHDRV.WRI before extracting this archive.

                       A short description

New Menus for Windows 1.43 <ASP> is a shell and a desktop enhancement for MS Windows 3.1, quite similar to some window managers of the X-Window system (GUI of UNIX f.e. Motif, OpenLook) and the upcoming GUI of Windows 95, with many features, lean resource needs (82% GDI & 95% USER) and highly configurable. To launch programs, you just have to push the right (or middle) mousebutton to get a graphic popup menu. The programs and documents can be grouped in submenus. The items are visualized with icons. Each submenu can be stuck to your desktop with a needle. The Menu supports the Program Manager-groups, wild cards, directory browsing, Windows API (DLL) calls, batches with keyboard macros, etc. Many special functions for window and task management are available. Windows can be activated by only moving the mouse into the window. Another basic feature is the possibility to stick normal application menus onto the desktop. The systemmenus can be enhanced and customized by the user. Some window controls (edit control, File Manager, DOS-box, etc.) have enhanced features, which are accessible via context sensitive popup-menus. The user can also compile their own individual context sensitive menus for all window programs. With the integrated Virtual Desktop, a desktop up to 64 larger is accessible with a mouse click. The layout of windows can be saved in the context of Virtual Desktops. The Menu supports system administration for multi-user installations.

New Menus for Windows 1.4 is shareware.

The registration fee is $20 US.

                          Availability

English version:

ftp.cica.indiana.edu:/pub/windows/desktop/nmfw143e.zip (soon)

(and mirrors)

garbo.uwasa.fi:/windows/desktop/nmfw143e.zip (soon)

(and mirrors)

ftp.uni-koeln.de:/pc/win3/manager/nmfw143e.zip (now)

ftp.hrz.uni-kassel.de:/pub/machines/windows/incoming/nmfw143e.zip (now)

CompuServe: GO WINSHARE, Lib Program Managers nmfwe.zip (now)

German version:

ftp.uni-koeln.de:/pc/win3/manager/nmfw143g.zip (now)

ftp.hrz.uni-kassel.de:/pub/machines/windows/incoming/nmfw143g.zip (now)

CompuServe: GO PCPRO, Lib Utilities/Tools nmfwg.zip (now)

Fido: 2:2437/501 - 2:2437/502 (49-561-5740777, 49-561-573967)

nmfw143g.arj (now)

Dipl.Ing. Roger Rene Kommer; Fido: 2:2437/501.10;  CIS: 100412,3624

Internet: roger@architektur.uni-kassel.de; Voice: ++49 561 78015010


Racal-Datacom Internext Hubs Offer Filtering
NEW RACAL-DATACOM INTERNEXT HUBS OFFER UNIQUE FILTERING CAPABILITIES TO SMALL WORKGROUPS AND REMOTE SITES

Cost-effective hubs rival performance of expensive, high-density competitors

SUNRISE, FL -- Racal-Datacom today expanded its INTERNEXT family of intelligent hubs with the introduction of two new products which bring high-end switching capabilities at cost-effective pricing to fiber backbones and small work groups. The INXLink-10BTF filtered standalone hub and the INX5000 Filtered 10BaseFL (10BF-FTR) fiber module incorporate the Racal-Datacom "network on a card" design, combining ports, management and filtering technology into a single product.

This unique filtering capability provides separate but interconnected 10 Mbps networks by filtering local workgroup traffic from the backbone. In addition to reduced backbone traffic, benefits include improved throughput, fewer network errors and increased network security.

This type of bandwidth enhancement, usually found only in expensive switching hubs, is now available in the INXLink 10BTF and INX5000 10BF-FTR. The products are designed for fiber backbones and small workgroups that require high-performance networking capabilities but are not effectively served by higher-cost hubs.

INXLink-10BTF Filtered Standalone Hub

The INXLink-10BTF offers 12 or 24 ports with RJ45 connectors for direct connection to network devices, including PCs, file servers and printers. They can perform as standalone units or be stacked together to form larger networks, allowing customers to increase bandwidth incrementally without investing in Ethernet port switching or Fast Ethernet solutions.

Racal expects interest in the INXLink-10BTF from insurance companies, banks and other customers requiring a cost-effective bandwidth upgrade for workgroup applications. The company's INXLink product line includes Ethernet, Token Ring and Network Terminal Servers and addresses the 'rack & stack' market, one of the largest, fastest-growing segments within the overall hub market.

Prices for 12-port models start at $3195; 24-port models are priced from $3695.

INX5000 Filtered 10BaseFL (10BF-FTR) Offers Fault-tolerant Fiber Connectivity

The 10BF-FTR module is Racal's solution to building fault-tolerant fiber-optic backbones for Ethernet LANs. Users gain the benefits of fiber cabling, including better security, greater immunity from noise interference and the ability to propagate signals for greater distances without regeneration. Racal's unique built-in filtering and SNMP management give customers greater flexibility in network design and management, with the added benefits and economies of fiber optic cabling.

"It's like driving off a new car lot with a BMW instead of a Yugo," says Robert R. Becker, director of operations for Whiteco Data Corp., which participated in beta tests of the 10BF-FTR. "The capabilities of the filtered card from Racal are so much greater than the non-filtering card we were using." Becker also gives high marks to the 10BF-FTR for unique fault tolerance and automatic redundant fiber links. "The redundant links kick in with no manual intervention, allowing us to utilize the fiber network during off hours and holidays without incurring extra payroll expenses. That's a major plus."

The 10BF-FTR module is a six-port repeater combining ports, management and filtering on one card to create interconnected workgroups within the Racal-Datacom INX5000 intelligent wiring hub. Several 10BF-PTR modules installed in the chassis provide a high-density fiber optic repeater. Racal expects interest among hospitals and other customers who want to benefit from fiber's reliability and performance. List prices start at $3795.

Network Management and Service Capability

Like all Racal-Datacom products, INTERNEXT intelligent hubs are managed by the Racal Management System, a single, open and integrated network management platform. The Racal CMS 400 workstation offers a client/server implementation delivering extensive management capability and control over both local and wide area networks. CMS 6000, also from Racal, integrates diverse LAN/WAN technologies, including HP OpenView and IBM NetView.

The Racal-Datacom service organization also sets an industry standard. With a national support team numbering 500 professionals, Racal offers complete services to areas ranging from small towns to major metropolitan markets. Services include design implementation, installation, applications support, network monitoring, control diagnostics, spares and maintenance.

For product information, call (800) RACAL-55 (USA) or (305) 846-1601 (international calls only).

Racal-Datacomm, 1601 N. Harrison Parkway, Sunrise, FL 33323-2899

Mailing Address: PO Box 40744, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33340-7044

305-846-1601;  Fax: 305-846-3935


Pixar Typestry 2 for Windows Ships

Pixar Releases Windows Version of Popular 3D Application

Pt. Richmond, CA (January, 31 1995) - Pixar announces the release of a new Windows version of Pixar Typestry, the powerful award winning software for creating dimensional type. Pixar Typestry 2 allows users to easily access the power of RenderMan, Pixar's Academy Award winning rendering software.

Pixar Typestry 2's new interface is an upgraded environment true to the Windows native look and feel. Users create great 3D images without having to learn a difficult 3D interface. In addition, Pixar Typestry 2's new features, such as Adobe Illustrator import and Looks editing, make the package a powerful entry level 3D package ideal for design professionals who want to add an exciting new dimension to their images.

The previously released Macintosh version of Pixar Typestry 2 has received rave reviews and awards including the coveted MacUser Editors Choice award. Here is what reviewers had to say about Pixar Typestry 2 for the Macintosh; Publish Magazine "...will knock your socks off.", the former Aldus Magazine "...creates graphics on par with the best on national television.", Macworld "...outstanding...", MacWEEK "...impressive...", and Digital Video World "Typestry 2 has no equal in 3D type programs." With the same new features in the Windows version, along with a new look and feel of the program, Pixar Typestry 2 for Windows is destined to be a big hit.

Some of the many new features of Pixar Typestry 2 for Windows include:

* Adobe Illustrator import: Users can bring Adobe Illustrator (3.0 or higher) files directly into Typestry 2 to create stunning logos. This import feature lets users bring all kinds of outline shapes into Pixar Typestry 2 for 3D picture making.

* Particle Generator: Now particles can be emitted from the surfaces and bevels of objects. Users can control particle behaviors including; life span, mass, elasticity, birth and death colors, randomness, emission, density and ejection speed. The particle system tool can be used to make many interesting effects such as fireworks, sparks, and snow. Particle effects are extremely dramatic when animated!

* Rubber Sheets and Tubes: In addition to extruding characters, Pixar Typestry 2 creates Rubber Sheet or Tube type objects. The Rubber Sheet option makes the objects appear on a sphere, circle or flag which, when animated, waves in the wind. Users can control the wind effects as they apply to the sheet. The Tubes build method makes great neon effects.

* Animation: Enhanced, more powerful animation control. Includes a new "Score" window for detailed control of frames and more comprehensive grouping capabilities.

* Looks Editor: Looks are the surface appearances on the objects and backgrounds. Pixar Typestry 2 includes an integrated Looks editor which allows users to modify their Looks. This also lets users make backgrounds and Looks from their own BMP or TIFF files. The Looks editor vastly increases design options by allowing users to create any number of interesting appearances from a single Look.

* Perforations: Typestry 2's expanded perforation ability allows users to manipulate (join, intersect, or subtract) multiple objects to produce dramatic effects. Users can subtract anything from anything else and even animate the subtraction of objects. Pixar has provided a Pixar Perforations font to help users get started.

* Editable Bevels: More bevel styles have been added. Custom bevels can now be created and saved for future use.

* Environment Looks: These Looks create reflections that appear on shiny objects in the scene. Users can use their own BMP or TIFF files to create environments.

* Atmospheres: Users can add a foggy or hazy atmosphere to their scene. Animating the scene will make the fog swirl.

Veteran Typestry users will notice many enhancements such as:

* A new look to the application. The Toolbox now includes a skew

  option.

* Select objects by name. This makes selection much easier.

* Increased camera views to facilitate object alignment.

* Cursor key nudging.

* Alignment grid.

* The addition of an AVI animation player. Pixar Typestry 2 animations

  can now be viewed in true color.

* Images can now be saved in either 8 or 24 bit format. This allows

  users to control file sizes.

Pixar Typestry 2 retails for $299 and is available though standard distribution channels. Upgrades are offered at $99.

Other products which Pixar offers to the Windows design and multimedia community are Pixar One Twenty Eight and Pixar Classic Texures Vol. 2. These are high-quality collections of seamlessly tiling digital textures available on CD. Pixar Typestry 2 users will receive the Pixar Looks CD, a collection of 26 unlockable libraries of Looks developed by Pixar and The VALIS Group to complement Pixar's RenderMan based products. With registration, users can unlock one library free.

Pixar incorporated in 1986 and is located in Point Richmond, California. The company specializes in the development of computer graphics software including the Academy Award winning RenderMan. Pixar's Animation Division creates commercials and is currently under contract with The Walt Disney Company to produce Toy Story, the first fully computer animated full-length film staring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen as two toys competing for the attention of their owner, a little boy named Andy.

Pixar

1001 West Cutting

Richmond, CA 94804

510-236-4000,  fax 510-236-0388


Forest & Trees Adds Essbase Connection
Forest & Trees' From Trinzic Adds Connection to Arbor Software's Essbase Analysis Server

Leading Desktop EIS/DSS Tool Supports OLAP for Planning and Analysis

Palo Alto, CA. February 13, 1995--Trinzic Corporation (NASDAQ:TRNZ) and Arbor Software Corporation announced today that users of the award-winning Forest & Trees decision support software will now be able to access information in Arbor's Essbase Analysis Server. Trinzic is adding the "Forest & Trees OLAP Interface", a new client/server capability in Forest & Trees, to take advantage of the analytical power and data capacity that Arbor provides through its On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) server. This initiative expands the already rich set of information access options offered in Forest & Trees.

"Trinzic has chosen to join the Arbor Software Essbase Ready Program so the key segment of our users--those who require the power and depth of a multidimensional database engine--can access that source from Forest & Trees," said Frederick Rook Ph.D., Trinzic's Chief Technical Officer and General Manager of the Trinzic Data Access and Connectivity Business Unit. "Forest & Trees already provides access to more than thirty relational database management systems and popular data warehouse architectures such as Red Brick and Sybase IQ Accelerator. Adding support for Essbase means that our users can now share and access consolidated actual, projected, and derived data through the most popular desktop decision support system in the industry."

"We are pleased that Forest & Trees is now part of the Essbase Ready Program," said Kirk Cruikshank, Arbor's Vice President of Marketing. "Customers implementing a data warehousing strategy now have access to both multidimensional and relational data through a single reporting and analysis front-end."

Trinzic will add the Forest & Trees OLAP Interface as a Dynamic Linked Library (DLL) that users can easily add to their current version of Forest & Trees. There will be no need to wait for the next version of Forest & Trees to access Essbase. The primary benefits to customers include:

* Rapid deployment of multi-user OLAP applications through a simple

  development environment,

* Enhanced drill down, slice/dice and computational capabilities;

  Analysis of both multidimensional and relational data on a single

  screen;

* Leverage of powerful Forest & Trees features, such as alarms,

  triggers, schedules, reports, graphs and customized EIS/DSS

  applications against the Essbase multidimensional database.

Forest & Trees

Forest & Trees is a client/server data analysis and reporting tool that allows end users to access and analyze data from a variety of sources including PC Spreadsheets, database servers, and mainframe systems. It offers a powerful development environment that helps organizations deploy ad-hoc query and reporting and decision support applications efficiently and economically. Forest & Trees was rated number one in a recent Computerworld Buyer Satisfaction Scorecard of leading business analysis software packages.

Forest & Trees is available directly from Trinzic or through Trinzic's Business Partners. The price is $595.00 for the standard edition. Forest & Trees runs under MS-Windows 3.1. The Forest & Trees OLAP Interface add-in for the Essbase Analytical Server is expected to be available in May for $99. Trinzic's Forest & Trees direct sales can be reached at 1-800-952-8799.

Essbase

Essbase is used for planning and analysis applications which require a defined analytical structure, consolidated actual, projected and derived data, multi-user, read/write data access and consistently fast response regardless of database size. Essbase operates effectively within a data warehousing strategy or as a standalone, departmental solution. Essbase operates on servers running Microsoft Windows NT and OS/2 across all major networks connected to Microsoft Windows and Macintosh clients. Pricing starts at $43,250 for a multi-seat, five concurrent user license.

Arbor Software Corporation

Arbor Software Corporation develops and markets multidimensional database software for complex, business planning and analysis applications. The company's flagship product, Essbase Analysis Server, is used by more than 300 corporations spanning a broad range of industries and business analysis applications. Arbor's products are sold direct, as well as through systems integrators and VARs worldwide. Sales offices are located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and London.

Trinzic Corporation

Trinzic products--InfoHubT, ObjectPro , InfoPump , Forest & Trees and the Aion Development System (AionDS)--enable customers to build, integrate and implement applications in a client/server architecture. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Trinzic Corporation has approximately 275 employees and a combined installed base of more than 10,000 customers representing more than 50,000 product licenses. Trinzic products are distributed by a direct sales force and key marketing partners, as well as distributors throughout North America, Europe, the Pacific Rim and South America.

Trinzic Corporation

101 University Ave

Palo Alto, CA 94301


Softbridge Basic Standard Scripting Language
Softbridge Basic Language Becomes Industry Standard Scripting Language in Database Engine/Accounting Packages

Decision of Btrieve Technologies, Inc. to Include SBL in Database Engines Enhances SBL Position as Industry Leader. Solomon, Platinum, Macola Already Offering SBL.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (February 13, 1995)--Mystic River Software, Inc. today announced that Btrieve Technologies, Inc. (BTI) has licensed Softbridge Basic Language for use in their line of database engines. "This development opens exciting new opportunities to ISVs who choose to build their applications on the foundation of those engines," says Jerry Bedrick, President of Mystic River. "They now have access to the industry standard scripting language, which offers them a consistent, transparent tool at both the front end (the GUI) and the back end (the database)." SBL is an embeddable version of Basic that becomes a seamless part of applications, and offers VBA compatibility and OLE automation support.

"As the defacto industry standard, the Btrieve database delivers maximum programming control to professional programmers," says Bo Holland, BTI's director of product marketing. "Now we have opened up the programming possibilities to non-developers; they can easily script database functions using the industry standard scripting language. This allows effective distribution of application processing between the client and server for maximum performance."

Leading Financial Software Vendors Solomon, Platinum, Macola: As Btrieve Clients Already Using SBL, They Can Offer New Capabilities to End Users

Several accounting software vendors made the decision some time ago to embed SBL in their applications. They praise Btrieve's decision to go with the same language, and acknowledge that it moves SBL further toward the front as the industry standard scripting language. "With Microsoft pushing VBA as their language of choice, our use of SBL within Solomon IV leverages our initiative to be the first financial software vendor to embed SBL," says Gary Harpst, president of Solomon Software in Findlay, OH. "Solomon IV is optimized to use SQL database technology. Our use of Btrieve Technologies' Scalable SQL as the SQL database engine for our client and server editions of Solomon IV enables middle-market businesses to take advantage of the many benefits of SQL. BTI's recent decision about SBL is consistent with the trend toward integrating industry-standard scripting languages into common business objects."

Platinum Software of Irvine, CA has built their applications on the foundation of the Btrieve database engine "The fact that SBL is now in Btrieve products enables us to enhance the value of our products," says Tim McMullen, CTO at Platinum. "We can offer a distributed client-server environment to our end users, allowing database-intensive operations to run resident on the database server, as well as distributed across multiple processors, to maximize performance. In addition, having SBL integrated into client objects allows the user to customize the application without access to the source code."

Macola, Inc. in Marion, OH, another one of the first to embed scripting technology, also cites the appeal of using a language that complies with industry standards. "Using industry standard tools is important when we design any product at Macola Software," says John Antjas, vice president of client/server development for Macola, Inc. "SBL's rising position as an industry standard has therefore made it an important cornerstone in the development of our EnVision Series, an advanced client/server accounting system. Total extensibility and ease of use continue to be our key directives, and SBL has supported this strategy by providing an elegant interface to the object-oriented rapid application development environment. SBL has allowed our developers to build and customize EnVision with a standard VBA compliant language, while leveraging the advanced object-oriented architecture of the system."

Platforms and Pricing

Currently available for Windows, Windows NT, and OS/2, SBL will soon be available for other platforms, including Windows 95, the Macintosh, NLM, and Unix. Pricing plans are available for both variable rate royalties and single fees.

Mystic River Software, Inc.

For three years, Softbridge Basic Language was developed and supported by an independent business unit within Softbridge, Inc., a privately-held software development firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Based on the success of the business and the maturation of the marketplace, in 1994 the SBL Business Unit was purchased by Mystic River Software, Inc. Mystic River Software, Inc. is a privately-held company specializing in PC tools, software tools, and subsystems.

Btrieve Technologies, Inc.

Based in Austin, Texas, Btrieve Technologies, Inc. (BTI) is a leading provider of high performance, multi-platform database engines. Current BTI products include the first navigational client/server database, Btrieve 6, and Scalable SQL relational database.

Mystic River Software Inc

125 Cambridge Park Dr

Cambridge, MA 02140

617-497-1585,  fax 617-864-7747


New TrackMan Vista Desktop Pointing Device
TrackMan Vista Brings New Form Factor to Logitech's Family of Desktop and Portable Trackballs

Newest Desktop Pointing Device Features Comfortable Shape, Finger Control, Assignable Buttons Using Enhanced MouseWare Software

Fremont, Calif.--February 13, 1995--Logitech Inc., international market leader in computer mice and alternative pointing devices for the PC, announces TrackMan Vista, a finger-operated desktop trackball designed to provide users with a broader range of choices by supplementing the company's existing line of thumb-operated models. Scheduled to ship in March 1995, TrackMan Vista will be sold through Logitech dealers and distributors at an estimated street price of $89 (U.S.).

TrackMan Vista features a rounded shape that slopes to support the hand and wrist. Its finger-operated ball -- larger than the thumb-operated ball on existing TrackMan products but smaller than those found in competing palm trackballs -- is easy to control. The unique placement of the unit's three buttons, which include a primary button under the thumb position and two additional buttons beside the ball, minimizes hand and finger motion. The product is plug-and-play ready, with the ability to hot plug under Windows '95, and offers automatic identification and configuration per device.

"Since the introduction of the original TrackMan in 1990, Logitech has emerged as the market leader in desktop trackballs and a technological pioneer in this area," says Aldo Bussien, Business Director for Pointing Devices. "Our initial success was due in large part to the unique thumb-operated form factor; however, our research shows that there are many users who are more comfortable with finger- or palm-controlled alternatives. In fact, today's entire desktop trackball market is split roughly 50-50 between end-users who prefer thumb-operated trackballs and those who prefer finger- or palm- operated alternatives TrackMan Vista meets the needs of this broader market by offering customers a choice of form factor while maintaining Logitech's commitment to leading-edge technology, hand-conforming comfort, and attractive design.

TrackMan Vista will ship with Logitech's MouseWare software, which allows users to assign time-saving shortcuts to the second and third buttons and customize the unit for individual needs. Assignable functions include double-click, drag-lock, cut, paste, close application, and many others. Users can also change the primary button from the thumb default to either of the remaining two buttons. All customizing is done from within the MouseWare Enhanced Control Center window.

System requirements for TrackMan Vista include an IBM-compatible system, DOS 3.3 or higher, and an available serial- or mouse port.

Logitech designs, manufactures, and markets products that make human-to-computer communication more intuitive and natural. Logitech International, the financial holding company for the Logitech Group, is traded publicly in Switzerland on the Geneva and Zurich exchanges. With operational headquarters in Fremont, Calif, the group maintains manufacturing facilities in California, Taiwan, Ireland, China, and Malaysia, and offices in major cities in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Logitech Inc

6505 Kaiser Dr, Fremont, CA 94555

510-795-8500,  fax 510-792-8901


Realms of Arkania Star Trail Best of 1994
Realms of Arkania - Star Trail

Best Role-Playing Game of 1994

February 6, 1995 -- Ogdensburg, New York -- Just three months after the release, Sir-tech's highly acclaimed Realms of Arkania - Star Trail, the second title in the Realms of Arkania trilogy, was honored by four industry publications as the 1994 best role-playing game of the year. Honors were bestowed by PC Gamer, CD-ROM Today and Strategy Plus Magazine on the opening day of the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 1995. One month later, InterActive Gaming awarded Sir-tech with the fourth in the series of honors on February 6, 1995. Star Trail now boasts a total of 15 awards and recognitions worldwide.

PC Gamer honored Sir-tech with their "1994 PC Gamer Award" dubbing Star Trail "Best Role-Playing Game of 1994", CD-ROM Today awarded Star Trail a "ROMmie Award" for "Best in Entertainment: Fantasy RolePlaying Game of 1994", Strategy Plus Magazine recognized Star Trail as "Best Multi-Character Role-Playing Game of 1994, and InterActive Gaming named Star Trail "Best Role-Playing Game of 1994". Additionally, Computer Gaming World announced on January 31, 1995 Star Trail's status as a finalist in the "1995 Premier Awards".

Realms of Arkania - Star Trail has received honors from several German Magazines. Star Trail collected Aktueller Software Magazine's "ASM Hit - Game of the Month for August 1994", Playtime Magazine's "Playtime Star", TV Movie Magazine's "Movie Star", Power Play Magazine's "Power Play Award", PC Joker Magazine's "Hit Award", PC Games Magazine's "PC Gamer Award" and additional kudos were garnered from Chip Magazine and PC Professional.

Additionally, Star Trail received the honor of "Editor's Choice Award" in the February issue of PC Gamer and "Best Quests of SCES 1994, Best RPG" was collected from Questbusters Adventurer's Journal.

Realms of Arkania - Star Trail was developed by Attic Entertainment Software for the computer in close cooperation with the original authors, Fantasy Productions. The combined talents of Attic Entertainment and Sir-tech have created a fully translated version of Star Trail for the English market. PC/CD-ROM and 3.5" floppy versions were released to the market on October 28, 1994.

Sir-tech released the Realms of Arkania - Star Trail Clue Book on November 14, 1994. The Star Trail Clue Book provides gamers answers to any and all questions relevant to the completion of Star Trail. The Star Trail Speech Pack was released on December 22, 1994 and offers an enhanced gaming experience to the 3.5" floppy version of Star Trail.

Sir-Tech Software Inc

PO Box 245

Ogdensburg Business Center, Suite 2E

Ogdensburg, NY 13669


ZIP! Office Server for Lotus Organizer & Notes
ATTACHMATE AND LOTUS ANNOUNCE ORGANIZER, CC:MAIL AND NOTES CONNECTIVITY TO IBM PROFS/OV

ORLANDO, FL. . -- January 23, 1995 -- Attachmate Corporation and Lotus Development Corporation announced today at Lotusphere, a new release of the Attachmate ZIP! Office Server for Lotus Organizer, cc: Mail and Notes (Release 2.0). The new release allows IBM PROFS or OfficeVision VM users to seamlessly connect to Lotus Organizer 2.0 and Notes users. This new release will also provide new enhancements including support for TCP/IP, improved scalability and performance tracking.

By allowing both LAN-based and host-based systems to co-exist and communicate with each other, Attachmate ZIP! Office Server can be used as a fundamental building block to construct enterprise-wide scheduling and electronic mail systems

"We have introduced Lotus cc:Mail and Organizer into our computing environment and the need to co-exist with our OV/VM system is a necessity as we continue to migrate to LAN-based messaging and calendaring," said Don Brewer, director, information services at Consumers Gas of Toronto, Canada.

"Attachmate's ZIP! Office Server was the only product to provide the degree of functionality required to meet our users expectations. During the past six months, we have worked closely with Attachmate and are impressed with the level of support provided by their technical staff and their responsiveness in implementing enhancements. We are confident in recommending the Attachmate ZIP! Office Server and look forward to their new release."

With the new release, Lotus Organizer, cc:Mail and Notes users will be able to schedule meetings and exchange information with more than three million PROFS and OfficeVision/VM users. The new release will allow users of the existing version of ZIP! Office Server to take advantage of the new features offered by Organizer 2.0 including its tight integration with Lotus Notes.

"Many of our large Organizer customers who are in the process of upgrading to Organizer 2.0 were very pleased with the first version of ZIP! Office Server and are anxiously awaiting the new release," said Jeff Papows, Vice President of Lotus Communications Products Group. "Lotus' leadership in messaging-reliant applications ensures that customers are receiving a reliable product from a communication-centric vendor that provides proven familiar and easy to use products. Our customers can now build tightly coupled enterprise wide systems that encompass both LANs and mainframes."

INTEGRATED SCHEDULING AND E-MAIL CAPABILITIES

ZIP! Office Server for Lotus Organizer, cc:Mail and Notes delivers real-time, bi-directional communication between Lotus Organizer and IBM PROFS and OfficeVision/VM calendaring systems. This allows Organizer users to view the free and busy times of PROFS/OV users, identify available time, and schedule meetings and appointments directly on PROFS/OV users calendars and vice-versa. The real-time connectivity architecture feature ensures that calendars are always current. ZIP! Office Server also provides bi-directional e-mail delivery between Lotus cc:Mail and Notes, and IBM PROFS, OfficeVision/VM, OfficeVision/MVS (with DISOSS), and OfficeVision/400. By using native IBM protocols to connect to these host systems, ZIP! Office Server provides unsurpassed performance and reliability without requiring additional host code, user identifications or protocol conversion.

"With the recent acceptance and growth of Lotus Notes throughout corporate America, it's important for us to add Notes connectivity to our existing ZIP! Office Server to maintain our leadership position in mail and calendar servers," said Gregory Sokoloff, Vice President, Enterprise Networking Products at Attachmate. "Group scheduling and e-mail require seamless connectivity for people to exchange information, but they also demand powerful desktop applications to optimize productivity. Attachmate and Lotus working together provides customers with a superior total solution."

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

ZIP! Office Server for Lotus Organizer, cc:Mail and Notes is scheduled for shipment early second quarter of 1995. Although sold exclusively by Attachmate, Lotus and Attachmate will continue to work together to introduce the integrated solution to customers. Prices start at $8,995 per server with volume discounts available. International pricing will vary and a special introductory price offering will be announced closer to the time of shipment.

ABOUT LOTUS

Lotus Development Corp. (NASDAQ:LOTS), founded in 1982, provides software products and support services that reflect the company's unique understanding of the new ways in which individuals and businesses must work together to achieve success. Lotus' innovative approach is evident in a new class of applications that allow information to be accesses and communicated in ways never before possible, both within and beyond organizational boundaries. The company now markets its products in more than 80 countries worldwide and provides numerous support services, both from its consulting division and its award-winning 24-hour support center.

ABOUT ATTACHMATE

Attachmate, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., is the worldwide leading market provider of enterprise connectivity software products that enable businesses to access, manipulate and exchange information and applications residing on host computers from desktop workstations. The company's leading product lines allow users to connect to virtually any host or server, across any network, from any desktop, regardless of the operating system. Attachmate also manufacturers information access and productivity-enhancing software ranging from remote access and host communication products to client/server, groupware, host-server, and software management and distribution applications.


Docking Station for Percon PT 2000
NEW DOCKING STATION FOR PERCON PT 2000 PROVIDES CONVENIENT DATA TRANSFER AND BATTERY RECHARGING

February 2, 1995 -- EUGENE, OR - Percon announces today a convenient alternative for transmitting data to and from the Percon PT 2000--the PT Dock.

To use the PT Dock, the user must first attach the provided adapter to the bottom of the PT 2000. Then, instead of attaching a cable to recharge the PT 2000's NiCad batteries or transmit data to and from the PT 2000, the user simply places the unit into the dock, and presses the upload key.

Data is transmitted in seconds. When data transfer is complete, the PT 2000 may be removed from the dock for additional scanning.

When uploading or downloading information, a serial cable is connected from the PT Dock to the host computer. IBM AT, PS/2, and terminal keyboard wedge configurations are also available, and require an additional cable to connect the PT Dock between the keyboard and host computer. This configuration allows the user to use the PT 2000 as a fixed-station scanning device, with the option to remove it from the PT Dock at any time for portable scanning.

Two options are available for power: a 110-volt or 220-volt power supply. The PT 2000's NiCad batteries and 10-day lithium back up battery can be fully recharged within eight hours of placing the PT 2000 in the PT Dock. When using the PT Dock in the keyboard wedge configuration, power is drawn from the host computer and no power supply is necessary.

Constructed from an industrial, high-strength polycarbonate blend plastic and an extruded aluminum base, the PT Dock is chemical and splash resistant. A dual LED display on the front of the unit indicates if the NiCad batteries are recharging or if the PT 2000 is properly seated in the unit.

The PT Dock comes complete with a one-year warranty. Extended and OnSite Replacement warranties are also available. List price for the PT Dock is $199 and includes the unit, PT 2000 adapter, and instruction guide. Power supply and cables must be purchased separately.

Founded in 1983 and based in Eugene, Oregon, Percon, Inc. engineers and manufactures keyless data entry and identification equipment. Percon sells bar code hardware and software worldwide through original equipment manufacturers, distributors and value added resellers and offers next-day shipping, toll-free technical support, and rapid turnaround repair service.

Percon manufactures fixed-station, hand-held, portable, and turnkey bar code solutions. These include the Series 10 Plus and Series 20 Plus bar code and magnetic stripe decoders; the Universal Laser integrated hand-held laser; PocketReader and PT 2000 portable bar code readers which use Percon Program Generator (PPG) software to create Windows-based application programs, and Bar Code EasyWand and Bar Code Basics pre-packaged bar code solutions. Percon also distributes a complete line of input devices including: wands, CCDs, hand-held and hands-free lasers, magnetic stripe readers, and ID badge scanners.

Percon, Inc.

1720 Willow Creek Circle, Suite 530

Eugene, OR 97402-9171

(800) 929-7899 or (503) 344-1189. Fax (503) 344-1399.


QuickSearch CD-ROM Publishing & Archiving Swr
QuickSearch CD-ROM publishing and archiving software is fast, simple and affordable.

Washington, DC, February 1995. QuickSearch, dataDisc's CD-ROM publishing and archiving software, is designed for easy and inexpensive publishing of electronic catalogs, books, magazines, user manuals, regulations, and textbooks--and--archiving of legal, medical, banking and other records.

QuickSearch provides fast text and image retrieval and is one of the most affordable high-performance authoring/indexing systems designed for CD-ROM. QuickSearch lets the user perform single and multiple-word searches, wildcard searches and proximity searches (words within so many words of other words). QuickSearch can also search for images and display their associated text - perfect for electronic catalogs. Other features include word lists, history lists (past searches) and hit lists (search results).

Simplicity is the key with mouse or keyboard control. Full 24-bit color or black and white images have unlimited zooming capabilities (to a single pixel!). QuickSearch will print text, images or screens to your laser printer. An electronic notepad allows users to add notes to the text. DataDisc can also help you with imaging, indexing, data preparation, replication, packaging, fulfillment and other CD-ROM services. Powerful, simple, affordable.

For a free brochure and demonstration disc, call dataDisc at 703-347-2111. QuickSearch - electronic publishing at its best.

dataDisc

10334 Battleview Parkway

Manassas, VA 22110

800-328-2347,  fax 703-347-9085


Attachmate Remote LAN Node (RLN)
ATTACHMATE REMOTE LAN ACCESS PRODUCTS ENHANCE LOTUS NOTES, CC:MAIL CAPABILITIES

ORLANDO, FL -- January 23, 1995 -- Attachmate Corporation has committed to delivering unparalleled access and performance to users of Lotus Notes, Lotus cc:Mail, and Lotus cc:Mail Mobile with the newest versions of its enterprise-wide remote access technology -- Remote LAN Node (RLN) and RLN Application Server technology.

Attachmate, a Lotus Business Partner, recently announced a new version of RLN, which provides enhanced security and broader connectivity options for remote users , and RLN Application Server, software for a variety of LAN environments that provides improved performance of data-intensive applications over dial-up networks.

"Attachmate recognizes the ever increasing importance of Lotus Notes and cc:Mail in enterprise computing," said John Coloe, manager of business development for Attachmate's Alpharetta, Ga.-based remote access products group. "With Remote LAN Node (RLN), remote users are able to simultaneously access all Notes resources on the enterprise network just as if they were locally connected. They can also perform many other network tasks over the same connection such as messaging using Lotus cc:Mail and cc:Mail Mobile, or accessing mission-critical host applications using Attachmate's full range of terminal emulation products for DEC, Hewlett Packard, IBM and Unisys hosts, UNIX systems and the Internet."

RLN and RLN Application Server increase the productivity of remote or traveling workers by extending the reach of enterprise network resources and applications.

RLN is a remote LAN access solution that provides support for all popular network environments and protocols with superior management, security and broad deployment tools. It is the industry's only solution that provides integrated Application Server technology.

RLN Application Server is software for NetWare networks and other environments with support for Novell IPX/SPX. An optional TCP/IP server module is now available to enhance the basic IPX/SPX configuration. This module enables users attached to the RLN Application Server access to TCP/IP networks, including the Internet, without additional workstation configuration. It seamlessly integrates with the RLN product to improve the performance of LAN-based, data-intensive applications over dial-up connections.

RLN is available in 2-, 4-, 8-, 16-, 24- and 32-port configurations for Ethernet or Token-Ring networks. Suggested retail pricing for RLN ranges from $895 to $14,395.

RLN Application Server supporting up to 10 concurrent users is available at a suggested retail price of $2,950. The number of concurrent users can be increased to a total of 20 in 5-user increments with the RLN Application Server Add-on product which has a suggested retail price of $695. The optional TCP/IP server module has a suggested retail price of $595.

RLN and RLN Application Server are available immediately through Attachmate's standard distribution channels. For more information about Attachmate's remote access products, call (800) 348-3221. International customers may fax requests for pricing and product information to (404) 442-4362.

ABOUT ATTACHMATE

Attachmate, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., is the worldwide leading market provider of enterprise connectivity software products that enable businesses to access, manipulate and exchange information and applications residing on host computers from desktop workstations. The company's leading product lines allow users to connect to virtually any host or server, across any network, from any desktop, regardless of the operating system. Attachmate also manufacturers information access and productivity-enhancing software ranging from remote access and host communication products to client/server, groupware, host-server, and software management and distribution applications.


Attachmate No Compromises Integrated Solutions
ATTACHMATE PROVIDES 'NO COMPROMISES' INTEGRATED SOLUTION FOR REMOTE USERS

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- January 23, 1995 -- Attachmate Corporation today announced the enhanced Remote LAN Node (RLN) Application Server v2.3, with optional support for TCP/IP networks. Attachmate's RLN Application Server leads the industry in integrated remote node/remote control computing.

RLN Application Server v2.3 not only extends the concept of integrated remote LAN access via RLN to generic TCP/IP networks, it also provides TCP/IP support for the Application Server as an optional feature to the base system configuration that currently supports IPX/SPX.

This software simplifies the network administrators job by eliminating the requirement for multiple protocol configurations for a user's PC. With this software loaded, Novell LAN users can access TCP/IP applications from the Windows/DOS environment and DOS/Windows environment. TCP/IP users can access Novell servers without loading IPX/SPX software on their PCs.

"This product enables enterprise network administrators to improve substantially the performance of applications on the LAN while allowing them to move at their own pace integrating their LANs into the more open TCP/IP environment," said Ian Pennell, director of marketing for Attachmate's remote access products. "With RLN Application Server, administrators can provide remote users full access to Windows, OS/2 and DOS applications on the LAN now and still have the flexibility to add remote access over TCP/IP networks later with the add-in module."

The newest version of the software adds support for Intel Corporation's Pentium processors protected mode environment, which delivers unsurpassed performance and reliability.

Furthermore, the new software supports NetWare Shell (VSHELL) for users of Novell's NetWare NETX, virtualized connections which make RLN Application Server more compliant with corporate system configurations. With VSHELL, the multi-user version of NETX, all connected nodes -- either remote or local -- can access the NetWare server simultaneously.

"RLN Application Server version 2.3 is a major upgrade that provides many enhancements for usability, security and broader hardware and software support," said Pennell.

The RLN Application Server and the TCP/IP module work most efficiently with Attachmate's flagship Remote LAN Node product, which has been enhanced recently in version 3.1. Working in tandem, RLN and RLN Application Server provide RLN OS/2 clients complete access to both IPX/SPX and TCP/IP LAN-intensive DOS applications.

"Most of our customers require diversity and flexibility in meeting their remote computing needs now and in the future," said Pennell. "We're trying to ensure that they dont have to compromise by force-fitting their solution into one technology. Our combined solution allows the LAN administrator to leverage all the benefits of both remote node and remote control for maximum productivity."

The Application Server is available for a suggested retail price of $2,950. The optional TCP/IP support for the Application Server is also available through standard distribution at a suggested retail price of $595. Pricing outside North America depends on the local market.

Citrix Systems, Inc., of Coral Gables, Fla. licensed the award-winning core technology behind the RLN Application Server to Digital Communications Associates, Inc. (DCA) which merged with Attachmate Corporation on December 31, 1994.

ABOUT ATTACHMATE

Attachmate Corporation, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., is the worldwide leading market provider of enterprise connectivity software products that enable businesses to access, manipulate and exchange information and applications residing on host computers from desktop workstations. The company's leading product lines allow users to connect to virtually any host or server, across any network, from any desktop, regardless of the operating system. Attachmate also manufacturers information access and productivity-enhancing software ranging from remote access and host communication products to client/server, groupware, host-server, and software management and distribution applications.


Attachmate Profs & OfficeVision Connectivity
ATTACHMATE ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT TO DELIVER PROFS AND OFFICEVISION CONNECTIVITY WITH MICROSOFT

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- January 16, 1995 -- Attachmate Corporation announced today that they have signed a joint licensing and development agreement with Microsoft Corporation to provide customers with a series of products designed to deliver messaging and scheduling connectivity between LAN-based Microsoft Mail and Schedule+, and IBM mainframe-based office systems including PROFS, OfficeVision and Verimation Memo.

Under the agreement, Attachmate will immediately offer marketing, sales and support for the Microsoft Mail Gateway to IBM PROFS and OfficeVision and the Microsoft Mail Driver to IBM PROFS and OfficeVision. In addition, Attachmate is developing a PROFS/OV gateway for Microsoft Exchange Server. Attachmate will also be licensing technology from IMI Computing to provide a SNADS gateway for Microsoft Exchange.

"Attachmate's IBM host connectivity and mail/scheduling connectivity expertise complements our leadership in LAN messaging and group scheduling" said Rob Shurtleff, General Manager of Microsofts Workgroup Solutions Product Unit. "Downsizing from a mainframe messaging system to a LAN-based system is an important trend for MIS. Attachmate and Microsoft are making the downsizing process easier by providing products now and in the future to ensure smooth migration from the mainframe. By providing sales and support for PC-based host connectivity products today, Attachmate will ease current customer transition to Windows NT-based Microsoft Exchange connectivity products."

The Microsoft Mail Driver to IBM PROFS and OfficeVision, to be renamed and marketed by Attachmate as the Office Client Connection for MS Mail to PROFS, allows IBM PROFS or OfficeVision/VM users access their files via the same Windows-based client as users of Microsoft Mail, rather than a 3270 terminal emulation session. PROFS or OfficeVision users can thus take advantage of Microsoft Mails graphical interface with its richer feature set and excellent integration with other desktop applications.

The Microsoft Mail Gateway to IBM PROFS and OfficeVision, to be renamed and marketed by Attachmate as the ZIP! Office Gateway for MS Mail to PROFS, is a DOS-based gateway that allows Microsoft Mail and Schedule+ users the ability to exchange information and schedule meetings with PROFS and OfficeVision/VM users. The Gateway includes four separate components: Gateway, LAN Access, Host Access and Distribution Manager. With the optional Distribution Manager, the Gateway provides the capability of using the host infrastructure as a messaging backbone.

INTEGRATED MESSAGING AND SCHEDULING CAPABILITIES FOR MICROSOFT EXCHANGE

Originally announced June 1994 at Microsofts Information Exchange Conference, the ZIP! Office Gateway for MS Exchange to PROFS will provide full integration between Microsoft Exchange and PROFS or OfficeVision/VM. The Gateway, developed using the advanced real-time scheduling technology found in Attachmate's ZIP! Office Server, will allow Microsoft Exchange users connected to Microsoft Exchange Server to transparently exchange information, schedule meetings in real-time with PROFS and OfficeVision/VM users. The Gateway will be developed by Attachmate, to comply with an Attachmate and Microsoft jointly designed specification, and will be marketed and sold exclusively by Attachmate.

The SNADS gateway for Microsoft Exchange, called the ZIP! Office Gateway for MS Exchange to SNADS, will allow Microsoft Exchange users connected to Microsoft Exchange Server to transparently exchange information with systems supporting SNADS including OfficeVision/MVS via DISOSS or OfficePath, OfficeVision/400, IBM Mail Exchange and Verimation Memo. The Gateway, based on technology licensed from IMI Computing and co-designed by Microsoft, will be sold by Attachmate on a world-wide basis.

The target market for all of these ZIP! Office products are organizations currently using PROFS or OfficeVision but with a desire to migrate to the more cost effective, intuitive, flexible and feature rich functionality of Microsoft Mail and/or Schedule+ on the LAN or desktop.

"This agreement provides our customers with the messaging and connectivity expertise from two leaders in their respective fields - Microsoft, a leader in messaging and Attachmate, a leader in connectivity." commented Gregory Sokoloff, Vice President, Product Management, Host Servers at Attachmate. "Connectivity between Microsoft and IBM platforms will be extremely beneficial to our many large corporate customers who wish to integrate their Microsoft Mail and Schedule+ users with their PROFS or OfficeVision users."

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

The ZIP! Office Client Connection for MS Mail to PROFS and the ZIP! Office Gateway for MS Mail to PROFS are available immediately and will be sold exclusively by Attachmate. Suggested list price for the ZIP! Office Client Connection is $149.00 per connection. Prices for the ZIP! Office Gateway start at $4,995.00 for the Gateway component, $995.00 for the LAN Access component, $14,995.00 for the Host Access component and $9,995.00 for the Distribution Manager component. Volume and corporate discounts are available and international pricing will vary.

ABOUT MICROSOFT

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MFST") is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of products and services for business and personal use, each designed with the mission of making it easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal computing every day.

ABOUT ATTACHMATE

Attachmate is a leading provider of enterprise connectivity products that enable users of individual and networked desktop computers to access, exchange and manipulate information and applications residing on host computers, including IBM and IBM-compatible mainframes, IBM AS/400 midrange computers, Digital VAX, Alpha AX computers and UNIX host systems. The company's leading product lines include EXTRA!, RALLY!, KEA! and the Attachmate Enterprise family of client connectivity software products and the ZIP! family of host server software products, which operate in the Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, DOS and Macintosh environments. The Attachmate SELECT! family of products provide direct database access, analysis and management capabilities. Headquartered in Bellevue, WA, Attachmate maintains direct sales and support offices in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Attachmate Corporation, 3617 131st Avenue SE, Bellevue, WA 98006. (206) 644-4010.


Attachmate Completes Merger With DCA
ATTACHMATE COMPLETES MERGER WITH DCA, LAUNCHES STRATEGIC BUSINESS INITIATIVES

BELLEVUE, Wash. - January 12, 1995 -- Attachmate Corporation and Digital Communications Associates, Inc., today announced the completion of a merger that has created the world's seventh-largest personal computer software company. The merger was effective December 31, 1994.

The combined entity, which will operate as Attachmate Corporation, expects to exceed $450 million in revenues during its first full year of operations. Already management of the company has taken significant steps to enhance Attachmate's role in the software industry and build on its strong financial base, said James D. Lindner, president and chief operating officer of the new company. Those steps include:

** Appointment of a team of five top executives from senior management staffs of both Attachmate and DCA which will have responsibility for all the companys operations and will report directly to Lindner;

** Reallocation of personnel to eliminate job redundancies, focus sharply on the company's core business and apply resources to global markets and growth opportunities;

** Expansion of product offerings to provide customers of both companies with the best available technology and world-class support.

"Our merger makes a great deal of sense," said Lindner, who served as president, chairman and CEO of DCA prior to the merger. "This new company combines the management strengths, product potency and personnel energy and expertise of Attachmate and DCA. We have created in this merger a leading industry force that has the resources and financial strength to provide customers around the world with the most comprehensive range of quality products, service and support."

Frank Pritt, the founder of Attachmate who now serves as chairman and chief executive officer, said he has received nothing but positive feedback about the merger from customers, resellers and industry/financial analysts.

"I think the connectivity industry was ready for a clear leader to emerge with the ability to set the standard," Pritt said. "This merger was the right thing to do."

Until the merger, Attachmate and DCA competed head to head for shares of several market segments, particularly those involving software for communications between different types of computers and computer networks. Recently, International Data Corporation, the Framingham, Mass. market research and consulting firm, estimated that the combined company enjoys a 34.6 percent share of the $810 million PC-to-IBM mainframe connectivity software market. Attachmate also has a 40.7 percent share of the market for communications between PCs running Microsoft Windows and IBM host computers. In addition, Attachmate's Unisys products group is the leader in connectivity solutions between PCs and Unisys host computers. These statistics demonstrate that Attachmate holds the largest share of its industry sector market.

Jeffrey Tarter, editor and publisher of Soft*letter, the Watertown, Mass.-based software industry newsletter that tracks technology trends and company activities, projects from 1994 revenues of Attachmate and DCA that the merger will create the seventh-largest personal computer software company in the world.

"This merger combines both product line and business synergy, creating a broader, more extensive offering for our customers," said John Shagoury, vice president of supplier relations at Norwood, Mass.-based Corporate Software, Inc., a leading reseller of Attachmate products. "We believe the new Attachmate organization will continue to realize significant sales growth through our company."

Paul Barber, an investment banker with Alex. Brown & Sons, a Baltimore-based investment bank, said that in any merger, the new management must act quickly, decisively and thoughtfully to execute business strategies and take steps that are necessary to make the business profitable. "So far in this merger," he said, "the Attachmate management team is taking the appropriate steps."

Attachmate and DCA agreed to merge in November 1994. Pritt and Lindner immediately created teams of top executives in the company to develop plans to combine operations and improve efficiencies. In the new organization, five executive vice presidents were appointed from the ranks of both companies. They are:

* Geoff Revelle, executive vice president, operations and finance,

  who also will serve as general counsel.

* Barry Horn, executive vice president, worldwide sales and marketing.

* Joyce Jones, executive vice president, enterprise clients and tool

  products.

* Larry Zito, executive vice president, client/server products and

  services.

* Paul Rodwick, executive vice president for Unisys products.

All of the executive vice presidents will work out of the Attachmate Bellevue headquarters, except for Rodwick, who will be based in Cincinnati, where Attachmates Unisys product operations reside. Attachmate will also maintain a significant presence in Alpharetta, Ga., where DCA's corporate headquarters was located.

Attachmate will continue to offer and enhance, through future development efforts, its own products -- including its EXTRA!, RALLY!, KEA! and SELECT! lines -- as well as those products previously offered under the DCA name. Some of these products include Irma PC-to-host communications software, CROSSTALK, Remote LAN Node (RLN) and OpenMind. Both companies had achieved significant brand recognition for their connectivity product lines prior to the merger. Attachmate will now possess the broadest and deepest product line offerings in the connectivity industry giving customers a new range of technology and support choices.

Attachmate also will launch aggressive plans to capitalize on international markets, building on previous successes abroad, particularly in the important European markets.

ABOUT ATTACHMATE

Attachmate, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., is the worldwide leading market provider of enterprise connectivity software products that enable businesses to access, manipulate and exchange information and applications residing on host computers from desktop workstations. The company's leading product lines allow users to connect to virtually any host or server, across any network, from any desktop, regardless of the operating system. Attachmate also manufacturers information access and productivity-enhancing software ranging from remote access and host communication products to client/server, groupware, host-server, and software management and distribution applications.


3D-MAX Low Cost, High Quality Shutter-Glasses
UDAC Multimedia announces the availability of 3D-MAX, the first PC-based low-cost, high quality shutter-glasses 3D-system.

3D-MAX is - in contrast to other PC-based LCD-glasses - a hardware solution. Hence, 3D-MAX allows for field rates up to 120 Hz, operates in all graphic modes up to 1024*768 and up to 65K-colors.

Since 3D-MAX utilizes interlaced graphic modes, you do not need to have an expensive stereo-capable monitor.

3D-MAX enables stereo-capabilities for DOS- and Windows based applications.

3D-MAX brings workstation quality, flickerfree stereo computer graphics to your desktop for an outstanding low price.

Easy programming interface and great development tools!

For more information on 3D-MAX, check out the 3D-MAX WWW-pages at: http://www.ThreeD-MAX.udac.se/ or visit our booth at CeBIT'95 in Hannover, 8-15.3 1995, Hall 8, Stand B47.


Apple Hails FCC Data-PCS Frequency Allocation
Apple Hails FCC Frequency Allocation for Data-PCS

CUPERTINO, California--February 15, 1995--The long-expected era of wireless computing was given a solid boost last week when all five FCC Commissioners unanimously voted to allocate 10 Megahertz of radio spectrum for low-power, wireless data communications, "Data- PCS."

Apple initiated the FCC process that led to the decision, beginning with a Petition for Rulemaking in January, 1991. Apple's petition was endorsed throughout the computer industry and by numerous educational, business, and medical institutions and associations. Apple senior vice president David Nagel and vice president and general counsel Ed Stead led Apple's effort before the FCC and Congress in obtaining radio frequencies for Data-PCS.

In light of last week's FCC decision, Nagel said that, "The FCC, under the leadership of Chairman Reed Hundt, has recognized the importance of wireless computing and, with this commitment of frequencies, has made possible new ways to learn, provide medical care, do research and conduct business." Stead added that, "This action gives U.S. computer companies a substantial edge in world markets; it will enable millions of students to connect to the growing online digital information world such as the Internet without costly installation or airtime charges, and makes possible a rich diversity of consumer, business, medical and institutional benefits."

Before last week's action, the few radio bands available for wireless computing were overloaded with industrial transmitters or occupied by microwave stations; and, thus were unusable without massive relocation costs (estimated to be as much as $500 million) and ten to twelve years of band-clearing. The new frequency allocation for Data-PCS--2390 to 2400 MHz--is shared only with ham radio operations, which are compatible with Data-PCS devices.

As a result of the FCC's allocating the new band without further procedural or administrative delay, starting immediately, manufacturers can produce radio modems so educators and other users can set up their own wireless networks. The cost and complexity of wireless computing devices can be substantially reduced and their bandwidth (or data rate) can be significantly greater, allowing for such applications as multimedia.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the information industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy-to- use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, online services, and personal digital assistants. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) develops, manufactures, licenses and markets products, technologies and services for the business, education, consumer, scientific & engineering and government markets in over 140 countries.

Apple Computer Inc

20525 Mariana Ave

Cupertino, CA 95014

408-996-1010


Pioneer To License Apple Mac OS for Computers
Pioneer to License Apple's Mac OS for the Company's First Personal Computers

TOKYO, Japan/CUPERTINO, California-- February 15, 1995--Pioneer Electronics Corporation announced today that it has reached an agreement with Apple Computer, Inc. to license the Mac OS for use in Pioneer's new line of personal computers. Pioneer will introduce its A/V (audio/visual) personal computers into the market with the aim of integrating its A/V products into these new personal computers.

"It is our great pleasure to announce that we have reached a license agreement with Apple Computer, Inc., the world famous computer company," said Kanya Matsumoto, vice president, Pioneer Electronics Corporation. "This agreement is tremendously significant for Pioneer and marks our entry into the A/V personal computer market and the coming multimedia age. We believe that our collaboration with Apple will enable us to create a new type of home entertainment through the integration of our personal computers and high-quality A/V products."

Pioneer has been developing a number of innovative laser optical products such as the LaserDisc, based on its corporate aim to create and provide customers with high-quality entertainment. For the coming multimedia age, Pioneer believes that the integration of A/V peripheral products and computers is essential. Through a study of which operating system is the most suitable for consumer electronics products, Pioneer has chosen Apple's Mac OS because of its operating ease, reliability and brand image.

Pioneer plans to create a new market with its unique computer that will integrate A/V peripherals and desktop computers. This integration takes full advantage of the company's extensive experience in the A/V and optical disc fields. Pioneer currently produces the industry's fastest CD-ROM drive (4.4 x speed) and an ultra high capacity magneto-optical drive (2.2 gigabytes).

"We are very pleased to have Pioneer join the emerging family of Mac OS licensees," said Don Strickland, vice president of Mac OS licensing for Apple Computer. "With Pioneer's reputation for creating state-of-the-art A/V and home entertainment systems, the company is well positioned to integrate these features into personal computers that will address specific customer needs. The flexibility and power of the Macintosh operating system enables Pioneer to provide complete home entertainment solutions to today's multimedia-centric personal computer customer."

"The announcement is great news for consumers as Pioneer is adeptly equipped to offer unique, personalized computing solutions to the home entertainment market," said Seiji Sanda, president, Apple Japan. "This licensing agreement will make the Mac platform available to an even wider range of customers than before."

Pioneer intends to sell systems under their own brand name and plans to release product this summer. Details concerning price and availability will be announced later by Pioneer.

The profile of the planned products is as follows:

-- Personal Computer MPC-GX1: New prototype desktop A/V personal computer equipped with high-quality 3D speaker and 4.4 x speed CD- ROM drive; CPU: RISC-based 66MHz PowerPC 601, high performance for processing sound and digital video

-- Personal Computer MPC-LX100: New prototype desktop A/V personal computer equipped with high-quality 3D speaker and 4.4 x speed CD-ROM drive; CPU: 33MHz Motorola 68LC040, good price/performance -- Bundled with Pioneer's original A/V software to create a new world of A/V computing

-- Display MPC-MD1717" multiscan display

-- Display MPC-MD1515" multiscan display

   -- Power management (Power-saving feature)

   -- On-screen control menus

-- CLD player CLD-PC 10: Computer-controlled CLD player

   -- Able to control CDs and LDs with the personal computer

   -- Video & sound easily captured

Pioneer will exhibit prototypes of the Mac-compatible computers at Macworld Expo, to be held from February 25 to 28 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan.

Established in 1947 to build upon a successful audio products manufacturing business, Pioneer Electronics Corporation has grown into one of the world's preeminent manufacturers of home A/V (audio/video) products and commercial and industrial electronics, primarily those related to laser disc (LD), as well as car electronics products. Today, Pioneer is emerging as a leading force in the new and expanding field of multimedia-related hardware and software, including advanced optical disc products, car navigation systems and cable TV systems.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the information industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy to use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, online services, and personal digital assistants. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) develops, manufactures, licenses and markets products, technologies and services for the business, education, consumer, scientific, engineering and government markets in over 140 countries.

Apple Computer Inc

20525 Mariana Ave

Cupertino, CA 95014

408-996-1010


Windows 95 to be Promoted on Compaq PCs
COMPAQ AND MICROSOFT KICK OFF PLAN TO PROMOTE WINDOWS 95 ON COMPAQ PCS

HOUSTON (February 15, 1995) -- Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the launch of a worldwide Joint Marketing Plan that positions the two companies as the lead partner for each others' products. In addition, it defines joint marketing plans to promote the sale of Compaq personal computers with the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system pre-installed.

"Together with Microsoft, we believe that the combination of Windows 95 and innovative Compaq products bring new levels of ease of use, connectivity and information management to our customers," said Eckhard Pfeiffer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Compaq Computer Corporation.

"Because of the compelling features and customer benefits of Microsoft Windows 95, we have designated Windows 95 the preferred operating system for Compaq desktop and portable products and will pre-install Windows 95 on Compaq products as quickly as possible," Pfeiffer said.

Emphasizing the long-standing relationship between the two industry leaders -- Compaq, the new worldwide leader of the personal computer industry, and Microsoft, the worldwide leader in software for personal computers -- Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation added, "Microsoft and Compaq began working together in 1986 on the first version of Windows and the first Compaq Deskpro/386. Today, Compaq and Microsoft continue to make significant joint contributions to advance industry standards, most recently the Plug and Play standard, a key technology supported in Windows 95."

Throughout the year, the companies will continue to implement marketing programs and sales activities to promote Windows 95 in combination with Compaq products, such as sales training, technical support training, professional workshops, and other joint promotional efforts.

"Having Compaq's support by providing Windows 95 on their PCs further amplifies the Windows 95 message," said Brad Silverberg, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Personal Systems Division. "With Windows 95 and many of the features that Compaq offers, Compaq will deliver PCs that are easier to use and faster for the end user. Whatever the customer imagines they want to do on a PC is now possible," Silverberg added.

Under the Joint Marketing Plan, Compaq and Microsoft will design specific features into their respective products to provide added benefits to customers. For instance, hot docking features in Compaq portable products will take advantage of enhanced mobility functions in Windows 95. In turn, network integration, enhanced by network management features in both Windows 95 and Compaq PCs, facilitates easy network connection and increases user productivity through easier sending, receiving, and accessing of information.

Compaq was the first system vendor to introduce both portable and desktop computers that support the Plug and Play standard, jointly developed with Microsoft and Intel Corporation. The Plug and Play support designed into Compaq systems and Microsoft Windows 95 ensures that customers can easily add or remove hardware from their desktop systems. This combination provides users with the capability to dock and undock their portable PCs without restarting the computer. Windows 95 and the Compaq Plug and Play BIOS will dynamically change any necessary hardware configurations. Compaq desktop and notebook products are already Plug and Play-ready, with built-in features to take advantage of Windows 95.

Microsoft has been developing and testing Windows 95 on Compaq PCs for more than 18 months. Compaq has spent thousands of hours testing Windows 95 on Compaq PCs for compatibility and quality in order to provide a smooth transition for its customers.

Company Background

Compaq Computer Corporation is a world leader in the manufacture of desktop and notebook personal computers and servers. Founded in 1982, the company reported 1994 worldwide sales of $10.9 billion. Compaq products are sold and supported in more than 100 countries through a network of more than 38,000 Compaq marketing partners. Compaq also sells directly to customers through Compaq DirectPlus, at 1-800-888-5858.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of products and services for business and personal use, each designed with the mission of making it easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal computing every day.


Breakthrough in Hard Drive Capabilities
COMPAQ, CONNER, QUANTUM AND SEAGATE ESTABLISH BREAKTHROUGH IN DIAGNOSTIC DESIGN

-- NEW SPECIFICATION TO ENHANCE HARD DRIVE CAPABILITIES

HOUSTON, February 6, 1995 -- Delivering on its promise to provide useful and innovative tools for the information age, Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) today announced a breakthrough design to add diagnostics to hard drives used in desktop personal computers.

Compaq, in conjunction with Conner Peripherals Inc., Quantum Corporation and Seagate Technology Inc., is in the final development stages of a new advanced drive diagnostics specification that with appropriate systems software, will enable hard drives to predict and alert customers to certain types of failures, thus preventing loss of critical data. This will help customers, especially those with networks of desktop computers, greatly reduce their unscheduled and costly computer downtime.

"Compaq continues to focus its efforts on developing new technology that is useful in solving our customers' business problems of today," said John Rose, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Compaq Desktop PC Division. "Through cooperation from the leading drive manufacturers, we will see these types of intelligent products shortly. This is another example of the industry working together to make PCs easier to use and less costly to maintain."

Compaq has been developing the new specification in cooperation with these leading hard drive manufacturers, each of which has adopted the specification and is currently developing new hard drives with the prediction features. Compaq is also working with other industry leading hard drive manufacturers to implement this specification in their products.

Once finalized, Compaq will make its advanced drive diagnostics specification available to the storage industry for incorporation into standards being developed by appropriate industry groups. It is anticipated that the new specification will be available for release to the industry during the second quarter of 1995.

Industry Endorsements

"Conner is pleased to take part in the development of this specification to enhance the reliability and availability of data," said Gary Marks, vice president of marketing for disk drives at Conner Peripherals. "It's a step forward for the computer industry and comes at a time when PCs are storing a phenomenal amount of information critical to the success of an organization. Like the oil gauge on a car, this specification is designed to alert users before serious problems occur."

"As users demand more power and storage capacity from their computers, they also need higher levels of system reliability," said Young Sohn, Quantum's vice president of worldwide marketing, Desktop and Portables Storage Group. "At Quantum we have a history of providing innovative features for disk drive reliability and data integrity, and now go a step further with this diagnostic feature. As a quality leader Quantum, along with Compaq, is committed to standardizing and further enhancing system reliability features."

"Disc drive enhancements like these advanced diagnostics are allowing system manufacturers to bring mainframe-class reliability features to the PC market," said Amyl Aloha, Seagate's vice president of Product Line Management, Desktop and Mobile Products. "As mission-critical applications continue to migrate from minicomputer and mainframe systems to the PC, data storage reliability becomes increasingly more important for users of PCs. While disc drives today offer a minimum of 300,000 hours MTBF (mean time between failure), the addition of this diagnostics feature provides another level of security to disc drives that greatly enhances a desktop's ability to preserve all-important user data."

Company Background

Compaq Computer Corporation is a world leader in the manufacture of desktop and notebook personal computers, and servers. Founded in 1982, the Company reported 1994 worldwide sales of $10.9 billion. Compaq products are sold and supported in more than 100 countries through a network of more than 38,000 Compaq marketing partners. Compaq also sells directly to customers through Compaq DirectPlus at 1-800-888-5858.

Founded in 1986, Conner sells, designs and builds a comprehensive line of information storage equipment, including disk drives, tape drives, storage management software and disk array storage systems for a wide range of computer applications.

Quantum Corporation is a leading supplier of storage products for a broad range of computer platforms, serving OEM and distribution customers worldwide. Widely recognized as the industry's quality leader, Quantum is the largest supplier of hard disk drives worldwide. The company's sales for the fiscal year ending March 1994 were $2.1 billion.

Seagate Technology is a data technology company that provides products for storing, managing and accessing digital information on the world's computer and data communications systems. Seagate's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SEG."


MailBot - Microsoft Mail Personal Agent
Daxtron Laboratories MailBot: Microsoft Mail 3.X Personal Agent.

MailBot is an intelligent rule-based message processing utility for Microsoft Mail that can sort and filter messages and automatically respond to E-Mail. Unlike other tools available MailBot can access the MS-Mail folder system and automatically sort messages into folders based on any conditions set. It can also work with the various MAPI interfaces to MHS, VIM and CompuServe. MailBot can be used to route mail for an entire group. MailBot can send mail to individual accounts based on the topic of the message. Instead of broadcasts users can send mail to a 'bot that will forward messages to the right people. You can set up a Message Library other users can access via E-Mail. Based on their queries MailBot will find the best information package and send it as a reply. Rules can control who accesses the Message Library and under what conditions. Information packages are created by the user, and any file that can be sent via MS-Mail can be included in the Library.

QuickRules allows you to create rules by filling out a form that looks like a message. Existing messages can be used to start new rules. Rules can: delete messages, send replies to messages, define what replies to use,search a Library of information, define terms for conditions & library search, forward messages to others, start external programs or sounds. Rule Conditions can trigger on: any information in the message header, date and age of the message, location (i.e., in a folder), user defined conditions, regular expressions in the subject or message text. MailBot supports layered rules. For example, once BOSS is defined it can be used in any other rules written. Multiple MailBots can share common knowledge bases. For power users and knowledge engineers, MailBot includes a PROLOG-like programming language for complete control. MailBot includes tools to create Visual Basic Apps that closely work with MailBot and add special actions for your rules. MailBot comes with a 200+ page manual, with step by step examples on how to setup simple to advanced agents.

MailBot requires Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher (or Windows for Workgroups) with 4MB of memory (8MB recommended) and 4MB of free disk space. Microsoft Mail 3.x or any other mail system using the Messaging API (MAPI) interface.

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Diamond Multimedia Relocates Headquarters
DIAMOND MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS RELOCATES TO NEW CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS

Unprecedented Corporate Growth, Multimedia Expansion Strategy Spurs Move To Larger Facilities

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 1, 1995 -- Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. today announced that the company has moved its corporate headquarters from Sunnyvale to a new 80,000 square-foot facility in San Jose, Calif. The headquarters, which doubles the size of Diamond's previous facility, houses marketing, sales, engineering, operations, customer service and technical support, finance and administration. The company also has added 20,000 square feet of additional manufacturing space nearby.

The move follows the company's recent expansion, which began last September when Diamond broadened its presence as a leading graphics supplier to encompass a wider variety of multimedia solutions, including quad-speed CD-ROM upgrade kits, digital video accelerators and its newly announced audio/telephony subsystems.

The new building is equipped with more advanced telecommunications and additional space for technical support to improve the company's post-sale customer service capabilities.

"Diamond has been gaining momentum in the multimedia market," said William J. Schroeder, Diamond President and CEO. "Our new headquarters allows us to significantly enhance our existing manufacturing and technical support capabilities, and to continue delivering next-generation multimedia solutions to our customers in the personal computer market."

Diamond Multimedia's new corporate headquarters is located at 2880 Junction Avenue, San Jose, Calif., 95134. The new main telephone number is (408) 325-7000 and the fax number is (408) 325-7070. The new technical support number is (408) 325-7100.

Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. is a privately held company that designs, manufactures and markets high-performance multimedia solutions, including graphics and digital video accelerators, sound cards, audio/telephony subsystems and multimedia upgrade kits for the personal computer market. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Diamond has marketing and technical support facilities in Tokyo and Munich. The company's products are sold through regional, national and international distributors as well as to major OEMs and retailers worldwide. Diamond had 1994 sales of $203 million and was ranked 18th on Inc. Magazine's list of the fastest growing private companies in America.


Announcing Freeman Installer V2.0
Announcing: Freeman Installer v2.0

- Installer & Uninstaller for Windows applications.

- Visual IDE.

- One-mouse-click test run, make, build, disk set building.

- One-mouse-click Multi-lingual support.

- Built-in near-pkzip super power compression/decompression.

- Uninstall. Works even on aborted installations.

- Modifies AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS.

- Displays 256 colors bitmaps in custom dialogs.

- Installs extra-ordinarily large files spanning across disks.

- Customizable Online help in installer for all supported languages.

- Installs fonts (TrueType or otherwise).

- Version checking (works on your own DATA FILEs too!).

- Background buttons and gauges like InstallSHIELD.

- Time stamp, file size checking.

- Sets INI entries.

- Sets registration keys.

- Supports int/bool variables and expr's with most

  C/C++ int operators.

- Conditional event execution.

- Asks for user info and stores it encrypted into installer

  and/or app.

- Detects previous versions.

- Executes external programs at any time.

- Can be iconized when installing files.

- Retrieves INI entry values.

- Retrieves registration key values.

- Insert C/C++ code directly in the IDE.

- Searches for files or detects file existence.

- Displays custom message boxes.

- Prompts for string or Yes-No.

- Detects system configurations like Windows version,

  math processor, CPU, ...

- Backups, deletes, renames files.

- 4 tutorials and a set of detailed Q&A.

Author

        Kent Tong

        Mail Box 20

        Wentworth Building

        University of Sydney

        Sydney NSW 2006

        Australia

        Internet: tongk@arch.su.edu.au

        CompuServe: 100351,3364

        ph & fax: (61) (2) 2116314

Kent Tong (tongk@arch.su.edu.au)

Freeman Installer (ftp)--->ftp.arch.su.edu.au   /pub/tongk/finst20.zip

Key Center of Design Computing, Sydney University


NeXT Sponsors NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days
NeXT SPONSORS "NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP DAYS" AT APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE & EXPOSITION

Steve Jobs to Keynote Conference on April 4 in New York City

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - February 3, 1995 - NeXT Computer, Inc. is sponsoring "NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days" in conjunction with the Application Development Conference and Exposition, hosted by CMP Publications, Inc. and Software Productivity Group, in New York City. A keynote presentation by Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc., will kick-off the entire event including NeXT's two-day NEXTSTEP/OpenStep conference track held April 4 & 5.

NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days is targeted at CIOs, MIS managers, business executives and application developers with an emphasis on financial services. The NeXT-sponsored sessions are the first in a series of conferences targeted at specific vertical markets that will take place throughout the year both as stand-alone events and in conjunction with other industry shows.

"This program represents NeXT's continuing commitment to key vertical markets including financial services, communications and government," said Martin A. Yam, Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at NeXT Computer, Inc. "Events such as NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days will also enable a larger audience to examine our advanced object-oriented technology and be ready for OpenStep, the volume object standard."

Two-Day Conference Targets Executives and Developers

Both existing NEXTSTEP customers and prospects will benefit from this program which will include technical information from NeXT, NEXTSTEP/OpenStep developers, systems integrators and customers sharing their experiences with object technology.

Topics for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days include:

* Leveraging Objects for Custom Development: Chrysler Financial Case Study * OpenStep: The Industry Standard Object Framework for Open Systems * Three-Tier Enterprise Object Strategy * Real World Financial Services Applications: A Customer Panel * Business & Financial Objects for Re-Use * The Object Advantage for Legacy Systems Integration * Technology Transfer: Migrating to Object-Oriented Technology * Objects for the Enterprise: A Solutions Panel

NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days Registration and Pricing

Those wishing to receive more information or to register for this event should call 1-800-808-EXPO, ext. 1 or 516-773-6770. The costs are as follows:

* NEXTSTEP/OpenStep conference track 1-day/2-day admission is $300/$600 respectively which includes exhibits, plenary keynotes, exposition show guide and all NeXT-sponsored events.

* Exhibits Only - Complimentary with pre-registration, $25 on-site.

Exposition Features NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Pavilion

Visit NeXT Computer, Inc. in booth #612 and the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Pavilion to interact with NeXT and its partners, as well as see ObjectWare and third party solutions. Exposition hours are Tuesday & Wednesday, April 4 & 5, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

NeXT Computer, Inc.

NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers uses NEXTSTEP's advanced object environment to rapidly develop and deploy custom, enterprise-wide, client/server applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo.


MCI Selects NextStep for Friends & Family Pgm
MCI SELECTS NEXTSTEP TO SUPPORT FRIENDS & FAMILY CUSTOMER SERVICE SYSTEMS

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - February 7, 1995 - NeXT Computer, Inc. announced today that MCI has selected its object-oriented software, NEXTSTEP, for the development and delivery of custom applications for MCI's New Friends & Family program.

Introduced in January, New Friends & Family offers customers who spend just $10 a month 25% savings on all domestic direct-dialed calls, and 50% savings to other Friends & Family customers in their Calling Circle.

To further streamline and improve its customer service applications, MCI has placed a multi-million dollar order for NeXT products, including the advanced PDO (Portable Distributed Objects) and Enterprise Object Framework, which will help advance the company's specialized customer service stations.

"We are excited to work with a leading telecommunications innovator like MCI," said Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "MCI's speed-to-market and track record with Friends & Family, 1-800-COLLECT and Friends & Family Connections is unmatched, and we look forward to helping them bring more advanced products like these to market even faster. MCI's commitment to our technology is another step in the marketplace acceptance of object technology in general," Jobs added.

"We believe in NeXT's object technology, because it speeds our development cycles, keeping us ahead of the competitive curve, and significantly improves our time-to-market with new products and services," said Jim Folk, Vice President of Information Technology for MCI Consumer Markets. "We selected NeXT technology because NEXTSTEP/OpenStep is a powerful object-oriented development environment that allows us to build applications in shorter timeframes and spend more time focusing on customer needs rather than in the lab."

MCI

MCI, headquartered in Washington, D.C., has expanded from its core long distance business to become the world's third-largest carrier of international calling and a premier provider of data communications over the vast Internet computer network. With annual revenue of more than $13.3 billion, the company today provides a wide array of consumer and business long distance and local services, data and video communications, online information, electronic mail, network management services and communications software.

NeXT Computer, Inc.

NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP's advanced object environment to rapidly develop and deploy custom, enterprise-wide, client/server applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo.


New NeXT Computer World Wide Web Site
NeXT ENCOURAGES CUSTOMERS TO ACCESS INFORMATION AND SUPPORT USING NEW WORLD WIDE WEB SITE

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - January 31, 1995 - NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced that it now provides information and solutions to customers via the World Wide Web. Through its site - http://www.next.com/ - customers can access information about the company, its products and services, as well as access technical support from NeXTanswers, NeXT's technical support free information retrieval system.

NeXT's interactive Web site provides links to NeXT partners' home pages, including HP, SUN and Digital, and offers links to the published OpenStep specification, the industry-endorsed object standard. Additionally, through the Web site customers can obtain technical information and support, such as compatibility guides, software patches and drivers.

"At CERN, I developed the first client and server WorldWideWeb.app using NEXTSTEP in two months in 1990," said Tim Berners-Lee, who now directs the W3 Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "It was a combination of NEXTSTEP's object oriented environment, neat development tools, and a more powerful class library which made it possible - so it's great to see NeXT on the Web themselves".

"NEXTSTEP is the fastest way to build custom applications to vend products and services on the Web," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "Our distributed objects can even talk to each other transparently over the Internet."

Additionally, at the inaugural Web World Conference and Exposition, in Orlando, Florida, January 30-31, and the combined Web World and EMail World, in Santa Clara, April 19-21, 1995, Pages Software will demonstrate WebPages by Pages, the first fully WYSIWYG HTML editor, running under NEXTSTEP.

NeXT Computer, Inc.

NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP's advanced object environment to rapidly develop and deploy custom, enterprise-wide, client/server applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo.


Softdesk 7 Release of Details for AutoCAD
Softdesk Announces Softdesk 7 Release of Details for AutoCAD Release 12 and 13

Offers New Advanced Project Data and Prototype Management System

HENNIKER, NH, February 13, 1995 - As part of the Softdesk 7 (S7) Release of AEC application software, Softdesk, Inc. announces new features and enhancements to Softdesk Details. Details includes powerful and intelligent tools for composing, annotating, and managing construction detail drawings for all AEC disciplines including architecture, civil engineering, landscape, and structural engineering. A material management system provides quick and easy access to industry-standard material libraries and tables including concrete, metal, doors, wood, and site works.

The new Softdesk Core module provides S7 Details with sophisticated project prototype management, controlling an unlimited number of system, project, and drawing configurations. Core integrates all Softdesk AEC applications with an easy-to-use, common interface. Core also supports networks for simultaneous multi-user and multi-discipline access to data files and floating license management. Other new features of S7 Details include:

- Expanded selection of materials - Enhanced features for adding and customizing materials - Ability to define an unlimited number of palettes containing any materials - Improved detail library management - Support for detail border generation in compliance with ConDoc methodology - Generation of keynote master list for links to specifications

S7 Details requires Softdesk Core which provides full integration with Softdesk Civil/Survey, Building Design & Engineering, Scanning/Imaging, and Productivity products for automating the entire building, site, and utilities project workflow.

S7 Details is now available for DOS AutoCAD Release 12 & 13 and will soon be available for Windows AutoCAD Release 13. Upgrade pricing for the S7 version of Details will be $150 per module in the U. S. For other pricing, contact Softdesk at 603-428-3199.

Softdesk Background Information

Softdesk, Inc. is the world's leading supplier of Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) application software for AutoCAD, offering integrated solutions or automating the entire building, site, infrastructure, and utilities project lifecycle. Softdesk products are sold, implemented, trained and supported by an extensive worldwide network of resellers and distributors. Covering the range of AEC disciplines, Softdesk software applications are grouped into product families for Civil Engineering & Survey, Architecture & Building Services, the Productivity Series, Facilities Management, Mapping/GIS, AM/FM & Utilities, and Scanning/Imaging. Softdesk has an installed base of over 125,000 modules in over 20,000 customers sites.

Softdesk Imaging Group

385 Jordan Rd.

Troy, NY 12180

518-283-8783, fax 518-283-8790


Micro Express Enters 75MHz Pentium Market
MICRO EXPRESS ENTERS 75-MHz PENTIUM MARKET

Santa Ana, CA, February, 1995.....As the demand for low-cost Pentium-based PCs increases, a market is developing for 75-MHz Pentium PCs, such as the new MicroFLEX-PCI/P75, from Micro Express. This PC is available for only $1999, including a high-quality 14" monitor, 8-MB of RAM and a 540-MB fast hard disk drive.

The outstanding AMI BIOS offers password protection and selectable shadowing of both system and video BIOS. A CMOS clock-calendar is included, as are built-in diagnostics.

The base configuration for the system includes: 8-MB of RAM; 540-MB hard disk drive; 256K of RAM cache; a PCI video card with 2-MB of on-board RAM; 14" non-interlaced monitor; a 1.44-MB 3-1/2" floppy disk drive; mini-tower case; 101-type keyboard; a mouse, DOS 6.22; Windows 3.11; and self-teaching Windows tutorial software.

For an additional $25 each, PFS:WindowWorks Version 2 and PFS:Publisher for Windows will be bundled with the system.

A PCI video accelerator card is included to enhance Windows performance. Additional performance enhancement results from zero wait-state operation. High-performance graphic displays are viewed on the excellent Micro Express FM-370 14" non-interlaced Super VGA color monitor.

The MicroFLEX-PCI/P75 is shipped in a mini-tower case, measuring 7.1"[W] x 14.6"[H] x 18.25"[D]. The case has provision for three accessible 5-1/4" drives, one accessible 3-1/2" drive, two internal 3-1/2" drives and one internal 5-1/4" drive. The proprietary motherboard has eight expansion slots, including three PCI slots and five 16-bit ISA slots. Up to 128 MB of RAM is supported on the motherboard.

The system is easily upgradable to 90- and 100-MHz Pentium performance using a simple ZIF socket for the cpu.

The Best Customer Support Anywhere

A full 2-year warranty is included on parts and labor for this PC, with shipping for the first 4 months paid both ways by Micro Express, as well as a 30-day moneyback guarantee. Optional on-site service, through GE, is also available. If a board fails, Micro Express offers 24-hour express board replacement service. As with all other Micro Express computers, this machine is burned in for 72 hours before shipping to eliminate early failures. In addition, a toll-free number is provided for free unlimited technical support. Technical support is available 24-hours per day and 7-days per week as part of the exclusive Micro Express "Always" customer support program. When technical documents are required, Micro Express offers Automated FAX-back Service. Using this service, documents can be requested through voice-mail and will be FAXed directly to the customer without human intervention.

The MicroFLEX-PCI/P75 is available now, direct from Micro Express.

Micro Express is an award-winning manufacturer of notebook, laptop, portable and desktop microcomputers that are fully IBM compatible. Micro Express offers extremely high quality and a wide range of additional features at a very competitive price. Micro Express personal computers are regularly rated at the top of comparative reviews in computer trade magazines, having won such honors as PC Magazine Editors' Choice, PC World Best Buy, Computer Buyer's Guide Best Buy, BYTE Magazine One-To-Watch, PC Week Analyst's Choice and many others. The company also offers a selection of high-performance add-in peripheral boards and monitors.

For further sales information, contact Micro Express at 1801 Carnegie Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92705. Phone: (714) 852-1400 or (800) 989-9900.


DisplayPac DScan Flat Panel Industrial System
"DisplayPac DScan" Brings Vivid, Yet Inexpensive Color to Space Conscious Operator Interface Applications

February 8, 1995 -- Greer, SC... Computer Dynamics announces the introduction of the "DisplayPac-DScan", an extremely compact flat panel computer offering brilliant, high-contrast color in a dual-scan passive color LCD. The complete system with display, powerful 486 PC platform and touchscreen is only two and a half inches thick and is priced comparably with monochrome display units. It is thus a great fit for operator interface/machine control applications which require color, minimal size and maximum cost effectiveness.

The dual-scan passive color LCD offers a 10.4" diagonal viewing area, the largest of any passive display, and 640x480 resolution. It also features the best contrast of any passive display. A potentiometer for contrast control is standard with the unit. Its newly-designed rugged metal OEM frame allows easy interchangeability with other flat panel displays in Computer Dynamics' "DisplayPac" line, including the 10.4" color TFT LCD and others soon to be introduced. And it's the thinnest DisplayPac yet, a mere 12.5" x 9.5" x 2.5".

The "DisplayPac-DScan" boasts 486 CPU speeds to 100 MHz (lower speeds available), a local bus video controller with built-in Windows accelerators, up to 32M DRAM, 3M semiconductor disk, hard and floppy disk interfaces, and all standard PC features. Up to six PC bus expansion slots and the SBX connector let you add extra functions. You can boot and run DOS from the on-board RAM/ROM disk, allowing you to have a totally diskless system. This low-power unit, consuming only 20W, is rated for 0-45 degrees C.

A resistive or infrared touchscreen is optional with the DisplayPac-DScan. The infrared touchscreen provides a NEMA-12 seal. Our industry-standard, advanced touchscreen software tools greatly speed touchscreen implementation. Drivers are available which allow the touchscreen to function as a mouse in either DOS or Windows applications.

The DisplayPac-DScan is $3359 (OEM quantity) for the 25 MHz 486SX-based system with the dual-scan passive matrix color LCD and resistive or IR touchscreen. Delivery is stock to 30 days. For more information on the DisplayPac-DScan or their other flat panel display products, contact the Sales Department, Computer Dynamics, 107 S. Main Street, Greer, SC 29650. Phone 803-877-8700 or FAX 803-879-2030.


Online/Scanned Signatures Verification Engine
New Verification Engine for On-Line and Scanned Signatures Readied for Developers

(Orem, UT--February 13, 1995--) A new signature verification engine which verifies both scanned and on-line signature samples is being prepared for marketing to developers by Fficiency Software, Inc.

"Although the data structures of scanned signatures and on-line signatures greatly differ, the same verification algorithm is used in both cases," says Fficiency's President and founder, Dr. Frank C. Carman II.

"The only difference," continues Carman, "is that timing information is added in the on-line signature verification process."

CheckSig, a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) designed to be used with Windows 3.1 or higher, or with Windows for Pen Computing, also allows the programmer to retrieve both of the on-line signature formats and the scanned formats directly from disc files.

Fficiency's Vice President of Marketing, Greg Mockett, also adds that as a C Library, the CheckSig engine is easily adapted to virtually any operating environment.

The Software Developers Kit will include programming and testing documentation. Also included will be sample code for implementing the program calls and for collecting custom stroke (mouse) data for use in non-pen operating environments.

To order the SDK or to obtain additional information, call Fficiency Software at 801 225-9900 or fax request to (801) 225-9903.

Fficiency Software is a pen technology firm with expertise in print and cursive handwriting recognition, signature verification, signature capture, annotation, ink processing, gesture-based command and control systems, and integration of pen and voice systems. Of special note is the ability to work all of these technologies outside of pen operating systems.

FFICIENCY SOFTWARE INC

1776 N. State, Suite 120

Orem, Utah 84057

801-225-9900,  FAX 801-225-9903


Crossword & Word Search Puzzles
Crossword and Word Search Puzzles Go Apples!

Apples? Yes. And Doughnuts and Cars and Trees and more. The new Crossword Construction Kit and the new Word Search Construction Kit both feature the unique ability to create puzzles in fun shapes. Insight Software Solutions announces the initial release of their puzzle creation software designed to run under Windows. Each package comes with over 25 predefined puzzle shapes and includes the ability to create unlimited new shapes.

"Teachers, students, publishers and puzzle fans can now put more flare and pizzazz into their puzzles." said Michael D. Jones, President of Insight Software Solutions.

The Crossword Construction Kit can create puzzles up to 30 x 30 in size. Simply select a shape, enter your words and clues, enter a title and click on the "Create Puzzle" button. Words and clues can be imported from a text file. A variety of print options are available including printing answer keys, selecting fonts for clues and answers, selecting gray or black filled boxes and viewing the puzzle before printing.

The Word Search Construction Kit can create puzzles up to 30 x 30 in size. Simply select a shape, enter your words and title, select the word directions and click on the "Create Puzzle" button. Words can be imported from a text file. A variety of print options are available including selecting upper or lower case letters for the puzzle, printing an answer key, placing a grid around the puzzle letters, selecting fonts for puzzle letters and word list, sending the puzzle and words to an ASCII file and viewing the puzzle before printing.

The price of the each program is $15.00 plus $2.00 shipping and handling and may be obtained directly from Insight Software Solutions, P.O. Box 354, Bountiful, UT 84011-0354, Phone: (801) 295-1890. Fax: (801) 299-1781. Shareware evaluation versions are also available on CompuServe under the names CWKIT.ZIP (Crosswords) and WSKIT.ZIP (Word Search) as well through other popular shareware distribution channels.

Founded in 1990, Insight Software Solutions produces financial, home/hobby and entertainment software packages.


BoundsChecker for Windows NT Upgrade (V1.5)
Nu-Mega Announces BoundsChecker for Windows NT upgrade.

Version 1.5 includes enhanced support for Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 and ANSI "C" Run Time Library support.

San Francisco, CA/Software Development West '95 (February 14, 1995)--Nu-Mega Technologies, Inc. today announced BoundsChecker for Windows NT Version 1.5, an update that offers enhanced support for the Microsoft's Visual C++ version 2.0 compiler. BoundsChecker for Windows NT now supports PDB files which are Visual C++'s native debug files. In addition, this upgrade conducts parameter validation and return code validation for API calls to the ANSI "C" Run Time Library. Version 1.5 runs on all versions of Windows NT including the latest version - version 3.5.

Frank Grossman, President of Nu-Mega Technologies explained the focus on VC++ 2.0 support: "Developers are using Microsoft Visual C++ in greater numbers than ever before to develop a wide range of 32 bit Windows applications. In addition, corporations are installing Windows NT in record numbers. Our goal for this BoundsChecker for Windows NT upgrade is to help the 32 bit developer make the transition to developing on more advanced platforms."

BoundsChecker for Windows NT version 1.5 new improvements mean that it will check additional API calls such as those from the C runtime library and the Windows Common Dialog API. Additionally, BoundsChecker for Windows NT checks the memory and resource allocation for DLL files that are loaded with the Visual C++ call Load Library.

BoundsChecker for Windows NT is the industry's leading automated debugging tool. When it encounters a bug, a dialog box pops up and freezes execution presenting the information that notifies the programmer where the problem is. BOUNDS-CHECKER presents the information needed to fix the problem, thus allowing developers to investigate bugs as they appear and continue debugging their program.

"Our products provide developers with the essential debugging tools they need to develop or port applications to this increasingly popular but complex Windows operating system," said Frank Grossman, president of Nu-Mega Technologies, Inc.

Nu-Mega Technologies, Inc. is an international supplier of award-winning software development tools and utilities for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Version 3.x, Microsoft Windows '95, the Microsoft Win32s environment, and Novell NetWare 3.x platforms. In 1987, Nu-Mega introduced Soft-ICE for DOS, the industry's first software-based alternative to the hardware-based ICE. In 1989, Nu-Mega released BOUNDS-CHECKER for DOS, the first automated debugging tool. Nu-Mega Technologies has extended its family of products to include SoftICE/W for Windows 3.1, Win32s, Windows '95, and versions of BOUNDS-CHECKER for Windows 3.1, Win32s, Windows NT, and Windows '95.

BoundsChecker for Windows NT, Version 1.5 is available for $249 and will be available shortly. Discounts for existing customers are available, as is a volume purchase program. All products are available from Nu-Mega Technologies. For further information, contact Nu-Mega Technologies, Inc. at (603) 889-2386, fax (603) 889-1135, or electronic mail: numega@numega.com.

Nu-Mega Technologies Inc

P.O. Box 7780

Nashua, NH 03060-7780


Bounds-Checker for Windows V2.5 Announced
Nu-Mega Announces BOUNDS-CHECKER for Windows version 2.5.

This upgrade trends towards today's demand for Component Based Development by including Microsoft Foundation Class support.

San Francisco, CA/Software Development West '95 (February 14, 1994)--Nu-Mega Technologies, Inc. today announced BOUNDS-CHECKER for Windows Version 2.5, a new update that delivers automated debugging support for the Microsoft Foundation Class library. This new version automatically checks and validates over 1700 API calls to the Microsoft Foundation Class, verifies that parameters on a call are correct and checks its return status. In addition, BOUNDS-CHECKER for Windows version 2.5 will debug a 16 bit Windows 3.1 application that is running under Windows 95.

More debugging power than ever before

Combined with BOUNDS-CHECKER for Windows support for debugging VBX's, version 2.5's Microsoft Foundation Class support goes yet another step toward providing complete support for today's trend toward 'Component Based Development'. According to Jim Moskun, CEO of NuMega: "More and more developers are utilizing components and class libraries to develop software. Our goal is to provide them with the tools to detect and analyze software errors regardless of where or at what level the error occurs."

Using BOUNDS-CHECKER's TVEW event logger - which logs all Windows events - API calls and returns to the Microsoft Foundation Library can be viewed by the developer. Frank Grossman, President of Nu-Mega Technologies explained the focus on MFC: "Developers are using the Microsoft Foundation Class libraries to speed the development of software applications and products. However, they want some assurance that these modular components interface smoothly with custom code. With BOUNDS-CHECKER for Windows' support for MFC, they now have an invaluable tool to check the internal as well as the external operating components of any new Windows application."

BOUNDS-CHECKER for Windows will also automatically detects memory leakage, resource leakage, and heap and data corruption in VBXs from C/C++ and Visual Basic. Of particular importance to developers is the product's validation of the VBX Programming API.

BOUNDS-CHECKER for Windows is the industry's leading automated debugging tool. When it encounters a bug, a dialog box pops up and freezes execution presenting the information that notifies the programmer where the problem is. BOUNDS-CHECKER presents the information needed to fix the problem, thus allowing developers to investigate bugs as they appear and continue debugging their program.

Nu-Mega Technologies, Inc. is an international supplier of award-winning software development tools and utilities for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Version 3.x, Microsoft Windows '95, the Microsoft Win32s environment, and Novell NetWare 3.x platforms. In 1987, Nu-Mega introduced Soft-ICE for DOS, the industry's first software-based alternative to the hardware-based ICE. In 1989, Nu-Mega released BOUNDS-CHECKER for DOS, the first automated debugging tool. Nu-Mega Technologies has extended its family of products to include SoftICE/W for Windows 3.1, Win32s, Windows '95, and versions of BOUNDS-CHECKER for Windows 3.1, Win32s, Windows NT, and Windows '95.

BOUNDS-CHECKER for Windows, Version 2.5 is available for $249 and will be available shortly. Discounts for existing customers are available, as is a volume purchase program. All products are available from Nu-Mega Technologies. For further information, contact Nu-Mega Technologies, Inc. at (603) 889-2386, fax (603) 889-1135, or electronic mail: numega@numega.com.

Nu-Mega Technologies Inc

P.O. Box 7780

Nashua, NH 03060-7780


Sybase & Powersoft Merger Completed
SYBASE AND POWERSOFT MERGER COMPLETED, CREATING WORLDWIDE LEADER IN CLIENT/SERVER SOFTWARE

Company Sets New Client/Server Agenda With Leading Products, Proven Commitment To Open Architecture And Multi-Channel Distribution

EMERYVILLE, CA, Feb. 13, 1995 -- Sybase, Inc., the Enterprise Client/Server Company and Powersoft Corporation today announced the completion of the merger of the two companies. Sybase is the second largest relational database company worldwide, and Powersoft is the number one vendor of client/server development tools.

As consideration for the merger, Sybase issued approximately 17.8 million common shares and assumed Powersoft option plans. Terms of the merger agreement provided Powersoft shareholders with 1.6 Sybase shares in exchange for each Powersoft share. The transaction was accounted for on a tax-free, pooling of interests basis and is valued at approximately $875 million.

"This merger is a strategic milestone in the relatively brief, but explosive, history of client/server computing," stated Mark Hoffman, Sybase chairman, chief executive officer and president. "In one stroke, Sybase and Powersoft have created the worldwide client/server software leader -- and the first software company with leading products in the three major client/server categories of tools, databases and interoperability."

In fiscal year 1994, the combined company had annual revenues of $826 million, with over $250 million in cash and equity of approximately $400 million. With a combined annual revenue growth rate of 71 percent, the new entity is the fastest growing top-ten software company and the seventh largest software company in the world.

Company Mission

The Sybase/Powersoft mission is to enable customers to stay competitive and adapt rapidly to business changes. The company's comprehensive software and services consist of relational databases, application development tools, systems management tools, interoperability software, interactive multimedia systems and customer service and support worldwide.

"Since its inception, Powersoft has been committed to delivering industry-leading development tools that meet customers' needs for multi-vendor support in an open computing environment," said Mitchell Kertzman, Powersoft chief executive officer. "Now, the combined entity has the technology strength, support organization and distribution infrastructure to make client/server computing an even more productive platform for every level of the enterprise."

The combined entity remains fully committed to open systems and multi-vendor support. Powersoft will operate as an independent subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. It will continue to optimize its products for each leading relational DBMS. Sybase will continue to work with third party tools vendors as well.

Merged Operations

Sybase and Powersoft announced their intention to merge in November 1994. Since then, the companies have moved rapidly in making decisions concerning merged operations. The following actions take place immediately:

* Powersoft takes responsibility for the Sybase tools mission;

* Sybase achieves desktop to enterprise server scalability through

  the combination of Powersoft's Watcom SQL shrink-wrap database

  with Sybase SQL Server;

* Powersoft leverages the Sybase distribution channel: Sybase sales

  force will begin selling Powersoft products within Powersoft's

  cooperative channel distribution model.

In terms of reporting structure, Mitchell Kertzman, Powersoft chief executive officer, reports to Mark Hoffman. Dave Litwack, Powersoft president, reports to Dave Peterschmidt, Sybase chief operating officer. Kertzman, Frank Ingari, president and chief executive officer of Shiva Corporation, and L. William Krause, president and chief executive officer of Storm Technology, Inc. -- all Powersoft board members -- hold new seats on the Sybase board of directors.

Further product, distribution and service/support plans to leverage the unique strengths of each organization are in place and will be fully implemented by the end of 1995.

Market-Leading Products

The combined company currently has number one market share in client/server development tools, number one market share for client/server interoperability, and the number one position in server revenue growth among the major independent relational DBMS companies. Merged operations offer benefits in database, tools and support for open architecture.

Database Strategy

Sybase/Powersoft offers database customers unparalleled desktop to enterprise scalability. Powersoft's PC-based Watcom SQL database servers complement Sybase's existing workgroup and enterprise SQL Server product line.

The company's development focus in 1995 is to provide application transparency between Watcom SQL databases and Sybase SQL Server. In December, the companies publicly demonstrated a working prototype of Transact SQL support in the Watcom database.

Tools Strategy

Plans resulting from the merger assign Powersoft responsibility for the Sybase database tools mission. As a result, PowerBuilder becomes Sybase's core application development tool, replacing Build Momentum In addition, Sybase's Enterprise Momentum project has been discontinued and the mission for modeling and application generation from models is moved to Powersoft.

Sybase's Gain Momentum multimedia tool remains part of Sybase's New Media division. The New Media division has a separate charter to provide software for an emerging market where companies and customers interact over networks to buy and sell goods and services.

Open Architecture

Sybase/Powersoft remains committed to open architecture and multi-vendor support. Powersoft will continue to optimize its products for each relational DBMS -- with native drivers and support for high performance features. Sybase will continue to work with other independent client/server tools companies, as it has historically. The company currently works with over 1,800 independent software vendors, including Microsoft, Uniface, Borland, Gupta, Bachman and Texas Instruments.

Multi-Channel Distribution

The merged company is unique in its strong, multi-channel distribution. Sybase has established a world-class direct sales organization, consisting of 75 sales offices and 41 distributors in 45 countries worldwide. Powersoft is widely known as a pioneer of innovative client/server channels, including corporate resellers, systems integrators and specialty catalogs.

Distribution

As a result of the merger, Powersoft will leverage Sybase's direct sales force in enterprise-level opportunities. The Sybase sales organization will begin selling Powersoft products effective immediately. The company has established cross-compensation incentives to maintain synergy and cooperation with Powersoft's existing channel.

Support and Services

Sybase/Powersoft will offer customers the option of single point of contact support. Those customers who want multi-vendor support and expertise will experience no change in their existing service and support relationships.

From a consulting and professional services standpoint, Sybase's 750-person Enterprise Services organization will expand its capabilities to include a worldwide tools and application development practice.

Sybase, Inc.

Sybase, Inc., is the worldwide leader in client/server computing. Sybase is focused in the four major client/server categories: databases, tools, database systems management and interoperability, providing desktop to enterprise scalability. The company's mission is to provide its customers with an open, adaptable information systems architecture that enables rapid business change. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase is the seventh largest independent software company in the world.

Headquartered in Concord, Mass., Powersoft develops and markets the Powersoft Enterprise Series, the market-leading family of database-independent, scalable client/server development tools. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Powersoft's wholly owned subsidiary, Watcom, is a leading provider of high-performance application development tools and databases, including its shrink-wrapped SQL database servers.

Sybase Inc

6475 Christie Ave

Emeryville, CA 04608

510-596-3500;  Fax: 510-658-9441


New S-MOS Semicustom Function Blocks & Libs
San Jose -- February 13, 1995 -- S-MOS Systems, a corporate affiliate of Seiko Epson Corporation, is offering a new product family of semicustom function blocks and libraries targeting PCI-based designs called Semicustom Systems Interface Products (SSIP). This new product line will employ the company's already introduced SLA20000 family of semicustom products, its new SLA30000 library (0.6 micron), and several embedded semicustom products specifically designed for PCI and mobile computing systems.

The SSIP also includes a growing list of function blocks. The first to be offered include PCMCIA, ISA, embedded Ethernet, PCI bridges and buffers capable of supporting five-and three-volt designs (50 MHz and 33 MHz respectively, using the SLA20K, and 66 MHz and 50 MHz using the SLA30K), and a PCMCIA controller (100 percent Intel-compatible called the SAM365).

Other function blocks available soon include SCSI 2.0 and fax/modem blocks that conform to prevailing industry standards.

NRE charges for libraries and function blocks, engineering and CAD support and prototypes begin at $20,000 and are dependent on design requirements.

S-MOS Systems, Inc.

2460 North First Street

San Jose, CA 95131

408/922-0200,  800-228-3964,  fax: 408/922-0238


Process Software Web Server for Windows NT
PROCESS SOFTWARE CORPORATION ANNOUNCES WEB SERVER FOR WINDOWS NT

Secure, Easy-to-Use, and Fully Supported Web Server Enables Organizations to Develop a Presence on the Internet and More

FRAMINGHAM, MA, February 7, 1995 -- Process Software Corporation, a leading provider of TCP/IP-based solutions, today announced Purveyor Version 1.0, its World Wide Web (WWW) server product for Windows NT and future Win32 platforms such as Windows 95. The initial release of the product will run on Intel platforms, as well as Digital Equipment Corporation's Alpha RISC processors, running Windows NT 3.5 and above.

Purveyor allows corporations to publish public and confidential multimedia information on the Internet as well as their corporate LANs, all with the ease-of-use of Windows NT. Using the sample forms and templates included in the product, organizations can easily publish information such as product briefs, and corporate or product news on the Internet in a user friendly electronic format. Organizations can also use Purveyor to take advantage of interactive marketing strategies such as on-line advertising, product promotions, and sales literature fulfillment.

Equally important, organizations may use Purveyor on their local area network to increase and promote internal communications. For example, organizations can easily disseminate and instantly update corporate information such as employee handbooks and on-line training courses. Furthermore, Purveyor's point and click security features enable confidential information sharing and delivery within different departments, e.g., Human Resources and Accounting. This permits these departments to integrate their new and existing LAN applications, such as employee records and payroll processing.

By tracking and adhering to emerging industry standards, Purveyor affords users an open solution allowing them maximum flexibility in supporting heterogeneous networking environments.

Purveyor features point and click security access control fully integrated with the Windows NT File Manager, and full logging and report facilities. In addition, Purveyor's graphical user interface maintains the Windows "look and feel", and on-line documentation gives users instant access to the information they need to become productive quickly.

"Purveyor allows corporations, regardless of their size or market, to develop and create their own identity on the Internet," said Chris McIntosh, senior product marketing manager, Process Software Corporation. "It's a powerful tool which helps companies communicate quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively with both internal and external audiences."

HIGHLIGHTS OF PURVEYOR VERSION 1.0

Feature highlights of Purveyor include:

Flexible and Robust User Security

Purveyor offers organizations a highly flexible and secure environment which is fully integrated into the Windows File Manager. It provides the functionality necessary to restrict access to individual HTML pages based on IP address, username, or both. This allows servers to be custom tailored for access by groups such as company employees or external users accessing specific information that may be restricted to authorized customers only.

Sample HTML Web Pages and Forms

Purveyor provides sample HTML Web pages and Forms for use with the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), a flexible mechanism for supporting end-user developed applications via the Web server. This enables database, email, and forms based applications to be implemented with the Web server. Fulfillment of product literature requests, bug reports destined for customer service, and other on-line information requests are easily instituted. Purveyor not only supports CGI, but it provides these sample application programs which can be easily customized for an organization's environment.

Logging Facilities Support

Transaction logging information is provided by Purveyor. This includes time, date, HTML page, and the IP address of the requester. This type of information is invaluable to users providing product information pages, downloadable software, or other services where frequency and identity of requesters are important. The flexible report generator displays the captured data according to an organization's needs.

Full Protocol Support

Purveyor supports the latest versions of the Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), enabling it to support all popular Web browsers such as Mosaic. In addition, proxy server support is provided for http, ftp, and gopher protocols. By tracking these industry standards, users are ensured full compatibility.

Runs as an Windows NT "Service"

Purveyor will run without having a specific user logged into the console system. In addition, it is managed by the NT "Services" menu of the Windows NT Control Panel. This interface is familiar to NT administrators, allowing them to start, stop, and modify server features and operation easily.

Purveyor supports all industry standard browsers including the Basic Authentication security implementation. In addition, Process Software is an active member in industry consortia including the W3C and CommerceNet, both of which are helping to set leading Internet standards.

As with all of Process Software's product offerings, Purveyor is fully supported by the company's comprehensive maintenance and support program, TCPcare. Process Software's full range of TCPcare services include installation and consulting expertise, as well as available 24-hour customer support.

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

Pricing for Purveyor is $1995 per license. Annual customer support options range from $295 for basic support to $795 for 24 hour support. Software update packages are also available with the support options. The product will begin shipping in March 1995. Customer questions or inquiries can be directed to 1-800-722-7770, via E-mail: info@process.com, or via the World Wide Web: www.process.com.

Established in 1984, Process Software Corporation designs, develops and markets TCP/IP-based networking software solutions worldwide, and backs all of them with one of the most comprehensive service and support programs in the industry. Process Software's complete line of TCP/IP product and service offerings include solutions for the Windows NT, Windows, and OpenVMS platforms.


Rockwell Deploys FastLink Paterners Program
ROCKWELL DEPLOYS FASTLINK PARTNERS PROGRAM, SIGNS CHEYENNE COMMUNICATIONS AS CHARTER MEMBER

Joint partnership enhances remote access to client/server facsimile applications

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (January 9, 1995) Rockwell Network Systems, a business unit of Rockwell International Corp., today announced a certification program called the FastLink Partners Program to minimize the operational costs of dial-up routing. The program is expected to save many customers of remote client/server applications thousands of dollars in wide-area charges annually.

The company also announced that Cheyenne Communications is the charter member of FastLink. Under the guidelines of the program, Rockwell is adapting its link-optimizing SmartRoute Software with Cheyenne's network communications product, FAXserve. Additional filtering capabilities in the NetHopper will help eliminate unnecessary dialing. As a result, mutual customers will experience significant cost savings through reduced WAN utilization.

"It's unprecedented for two companies to collaborate on development which ensures their products optimize wide-area links," said Howard Anderson, founder and managing director of the Boston-based Yankee Group, which analyzes trends in communications and information systems. "The market is becoming flooded with remote access solutions, but until Rockwell, no vendor has actually announced that they can reduce monthly line charges."

"Users want to avoid astronomical line charges that result because some applications are not mindful of wide area links," said Kevin Clougherty, Rockwell's NetHopper product manager. "The key feature of the program is its assurance to end users that WAN links have been optimized." How Rockwell-Cheyenne partnership benefits customers "Our FaxServe customers have been looking for a way to leverage their LAN-based communications services while they operate remotely," said David Weingard, director of business development for Cheyenne Communications. "The NetHopper provides an excellent vehicle for customers to maximize those services available within their LANs."

By accessing FAXserve remotely using Rockwell's NetHopper Dial-up Router, the remote user can submit facsimiles in the same manner as e-mail. After the facsimile is sent, NetHopper automatically disconnects the link.

FAXserve is a high-performance, NLM-based network facsimile solution. This means that facsimile services are seamlessly incorporated within the NetWare operating system, in the same manner as printing services. All users can send and receive faxes directly from their workstations from within any DOS, Windows, MHS-compliant or CAS-compliant application, while sharing hardware and software with all other users on the network. By providing savings in productivity, hardware, and fax-related supply and maintenance costs, FAXserve generates a quick return on investment.

"By certifying FAXserve with the NetHopper, Cheyenne continues to demonstrate its commitment to providing the remote user with the power of LAN-based facsimile services with minimal cost and setup," said Frank Roys, director of marketing for Rockwell Network Systems. "Our customers can save significant money in two ways with a reduction of usage charges and on product purchases via incentives that will be offered by Rockwell and Cheyenne."

In addition to providing its mutual customers with direct benefits from the high level of compatibility between the companies' products, Cheyenne Communications will offer a 10 percent rebate to NetHopper customers purchasing FaxServe. Rockwell will also offer rebates to Cheyenne Communications' customers who purchase a NetHopper product. Rebate amounts vary depending on model and configuration.

Why Link Optimization is Important

NetWare servers frequently poll NetWare clients located throughout the network to determine if the user is still attached to the network. These "watchdog" packets increase phone bills. Spoofing the watchdog packets leads the server to assume these clients are still active and keeps the connection alive. Rockwell's SmartRoute distinguishes between user application data and watchdog packets, and determines when to bring up the link. Phone charges are minimized because SmartRoute spoofs watchdog packets until the link becomes active with data transfer or a preset time has elapsed.

SmartRoute link optimization was developed by Rockwell for its NetHopper series of dial-up routers to reduce operational costs. SmartRoute is the most comprehensive spoofing and filtering mechanism in the industry and NetHopper has been recognized by leading industry publications as low-cost, easy-to-use solutions for connecting users to remote networks.

Cheyenne Communications, Inc. was formed as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cheyenne Software, Inc. in June 1989. Cheyenne Software is a leading international developer of essential software services for the heterogeneous network. Their enterprise-wide solutions an array of security, backup, management and communications products, including Montronix FAXserve, InocuLAN, and their flagship product line, the ARCserve family of network backup software products. Cheyenne's products are sold world-wide through an extensive distributor network and strategic OEM relationships. Cheyenne Communications is headquartered at 3 Expressway Plaza, Roslyn Heights, NY 11577. and can be contacted at 1-800/243-9462 in the U.S. and Canada or 516/484-5110.

Rockwell Network Systems, a unit of Rockwell Telecommunications, is a leading supplier of high-performance, standards-based LAN and remote access hardware and software to OEMs, systems integrators and value-added resellers worldwide. Rockwell Network Systems is located at 7402 Hollister Ave., Santa Barbara, Calif. 93117 Telephone 805-968-4262/800-262-8023.

Rockwell International Corporation (NYSE:ROK) is a diversified, high technology company holding leadership market positions in automation, avionics, aerospace, defense electronics, telecommunications, automotive components and graphic systems, with annual worldwide sales of more than $12 billion.


TELEBIT INTRODUCES TWO V.34 MODEMS

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 16, 1995 -- Telebit Corporation, a leader in the on-demand remote access industry, today announced that its FastBlazer 8840 modems now support the ITU-T V.34 standard. The FastBlazer 8840 is designed for environments where large central site modem requirements include reliability, comprehensive network management, high speed and global homologation.

In addition, today the company introduced the TeleBlazer, a V.34 modem designed for remote users dialing into LANs who want to take advantage of increased speeds.

PRODUCT FEATURES:

Features of the FastBlazer 8840 include:

- Speeds of up to 28.8 Kbps uncompressed and up to 115.2 Kbps with

  compression

- Support for V.34, V.32terbo and eight other ITU-T and Bell standards

- Flash memory for simple upgrades

- Simple on-site configuration, control and monitoring via an

  18-button front panel keypad and LCD display

- Extensive command set and configuration parameters

- Automatic single-call dial restoral of leased lines

- Full configuration, control, testing and monitoring of FastBlazer

  rackmount modems via Telebit's ViewBlazer network management system

- Full compatibility with Telebit's NetBlazer family of dial-up

  routers

- Available in standalone and rackmount versions

- Conformity to worldwide regulatory requirements

- Extensive global homologation plans

TeleBlazer features include:

- Speeds of up to 28.8 Kbps uncompressed and up to 115.2 Kbps with

  compression

- Support for V.34, V.FC and eight other ITU-T and Bell standards

- Support for 14.4 Kbps fax transmissions

- V.42bis and MNP 5 data compression

- Full compatibility with Telebit's NetBlazer(R) family of on-demand

  routers

- MNP 10 with `Adverse Channel Enhancement' for reliable cellular

  communications

PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

The FastBlazer 8840 Standalone and FastBlazer 8840 Rackmount are available at the end of January 1995 and have a list price of $1,199 (U.S.). Telebit's TeleBlazer is also available at the end of January 1995 and has a list price of $399 (U.S.).

V.34 support can be added to the FastBlazer through a free software upgrade that is available through Telebit's Customer Service bulletin board. The telephone number for the Chelmsford, MA bulletin board is 508-656-9103; to contact the Sunnyvale, CA bulletin board, phone 408-745-3707 or 408-745-3861.

Telebit Corporation designs, manufactures and markets a family of remote network access products to enable cost-effective extension of LANs to remote users. The company has offices in the United States and Europe and markets its products and services worldwide through value-added resellers, wholesale distributors and OEMs. Telebit is traded on the Nasdaq exchange under the symbol TBIT.


Telebit Expands Worldwide ISDN Product Offering
TELEBIT EXPANDS ITS WORLDWIDE ISDN PRODUCT OFFERING; INTRODUCES TWO FULL-FEATURED ISDN COMMUNICATIONS TOOLS

NetBlazer LS ISDN and NI2B Router Products Feature Integrated ISDN, Frame Relay, Multiple LAN Support, Extensive Security and Standards Compatibility

WASHINGTON, D.C.---Jan. 23, 1995---Telebit Corporation (NASDAQ: TBIT), a leader in the on-demand remote access industry, today announced its aggressive expansion into the integrated services digital network (ISDN) market with the introduction of the NetBlazer LS ISDN and NI2B, two full-featured router products offering on-demand remote networking access.

The ISDN functionality of the NetBlazer LS ISDN and NI2B enables users to transfer data more than four times faster than previously possible with analog technologies. Furthermore, the products can decrease network access time to 1 to 2 seconds (from 15 to 20 seconds required for standard analog services using modems).

Telebit's ISDN routers are designed for a broad spectrum of users---from those in large organizations such as financial markets, health care and education, to users in the small office/home office environment. They allow different computer platforms (Apple, PC or UNIX workstations) with different LAN protocols to communicate directly.

"The standard features on our new ISDN products are features that other companies provide only as options on their products," said Stephen Dick, Telebit's vice president of marketing. "Our NetBlazer LS ISDN and NI2B give customers the convenience of 'one-stop shopping' and protection for their investment, as well as a comprehensive ISDN solution and support for frame relay. We complete the ISDN solution by making the technology as accessible as possible through our easy-to-understand documentation, expert technical support and unmatched service."

NETBLAZER LS ISDN AND NI2B PRODUCT FEATURES

The NetBlazer LS ISDN, Telebit's router designed for remote sites, has a compact footprint (approximately 2" x 12" x 8") and is a full-featured multi-protocol router for applications including file transfer, database access, remote management and electronic mail.

The NI2B is a dual Basic Rate Interface (BRI) ISA-bus add-in card for Telebit's popular central site NetBlazer ST and NetBlazer 40 routers. A complement for the NetBlazer LS ISDN, the NI2B provides the other half of the equation in remote access routing over ISDN, frame relay, Switched 56 or standard analog services.

The products' suite of features integrate the most popular LAN and WAN protocols and include multi-protocol support, multiple electrical interfaces for the most popular LAN/WAN protocols and comprehensive security. Both ISDN products are compatible with other Telebit remote access products and comply with major de facto standards for ISDN switching equipment and National ISDN-1.

PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

NetBlazer LS ISDN is available in the United States in March, and in Europe and Asia in the second quarter 1995. It sells for $1399 (U.S.) manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP). The NI2B, available in the United States, Europe and Asia in the second quarter 1995, will sell for $1660 MSRP.

Telebit Corporation designs, manufactures and markets a family of remote network access products to enable cost-effective extension of LANs to remote users. Its popular NetBlazer product line is the recipient of many industry awards such as PC Week Lab's Product of the Week, Communications Week MAX, PC Computing MVP and was selected as Data Communications Magazine's "Tester's Choice." The company has offices in the United States and Europe and markets its products and services worldwide through value-added resellers, wholesale distributors and OEMs.


Telebit InternetBlazer Internet Router
TELEBIT ANNOUNCES INDUSTRY'S FIRST AVAILABILITY OF INTERNET ROUTER SOLUTION WITH SPRY SOFTWARE

InternetBlazer Incorporates SPRY's AIR Series Software, Enabling Users To Establish Cost-Effective Internet Facilities

SUNNYVALE, CA -- Feb. 6, 1995 -- Telebit Corporation (NASDAQ: TBIT), a leader in the on-demand remote access industry, today announced the industry's first availability of a bundled Internet solution to incorporate a dial-up router with key applications of the AIR Series software from SPRY, Inc., a leading Internet software developer. The InternetBlazer, featuring renowned Telebit dial-up router technology, enables small- and branch-office networks to quickly and easily establish Internet access, providing businesses the communications advantages of Electronic Mail, the World Wide Web (WWW), News and Gopher.

"Too many companies have announced Internet access products that, to this day, haven't shipped," said Stephen Dick, vice president of marketing at Telebit. "Telebit, in contrast, is the first in the industry to ship an Internet access solution with AIR Series software. Now, with the InternetBlazer, businesses can immediately establish Internet access with Telebit's acclaimed dial-up router technology and SPRY's award-winning software."

Immediately available through resellers, the InternetBlazer makes an organization's internal and external communications more cost-effective and efficient through the use of the Internet. It establishes multi-user, dial-up Internet access based on standard low-cost phone lines.

The AIR Series applications that come with the InternetBlazer include:

* AIR Mosaic, the fastest and most feature-rich Mosaic Web browser, giving Internet users access to the WWW

* AIR Mail, a mail application, providing users uninterrupted Internet electronic mail capabilities from the office

* AIR News, a news-access tool, allowing users to easily search through various categories within specific newsgroups on the Internet

* AIR Gopher, a search-and-retrieval application that includes an intuitive organization menu, giving users the ability to conduct data searches through the Gopher server on the Internet

SPRY and Telebit raise the bar on Internet connectivity tools with the clear understanding that solutions must provide both hardware and software," said David Pool, president of SPRY. "By coupling key applications from our popular Internet software suite with Telebit's high-performance router, small- and branch-office networks can easily connect to the Internet."

AVAILABILITY AND PRICING

The InternetBlazer is available immediately in the following configurations:

* NetBlazer PN1 router, which includes a built-in V.32bis modem, an external modem port, an Ethernet connector and a 10-user license of the AIR Series software applications: $2949 suggested retail price (SRP)

* NetBlazer PN2 router, which includes two external modem ports, an Ethernet connector and a 10-user license of the AIR Series software applications: $2749 SRP

* A 10-user add-on license of the AIR Series software applications, for existing InternetBlazer customers: $599 SRP

Telebit Corporation designs, manufactures and markets a family of remote network access products to enable cost-effective extension of LANs to remote users. Its popular NetBlazer product line is the recipient of many industry awards, such as PC Week Labs' Product of the Week, Communications Week MAX, PC/Computing MVP and was selected as Data Communications magazine's "Tester's Choice." The company has offices in the United States, Europe and Asia, and markets its products and services worldwide through value-added resellers, wholesale distributors and OEMs.

SPRY, Inc. is the leading developer of Internet access applications for the office, home and publishing markets. Founded in 1987, the privately held company is based in Seattle, Wash. SPRY brings networked connectivity to the Windows desktop through three products: the AIR Series, Internet In A Box and Mosaic In A Box. The AIR Series is a corporate network solution designed to provide PC to UNIX, mainframe and Internet connectivity through a full suite of applications. Internet In A Box provides the remote dial-up user with full Internet connectivity. Mosaic In A Box is an entry-level Internet access solution providing consumers with "plug and play" access to the Internet's World Wide Web.


CoSession PC2X for Remote PC Control
UniPress Software and Triton Technologies Announce Solaris, SCO and SGI Versions of CoSession PC2X

CoSession PC2X Provides a Comprehensive Solution for Remote PC Control from a UNIX X Window

Edison, NJ - January 23, 1995 - UniPress Software, Inc., (Edison, NJ) a leading developer of PC-UNIX connectivity and software development tools, and Triton Technologies, Inc., (Iselin, NJ) a leading developer of remote communication and file transfer packages for IBM compatible PCs and networks, are now shipping Sun Solaris, SCO and Silicon Graphics versions of CoSession PC2X, the comprehensive PC-UNIX connectivity solution for remotely displaying and controlling PCs from UNIX X Windows.

Control PCs from UNIX Workstations

CoSession PC2X allows UNIX users to display and control PCs and PC applications from an X Window on their UNIX workstation. The PC, running DOS or MS Windows, displays in an X Window from which users can run any PC application. Users can even control multiple PCs simultaneously, by running several CoSession PC2X windows. "The addition of these ports of CoSession PC2X enables us to offer a comprehensive solution for remote control of PCs to a wider range of customers with PC and UNIX networks," said Mark Krieger, President of UniPress.

For System Administrators, Helpdesks and End Users

"CoSession PC2X is the ideal solution for the growing number of customers with PC-UNIX environments because it gives the UNIX user the ability to remotely control a PC to run PC programs, access data, print reports or simply observe the operations of another computer user," continued Krieger. "System and network administrators can remotely train, troubleshoot, monitor and manage networks without having to leave their workstations. CoSession PC2X also allows helpdesk engineers to assist PC users without leaving their office."

Virtual PC

CoSession PC2X also turns a UNIX X Window into a virtual PC from which users can run DOS and Windows programs. At one of UniPress' customer sites, the engineers use CoSession PC2X to access test result data residing on PCs in the data entry department directly from the UNIX workstations in research and development. And, since CoSession PC2X runs on existing PCs with no additional hardware requirements, it is an extremely cost-effective way to leverage PC investments.

A Client/Server Program

CoSession PC2X is a client/server application. The server side of the software resides on one or more PCs. It provides the full PC session to the CoSession PC2X client, which runs on a UNIX workstation. This is accomplished in an efficient manner by enabling the UNIX workstation to translate DOS and Windows video information to UNIX X Windows and having the UNIX workstation send its mouse movements and keystrokes to the PC. And, since CoSession PC2X uses high-level Windows calls to transport the information, it is extremely efficient. In addition, CoSession PC2X caches objects such as MS Windows icons to further reduce network traffic.

The CoSession PC2X Host is the same CoSession Host from Triton Technologies that provides PC-to-PC connectivity to control other networked PCs from the PC desktop. With CoSession PC2X users can expand their connectivity options by adding a UNIX client to their existing network. This combination provides a comprehensive solution for remote PC control.

Pricing and Availability

CoSession PC2X is available for Sun (SunOS or Solaris), IBM, HP, SCO and SGI workstations. A single-user starter pack, which consists of one PC Host and one UNIX client, costs $595. Additional UNIX client sides cost $495, and additional PC Host sides cost $125, with a 10-pack Host side available for $995. A UNIX client 10-pack cost $4,450. Contact UniPress at 908-287-2100, 800-222-0550 or on the Internet at info@unipress.com for more details.

UniPress Software, Inc.

For over a decade, UniPress Software, Inc. has been creating, distributing and supporting UNIX software. Located in Edison, New Jersey, UniPress continues to develop and distribute popular UNIX and UNIX-PC connectivity software. The Company is also well-known for its development tools including the UniPress Emacs family of multi-window programmer's editors which are in use worldwide.

Triton Technologies, Inc.

Triton Technologies is a leading U.S. and international supplier of remote communication, file transfer and modem sharing communication packages for IBM compatible PCs and networks. The Company was founded in April 1985 and offers a range of products for PC, LAN and X.25 communications including CoSession, CoSession for Windows, CoSession LAN II, Session XL, CoSession ACS and CoSession X.25. To date, the company has shipped over 750,000 copies of CoSession.


DECNIS Virtual Router Cluster Capability
Digital's Virtual Router Cluster Capability Ensures Unprecedented High-Availability For Networks

Company Also Announces Enhancements To DECbrouter 90 Software

MAYNARD, Mass. -- February 13, 1995 -- A unique new Virtual Router Cluster capability providing rapid recovery from network failures ten times faster than the closest competitor was introduced today by Digital Equipment Corporation. This new capability is a feature of the DECNIS family of high-performance multiprotocol routers.

New hardware capabilities for the DECNIS provide full Ethernet speeds across the wide-area network using high-speed, cost-effective services such as SMDS. In addition, Digital announced improved interoperability between the DECNIS backbone router and its best-selling DECbrouter 90 access router when using frame relay and Novell IPX networks. These capabilities raise wide-area backbone reliability, performance, and interoperability to new dimensions.

Digital's Virtual Router Cluster capability further improves the self-healing and automatic reconfiguration properties of today's high-performance backbone networks. "The most important benefit of the Virtual Router Cluster is that it greatly improves network availability," said Bill Maro, vice president of product marketing and engineering for Digital's Network Product Business. "We've responded to the needs of telecommunications providers, banks, process control industries, and other customers whose businesses depend on rapid, reliable network response. These users no longer have to worry that their network applications stop if a router, a LAN connection, or a routing circuit fails."

Fast Recovery with Virtual Router Clusters

The Virtual Router Cluster's mechanism employs a unique addressing scheme that lets it respond to network failures transparently to the user. "A group of routers on a LAN are defined as a routing cluster, and each cluster has a single virtual address to which all end systems send their off-LAN traffic," said Richard Benwell, Digital's Routers Marketing Manager. "If the cluster's primary router or any of its connections fail, then another router in the cluster detects the failure and takes over, using the same virtual address."

The use of a single virtual address makes the router switches transparent to the end systems. "Relying on end systems to detect a router change can sometimes take several minutes," said Benwell. "With the Virtual Router Cluster feature, recovery can take less than three seconds. Network applications remain up and connectivity is maintained."

New Hardware Capabilities

The new MPC-II card provides a console port for out-of-band management of the enhanced version of DECNIS from a VT100-compatible terminal. In addition to 16 MB of dynamic memory for storing larger routing tables and 4 MB of FLASH memory for storing multiple configuration files, the card has a console port with full modem control for local or remote connection over a dial-up line. An on-board management utility allows the network manager to manage both the local DECNIS router and other Digital routers across the network.

For users who require high-speed routing and bridging, the new DEC WANcontroller 622/HS sync card provides two ports, each supporting line speeds at up to 12 Mbps. The card supports connections over PPP, HDLC, Frame Relay, and SMDS, and also can be connected to multiple T1/E1 leased lines.

Software Features Improve Performance

Virtual Routing Clusters and Resilient Routing Circuits are included in the DECNIS V3.0 software release. This release also contains other important features which will significantly enhance the end-to-end performance of a network. Packet Prioritization, for example, helps avoid application delays on low-bandwidth WANs and provides simple packet filtering; pattern matching can filter out bridge traffic and thus greatly reduce network costs; SMDS DXI supports high-speed routing over SMDS services and IPX WAN supports native Novell Netware over leased-line circuits, providing interoperability with DECbrouter 90 products and other vendors' routers.

Price and Availability

The price of the DECNIS 500/600 multiprotocol router ranges from $8,750 to $18,000, depending on configuration. Software upgrades for existing customers are priced at $250 for the MS/DOS load kit and $450 for the VMS and OSF/1 load kits. Price of the DECNIS MPC-II console is $6,500, while the DEC WANcontroller 622/HS is priced at $7,500. All products are available immediately.

Enhanced DECbrouter 90

Digital's best-selling access router, the DECbrouter 90, is now shipping with Cisco System's V10.06 software. In addition to the V10 features, this software also includes improvements for interoperability with Digital's DECNIS 500/600 backbone routers. These include wide area point-to-point connection over frame relay circuits and support for additional protocols over PPP data links. The enhanced DECbrouter 90 is available now. Prices are $3,290 for the single serial port version and $3,850 for the dual serial port version. Existing DECbrouter 90 customers can order the new software from their local Digital distributor.

Building on a strong tradition of technological excellence, Digital is leading the way in the networking industry today. According to revenue figures from the International Data Corporation (IDC), Dataquest, and Rising Star Research, Digital holds the number three market position in routers, hubs and LAN switching markets, and holds the number two position in FDDI technology. Digital's Network Product Business has pioneered a new, converged model for networking in which hubs, routers and switches are deployed on an integrated platform. In addition, Digital's expertise in network integration services has connected more than 12 million users worldwide.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software, and services, together with industry-focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.


Dell Enhances Poweredge Server Performance
DELL TO BRING ENHANCED PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY TO DELL POWEREDGE SERVERS

New Serial Storage Architecture offers an open industry standard for unparalleled connection between computers and peripheral products

AUSTIN, Texas, February 13, 1995 -- Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq: DELL) today announced support for the Serial Storage Architecture Industry Association (SSA IA) and the new technology, Serial Storage Architecture (SSA), an open standard for connecting computers to peripheral products. SSA technology offers fast data throughput and a high level of fault tolerance making SSA-connected peripherals extremely high in performance and reliability.

"In our continued effort to broaden our array of server products, Dell is proud to be at the forefront of supporting Serial Storage Architecture, the next generation of high performance storage technology," said Mark Garver, vice president of Dell's advanced systems group. "SSA provides an open standard for developing the next level of intelligent connections between Dell servers and the strategic devices that interface with them and is consistent with Dell's strategy of providing highly reliable, industry standard server products."

SSA is planned to bring faster performance, higher reliability and increased functionality to Dell PowerEdge server products. SSA technology will have built-in redundancy and will provide high performance with transfer rates of up to 80 megabytes per second. In addition, SSA technology will allow Dell PowerEdge customers to connect up to 127 devices such as hard drives, tape back-up devices, CD-ROMs and other peripherals, to a single storage controller channel giving them flexibility and scalability in their existing server investment.

"Dell is a founding member of the SSA Industry Association and plans to continue to support its SSA standard because it fits with our model for delivering open standard advanced technology that meets the requirements of Dell customers," said Garver.

DEFINING SERIAL STORAGE ARCHITECTURE

Serial Storage Architecture is a standard set of protocols and components designed to provide a faster and more reliable method of connecting disk drives, tape drives, CD-ROMs, optical drives, scanners and other peripherals to desktop PCs, servers and storage subsystems. Designed specifically to meet the requirements of a wide variety of storage and peripheral products, each SSA device can independently 'talk to' all of the other devices in the chain. In the event an SSA connection fails, the system continues to operate, an important improvement over earlier technologies such as SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) where the failure of a single connection could cause the entire system to fail. As a result, SSA will offer a significant advantage over existing SCSI technology in data integrity, speed of transmission, reliability and fault isolation.

Dell expects to offer SSA technology first with its line of PC servers.

A Fortune Global 500 company, Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL) designs, develops, manufactures, markets, services and supports a complete line of personal computers compatible with industry standards. Dell is the world's leading direct marketer of personal computers and one of the top five personal computer vendors in the world with annual revenues of nearly $3 billion. Information on the company and its products can be obtained through its toll-free number, 1-800-BUY-DELL (1-800-289-3355) or by accessing the Dell Worldwide Web server, at http://www.us.dell.com/.

The Serial Storage Architecture Industry Association (SSA IA) was formed in January 1995 to promote and enable the proliferation of SSA technology. The SSA IA offers an "unparalleled connection," encourages industry awareness, acceptance, and advancement of SSA technologies, and fosters SSA inter-operability. The SSA IA also provides a forum for industry discussion of SSA and its implementations and encourages cooperation between the computer and storage industries to provide better products for end users. Membership, educational, and promotional materials are available from the SSA IA by calling (408) 256-5656.


Around the World - Global Geography Game
The "Around the World!" global geography game package, by Torpedo Software, is now available for Windows, Dos and the Macintosh.

This software package consists of over 40 games which include countries, capitals, exports and geographical features for each of the major land masses of the globe. There is also a game for our solar system. The timed game format, colorful maps and unusual user interface encourage repetition, and make learning geography fun. Geography game scores for both children and adults have been demonstrated to improve rapidly.

A freeware version named "Europe!" is available worldwide via the following ftp sites and their mirrors as follows:

Windows:  ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/educate/eurwin20.zip

DOS:      ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/geogrphy/eurv15.zip

MAC:      ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/game/europe-20.hqx

The price for the commercial version is currently $14.00 per copy, plus additional handling for orders outside the US. Site licenses for schools at discounted rates are available. It can be ordered directly from:

Torpedo Software

4819 183rd Place SW

Lynnwood, WA 98037 USA

If there are questions you can contact Matt Rilling as follows:

73361.2733@compuserve.com

torpedo1@aol.com

(206) 775-2919


VBXpert Rule-Based Expert System Dev. VBX
The Haley Enterprise has announced the release of VBXpert - a VBX custom control for rule-based expert system development using the Rete Algorithm to add expertise to Visual Basic applications.

VBXpert extends Visual Basic to support rule-based knowledge-based systems development by encapsulating the Rete Algorithm within a VBX custom control. It is a true custom control with Visual Basic property and event editing support and provides convenient properties that can be accessed and set by VB code to control embedded reasoning.

VBXpert also provides: inference engine events that execute code you enter using the Visual Basic editor; a general-purpose "Callback" event to call Visual Basic from the actions of rules; efficient processing, even for a thousand if-then rules; automatic subgoaling and logical deduction; automatic retraction of invalid or outdated conclusions; Visual Basic declarations for Eclipse DLLs; supports Visual Basic's ANY and Variant data types; supports multiple concurrent Visual Basic apps; includes Eclipse DLLs and executable; includes C source code for the VBX;

VBXpert for Windows $99 (price shown is for domestic check, VISA, MasterCard, and American Express orders only.) The Haley Enterprise, Inc. 413 Orchard St., Sewickley, PA 15143-2029 (800) 233-2622, 412-741-6420, Info@Haley.COM


WinBrowse 1.0 Multiple Database Windows Utility
WinBrowse 1.0 is a multiple database utility program for Windows. Allows browsing, editing, and reporting using popular PC database formats including dBase III+, dBase IV, FoxPro 2.0, 2.5, 2.6, Paradox 3.x, 4.x, and Access 2.0. Convert data from one format to another quickly and easily. Contains sorting and filtering capabilites, too! Includes full blown Windows Help System. A must have for all serious PC database users. Req. VBRUN300.DLL

Download from:

         Compuserve (GO WINSHARE -- WINBRS.ZIP)

  or     AOL (keyword DaveV36 -- WINBRS.ZIP)

or via anonymous ftp:

     oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/database/winbrs10.zip

Dave Verschleiser

Q&D Software Development


Innovative-Warehouse Data Warehouse Offering
PRISM SOLUTIONS AND INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS PARTNER TO PROVIDE INNOVATIVE-WAREHOUSE SOLUTION

THE DATA WAREHOUSING CONFERENCE, ORLANDO, Fla.--Feb.14, 1994-Prism Solutions, Inc. and Innovative Systems, Inc. (ISI) today announced a partnership for the launch of the Innovative-Warehouse--a new data warehouse offering based on Prism's data warehouse management software and ISI's customer information management software.

The Innovative-Warehouse solution automates the process of reengineering and warehousing corporate data to serve the decision-support needs of marketing, sales and customer service. It is distinguished by its extremely high data integrity and applicability for both operational and online analytical processing (OLAP) tools.

Data warehouses depend on source data from legacy and operational systems to be migrated and converted to a database of consistent, subject-oriented, historical information. The Innovative-Warehouse solution, offered by Innovative Systems and available immediately, addresses these component processes and ensures their success.

ISI's products improve the accuracy of customer information by standardizing, consolidating and reformatting customer names, addresses and relationships. Prism Warehouse Manager can then extract and integrate this reengineered data to build a data warehouse in a client/server or mainframe environment. Prism Warehouse Manager automates the data conversions, summarizations, key changes, structural changes and condensations needed to create an historical perspective of enterprise-wide information.

"This partnership allows clients to harness data that was once isolated, incompatible and inadequately structured for the kind of decision support required both in the back office and in the field," said John Vallieres, ISI's senior vice president and chief marketing officer. "The Innovative-Warehouse solution will clean and consolidate current and historical data to support sales, marketing and service efforts."

Jim Ashbrook, president of Prism Solutions, added, "One of the most crucial elements involved in building a data warehouse is ensuring the timeliness, accuracy and completeness of the source data that gets loaded into the warehouse. ISI's data integrity products help companies standardize and aggregate data in their operational systems, thus minimizing the amount of work required to prepare data for warehouses. We are very pleased to be partnering with ISI to help clients implement the highest quality data warehouses."

About Prism Solutions

Prism Solutions is the leader in data warehouse management software for building, maintaining and navigating data warehouses. Prism's products and services provide the foundation for a variety of IT and business projects, such as migration and conversion between different computing platforms, reengineering legacy applications and business processes, implementing client/server architectures and building decision-support systems. Prism's customers include leading companies in the finance, health care, insurance, manufacturing, public utilities, retail, telecommunications, transportation and technology industries. Prism is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

About Innovative Systems

Founded in 1968, ISI is the world leader in customer information management. ISI assists clients in building, populating, maintaining, and accessing very large, very accurate databases. ISI is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Prism Solutions Inc

480 Oakmead Parkway

Sunnyvale, CA 94086

408-481-0240,  fax 408-481-0260


Mailer's+4 List Management Software
MAILER'S+4 LIST MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE SHIPS WITH LABEL PRINTING AND DUPLICATE ELIMINATION FEATURES

SAN CLEMENTE, CA, February 1, 1995 -- Mailer's Software is now shipping the latest version of its MAILER'S+4 PC-based mailing list management software program with automatic label printing and automatic duplicate elimination. The upgraded package is designed to automatically calculate the cost of mailings with the new 1995 postal rates.

Available on CD-ROM for $295.00, the new MAILER'S+4 supports label printing for dot matrix and laser printers in more than 20 different formats. Its automatic duplicate search feature provides users with two modes of operation. One mode eliminates mailing more than one piece to a person at an address. The other mode, called "householding", eliminates mailing more than one piece to an address. It requires Windows 3.1, 4MB RAM and 9MB of hard disk space, and is immediately available directly from MAILER'S Software or authorized resellers.

The easy to use software supports both Windows and DOS Graphical-User Interfaces (GUI). It verifies any address in the United States and adds ZIP+4, Carrier Route and delivery point codes as well as other important data. In addition, MAILER'S+4 allows users to look up ZIP+4s and correct addresses on-line, print legal facsimiles of postal forms, presort lists and print barcoded labels for the best postal discounts. Quarterly updates of MAILER'S+4, incorporating the latest postal requirements and forms, are released in February, May, August and November.

As the costs of sales calls continue to rise, more and more businesses are utilizing PC-based list management software to increase sales, noted Raymond F. Melissa, MAILER'S Software president and founder. "The costs can be significant to a business that does not optimize the management of its mailing lists and postal discounts. The recent postal rate increase has made good list hygiene even more important. Address verification, duplicate elimination and postal presorting are all easy to do with MAILER'S+4," he added.

Founded in 1985, MAILER'S Software specializes in providing PC-based software designed to streamline a business' direct mail operations and reduce mailing costs. The company offers a full complement of direct mail software programs and databases. A 24-hour bulletin board service (BBS) can be reached at (714) 492-8050. A quarterly MAILER's Software catalog is available free by calling 1-800-800-MAIL or by writing MAILER's Software at 970 Calle Negocio, San Clemente, CA 92673-6201.


Japanese Version of InConcert Workflow Launched
Xerox And Toshiba Launch Japanese Version Of InConcert Workflow Software

PALO ALTO, Calif, February 13, 1995 - The XSoft division of Xerox Corporation and Japan-based Toshiba Corporation today announced that Toshiba will distribute InConcert, XSoft's powerful workflow management software, to the Japanese market beginning in April 1995. Toshiba localized InConcert for the Japanese market and will standardize on it as the workflow engine for its WorkVision system. WorkVision is an integrated software architecture for implementing enterprise office applications, database connectivity, and network services.

Aimed at high-volume, process-intensive applications encompassing thousands of users, InConcert models and coordinates all the components - people, procedures, and documents - of a work process. The software improves productivity by automatically delivering to users the documents, applications, and procedural instructions they need to complete their work. To manage business processes more effectively, InConcert provides comprehensive process management and status reporting features so that managers can easily track the progress of any job.

According to a recent study by Dataquest, a San Jose, California-based research firm, the emerging market for workflow software in Japan is projected at 53 million dollars in 1995 and expected to reach close to 135 million dollars by 1997. Early workflow adopters in Japan include the insurance, utilities, and manufacturing industries, where organizations are moving quickly to create more efficient business processes.

"We listened closely to Toshiba's requirements and those of their customers," said David McQuilkin, Asia Pacific regional sales manager for XSoft. "As in the United States, the key market demand is for open systems and integration with other software products. InConcert is an ideal core middleware component to realize the rigorous process control requirements of CALS applications, which is a critical and growing market in Japan."

InConcert's open middleware framework allows organizations to accurately model and effectively manage their unique business processes without imposing pre-defined structures or rules. The software is designed for flexibility and integration with industry standard SQL databases and other software, enabling companies to integrate popular third-party applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, image viewers, and electronic mail into the overall process.

WorkVision is a next-generation office information processing environment which provides a basis for total management and utilization of various information and data resources with the aim of supporting intelligent business processes of office workers. A variety of products are provided by Toshiba under the WorkVision framework, including advanced electronic mail systems, document processing and retrieval systems, and other advanced document applications. The workflow management framework provides an integrated work environment with a wide assortment of applications and tools so as to enable both individuals and workgroups to manage processes efficiently.

XSoft president Dennis Andrews stated, "Toshiba is an important partner for XSoft in delivering InConcert to the emerging workflow market in Japan. They have extensive expertise in enterprise business applications and have demonstrated impressive growth in this market. We are very pleased that Toshiba has chosen InConcert as the workflow component for its successful WorkVision line."

Toshiba, a world leader in high technology, is the world's seventh largest integrated manufacturer of electronics and electric equipment. The company is committed to information/communications oriented business such as multimedia, which it supports with state-of-the-art computers, semiconductors, display devices and system integration. Toshiba has 175,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of U.S. $45 billion.

Headquartered on a campus with PARC, the renowned Xerox research center in Palo Alto, Calif, the XSoft division of Xerox provides software that improves the way people create and use documents to capture, manage and communicate ideas and information.

The company develops and markets a broad range of products that support its vision of an Open Document Environment. They include both personal and collaborative document management applications, workflow programs, structured-document publishing solutions and workgroup systems. The company also offers extensive product support, training and consulting services. XSoft's products and services are available on multiple operating systems, networks, and computer platforms. They are sold through a worldwide network of direct sales and reseller partners.

XSoft

3400 Hillview Ave

Palo Alto, CA 94304

800-428-2995,  fax 415-813-7499


Flat Panel Display Investment Conference 3/1/95
USDC, NEEDHAM AND ELECTRONIC BUYERS' NEWS ANNOUNCE INDUSTRY'S FIRST FLAT PANEL DISPLAY INVESTMENT CONFERENCE

March 1, 1995

Hotel Inter-Continental

New York, NY

SAN JOSE, Calif., FEBRUARY 14, 1995--Industry's first major investment conference focused on flat panel displays was announced today by the United States Display Consortium (USDC), Needham & Company, Inc. and Electronic Buyers' News (EBN). The three organizations are joining forces to link the investment community with companies that have ventures in the United States' flat panel display (FPD) manufacturing industry. The goal of the event is to educate members of the financial and investment community about this growing industry sector and its many opportunities.

The conference will feature presentations from all three sectors of the flat panel display industry, namely current FPD manufacturers, future FPD manufacturers and equipment and materials suppliers. The one-day forum for institutional investors and analysts will be held March 1, 1995, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Hotel Inter-Continental in New York. A total of 21 U.S. flat panel display manufacturers, and equipment and materials suppliers are slated to participate.

According to Byron Walker, managing director at Needham & Company, "Analysts expect the worldwide FPD industry to reach $20 billion by the end of the decade. The current momentum in this area, coupled with its growth potential, is definitely catching the attention of the investment community--yet many lack an understanding of the domestic infrastructure. This forum will provide attendees with an overview of the domestic FPD industry as well as information on progress to date, trends and future potential.

EBN's Government and International News Editor, Jack Robertson, explained that flat panel displays have created a paradigm shift in the way computers, cockpits and other products requiring a visual interface are designed and marketed. "With new applications for FPDs introduced every day, this market is becoming increasingly vital to the global competitiveness of the U.S. electronics industry."

Malcolm Thompson, chairman of the board for USDC, stated that the conference will encourage financial support of the domestic display industry. "This conference seeks not only to educate the investment community about the FPD markets, but also to provide consortium members access to financial markets. If This industry is to grow and flourish, it will require significant investment from the financial community," said Thompson.

For more information or a registration application, please contact Lara Furnell at Needham & Company, phone 800 926-2765, fax 212-688-9203.

About the sponsors:

The U.S. Display Consortium is an industry-led, public/private partnership providing a common platform for flat panel display manufacturers and developers, FPD users, and the supplier base. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and with over 130 member companies, the consortium's mission is to develop the U.S. infrastructure required to support a world-class U.S. based manufacturing capability for high-definition displays.

Electronic Buyers' News, a CMP Publications business newpaper, is foremost in covering the rapidly-shifting global news of flat panel displays. EBN has sponsored other FPD national conferences and conducted market research analysis of trends in the industry.

Needham & Company, Inc. is an investment bank that serves emerging growth companies and institutional investors. As a full service investment bank, the firm offers corporate finance, investment analysis, trading & sales services.

Participating companies:

Advanced Technology Materials

Applied Materials

Brooks Automation

Brewer Science

Chips & Technology

Coloray

FED

Kopin

Lam Research

Micron Technology

MRS Technology

Photon Dynamics

Planar Systems

Plasmaco

Plasmatherm

Sarif

SI Diamond

Silicon Video

Supertex

Three-Five Systems

Watkins-Johnson

Guest Speakers:

* Richard Archambault, High Resolutions Technologies,

  Vice President, AT&T

* Kenneth Flamm, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

  (Economic Security) and Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary

  of Defense for Dual-Use Technology Policy

* Joseph Castellano, President, Stanford Resources, Inc.

U.S. Display Consortium

50 West San Fernando Street, Suite 920

San Jose, CA 95113

408-277-2400,  fax 408-277-2490


FWB Lowers Prices on Mac Storage Solutions
FWB Lowers Prices on World Class Storage Solutions for the Macintosh

San Francisco, January 31, 1995. FWB, Inc., manufacturer of the award winning Hammer brand of high performance mass storage products, today announced price reductions of up to 14 percent on selected Hammer storage products, including SledgeHammer disk arrays, Hammer hard drives, HammerDisk removable media subsystems. A summary of new prices and products follows.

Suggested retail prices for Hammer Professional hard disk drives have been reduced 4 to 10 percent including the award winning PocketHammer1760, recommended by MacUser Magazine as the "Ferrari of hard drives." FWB's high performance PocketHammer drives now range in price from $609 to $4,739. Capacities range from 530 megabytes to 8.7 gigabytes and are available in both internal and external models.

Pricing on SledgeHammer disk arrays--recently selected as finalists for both AV Video Magazine's 1994 Platinum Award and MacUser Magazine's 1994 Editor's Choice award for best new storage system--has been reduced 4 to 14 percent. FWB's high capacity, high performance SledgeHammer disk arrays now range in price from $1,199 to $13,199. SledgeHammer disk arrays range in capacity from 1 to 17 gigabytes and are available in both internal and external models.

Since 1984, FWB, Inc. has been developing mass storage and backup products specifically for the Macintosh platform, including the Apple PowerBook, the Apple Workgroup Server 95 and the Power Macintosh. FWB products include SledgeHammer RAID Arrays; Hammer, Hammer-PE, PocketHammer and HammerPB hard drives; HammerDisk optical and removable drives; HammerTape and HammerDAT tape backup systems; and the SCSI JackHammer SCSI-2 accelerator board. FWB also publishes RAID ToolKit, Hard Disk ToolKit, Hard Disk ToolKit-Personal Edition disk management software, and CD-ROM ToolKit accelerator software for CD-ROM drives. FWB's products have been consistently rated the best in their class by publications such as MacWEEK, MacUser, Macworld, PC WEEK, PC Magazine, and BYTE. FWB's PremiumService has won the "Best Technical Support" award from The Macintosh Consultants Network. Inc. Magazine ranked FWB as #109 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing privately held companies in 1993. and #257 in 1994.

FWB, Inc.

2040 Polk St, Suite 215

San Francisco, CA 94109

415-474-8055,  fax 415-775-2125

AOL: FWBINC

AppleLink: FWB

eWorld: FWB.INC


Potential Renewed Michelangelo Virus Threat
ANTI-VIRUS MANUFACTURER WARNS OF POTENTIAL THREAT TO COMPUTERS FROM MICHELANGELO

NEPEAN, Ont. -- February 19, 1995 -- Look Software Systems Inc., manufacturer of Virus ALERT antivirus, today issued an advisory to users of DOS based personal computers about a renewed potential threat this year from the Michelangelo virus that caused such a stir three years ago.

According to Cliff Livingstone, a systems engineer at Look Software, the DOS book sector virus is a time bomb bug which triggers on March 6 each year, formatting any hard drive which it has infected by rewriting the drive with random characters from system memory, making the drive unrecoverable.

Livingstone says the renewed threat of this annual virus is the result of simple dates. "We didn't hear much about this virus for the last couple of years because March 5 fell on a Saturday in 1993, and on a Sunday in 1994 -- this year it's a Monday and most systems will be in use. He suggests that those at greater risk are individuals, small to medium-size businesses, and educational institutions which normally would have their computer systems turned off on a weekend. "Anyone who hasn't performed regular virus checks over the past two years, should scan their systems thoroughly before Monday, March 6 to avoid being taken by surprise."

Livingstone says in his research of computer viruses, he has found background on Michelangelo in VSUM Virus Encyclopedia by Patricia M. Hoffman, a widely respected authority on the history and effects of computer viruses. According to VSUM, Michelangelo is a relative of the common Stoned DOS boot sector virus, but with the added time-bomb twist. The virus becomes memory-resident when a system is booted from an infected hard drive and total system memory (as measured by the DOS CHKDSK utility) typically decreases by 2,048 bytes. While in memory, the virus will infect any floppy disk used by the computer, which in turn can spread the virus to other computers.

Livingstone adds that, fortunately, up-to-date versions of most popular DOS antivirus utilities, including his own company's latest Virus ALERT, should easily detect and clean out Michelangelo in a few minutes. Look Software's own product has the additional ability to scan for viruses that might be transmitted via the Internet or other e-mail systems.

Look Software Systems Inc

613-837-2151


QMS Accelerating Network Print System Dev.
QMS USING NEST TO ACCELERATE NETWORK PRINT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

February 7, 1995 - Mobile, AL - QMS, Inc. (NYSE:AQM) today announced that it has been using a beta version of Novell's Embedded System Technology (NEST) software as a rapid prototyping tool and has used the software to develop a key component of an advanced multi-protocol printer interface. Use of the early version of NEST has allowed QMS to become familiar with the requirements and features of the software prior to fully integrating NEST with QMS Crown multitasking network printing architecture. Together, QMS Crown and NEST technology will give QMS and its customers a clearly defined migration path to easily add new features and future releases of Novell's NetWare.

According to Theodore Kearley, QMS Network Product Manager, "QMS is committed to maintaining a leadership position in NetWare compliant printing services. The ever increasing complexity of the network environment coupled with user demands for compatibility, ease-of-use and increasing functionality dictates a leveraged approach to network print system development. NEST fits in perfectly with our development strategy by allowing QMS to continue to offer state-of-the-art NetWare functionality with a minimum of core code redevelopment. NEST technology together with our Crown architecture gives QMS a significant competitive advantage by allowing us to accelerate the development of network ready print systems while making them easier to install and use."

QMS, a leading provider of network print systems, has significant expertise in both printing and networking technologies. QMS was one of the first licensees of a portion of the portable NetWare protocol stack, enabling it to be among the first printer manufacturers to offer an embedded IPX/SPX protocol suite and PSERVER and RPRINTER functionality within the print system. These on board services revolutionized networked printing by providing all existing NetWare printing services in one small, easy to use system. Because of these QMS print system firsts it became possible to print directly from a network, at network speeds, instead of using the traditional parallel connected printer.

QMS print systems are based on QMS Crown print system architecture, a multitasking software system which handles job spooling, automatic emulation selection, compiling and printing. The multitasking elements, when combined with the ability to spool jobs directly on the printer, permit the print engine to simultaneously accept and process a number of jobs from parallel, serial, LocalTalk, Ethernet and/or Token-Ring users while delivering rich document printing services to each user.

Just as Crown provides advanced multitasking, the recently introduced QMS CrownNet network interface permits a number of network protocol stacks to be simultaneously active.  A key example of CrownNet's simultaneous protocol support lies in its ability to accept print jobs from the NetWare PSERVER and TCP/IP FTP (put) protocol applications at the same time, simplifying printer usage and speeding throughput. Novell, as a QMS customer, was a Beta test site for this recently released product.

QMS, Inc.

QMS, Inc. is a leading producer of monochrome and color network capable print systems and a pioneer in the emerging integrated office system market. The company's print systems fit seamlessly into a wide variety of computer networks, and include color and monochrome laser and color thermal transfer printers used for electronic publishing, graphic design, office automation, advanced imaging and automatic identification applications. The company's integrated office systems greatly enhance user productivity by combining functions in a desktop environment. QMS, Inc. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AQM.

QMS, Inc.

One Magnum Pass

Mobile, AL 36618

(800) 523-2696 or (334) 633-4300


IBM - Right At Home Software Series on CDROM
IBM Makes Shopping for Software at Home Quick and Easy

SOMERS, N.Y., Feb. 14, 1995 . . . IBM continues to expand its innovative CD Showcase program with the delivery of its new Right At Home Software Series, a library of theme CDs that lets customers quickly and easily shop at home for software products in the expanding desktop CD-ROM market.

The first CD in the series is Small Office Home Office (SOHO), which IBM delivered in late December 1994 for small offices, home offices, and families. It contains over 35 products, such as WordPerfect, PC Paintbrush, Simply Accounting, and Harvard Graphics. IBM plans to offer all the CDs in the Right At Home Software Series through major retail stores, continuing its emphasis on working within the channel. Currently, the SOHO CD is available in 26 PC Warehouse stores, with more retailers planned in the future.

"Unlike shrink-wrapped products that require customers to know what they want before they buy, the Right At Home Software Series lets customers try or compare products before making a purchase," said Michael P. Kiyosaki, director of marketing, IBM Software Manufacturing Solutions. "IBM has done the 'pre-shopping' for customers by selecting the highest quality products, grouping them logically by theme, and combining them onto one inexpensive CD." Customers can purchase the CD, try or compare software products, view marketing materials, and then buy the preferred products directly from their home or office at any time of the day or night.

Plus, customers receive free software and money-saving offers with the purchase of any Right At Home Software Series CD. On the SOHO CD, customers get $150 worth of free software and more than $300 in money-saving offers.

Each Right At Home Software Series CD contains a variety of software products. Software publishers participating on the SOHO CD include 4Home Productions; Caere Corporation; Cybermedia; Delrina; IMSI; Individual Software Inc.; Lotus Development Corporation; Novell, Inc.; O.A.G.; SoftKey International Inc.; Software Publishing Corporation; Symantec; and T/Maker.

How Does A Customer Purchase the Software on the CD?

A customer purchases any CD in the Right At Home Software Series at a major retail store typically for about $10, inserts the CD into a home or office personal computer CD drive, and then reviews a variety of software products and promotional demos. To purchase a product, the customer calls the toll-free telephone number provided, arranges for credit card payment, and receives a code that instantly releases the product and any related documentation for installation. The customer receives any full documentation by mail.

What Are the Benefits?

For software publishers, the Right At Home Software Series offers substantial marketing, merchandising, and production-cost benefits. Participation in this innovative marketing program from IBM Software Manufacturing Solutions lowers the cost of goods sold while letting publishers penetrate new markets and capture valuable registration data with each purchase. When a publisher agrees to participate and a product is selected for a theme CD, IBM handles manufacturing, encryption, production costs, registration, and documentation fulfillment. Publishers receive royalties each time a customer purchases a product.

For retailers/resellers, the Right At Home Software Series means lower inventory costs, lower "returns" costs, and increased customer satisfaction through pre-purchase product reviewing. Software retailers can expand software product offerings without increasing shelf space requirements and other overhead costs. For retailers looking to enter the software market, the Right At Home Software Series provides a low-risk way to offer customers a variety of software products with minimal cost and effort. The retailer earns a margin on each CD sold, plus healthy net rebates each time a customer purchases a product at home. IBM handles order entry, licensing and registration, disbursement of publisher royalties, and other administrative functions.

For consumers, the Right At Home Software Series brings the convenience of reviewing, purchasing, and installing software directly to the customer's desktop. And, with each CD, customers also receive free software in addition to special pricing and discounts on future software purchases.

IBM Software Manufacturing Solutions (ISMS) is part of IBM Software Solutions, an IBM division headquartered in Somers, N.Y. ISMS offers to software publishers, information providers, retailers, and resellers a broad spectrum of software manufacturing and distribution services worldwide. Services range from electronic distribution and packaging to consulting, replicating (diskette, tape, compact disc), printing, translation, localization, packaging, shipping, and order fulfillment.


IBM Reduces Prices of Leading ThinkPad Models

SOMERS, N.Y., February 14, 1995 . . . IBM today cut prices on six models of its popular ThinkPad line, the notebook-size computers widely acclaimed for their unique blend of creative design and innovative technology.

The price cuts cover six ThinkPad models, including the advanced 755CD,a CD-ROM unit built to exploit the full range of today's multimedia opportunities. The selected ThinkPad products are available in 16 configurations, offering users a choice of screen styles, hard drive sizes and processor types.

All ThinkPad notebooks come with the patented TrackPoint integrated pointing device, the mouse-replacer that has spawned a host of imitators; as well as a variety of pre-loaded software programs.

Today's price cuts offer discounts of up to 11 percent off of IBM's PC Direct catalog price and are available through PC Direct or from local authorized resellers. (Reseller prices may vary). Following is a sampling of the new prices:

MODEL              OLD PRICE      NEW PRICE    SAVINGS

755CSE (1)          $4,899         $4,599          6%

755CE (2)           $6,249         $5,599         10%

755CD (3)           $7,599         $7,049          7%

755C (4)            $4,849         $4,449          8%

360CSE (5)          $3,049         $2,699         11%

360Cs (6)           $2,749         $2,649          4%

1 -- With 10.4-inch (measured diagonally) color dual-scan screen;

     340 million-bytes hard drive; 486 DX4 100Mhz processor

2 -- With 10.4-inch (measured diagonally) color Black-Matrix on

     Array TFT screen; 340 million bytes hard  drive; 486 DX4

     100Mh processor

3 -- With 10.4-inch (measured diagonally) color Black-Matrix on

     Array TFT screen; 540 million bytes hard  drive; 486 DX4

     100Mhz processor

4 -- With 10.4-inch (measured diagonally) active-matrix TFT

     screen; 340 million bytes hard drive; 486 DX4  75Mhz

     processor.

5 -- With 9.5-inch (measured diagonally) dual-scan screen; 340

     million bytes hard drive; 486 DX2 50Mhz processor

6 -- With 9.5-inch (measured diagonally) dual-scan screen; 340

     million bytes hard drive; 486 SL-Enhanced SX  33Mhz

     processor.


The Adventures of Hyperman - Cool Science CDROM
Science Gets Hip with Hyperman

Interactive CD-ROM from IBM and Saturday Morning Cartoon from CBS Produce Cool Science Adventures in 1995

New York, N.Y., (February 14, 1995) -- IBM Corporation and CBS Television Network will soon bring 'The Adventures of Hyperman' to personal computers and televisions across the country. The announcement was made at the American International Toy Fair by Illumina Productions, Inc., the creator of this animated cartoon that blends science education with entertainment.

In Hyperman, kid genius Emma C. Squared -- while trying to unlock the secret of the universe -- accidentally unleashes Entrobe and his sidekick Kid Chaos from their extraterrestrial particle prison. With a ravenous appetite for mischievous fun, Entrobe is bent on turning the world upside down by altering the Earth's chemical, physical and biological properties. Now only Hyperman, along with help from viewers and players, can save the world from total destruction.

The new title, the anchor of IBM Multimedia Studio's "Cool Science" CD-ROM series, is the collaboration of IBM and Illumina Productions, Inc., an interactive developer in Oakland CA.

"We're setting new standards for providing kids with interactive, educational adventures," said Steve Mills, IBM Software Solutions Division general manager. "'The Adventures of Hyperman' CD-ROM uses Hollywood-style animation and fun characters to introduce children to topics such as ecology and light refraction. It's the ultimate science project for children."

The interactive Hyperman CD-ROM, will ship in April 1995. The television show, which is being produced by Illumination Studios, Inc., a Hollywood animation studio, is scheduled to air Saturday mornings on CBS in September 1995. Specific time slots for the program will be announced shortly by CBS.

"CBS is proud to offer television programming for children that offers an innovative mix of education and entertainment," said Judy Price, CBS vice president, Children's Programs and Daytime Specials. "'The Adventures of Hyperman' is an excellent example of combining the best minds in Hollywood, the Silicon Valley and academia, to create an animated series driven by character comedy that introduces children to science through humor."

'The Adventures of Hyperman' CD-ROM gives viewers and players first-hand science experience by allowing them to:

- Enter a real Hollywood-style cartoon with zany characters and

  funny adventures.

- Learn about wind currents and thermal properties as they pilot

  a hot-air balloon.

- Use the principles of leverage and trajectory to operate a

  medieval catapult to send cows flying to the moon.

- Explore genetic and evolutionary principles to create mutations

  in an interactive terrarium.

- Use light wave properties and lenses to diffuse an ice bomb.

- Experiment with a high-powered microscope.

'The Adventures of Hyperman' CD-ROM carries a $49.95 suggested retail price, and requires a PC-compatible 486/25 computer, 4 MB RAM, Windows 3.1, a VGA monitor, a SoundBlaster-compatible audio card, 2 MB of hard disk space, a double-speed CD-ROM drive and a mouse. The title will be available on OS/2 Warp later this year.

The IBM Multimedia Studio, part of the IBM Software Solutions Division, was established in January 1993 to develop and distribute CD-ROM software for the home consumer market.

Illumination Studios, Inc. of Malibu, Calif., is an interactive entertainment company, co-founded by Ken Corr and Craig Southard of Illumina Productions, Inc., and Kevin O'Donnell of Bull Dolphin, Inc. Illumina is known for innovative work with top filmmakers such as Lucas Film, Ken Burns and Robert Redford (with whom they are currently producing a live action interactive product). Bull Dolphin has extensive experience in writing and producing children's television and music, and has developed the hit syndicated cartoon "Mutant League" for Franklin Waterman Entertainment.


IBM Supports Serial Storage Architecture
IBM Supports Serial Storage Architecture as Open Standard

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 13, . . . IBM today announced it is making engineering know-how available to the industry to support the Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) interface as an open standard for transferring data between computer processors and peripheral equipment such as magnetic and optical disk drives, tape drives and printers.

As multiuser systems become more widely adopted in all areas of computing, they will require higher levels of performance, fault tolerance, availability and connectivity than can be provided by today's parallel interfaces.

"We're convinced that SSA provides the right cost and performance for use across the full range of computing environments," said Clod Barrera, general manager of storage subsystems technology, IBM Storage Systems Division. "It's clear that parallel interfaces like SCSI won't meet the demanding requirements of the multiuser systems that will come to dominate computer use from mainframes to desktops. The fact that some 20 companies have joined the SSA Industry Association in the short time since it was organized indicates a strong support for SSA in the marketplace, and we're helping to make SSA an easy choice for the industry."

IBM is providing detailed specifications and engineering know-how to facilitate the design of semiconductor chips that implement SSA -- with a free right to use this information subject to patent rights. In addition, IBM is licensing certain patents that cover and are necessary to practice the implementation of the SSA interface. This patent licensing is available for a nominal, one-time charge of $5,000, or as part of a cross-licensing agreement. More than 25 companies supplying chips and peripheral equipment have received IBM's SSA know-how package, which is being made available without charge.

In an effort to help expand access to information about the benefits and availability of SSA technology, IBM is actively participating as a charter member of the recently formed SSA Industry Association.

The need for a change to serial interfaces is readily seen in the kinds of complex system configurations that are becoming more and more prevalent, even on the single-user desktop. In such systems, users may be running concurrent applications that move data from a hard disk onto the Internet, from a CD-ROM to memory, from a disk drive to a tape backup unit, and from memory to a printer.

With today's parallel interfaces, a serious performance bottleneck can occur as concurrent input/output requests from a variety of peripherals contend for access to the processor. But with a serial interface, the level of contention is greatly reduced, providing a substantial increase in data throughput. Furthermore, the serial interface greatly simplifies cabling requirements compared to parallel interfaces, reducing cost and complexity at the same time.

SSA includes a unique capability called "spatial reuse" which allows data to be transferred concurrently at high speeds between many pairs of serially connected peripherals, without the need to route the data through the processor. This leads to a more effective utilization of the system's resources.

SSA offers superior performance. Its fundamental building block is a single port capable of carrying on two 20 megabyte/second (MB/sec) conversations at once -- one inbound and one outbound. An SSA connection is two dual-port nodes each capable of carrying on four simultaneous conversations, for a total interface bandwidth of 80 MB/sec.

SSA's dual-port, full-duplex architecture allows peripherals to be connected in loop configurations designed to contain no single point of failure. Low cost is achieved through the use of compact cables and connectors and by imbedding all circuitry into a single CMOS chip.

Besides its advantage over parallel interfaces, SSA also offers key advantages with respect to other serial interfaces such as Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL). It is the only serial interface that is suitable for use in devices intended for attachment to processors that cover the spectrum from mainframes to PCs. It is less costly, has higher reliability and provides an easier migration path for systems currently operating with SCSI.

Information about SSA can be obtained by contacting the SSA Industry Association at 408-256-5656 or by FAX at 408-256-0595.


Client/Server Transaction Processing to Desktop
IBM Brings Client/Server Transaction Processing Power to the Desktop

Delivering on CICS' any client-to-any server' strategy

Somers, N.Y., Jan. 24, 1995...IBM, the world's leading software vendor, delivered on its 'any client-to-any server' strategy for transaction processing by announcing today the first CICS transaction processing software clients that will allow PC users to connect to any computer server that runs CICS software. The power of this connectivity gives customers new flexibility to build the client/server transaction processing environments on which businesses depend for online commerce, such as electronic funds transfer or sales information. New versions of existing CICS software servers are also announced for OS/2 and AIX operating systems.

CICS is IBM's industry-leading transaction processing software used by 90% of the Fortune 500 companies. It provides a high performance software environment in which to run business applications, and helps solve the portability, interoperability and scalability issues customers face when deploying applications across a multi-vendor network.

"Our customers have long valued and relied upon CICS to run their day-to-day applications," said Don Haile, general manager of IBM's Networking Software Division. "With today's announcements we are providing our customers with an even easier way to run their key applications on client/server systems and integrate them with their current desktop tools."

                    - NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS -

> CICS clients:

The new CICS software clients will run on OS/2, Windows, DOS and Macintosh. They can directly access all CICS software servers, which scale from PCs to mainframe systems, and support a variety of Local Area Network (LAN) environments including OS/2 and NetWare.

> CICS servers:

- CICS for AIX V1.2 enhancing CICS as the leading transaction processing software for UNIX with significant performance gains, improved installation and configuration, and client support.

- CICS for OS/2 V2.0.1 reinforcing OS/2 Warp for business-critical computing, with enhanced application development capabilities and client support.

IBM has also announced new client features for CICS for MVS/ESA that will let customers connect CICS clients and UNIX systems to mainframe CICS applications.

             - INDUSTRY SUPPORT FOR CLIENT/SERVER CICS -

The new CICS clients announced today give customers and software vendors the opportunity to access and exploit business-critical information directly from their standard desktop packages. Software vendors are already recognizing the value of bringing the power of CICS to the desktop:

"More and more companies are coming to depend on Lotus Notes to compress the time and improve the results of everyday business processes. Many companies also rely on CICS to manage their business critical applications and data," said Jeff Papows, Vice President, Lotus Communications Products Division. "The new CICS clients offer an opportunity to users of Lotus Notes and other Lotus desktop products to easily integrate these two very diverse environments in a seamless fashion."

Thousands of software vendors, application providers, systems integrators, and software service organizations around the world are working with CICS products. Vendors interested in more information on IBM's CICS, should call 301-240-8143 in the U.S., and 44-962-816635 outside of the U.S.

                    - AVAILABILITY -

All products are available now.

This announcement is consistent with the IBM Open Blueprint, which is the market-leading approach for open, distributed computing. Since it incorporates  a range of standards, the Open Blueprint offers the best assurance that businesses can build, run and manage distributed applications in a diverse, multivendor world.


Advanced Media to Manage IBM Ultimedia Tools
IBM Names Advanced Media, Inc., to Manage Ultimedia Tools Series

Mountain View, Calif., Feb. 13, 1995 . . . IBM today announced that effective immediately Advanced Media, Inc. (NASD-ADVI) will manage and provide marketing and sales support for the IBM Ultimedia Tools Series. The series is a collection of multimedia application development software tools and complementary hardware and software products from vendors including IBM, AimTech, D/Vision, and Advanced Digital Systems.

Under the terms of the agreement, Advanced Media will sell multimedia software for the development of solutions using animation, video editing, color publishing, interactive multimedia and presentation graphics to business, government and education customers through its telemarketing channel. Advanced Media (AMI) is an industry leader in interactive multimedia systems and technology with expertise in catalog, telemarketing and direct response programs. "We chose Advanced Media to manage the Ultimedia Tools Series because of their expertise in developing multimedia solutions and their experience in marketing multimedia products," said Dave Drabo, manager, IBM Ultimedia Tools Series. "This combination makes them ideally suited to support both Ultimedia Tools Series customers and vendors."

"We look forward to working with Ultimedia Tools Series vendors on new and innovative telemarketing programs," said Joel Sher, president of Advanced Media. "We anticipate continued growth within this fast growing multimedia software distribution channel."

The Ultimedia Tools Series provides compatibility across tools by way of specified standards. Products conforming to the standards are licensed to display the Ultimedia Tools Series Emblem. Multimedia product vendors interested in participating in Advanced Media's Ultimedia Tools Series programs should contact Joel Sher at 1-800-292-4AMI. Customers can call 1-800-887-7771 for product information.


Media Vision Emerges from Bankruptcy
MEDIA VISION EMERGES FROM BANKRUPTCY AND SIGNS AGREEMENT FOR $15 MILLION LINE OF CREDIT

FREMONT, CALIF. -- JANUARY 4, 1995 -- Media Vision announced that it had emerged from bankruptcy effective December 30, 1994, and signed a loan agreement for a $15 million secured line of credit with certain funds and accounts managed by the TCW Group, Inc., and its affiliate, TCW Special Credits (TCW), based in Los Angeles. In accordance with the company's plan of reorganization, all of its pre-bankruptcy debts have been converted into 20 million shares of newly issued common stock.

"This is a great way to start the new year and the new Media Vision," said G. Robert Brownell, Media Vision's president and CEO. "We are ready to focus our efforts on bringing this company back to profitability. Our core technologies will allow us to create products that enhance our already strong domestic retail presence, that build our international retail presence, and that position us for a greater role in the OEM board and semiconductor chip markets."

Media Vision also announced the appointment of three members of its newly formed board of directors: Richard Masson, managing director of TCW Asset Management Company; Thomas Smith, assistant vice president of TCW Asset Management Company; and G. Robert Brownell. The company has retained a search firm to identify candidates for two additional outside director positions. Upon distribution of all shares in connection with the claims administration at the end of January, TCW will own approximately 43 percent of the reorganized company.

As previously reported, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court has approved a stipulation between Media Vision and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in which the staff of the SEC agreed that it will not recommend any enforcement actions be taken against the company, provided the company continues to cooperate with the SEC and the Department of Justice. In addition, the company confirmed that, as part of the plan of reorganization, the pending shareholder lawsuits against the company have been discharged and the securities plaintiffs will not receive any rights or claims to assets of the reorganized company.

Media Vision also announced that it has appointed First Interstate Bank as the transfer agent for its new common stock. The company has applied for listing on the Nasdaq National Market System. As part of the confirmed plan of reorganization, the company's former common stock listed under the symbol "MVIQC" and subordinated debentures listed under the symbol "MVGQC" were canceled effective December 30, 1994.

Media Vision's mission is to popularize multimedia by offering consumer solutions at affordable prices. Headquartered in Fremont, California, the company is a leader in multimedia for personal computers and offers multimedia kits, sound boards, and audio chips. The company sells its products through computer retail and mass merchandising channels, and to original equipment manufacturers.


ZipMe V1.21 Multi-Threaded OS/2 PM Zip Shell
Version 1.21 of ZiPMe

ZiPMe 1.21 has been uploaded to the incoming directories ftp-os2.nmsu.edu and ftp.tu-muenchen.de.  The archive name is zipme121.zip.

ZiPMe is a 32-bit multithreaded zip shell for the Presentation Manager of OS/2 that helps you to manage zip archives of the INFO-zip versions zip.exe 2.0 and unzip.exe 5.1.  The archive zipme121.zip includes an English and a German version.

Changes and bugfixes in Version 1.21

- The bug, who crashed ZiPMe if it has been started with a zip file as

  commandline argument, has been fixed.  The bug appeared if ZiPMe has

  been started by drag & drop a zip file onto the program object of

  ZiPMe or if it has been started by double clicking onto a zip file

  after an association in the WPS has been made.

- A bug in saving the font of the view windows has been fixed.

- In the extract dialog the part Target has been changed.  The option

  "Create directory with name of archive" in now a check box.  The

  directory is now created in the directory which is given as the

  target in the entry field above it.

ZiPMe is postcard ware.  This means that if you like ZiPMe, please send me a postcard with a photo of your city.

Peter Eggert

An Schormanns Busch 20

32107 Bad Salzuflen

Germany


ILOG DB LINK C++ Library for Database Interfacs
ILOG today announced ILOG DB LINK, a portable C++ library for connecting C++ applications to leading relational database managers such as Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Ingres, and SQLBase.

Through SQL, C++ developers interface easily with all services provided by relational database managers, such as transactional processing, dictionary access, and data manipulation - while experiencing none of the architectural limitations of the traditional 4GL approach.

ILOG DB LINK allows to access DBs without having to learn the specific API for a particular DBMS. As requests are written directly in SQL, ILOG DB LINK imposes no additional structures to represent the database tables, and supports all database operations through only four classes.

ILOG DB LINK supports multiple databases instances as well as multiple database management systems simultaneously. Applications are instantly portable across operating systems, compilers and RDBMSs.

ILOG DB LINK integrates easily with ILOG VIEWS to display database schemes in ILOG VIEWS graphs, and RDBMS data in ILOG VIEWS tables.

ILOG DB LINK is available on a wide range of UNIX platforms and on PCs running Microsoft Windows for $2,500. Preferred university rates and free demonstration CD-ROM available upon request.

ILOG Inc.

Email: info@ilog.com

Tel: (415) 390 9000

Fax: (415) 390 0946

URL: http://www.ilog.com


CODEchange Updates New UK Phone/Fax Numbers
CODEchange updates NEW UK PHONE and FAX NUMBERS

CODEchange software updates phone and fax numbers in databases to the new numbers needed for calling Britain after April 16th.

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Real Time Systems Ltd. announces CODEchange for Windows, a powerful time-saving utility FOR ANYONE WITH CONTACTS IN THE UK.

CODEchange quickly and accurately updates UK PHONE and FAX numbers in almost any type of organizer, contact manager or other database file, ready for the phone system renumbering on April 16th -- "PhONEday".

CODEchange runs in Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher.

Price

The PRICE of CODEchange is ONLY:     ** US $49.00 **     (GBP 29.00)

for the single-user version.

Why do you need CODEchange?

**********************************************************************

* On Easter Sunday, April 16th, phone numbers in Britain will change *

**********************************************************************

The largest telephone system renumbering program ever undertaken in the UK will be completed on April 16th. After that date, businesses in other countries calling or sending faxes to the UK could find they have problems getting through.

This major upheaval for phone users is necessary to allow for expansion of the UK's telecommunications network. The present numbering scheme needs to be extended, and this will be achieved by increasing most of the area codes by one digit.

In most cases a "1" will be added as a prefix to the existing area code. For example, the current central London area code "71" will be "171" after PhONEday. However, there are many exceptions to this general rule.

Some area codes will change to completely different numbers on PhONEday, while others - mainly those for "non-terrestrial" services - will not change. And in a few cities, certain the customer numbers will be extended by one digit.

Updating your phone and fax databases could be a nightmare!

CODEchange will save you time and avoid errors.

CODEchange for Windows can detect and update UK phone numbers in a wide variety of file types, and in almost any format ( with spaces, hyphens, brackets, etc). It takes care of all the exceptions in the renumbering scheme, and alters those customer numbers which need to be extended.

File types handled

CODEchange converts many types of file, including:

 * Microsoft Access 1 and 2

 * dBase III and IV

 * FoxPro 2.0 and 2.5

 * Paradox

 * Comma-separated value (CSV)

 * Delimited text

 * Free-format text

 * Fixed field-length files

 * WinFax PRO

 * QuickFax

 * ACT!

 * Goldmine

 * Lotus Organizer

 * Sidekick

 * and many more...

Other implications of PhONEday

You may need to do more than update your databases to be ready for the PhONEday renumbering.

Fax machines, phone systems, auto-diallers, modems, databases, etc. will all need to be re-programmed with the new numbers. Sales literature, advertising and publicity material, packaging, user manuals, contact lists, and any other document showing telephone or fax numbers in the UK may need to be re-printed.

CODEchange contains a comprehensive Help file giving full details of the changes. Print this out for easy reference.

Act now - no need to wait until PhONEday!

There is no need to wait until April 16th to make the changes. All the new UK numbers are already in use - they have been operating in parallel with the old numbers since August 1994.

Information and ordering:

Real Time Systems Limited

381 Castlereagh Road

Belfast  BT5 6AB                       Voice:  +44 1232 403120

Northern Ireland - UK                    Fax:  +44 1232 403121

For information by E-mail,

send an E-mail message, subject "CODEchange", to:

                  real_time@delphi.com

Payment can be made by Mastercard, Visa, Eurocard, Eurocheque, or bank draft in pounds sterling (GBP).


AceLaunch V1.05 Win Task Switcher/App Launcher
Announcing AceLaunch 1.05

AceLaunch 1.05 (formerly known as LaunchPad) is a task switcher, application launcher and document management utility for Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11.

It provides a user-configurable popup menu accessible from anywhere in Windows, to which you can assign lists of commonly used applications and documents, yet unlike almost all other launchers it USES NO SPACE ON YOUR DESKTOP!!

Features:

    - User-defined popup menu listing favourite apps

    - User-defined submenus associating documents with apps

    - Completely unobtrusive while loaded

    - Four switchable access methods to minimise conflicts

      with other desktop organisers (e.g. Norton Desktop)

      including:

      - Right-click in desktop

      - Left-click in desktop

      - Right-click in caption bar of active window

      - Append to system menu of all applications

Available from:  ftp.cica.indiana.edu (and mirror sites)

File name:       /pub/pc/win3/desktop/aclnch.zip

AceLaunch is a Shareware product and registration ($15 US or #10 Sterling) gets you free support via CompuServe and paper mail.


Apple Developers Get Increased Online Access
Apple Announces Availability of New Developer Pages and File Transfer Protocol Site on World Wide Web

Developers to Have Increased Online Access to Support and Services

CUPERTINO, California--February 16, 1995--Affirming its commitment to the developer community, Apple Computer, Inc. today announced that it has added a developer section to its world wide web pages. The new set of pages includes information on Apple's development programs, as well as business and technical data. Additionally, the company has set up a file transfer protocol (ftp) site on the Internet specifically designed to provide in-depth content regarding applications development.

The developer pages contain comprehensive information on the company's developer support programs, complete listings of Apple's Developer University courses, online tutorials, articles from Apple Directions, the Developer Business Report, Macintosh technical notes, pointers and directories of the developer ftp site, and Develop, the Apple Technical Journal.

The ftp site makes available demos, software, tools, technical documentation and other application development information. Specific content includes all issues of Develop (complete with sample code), all issues of Apple Directions, APDA catalogs for ordering development products, Developer University demos, complete sample code and demos, system software extensions and header files. Technical documentation consists of Inside Macintosh, Macintosh Technical Notes, Macintosh Developer Notes, Apple Events Registry and suites, ABS Technical Notes, peripherals documentation and human interfaces.

While the data is available now via eWorld and AppleLink and the Internet, future access services are expected to include CompuServe, America Online, GEnie and Prodigy with back gateways through the Internet. Apple plans to update both the web pages and ftp site as new information becomes available.

"We wanted all developers worldwide to have access to our resources and be able to choose their access method," said Shirley Stas, Apple director of Developer Support. "Because so many developers use the Internet, it was a logical choice to extend our reach globally. By creating these new web pages and increasing the information on our ftp site, we can broaden the scope of developers everywhere." Stas added that developer response has been extremely positive. "Developers have thanked the company for its effort and have articulated their support and appreciation for making the information so accessible and convenient."

Apple's World Wide Web pages can be accessed through http://www.info.apple.com/dev and the ftp site at ftp.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Developer_Services.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the information industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy-to- use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, online services, and personal digital assistants. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) develops, manufactures, licenses and markets products, technologies and services for the business, education, consumer, scientific & engineering and government markets in over 140 countries.

Apple Computer Inc

20525 Mariana Ave

Cupertino, CA 95014

408-996-1010


DEC to Provide Media Server Technology
DIGITAL TO PROVIDE MEDIA SERVER TECHNOLOGY FOR AMERITECH DEPLOYMENT

Digital's Media Server Platform To Deliver Interactive Services to Millions of Homes in Mid-Western U.S.

MAYNARD, Mass. -- February 21, 1995 -- In preparation for the largest mass-market deployment of interactive video services to date, Digital Equipment Corporation and Ameritech announced that they have signed a broad-based technology agreement, under which Digital will provide its media server platform for Ameritech's interactive services deployment. Today's agreement will provide Digital with as much as $40 million in product and service revenues over the next five years.

Digital's media servers platform will be a central component of Ameritech's new network that will deliver movies-on-demand, home- shopping and other interactive entertainment services. The Ameritech network is expected to become operational in the first midwestern communities by the end of this year.

According to Sultan Zia, general manager of Digital's Video and Interactive Information Services group, "The combination of Digital's high-performance media servers and Ameritech's networking expertise will change the way millions of consumers spend at-home leisure time -- shopping, accessing information and watching movies." Zia added that by eliminating trials and moving directly to deployments, Ameritech is accelerating the delivery of available interactive video services and increasing the need for programming. "In anticipating larger markets for their programs, content providers will produce content sooner, thereby providing consumers with more choices and creating more demand."

Digital's media server platform has already been selected by more cable and telephone companies worldwide than any other video server provider. The company's Video and Interactive Information Architecture provides a full-service solution for delivering interactive video applications over many types of networks. Currently the industry's only second-generation media server, Digital's platform features object-oriented middleware that links the world's fastest server systems -- based on 64-bit Alpha processors -- with the company's StorageWorks disk arrays and digital tape library systems. This architecture also provides network, subscriber, and billing management capabilities in an open framework that supports third-party and legacy applications.

Ameritech (NYSE: AIT), one of the world's largest communications companies, provides local phone, data and video services for more than 13 million customers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The company is currently developing new information, entertainment and interactive services for homes, businesses and governments worldwide. Nearly 1 million investors hold Ameritech shares.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry- focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.


DEC XL Server 590DP Dual Processor Upgrade
DIGITAL ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF XL SERVER 590DP -- DUAL PROCESSOR UPGRADE FOR POPULAR FILE/APPLICATION PC SERVER LINE

MAYNARD, Mass. -- February 21, 1995 -- Digital Equipment Corporation today announced availability of the Prioris XL Server 590DP, a dual processor version of its midrange Intel-based file and application server. The Prioris XL Server 590DP is one of the first shipping servers in its class to support both EISA and PCI architectures in a multiprocessing configuration.

The availability of a dual processor configuration allows server customers to extend their existing investment in technology, while gaining siginificant performance and throughput enhancements. The XL Server 590DP is certified on all major multiprocessing operating systems, conforms to applicable industry standards and incorporates a variety of performance and data security features, including dual Pentium processors in a multiprocessing architecture, 512KB cache memory, 512MB parity or 256MB ECC memory, on board Fast and Wide SCSI compatibility, dual high-performance bus management supporting both EISA and PCI, and remote server management.

Digital's Prioris Powergrade program allows users of all uniprocessor versions of the XL Server -- including Intel 466, 560, 566 and 590 versions -- to upgrade easily to a dual processor system. Upgrades are completed on site by an authorized Digital service provider.

"This new version of the Prioris XL Server enables customers to protect and enhance their technological investments, while at the same time exploiting the latest performance gains made possible by a dual processing Pentium architecture," said Duane Dickhut, Digital's vice president of PC server product management and development. "Combined with the wide range of standard peripherals and options, the Prioris XL Server family balances power and price to meet a wide range of general business server demands."

As with all Digital Prioris Servers, the XL Server 590DP is backed by a three-year on-site warranty with next-day response where direct service is available, and by Digital's long-standing reputation for world class, worldwide service and support. An optional 24-hour, seven-days-per-week coverage program is also available.

The Prioris XL Server 590DP is available immediately. A base system configuration is priced at $7,799 and consists of two 90Mhz Intel Pentium processors with 512KB cache memory, a 1.44M floppy disk drive, 32MB parity memory, 1GB Fast SCSI hard disk drive, a double speed CD-ROM, a mouse and a keyboard.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry- focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.


netWORX Companion 1.0 Network Monitoring Tool
Just Released:

Filename        : netwx100.zip

Description     : Network monitoring and multi-service utility

Platform        : WfW 3.x, Windows NT 3.x

Audience        : System managers with rudimentary Windows technical skills

Submitted       : 19 Feb 95 (ftp.cica.indiana.edu)

netWORX Companion 1.0 is a network-wide system monitoring and remote application launching tool for Windows-compatible networks.  From a central workstation, an administrator can:

- View system resource levels such as RAM and disk space

- Monitor active users

- Send messages to selected or all monitored nodes

- Launch applications on selected or all monitored nodes

- Synchronize all nodes to the server's time and date

- Unregistered edition monitors 3 workstations maximum

Registered Features

- View AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, and .INI files remotely for

  troubleshooting

- Script file of workstations to monitor at system start-up

- Low Resource alarm for RAM and disk space

- MRU file-tracking for remote application launcher

- No restriction on the number of workstations you can monitor

- A clear conscience

- A printed manual and diskette

Registration: $20 US for a basic license, site licenses available.

For More Information contact DMGI via e-mail at the following address:

duncan_smith@mindlink.bc.ca

(Comments, suggestions, or problems.)

DMGI Diversified Product Group

Vancouver, BC, Canada


SlipStream Jet 1.0 Downloads USENET Newsgroups
Announcing the release of SlipStream Jet 1.000. This Windows program will let you download your selected USENET newsgroups from your Internet provider (SLIP/PPP) and convert them to QWK format for use with your favorite offline reader. It will read your reply packets and upload them to your NNTP server. It will create 100% correct USENET headers. This program requires Windows 3.1 or higher, a TCP/IP connection, and a Winsock 1.1 compliant stack installed.

It has been uploaded to the Demon server in the UK, CICA and SimTel. It should be found in the Winsock directories. For more information you can contact the author at P_B_E@delphi.com


MultiMedia WWW PC V2.0 Upgrade
MultiMedia WWW PC - v. 2.0 Upgrade - 16/02/95

We are glad to announce a new upgrade of the MM-WWW-PC specs, a research tied to the PC and Microsoft Windows platform.

MM-WWW-PC specs have been developed to fill the existing gap between the power of WWW in retrieving information, and the flexibility of PCs in running interactive hypermedia applications. This makes MM-WWW-PC particularly suitable for Distance Education purposes.

MM-WWW-PC consists of a series of configuration settings and a software application developed using the authoring system Asymetrix Multimedia Toolbook 3.0 for Microsoft Windows.

Following step by step the procedures described in the following Web, you will be able to distribute your interactive PC applications using WWW, and the remote user will be able to launch them with a single mouse click from the Web page.

New important features have been added to the previous release, such as the possibility to instruct automatically the browser to connect to an URL or print the contents of the page displayed.

MultiMedia WWW PC v. 2.0

<URL:http://www.univ.trieste.it/mmwwwpc/mmwwwpc.html>

For more information:

Paolo Tosolini, Italy

tosolini@psicosun.univ.trieste.it


MicroSim Schematics for Windows Announced
Special Value to Engineers Who Make the Switch

MICROSIM CORPORATION ANNOUNCES MICROSIM SCHEMATICS FOR WINDOWS

February 17, 1995 -- IRVINE, Calif. -- MicroSim Corporation, a leader in Windows electronic design automation software, today introduced MicroSim Schematics for Windows, a full-featured Windows schematic capture package. The new package is available at an exceptionally low price of $ 199 ($260 international) for competitive upgrades as an incentive for designers to switch over from other schematic entry products.

MicroSim, known for PSpice simulation software, is using price to expand into the Windows Schematic entry software market. "MicroSim Schematics for Windows is the first truly shrink-wrapped EDA software sold at a Windows shrink-wrapped software price," said Wolfram Blume, MicroSim president. "MicroSim's new product is the perfect upgrade for CADSTAR, OrCAD, PADS. P-CAD, and TangoPRO users."

For first time users, the schematic entry software is available at an introductory price of $479 ($625 international), less than half the price tag of other schematic capture programs on the market today.

"Compared to other schematic entry software, the designer can create a schematic design in a fraction of the time with MicroSim Schematics," said Ian Wilson, MicroSim vice president of engineering. "DOS users of CADSTAR, OrCAD, PADS, P-CAD and TangoPRO will benefit from the new package's ease of use and efficiency. The efficiency comes from the Windows graphical user interface and our focus on schematic design efficiency. not just features."

To make the switch easier for OrCAD users, MicroSim Schematics includes an OrCAD translator to convert OrCAD symbol libraries and schematic diagrams into the MicroSim Schematics format.

MicroSim Schematics is an integral part of the MicroSim family of powerful, integrated products for printed circuit board (PCB) design, signal integrity analysis (MicroSim Polaris), mixed analog and digital simulation (MicroSim PSpice or MicroSim PSpice A/D), PLD synthesis (MicroSim PLSyn), logic simulation (MicroSim PLogic), and analog performance optimization (MicroSim PSpice Optimizer). MicroSim's most recent products include MicroSim PCBoards and MicroSim PCBoards with Autorouter for Windows.

All of MicroSim' s Windows EDA products, including MicroSim Schematics, run on both Windows 3.1 and Windows NT platforms, offering designers an intuitive environment with pull-down menus and dialog boxes. The product is the sixth Windows release of MicroSim Schematics.

MicroSim Schematics for Windows was originally released in 1991 for use with other MicroSim design tools. The latest release of the reliable, proven product includes enhancements designed to meet the demanding needs of PCB designers using PCB packages from MicroSim, Accel TangoPRO, CADSTAR, OrCAD, PADS, P-CAD, Protel, and SCICARDS.

MicroSim Schematics for Windows offers a wide range of features including a symbol library of over 32,000 components, support for flat and unlimited levels of hierarchy in designs, multiple windows, simultaneous views of the same or different schematics, integrated symbol and package editing, unlimited number of pages per schematic and schematics per design, bill of material reporting, and backward ECO support. MicroSim Schematics can generate PCB layout netlist formats for Accel TangoPRO, CADSTAR, PADS, P-CAD, Protel, SCICARDS, and EDIF 2 0 0. The package ships without a security plug to provide users more convenience.

The Windows environment is ideal for creating design documentation by using standard Windows features such as cut and paste. By taking advantage of the low introductory price to move up to Windows, designers can use other Windows electronic design automation (EDA) software from MicroSim, and other EDA vendors.

MicroSim Schematics is available for Windows 3.1, Windows NT, Sun, and HP. MicroSim offers investment protection with a 100 percent trade-up credit towards other MicroSim products when the software is maintained at the current release.

The company breaks from the norm and keeps prices affordable by selling high-quality, shrink-wrapped products directly to customers instead of relying on an expensive sales force. As a result, MicroSim is able to sell an entire line of products, including MicroSim Schematics and the popular MicroSim PSpice, at prices 30 to 80 percent less than other companies.

MicroSim products are available for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, DOS, Sun, and HP. Windows prices range from $199 to $7,900 ($260 to $10,250 international); Sun and HP prices range from $1,479 to $15,900 ($1,925 to $20,700 international).

"We've found that MicroSim customers are more comfortable dealing with engineers rather than salespeople," said Blume. "MicroSim software is so easy to learn and use that we don' t require a fleet of salespeople to explain it to users."

More information on MicroSim products is available by phone at (714) 770-3022 and (800) 245-3022, or via fax at (714) 455-0554, or on Internet at sales@microsim.com.

MicroSim Corp

20 Fairbanks

Irvine, CA 92718


Growing Use of Internet Email Addresses
17 February 1995 -- Use of Internet Email addresses and world wide web pages for PC hardware and software sales and support is exploding. EMS Professional Shareware maintains a database of all 23,000 companies which produce commercial, shareware and freeware hardware and software in the USA and internationally. In the period from Nov. 20, 1994 through Jan. 20, 1995 alone, the number of Email and web pages advertised by these producers has increased almost 10%, from 2154 (9.4% of all producers) to 2353 (10.2% of all producers). This represents an annual growth rate of over 100%, and the trend appears to be accelerating.

EMS Professional Shareware offers a shareware database with the 2353 Internet Email addresses and web pages and similar databases of 6692 toll free numbers and 1307 BBS support numbers are also available. These databases can be found on BBSes, online services and Internet FTP archives, or may be ordered from EMS for a small handling charge.

EMS can be reached at +1(301)924-3594 by Fax at +1(301)963-2708.

For more information or a review copy of any of EMS's products, contact Steve Heineman.

EMS produces a wide range of PD/Shareware libraries for PC professionals, including libraries for the CA-Clipper, FoxPro, MS-Access, assembler, C, C++, Pascal, Spreadsheets, AutoCAD, DOS Utilities, NetWare Utilities, OS/2 Utilities, QuickBasic, Paradox, Visual Basic, Windows Utilities, and Science and Engineering. A brochure is enclosed.

EMS Professional Shareware

4505 Buckhurst Ct.

Olney, MD 20832-1830 USA

Voice:+1(301) 924-3594,   Fax:+1(301) 963-2708

Internet: eric.engelmann@wdn.com

http.//www.xmission.com/~wwwads/ems/ems.html


nu/TPU V4.1 Multi-Platform Text Editor
nu/TPU v4.1 Update Shipping

February 21, 1995, Bedford, NH - a/Soft Development, Inc. is now shipping nu/TPU v4.1, an update to its popular multi-platform text editor for UNIX, DOS, and Windows NT. nu/TPU offers developers a welcome alternative to the limited functionality of vi, the often confusing EMACS, or the inadequate editors that come with their operating systems.

Version 4.1 brings a host of improvements and added functionality to the editor, especially in the Motif, MS Windows, and Windows NT versions. These interfaces have been redesigned, resulting in a polished, easy to use editing environment. For example, a new command dialog has been created that will allow users to decide where the command line will be located in their editing windows. A new find dialog makes searches a snap, with everything needed at the user's fingertips, including a find attributes dialog. A new system attributes dialog shows users all the attributes and their settings, and allows them to be controlled from within the dialog with a click of the mouse or a tap on the keyboard. The Motif version can now handle multi-processing; users can create one or more sub-processes simultaneously and communicate with them.

Another new feature of nu/TPU v4.1 is that font and colors can be set right from within the editor during a session by specifying the desired variables in a new dialog Font style and font size are user-definable. Column modes of 80- and 132-width are supported in nu/TPU v4.1. A significant increase in processing speed will also be noticed

There are a number of useful changes in nu/TPU's help facility. A new keypad help dialog with push buttons makes retrieving information on specific keys a cinch. The new, separate help window enables users to obtain help on topics in a unique help window while still having full view of their edit window. A simple request for help on a specified subject will bring up a description of the topic, along with related topics, examples, default key bindings, and command line abbreviations if applicable. The MS Windows version now uses the Microsoft help text facility for consistency with other MS Windows applications.

a/Soft Development, Inc. has been providing software development productivity tools specializing in interoperability and ease of use since 1989. nu/TPU pricing for UNIX starts at $499,$199 for DOS, and $299 for Windows NT. For further information about nu/TPU, please call a/Soft at (603)666-6699, or contact by fax at (603) 666-6460. a/Soft's offices are located at 24 Eastman Ave., Bedford, NH 03110.


Keynote Speaker for Embedded Systems Conf. East
MILLER FREEMAN, INC. ANNOUNCES KEYNOTE SPEAKER FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE EAST

Nick Tredennick Promises Irreverent Insight Into The Past, Present And Future Of Microprocessor Design

San Franciso -- February 21, 1995 -- Miller Freeman, Inc. today announced that Nick Tredennick, author of Microprocessor Logic Design, (Digital Press, 1987), will deliver the keynote address at Embedded Systems Conference East at the Inforum in Atlanta, April 18-20. Tredennick will address the future of microprocessor design, and review current "fads." He will also discuss why embedded design, the largest microprocessor market in the world, is often overlooked by the press.

Dr. Tredennick, now chief scientist at Altera Corporation, was responsible for logic design and microcode for the Motorola MC68000 and the IBM Micro/370 microprocessors. He is a prolific writer and a frequent contributor to Microprocessor Report. During a career studded with an unusual variety of occupations, Tredennick has developed a unique point of view.

"Nick Tredennick's approach to the microprocessor industry is refreshing and irreverent," said Ted Bahr, publisher of Embedded Systems Programming and vice president of the Electronics Division at Miller Freeman, Inc. "His insight into the economics that drive the trends combined with his entertaining style, make him the kind of speaker that we want to hear from again and again."

According to Tredennick, "Microprocessors can be broken down into four types: zero cost, zero delay, zero power and zero volume. I'll explain what that means at the conference."

The keynote presentation, on Tuesday, April 18, complements a three-day program of tutorials and lectures that reflect the growing complexity facing engineers working in the embedded marketplace. Exhibitors will feature products and services for embedded systems developers and engineers throughout the three day conference.

Embedded Systems Conference East is the only East Coast educational forum 100% dedicated to embedded systems products and services. Now in its third year, Embedded Systems Conference East is the East Coast counterpart to the original Embedded Systems Conference, a seven year old show which takes place every fall in Silicon Valley. Both shows are presented by Miller Freeman, Inc., the publisher of Embedded Systems Programming and the third largest trade show producer in North America. A wholly-owned subsidiary of United Newspapers plc of London, England, the company provides dozens of electronics and software conferences and trade shows, including: Software Development Conference, Autodesk University, MechanCAD, PCB Design Conference, Surface Mount International, and the OS/2 World Conference and Exhibition.

Exhibitor Contact:  Megan Forrester   -- 415/905-4998

                    Meredith Hahn     -- 415/905-2586

Attendee Contact:   Sherry Nykiel     -- 415/905-2354

Press Registration: FS Communications -- 415/691-1488

Miller Freeman, Inc.

600 Harrison St

San Francisco, CA 94107

415-905-2354,  fax 415-905-2220


SilverPlatter & Info. Access Pub. Agreement
SilverPlatter Information and Information Access Company Enter into Publishing Agreement

February 4, 1995 --- SilverPlatter Information and Information Access Company (IAC) have announced a joint publishing agreement. Under this agreement, SilverPlatter will initially be publishing F&S Index Plus Text and Health Reference Center with other databases to follow.

F&S Index Plus Text and Health Reference Center will be compliant with SilverPlatter's ERL Technology. Because of this compliancy, these products will be available in CD-ROM and hard disk format, and will be accessible using SilverPlatter's retrieval software for DOS, Windows, Macintosh and UNIX. In addition, F&S Index Plus Text and Health Reference Center will also be accessible by other ERL retrieval clients that are developed by third-party vendors.

With this partnership, SilverPlatter will be publishing, in the near future, other IAC databases, including Expanded Academic Index and Business Index, which will be compliant with ERL Technology.

Commenting on the publishing partnership, Nancy Knight, vice president of Information Provider Services, noted "It is a pleasure to be working with IAC. IAC is well-respected in the industry for the quality products that it brings to academic and public libraries. Our relationship with IAC illustrates SilverPlatter's commitment to building a Worldwide Library by establishing collaborations which add quality information to the Library's content."

Sean Devine, general manager for the Library division at IAC, added: "SilverPlatter's ERL Technology was instrumental in our decision to collaborate with SilverPlatter. Because ERL Technology supports multiple searching environments and offers a choice of interfaces, making our products ERL-compliant will only increase access to our information to users around the world."

F&S Index Plus Text is a comprehensive source for research on companies, products, markets, and industries. This database provides business information from over 1,000 trade periodicals and general business journals with abstracts for most citations and full text from 180 titles. It's an ideal source for information on activities in thousands of public and private companies in the U.S. and abroad.

Health Reference Center is a unique and comprehensive integrated database designed to meet a variety of health and medical information needs. The database provides index and abstract citations and full text from a broad range of periodicals, pamphlets, and medical reference books.

For further information, contact:

SilverPlatter Information, Inc.

100 River Ridge Drive

Norwood, MA 02062-5043

Tel: 1-800-343-0064 (U.S. and Canada) or 1-617-769-2599

Fax: 1-617-769-8763

Internet: info@silverplatter.com

-or-

IAC

362 Lakeside Drive

Foster City, CA 94404

Tel: 1-800-227-8431

Fax: 1-415-378-5369


SilverPlatter to Publish CQ Researcher on CD
SilverPlatter to Publish The CQ Researcher on CD-ROM

February 4, 1995 -- SilverPlatter Information announces a publishing partnership with Congressional Quarterly, Inc. (CQ). CQ, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is widely respected for its tradition of nonpartisan editorial excellence covering Congress and national issues. Among the many CQ publications which contribute to this reputation is The CQ Researcher, a favorite research starting point for many librarians. Under this new publishing agreement, SilverPlatter Information will make The CQ Researcher's unequaled current-events coverage available in electronic form.

The CQ Researcher is a library's link to factual information on the subjects that have captured the nation's attention and are hotly debated around the country. An ideal research tool for both high school and college students, The CQ Researcher is the starting point for research on current, emerging, and often controversial, topics of the day. It presents many facets of opinion, provides milestone dates, details the latest developments and projections, explores the merits of opposite viewpoints, and provides sources for further research.

Acclaimed by both college and high school librarians, The CQ Researcher is an excellent resource for students because it covers topics that are hard to pinpoint and for which it is hard to find accurate, up-to-date material.

Now, through this publishing partnership, The CQ Researcher will be available on CDROM, allowing librarians and library researchers to access this information faster, easier and more comprehensively than ever before.

The CQ Researcher on CD-ROM in the second quarter of 1994. It will be updated quarterly and will run in both Windows and DOS environments.

For further information, contact:

SilverPlatter Information, Inc.

100 River Ridge Drive

Norwood, MA 02062-5043

Tel: 1-800-343-0064 (U.S. and Canada) or 1-617-769-2599

Fax: 1-617-769-8763

Internet: info@silverplatter. com


Advanced Windows Developer's Guide to Win32 API
Jeffrey Richter's Advanced Windows

The Developer's Guide to the Win32 API for Windows NT 3.5 and Windows 95

February 7, 1995--REDMOND, WA--Microsoft Press announced today the publication of ADVANCED WINDOWS by seasoned developer, consultant, and critically acclaimed author Jeffrey Richter.

ADVANCED WINDOWS is the first full discussion of the Win32 API for Windows NT version 3.5 and Windows 95. It offers expert advice, sample code, and tested techniques for ISVs and corporate developers building new 32-bit applications from scratch or porting existing applications to a Win32 operating system.

Richter examines the core areas of the Windows NT 3.5 and Windows 95 operating systems in detail and explains what the move to Win32 really means in terms of:

* Managing processes and threads, including thread-local storage

  and thread synchronization

* Exploring virtual memory and using virtual memory in applications

* Writing DLLs--and techniques for using them most effectively

* Sharing code and data among applications using memory-mapped files

  and sophisticated DLL-injection techniques

* Developing software for international markets using Unicode

* Writing robust, error-free applications using structured exception

  handling

Along the way, Richter points out how to both unleash the power and avoid the pitfalls of the complex Win32 API. He carefully details Win32 functions and programming methods specific to either Windows 95 or Windows NT.

An appendix explains how to use "message crackers" to help read, write, and maintain source code. A comprehensive table of contents and a thorough, cross-referenced index help readers quickly locate information about any topic in the book.

Source code and executable binaries for all of the more than 25 sample programs presented in ADVANCED WINDOWS are included on one companion CD-ROM. Written for the Intel, MIPS and Digital Alpha AXP microprocessors, these programs show true 32-bit programming techniques in action. Visual C++ development system version 2.0 and either Microsoft Windows NT (for any CPU platform) or Windows 95 are required.

Jeffrey Richter is the author of Advanced Windows NT and Windows 3.1: A Developer's Guide and is a contributing editor of Microsoft Systems Journal. A full-time software design engineer, Richter is also a consultant, a trainer, and a frequent speaker at developer conferences around the world.

Microsoft Press is the independent book division of Microsoft Corporation and the leading publisher of quality computer books about Microsoft products. More than 10 million users at all skill levels rely on a complete line of Microsoft Press books to make learning and using software easier. Titles ranging from streamlined tutorials for first-time computer users to technical references for professional programmers are distributed to book and software retailers worldwide. Consumers in the United States can also order directly from the publisher at 1-800MSPRESS and through the CompuServe Electronic Mall (GO MSP).

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of products and services for business and personal use, each designed with the mission of making it, easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal computing every day.

Advanced Windows

by Jeffrey Richter

976 pages, one CD-ROM, $44.95

ISBN: 1-55615-677-4

Pub. Date: March 3, 1995

Microsoft Press, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399

206-882-8080,  800-MSPRESS


Developing Applications with Microsoft Office

Strategies for Designing, Developing, and Delivering Custom Business Solutions Using Microsoft Office

Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word are more than just best-of-breed applications--they're strong development tools. DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE from Microsoft Press shows how to use the powerful development features of Office to build mission-critical applications that are easier to use, maintain, and modify than those built with conventional development tools.

Author Christine Solomon draws on her years of experience as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions to show how the built-in development capabilities of the Office applications can be used to build flexible, industrial-strength, custom applications. With this book as their guide, a broad range of developers, IS professionals, power users, and managers will be able to deliver high-powered solutions designed to meet just about any computing challenge.

The Advantages of Microsoft Office Development Tools

Access Basic, WordBasic, and Visual Basic for Applications have matured into state-of-the-art programming languages with the structure and speed necessary to support powerful business applications. By using these tools to quickly and efficiently build, maintain, and update applications with Office, businesses can save time and money. And because so many companies are standardizing on Office, many users will already be familiar with the interface.

Other advantages of using Office development tools include:

* Speeding up the development process by enhancing and extending

  existing desktop applications instead of starting from scratch

* Customizing applications to meet users' specific needs and refine

  applications easily, based on user feedback

* Reducing the amount of resources required to train and support users

  by creating applications that are familiar and easy to use

* Providing users with custom, job-specific tools that allow them to

  retrieve, analyze, and publish data on their own

In Part One of DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE, Solomon offers strategies for developing applications in a corporate environment and discusses the issues involved. She presents case studies to show how Office-based solutions are being put to work across corporate America. She also explains how to start using tools such as OLE automation, DDE, ODBC, and even the Windows API to help build custom business applications.

Part Two is a comprehensive "how to" section for developing applications with Office, complete with valuable sample applications that help readers see custom Office-based applications in action.

Part Three is the Professional's Handbook, a handy reference section for planning training, documentation, and support. The inside information in this part of the book can't be found anywhere else.

Appendixes list additional sources of information about developing business applications with Office and the Visual Basic programming system and include a concise primer on programming in Basic. A glossary makes it easy to look up important terms, and an expanded table of contents along with a comprehensive index helps readers quickly find information on any topic in the book.

One 3.5-inch disk containing all the source code files necessary to create the sample applications in the book is included. Microsoft Office Professional Edition version 4.3 is required.

DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE is the only reference that Office users need to start creating professional-quality data-access and decision-making tools with Office.

Christine Solomon is a director at Micro Modeling Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that provides solutions based on Microsoft Windows to Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions. Solomon pioneered new techniques for creating Office-based publishing and presentation systems using such tools as Excel, Word, Visual Basic, and Windows Help. She is a speaker at dozens of seminars and conferences across North America every year.

Microsoft Press is the independent book division of Microsoft Corporation and the leading publisher of quality computer books about Microsoft products. More than 10 million users at all skill levels rely on a complete line of Microsoft Press books to make learning and using software easier. Titles ranging from streamlined tutorials for first-time computer users to technical references for professional programmers are distributed to book and software retailers worldwide. Consumers in the United States can also order directly from the publisher at 1-800MSPRESS and through the CompuServe Electronic Mall (GO MSP).

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of products and services for business and personal use, each designed with the mission of making it easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal computing every day.

Developing Applications with Microsoft Office

by Christine Solomon

600 pages, one 3.5-inch disk, $39.95

ISBN: 1-55615-665-0

Pub. Date: February 15,1995

Microsoft Press, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399

206-882-8080,  800-MSPRESS


Artisoft CorStream Server Add-On License Pckg
ARTISOFT NOW SHIPPING ADD-ON LICENSE PACKAGES FOR CORSTREAM SERVER

Packages Will Add 5, 10, 25 or 50 Users to LANtastic Network

(TUCSON, AZ--Feb. 13, 1995)--Artisoft, Inc. announced today that add-on license packages for its CorStream dedicated server are now available through the company's distribution and reseller channels. The license packages will allow new users to be added to an existing CorStream/LANtastic network in increments of 5,10, 25 or 50. The add-on package consists of a diskette with the applicable number of licenses and installation documentation. Pricing starts at $699 for the five-user pack.

"The add-on licenses for the award-winning CorStream server assure end users of a dear and simple path to network growth," said Artisoft Vice President of Software Products Sunil Padiyar. "The CorStream system brings client-server networking capabilities to the small business customer at an affordable price. Now with add-on licenses, customers can easily expand their CorStream network," he added.

The CorStream server is a 32-bit dedicated network server that combines the LANtastic network ease of use with the power of Novell's NetWare 4 runtime technology. The server provides small business customers with increased performance and reliability, while maintaining the traditional friendly face of the LANtastic system.

The CorStream server is offered as a drop-in dedicated server to expand and enhance existing LANtastic networks, or as a bundled network solution kit including the server and the LANtastic v6.0 client software.

The CorStream server complements Artisoft's scalable family of network operating system solutions, which include the Simply LANtastic network, the LANtastic v6.0 network, and the LANtastic for OS/2 network.

Artisoft (Nasdaq "ASFT") is one of the world's leading suppliers of scalable, cost-effective networking solutions to small and growing businesses. The company offers the award-winning LANtastic network operating system as well as network management, backup and multiplatform connectivity systems. Artisoft maintains 10 international offices and distributes its connectivity products in more than 100 countries.

For more information about Artisoft or its product line, contact Artisoft, Inc. at 2202 N. Forbes Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85745. Sales 800/233-5564. Corporate 602/670-7100. Fax 602/670-7101.


DeviceNet Developer's Toolkit for DeviceNet
DeviceNet Developer's Toolkit

January 31, 1995 -- Kitchener, Canada - S-S Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce the release of a Developer's Toolkit for DeviceNet.

The DeviceNet Developer's Toolkit includes everything you need to set up a working DeviceNet network. This toolkit allows you to evaluate the performance of DeviceNet, or develop your own DeviceNet compatible device.

The DeviceNet Developer's Toolkit includes a scanner interface card, DeviceNet devices, cables and connectors, development and diagnostic software and the DeviceNet specification.

S-S Technologies also develops and markets ISA and VME interface cards and PCMCIA adapters that allow a direct connection from an ISA, VME or PCMCIA computer to DeviceNet.

S-S Technologies Inc. designs and markets communication products for the industrial marketplace.

For further information, please contact:

S-S Technologies Inc.

88 Ardelt Avenue

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

N2C 2C9

(519) 571-1434 Fax: (519) 743-3610


Working Programmer's Guide to Serial Protocols
Secrets of Safe Data Transfer EXPOSED

The world has gone online: virtual offices, telecommuting, high-speed networks, and fast file transfers. Why use "snail mail" when you can modem information across the country in a matter of minutes? But the technology behind this revolution presents developers with real challenges for writing communications software.

The Working Programmer 's Guide to Serial Protocols is the definitive work on fast serial file transfer protocols. Protocols expert Tim Kientzle provides detailed technical information on the popular XModem, YModem, ZModem, and Kermit protocols. But this book is much more than just a reference on the widely used protocols; it provides ideas and insight for developers who need to create their own custom protocols.

Everything is covered to help developers implement protocols from the ground up. Learn how to define what a protocol should accomplish and explore the five essential layers of all serial protocols. You'll also learn about encoding, error correction, packet design, and streaming techniques. The companion disk not only gives you templates for your own unique protocols, it contains complete C source code for all of the protocols covered. The highly portable source code can be adapted for a variety of platforms.

The race is on for developers to provide software to effectively exploit the communications capabilities of the new generation of desktop and portable computers. The Working Programmer's Guide to Serial Protocols gives you the tools and knowledge needed to use and develop serial protocols, and to become part of this communication revolution.

"I like it--It's well written, economical, and fair."

     ----- Frank da Cruz, inventor of Kermit

About the Disk

The companion disk provides high-performance C source code for all of the protocols covered in the book including XModem, YModem, ZModem, and Kermit. The source code implementations are ready to plug into your communications applications. Regardless of your platform--from PCs to Macs to Unix the C source code gives you a head start to provide high-quality support for your communications programs.

About the Author

Tim Kientzle is a noted communications expert and software developer. He has designed and developed communications for a variety of platforms from workstations to hand-held computers. He writes on communications topics for Dr. Dobb's Journal and other leading developer's magazines.

Product Snapshot

The Working Programmer's Guide to Serial Protocols by Tim Kientzle

ISBN: 1-883577-20-9

Date of Availability: February 1995

$39.99 trade paper

550 pages; graphics and illustrations throughout

Includes 3 1/2" diskette

How to Order

The Working Programmer 's Guide to Serial Protocols can be ordered directly from The Coriolis Group at 1-800-410-0192 or can be ordered in quantity from IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. at 1 -800-434-3433.

About The Coriolis Group

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1995 IBM Technical Interchange May 21-25
Big Blue in the Big Easy!

February 22, 1995

              1995 IBM TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE

            ERNEST N. MORIAL CONVENTION CENTER

                    MAY 21-25, 1995

CALL:

1-800-872-7109 US

1-800-661-2131 Canada

1-508-443-4990 International

1-508-443-4715 Fax

Next to Mardi Gras and the cool sounds of the Jazz Festival, what's the HOTTEST event happening in New Orleans?  It's the 1995 Technical Interchange!

Are you interested in learning about the latest offerings from OS/2, AIX, AS/400, and MVS? Do you want to know more about object oriented technology and how it is defining the next generation of operating systems and applications?  Are you interested in building your technical knowledge and skills?  If you answered "YES" to any of these questions, you can't afford to miss the IBM Technical Interchange.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

*** Software Designers

*** Independent and Corporate Developers

*** Technical Coordinators

*** Software Integrators

*** MIS Managers

*** LAN Experts

*** Device Driver Developers

*** Consultants

*** Value Added Resellers and Dealers

*** Training Executives

And, all those interested in seeing what's hot on OS/2, AIX, AS/400, and MVS.

YOU'LL TAKE HOME MORE THAN A HANDFUL OF BEADS!

Here is a taste of the many items we'll be passing your way!

*IBM Official Technical Interchange t-shirt, bag and mug

*The Developer Bookshelf for AS/400 on CD-ROM:

   AS/400 Partners in Development Offerings for Developers

   IBM Directions for AS/400

   AS/400 Object Oriented Technology Papers

   AS/400 Client/Server Papers

   AS/400 Application Development Program

   Selected FORUMS from On-Line AS/400 Partners in Development

   Selected AS/400 System Manuals

*One Year Subscription to OS/2 Developer

*AS/400 Partners in Development Newsletter

*A Complimentary Subscription to AIXpert Magazine

*C Set ++ on CD ROM for OS/2 v2.1

*LAN CD-ROM:

   DCE Application Enabler for OS/2 (I)

   LAN Systems Toolkit

   SOMObjects Toolkit 2.1: 3.5" Diskettes

   SOMObjects Workgroup Enabler 2.1: 3.5" Diskettes

   AnyNet

   DatagLANce (Evaluation)

   DCE (Illustration) (I)

   LAN Distance (Evaluation)

   LAN Server 4.0 (Evaluation)

   NetDoor/2:

   NetFinity (Evaluation)

   NetView DM/2:

   NetView DM/2 2.1 Extended Base (Evaluation)

   NetView DM/2 2.1 Extended Client (Evaluation)

   NetView DM/2 2.1 Remote Administrator (Evaluation)

   Person to Person/2:

   A PM application that displays LAN adapter information (I)

   PC to PC File transfer Using NETBIOS (I)

   MakeDCE (P)

   NetWare to LAN Server Migration Tool (I)

   Library READ/2 (I)

   Graphically monitor ring utilization (I)

 CODE:

   IBM: Redbook Sample Code: 3.5" Diskettes

   NVDM/2: Samples found in NetView DM/2 Quick Help (I)

 SERVICE:

   IBM: LAN System ServicePaks: 3.5" Diskettes

   IBM: LAN Distance ServicePak: 3.5" Diskettes

   ANYNET IC07730 Service Files

   ANYNET IC07866 Service Files

   ANYNET IC08105 Service Files

   DCE Toolkit

   DCE Tools

    - EZDCE

    - Cell_Profiler

    - DCESTAT

    - DCE_Password

    - PDDA6000        AND SO MUCH MORE...TOO MUCH TO LIST!

And your choice of:

*The Developer Connection for OS/2 on CD ROM:

    OS/2 Warp

    BonusPak for OS/2 Warp

    OpenDoc for OS/2

    VisualAge

    SMART Toolkits for:

     OS/2 Warp

     OS/2 2.1

     OS/2 SMP

     OS/2 Japanese Version

     Pen for OS/2

OR

*AIX Software Development Solutions on CD ROM:

    DB2/6000 Products

    CMVC Products

    POWERbench Solutions

     C++ POWERbench

     COBOL POWERbench

     FORTRAN POWERbench

  IBM Application Development Products

    C

    C++

    FORTRAN

    SDE WorkBench/6000

    ESSL/6000

   Related Vendor Products

And, don't miss the opportunity to win an IBM ThinkPad or a Power Personal System at the Closing Session where David Barnes will knock your socks off

KEYNOTE & GUEST SPEAKERS

Hear from IBM's John W. Thompson - General Manager, Marketing & Solution Developer Programs and hear IBM's strategy to approaching the next century of computing with IBM technologies.

Conference Host:

     James J. Gant -- VP, Solution Developer Operations, IBM

Guest speakers:

     Steve Mills -- General Manager, Software Solutions, IBM

     Cliff Reeves -- Director, Object Technology, IBM

     Joseph Guglielmi -- Chairman and CEO, Taligent, Inc.

SPICY MIX OF INGREDIENTS

The IBM Technical Interchange is proud to present the very latest from OS/2, AIX, AS/400, and MVS -- all under one roof!  Within these operating systems, we're offering over 300 sessions. Session topics include:

* Object Oriented Technology

* Application Development

* Client/Server

* Open Systems

* LAN Systems

* Networking

* Database

* Device Driver Development

* Multimedia

* C++

* PowerPC

* OpenDoc

THE HOTTEST TECHNOLOGY

The IBM Technical Interchange brings you the hottest technology -- the latest and greatest in software & hardware.  Visit our extensive exhibit hall featuring over 100 software & hardware vendors showing off their innovative tools and applications.  Then, check into the IBM Computer Lab and speak to actual IBM developers who offer one-on-one technical assistance.  Hitch a ride on the Information Superhighway, and be sure to check out the test Drive Center - where we put you in the driver's seat, behind the wheel of IBM's latest technologies.

ALL WORK & NO PLAY....NO WAY!        LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL!

Join us for three exciting Technical Interchange receptions.  First, help us kick the conference off at the Ragin' Cajun Welcome Reception - this down home "swamp party" promises good food and great fun!  Then, head to the exhibit hall for the "Grand Opening" at the Exhibits and all that Jazz reception.  Take a look at the latest software and hardware technology from vendors joining us from 'round the world. Don't miss the PowerPC Mardi Gras Celebration -- our big event.  Join the festivities sponsored by IBM PowerPC Developer Programs.  Experience an evening of carnival atmosphere that will fill you with the Mardi Gras spirit...the spirit of New Orleans!

SEE YA' IN "N'AWLINS"

A Big Time in the Big Easy -- learning, exploring, networking, and having fun --  what more could you ask for?  From the Ragin Cajun Conference Kick Off to the Mardi Gras Celebration -- we'll provide plenty of excitement from start to finish, all while providing opportunities to network and enhance your technical knowledge and skills.  It's all happening at the 1995 Technical Interchange in New   Orleans.  Don't delay -- register early and save $200 off the regular $1095 conference registration fee.

Early Conference Registration Fee ......... $895  before April 7, 1995

Regular Conference Registration Fee....... $1095   after April 7, 1995

3 or More Attendees from Same Company*......$795  before April 7, 1995

                                         ...$995   after April 7, 1995

One Day/ Full Conference....................$415

Two Day/Full Conference.....................$680

Exhibit Hall Only...........................$20/each

*registrations must be submitted at the same time & include full payment

The Conference Registration Fee Includes:

* Attendance at all Conference Sessions

* Premiums

* Conference Proceedings

* Continental Breakfast & Lunch Daily

* Ragin' Cajun Welcome Reception

* Exhibits & All That Jazz Reception

* PowerPC Mardi Gras Celebration

* Opportunities to win additional prizes, including an IBM ThinkPad

  or a Power Personal System.

To Register or to Receive more Information, Please call:

********1-800-872-7109 US OR 1-800-661-2131 Canada***********

********Outside the US & Canada call 1-508-443-4990**********

******************FAX 1-508-443-4715 ************************

Special rates for conference attendees are available at the following

hotels (please identify yourself as an IBM Technical Interchange

attendee):

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New Orleans Marriott (504-581-1000)...............$140S/D

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For discounted airline rates, contact IVI Travel at 800-688-6700.

Refer to program #211692.  For discounted USAir or United

Airlines rates, call Wayland Travel at 800-552-0300.

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SOMETHING FOR EVERY TASTE

With over 300 sessions, the 1995 Technical Interchange gives you more variety than a big bowl of gumbo.

             IBM Technical Interchange

           New Orleans Convention Center

               May 21 - 25, 1995

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                          OS/2 - LAN

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APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND TOOLS:

Designing High Powered OS/2 Applications

Designing the Killer OS/2 Application

Interprocess Communication Using Queues

Memory Management in the 32-bit Model

Multi-Threading OS/2 Applications

Implementing OS/2 Semaphores

Understanding and Exploiting OS/2 Graphical Programming

Introduction to SOM & Workplace Shell Programming

Developing Workplace Shell Applications

Lotus Notes as a Development Tool (with a little Help from REXX)

Object Oriented Application Development with OS/2

Application Migration to OS/2 Using SMART

32-bit Native Porting Tools and Techniques

Visual Builder for C Set ++

C Set ++ and SOM

Bugs to Blazing - Debugging and Performance Tuning with C Set

Set ++ Class Library

Using OS/2 Tools to Develop Quality Software

CVC: Config Management in the OS/2 World

Hyperwise, A WYSIWYG Editor for Multimedia

Helps and Books on OS/2 and Windows

Adding Help to Your OS/2 Applications

Developing Accessible OS/2 Applications for People with Disabilities

CLIENT/SERVER and OPEN SYSTEMS:

LAN  Server 4.0 Overview

LAN Server Directions

LAN Server User Tips and Techniques

LAN Server Performance Tuning

LAN Server 4.0 Administration GUI Overview

LAN Server Hands-On Workshop: Connecting to Resources

LAN Server Administrative Tips and Techniques

LAN Server Hands-On Workshop: Administration

IBM OS/2 LAN Server Interoperability

LAN Server Security

Client/Server Programming with LAN Server

OS/2 Warp as a LAN Client

IBM Server for Workgroups

IBM OS/2 LAN Server, NetWare, SNA and TCP/IP Coexistence

LAN Distance: Your Node on the Road

LAN Distance Tips and Techniques

LAN Automated Distribution/2

Compatibility - Today's Buzz Word That Makes a Difference

NetView for OS/2

LAN NetView Management Utilities

OS/2 Systems Management Toolbox

Remote Systems Management - Distributed Console Access Facility

Migrating from NetWare to LAN Server: How and Why

OS/2 in the NetWare Environment-The Basics

OS/2 in the NetWare Environment-Advanced

Sockets Programming with IBM TCP/IP for OS/2 - I

Sockets Programming with IBM TCP/IP for OS/2 - II

Communications Manager/2: Overview & Directions

Communications Manager/2: Advanced Configuration

CM/2: Avoiding Common Problems and Problem Determination

CM/2: Building SNA Applications APPC Problem Determination with CM/2

Introducing IBM's New OS/2 Emulators

A Close Up View of IBM's New OS/2 Emulators

Why CID? An Introduction

Creating CID Enabled Installation Using

Software Installer

OS/2 Performance Tuning using SPM/2

DATABASE:

DB2/2 Technical Introduction

DB2/2 Performance and Tuning

Building Successful DB2/2 Applications Using C

Advanced Database Recovery with DB2/2

DB2/2 Database Administration

MULTIMEDIA:

OS/2 Multimedia for Developers

The OS/2 Multimedia Experience

Developing Entertainment Software for OS/2

 TECHNOLOGY:

Object REXX for OS/2

Coding Client/Server Solutions in Object REXX

The Workplace Shell: A Bridge to Other Technologies

Exploiting OS/2 to Gain the Competitive Edge

GUI-OOUI Update: IBM's OS/2 Warp and Microsoft's Windows 95

 User Interfaces

OPERATING SYSTEMS:

A Prophetic Look at OS/2's Directions

How OS/2 Stacks Up

The OS/2 Problem Solver

OS/2 WARP, Journey into the Unknown

Running DOS and Windows under OS/2

How to Get the Most Out of OS/2

Overview of OS/2 for SMP

HPFS Internals

OS/2 Disk Recovery Procedures

Using OS/2 to Make Presentations

SERVICES & SUPPORT:

Technical Coordinator Program

IBM Services and Support:What are my Option

IBM's Resources on the Internet

Get Warped on the Internet

Overview of the Developer Connection for OSel

IBM Personal Systems Services and Support

OS/2 FOR THE POWERPC:

Inside Look at OS/2 for the PowerPC

OS/2  Application Development for PowerPC

Developing OS/2 for the PowerPC Shared Services

Networking Support in OS/2 for the PowerPC

Natural Computing on OS/2 for the PowerPC

The Registry and the Global NameSpace

DEVICE DRIVER DEVELOPMENT:

GENERAL:

Introduction to OS/2 Device Drivers - I

Introduction to OS/2 Device Drivers - II

Development Tools and Support for OS/2

PDD and VDD Organization

SMP Device Driver Support

OS/2 Plug and Play Today

OS/2 Plug and Play Tomorrow

PCMCIA:

PCMCIA Architecture Overview

OS/2 Warp PCMCIA Installation & Hardware Support

INPUT/OUTPUT:

Pen Computers and Tablets

Image Capture for ImagePlus

Image Capture via TWAIN

Image Capture via ImageAwl

Infra-Red Device Support

Keyboards and Pointing Devices

DISPLAY:

OS/2 Display and Video Trends and Directions GRADD Overview

Central Video Services Overview

Display Configuration Utility

Video Playback and Capture Under OS/2

Display Driver Installation Design and Debug

IBM Display Driver Testing

MIS Support Professionals - OS/2 Display Driver Issues

Advanced Technology Topics

Q & A Session

MULTIMEDIA:

Multimedia Device Driver Overview and Future Directions

Multimedia Audio Device Drivers

Multimedia Video Capture Device Drivers

MPEG Playback Device Drivers

OS/2 Multimedia User Tips and Techniques

Multimedia Device Driver Installation and Test

PRINTER:

Printing Subsystem Introduction and Overview

Using System Rasterization support

Developing a Printer Driver Using System

  Rasterization and the Generic Print Library-I

Developing a Printer Driver Using System

  Rasterization and the Generic Print Library-II

Device Specific Exploitation and Techniques-I

Device Specific Exploitation and Techniques-II

Debugging Printer Drivers

OS/2, Spool Queue, Port Driver Tips and Installation

Printer Panel Discussion

STORAGE:

Introduction to Storage Architecture

32 bit ADD Architecture for OS/2 - I

32 bit ADD Architecture for OS/2 - II

ASPI/VASPI

OS/2 Tape Services

Installation/Tips and Techniques

Installable File Systems

LAN:

Introduction to NDIS 2.01

Introduction to a Sample Network Driver-I

Introduction to a Sample Network Driver-II

Implementing NDIS Protocol Stacks

Configuration, Performance and Testing of Network Drivers

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PC DOS "Under The Hood"

"Alive and Well" What's New in PC DOS

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APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND TOOLS:

IFOR/LS - The Key to Software Licensing

Overview of CSET++ for AIX

Threads Programming in AIX

Bottleneck Determination and Isolation for AIX/6000 -I

Bottleneck Determination and Isolation for AIX/6000 -II

AIX Tools and Development Environment

Integrating Your App into the Common Desktop Environment

CLIENT/SERVER and OPEN SYSTEMS:

Systems and Network Management for the Open

 Heterogeneous Environment with NetView for AIX

SNA Multi-Protocol Networking Products for AIX

Rightsizing Mainframe Applications with SNA App Access for AIX

Networking with X.25

Networking with ATM: Technology Overview and Product Update

AIX Distributed System Management Overview

An Introduction to CICS for AIX

RISC System/6000 Communications Overview

DATABASE:

Getting Started with DB2/6000

Programming with DB2/6000

High Availability Cluster Multi Processing Directions

DEVICE DRIVER DEVELOPMENT:

Introduction to Writing an AIX Device Driver

Migrating AIX Device Drivers to Version 4

Writing Device Drivers for the PowerPC

INTERNATIONALIZATION:

AIX National Language Support and Internationalization

MULTIMEDIA:

Media as Objects: The IBM Multimedia Services Programming Interface

OPERATING SYSTEM:

Demystifying Printing, Spooling & Printer  Customization in AIX

Multi-Processing System Strategy

Symmetric Multi-Process: A Programmer's Perspective - Part I

Symmetric Multi-Process: A Programmer's Perspective - Part II

PRODUCT MARKETING

IBM RS/6000 Workstation Product Update

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                       AS/400

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APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND TOOLS:

AS/400 Application Development Advantage

Launching the New World of AS/400 Development

Porting Applications to AS/400

International Language Support on AS/400

Technology Roadmap to AS/400

CLIENT/SERVER and OPEN SYSTEMS:

Directions in AS/400 Client/Server Computing

AS/400 Application Environment Strategy

AS/400 Client Access Overview - I

AS/400 Client Access Overview - II

AS/400 Wireless

AS/400 Mobile Computing

AS/400 Advanced Server

AS/400 As a File Server

AS/400 Client/Server Performance Knocks Out The Competition

Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)

Macintosh Connectivity to AS/400

DATABASE:

AS/400 Database - DB2/400 1995 & Beyond

MULTIMEDIA AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES:

AS/400 Intelligent Multimedia

AS/400 Business Conferencing

AS/400 Advanced Technologies Overview

Facsimile Support/400

OBJECT TECHNOLOGY:

Object Oriented Primer

AS/400 Object Oriented Technology Directions

Selecting AS/400 Object Oriented Tools

AS/400 Application Frameworks

AS/400 Workplace Technologies - Intro

AS/400 Workplace Technologies - Intermediate

AS/400 and Taligent

SOM for Beginners

DSOM for Beginners

Introduction to the AS/400 Integrated File System

C Set ++ For OS/400

Implementing SOM on AS/400

Object Oriented Development with Synon's Obsydian

Guidelines

NEWI for AS/400

Workflow on AS/400

AS/400 VisualAge

OPERATING SYSTEM:

AS/400 File System Overview

AS/400 Open System Directions

AS/400: Preparing for PowerPC Architecture

SERVICES & SUPPORT:

Modernization Strategies

AS/400 Application Development Program

AS/400 Developer Support Program - Partners in Development

Portable Sales Automation System

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OBJECT TECHNOLOGY:

Introducing ACLS: AN MVS Application Class Library

Migration of Existing Transactions to OO

Persistent Objects in C++ and DB2

Object Technology and the CICS Family

SOMObjects on MVS

IBM Smalltalk for MVS

Objects on MVS

CSET++ - The cross platform Solution for C and C++ Development - I

CSET++ - The cross platform Solution for C and C++ Development - II

Objects in IMS are Closer than They Appear

SERVICES & SUPPORT:

S/390 Developers' Association

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VM and Client Server

VM/ESA Product Updates: Value for Your Business

CMS: VM/ESA Now Does Windows

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         CROSS PLATFORM SESSIONS

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APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT:

Parts, Assemblers, Builders and Composers: Tools

 For Enterprise Application Development at the Turn of the Century

The Real 'Big Easy" Lab: OS/2, Object

 Based PM Apps Using IBM's Visualizer

Advanced Graphics for the AIX, OS/2 and NT Environments

CLIENT/SERVER:

LAN Server: The Multiplatform LAN Solution

LAN Systems API Roadmap

Introduction to DCE

Introduction to DCE Administration

Introduction to DCE Programming

DCE Directions: Where is it Going?

Choosing DCE As Your Client/Server Programming Environment

DCE Performance

Introduction to APPC and APPN

APPN and TCP/IP: A Comparison of Protocols

APPN Network Design

Using the APPC Application Suite and Discovery

Basic Client/Server Programming with CPI-C

Selecting a Communications API

Any Application, Any Network, AnyNet!

Distributed Online Transaction Processing

IBM's MQSeries - It's a Kind of Magic

MQSeries Technical Overview

Overview of the ADSTAR Distributed storage Manager

IBM's NetSP Secured Network Gateway

IBM's NetSP Single Signon Solution

The Distributed Toolkit: Networking the Programming Manager

DATABASE:

DB2 Family: DB2 Technology at Work

DB2 Family: Version 2 of DB2/2 and DB2/6000

INTERNATIONAL:

National Language Support - How to Write an Internationally Enabled App

Software Localization and Translation

Double Byte Enabling your Product

Software Opportunities in Latin America

The Asia Pacific Software Opportunity

Europe - an Opportunity for Software Developers

International Marketing and Distribution

Considerations for Conducting International Business

MULTIMEDIA:

VoiceType Dictation

OBJECT TECHNOLOGY:

Why Invest In OO Technology

IBM Object Technology: Revitalizing the Software Industry

Introduction to Object Technology

New Business Opportunities: Components & Frameworks

Roadmap to Creating Object-Oriented Solutions

Object Technology in the Commercial Environment

To GUI or to OOUI: That is the Question

Migrating from Graphical Applications to

  Object-Oriented User Interfaces

A Comparison of Architectures: OLE,

  OpenDoc, Nextstep & Taligent

Client/Server with Distributed Objects

Desk Technology Strategy and Direction

C Set ++ Overview

Designing & Writing Efficient C++ Apps

C Set ++ Class Libraries

COBOL Goes Object Oriented!

Persistence Object Service for SOM: Beyond OODB

Storing Objects in DB2

Introduction to the SOMObjects Toolkit

SOM Metaclass Programming

Distributed Object Computing using DSOM

SOM Programming with Direct-to-Som C++

Case Studies in SOM

OpenDoc: An Architectural Overview

OpenDoc Linking

Open Scripting Architecture (OSA) for OpenDoc

Building an OpenDoc Part

Building OpenDoc Parts the Easy Way - Subclassing

Case Study in OpenDoc

Taligent Overview

Taligent's CommonPoint Architecture

Design Methodologies for Taligent's Commonpoint

Introduction to CommonPoint Programming - I

Introduction to CommonPoint Programming - II

Case Study in Taligent

The IBM Workplace Family of Technologies

OO Development Experiences in IBM

POWERPC:

IBM Power Series Product Development Strategy

Power Personal Systems Mission and Strategy

PowerPC-The Ideal Human-Centered Platform

Marketing Strategy and Opportunity

The New PC Industry Standard Hardware Reference Platform

SERVICES & SUPPORT

IBM on the Information Superhighway


Oxford & Cambridge Compilers Algol 68 for OS/2
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE COMPILERS ANNOUNCE...

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        * ALGOL 68 FOR OS/2 *

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ALGOL 68 pioneered many facilities that are still considered state of the art in modern programming languages. Algol 68 is designed to aid the programmer in writing correct and intelligible programs leading to shorter development cycles, fewer hidden bugs in the product and easier maintenance. OS/2 programmers can now take advantage of this quality language.

What's in Algol 68 ?

*) General purpose algorithmic language with a clean, consistent, and

   unambiguous syntax.

*) Comprehensive fully-checked type-system covering structures,

   unions, pointers, arrays, and procedures.

*) Procedures may be nested inside procedures and can deliver values

   of any type without you having to worry about where the storage is

   coming from.

*) Anonymous routines can be used in any context

   (similar to lambda-expressions).

*) User-defined operators including user-defined operator symbols.

*) Powerful control structures can deliver values of any type.

*) Typed dynamic memory allocation with transparent garbage

   collection.

*) Unions inherently know their current type.

*) Dynamic sized arrays know their current bounds.

*) Good string handling via flexible arrays of characters.

*) Array and structure displays can be used in any context.

*) Advanced handling of arrays of any rank such as slicing.

*) Parallel programming with semaphores.

*) Complex arithmetic

*) Declarations can be interleaved with statements.

*) Coercions automatically insert obvious operations such as

   pointer-following and integer to real conversions.

*) Clear distinction between value semantics and reference semantics.

*) No distinction between compile-time constants and run-time values.

*) Modular programming with information hiding and type checking.

Why use OCCL Algol 68 on OS/2 ?

*) Efficient 32-bit code with extensive optimisations including inline

   expansion of procedure calls.

*) Language support for OS/2 multi-tasking threads via parallel

   clauses.

*) Run-time error checking of array subscripts and the use of NIL

   references to prevent accidental corruption of data. Redundant

   error checks are removed by extensive compile-time analysis.

   Production code can remove the checks or provide a replacement

   error handler.

*) No performance penalty for using high-level constructs instead of

   expanding as low-level constructs --- indeed the code will often

   be better.

*) Fast storage allocation and fast garbage collection means the heap

   can be used freely. The heap can be monitored during the program to

   allow action to be taken before available storage is exhausted.

*) 32, 64 and 80-bit real numbers with IEEE support.

*) Programs composed from large libraries automatically include only

   those procedures (and other global declarations) actually needed.

*) Compilation management tool recompiles modules when source files

   change and dependent modules only when interfaces change --- a

   secure and automatic replacement for `make'.

*) The compilation tool also provides housekeeping facilities such

   as cross-referencing.

*) Programs composed from large library modules automatically include

   only those procedures (and other global declarations) actually

   referenced.

*) Powerful debugger with extensive support for debugging Algol 68

   programs including a separate OS/2 session for the debuggee,

   breakpoints, macros, formatted memory display and stack traces.

*) Common compiler technology with N.A.Software's Fortran90+ allowing

   secure typed calls to libraries from this compiler.

*) Controlled interface to libraries from other, type insecure,

   languages.

*) Tool to convert C header files to modules wrapping a C library.

*) Mature professional compiler with a pedigree of 15 years

   development behind it. Users of previous versions of the compiler

   include Universities, government research labs, hospitals and

   telecoms worldwide.

What libraries are provided ?

*) Standard I/O facilities.

*) Maths functions including complex transcendentals.

*) String support and SNOBOL-like pattern matching.

*) Strong-typed binary files similar to persistent objects

   - with viewer.

*) Discrete event simulation.

*) Prototype support for OS/2 Presentation Manager (under continuing

   development).

System Requirements

*) IBM-compatible PC with a 386 or better running OS/2 2+.

*) 8Mb or more memory recommended.

*) Approx 10Mb disk space for compiler, tools and sources + approx

   16Mb swap space.

Package Contents

*) Compiler and tools.

*) Library sources.

*) Example sources.

*) Online documentation in .INF format.

*) Free technical support via email.

Available now at a special introductory offer of UKP290+VAT for a single-user licence with a royalty-free runtime. Please ask for details of site licences and educational discounts.

A white paper on Algol 68 for OS/2 is available - please ask us for it. Algol 68 will shortly be available for other operating-systems on IBM PCs, and also for SPARC processors and for Inmos Transputers (T800 & T9000). For details of future products and for release dates for other platforms, please ask to be put on our mailing list.

Contact Oxford and Cambridge Compilers on (+44) 01223 572074 or email to enquiries@occl-cam.demon.co.uk or write to:

    Oxford and Cambridge Compilers Ltd

    55 Brampton Road

    Cambridge

    CB1 3HJ

    UK


DEC Expands StorageWorks Tape Subsystem Line
DIGITAL EXPANDS LINE OF STORAGEWORKS TAPE SUBSYSTEMS TO ADDITIONAL UNIX AND PC NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS

Digital's Storage Business Unit Also Announces Extended Third Party Software Management Support

MAYNARD, Mass. -- February 21, 1995 -- Digital Equipment Corporation today expanded its line of multivendor tape backup solutions by announcing expanded support for Sun, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Windows NT, Novell and Digital computing platforms. Digital now offers seamless integration of 4 mm DDS2, 8 mm and Digital Linear Tape (DLT) technologies that can be mixed and matched in any StorageWorks enclosure with other StorageWorks devices, including disk and CD-ROM drives, across the multivendor environment.

Also today, Arcada Software and Legato Systems, Inc. separately announced software management support for StorageWorks tape subsystems. Arcada Backup Exec now supports all StorageWorks tape drives and autoloaders for both Alpha and Intel based Windows NT, as well as Novell NetWare. Legato NetWorker now supports most StorageWorks tape drives on Sun Solaris, SunOS, Novell NetWare, and IBM AIX. Earlier this year, Legato Systems and Digital announced new functionality and new clientside archiving support for POLYCENTER NetWorker Save and Restore for DEC OSF/1 Alpha.

"These new StorageWorks tape offerings reflect our commitment to support users in as many environments as possible with reliable and high performing tape backup solutions," stated Paul Feresten, vice president of sales and marketing for Digital's Storage Business Unit. "Our customers are increasingly operating in multivendor environments and are demanding flexible storage solutions with cross-platform capabilities. And because storage management software is integral to successful data management, we're working aggressively to ensure partnerships are in place with industry-leading software providers to support StorageWorks products." Feresten added that new support from Arcada and Legato complements existing partnerships with Cheyenne and Palindrome.

New Tape Offerings and Availability

With a wide range of tape technology choices, StorageWorks tape subsystems offer a variety of DLT, 8 mm, and 4 mm backup solutions for Sun, Hewlett-Packard and IBM UNIX platforms, Novell NetWare and Windows NT Intel PC network platforms, and Digital platforms, including Windows NT Alpha. New offerings include:

Digital Linear Tape (DLT)

The StorageWorks line of DLT tape solutions now supports IBM UNIX and Hewlett-Packard 9000 Series 700 UNIX platforms, making the product line available for all major vendor platforms. Digital supports the products across major PC Network and UNIX platforms through partnerships with a range of third-party network backup companies, including Arcada, Cheyenne, Legato Systems, and Palindrome. These DLT offerings feature unattended backup with industry-leading capacities (20 GB per cartridge with compression) and a superior sustained data transfer rate (up to 2.5 MB per second). Pricing is $4,399.

DLT Mini-Library

With this announcement, the line of StorageWorks DLT Mini- Libraries is now available on Sun Solaris, SunOS, and Windows NT platforms, in addition to existing availability on Novell NetWare, with support from Legato NetWorker and Arcada Backup Exec. The compact, five-cartridge mini-library features 100 GB storage capacity, while the seven-cartridge mini-library is rack-mountable, or available in a pedestal, and features 140 GB of storage capacity. Prices start at $8,289.

8 mm Tape

The StorageWorks line of 8 mm tape offerings now includes support for Hewlett-Packard HP-UX users, making the storage backup solutions available for all major vendor platforms. This tape option provides high performance and capacity (10 GB per drive with compression) at an affordable price, ranging from $2,790 - $2,950.

4 mm DDS-2 Tape

Finally, to round out its 4 mm DDS-2 tape offerings, StorageWorks has added support for IBM UNIX users, making the product line available for all major vendor platforms. These low-cost storage solutions provide reliable backup (up to 2.9 GB of data per hour) and capacities up to 8 GB for prices starting at $1,999.

4 mm (DDS2) Autoloader

Also as part of this announcement, the StorageWorks 4mm DDS2 Autoloader now supports users on Windows NT, and NetWare platforms. This product is also available for the first time under a separate part number for Digital OpenVMS and OSF/1 platforms. The StorageWorks 32 GB (with compression) DAT tape loader mounted in 5.25-inch building block is priced from $3,950 - $4,150. All prices are effective on March 1, 1995.

The StorageWorks line of tape solutions is sold exclusively through channel partners worldwide, including VARs, distributors, master resellers, and system integrators. StorageWorks products for Digital platforms and operating environments are also available directly from the Digital sales force.

StorageWorks is a comprehensive family of disk, tape and optical storage subsystems, offering modular, competitively-priced, industry-standard solutions in customizable desktop, deskside and datacenter enclosures. StorageWorks products are available on multiple operating systems and hardware platforms, including Novell and Windows NT environments, Digital workstations and midrange computers, and Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun workstations and servers.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry- focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.


OS/2 WARP With Windows App Support Built-In
IBM Announces Availability of OS/2 WARP With Windows Application Support Built-In

Upgrade for OS/2 2.1 Users Available in 13 Languages

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 22, 1995 .... IBM today announced OS/2 Warp with WIN-OS2, an upgrade for customers running OS/2 2.0, OS/2 2.1 and OS/2 2.11. OS/2 Warp with WIN-OS2, commonly referred to as "fullpack," gives the millions of users of previous versions of OS/2 the new OS/2 Warp operating system with integrated and optimized Windows 3.1 application support. The product is being released simultaneously in more than 13 languages.

The first edition of OS/2 Warp, announced on Oct. 11, 1994, is aimed at OS/2 for Windows users or those already running DOS and Windows on their PCs. It is designed to take advantage of Windows functionality already installed on a system and does not come with WIN-OS2 function built-in.

                 New to this release of OS/2 Warp

The WebExplorer, a native OS/2 application allowing users to navigate easily through the Internet's Worldwide Web, is now complete and included in the BonusPak for OS/2. Current OS/2 Warp customers can receive the finished WebExplorer by simply clicking on the "Retrieve Software Updates" icon in the Internet Connection for OS/2 folder. The Internet dialer, used to connect to an Internet provider other than The IBM Global Network, now includes Point to Point Protocol support. OS/2 Warp now supports Ontrack Disk Manager used on Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) hard files greater than 528Mbs. It includes support for Cannon Bubble Jet printers, an updated MediaVision ProAudio Spectrum 16 driver; more IDE CD-ROM drives; additional PCMCIA support for late model IBM ThinkPads; support for diskette compression technology (DMF) used by Microsoft in their Office suite of products.

"With this release of OS/2 Warp, our existing customer base of more than seven million can benefit from the features and functions already enjoyed by the one million Windows users who have upgraded to OS/2 Warp," said Wally Casey, director of marketing, IBM Personal Software Products. "Because it is available simultaneously in 13 languages, we can quickly and measurably increase our leadership position as the highest volume 32-bit IBM compatible operating system vendor in the industry."

The new OS/2 Warp boasts the same usability features, slimmed-down system requirements and BonusPak of popular applications delivered in the initial release of OS/2 Warp last October. OS/2 Warp has the same multitasking and Crash-Protection that made OS/2 famous, and it runs Windows and OS/2 applications in as little as 4Mbs of memory.

The BonusPak, which ships with every copy of the operating system, lets OS/2 Warp users experience the advantages of native OS/2 applications. It offers more than a dozen popular applications, including easy access to the Internet with the IBM Internet Connection via the IBM Global Network; CompuServe; and IBM Works, an object-based suite of applications for word processing, database, charting, graphics, spreadsheet and personal information management.

Minimum hardware requirements for OS/2 Warp include a 386SX or higher processor with 4Mbs of memory. OS/2 Warp will allow OS/2, Windows 3.1, and DOS applications to run on the same desktop.

With OS/2 Warp, customers receive 60 days of free service by telephone. In addition, help is available though a variety of on-line services including Internet, TALKLink, Prodigy and CompuServe. Support for the IBM Global Network is available 24 hours daily, seven days a week, at 1-800-727-2222.

                    Pricing and availability

OS/2 Warp will be available in the U.S. through IBM dealers, superstores and a variety of general retail outlets by Feb. 24, 1995 in the U.S. The products carry suggested list prices of $129 for OS/2 Warp Version 3 without WIN-OS2 code and $199 for OS/2 Warp Version 3 with WIN-OS2 code. For OS/2 2.1 and 2.11 customers, there is an upgrade available to OS/2 Warp with WIN-OS2 for $129. Street prices will vary.


FreeMail Communicates Across Platforms
"For us, and for our customers, it is like the demolition of the Berlin Wall," said Steve Barrett, one of the founders of FreeMail, Inc.

February 21, 1995 -- Barrett is talking about the latest development by FreeMail's software engineers that now allows their entire product line of software to communicate across several platforms -- Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Windows NT, and Windows 95.

"Windows users have been using FreeMail for almost a year but a drawback for them until now has been the limitation that they could not send the software to their friends and colleagues who lived and worked in the Mac world," said Barrett. "We've got that problem behind us now."

FreeMail makes a true Wide Area Network e-mail software that only requires one computer, one modem, a single phone line and one copy of the software. With FreeMail any stand-alone PC can exchange unlimited e-mail and files of any kind with any other PC. FreeMail eliminates the need for network cabling, software, file servers, or system administrators, using regular phone lines and standard modems.

Unlike other e-mail software packages, only one copy of FreeMail must be purchased; you can make free copies of FreeMail 'Children' that can then be given away, allowing fast e-mail and file transfers between the FreeMail Parent and any Child.

The software designer who developed FreeMail is Steve Saroff of Missoula, Montana. Saroff's main goal in developing FreeMail was to demystify e-mail for everyone to use.

"I started wondering why fax machines were taking off in the marketplace when modems, which had been around longer were not," explained Saroff. "The answer I decided was that fax machines are real easy to use while all modems are so 'techie.' Fax machines had one big button that said Send and another big button that said Stop and all of the complexity was hidden inside. I wanted e-mail to be the same," said Saroff.

FreeMail is now widely used in law offices and other businesses that need secure networks to transmit sensitive documents to and fro. Overseas businesses use it to reduce their phone charges for frequent messages to the states as well as when spotty phone service or the lack of available providers makes Internet use for e-mail unreliable or impractical.

FreeMail is in use by nearly four thousand customers for a variety of business and personal uses, according to Barrett.

"Now that we can offer 'Parent' and 'Child' copies of our software for Macintosh users, we expect that number to double or triple in the next few months," said Barrett.

For more details, contact FreeMail, Inc., 2504 West Main, Suite K, P.O. Box 1656, Bozeman, MT 59771-1656 USA; (406) 586-4200 (voice); (406) 586-4336 (fax); email: FreeMail@AOL.COM

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FreeMail is simple to install and use, regardless of your technical skills.

FreeMail is the result of an effort of software engineers who wanted to make a product that brings the power of e-mail to the millions of us who use computers but who are not software engineers. What they have come up with is a true Wide Area Network e-mail software that only requires one computer, one modem, a single phone line and one copy of the software -- FreeMail.

FreeMail unleashes the power of e-mail and file transfer to anyone and everyone.

FreeMail allows any one stand-alone PC to exchange unlimited e-mail and files with any other PC. FreeMail does not require a computer network. FreeMail uses regular phone lines and standard modems. FreeMail is easier to use and more efficient than fax machines. Unlike other e-mail software packages, only one copy of FreeMail must be purchased; you can make free copies of FreeMail 'Children' that can then be given away, allowing fast e-mail and file transfers between the FreeMail Parent and any Child.

FreeMail demystifies and decentralizes e-mail and transferring files of all kinds.

Until now, anyone wanting to remotely send and receive e-mail or files --or any organization that needed to create their own on-line information center--had choices that were either extremely expensive (requiring complex and expensive software packages for everyone in the communication path, and often requiring e-mail administrators to keep the system working); required reliance on subscription mail or BBS services; or, used non-intuitive main-frame-like interfaces with lots of technical 'knobs and switches.'

FreeMail offers more than a dozen features on one disk!

- File and message encryption.

- Built-in security - each FreeMail site has its own unique ID.

- Send and receive any kind and length of file.

- An easy-to-navigate user interface that includes visual and sound

  indicators.

- Logic Answer, a technology that allows you to share a single

  phone line with a fax or answering machine.

- Custom Cabinets to archive mail.

- Self-defined groups mailing.

- Launches other Windows applications.

- Broadcast messages using Persistent Mail.

- Automatic 'polling' of other sites.

- Automatic on-line child site software updating.

- Automatic file transfer system.

- Certified mail.

- Sends files only if they have been modified.

- Automatic file compression.

- Schedules time when other sites can call.

FreeMail makes the savings of e-mail affordable for the tightest budgets.

The list price for FreeMail is $79.95, FreeMail Call Home is $159.95. Both include a license for unlimited Child disks. FreeMail Extended Family is $595.95, and includes a license that allows the creation of 200 Extended Family Child diskettes. For more details, contact:

                FreeMail, Inc.

                2504 West Main, Suite K

                P.O. Box 1656

                Bozeman, MT  59771-1656  USA

                (406) 586-4200 (voice);

                (406) 586-4336 (fax)

                email: FreeMail@AOL.COM

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The FreeMail family of software includes three products to make the savings of e-mail available and affordable for everyone. Licensed users of one FreeMail Parent can give out the Child disks -- with the on-line help system and setup program being 'inherited' onto all Child disks-- and the 'Child' program will install itself as well as locate the com port and determine if there is a functioning modem. This is done without the need of a network, an E-mail administrator, or the purchase of any other software.

FreeMail Call Home allows users to remotely pick up any e-mail or files that have been sent to their main desktop machine. Laptop and notebook computer users can keep up to date with all messages that have been sent to their office computer.

Extended Family FreeMail allows 'Children' to fully communicate with each other by way of one, central 'Parent'. The 'Extended Family Parent' can create up to 200 'Child' diskettes, which can then be given away to any user, and the entire 'Family' of Children can then exchange e-mail and files.

The list price for FreeMail is $79.95, FreeMail Call Home is $159.95. Both include a license for unlimited Child disks. FreeMail Extended Family is $595.95, and includes a license that allows the creation of 200 Extended Family Child diskettes. For more details, contact:

                FreeMail, Inc.

                2504 West Main, Suite K,

                P.O. Box 1656

                Bozeman, MT  59771-1656  USA

                (406) 586-4200 (voice);

                (406) 586-4336 (fax)

                email: FreeMail@AOL.COM.


Shipyards - Design Your Own GalCiv Star Ships
February 20, 1995 -- GIBRALTAR MICHIGAN, USA. Stardock Systems Inc., the makers of Galactic Civilizations announced Shipyards for GalCiv today. Shipyards gives GalCiv players and the computer players the ability to design star ships from scratch.

Currently, users are given "pre-made" ships such as Battle Hammers, Stealth Cruisers, etc. With Shipyards, users can use existing technologies like phasors, warp drive, photons, etc. and create a brand new type of ship.

For example, you could build a custom ship called "Galaxy Class" which has 4 banks of phasors, 2 photon torpedo bays, Hyperspace drive, Tri-Andrium armor, Barrier class shields, etc.. The only limitation is how advanced you are technologically. The larger the ship you build, the more expensive the ship becomes. Larger ships can take more damage and carry more weapons. You can also decide how the ship looks by choosing one of the many different ship hull types.

"During the later stages of GalCiv development, many beta testers liked how you could design your own types of ships like in 'Masters of Orion'. We believed that such a feature in the base game would give GalCiv an overly militaristic feel to the game. But with Shipyards, users now have this ability and more." said Brad Wardell of Stardock Systems.

Furthermore, Shipyards has an AI module in it that allows the computer players to design their own ships. So you will have to contend with a virtually infinite number of alien ship types as the game progresses. The ships also have their own unique sets of graphics so Shipyards' owners will see brand new ships flying across their screens.

Because Star ship designs are treated as unique technologies, users will be able to trade ship designs and steal ship designs from other players. Moreover, you will also be able to keep track of how successful your ship designs are by viewing sales reports in the Shipyards report screen. This screen shows how other ship building companies are doing. The more of your ship designs are being built, the more money your ship building company will make.

It also comes with "ItemEdit" which will let you modify the various components that go into the ships. For example, you could edit range and power of Phasors or decide that you get TransWarp drive when you achieve BattleShip technology instead of Warp Drive. Users will have maximum control over the components that they and the computer AI have. The AI will automatically adjust its strategy to take into account the modified values.

The documentation also includes the GalCiv technology tree.

A number of snapshots from Shipyards are available on hobbes.nmsu.edu in the /incoming directory. The file is Shipyard.zip.

Shipyards is available from Stardock Systems for $14.95. Shipping is $2 for USA and $5 outside USA.

Stardock Systems also sells Galactic Civilizations for $59.95.

Stardock Systems Inc.

13405 Addison

Gibraltar MI 48173

Phone:  (313)/782-2248  9am to 4pm EST

Fax:    (313)/782-9868

Email:  Wardell@ibm.net

Cserve: 75763,3515

On Compuserve GO STARDOCK

Visa and Mastercard are accepted.


WinCat/PRO 4.1 Disk & CDROM Catalog for Windows
Mart Heubel proudly announces :

*** WINCAT/PRO 4.1 DISK and CDROM CATALOG FOR WINDOWS ***

***    to boldly go where no cat has gone before !    ***

What is it

WinCat/PRO is todays most advanced cataloging system. It helps you keep track of your growing collection of files on floppydisks, opticals, harddisks and especially CDROMs. Its userfriendly displays and splendid graphics make WinCat/PRO a joy to work with ; its high speed, high capacity and numerous useful features make it an indispensable tool for the power user.

What does it do

WinCat/PRO creates a database of all files that hide on your disks. That's where similarity with other cataloging programs ends... Suppose you need a font viewer ; there are lots of those on your CDs, but how do you find them if you don't know that they are called FV110.ZIP or WFL30.ZIP ?

That's why WinCat/PRO also tries to document the files ; when cataloging a disk, it automatically reads descript.ion and files.bbs files which contain descriptions of those files. In addition, you can import filedescriptions from other sources, for instance indexlistings on CDROMs or BBS AllFiles listings. With the utility-program WinCat/DIZ you can even extract all FILE_ID.DIZ filedescriptions from ZIP and ARJ archives. WinCat/PRO can handle filedescriptions of up to 500 characters.

Now finding that font viewer is easy ; all you have to do is to search for 'font', and WinCat/PRO will show all applicable files instantly.

But WinCat/PRO even helps you when you don't know what you're looking for... Suppose you buy a new CD ; how on earth can you see what's on it ? The Windows' FileManager leaves you out in the cold, as it would take you ages to browse through thousands of directories and files with cryptic names. Again WinCat/PRO comes to the resque : it can instanly show you all files by 'function class', e.g. programs, graphics, archives, etc. Or you can browse through the directory list, or show all files created in 1995, etc. So, no matter how vast the amount of data on your disks : WinCat/PRO provides the guided tour. In four languages... :-)

After having found a file, you probably want to do something with it. With the 'Restore' function you can start any Windows or DOS application to work with that file. Or you can 'drag' the file to another application. With the utility-program WinCat/unZIP you can even unpack ZIP and ARJ archive files !

Summary of most important features

- it's blazing FAST! Developed with Turbo Pascal for Windows

- optionally catalogs the contents of ZIP,ARJ,LZH,PAK,ARC and ZOO

  archive files.

- extensive search/sort/view capabilities

- imports filedescriptions from text-files, 4DOS descript.ion files,

  files.bbs files, Compuserve CAT listings etc.

- exports to DBF database file

- various user-configurable reports

- superbly clear, user-configurable displays

- impressive graphics

- English/French/German/Dutch language support

- comprehensive Windows-style helpfile

Utilities included in the WINCAT41 package

WOODLE

Prints high-quality labels for 3.5" and 5.25" disks, optionally

with your own bitmap graphics. It has a convenient WYSIWYG editor

for defining up to six different label-layouts.

WinCat/unZIP

Unpacks ARJ and ZIP archive files (doesn't need the DOS utilities).

WinCat/DIZ

Extracts FILE_ID.DIZ filedescriptions from ZIP and ARJ archive files.

WinCat/MC

Utility for searching files in multiple WinCat/PRO catalogs.

System requirements

* Windows 3.1, WfW 3.11, Win32S or Windows/NT

  Chicago Beta-2 and OS/2.1 formally not supported but it appears

  to work with them too...

* at least 4 MB memory and 2 MB diskspace

* Optional : High-quality (laser)printer for printing disklabels

Come and get it !

You can download WinCat/PRO 4.1 from :

Compuserve : go WINSHARE, look in library Disk Utilities

Internet   : ftp WINCAT41.ZIP from ftp.cica.indiana.edu

Mart Heubel, Heerlen, The Netherlands

Internet   : wincat@wintime.gds.nl

Compuserve : Mart Heubel, 72066,2116


AM:PM LAN Distributed Resource Mgmt System
A LAN For ALL Reasons

February 1995 -- Knozall Systems, the Chandler, Arizona Division of Tangram Enterprise Solutions, Inc announced their latest product, AM:PM LAN. A Distributed Resource Management System, AM:PM LAN consists of three types of agents: Administrative, Server, and Client. The Administrative Agent is an NLM (NetWare Loadable Module) that runs on NetWare and manages job queues, initiates and controls jobs on other servers and workstations, and monitors the status of jobs.

ENTERPRISE WIDE CONTROL! AM:PM LAN connects to AM:PM MVS to provide enterprise wide management, from mainframes to LANs, including all LAN-attached NetWare servers and Windows, DOS, and OS/2 workstations.

AUTOMATE JOBS! AM:PM LAN enables automatic, unattended operations with jobs scheduled to run based on time, date, or a given condition.

SYNCHRONIZE SOFTWARE! AM:PM LAN performs automatic, unattended software and data distributions to workstations and servers. Disk space is verified and automated file and software version checking ensures that only the necessary files and versions are transferred. The synchronization is uni-or bi-directional.

INTERFACE for WINDOWS OS! AM:PM LAN has a GUI (Graphical Users Interface) for Windows OS that enables administrators to create jobs as well as modify, execute, delete, and track them. This can be done in the AM:PM LAN Basic programming language or IBM's REXX.

AUDIT JOBS! AM:PM LAN allows the administrator to monitor the success or failure of every job or task. This Distributed Resource Management System can also generate audit logs.

Requirements:

   AM:PM Server and AM:PM NetWare Server Agents -

        1. IBM-compatible 386 or higher

        2. Novell NetWare V3.11 or higher

   If you have PC or MS-DOS V3.3 or higher,

        use AM:PM Workstation Agents for DOS -

   If you have Windows V3.1,

        use AM:PM workstation Agents for Windows OS.

   If you have OS/2 V2.0 or higher

        use AM:PM Workstation Agents for OS/2.

Prices:

   AM:PM LAN Administrative Agent - $995

   AM:PM LAN Server Agent - $495

   AM:PM LAN Workstation Agents - 50 for $1,600

                                  and on up to 2000 for $52,000

Available: End of 1st Quarter

Tangram provides distributed resource management and high-performance connectivity solutions for Fortune 1000 companies, their foreign equivalents, large utilities, and government agencies. Tangram's product line supports the leading industry -standard client/server and LAN environments, including Windows, UNIX Windows NT, NetWare, OS/2, DOS, MVS, and Macintosh, as well as communications options such as APPC, TCP/IP, SPX NetBIOS, SDLC, x.25, and asynchronous connectivity. Tangram is publicly traded on the over-the-counter market (TESI) and is a member of the Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. partnership of companies..

Knozall Systems

375 E. Elliot Rd, Suite 10

Chandler, AZ 85225-1130

602-545-0006,  fax 602-545-0008


Farallon Joins Fast Ethernet Alliance

ALAMEDA, Calif., February 20, 1995--Farallon Computing Inc., a leading provider of innovative networking software and hardware, today announced that the company has joined the Fast Ethernet Alliance as a full member. The Alliance is a multivendor group focused on developing specifications for 100 Megabit-per-second (Mbps) CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection) Ethernet technology.

The objective of the Fast Ethernet Alliance is to define and standardize 100Mbps Ethernet networking technology. The alliance has submitted the 100BASE-TX and 100BASE-T4 wiring specifications to the institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) for inclusion in the IEEE's 100BASE-T standard for Fast Ethernet. By providing 10 times the speed of existing 10BASE-T Ethernet at a cost effective rate, the 100BASE-T standard is an ideal networking solution for bandwidth-intensive applications operating over wide-area internetworks.

"Farallon is committed to providing networking products that are simple to use yet innovative and powerful, and joining the Fast Ethernet Alliance allows us to maintain our objective, as well as contribute to the development of a networking standard that will meet the growing bandwidth demands of our customers," stated Georganne Benesch, director of product marketing.

Paul Sherer, chairman of the Alliance, said, "The Fast Ethernet Alliance is pleased to welcome Farallon Computing as a new member. Broad vendor support is critical for the successful evolution of Fast Ethernet. As a leading vendor of easy to use, innovative networking products, Farallon Computing's contribution to the Alliance task force will be invaluable."

The Fast Ethernet Alliance facilitates the rapid standardization of the interoperable 100Mbps Ethernet technology by developing and proposing specifications to the IEEE-802 and other appropriate standards organizations for consideration. The Alliance is committed to providing interoperable specifications for wiring structures, giving network operators the flexibility to choose between Category 3, 4, or 5 unshielded twisted pair, Type 1 shielded twisted pair, and fiber-optic cabling. In addition, the multivendor group supports interoperability testing and provides communications and information concerning 100 Mbps CSMA/CD LANs.

The Fast Ethernet Alliance now includes 60+ members. All Alliance members have demonstrated LAN expertise and expressed commitment to contribute on a technical basis and promote the interoperable 100Mbps CSMA/CD in the public and standard arenas.

Founded in 1986, Farallon Computing, Inc. is a leading supplier of a family of innovative plug-and-play networking products for personal computers. Farallon products are available through distributors and resellers worldwide, as well as through OEM original equipment manufacturer) and licensing relationships with other computer vendors. Headquartered in Alameda, Calif,, Farallon has offices located throughout the world.

Farallon Computing Inc

2470 Mariner Square Loop

Alameda, CA 94501-7070

(570) 874-5700,   Fax (570) 814-5020


Microsoft Windows NT Resource Kit
Microsoft Announces Windows NT Resource Kit, Designed for Easy Access to Utilities and Technical Support Information

Revised Kit Makes it Easier to Provide High-Quality Support for Microsoft Windows NT Workstation and Windows NT Server Version 3.5

REDMOND, WA--Feb. 24, 1995--Microsoft Corporation today announced the MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT RESOURCE KIT, providing utilities and leading edge technical information about Microsoft Windows NT Workstation and Windows NT Server version 3.5. The Kit offers a set of tools, system resource viewers, drivers, and Internet server components--including World Wide Web (WWW), GOPHER, and WAIS Internet server capabilities--for technical professionals, developers, and advanced users supporting Windows NT installations of any size.

"Support professionals asked for help implementing and supporting Windows NT version 3.5," said Rich Tong, Division Marketing Manager, Business Systems Division at Microsoft. "The MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT RESOURCE KIT is a direct response to that need. This one-stop resource offers critical information that allows the technical professional the flexibility to support Windows NT Workstation and Windows NT Server version 3.5 across multiple platforms. And it provides the tools that make it easier than ever for organizations to post information on the Internet."

Quick Access to Support Software and Technical Information

The MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT RESOURCE KIT offers 45 megabytes of software per platform on six disks and a CD-ROM and more than 3000 pages of easily accessed information in four volumes. The Kit includes troubleshooting techniques and guides to performance monitoring and tuning, network protocols, and error messages. It offers many ways to access valuable technical information, including:

* In-depth tables of contents and fully cross-referenced indexes

* Cross-referencing between the guides

Volume 1: Windows NT Resource Guide is a reference to productivity information on most aspects of the Windows NT operating system such as setup and configuration, application compatibility and migration, and system administration and maintenance. It includes a CD-ROM containing a set of utilities, accessories, and tools for managing users and groups of servers.

Volume 2: Windows NT Networking Guide contains specific networking information for system administrators responsible for installing, managing, and integrating Windows NT on both large and small networks. This volume includes documentation for Microsoft TCP/IP for the Windows operating system, information about using the Remote Access Service (RAS), and information for setting up WWW, GOPHER, and WAIS Internet servers and clients on Windows

Volume 3: Windows NT Messages features an alphabetic reference and an online Messages database to help readers decipher Windows NT error and system-information messages so problems can be fixed quickly and easily. Three disks contain a run-time version of Microsoft Access with the Messages database.

Volume 4: Optimizing Windows NT, by Russ Blake--the manager and developer behind the Windows NT Performance Monitor--is the expert's guide to performance monitoring and optimization. Three disks contain tools and utilities, including a "synthetic load generator" for evaluating, troubleshooting, optimizing, and fine-tuning a system's capabilities.

Availability and Pricing

The MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT RESOURCE KIT (ISBN 1-55615-657-X) is available now in book and software stores and directly from Microsoft Press at 1-800-MSPRESS. In Canada, call 1-800-667-1115. For a limited time, the suggested retail price is $149.95 ($202.95 in Canada).

After May 31, 1995, the suggested retail price will be $199.95 ($269.95 in Canada). The Kit is also available on CompuServe (GO MSP). Shipping and handling charges will apply.

Additional Windows NT Support Material

Other Windows NT support materials available from Microsoft Press include:

* Microsoft Windows NT Workstation Step by Step--Self-training tutorials with disk-based practice files. ISBN 1-55615-695-2, $29.95.

* Running Windows NT--The comprehensive guide for intermediate users. ISBN 1 -55615572-7, $27.95.

* Microsoft Windows NT 3.5: Guidelines for Security, Audit, and Control--A comprehensive guide to understanding the control, security, and audit capabilities of Windows NT 3.5. ISBN 1-55615-814-9, $49.95.

Microsoft Press is the independent book division of Microsoft Corporation and the leading publisher of quality computer books about Microsoft products. More than 10 million users at all skill levels rely on a complete line of Microsoft Press books to make learning and using software easier. Titles ranging from self-paced tutorials for first-time computer users to technical references for professional programmers are distributed to book and software retailers worldwide. Consumers in the United States can also order directly from the publisher at 1-800-MSPRESS and from CompuServe (GO MSP).

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of products and services for business and personal use, each designed with the mission of making it easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal computing every day.

Microsoft Press, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399

206-882-8080,  800-MSPRESS


Union Logic Swr - Vinyl Goddess From Mars
ANNOUNCING A NEW GAME RELEASE BY UNION LOGIC SOFTWARE PUBLISHING

                "VINYL GODDESS FROM MARS"

STORY

In the year 200 billion a small ship races across the galaxy taking The Vinyl Goddess From Mars to the esteemed intergalactic B Movie convention. In mid transit, a meteor shower strikes without warning and the ship is engulfed in a sea of rocks and debris.  Badly damaged by the cosmic storm, the ship careens off course.  Desperately, The Vinyl Goddess twists knobs and pulls levers to regain control.  The best that she can hope for is to eject and let the ship crash land on the strange planet below.  It's up to you to help the lovely goddess find and repair her ship and collect all of her belongings before it's to late to reach the convention.

Take control of the Vinyl Goddess in beautiful 256-color VGA environments, scrolling smoothly at 70 frames per second!  This is the fastest and smoothest scrolling rate possible on a PC!

Vinyl Goddess from Mars features 3 action packed episodes:

Forests of Old

After a devastating crash, The Vinyl Goddess finds herself alone and lost on a forbidden, unknown planet.  This first episode takes place largely in the depths of an ancient forest.  The trees stand gnarled, worn and look extremely uninviting.  Ruins of a lost civilization dot the land, and in them lurks the unknown.  You must take control of the Goddess's every move and ultimately determine her destiny.

Caverns of Chaos

Packs of hideous, flesh eating, fire breathing beasts have plagued Vinyl's progress from the start.  This episode will prove to be no less perilous. With the odds stacked steeply against our heroine what chance could she possibly have?  It will take a brave soul and a will of iron to defeat all that Vinyl will face in this, the second installment of 'The Vinyl Goddess From Mars', trilogy.

The Return

This is the third and final episode in the trilogy.  It is in this episode that Vinyl will face her greatest challenges.  Vinyl has already explored much of her immediate surroundings and slain many creatures (all bad of course).  This heroine stuff is hard work.  At least the Vinyl Goddess is a rugged, well seasoned adventurer.  Well, in the movies she is anyway.  If Vinyl does not make it through this last turn of events, she will surly be late for the esteemed B movie convention.  Help her please!

GAME FEATURES

- Super smooth 360 degree scrolling, running at 70 frames per second!

- Vibrant 256-color VGA animated graphics.

- Three episodes, with over 25 huge levels!

- Awesome Adlib and Sound Blaster compatible music track.

- Sound Blaster compatible digitized sound effects.

- In-game save and restore options, with selectable skill levels.

- Supports keyboard play and joysticks (also works with the Gravis Gamepad).

REQUIREMENTS

- 386DX or better (486 for best playability).

- 570K (583,680 bytes) of free conventional RAM.

- Hard drive.

- VGA graphics.

CONTACTING UNION LOGIC SOFTWARE PUBLISHING

 Mailing Address:       P.O. Box 31039

                        100 Bayshore Drive

                        Nepean, Ontario

                        K2B 8S8

                        Canada

 Telephone Numbers:     (800) 583-4838 (Orders)

                        (613) 828-1173 (Questions and technical support)

                        (613) 599-7245 (Fax)

 Electronic Mail:       Internet: unlogic@globalx.net

FINDING UNION LOGIC'S GAMES ONLINE

(1) UNION LOGIC'S HOME BBS: SOFTWARE CREATIONS BBS

To download any Union Logic game, call one of the following numbers:

   (508) 365-2359    1200/2400     V.42/MNP Lines

   (508) 368-7036    2400-14.4k    HST

   (508) 368-7139    2400-16.8k    V.32/V.42bis

   (508) 368-0457    2400-21k      HST/V.42bis/V.32

   (508) 365-9352    2400-28.8k    V.32/V.42bis

All Union Logic games can be found in Section 185.

(2) INTERNET FTP

Union Logic's titles can be accessed via anonymous FTP at our FTP site. The site is "ftp.unlogic.com", and the directory is "/pub/unionlogic".

UPCOMING GAMES

* RADIX: Into the Void - Awesome sci-fi true 3D shooter with fully

                         texture mapped environments and 3D rendered

                         objects!

* Tactical Factor - Action packed top view scrolling adventure

                    at 70 FPS!

* DDM (Death, Destruction, Mayhem) - Ultra smooth overhead shooter

                                     with true-to-life physics system!

* Granite - Smooth-scrolling, skill-testing, addictive puzzle game!


WATCOM C/C++ 10.0 Technical Excellence Award
WATCOM C/C++ 10.0 RECEIVES TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE AWARD FROM PC EXPERT MAGAZINE

Multi-platform C and C++ Development System Tops Offerings from Microsoft and Borland

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, February 14, 1995 -- Watcom International today announced that Watcom C/C++ 10.0 received the Technical Excellence Award for Programming Languages from PC Expert, an international Ziff-Davis publication, in its February 1995 issue. Watcom C/C++ surpassed competitive products, Microsoft Visual C++ and Borland C++, in earning this award. This year's Technical Excellence Awards were given by PC Expert's editors to the top products and technological innovations in 15 categories from the more than 1,200 products tested in the publication's labs.

In reporting the award, PC Expert commented, "Watcom C/C++ 10.0 closely follows the C/C++ standard and is targeted at professionals who require optimized code and support for multiple platforms, and remains the model of technical excellence."

Watcom C/C++ 10.0 accelerates the development of high-performance, multi-platform, 16-bit and 32-bit applications. Watcom C/C++ 10.0 combines Watcom's industry-leading compiler technology with an integrated development environment (IDE) and comprehensive set of tools.

"We are delighted to accept this award from the respected editors of PC Expert", said Dave Boswell, vice president of sales and marketing at Watcom. "It reaffirms the position of Watcom C/C++ as a top-performing product, recognized by computing professionals around the world for its technical excellence."

PC Expert is a monthly publication devoted exclusively to brand specifiers in business and reaches the largest share of IS decision makers in the French market. Its state-of-the-art laboratory makes it the leading source for definitive lab-based product evaluation.

ABOUT WATCOM

Headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Watcom International Corp. is a leading provider of databases and application development tools. Watcom introduced its PC-based client/server SQL database servers in 1992, providing the first SQL database servers which deliver the simplicity, openness, scalability and cost effectiveness required for the PC marketplace. Watcom has established itself as an industry leader in optimizing compiler technology for Intel-based PCs with its Watcom C/C++ products. Watcom is a wholly owned subsidiary of Powersoft Corp. On February 13, 1995, Sybase and Powersoft announced the completion of the merger of the two companies. The new entity is the fastest growing top-ten software company and the seventh largest software company in the world.


Misc Video Game Software Tid-Bits
Educational Insights will be releasing a CD-ROM version of GeoSafari, which will ship in this spring. Titled GeoSafari Multimedia, the CD-ROM is being developed by Educational Insights Interactive, a new group formed by Educational Insights. The title features 45 interactive learning games on geography, history and science for ages eight to adult.

Capcom USA, Inc. has released Mega Man X2 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. MM X2 now features a special chip called the C4, designed by Capcom to enhance 16-bit software and provide sophisticated graphics, including 3-D object rotation. MM X2 carries a rating of K-Adult and is available at retail outlets nationwide.

Acclaim Entertainment Inc. has completed the acquisition of Iguana Entertainment Inc., an interactive entertainment software developer. Terms were not disclosed, but Acclaim said that Iguana would become a unit of the company and maintain its present offices.

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers will be featured in two new Super NES games in 1995: Mighty Morphin Power Ranges II, which will be released in July to coincide withthe movie and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers III in the fall.

Sega of America Inc signed an exclusive, multiplayer agreement naming Deion Sanders, cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers, the official spokesperson for the Sega Sports brand. Financial terms were not disclosed. Sega says Sanders will endorse a variety of sports-related products and will be featured in Sega's National Football League video-game series beginning in fall of 1995. Sega Sports will also create new software titles specifically around Sanders, according to the company.

Disney Software is introducing its IBM compatible game for children ages seven and up, based on the film Beauty and the Beast and titled Be Our Guest, that will help children develop new skills in memory and logic. A simple point-and-shoot format and various degrees of difficulty allow children to assist the Beast in becoming human again and marrying Belle through a variety of logic and dexterity.


WATCOM C/C++ 10.0 Byte Magazine Award of Merit
WATCOM C/C++ 10.0 RECEIVES BYTE MAGAZINE AWARD OF MERIT

Multi-platform C and C++ Development System Honored for Second Consecutive Year

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, January 24, 1995 -- Watcom International today announced that Watcom C/C++ 10.0 received an Award of Merit from BYTE magazine. BYTE's annual product awards, chosen by the publication's editors, honor leading products that represent new and innovative uses of technology.

Watcom C/C++ 10.0 accelerates the development of high- performance, multi-platform, 16-bit and 32-bit applications. Watcom C/C++ 10.0 combines Watcom's industry leading compiler technology with a new, integrated development environment (IDE) and comprehensive set of tools.

In reporting this year's awards, BYTE editors commented, "We found the most excellent software to be outside the realm of mainstream and professional applications: The very best work was deeper down, in the world of development tools and operating systems. Our highest awards for 1994 go to platforms and software technologies that will enable the development of ground-breaking new products and capabilities." (BYTE, January 1995)

"We are extremely pleased and excited that BYTE editors have again selected Watcom C/C++ as one of the industry's leading products," said Dave Boswell, vice president of sales and marketing at Watcom. "This recognition affirms our long-standing commitment to develop powerful and innovative tools."

BYTE magazine is the world's leading multi-platform computing authority providing early product adopters with in- depth coverage of leading products and emerging technologies. BYTE, a McGraw-Hill publication, is read by more than 1 million readers each month.

ABOUT WATCOM

Headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Watcom International Corp. is a leading provider of application development tools. Watcom is a wholly owned subsidiary of Powersoft Corp. (NASDAQ:PWRS), which has 18 field offices throughout North America, subsidiaries in the U.K., France, Spain and the Benelux countries and distributors in 44 countries throughout North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia. Watcom introduced its PC-based client/server SQL database servers in 1992, providing the first SQL database servers which deliver the simplicity, openness, scalability and cost effectiveness required for the PC marketplace. Watcom has established itself as an industry leader in optimizing compiler technology for Intel- based PCs with its Watcom C/C++ products. On November 14, 1994, Sybase, Inc. and Powersoft announced that the companies' boards of directors had unanimously approved a definitive agreement to merge and create the worldwide leader in client/server software.


Xante Laser Printer With Postscript for Japan
XANTE ANNOUNCES THE FIRST HIGH RESOLUTION LASER PRINTER WITH ADOBE POSTSCRIPT FOR THE JAPANESE MARKET

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SUMMARY

* The Accel-a-Writer 8200J includes Adobe PostScript Level 2 page description language. HP PCL 5 and HP-GL 7475A emulations are also included.

* The Accel-a-Writer 8200J is a 1200 x 1200 dpi printer with a user-selectable 600 x 600 dpi draft mode.

* The Accel-a-Writer 8200J is available in 7 or 15 Morisawa Japanese font configurations.

* The Accel-a-Writer 8200J is based on the 16 page-per-minute Canon LBP-BXII laser print engine. It is capable of printing full bleed 11"x17"/A3 documents as well as oversized pages up to 12"x 25".

* XANTE's Halftone Calibration Technology allows users to easily control the gamma curve of halftones, improving the overall quality. Enhanced screening also is included and provides 40% more levels of gray.

* Standard configuration includes the AMD 29030/33 MHz RISC processor, 48 MB RAM, SCSI disk connection and simultaneously active serial, parallel, LocalTalk, and Ethernet interfaces. Ethernet includes concurrently active EtherTalk and TCP/IP protocols.

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FEBRUARY 20, 1995, MOBILE, AL-- XANTE Corporation introduces the Accel-a-Writer 8200J, a Japanese version of the Accel-a-Writer 8200 which was recently named Best new Monochrome Printer of the Year by MacUser Magazine. This printer becomes the only 1200 x 1200 dpi, Adobe PostScript laser printer available in the Japanese market. The Accel-a-Writer 8200J can be configured with either seven or fifteen Japanese fonts which have been licensed from Morisawa and Company, Ltd.

Based on Canon's 16 page-per-minute LBP-BXII laser print engine, the Accel-a-Writer 8200J is capable of printing full bleed 11" x 17"/A3 documents as well as oversized pages up to 12" x 25".

The Accel-a-Writer 8200J ships standard with 48 MB RAM, upgradable to 64 MB, and it includes a high speed controller built around the AMD 29030/33 MHz RISC processor. In addition to 1200 x 1200 dpi, this printer supports a 600 x 600 dpi draft mode.

"The Japanese high end graphic arts market is a growing industry," said XANTE' s vice president of marketing and international sales, Martin Kennedy. "Japanese users not only require camera-ready output, but also such features as oversized printing capabilities and cross-platform support. The Accel-a-Writer 8200J offers these features as well as the highest quality output, the highest quality fonts, and the reliability and security of Adobe PostScript."

Handling paper sizes up to 12" x 25", the Accel-a-Writer 8200J ships standard with an input capacity of 350 sheets from two trays and an output capacity of 250 sheets. An optional third tray is available and can be configured to hold as many as 500 sheets. Those who wish to print full bleed 11" x 17"/A3 size documents can do so now with the Accel-a-Writer 8200J's oversized printing capabilities. XANTE supports a printable region of 12" x 24.9" on the oversized paper, which is handled through the 100-sheet fold down tray.

The Accel-a-Writer 8200J supports XANTE' s Halftone Calibration Technology, enabling users to adjust the gamma curve of scanned images, gray scales, and other halftones. This feature allows users to calibrate halftone images, bringing out detail that can be lost when printing at higher line screens or when dark photos have been scanned.

In conjunction with XANTE's Halftone Calibration Technology, the Accel-a-Writer 8200J also includes an enhanced screening feature. The user is able to select the normal (default) screen or the enhanced screens at 106, 120, or 140 lines per inch which provides 40% more levels of gray. This is a definite benefit when working in graphics applications that do not allow changes to the line screen of images from within the program itself. Changes to the enhanced screening or Halftone Calibration Technology settings can be made easily from the printer' s front panel or via software printer setup.

XANTE also offers a one year warranty and an unconditional 30 day money back guarantee. The Accel-a-Writer products are available direct from XANTE or from authorized resellers worldwide. For more information, please contact Martin Kennedy, at XANTE Corporation, 334-476-8189.

XANTE Corp

2559 Emogene St

Mobile, AL 36606

P.O. Box 16526

Mobile, AL 36616-0526

Tel: 334/476-8189,  Fax: 334/476-9421


IMR Alchemy Receives Product of Year Award
IMR receives Product of the Year Award

Englewood, Colorado USA (February 1, 1995) -- Imaging Magazine, one of the leading publications in the imaging field, has chosen IMR's Alchemy software for CD recorders to receive their prestigious Product of the Year Award for 1994. Alchemy, the first data management software introduced for CD recorders, will be highlighted in the February issue of Imaging Magazine as one of the best imaging products of 1994 and will be highly recommended to all their readers. The Product of the Year Award will be presented to IMR at an awards banquet to be held in April, during the AIIM Show in San Francisco, California.

IMR develops and markets CD recorder software products for database creation, indexing, CD mastering and data retrieval. Databases created by Alchemy products can be used on any PC with CD-ROM capabilities. IMR is also the developer of DataGrabber, PC software that automatically extracts and parses data from computer report output (such as COM or PRINT files) for direct import into an Alchemy database.

IMR - Information Management Research Inc

5660 Greenwood Plaza Blvd, Suite 210

Englewood, CO 80111

303-689-0022,  fax 303-689-0055


Desert Strike - Return to the Gulf for GameBoy
Toy Headquarters to release Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf for Game Boy

Toy Headquarters Inc. will be releasing Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf in the first quarter of this year for Game Boy with all of the weapons and missions of the original Electronic Art's version. The game positions the AH-64 Apache helicopter Gunship against three campaigns, each with six to eight missions including rescuing hostages and destroying scud launchers.

The game will be supported by a publicity campaign that will deliver product previews and reviews in gaming publications, as well as a national advertising campaign at launch in selected gaming publications, and will be featured at all upcoming trade shows.


British Advertising Group Regulates Video Games
LONDON -- Britain's Advertising Standards Authority extended its regulatory reach to computer games following complaints about product-placement advertising in children's titles. As of February 1st, computer and video-game companies will be required to disclose on packaging whether advertising is included in their products.

The use of advertising in computer games has boomed as the technology has become more popular and the cost of producing the game has increased. Though most product placement ads are fairly obvious, some are tougher to detect. In one popular British computer game, for example, a brand of children's cookie becomes part of the plot.

Bill Lennon, a spokesman for the advertising regulatory group, says "People got irritated when they bought a computer game and they found it was a vehicle for advertising a product," he said.


Official GPO U.S. Code on CD from CD Book Pub.
Official GPO U.S. Code on CD

1993 Edition $54

Hold in the palm of your hand the entire text of every US Law for less than the price of one printed bound volume.

The first 1991 CD edition was published by the GPO in 1992 and was an instant success and is now out of stock. The CD contains all the official U.S. Code with source notes, amendment and enactment dates, and more. The U.S. Code bound volumes that are still sold by the GPO, take up 10 feet of shelf space and weight about 300 lb. This CD is a must have for anyone using CFRs on CD from CD Book Publishers, or anyone for that matter. The text of the laws as passed by Congress are invaluable in understanding the CFRs which interpret the will of Congress. Imagine - full text of all U.S. laws on one CD, subject organized and cross referenced, at such a bargain price. A few law publishers offer a U.S. Code CD with comparable law content, with additional proprietary annotations, and footnotes for $2,000! The printed GPO bound volumes themselves cost $1,300, contain over 30,000 pages, and take up most of a wall in a library.

These colorful CDs are DOS format, and are each packaged in a clear jewel box case with printed disk install and search instructions. A complete on-line help manual is on the CD. Besides a compendium of all fifth U.S. Code Titles on the CD, each CD contains a single user license to two PLS (Personal Librarian), search software packages. Both Windows and DOS Menu search software are included on the disc. PLS search software is even capable of relevance searches. PLS has been rated most favorably by the computer magazines. PLS LAN search software is available from PLS for an extra license fee, if you wish to buy one CD and put it on your Network for others to use. If you run it on one PC at a time there is no extra fee. The CDs are published by the GPO on behalf of the Office of Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives, Mr. Edward F. Willet, Jr.

Also available -- 1994 IRS PUB 1796 Federal TAX Forms & Instructions, IRS TIPS Publications GPO S/N 148-094-00013-6,  $86 complete on 3 CDs.

CD Book Publishers

767 Arbolado Drive

Fullerton, CA 92635

714-526-6434,  fax 714-526-1941


No Canadian License for Video Games on Cable
Canadian Agency will not require license for video games on cable TV

OTTAWA -- The Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission has announced that video games operators will be able to offer cable television services without licenses. The CRTC made the ruling in response to a request by Sega of Canada Inc. that it be allowed to distribute a video games service through cable television providers.

The CRTC will require, however, that video games operators adhere to certain criteria, including the private broadcasting industry's violence code. The video games must also be rated and include information on a game's suitability for children. The programming must originate in Canada, and the service cannot run advertising. The CRTC will handle public complaints on a case-by-case basis.


Sega Moves 32-bit Machine Production From Japan
Sega Enterprises moves 32-bit machine production out of Japan

TOKYO - Sega Enterprises Ltd. plans to move all production of its 32-bit video-game machines to Taiwan or Southeast Asia sometime in 1995, although the company has not yet decided in which country it will set up shop.

The company currently produces all of the machines in Japan in cooperation with a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. Sega says it still intends to use an existing Hitachi overseas location.

According to the company, the move in production is being made to cope with the strong yen.

In other Sega news, Quixote Corp.'s Disc Manufacturing unit has been selected as the first independent replicator of Sega CDs. Quixote says the Sega of America unit has designated Disc Manufacturing as an authorized manufacturer of Sega CD products for third-party software licensees.


Warner Music Group Invests In Accolade
Warner Music Group Joins the List of Accolade Investors

NEW YORK -- Warner Music Group has acquired a significant minority interest in Accolade. The music group joins Prudential Equity Investors as an investor in the company.

According to the company, Accolade will use the investment proceeds to continue its aggressive expansion of the development of titles for PC/CD-ROM and the next generation of video-game platforms.

James Barnett, who has been appointed president of Accolade, says, "Warner's investment will allow Accolade to aggressively expand the development of premium entertainment software and video-game products and will further enhance our strong position in the interactive market."

"With our worldwide marketing strength, support services, and distribution networks, we look forward to building on Accolade's reputation for quality in a variety of new markets," says Paul Vidich, senior v.p. of strategic planning and business development at Warner Music Group.

As part of the agreement, Warner Music Group has also acquired the worldwide distribution rights to all catalog and future product developed and published by Accolade. In North America, Accolade products will be manufactured, packaged, and distributed by Warner Active, and in all other territories, Warner Music Interactive has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Accolade.


Activision Japanese Games via Bandai Visual
Activision to Receive Advanced Royalty Checks

NEW YORK -- Activision Inc. will receive royalty advances of up to $5.5 million under an agreement that allows Bandai Visual Co. to distribute Japanese-language versions of several Activision Infocom titles throughout Japan. Activision has said that it will use the royalty advances to fund the production of the games.

Under the agreement, Activision will retain full ownership of the intellectual property and all distribution rights outside of Japan and worldwide on all platforms not included in the agreements. The games to be released under this agreement are Return to Zork, Planetfall, The Great Game, and Zork 2: Nemesis for various next generation platforms including Sony Playstation, Sega Saturn, 3DO, Windows CD, and Power Player.


Enhanced Imaging System with Reduced File Sizes
OPTIKA IMAGING SYSTEMS AND SEAPORT IMAGING JOIN FORCES TO DEVELOP IMAGING SOLUTION WITH REDUCED FILE SIZES

Solution Relieves Network Congestion, Saves on Media Storage Costs and Decreases Retrieval Times

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO., February 20, 1995 -- Optika Imaging Systems, a leading provider of document image, workflow and information management solutions and Seaport Imaging, a developer and supplier of image processing and document capture systems, have formed a strategic alliance to bring to market imaging products with enhanced image quality and reduced file sizes.

The two companies have teamed up to incorporate The Intelligent Filter from Seaport into Optika's product line using Seaport's AutoPilot Developers Toolkit. The resulting joint development effort, soon to be released as Optika's FPenhance software module, will clean-up images for better viewing while reducing file sizes up to 80 percent. This file size reduction greatly decreases image retrieval times while alleviating network congestion.

"As imaging competes for a piece of the network bandwidth pie with other traffic-intensive applications, LANs and WANs are getting more and more bogged down. The result is that it takes longer and longer to retrieve an image. The higher the volume of images that are stored and retrieved the more significant the problem," explained Ellen Rome, vice president of marketing at Optika. "By incorporating Seaport's compression technology, we will enable end-users to make ultra-fast storage and retrieval requests without tying down the network."

According to Bill Lange, vice president of sales & marketing for Seaport, storage media savings are another reason for incorporating compression technology into imaging applications. "High-volume document imaging environments that process 20,000 documents per day can receive tremendous savings. The calculated savings in optical storage costs reduce the payback period of this technology to less than five months for this size application," he said.

FPenhance is the first of a series of products from the two companies. "The inclusion of image compression technology is the first step to integrate more functionality from Seaport that will make our imaging solutions more efficient and our Business Solutions Partners more competitive," said Rome.

Lange agreed, stating that Optika provides the industry's leading client/server workflow and document management solutions. "We will continue to work with Optika, helping to develop even more advanced solutions that meet the needs of tomorrow's image information requirements," stated Lange.

Seaport Imaging is a developer and supplier of ultra-fast, automatic, bitonal image processing and document capture systems for the high-volume electronic document image market. The company's subsystems provide customers with major benefits such as accuracy for automatic indexing, which minimizes labor costs for manual data input and improves productivity through the reduction of image file sizes that enable faster retrieval and display.

Headquarted in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Optika Imaging Systems is a leading developer of client/server-based imaging, workflow and information management software. Noted for its technology leadership in the high-volume, transaction-processing environment and its large customer base of imaging systems running on local area networks, the company's installations have received significant industry recognition. Optika has been awarded the 1994 BIS Silver Imaging Excellence, 1994 ImagingWorld Silver Technology Innovator of the Year Finalist, 1993 BIS Gold, 1993 ImagingWorld Technology Innovator of the Year, 1993 BIS Silver Imaging Excellence and 1992 ImagingWorld Leadership Awards.

Optika Imaging Systems Inc

5755 Mark Dabling Blvd, Ste 100

Colorado Springs, CO 80919

719-548-9800,  fax 719-531-7915,  Technical Support 719-531-9100


Pro CD Shipping Major Phone Directory Updates
New Pro CD Editions Feature Listings Publication Date

Danvers, MA, February 21, 1995--Pro CD, the leading publisher of telephone directories on CD-ROM, announced it is shipping major updates to its directory titles for the United States and Canada. New 1995 editions are now available for Select Phone, Direct Phone, Home Phone, and Canada Phone. All are Win32s and Windows 95 compatible. Content for these products is obtained from more than 5,000 white and yellow page directories published in the United States and Canada. An update to Free Phone, which is sourced from AT&T, was also announced.

"The 1995 editions of Select Phone and Canada Phone now feature the directory publication date for listings that appear in these products," commented Jim Bryant, Pro CD's President and CEO. "Data accuracy has become the gold standard for this whole category. By providing the date a directory was published we are showing our customers that the listings are current and accurate. No other publisher currently provides this assurance of accuracy. Given how often some people move, this additional information can be invaluable."

Additionally, Select Phone and Canada Phone users can now see the date a listing first appeared in Pro CD's database. This is useful for identifying new listings or for determining the period of time a specific business or individual has been at the same number. According to Bryant, "More than 30 million listings have been updated or added to Pro CD's database since the 4th Quarter 1994 version." Pro CD's national database of U.S. and Canadian white and yellow page listings totals approximately 100 million business and residential records.

Pro CD, Inc., a privately held firm based outside of Boston, has changed the way people access directory information. For product information contact: Pro CD Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923 Telephone: (800)99-CD-ROM or (508)750-0000, Facsimile: (508)750-0070, BBS: (508)750-0077 Internet: sales@procd.com.


GTE & Nintendo Video Game Joint Venture
GTE & Nintendo announce joint venture to develop video-game products

LAS VEGAS -- GTE Interactive Media and Nintendo of America Inc. have announced that they have entered into a joint venture agreement to develop, market, publish, and distribute video games as well as to explore new technologies.

The two companies previewed their first joint development effort, FX Fighter - a three dimensional fighting game using Nintendo's FX2 graphics enhancer chip for the Super NES - at the Consumer Electronics Show January 6 to 9 in Las Vegas. This is the first time Nintendo has co-published a cartridge-based video game with an outside company, and it is a long-term venture, according to Nintendo.

"Nintendo is committed to bringing its millions of brand-loyal players fresh new games that provide truly unique game-play experiences," says Howard Lincoln, chairman of Nintendo. He adds that GTE Interactive Media's "unparalleled ability to engage top create talent for collabortive content development and focus on new technologies will be an invaluable resource to Nintendo."


Activision & Sony Team up in European Deal
Activision and Sony Team up in European Deal

LOS ANGELES -- Activision, Inc. has entered into a European distribution agreement with Sony Electronic Publishing for Activision's current video game releases. Sony will be responsible for the sales, marketing, and distribution of selected Activision video games throughout Europe.

The initial deal includes three video games to be released and distributed during this Christmas season: Radical Rex, for Sega Genesis and CD; X-Kalibur 2097 for SNES; and Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure for SNES, Genesis and Sega CD. Sony will also manage the pan-European distribution for BattleTech for SNES. Other titles may be added to the agreement at a later date. The company expects to ship over 200,000 units under this agreement.


Slammer Whammers Online Network (BBS)
Slammer Whammers Launches Online with Milk Cap Network

LOS ANGELES -- The launch of the world's first milk cap network, The Slammer Shammer Network, was announced in January by Imperial Toy Corporation.

The Slammer Whammer Network is an electronic bulletin board that will be available to consumers this month and will offer a variety of information and services. The network will be hosted by Imperial Toy's newly created character, Slammin' Sam.

Network highlights include helpline and tips for playing, relaying product and industry news, facilitating trading and exchanges between players, and hosting "Slam-Chat," online player-to-player communication.

Anyone with a modem can dial into the network by calling (203) 362-9033. Initially, users need a windows terminal program to get connected with other computers. Once connected, users can download "Ripterm," freeware by Telegrafix Communications, for reaccess to the network and for additional graphics. Network users will only be charged for the cost of the phone call.

"We know our customers, and we think they will love the Slammin' Sam character and the network," says Jordan Kort, executive vice president. "We are already negotiating licensing agreements for Slammin' Sam, and we envision him in many categories including fast food, sporting goods, apparel, and others."


New Interactive Titles from Philips Media
New interactive titles debut from Philips Media

Philips Media Home and Family Entertainment, worldwide publisher of CD-based interactive software, continues to expand its list of CD-ROM and other multimedia interactive titles.

Coming soon are two interactive programs featuring the Stickybear character. Stickybear Preschool presents six bilingual English/Spanish learning activities for children ages three to six, and Stickybear Math helps four to eight year olds with a range of math lessons.

For children ages five to ten, there is the animated Flinstones/Jetsons Timewarp, in which a time machine warps Fred Flintstone and George Getson into each other's worlds.

The Joker's Wild Jr. challenges kids ages six to ten with a children's version of the classic game show.

In Surf City, classic hits by the Beach Boys and others help tell the story of a group of kids growing up in an animated town full of games, music, and activities. The interactive musical is for children ages seven to ten.

Merlin's Apprentice challenges kids ages nine and up to free the great wizard Merlin by solving puzzles, undoing magic spells, and outwitting a trio of tricky demons. The animated adventure is also coming soon on PC and Mac.


Pro CD Launches World Wide Web Site

Danvers, MA, February 21, 1995--Pro CD, the leading publisher of telephone directories on CD-ROM, introduced its Home Page on the Internet's World Wide Web. The new service, which can be accessed on http://www.procd.com, features directories, free software upgrades, technical support documents, and detailed information about Pro CD including employment opportunities. "procd.com" provides access to Free Phone, which includes AT&T's toll free directory of over 100,000 U.S. businesses. The Home Page permits visitors to download free upgrades to Pro CD's CD-ROM directory access software - ProPhone for Windows, DOS and Macintosh. Pro CD has posted detailed technical support documents and background information on the company.

According to Dierdre Purple, Pro CD's Human Resource Manager, "We've received an impressive number of resumes through our Home Page during its four week beta test. "Jim Bryant, Pro CD's President & CEO added "We view our Home Page as a means of communicating with a broader community rather than a commercial undertaking in and of itself. "Pro CD, Inc. based in Danvers, MA is the leading world wide provider of white and yellow page information in electronic form. The company maintains national telephone directory databases covering the United States and Canada.

Pro CD, Inc., a privately held firm based outside of Boston, has changed the way people access directory information. For product information contact: Pro CD Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923 Telephone: (800)99-CD-ROM or (508)750-0000, Facsimile: (508)750-0070, BBS: (508)750-0077 Internet: sales@procd.com.


Interplay 1995 Game Lineup
Interplay Productions has announced their lineup for the first half of 1995, and the list includes products for PCs, Macs, Nintendo, CD-ROM and 3DO.

Starring Tim Curry, Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster is a non-linear interactive story that tells the tale of the disfigured monster, resurrected from the dead by Dr. Frankenstein, on a quest to discover what has happened to himself and his young daughter. The game will be available for IBM compatibles and Macintosh in the second quarter.

Virtual Pool is a pool simulation game that teaches beginning players how to play pool and will also help the game of the more advanced player. It brings all the physics of live pool, including calculating friction, cushion response, and cue ball spin, as well as featuring five pool games: Nine Ball, Eight Ball, Rotation, Straight Pool and Snooker. The game will be available for IBM compatibles in the second quarter.

U.S.C.F. Chess is designed to tutor the beginner chess player, and sharpen the skills of the master, and also gives an official U.S.C.F. National Rating. The game will be available for IBM compatibles and Macintosh in the second quarter.

The discovery, conquest, and colonization of America in the late 15th century is the topic in the new strategy game from Interplay titled Conquest of the New World. Players compete as one of four different countries: England, France, Spain, and Belgium, each with their own advantages or handicaps. To win, players must balance development, politics, and warfare in their own grand strategy.

A fantasy role-playing game, Stonekeep, features full screen graphics with 3D-rendered dungeons and creatures, and an interface that requires only the use of the cursor keys and the mouse. In a similar vein, Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep, a sequel to the original Dungeon Master, creatures and characters that think, act, and react according to the players' interactions.

Also coming from Interplay is Descent, which was released as shareware, featuring the first seven levels, with the full 30 levels being available in the first quarter on both 3 1/2-inch disks and CD-ROM. Also announced was the special teachers version of Mario Teaches Typing, which included study guides and lesson plan suggestions for both IBM and Macs and available in the first quarter.

Other titles scheduled for release include The Skins Game At Bighorn, which is part of an exclusive distribution deal with Fathom Pictures for new CD-ROM titles: Kingdom: The Far Reaches, Zombie Dinos from Planet Zeltoid, Sim Earth and Sim Ant CD-ROM, Bridge Deluxe II with Omar Sharif, Beat The House, and Mario's Game Gallery.

Interplay Productions, 17922 Fitch Ave, Irvine, CA 92714

714-553-6655, Fax: 714-252-2820


Comfy Bridges Gap Between Toys & Computers
Comfy Interactive Movies, Ltd. is looking to market new products that bridge the gap between toys and computers. To that end the company has several new products, some product extensions and plans to expand their software library even further through third-party software publishers.

The company has two new software titles. The first is Colorful Adventures: The Missing Bone, where kids get to direct the action in the mystery of Jumpy's missing dog bone. In each scene color plays an important role in solving the mystery. In ComfyLand: The Great Concert kids learn to differentiate between different musical instruments as well as solo and ensemble performances, conduct rehearsals, and learn the value of friendship and cooperation through interactive animation.

Also, CD-ROM versions of the ComfyLand Interactive Movie Series will be available in five languages: English, Spanish, French, German, and Hebrew, starting in the first quarter. The ComfyKeyboard and ComfyLand Interactive Movies Series will be offered in the Macintosh format starting in June.

Also new for this year is ComfyTeach, which offers a new series of education-oriented software programs targeted to different ages and levels of knowledge for two to six year olds. With the use of the ComfyKeyboard and customized templates, the programs will offer children a twist on traditional educational exercises and games. In addition, the company is in negotiations with third party publishers to produce a series of software programs designed exclusively for the ComfyKeyboard featuring popular licensed characters.


Sybase Enterprise SQL Server Mgr Supports SNMP
SYBASE ENTERPRISE SQL SERVER MANAGER TO SUPPORT SNMP

Sybase Also to Publish Full API for SYBASE SQL Server Performance Monitoring; Company Demonstrates Commitment to Openness in Database Administration

EMERYVILLE, CA, February 21, 1995 -- Sybase, Inc., The Enterprise Client/Server Company, today announced that its breakthrough, object-oriented Enterprise SQL Server Manager product will support the simple network management protocol (SNMP). This capability is scheduled to become available on Enterprise SQL Server Manager in the second half of 1995 and will enable system managers to monitor high-level SYBASE database events from popular systems management platforms. Sybase also announced that in June it will publish the full API (application programming interface) for detailed monitoring of the performance of its databases, giving customers and third-party vendors the ability to easily develop their own monitoring products for SYBASE SQL Server 10.

"With these announcements, we're extending our long tradition of openness at Sybase into database administration," said John Mandile, vice president of the Systems Management Products division at Sybase. "Our database administration products are architected to be robust in their own right and to enable customers to select from a variety of third-party systems management products, depending on the level of detail they need in monitoring SYBASE databases."

In all, Sybase provides five options for monitoring its databases:

* Third-party products that use SNMP;

* Customer applications and third-party products that use the

  SYBASE performance monitoring API;

* Customer applications and third-party products that access

  SQL Server systems tables;

* Products using the Tivoli Management Framework and;

* The graphical displays of SYBASE SQL Server Monitor or

  Enterprise SQL ServerManager.

SNMP Support

With the addition of the SNMP alternative to Enterprise SQL Server Manager, users of popular systems management platforms such as HP OpenView, IBM NetView 6000 and Sun Solstice will be able to monitor high-level SYBASE database events. These events include whether a database is operational, whether there is sufficient disk space and how many people are using a particular database.

"The SNMP standard, defined by the database industry, specifies that SNMP can be used to alert system managers at a high level when there are database problems," said Joe Matibag, senior product manager for SunSoft's enterprise management products. "Database administrators can then use sophisticated monitoring and management tools to diagnose and correct these problems. This sort of synergy of monitoring and management systems is the heart of Solstice."

"Customers want to use HP OpenView for managing their distributed databases, so we're really excited about the SNMP capability in Enterprise SQL Server Manager," said Robert Hoog, general manager for Hewlett-Packard's Network & System Management Division. "It gives OpenView users a powerful way to monitor SYBASE SQL Server products throughout an enterprise."

Enterprise SQL Server Manager is currently in beta testing at 14 customer sites and will be generally available in early 1995. SNMP capabilities for the product will be available in the second half of 1995.

Performance Monitoring API and System Tables

In addition to SNMP support for Enterprise SQL Server Manager and its own monitoring products, Sybase will publish its complete performance monitoring API in June, giving customers and third-party vendors the ability to develop database monitoring applications based on a stable programming interface. This API, which has been reviewed by Sybase partners, will also be used by Sybase's SQL Server Monitor product.

"The published API gives ISVs a stable target for writing their monitoring applications," said Mandile. "Of course, if ISVs want to write programs directly for our systems tables as some database vendors promote, we allow them to do that as well. The bottom line will be more product options for our customers, depending on their needs."

Sybase Database Administration Products

In addition to third-party products that utilize SNMP, the SYBASE monitoring API and SYBASE systems tables, Sybase offers its own robust database monitoring and management products designed specifically for Sybase databases.

Enterprise SQL Server Manager can monitor and automatically respond to pre-defined database events, saving administrators from dealing with common problems. In addition, Enterprise SQL Server Manager can share high-level database event information via the event services available with the Tivoli Management Framework. This framework offers several advantages over other protocols, especially its lower network burden and better scalability.

"We believe that object-based solutions such as Tivoli Management Framework, which is currently a draft X/Open standard, represent a compelling solution both today and into the future," said Mandile. "Object-oriented consoles simplify distributed database administration and offer an excellent connectivity solution with systems management products."

For detailed database performance monitoring, SQL Server Monitor, scheduled for general availability this June, gives database managers an up-close view of database performance and helps to identify potential bottlenecks. SQL Server Monitor, the follow-on product to the existing SQL Monitor product, features an easy-to-use graphical interface, object-level data access, and the ability to view real-time performance information and historical performance trends. SQL Server Monitor is complemented by the SQL Server Manager product, Sybase's icon-based tool for managing local or remote SQL Server databases, which began shipping in late 1994.

Sybase in Database Administration

Database administration is one of Sybase's four key areas of product focus, which also include RDBMS servers, interoperability and software application development tools. Sybase has been offering database administration products since 1990 with its release of SA Companion. Today, in addition to SQL Server Manager, Enterprise SQL Server Manager and SQL Server Monitor, Sybase's systems management products include Backup Server for on-line backups, Audit Server for enhanced security environments, Replication Server Manager for replication management, and Gateway Manager for heterogeneous data access.

Sybase, Inc.

Sybase, Inc., is a worldwide leader in client/server computing. Sybase is focused in the four major client/server categories: databases, tools, database systems management and interoperability, providing desktop to enterprise scalability. The company's mission is to provide its customers with an open, adaptable information systems architecture that enables rapid business change. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase is the seventh largest independent software company in the world.

Sybase Inc

6475 Christie Ave

Emeryville, CA 04608

510-596-3500;  Fax: 510-658-9441


RimStar Programmer's Editor for OS2/Win/WinNT
Power Up With the RimStar Programmer's Editor for OS/2 Windows and Windows NT

Developing Apps for OS/2, Windows or Windows NT If you are developing applications for OS/2, Windows, or Windows NT, you need a professional editor that fully takes advantage of the power these operating systems have to offer.

The RimStar Programmers Editor is that editor. Its powerful 32-bit architecture gives you all the performance you need to edit code at lightning speed. Its rich feature set will increase your productivity dramatically. This truly configurable editor allows you to create the environment of your own choosing.

The RimStar Programmer-s Editor is the editor you and your programming team should be using to boost your software development productivity.

Customization

Flexibility and customization are key requirements for a programmer's editor. The editor's 'C' macro language fills these requirements to the max. With the macro language you can: customize the keyboard, customize the menus, customize the template editing and smart indenting; build custom macros to create the programming environment that you desire--using a language you already know--'C'.

The editor's internal API provides over 300 functions you can use to really take command of your editing environment.

No Hassle Changing Editors

We know changing editors can be a major hassle. You don't want to relearn a new set of keystrokes no matter how good the product. Well, you don't have to--we have Brief, CUA, Epsilon, Multi-Edit SlickEdit, PWB and Borland IDE keyboard mappings waiting for you. If you are not using one of these, let us know and we will create the mapping you need.

Excellent Features

The RimStar Programmer's Editor has the robust features you need to get the job done. You can edit an unlimited number of files of virtually unlimited size and length in an unlimited number of windows. You will really appreciate the unlimited undo and redo capabilities. You will find that the block indent/outdent is a real time saver when copying code segments.

The SyntaColor feature allows you to easily identify items in your code at a glance. You can assign colors to comments, keywords, strings, identifiers and numbers.

Compiling within the RimStar Programmer's Editor is a breeze. The multi-threaded environment lets you continue working while your code is compiling. The compilation output is displayed in a window so you can monitor the results. The jump to error feature allows you to correct errors quickly.

With the editor's search and replace feature you can use BRIEF or UNIX EGREP regular expressions to perform complex searches and translations. You can search and replace within a selected area (marked lines, columns and blocks), within a buffer or across all buffers.

The last fifty search and replace expression are retained and are selectable from the search and replace dialog allowing you to reuse previous search and replace expressions.

Editor Configuration

With the Editor Configuration Dialog you can turn on and off basic features like: creating backups; saving the editor state; auto-save; flush undo/redo on buffer writes. You can also specify tab stops, the backup path, autosave frequency, and regular expression style. You determine the appropriate keyboard speed and the toolbar setup. You decide whether to save the configuration permanently or just use the configuration for the current session.

Using the File Extension Association dialog you tell the editor which executable program(s) (compilers/make/utilities, etc.) to associate with a particular file extension.

Once you use the Source Browser you will wonder how you survived without it. How much time have you wasted searching for function and variable definitions or references, The Source Browser eliminates these annoying searches by providing definition and reference locations with a convenient jump to feature for quick navigation to these locations.

You can choose to display definitions, references, or both. And you can browse a single module or all the modules in the Source Browser Database.

Our Guarantee

We want you to be a satisfied customer We are here to answer all of your question promptly. As our customers will tell you, we take your suggestions seriously. Many of our features are the result of their suggestions.

Furthermore, if within 30 days, you are not completely satisfied with our product we will refund your money.

Price: $299 for OS/2 -- $199 for Windows & Windows NT

(plus shipping & handling)

To order by phone call: 1-800-746-7007 or by fax: 603-778-2408

RimStar Technology, Inc.

91 Halls Mill Road

Newfields NH 03856


Bristol Tech. Wind/U 2.1 With Added Support
BRISTOL TECHNOLOGY INC. ANNOUNCES WIND/U 2.1

Support for Visual C++ 2.0, Microsoft Class Library 3.0, Silicon Graphics IRIX 5, Wind/U Wizard, Xprinter 3.0 Added

Ridgefield, Conn., February 13, 1995--Bristol Technology Inc. today announced Wind/U 2.1, a new release of the company's Windows-to-UNIX cross-platform development software. Release 2.1 continues Wind/U's support of Microsoft's Win32 and Win16 application programming interfaces (API), while adding support for Visual C++ 2.0, Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library 3.0, and Silicon Graphics Inc.'s IRIX 5-based workstations.

Wind/U 2.1 also includes the addition of Wind/U Wizard, a productivity enhancement, and the integration of Xprinter 3.0, Bristol's software for adding sophisticated printing capabilities to UNIX-based applications.

Bristol's Wind/U family of products enables software developers to build Windows, Windows NT, and UNIX applications from a single source code base, using the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library, the Windows API, and Visual C++ or other Windows development environments. With Wind/U 2.1, developers can use the latest Visual C++ features with their UNIX applications. These include new user interface classes such as dockable toolbars and property sheets.

"Visual C++ 2.0 and MFC 3.0 make it easier for developers to utilize OLE, Microsoft's object technology," said Keith Blackwell, president of Bristol Technology. "Bristol's support for MFC brings Wind/U a step closer to seamless integration with OLE, and is based on our belief that MFC and the Windows API will continue to be the development standards of choice."

MFC 3.0's User Interface Support

Wind/U 2.1 supports such user interface features on UNIX as docking toolbars and property sheets. The dockable toolbar support enables developers to bring more versatility to a GUI by either attaching (or "docking") a toolbar to any side of its parent window, or by letting it "float" in its own miniframe window.

With release 2.1, Wind/U developers can also use property sheets in their UNIX applications. Known as "tabbed dialog boxes," property sheets allow a large amount of information to be grouped in an easily understood manner.

Wind/U Wizard

To aid developers in porting their applications to UNIX, Wind/U 2.1 adds Wind/U Wizard, a productivity enhancement that includes custom installation and configuration tools. The Wizard helps novice UNIX developers to build, debug, and run a Wind/U application more efficiently, and to communicate more effectively with Bristol by collecting configuration information.

The Wizard flags possible portability problems, helps prepare user source code for porting, verifies the installation process, provides easy links to the Wind/U on-line manual and other resources, and provides an automated method of communicating with Bristol's Developer Support and Relations Department.

Xprinter 3.0

Wind/U 2.1 integrates Xprinter 3.0, Bristol's printing library, into the Wind/U graphical device interface. Xprinter 3.0's integration adds Kanji printing support to Wind/U, as well as a graphical method of adding printers to a Wind/U application's printing configuration.

Silicon Graphics IRIX 5 Support

Bristol Technology has ported Wind/U 2.1 to Silicon Graphics Inc.'s Indigo and IRIS workstations, which will enable developers to utilize the 24-bit advanced color graphics available on these IRIX 5-based computers.

Wind/U 2.1 is available on SunSPARC, HP700, RS/6000, and Silicon Graphics Inc. workstations. It is priced between $5,000 - $9,950, depending on volume.

Ridgefield, CT-based Bristol Technology Inc. develops, markets, and supports the Wind/U family of products. Founded in 1990, the company has posted an operating profit for 11 consecutive quarters. Its products include HyperHelp, software for creating UNIX-based on-line help systems with WinHelp functionality, and Xprinter, software for adding sophisticated priting capabilities to UNIX-based applications. In 1993, Bristol was recognized for having the highest revenue growth of any Connecticut-based high technology company.


Crosstalk Wins Top Honors in Magazine Awards
ATTACHMATE'S CROSSTALK WINS TOP HONORS IN MAGAZINE AWARDS

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- February 6, 1995 -- Attachmate Corporation's CrossTalk for Windows recently received top honors as communications product of choice for two leading technology publications. These honors validate the selection of CrossTalk as the preferred communications software by more than one hundred thousand customers.

CrossTalk for Windows 2.2 won Home Office Computing's Editors' Pick as the best communications software available on the market (January 1995).

CrossTalk for Windows with CrossFax was named one of Windows Magazine's Top 100 Software Products (February 1995).

"We are particularly proud of CrossTalk," said Eric Alexandre, vice president of open systems products for Attachmate, which acquired the CrossTalk product line late last year in its merger with Digital Communications Associates, Inc. "This award winning product has the momentum to continue its leadership as the premier communications software solution. Recognition like these awards emphasize Attachmate's commitment to provide the best possible communications products."

CrossTalk for Windows 2.2 communications software provides preconfigured scripts for easy access and navigation of many on-line services, including the Internet. The full-featured communications package supports numerous connections, asynchronous terminal emulation and file-transfer protocols. The fully-functional CrossFax software, which is bundled with CrossTalk, includes state-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition capabilities which enables users to translate faxed documents into editable text that can be used with any word processor. In addition CrossFax is the only fax software on the market that provides 256-level gray scale send and receive capabilities, giving the end-user the best quality fax possible.

The editors of Home Office Computing selected the product for its overall usability, reliability and value in providing the best communication software available for PC's. According to the editorial judging committee of Home Office Computing, CrossTalk outperformed all other communications software tested.

"CrossTalk is an excellent choice for anyone in the market for an all inclusive modem communications software package," says Home Office Computing Editor-in-Chief Bernadette Grey. "CrossTalk excelled beyond the expectations of other communications software packages, thus deserving of the recognition it gained as the single best communications software available."

In its Best 100 Products citation, Windows Magazine stated that CrossFax "packs every function you'll need to send, receive and manage fax documents."

CrossTalk's most notable feature is its configurable QuickPads which let users create customized toolbars that allow them to quickly execute selected CrossTalk and on-line host commands. Continuing Attachmate's strategic commitment to provide the widest array of communications protocols available, CrossTalk now supports Zmodem, Ymodem, YmodemVG, Ymodem hatch, Xmodem, Xmodem1K, Kermit, DART and CompuServe.

CrossTalk for Windows 2.2 with CrossFax is available now through Attachmate's standard distribution network for a suggested retail price of $195. Pricing outside North America depends on the local market.

ABOUT ATTACHMATE

Attachmate, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., is the worldwide leading market provider of enterprise connectivity software products that enable businesses to access, manipulate and exchange information and applications residing on host computers. The company's leading product lines enable users to connect to virtually any host, across any network, from any desktop, regardless of operating system. Attachmate also manufacturers information access and productivity-enhancing software, including remote access and host communication products, client/server development tools, groupware, host-server, and software distribution applications.

Attachmate Corporation

3617-131st Avenue SE

Bellevue, WA 98006

(206) 644-4010 or (800) 426-6283.


Earth Explorer Multimedia Encyc of the Env.
Apple Extends Home Learning Line with Introduction of Earth Explorer

The Multimedia Encyclopedia of the Environment

WASHINGTON D.C.--February 23, 1995--Continuing its tradition of making education and learning enjoyable, Apple Computer, Inc. today introduced Earth Explorer, a comprehensive, interactive multimedia tour of the environment for children ages ten and up. With this CD-ROM based multimedia title, children can learn about the natural and human forces affecting the Earth through a variety of informational and exploratory activities.

Earth Explorer contains hundreds of lively articles illustrated with graphics and movies, simulations based on actual data, animations that explain basic environmental concepts, and games that both challenge and amuse. The product cultivates childrens' critical thinking by encouraging them to recognize the connections among climatic, biological, and human systems, and uses case examples to illustrate these relationships and dramatize the excitement of science in daily life. Earth Explorer's interactive design makes the software easy to use and an indispensable learning tool for many age groups.

To bring Earth Explorer to the home learning market, Apple has worked with Enteractive, Inc., an award-winning multimedia developer. Enteractive, Inc. developed the software in cooperation with the American Association for the advancement of Science (AAAS) and with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

"Due to Apple's strong commitment to the environment, Earth Explorer was the obvious choice to be the second product in Apple's Home Learning Line," said Guerrino De Luca, vice president of Apple's sales and marketing AppleSoft division. "Children of all ages will benefit from the wealth of information and engaging activities Earth Explorer offers."

"Earth Explorer is outstanding, wondrous, and fundamentally mind- expanding," said Dr. Michael Robinson, Director of the National Zoological Park. "I wish that I had been exposed to Earth Explorer when I was young. It would have eliminated years of tedious searching for the facts of life on earth. This is a glimpse of the future face of limitless education...and it works."

Earth Explorer is the second product in the Apple Home Learning line of educational software for Mac OS- and Windows-based personal computers. In cooperation with companies such as Enteractive and Scholastic, Inc., Apple Home Learning's curriculum-focused, CD-ROM products build bridges between school and home, bringing teachers and parents together to improve education. Products such as Earth Explorer and WiggleWorks incorporate the best of classroom experience, engage children to learn actively, and involve parents in their children's learning.

Earth Explorer is also available in a special teachers edition for use in classroom situations. The Earth Explorer Teachers Edition includes a comprehensive teachers guide that provides additional support to teachers who are integrating environmental studies into their curriculum.

System Requirements

Apple recommends Earth Explorer for customers with an Apple Macintosh or PowerBook computer with a 68030 or higher processor, or Apple Power Macintosh computer; a minimum of 5MB of RAM; any version of Macintosh System 7; a hard disk drive; a color monitor; and a CD-ROM drive. Earth Explorer for Windows, running on an IBM-compatible computer, requires a 25-MHz 80486 or higher processor; a minimum of 8MB of RAM; Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions, or Windows 3.1; a hard disk drive; a VGA or Super VGA color monitor with a video card that can display at least 256 colors; and a CD-ROM drive.

Availability and Pricing

Earth Explorer for Macintosh will be available in the United States through software resellers, Apple authorized resellers and consumer retail outlets. Earth Explorer for Macintosh is available today, and Earth Explorer for Windows is planned to be available in March, 1995. The suggested retail price for Earth Explorer is U.S. $56.00. The Earth Explorer Teachers Edition, available for Macintosh only, is available today directly from Apple for U.S. $99.00. For availability of Earth Explorer in other countries, customers should contact their local Apple office.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the information industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy to use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, online services, and personal digital assistants. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) develops, manufactures, licenses and markets products, technologies and services for the business, education, consumer, scientific & engineering and government markets in over 140 countries.

Apple Computer Inc

20525 Mariana Ave

Cupertino, CA 95014

408-996-1010


eWorld Expands Personal Finance Offering

Pershing's PC Financial Network, Corporate Intelligence from

Reference Press Join eWorld Investment Lineup

CUPERTINO, California--February 23, 1995--Now members of eWorld, the online service from Apple Computer, have access to a wide array of financial market information with the addition of two new providers. PC Financial Network brings some of Wall Street's most respected analysts to eWorld and Corporate Intelligence 10-K Library lends in-depth company reports to round out financial research within eWorld.

With access to some of the same information and tools that brokers use, the individual investor can stay on top of current investments in equities, mutual funds, and other securities and make informed decisions about future investments using quotes, news and analysis available in eWorld.

Blake Darcy, Chief Operating Officer of PC Financial Network, states "We're confident that the combination of PC Financial Network and eWorld will help redefine the way investors gather the information that shapes their investing decisions. We're extremely excited about the possibilities that eWorld brings to us."

America's largest on-line discount broker, PC Financial Network, a service of the Pershing Division of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation, provides professional investment research and market news to the on-line investor. In eWorld, PC Financial Network features insights into the current state of the financial markets, including economic and market indicators, a morning comment and market wrap-up, as well as highlighting individual stocks that are of interest.

For investors doing in-depth company research, Corporate Intelligence from Reference Press, along with their classic, Hoover's Company Profiles, is a valuable resource. The Hoover's Company Profiles database includes profiles of over 900 of the largest, most influential and fastest growing public and private companies in the U.S. and the world. eWorld members also have access to the Corporate Intelligence 10-K Library, containing nearly 2000 10-Ks as electronically filed with the SEC. 10-K reports are an essential tool for learning about a company's strategies, management team, and financial position, for both investors and job seekers. Normally available to individuals for a fee, the 10-K library is currently being made available to eWorld members for no additional charge beyond the basic eWorld fees, as an introduction.

Technical analysis adds another perspective on the markets, and the publishers of Decision Point provides this viewpoint. After the close of market each business day, 152 equities and 160 mutual funds are charted and analyzed. Decision Point publisher and technical analyst Carl Swenlin provides charts of his own proprietary indicators, along with a weekly market analysis and editorial. For beginners in technical analysis, Decision Point offers a Technical Analysis Short Course to help investors acquire and use this valuable skill, and a Chart of the Week feature provides continuing education in the art of chart analysis.

PC Financial Network and Corporate Intelligence join the growing roster of valuable resources found in eWorld's Business & Finance Plaza, including: Dow Jones Business and Financial News, Tribune Media Services' Decision Point, Money Matters, and eWorld Market Quotes. Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News is expected soon in eWorld, and will add in-depth local business coverage from over 70 U.S. newspapers.

This comprehensive sweep of financial information gives eWorld members access to everything from profiles of the world's most influential companies to briefs on key court decisions' impact on stock trading.

Additionally there are several eWorld message boards where investors and personal money managers can exchange ideas. The Reference Librarian in Corporate Intelligence focuses on company research, covering a wide variety of topics. In Money Matters, The Exchange covers savings and investment, and regular conferences facilitate discussion between eWorld members and the experts. Money Matters also offers a Best Rate feature on money market accounts, CDs and credit cards.

eWorld is a powerful, yet easy to use, family of online services from Apple Computer Inc., which include eWorld for Macintosh and NewtonMail-- eWorld's messaging service for Newton personal digital assistants. Included on most Apple Macintosh computers, the software is also available free to all US Macintosh users by calling 1-800-775-4556. eWorld launched in Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Localized language versions of eWorld and eWorld for DOS/Windows-based personal computers are planned for later in 1995. In the United States, the basic monthly rate is $8.95, which includes four free hours of usage. Each subsequent hour is $2.95.

Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple Computer, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets personal computers, servers, personal interactive electronic systems, software and interactive services for use in business, education, home, science, engineering and government. A recognized pioneer and innovator in the personal computer industry, Apple does business in more than 120 countries around the world.

Apple Computer Inc

20525 Mariana Ave

Cupertino, CA 95014

408-996-1010


New Entry-Level DEC Alpha Workstation
NEW ENTRY-LEVEL ALPHA WORKSTATION IS PRICE/PERFORMANCE LEADER; VOLUME SALES EXPECTED THROUGH CHANNEL PARTNERS

MAYNARD, Mass. -- February 23, 1995 -- Digital Equipment Corporation today unveiled a new entry-level, 64-bit AlphaGeneration workstation -- the AlphaStation 200 4/100 workstation. The workstation is a price/performance leader and will be popular with customers who want an inexpensive but powerful system running the UNIX operating system.

The system supports three operating systems -- DEC OSF/1 (Digital's version of UNIX), Windows NT, and OpenVMS -- so customers can choose the application and operating system best suited to run their businesses. The system also incorporates the high-performance PCI bus--a standard in the PC industry that enables customers to purchase a wide range of peripherals from the thousands of vendors who service the PC market.

"With the new systems, Digital continues to offer workstations with the best price/performance of any comparable systems on the market," said Philippe Ribeyre, vice president, Alpha Workstation Business Segment. "The new workstation provides extraordinary value by combining high-end performance with low-cost design features."

Volume Sales through Channels Partners

Digital will sell the workstations directly, and in volume through its channel partners. Digital's channel partners are enthusiastic about selling the new products. For example, Robert Braverman, vice president, marketing, Avnet Computer, said "Digital has been cooperative in working with its partners. Digital has also priced its new products in a way that benefits us, and has advertised the systems widely to build demand. People are regarding Digital as the price/performance leader in the workstation and server markets. Avnet is seeing a double-digit increase in sales of Digital's products over last year."

Fastest Low-Cost Workstation

With CPU performance of 100 MHz, and SPECint92 and SPECfp92 performance of 74.59 and 95.23 respectively, the AlphaStation 200 4/100 workstation offers customers up to twice the performance of entry-level competitive workstations.

It supports leading applications in technical markets, including MCAD, ECAD, GIS, and CASE; and commercial markets, including desktop publishing, office productivity, and database applications.

Outstanding Investment Protection

"With the new workstation, customers can rest assured that their computing investments in Digital's systems are protected," added Ribeyre. "Digital will offer inexpensive upgrades as new and more powerful CPU chips are introduced to meet customers' needs."

The system comes with an industry leading, three-year warranty featuring on-site service with next-day response for the first year.

Pricing and Availability

The AlphaStation 200 4/100 workstation is priced at $4,991 for a system with a 1.05 GByte disk, 32 MBytes of memory, and the DEC OSF/1 or OpenVMS operating systems. An AlphaStation 200 4/100 with the Windows NT Workstation operating system, a 340 Mbyte disk, and 16 MBytes of memory is priced at $4,285.

The AlphaStation 200 4/100 workstation is currently available and shipping.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry- focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.


AlphaServer Large System Features at Low Price
NEW ALPHASERVER OFFERS LARGE SYSTEM FEATURES AT SMALL SYSTEM PRICES

MAYNARD, Mass. -- February 23, 1995 -- Digital Equipment Corporation today announced the AlphaServer 400 4/166 -- a new entry-level, 64-bit server. The new server, with prices starting under $10,000, is ideal for small- to medium-sized businesses, and for franchise operations needing low-cost servers in many different locations.

The server supports three operating systems -- DEC OSF/1 (Digital's version of UNIX), Windows NT, and OpenVMS -- so thousands of applications are available to help customers run their businesses. The system also incorporates the high-performance PCI bus--a standard in the PC industry that enables customers to purchase a wide range of peripherals from the thousands of vendors that service the PC market.

"With this new server, Digital expects to replicate the success of the low-cost and highly reliable MicroVAX 3100 systems which were extremely popular with thousands of installations," said Philippe Ribeyre, vice president of the Workstations and Low-End Server Business Segment. "The new AlphaServer 400 4/166 server features the benefits of the MicroVAX 3100 system plus openness through the use of industry standards such as the PCI bus, and a powerful Alpha microprocessor."

Volume Sales through Channels Partners

Digital will sell the systems directly, and in volume through a its channels partners. Digital's channels partners are enthusiastic about selling the product. For example, Shari Chassen, manager of strategic marketing at MTI Systems, said, "Our Digital sales have certainly gained momentum, and in fact, they are at an all-time high. This resulted from MTI being a distributor that specializes in system integration, and the marketing campaigns that we have recently conducted with Digital. The new products featured in this announcement further strengthen Digital's market position as a price/performance leader."

A Reliable, Low-Cost Server

The new server offers large-system features -- high reliability, sophisticated security, and system management features -- at an attractive price. Running at 166 MHz, the AlphaServer 400 4/166 operates up to four times faster than comparable competitive servers. It is ideal for customers who need a local area network (LAN) server for file, print, and e-mail applications, or it can function as an application server or a file backup system.

Outstanding Investment Protection

With the new server, customers' computing investments in Digital's systems are protected. Digital will offer inexpensive upgrades as new and more powerful CPU chips are introduced to meet customers' growing computer requirements.

The system also comes with an industry leading, three-year, warranty featuring next-day response.

Pricing and Availability

The AlphaServer 400 4/166 server is priced at $9,980 for a system running the DEC OSF/1 or OpenVMS operating systems and a 1.05 GByte disk, 32 MBytes of memory, a CD-ROM drive, and a PCI Ethernet adapter. A system with the Windows NT Server operating system and a 1.05 GByte drive, 32 MBytes of memory, a CD-ROM drive, a PCI Ethernet adapter, and a PCI graphics adapter is priced at $9,315. The AlphaServer 400 4/166 is currently available and shipping.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry- focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.


Attachmate EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 Ships
Attachmate's EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 Ships

Certified as Best User Interface, Administration and File Transfer Performance

BELLEVUE, Wash. February 15, 1994 -- Attachmate Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise connectivity software, today announced the shipment of EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 and the future shipment of EXTRA! for Windows Enterprise Administrator 4.0. Attachmate is unveiling EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 at Networks EXPO in Boston and the IT Forum in Paris. New ways of creating 'application-centric personalities,' while providing powerful management capabilities will be demonstrated.

Attachmate also announced the results of a report published by InterLAB, an independent testing and certification company that benchmarked usability features and file transfer performance of EXTRA! for Windows 4.0. EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 was 'Certified' to have the best administration, installation and workspace when tested against the industry's leading products including; Wall Data's Rumba 3270 for Windows, DCA's IRMA Workstation for Windows, NSA's DynaComm/Elite and IBM's Personal Communications/3270.

"We tested Attachmate's EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 for ease of use and file-transfer speed. EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 was found to be the easiest to use enterprise connectivity software when compared to leading competitive products. Additionally, file-transfer speeds were certified to be consistently faster than all other products tested in some cases, up to 50% faster than the closest competitor," said Kevin Tolly, president of InterLAB.

Application-Centric Personalities

EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 provides a new way of opening and working with host applications as if they were local Windows applications with their own unique interface. The company believes this product marks a significant move away from standard 'terminal emulation' where users have the same menus and functionality regardless of the host applications being used. EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 allows users and administrators to create unique application personalities -- transforming itself on demand with its own customized menus, toolbars, Hotspots, screen colors and fonts, SmartPads, macros, 3270 functions and file transfer options.

The new product comes with its own pre-defined 'schemes' for many commonly used host applications such as Office Vision (PROFS), CICS, MEMO, QMF, and EMC2. It also provides numerous ease-of-use capabilities including a new toolbar, drag-and-drop file transfers, true context-sensitive help, a floating toolbar known as a SmartPad, 'most-recently-used' menus to help users quickly launch prior applications or file transfers, and other advanced Windows functions.

"Organizations are under pressure to improve user productivity," said Joyce Jones, executive vice president, worldwide products for Attachmate. "EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 focuses on the users interaction with their host applications - the end result is a software system designed to adapt to the individual rather than the individual adapting to the software."

EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 also incorporates powerful intelligence capabilities with its new EXTRA! BASIC scripting language, which will provide users and programmers a drag-and-drop development environment for automating tasks and building graphical applications. Since it closely follows Microsoft's VBA specification, users who have learned Windows BASIC will not need to learn new procedures. EXTRA! BASIC macros can be securely distributed throughout the enterprise -- and can be assigned to the EXTRA! menu, toolbar, keyboard, SmartPad, or Hotspot. With this intelligent functionality, Hotspots can now be set up to watch for error conditions on the screen, for example, and automatically diagnose and solve the problem without user interaction. This type of capability is designed to reduce training and support costs associated with desktop-to-host connectivity.

"I like EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 because of the programmable Hotspots and the simplicity in writing macros," said Scott Glenn, Electronic Data Systems at the General Motors Research Division. "Normally we would have to go through multiple terminal emulation screen layers to get to one of our front-end menu choices. Now with the programmable Hotspots, we just point and click like any other Windows application and that invokes the macro. It's very easy to use."

Management Capabilities

EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 allows the network administrator to secure and customize user configurations for the enterprise. Attachmate also announced EXTRA! for Windows Enterprise Administrator 4.0 which will ship at a later date as an add-on to EXTRA! for Windows 4.0. This product installs on the network administrator's PC, allowing the administrator to distribute EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 throughout the enterprise. By combining the power of both products, built in sophisticated security capabilities are available to lock toolbars, Hotspots, menus, macros, etc. EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 can be customized by the network administrator for each user or work group - then distributed from a central location.

Other Enhancements

EXTRA! for Windows 4.0 also added the WinHLLAPI function set for developing re-engineered client/host applications - in addition to its already available WHLLAPI, HLLAPI and DOS HLLAPI capabilities. In addition to its connectivity support for LAN, WAN, direct or remote SNA environments - EXTRA! for Windows now supports Microsoft's SNA Server, Banyan IP and TCP/IP to the Attachmate Gateway. The product now supports NetView RTM (Response Time Monitor) as well, providing users and administrators with valuable performance information.

About Attachmate

Attachmate Corporation is a leading provider of desktop-to-host enterprise connectivity products. Its host-aware client software product families include the EXTRA! family for IBM mainframe and AS/400 hosts, LAN Workstation for Novell's NetWare, and KEAterm for Digital VAX and UNIX host systems. The company is continuing to expand its line of connectivity solutions, bringing information to the desktop in an easy and intuitive manner, regardless of where it resides. Attachmate provides extensive value-added customer support services including training, consulting and development. Headquartered in Bellevue, WA, Attachmate maintains direct sales offices in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific Rim.

Attachmate Corporation

3617-131st Avenue SE

Bellevue, WA 98006

(206) 644-4010 or (800) 426-6283.


Hoops/2 College Basketball Pool Manager
Jump Through Hoops With OS/2 and GABWare

OS/2 College Basketball Tournament Pool Manager Available from GABWare

HOOPS/2 College Basketball Pool Manager 1.0 Product Description

February 22, 1995 -- Hoops/2 is a software program for managing all the statistics and variables of a college basketball tournament. Perfect for both campus and office sports fans, it frees the user from the tedious and error-prone process of evaluating contestant's entries against the actual wins and losses as the tournament progresses. It automates the scoring and sorting of results according to user-selected options. Compare your entry against the TRUTH and COINFLIP entries to see how you are doing. The program permits you to select from multiple scoring options (round and seed weightings), allows an unlimited number of contestants and automatically compares all contestant entries against the TRUTH entry. The results can be sorted by round or by region to determine "lap" points and well as the booby prize winner. Tips collected from over 10 years of tournament pool experience are included. Full color GUI screens are provided to define contestant entries as well as the tournament TRUTH. Red and green colors are used to identify favorite and upset winners. Support for hypothetical analysis is provided. Hoops/2 is reusable year to year.

HOOPS/2 1.0 $29.95

GABWare is a member of IBM's Developer Assistance Program. To order or for more information on the HOOPS/2 product, contact them at:

GABWare, Inc.

PO Box 4062

Merrifield, VA 22116

(703)-207-9489 (voice)

(703)-560-1010 (fax)


IBM System for NASA Data Over Internet
IBM Research to Develop System to Facilitate Retrieval of NASA Data Over Internet

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., February 22, 1995 ... Amateur and professional environmentalists, geologists and others who have a yen or use for earth science data from outer space may gain easier access to this information in a few years. IBM researchers are developing a system that will enable wider public access to NASA earth and space science data over the Internet. This project has been launched thanks to a $2 million grant that NASA awarded to scientists at the IBM Research Division's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.

The IBM grant and 14 other awards totaling $20 million are intended to fund projects that accelerate the creation of a National Information Infrastructure (NII). NII is a governmental initiative to provide greatly improved access to electronic information and to promote the exchange of information.

For IBM, the NII is part of network-centric computing, a strategic effort focused on an emerging market in which customers can subscribe to application services delivered on high-speed voice and data networks. This enables the sharing of voice, video and other forms of information for business, research or entertainment, and facilitates anytime, anywhere access to these forms of information.

The IBM project will use a combination of existing and to-be-developed technology to enable multiple users to concurrently and interactively retrieve NASA digital satellite data from a large digital library with greater ease and efficiency than is currently possible. The researchers will be developing algorithms -- a set of computer instructions -- that will perform the retrieval by image content, rather than requiring the users to extract large volumes of data for later selection as is the focus of current retrieval methods.

This project will be carried out by the systems analysis and systems applications group at the Watson research facility. In describing the significance of the grant, Steve Lavenberg, senior manager for the group, said: "This is an exciting opportunity for IBM Research to apply its technology leadership in algorithms, data base technology, image and signal processing, user interfaces and visualization to help NASA achieve its objectives. The complexity and scale of NASA's data make this a particularly challenging project."

IBM will incorporate the new algorithms into a testbed system that will be installed, along with a high-performance server based on IBM's line of workstations, at NASA's Remote Sensing Public Access Center (RSPAC) in West Virginia. The researchers will work with user groups to test and evaluate the testbed retrieval system, which will be available to users over the Internet. The initial database will be focused on one class of data, such as images for environmental analysis and land use studies.

For example, a scientist who is attempting to ascertain the total acreage of crops being irrigated in Nebraska may issue the following query "Show me the most recent satellite image of Nebraska." In the image that is recovered, the area is obscured by clouds. The user issues a second query "Show me the most recent cloud-free satellite image of Nebraska." In order to obtain satellite images of Nebraska from the last 12 months, the next query issued may be "Show me the weekly history of this region for the last year." At this point, the user is interested in discovering the distribution of water usage for crop irrigation across the Midwestern states. The user issues one last query "Find me all regions in the Midwestern United States that contain the signature identified in recent satellite images." This will provide the user with a view of the total acreage of irrigated crops across all the Midwestern states.

While some aspects of these queries could be satisfied by current methods, most could not. The ability to conduct this type of search and retrieve the images over the Internet is a primary objective of the IBM research.

"The IBM work will draw on software previously developed by IBM Research including IBM's Visualization Data Explorer, an application and toolkit that allows the visualization and analysis of large amounts of complex and multi-variate data, independent of discipline; and IBM's Query by Image Content (QBIC) technology, which enables retrieval of images by color, texture, shape and layout," said Lavenberg. The QBIC technology is currently available in IBM's Ultimedia* Manager product.

In announcing the awards, given in response to a NASA cooperative agreement notice, Lee B. Holcomb, NASA's director for high performance computing and communications, said "We look forward to working with these organizations to assist the public in accessing and using NASA remote sensing data over the Internet. They bring a wealth of diversity and talent to accelerate the creation of a National Information Infrastructure and play a key role in developing universal access to NASA's earth and space science products."

The NII effort seeks to enhance U.S. manufacturing competitiveness, improve electronic commerce, promote quality education, provide better government services, sustain the role of libraries, improve efficiency in environmental modeling, and improve health care delivery with controlled costs.


Apple, IBM & Motorola PowerPC Park at CeBIT'95
Apple, IBM, Motorola Present the "PowerPC Park" at CeBIT '95

MUNICH, Germany/PARIS, France -- February 23, 1995 -- Apple, IBM and Motorola will present a broad range of hardware and software solutions, applications, operating systems and development tools for the PowerPC microprocessor in a unique park setting at CeBIT '95 (March 8-15, Hanover, Germany).

The PowerPC Park will feature more than 60 independent software and hardware vendors in an indoor park setting complete with grass, trees, flowers and a stream. Located in Hall 14, the PowerPC Park will be open on all fair days between 7:30 and 19:30.

Dozens of applications for word processing, spread sheet analysis, financial management, software development tools, and others will be showcased on a variety of operating systems, including AIX, OS/2 for the PowerPC, Mac OS, Solaris and Windows NT. The pavilion will feature an array of PowerPC microprocessor-based systems from Apple, IBM, Motorola and other vendors.

Designed to be a price/performance leader, the PowerPC RISC-based scalable architecture addresses a wide range of computing requirements, from portable and desktop computers, to midrange workstations and servers, to multi-processing, and supercomputing systems.

The superior price/performance of PowerPC microprocessors will enable new classes of advanced applications, including multimedia, graphics, speech recognition, visualization, and collaborative computing to emerge that will forever change the way people work. Both software and hardware vendors are responding to the increased performance and capabilities of the PowerPC architecture by developing new types of applications and solutions, a number of which will be on display in the PowerPC Park at CeBIT.


IBM Comm Swr & OS/2 Warp Offer Winning Combo
New IBM Communications Software and OS/2 Warp Offer Winning Combination

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Feb., 21, 1995 - IBM, the world's largest software vendor, introduced today three next generation terminal emulation products providing high performance, ease of use and the most comprehensive data and application access available for users of OS/2 and OS/2 Warp.

The new IBM emulators allow a PC to seamlessly interact with host computer applications which typically provide mission-critical func- tions because of the security and data integrity in that environment. When customers run an emulator on OS/2, a true multitasking operating system, they can for example, use the emulator for host database accessor transaction processing, while a workstation application simultaneously prints a lengthy document.

Now joining IBM's family of emulators are: Personal Communications AS/400 for OS/2; Personal Communications/3270 for OS/2; and Personal Communications AS/400 and 3270 for OS/2. The first two products connect a PC with AS/400 and System/390 computers respectively, while the third product offers connectivity to both host systems in a single package. These products also offer the benefit of access to local-area network (LAN) applications for greater desktop productivity.

These new, next generation software emulators for PCs, were expressly designed to take advantage of the fast 32-bit architecture, multi- tasking and multithreading capabilities of Warp or OS/2 version 2.1 and 2.11.

"Corporations have invested in mission-critical applications running on host computers for their core business needs," said Lois Dimpfel, vice-president, IBM Networking Software Products. "PC-based terminal emulation unlocks that host investment. Customers can gain the high productivity advantages of OS/2 at the desktop in combination with the power of host-based applications."

These products are a continuing example of IBM's leadership in the terminal emulation market. This was further supported recently with IBM winning top praise for Best Technology, Best Service/Support, and Best Documentation in the terminal emulation category of a recent Computerworld survey on reader's brand preferences for local area network products. In addition, readers said they had more IBM emulators installed in their sites than any other brand and that IBM was the vendor most preferred to do business with.

Greater Productivity And Ease of Use

The new 32-bit Personal Communications family for OS/2 provides the most robust features available in the market, including Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) support for linking data in different applications and data compression which helps move large quantities of information across a network.

In addition to comprehensive host platform access and a robust feature set, the new emulators support credit card-sized PCMCIA adapters, a rich set of local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) environments including NetBIOS, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX and mobile computing through asynchronous dial-up connections.

For greater ease of use, IBM's Personal Communications family takes advantage of workstation graphical user interfaces to provide a con- sistent look and feel across the entire family. Furthermore, interface features familiar to the host user such as AS/400 shared data folders, have been integrated for increased usability. Consistency across the family minimizes migration training when moving from older 16-bit operating systems to the next generation 32-bit OS/2 versions.

Developers can also realize greater productivity by taking advantage of the user interface and features in the Personal Communications family in combination with other IBM products. For example, developers can construct a user-friendly shell around the host application, or integrate the application into a client/server architecture using IBM's Advanced-Peer-to-Peer-Communications (APPC).

The Personal Communications family is consistent with the application layer of IBM's Open Blueprint, an open, multivendor, client/server strategy. The Open Blueprint allows the development, execution and management of distributed applications and distributed services.

Personal Communications emulators for OS/2 will be generally available February 24. Personal Communications/3270 for OS/2 is $475 for a single license with additional licenses priced at $395. Personal Communications AS/400 for OS/2 is $395 and additional copies are $330 each. The combination emulator is $545 and $455 for additional licenses. Upgrades from earlier IBM or competitive emulators are available for prices ranging from $145 to $225.

Customers can call (800) 426-3333 for additional product information.


IBM Equips G7 Press Centre

BRUSSELS, Belgium, February 23, 1995 . . . At the request of the European Commission, IBM will provide computers, software and services for journalists covering this weekend's Group of Seven (G7) conference on the information society.

Over 1,000 journalists are expected to cover the first high-level meeting here focusing on the legal, technical and societal implications of the information society.

At the G7 press centre, which opens on February 24, journalists will have access to more than 100 IBM ThinkPad 755* laptop computers. The computers will be loaded with OS/2 Warp*, providing access to the Internet via the IBM Global Network. Journalists will also have access to key European Union databases, wire services and "G7 LIVE," an IBM-sponsored electronic magazine about the conference, via the IBM Global Network.

"The G7 conference will send an important message to the rest of the world: Governments understand they have a key role to play in facilitating the development of a global information infrastructure," said Lucio Stanca, chief executive and chairman, IBM Europe. "IBM is pleased to provide the information technologies that will link the world to this important international event."

IBM is drawing on its unmatched portfolio of hardware, software and networking capabilities to create new and better ways for the entire worldwide electronic community to share information quickly and easily. The IBM Internet Connection, available with OS/2 Warp, provides complete Internet access via the IBM Global Network. Through a single connection, the IBM Global Network offers worldwide connectivity, with 700 points of presence in 97 countries.


IBM Sponsors Free G7 Live Magazine

BRUSSELS, Belgium, February 23, 1995 . . . IBM today announced it will sponsor a live electronic news magazine to bring reports of this week's Group of Seven (G7) conference to the world. The G7, which is composed of the seven leading industrial nations, meets here on February 25 and 26 to discuss the information society and to agree on principles to make the global information infrastructure a reality.

IBM will launch "G7 LIVE," which will be published in five daily editions, beginning February 24. The magazine is free of charge and will highlight conference discussions and their impact on the information technology field and the general public.

Anyone who wants to subscribe can receive the publication via Internet e-mail by sending an e-mail to <get@g7.ibm.com>. G7 LIVE will also be available on the IBM World-Wide Web at <http://www.ibm.com> beginning February 24.

Tabor Griffin Communications, a pioneer in electronic publishing with experience in text-on-demand magazines WEBster and HPCwire, will provide the daily electronic coverage of the event.


NeXT & Insignia Sign Collaboration Agreement
NeXT Computer Inc. and Insignia Solutions Sign Collaboration Agreement

Joint effort to further improve SoftPC for NEXTSTEP/Intel Platforms

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA --Feb. 21, 1995--Insignia Solutions, the world leader in PC-compatibility solutions, and NeXT Computer, Inc. have entered into a collaboration agreement designed to improve SoftPC for NEXTSTEP/Intel.

The two companies have put resources into joint projects that will address the needs of NEXTSTEP/Intel customers. The agreement, which goes into effect immediately, strengthens the relationship between the two companies.

"SoftPC 4.0 running on NEXTSTEP for Intel delivers the highest performance solution for running Windows applications short of running the DOS/Windows operating system itself," said Steven P. Jobs, NeXT Computer's chairman and CEO. "Our customers get the benefits of running almost all Windows applications at high speed in the advanced NEXTSTEP environment."

"NEXTSTEP is gaining acceptance as an industrial-strength object-oriented operating system, particularly amongst corporate users," said Robert P. Lee, Insignia Solutions' president and CEO. "This collaboration agreement between NeXT and Insignia Solutions will enhance the timely delivery of integrated Windows and DOS compatibility for NEXTSTEP/Intel users."

SoftPC 4.0

SoftPC 4.0, released in late 1994, lets customers run thousands of Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS applications on the NEXTSTEP operating system. In addition to supporting thousands of standard mode Windows applications, SoftPC 4.0 supports popular enhance mode applications such as WordPerfect 6.0, PageMaker 5.0, FrameMaker 4.0 and Harvard Graphics 2.0. It includes preinstalled copies of Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS and the Novell NetWare client software, and supports both Windows and DOS TCP/IP networking.

NEXTSTEP 3.3 and SoftPC 4.0

A fully functional trial version of SoftPC 4.0 is included on the third party CD-ROM that NeXT includes with every copy of NEXTSTEP. This allows customers to try SoftPC for 30 days, free of charge. To purchase the product, customers call Insignia Solutions for a license that provides unlimited access to the product. SoftPC 4.0 for NEXTSTEP/Intel is list priced at $299.

NeXT Computer, Inc.

NeXT Computer, Inc. develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP's advanced object environment to rapidly develop and deploy custom, enterprise-wide, client/server applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo.

Insignia Solutions

Insignia Solutions is the world's leading developer of high-quality PC-compatibility solutions for UNIX workstations and Macintosh computers. The privately-held company develops, markets and sells products designed to run Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS applications on NEXTSTEP/Intel platforms, Macintosh computers and DEC, HP, IBM, Motorola, SGI, Siemens Nixdorf and Sun/SPARC workstations. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company has strategic relationships with Microsoft, Apple (R), IBM, NeXT, Novell and the industry's leading computer manufacturers, chip suppliers and operating systems vendors.

The company's sales and marketing departments are located in Mountain View and Andover, Massachusetts. Research and development are conducted in High Wycombe, England. Information on the company and its products can be obtained by calling 415/335-7100.


Telebit NetBlazer Routers via Distributors
INGRAM MICRO, TECH DATA TO MARKET TELEBIT'S NETBLAZER FAMILY OF DIAL-UP ROUTERS

DISTRIBUTORS EXPAND PRODUCT OFFERINGS, OFFER COMPLETE REMOTE-ACCESS SOLUTIONS

SUNNYVALE, CA -- Feb. 20, 1995 -- Telebit Corporation (NASDAQ: TBIT), a leader in the on-demand remote access industry, today announced that effective immediately Ingram Micro and Tech Data will distribute Telebit's NetBlazer dial-up routers to authorized value-added resellers (VARs). Both distributors already carry Telebit's line of high-performance modems.

Ingram Micro and Tech Data are now authorized to sell NetBlazers in the United States and Latin America. Tech Data is also approved to market the dial-up routers in Canada. Both companies will implement Telebit's Preferred VAR authorization program, which provides VARs with technical training, support and demonstration units of Telebit's remote-access products. Additionally, both distributors will have trained certified, NetBlazer engineers on staff to support their Preferred VARs.

"Telebit's long-term relationship with these two highly respected distributors continues to evolve, accommodating the needs of the market for intelligent remote-access solutions," said Steve Dick, Telebit's vice president of marketing. "By adding the NetBlazer family to the line of Telebit modems they carry, Ingram Micro and Tech Data now can offer complete, cost-effective remote-access solutions."

Using renowned Telebit dial-up router technology, the NetBlazer family provides on-demand client-to-LAN and LAN-to-LAN multiprotocol connectivity. After a VAR installs a NetBlazer, the configuration enables telecommuters, mobile computer users and branch offices to access central-site network data. NetBlazer-family routers are also used by VARs and their customers to establish Internet access that can use standard, low-cost phone lines.

ROUTERS EXPAND DISTRIBUTORS' PRODUCT OFFERINGS

"Ingram Micro continues to expand its selection of remote-access products with the addition of Telebit's NetBlazer products," said Kelly Harvey, general manager of Ingram Micro's Digital Communications Strategic Product group. "Telebit's NetBlazers complement our networking product offerings and our strategic product direction toward the remote-access LAN market."

"As the leading distributor to the VAR market, Tech Data is ideally positioned to help Telebit build sales for the NetBlazer product line," said Roy Appelbaum, vice president of networking and mass storage product marketing at Tech Data. "There is tremendous growth opportunity in the remote LAN access category. Telebit's comprehensive product line and our high-quality technical support services are available to help VARs capitalize on this emerging market."

Telebit Corporation is a global market leader in developing and manufacturing on-demand, remote-access solutions for multi-platform computer networks. The company's dial-up routers and modems are especially well-matched to five key market segments: telecommuting, business-to-business on-demand routers, nomadic computing, network access providers, and industrial WANs. Founded in 1982, Telebit invented dial-up routing with the original NetBlazer router, opening the door to on-demand remote access. The NetBlazer family and Telebit's broad line of high-speed modems are used by Fortune 1000 customers worldwide for financial, industrial, medical, retail, government, and academic applications. The company has offices in the United States, Europe and Asia, and markets its products worldwide through value-added resellers, wholesale distributors and OEMs.

Ingram Micro Inc., headquartered in Santa Ana, Calif., is the world's largest wholesale distributor of microcomputer products, with 1994 sales of $5.8 billion. The company's inventory includes 30,000 products from more than 850 of the world's leading hardware and software companies. It sells to 70,000 reseller customers in 120 countries, and operates international subsidiaries in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Servicing additional worldwide locations through export offices in Santa Ana, Miami, Brussels and Singapore, Ingram Micro's international division fulfills orders from exporters and foreign customers in Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America.

Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ: TECD) is a leading distributor of personal computer products serving more than 50,000 value-added resellers and retail dealers throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The company offers comprehensive product lines in software, networking and communications, mass storage, peripherals, and computer systems. In addition to distributing more than 20,000 products from over 600 manufacturers and publishers, Tech Data provides extensive pre-sale and post- sale training, service and support.


Data Bank V2.20 Address Book-Type Editor/Mgr
Data Bank Version 2.20

Copyright (C) 1993-1995 Peter YW Chiam

I have uploaded to SimTel, the Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm), (available by anonymous ftp from the primary mirror site OAK.Oakland.Edu and its mirrors):

SimTel/win3/pim/

db220.zip       Data Bank 2.20 - Personal Address Book for Win3

It can also be found at CICA, Center for Innovative Computer Applications (available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cica.indiana.edu and its mirrors):

pub/pc/win3/pim/

db220.zip       Data Bank 2.20 - Personal Address Book for Win3

Data Bank 2.20 is an address book-type editor cum manager.  It has a built in editor with normal database functions like search, print, list and sort.  It is easy to use as it has an on-line help system coupled with a practical user-interface.

Written in Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 (Professional Edition), it needs VBRUN300.DLL (available from SimTel as SimTel/win3/dll/vbrun300.zip) to run.  Data Bank 2.20 also needs CMDIALOG.VBX (supplied in the db220.zip file), VER.DLL and COMMDLG.DLL (already present in your WINDOWS/SYSTEM directory).

You are entitled to evaluate Data Bank 2.20 for a period of up to 30 days.  When you register your copy, the 'reminder screens' will no longer appear.  Registered users will be given technical support whenever possible.

Comments, suggestions, bug reports etc. can be sent to the author at:

Internet: eng40263@nus.sg

Please state DB220 clearly in your subject entry.

Surface Address:

        CHIAM YIH WEI

        1, JLN LANG PERUT PUTIH 10,

        KEPONG BARU, 52100 KL, MALAYSIA

      Data Bank 2.20 replaces Data Bank 2.10.

New features in Data Bank 2.20:

1)    Improved full records lister.  Lister now shows fields

      simultaneously.  Adjustable lister display.

2)    Searching is now possible within the lister.

3)    Improved INI file handling.

4)    Save Settings On Exit option added.

5)    Open and Save buttons added.

6)    Polished up internal codes.

You are entitled to evaluate Data Bank 2.20 for a period of up to 30 days.  When you register your copy, the 'reminder screens' will no longer appear.  Registered users will be given technical support whenever possible.  The price of the program is US$15.00.

THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS-IS". NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, ARE MADE AS TO IT OR ANY MEDIUM IT MAY BE ON. ANY REMEDY FOR INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM IT, INCLUDING SUCH FROM NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR BREACH OF WARRANTY OR CONTRACT, EVEN AFTER NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES WILL NOT BE PROVIDED.


IDate V2.01 Personal Organizer
IDate Version 2.01

Copyright (C) 1994 Peter YW Chiam

I have uploaded to SimTel, the Coast to Coast Software Repository, (available by anonymous ftp from the primary mirror site OAK.Oakland.Edu and its mirrors):

SimTel/win3/desktop/

idate201.zip    ShareWare personal organizer/reminder for Win3

It can also be found at CICA, (available by anonymous ftp from

ftp.cica.indiana.edu and its mirrors):

pub/pc/win3/desktop/

idate201.zip    ShareWare personal organizer/reminder for Win3

IDate, which stands for Important Dates, is a personal organizer which is designed to remind the user of upcoming dates and appointments.  It is rather small and easy to use, and has an accompanying on-line help file. IDate has an internal data base manager, which helps organize the dates and messages that go with them.

Messages will pop-up to your screen upon loading MS Windows when you put IDate in the StartUp group of Program Manager.  You can customize IDate so that messages will start popping-up from a specified period of time from the actual date intended, i.e. an Early Warning System.

Perfect for reminders of birthdates, anniversaries, appointments, deadlines etc.

It is written in Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 (Professional Edition) and needs VBRUN300.DLL (available from SimTel as SImTel/win3/dll/vbrun300.zip) to run.  IDate also needs CMDIALOG.VBX (supplied by the idate201.zip file), MMSYSTEM.DLL, VER.DLL and COMMDLG.DLL (already present in your /WINDOWS/SYSTEM directory).

You are entitled to evaluate IDate 2.01 for a period of up to 30 days. When you register your copy, the 'reminder screens' will no longer appear. Registered users will be given technical support whenever possible.  The price of the program is US$10.00.

Comments, suggestions, bug reports etc. can be sent to the author at:

Internet: eng40263@nus.sg

Please state ID201 clearly in your subject entry.

Surface Address:

        CHIAM YIH WEI

        1, JLN LANG PERUT PUTIH 10,

        KEPONG BARU, 52100 KL, MALAYSIA

THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS-IS". NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, ARE MADE AS TO IT OR ANY MEDIUM IT MAY BE ON. ANY REMEDY FOR INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM IT, INCLUDING SUCH FROM NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR BREACH OF WARRANTY OR CONTRACT, EVEN AFTER NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES WILL NOT BE PROVIDED.


MicroSim Enters PCB Design Software Market
LEADER IN ANALOG SIMULATION MICROSIM ENTERS NEW MARKET INTRODUCES MICROSIM PCB DESIGN SOFTWARE

February 24, 1995 -- IRVINE, Calif. -- MicroSim Corporation today announced expansion into the printed circuit board (PCB) design market with the introduction of two high-end, easy-to-learn software packages priced up to 90 percent less than the competition, MicroSim PCBoards for Windows and MicroSim PCBoards with Autorouter for Windows.

"The industry is very familiar with PSpice, our flagship simulation product, but this is the first time MicroSim has introduced a PCB design package," said Wolfram Blume, MicroSim president. "We needed to do something to make an impact on the marketplace, so we're launching our new PCB products at prices 60 to 90 percent less than other PCB layout products on the market today."

MicroSim PCBoards carries an introductory price tag of $1,079 ($1,400 internationally), regularly priced at $2,995 ($3,900 internationally). MicroSim PCBoards with Autorouter is being introduced at $1,958 ($2,550 internationally), with a regular price of $4,950 ($6,450 internationally).

According to Blume, the products are functionally equivalent to the high-end PC-based circuit board layout packages from PADS and P-CAD. "In essence, we're using a low introductory price as a strategy to convince potential customers to buy our product," he said.

With the introduction of MicroSim PCBoards and MicroSim PCBoards with Autorouter, the company now offers a full line of tightly integrated Windows products ranging from schematic entry to PCB design to mixed A/D simulation to signal integrity analysis. Both new PCB design packages support 32-bit Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows NT environments.

MicroSim developed the high-end PCB design packages from scratch and is able to sell them at a low introductory price without sacrificing functionality. One way other vendors reduce the price of a PCB product is to limit the number of devices on the board that a software package can handle, as well as the number of pin connections and layers. Yet MicroSim designed its two new products to manage an unrestricted number of components and pins, with unlimited board size, and up to 64 layers.

The MicroSim software also allows the designer to make global changes over an entire PCB board, including changes in layers and footprint anytime during the layout process. Most other packages require the user to decide the size, shape and number of layers on the board in advance. MicroSim's software permits engineers to change these fundamentals at any time.

The flexibility to make fundamental changes anytime, ease of use and short learning curve make MicroSim PCboards ideal for organizations where design and layout are merging into one function. Engineers are able to incrementally design and do "what if" changes. Users can start to lay out parts and later decide on the layers, or pass them on to a PCB designer.

The new PCB packages have gone through an array of internal tests and beta tests to fine-tune their efficiency and make the packages "bullet proof."

"Like all of our products, we made reliability and robustness a goal from the start," said Peter Sundquist, vice president of marketing and sales. "To guarantee that we deliver the highest quality of software possible, MicroSim will provide one year of annual maintenance free during the introductory period."

Other features developed by MicroSim to help the PCB designer include:

* Greater efficiency than other packages because common actions

  require fewer keystrokes and mouse clicks

* Exceptionally good manual trace editing with orthogonal and

  orthogonal 45 degree manual routing with snap to pin

* Easy-to-use integrated package editing for footprints, pin-outs,

  gate-swaps and spin swaps

* Large libraries -- over 32,000 components and over 950 footprints

* Fast whole board DRC calculations

* On-line and batch DRC

* Flexible design constraints such as independent clearance

  specifications on any object in the layout including individual

  segments and vias

* Copper creation follows design rules for any objects encountered

* Gerber RS-274D and RS-274X with embedded aperture information

* Full Undo and Redo functions so edits can be backed out and restored

  step-by-step

* Sub-micron resolution

* Very easy-to-use integrated footprint editor with semi-automatic

  placement and numbering

* Push and shove, rip-up and retry autorouter

* Graphic trace editing with rubber-banding and automatic-connect

  for pasted traces

* Board designs of any size, complexity or speed are verifiable

  before production

* Any rotation angle, no restrictions

* Powerful rules-driven layout for designed-in quality

* Rules can be stated in MicroSim Schematics and other schematic

  editor packages

* Integrated with MicroSim Polaris for signal integrity and analysis

* Cooper and Chyan Technology's SPECCTRA autorouter can be invoked

  and controlled from the PCBoards Windows environment.

* Greater efficiency than other packages so designs can be created

  in a fraction of the time

* OrCAD translator for symbol libraries and schematics

* No limit on -- hierarchy levels, zoom, pages per schematic

  and schematics per design

* No security plug

The MicroSim product family also tightly integrates schematic capture (MicroSim Schematics), signal integrity analysis (MicroSim Polaris), circuit simulation (MicroSim PSpice or MicroSim PSpice A/D), logic simulation (MicroSim PLogic), programmable logic synthesis (MicroSim PLSyn), and analog performance optimization (MicroSim PSpice Optimizer).

The new MicroSim PCBoards and MicroSim PCBoards with Autorouter will be available in the second quarter of 1995. MicroSim will exhibit the PCB packages for the first time at the MicroSim booth, #805, from March 21 to 23 at the PCB Design Conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

MicroSim products are available for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, DOS, Sun and HP. MicroSim breaks from the norm and keeps prices affordable by selling high-quality, shrink-wrapped software directly to customers in the United States instead of relying on an expensive sales force. MicroSim applications engineers provide same-day-response technical support via phone, fax, Internet and BBS.

More information on the MicroSim family of products is available by phone at (714) 770-3022 and (800) 245-3022, or via fax at (714) 455-0554, or on Internet at sales@microsim.com.

MicroSim Corp

20 Fairbanks

Irvine, CA 92718

714-770-3022,  800-245-3022,  fax 714-455-0554,  BBS 714-830-1550


The Instant Marketing Plan
DO IT YOURSELF MARKETING PLAN FOR STARTING OR EXPANDING A BUSINESS NOW MADE EASIER -- INSTANTLY

SANTA MARIA, CA-- What launched many of the most famous businesses, the success stories we read about? A solid marketing plan. What causes so many businesses to fail each year? Lack of a business plan. The businesses don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

Now marketing consultant Mark Nolan has written a book titled The Instant Marketing Plan revealing his quick and easy to follow roadmap for creating a successful marketing plan. Anyone who wants to start or expand a business will find this step-by-step blueprint both logical and workable. Presented with humor and anecdotes, it offers detailed instructions on what belongs in a marketing plan, how to adapt your own unique business data to fit a basic plan you can complete in one day, advertising secrets from behind agency's walls and from inside the minds of highly successful marketers, myths and pitfalls to avoid, and all of the real life examples and tested tips you'll need to quickly and easily create a professional marketing plan that gets results. Professional marketing consultants charge up to $2,000 and more to write a marketing plan but Nolan's workbook The Instant Marketing Plan, is available for only $15.95 from Puma Publishing, 1670 Coral Drive, Suite 31, Santa Maria, CA 93454, or by credit card by calling 1-800-255-5730, ext. 110.


Satellite Technology Gives Realism to 3D Atlas
Satellite Technology Gives Realism to Award-Winning 3D Atlas

Family Reference CD-ROM for Macintosh, Windows and the 3DO System

SAN MATEO, Calif.--February 21, 1995---Attention Earth inhabitants: Your planet is ready for exploration. Just slip ABC/EA Home Software's 3D Atlas, one of the most technically advanced multimedia expeditions on a CD-ROM, into your computer, then zoom-in, fly-over, explore, listen and learn. It's worlds above other software atlases. And it's fun, too!

For those who last studied geography from a tattered book in the seventh grade, 3D Atlas opens a dazzling panorama of sight, sound and video. It's the first software atlas to provide in-depth information in a multimedia environment and show world-famous streets and sights from spy satellite photos. 3D Atlas doesn't just leave those "world-is-flat" atlas versions lost at sea, it tells you exactly how deep the sea is, and then gives you the option of a printout.

The images are joined in a seamless mosaic giving an unparalleled cloudless view of the real world as it looks from above. Now you can clearly see the vast and varied contours of the earth and view breathtaking graphics, including simulated flights over such awesome terrain as the Alps, the Rockies, and the Himalayas. Rotate the globe, play games, listen to narratives, watch time-lapse photos of an erupting volcano or trace animal extinction patterns.

In January 1995, 3D Atlas was acclaimed the Best International Product, and took top honors in the Information and Reference category at the annual International EMMA Awards presented in Cannes, France.

"3D Atlas is easy to use, captures the wonder of our planet and entices users to explore environmental, political and physical elements of the earth", said ABC/EA Home Software President Greg Bestick. "Our software is a fun, exciting, living reference resource that Windows, MAC and 3DO users can go back to time after time, after time."

This spectacular multidimensional atlas software program with spinning globes rendered from over 20,000 images based on real satellite data, is packed with easy to use video, sound, statistics and photos. It has won accolades for delivering learning, fun and extraordinary detail to users of all kinds; from families to students, business people and researchers who want a clear, comprehensive look at the world they live in.

3D Atlas lets users create statistics and print out photographic and text information for personalized reports, or pinpoint special places on the globe such as their home town and illustrate it with personal photos. 3D Atlas delivers fly-over movies of different types of terrain; an exclusive three-dimensional approach to exploring Earth by looking at environmental, political and physical features; a chance to go exploring in 184 countries from your own armchair, and the ability to "zoom" in for close-ups or way out for a "Big Picture" view.

Users can explore nine different ecological regions, called biomes, ranging from vast deserts to the Siberian taiga They can check out the unique interactive globes that make it a breeze to be smart about the Earth's crust, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, tectonic plates and geosphere. Wonder what the earth looks like at night? Take a look as the slowly rotating darkened planet reveals light sources pinpointing major cities.

What makes 3D Atlas so special? It offers a number of key features that bring the earth to life, and make learning and exploring an adventure. 3D Atlas offers:

* The first high-quality photo realistic interactive globe. 3D Atlas packs in over 20,000 globe images based on data from NASA, Russian spy satellites and other sources; plus a full hour of video and audio. The images are seamlessly joined to provide a cloudless view of the real world as it looks from above.

* Interactive time-lapse exhibits. Users can track environmental changes in the earth over two decades.

* View environmental news. See videos on key issues like global warming, endangered species, and population growth.

* City zooms. Wander through the streets of six of the world's most famous cities -- New York, London, Paris, San Francisco,

Bombay, and Tokyo -- as captured on video from actual spy satellites.

* Country 'postcards'. Explore 184 countries, study 500 flags and view over 800 still images depicting each nation's customs, people, most famous sights etc.

* Research and create your own statistics. Print them out, with illustrations for a report or just for fun.

Here, in a single software package, 3DO, Macintosh and Windows users alike can take advantage of the latest computer technology to gain a clear perspective about the planet they inhabit.

The Windows version will be available in March at leading software retail stores for $79.95 or by calling 1-800-245-4525.

ABC/EA Home Software is a joint venture of Capital Cites/ABC, Inc. and Electronic Arts. The company publishes multimedia CD-ROM titles for the education and children's entertainment markets, as well as information and reference products for the entire family.


3D Atlas Wins Top European Multimedia Awards
ABC/EA Home Software's 3D Atlas Wins Top European Multimedia Awards

SAN MATEO, Calif.--February 21, 1995--In competition with 300 international titles, ABC/EA Home Software's 3D Atlas won top honors as the Best International CD-ROM program, plus the Best Information and Reference CD-ROM program at the annual International EMMA Awards presented January 12, 1995, in Cannes, France.

3D Atlas is the first program to provide in-depth atlas information in a multimedia environment for office, school or home. Users can fly over, zoom in, or rotate a variety of globes; play games, listen to narratives, watch time-lapse photos of erupting volcanoes or trace animal extinction patterns.

Its stunning globes are created from more than 20,000 images based on actual satellite data. The globes can be rotated in any direction and zoomed to nine levels. Using spy satellite images, major cities around the world can be explored at street level.

3D Atlas contains a vast database of statistics with a powerful charting engine, and also features flights over mountain ranges, dramatic video stories focusing on environmental change and satellite time-lapse information.

3D Atlas is available now for Macintosh CD-ROM and will be available for Windows CD-ROM and 3DO formats in early March.

The International EMMA awards are recognized as an International symbol of multimedia excellence. The judges are drawn from all sectors of the multimedia industry including representatives from Microsoft, Olivetti, the European Commission, Pearson plc, Pioneer, the Voyager Company, WIRED Magazine, 3T Productions, the Digital Village, MediaPlay, Barclays Multimedia, the Universities of Brighton, Kingston and Wolverhampton, and independent consultants from within the industry.

ABC/EA Home Software, is a joint venture of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. and Electronic Arts. The company publishes multimedia CD-ROM titles for education, and children's entertainment markets, as well as information and reference products for the entire family.

ABC/EA Home Software is a joint venture of Capital Cites/ABC, Inc. and Electronic Arts. The company publishes multimedia CD-ROM titles for the education and children's entertainment markets, as well as information and reference products for the entire family.


XSoft Establishese Operations in Japan
XSoft Division of Xerox Establishes Operations In Japan

PALO ALTO, Calif., February 27, 1995 - The XSoft division of Xerox Corporation and the Fuji Xerox Information Systems (FXIS) subsidiary of Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., today announced the establishment of XSoft operations in Japan. The XSoft division of FXIS will be headquartered in the Toyko area and will focus on localizing, selling and supporting XSoft's products in the Japanese market. These products include both personal and collaborative document management, workflow, and structured-document publishing software systems. The announcement represents a strategic move by XSoft to create a major international market for its broad portfolio of document management software products and services.

XSoft, one of eight Xerox divisions in the United States, has partnered with Fuji Xerox, the Asia Pacific arm of Xerox Corporation, in creating its presence in Japan. Fuji Xerox will continue to be a major channel of distribution for XSoft's products. The new division will add complementary channels and provide local sales, marketing, service, and technical support for XSoft customers in Japan. XSoft has named David McQuilkin director of Japan operations, and he will serve as general manager of the new division. Previously, Mr. McQuilkin was Asia Pacific regional sales manager for XSoft.

XSoft president Dennis Andrews stated, "XSoft is serious about its investment in Japan. The Japanese market for document management, workflow, and SGML publishing software continues to show significant growth, and Japanese businesses are at the forefront of the search for advanced solutions in all of these areas. We intend to fully address this demand with highly effective and easy-to-use software. With the strong resources of Fuji Xerox behind us, we estimate that an important portion of our revenues will come from Japanese sales of XSoft products in the very near future."

Among the first products XSoft intends to offer through the new division will be Visual Recall, its award-winning document management application for workgroups. Visual Recall provides comprehensive client/server document management capabilities for networked PC Windows users, enabling them to quickly and easily locate, view and make effective use of all the documents they need to do their jobs. Visual Recall incorporates advanced technologies developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), including a next-generation interface that uses intuitive 3-D graphics to display document search results, allowing users to make sense of large volumes of documents at a glance.

The XSoft division of FXIS will also launch XSoft's object-oriented structured-document publishing system, currently under development. In Japan, demand is high for structured document solutions that support the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The new XSoft system will reduce the complexity of SGML publishing applications by providing simple, powerful tools to manage documents and document components, with support for multiple media and data types.

XSoft recently announced that Japan-based Toshiba Corporation will distribute InConcert, XSoft's powerful workflow management software, in Japan. In December 1994, XSoft announced a distribution agreement with Japan-based Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. to distribute TabWorks, XSoft's successful notebook-style personal document manager for Windows. Plans are for the new division to support the development and implementation of both the Toshiba and Sumitomo partnerships.

Fuji Xerox Information Systems Co., Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Information Systems Co., Ltd. (FXIS) is a subsidiary of Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. Established in 1984, it develops and markets software and services that focus on UNIX workstations, computer networks and object-oriented technology. It also provides education systems and publishing services, as well as general systems consultation.

XSoft

Headquartered on a campus with PARC, the renowned Xerox research center in Palo Alto, Calif., the XSoft division of Xerox provides software that improves the way people create and use documents to capture, manage and communicate ideas and information.

The company develops and markets a broad range of products that support its vision of an Open Document Environment. They include both personal and collaborative document management applications, workflow programs, structured-document publishing solutions and workgroup systems. The company also offers extensive product support, training and consulting services.

XSoft's products and services are available on multiple operating systems, networks, and computer platforms. They are sold through a worldwide network of direct sales and reseller partners.

XSoft

3400 Hillview Ave

Palo Alto, CA 94304

800-428-2995,  fax 415-813-7499


HP Expands OpenWarehouse Portfolio
HP EXPANDS OPENWAREHOUSE PORTFOLIO WITH PRODUCTS FOR MEDIUM-SIZED INSTALLATIONS; NEW PRODUCT FEATURES INCLUDE INFORMATION CATALOG AND REPORTING

PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 21, 1995 -- Expanding its worldwide OpenWarehouse portfolio, Hewlett-Packard Company today announced HP Intelligent Warehouse products targeted at medium sized companies. HP also enhanced HP Intelligent Warehouse end-user functionality and reporting tools.

The product-family members mean that medium to-large companies can now take advantage of HP's data-warehouse functionality that previously was available primarily to large, global companies. Through HP's technology, companies such as 3M, General Electric, GTE, Mobil Oil and Pillsbury are harnessing the power of corporate information for competitive advantage. With the extended product family, HP is extending its leading, high-end data-warehouse management software to smaller environments with 15-25 gigabytes of data and 20-35 users.

New IW Functionality

New functionality includes the HP Intelligent Warehouse Guide, hierarchical hub capabilities, subject-area "drill across" for queries, charge-back capabilities and superior complex-query performance.

The HP Intelligent Warehouse Guide is the information catalog that lets nontechnical end users browse warehouse data easily for precise business implications. Users also can see what reports already exist and use them directly or leverage them easily into new reports.

Currently, data warehouses are like large libraries with no card catalog. They contain lots of information, but there is no easy way to use it. HP's guide remedies this problem.

The HP Intelligent Warehouse Guide, like the rest of HP Intelligent Warehouse, integrates with and complements most ODBC-compliant data-access tools, including such popular tools as Business Objects, Cognos Impromptu, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel PowerView and many others.

Hierarchical hub structure allows multiple data warehouses to be tied together for a full enterprise view of all data and quick access to local data. This minimizes performance overhead while letting users leverage the full value of enterprise-wide data. Hierarchical hubs also allow a federation of data warehouses that can be integrated for an enterprise-wide view, yet retain autonomous ownership and management. This is valuable in decentralized companies in which business units want to maintain control, but corporate management needs enterprise-wide information.

Drill-across capability makes querying the data warehouse easier. It lets users make a single query for data in different subject areas, such as product shipments and orders. In most data warehousing environments, decision-makers have to ask both questions separately and then compare the data.

Charge-back capabilities let administrators charge for accessing data warehouses through automated, detailed logs that track users' query time. This allows the cost of implementing a data warehouse to be allocated fairly across the groups using it.

Enhanced performance because the HP Intelligent Warehouse optimizer optimizes large and complex queries to the data warehouse for significantly improved performance. Performance gains will vary widely, but overall queries sent first through HP's optimizer will perform better than those that go through a standard RDBMS optimizer.

Server-based Reporting

HP will provide server-based reporting through integrating Software Interfaces' ProReports tool with HP Intelligent Warehouse. ProReports creates production reports and highly unstructured ad hoc reports. Multiple query capabilities allow users to do side-by-side comparisons.

Production reporting -- for reports regularly needed by many users, such as quarterly division sales figures -- is streamlined. One person can create a formatted report and then send it to the server for broad distribution across multiple platforms and operating systems. Current PC-based tools don't provide an easy way to do this. In a PC-based tools scenario, potentially many people could query the server to create the same report formatted for their particular platform. With ProReports, entire workgroups or divisions can get the same query results while enhancing overall data-warehouse performance, eliminating duplicate work and administrative burden.

ProReports also lets users easily create reports that show comparisons -- such as first quarter 1994 sales vs. first quarter 1995 sales. Making comparisons is at the heart of decision-making, yet most tools only support showing results.

Low- and High-end HP Intelligent Warehouse

A low-end HP Intelligent Warehouse installation includes basic capabilities and starts at $75,000 (U.S.). (Previous low-end pricing started at $180,000.) Administrative capabilities include graphical displays, security controls, charge-back facility and query-usage report capabilities. End-user features include the ability to query using business terms rather than database constructs and fast receipt of information in the form requested, with minimal computer-use time.

Additional high-end HP Intelligent Warehouse features include hierarchical hub capabilities and partition management. Costs vary depending on configuration, but start at $240,000 (U.S.). A large-scale enterprise deployment of multiple HP Intelligent Warehouse hubs and data servers could include mainframe-alternative systems, serve 2,000 users and handle terabytes of data.

Data-warehouse Definitions

A data warehouse is an integrated decision-support database that is maintained separately from an organization's operational or production databases. OpenWarehouse is HP's overall program for delivering full open-systems data-warehousing solutions to fill the decision-support needs of major corporations and to help them gain competitive advantage.

HP Intelligent Warehouse is HP's first product under its OpenWarehouse program HP Intelligent Warehouse consists of middleware, administrative and end-user tools that makes data warehouses easy to manage and use. It is delivered through HP's Professional Services Organization, the consulting, systems integration and customer education arm of HP's computer business.

HP's OpenWarehouse program is part of HP's overall Mainframe Alternative Program. Implementing a data warehouse is a good first step for users who want betta access to mainframe-based data. HP has migrated more than 1,000 companies successfully to open-systems, client/server computing as part of its Mainframe Alternative Program. HP believes its success in this program is based on the company's ability to deliver mainframe performance with high-quality applications from proven software companies; its strong relationships with key partners; and its worldwide support, consulting and customer-education organization.

Availability

New HP Intelligent Warehouse features are expected to be available April 1995. The integrated ProReports product is planned for April 1995 and will be sold by Software Interfaces. ProReports prices start at $695 (U.S.) for the client and $10,000 (U.S.) for the server.

HP is the second-largest computer supplier in the United States, with computer related revenue of $19.6 billion in its 1994 fiscal year.

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications, and measurement and products recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 98,400 employees and had revenue of $25 billion in its 1994 fiscal year.


StereoGraphics Announces Web Page
STEREOGRAPHICS ANNOUNCES WEB PAGE FOR 3D STEREOSCOPIC PRODUCT LINE

San Rafael, CA -- February 27, 1995-- StereoGraphics Corporation, the world's leading supplier of stereo three-dimensional electronic display equipment, announced today an on-line business home page on the World Wide Web. The page is available now at URL address http://infolane.com/infolane/stereog/sghp.html.

The Web, with its graphical, interactive nature, is well-suited for StereoGraphics customers, business partners, and potential customers in the technical community who can now access basic information about company products and technology, as well as sales and service operations.

A business-to-business capability links business partner pages and allows StereoGraphics' 3D partners to share multimedia documents on-line with other business partners and those interested in 3D stereo technology. The StereoGraphics' home page is available via Fremont, CA-based InfoLane Corp., a Web services provider.

Hypertext links to other pages can furnish product information, business reply cards, user success stories, event calendars, technical support and allow the company to respond to user questions. The linked pages transport users to various on-line locations depending on user interests. A business reply page automatically generates an email message for quick response by StereoGraphics' sales department whenever a Web user requests more information.

'As the fax machine replaced a lot of letters going through the post office, so too will the Internet replace fax machines,' said Wil Cochran, vice president of sales and marketing at StereoGraphics. 'The Internet is ideal for reaching users of technical products, and our page is designed to provide 24-hour information to satisfy curiosity about the role of our 3D stereo products in a variety of markets. With millions of commercial Internet and on-line users in over 60 countries combined with the explosion of 3D imaging applications and our role as the number one 3D product supplier, we feel it is important to provide such information in the most immediate way Possible -- on the Web.'

The StereoGraphics home page, according to Cochran, is an ideal venue to promote customer satisfaction with business partners while providing greater access to external information sources, as customers can add related information to the page. Cochran said that the page promotes product identity and awareness, and at the same time helps the company automate its process for faster sales and service response.

'With the expansion of the Internet to the home market, future Web demographics will prove an idea] forum for discussing StereoGraphics and its upcoming products,' said Cochran. He noted that currently the majority of Internet subscribers are located at academic, scientific, technical institutions and high-technology companies.

Because of the graphical interface, most new Internet users will first access the net through the Web. Computer graphics, audio and video are easily transmitted, similar to CD-ROM multimedia now in use, while facilitating net surfing.

InfoLane Corporation provides Web-page development and site-hosting, Internet marketing and tracing services, as well as complete dial-up access to the Internet for personal and commercial users. Andy McRae, president of InfoLane and a professional in the computer industry for over fifteen years, is an industry veteran, having worked on artificial intelligence, multimedia CD-ROM projects and virtual reality with a major workstation company before launching InfoLane in mid-1994. For further information, call 510-797-8086 or email info@Infolane.com. Or review InfoLane's online portfolio of business home pages at their WWW address, http://infolane.com/infolane.html.

CRYSTALEYES TECHNOLOGY

StereoGraphics' patented CrystalEyes depth perception products utilize true 3D stereo to improve and dramatize viewing for a broad and diverse user universe. CrystalEyes products provide high-resolution, realistic and flicker-free stereo viewing for scientific visualization, animation, medical imaging, surgical endoscopy, molecular modeling, computer games, photogrammetry, location-based entertainment, motion simulation, inspection systems, remote vehicle control, flight simulation, corporate presentations and all types of education and training.

CrystalEyes incorporates liquid crystal (LC) shutters that alternate between transparent and opaque at 120 frames per second and are synchronized with a stereo-ready projector or monitor (at 120Hz) using wireless, infrared signals. For example, when the left image is on the video screen, the left lens of the eyewear opens while the right lens closes -- thereby channeling the appropriate image to the appropriate eye. The result is a non-flickering true stereo 3D image. When 'closed,' CrystalEyes' liquid-crystal shutters are opaque enough to ensure that the unwanted half of the stereo pair doesn't leak through, and when open, the shutters are transparent enough to ensure that the overall image is realistically bright. This high dynamic range results in virtually 'ghostless' 3D images.

As part of its efforts to bring stereo viewing (and virtual reality) products into mainstream computing and video, StereoGraphics' CrystalEyes VR, a high-resolution, full-color, affordable interactive stereo virtual reality viewing system, offers head tracking with six degrees of freedom. The firm's Projection ZScreen and low-cost passive CrystalEyes glasses configuration enables large groups of 100 or more to simultaneously view 3D objects, while reducing the cost of eyewear.

StereoGraphics has also made three dimensional stereo viewing possible on non-stereo ready computers (using stereo-ready monitors) with CrystalEyes PC. The product works with most popular desktop system platforms, including IBM PCs and compatibles, Apple Macintosh, Power Mac and Power PC, as well as Amiga computers. It includes the CrystalEyes lightweight, untethered eyewear and combines stereo electronics and an infrared emitter into a single small package which sits on top of the monitor.

StereoGraphics Corp., founded in 1980, invented and developed the market for modern stereo imaging hardware. Due to its capability, reasonable price and state-of-the-art technology backed by 15 patents, CrystalEyes systems are accepted as the industry standard for stereo viewing. StereoGraphics is located at 2171 East Francisco Boulevard, San Rafael, California 94901, phone 415/459-4500, fax 415/459-3020, email stereo@well.com.


Performance Plus OS/2 Tuning & Utility Kit
Clear & Simple, Inc. has announced the third version of their book/disk combination called Performance Plus, a tuning and utility kit for OS/2 versions 2.X and Warp. Sections for everyone from the novice to advanced user show how to get the best performance from an OS/2 system.

The companion diskette contains several OS/2 utility programs for performance tuning:

  OPTIMIZER     Displays performance-related CONFIG.SYS entries;

                recommends optimum values for your system.

  DOS BLACKBOX  Optimizes DOS/Windows application settings.

  SIMPLECT      Simple Count is a graphical tool that displays

                performance statistics.

  STATS         Shows performance increases or decreases resulting

                from tuning adjustments. Identifies bottlenecks.

Utility programs are also provided for viewing OS/2 bitmaps, saving the Workplace Shell desktop, creating an emergency boot diskette or partition, monitoring swap file growth, making automatic file backups, mapping disk drives, managing directories, and more. A copy of CPU Monitor Plus by BonAmi Software is included for monitoring CPU, memory, com port and disk usage. A bonus diskette contains a collection of OS/2 bitmaps.

Price: $39.95 U.S. plus $4.00 S&H.

Phone: 203-658-1204. Fax: 203-651-0354

Internet: 75070.2520@CompuServe.Com.

Clear and Simple is a member of IBM's Independent Vendor League (IVL). The IVL supports individuals and companies who develop and market books, newsletters, magazines, training videos, courseware and consulting services for OS/2 and other IBM personal software products.


New NASA Programs from COSMIC, Univ GA
                  *** NEW PROGRAMS FROM COSMIC ***

COSMIC announces the availability of the following new or updated programs.  The complete abstract of each program is available on World Wide Web, Gopher, by e-mail, or by FAX.  See the end of this message for details.  These abstracts describe the programs in more detail as well as listing the machine requirements, program size, distribution media, and price.

The complete description of any program may be obtained by purchasing the documentation separately.  User instructions, the mathematical basis for problem solution, and sample input and output are usually included.

Programs are sold with source code to permit customization.

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HNMS 2.0 - Hierarchical network management system, version 2.0

HNMS is a network monitoring and management package designed for large IP networks.  The system uses standard SNMP protocol and is based on a hierarchical distributed architecture.  This implementation allows the program to be scalable to thousands of hosts.  Additionally, a graphical user interface fosters more complete visualization of the network.  Written in C-language for UNIX-based systems.

PROGRAM NUMBER:  ARC-13370

DOCUMENTATION:  $18.00   PROGRAM:  $350.00

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GRIDGEN - Multiple block grid generation software

GRIDGEN is a software system for the generation of 3D, multiple block, structured grids.  GRIDGEN is a visually-oriented, graphics-based interactive code used to decompose a 3D domain into blocks, distribute grid points on curves, initialize and refine grid points on surfaces and initialize volume grid points. Written in C-language and FORTRAN 77 for SGI IRIS 4D workstations.  License agreement required.

PROGRAM NUMBER: ARC-13371

LICENSE FEE:  $1000.00

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OSAC - Optical surface analysis code, version 7.0

OSAC is designed to provide a comprehensive analysis of optical system performance.  OSAC can analyze both conventional and x-ray systems.  The program is composed of fourteen compatible programs that are executed in a user-defined sequence.  Written in Fortran 77 for DEC VAX computers.

PROGRAM NUMBER:  GSC-13128

DOCUMENTATION: $45.00     PROGRAM: $3000.00

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ROSE - Request-oriented scheduling engine

ROSE is a scheduling tool that can be tailored to solve many types of scheduling problems.  ROSE contains sophisticated software technology, including a high-level scheduling language, an artificial intelligence-based rescheduling algorithm, and graphical user interface.  Written in Ada for DEC VAX computers and Sun4 computers.

PROGRAM NUMBER:  GSC-13596, GSC-13597

DOCUMENTATION: $56.00     PROGRAM: $750.00

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SOAP - Sun-synchronous orbit analysis program

SOAP calculates orbital parameters needed for the thermal analysis of spacecraft in Earth-monitoring Sun-synchronous orbits.  These orbits produce a solar beta angle variation that depends on the launch time, altitude and Sun-synchronous orbit crossing time.  Written in FORTRAN 77 to be machine independent.

PROGRAM NUMBER: LAR-15301

DOCUMENTATION: $14.00    PROGRAM: $250.00

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ICAN - Integrated composite analyzer

ICAN was designed to carry out a comprehensive linear analysis of multilayered fiber composites.  The analysis contains the essential features required to effectively design structural components made from fiber composites.  ICAN has many other features, including a dedicated data bank of constituent material properties.  Written in Fortran 77 for Amdahl computers.

PROGRAM NUMBER:  LEW-15832

DOCUMENTATION: $22.00     PROGRAM: $1150.00

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ICAN/DAMP - Integrated composite analyzer with damping capabilities

ICAN/DAMP carries out a comprehensive linear analysis of multilayered fiber composites and predicts the damping in polymer-matrix composites.  ICAN/DAMP incorporates a new module for synthesizing the material damping from micromechanics to laminate level.  Written in Fortran 77 for DEC VAX and AMDAHL 5870 computers.

PROGRAM NUMBER:  LEW-15966, LEW-16073

DOCUMENTATION: $54.00     PROGRAM: $1150.00

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FLSPRY - Program for the analysis of a laser beam focused

          within an aerosol spray

FLSPRY was developed for the theoretical analysis of the propagation of a laser pulse optically focused within an aerosol spray.  It can be applied, for example, to analyze laser ignition arrangements where a focused laser pulse would be used to ignite a liquid aerosol fuel spray.  Written in FORTRAN 77 for UNIX-based computers and DEC VAX series computers.

PROGRAM NUMBER:  LEW-16051, LEW-16065

DOCUMENTATION: $32.00  PROGRAM: $300.00

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CSPAN - Compressor spanline analysis

CSPAN assists in the design of axial flow compressors.  It enables the design engineer to study the relationship between the number of stages, the flow path radii, the gas velocities, the flow angles, and the resultant variation of compressor efficiency.  It also rapidly provides conceptual designs for airbreathing engine preliminary design studies.  Written in FORTRAN 77 for UNIX-based systems.

PROGRAM NUMBER: LEW-16074

DOCUMENTATION: $14.00    PROGRAM: $800.00

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NASADIG - NASA device independent graphics library, version 6.1

The NASA Device Independent Graphics Library, NASADIG, can be used with many computer-based engineering and management applications.  The library gives the user the opportunity to translate data into effective graphic displays for presentation. The software offers many features which allow the user flexibility in creating graphics.  Written in FORTRAN and C- language for DEC VAX computers and UNIX-based systems.

PROGRAM NUMBER:  MSC-22511, MSC-22512

DOCUMENTATION: $80.00     PROGRAM: $3000.00

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RCVRPROF - Receiver noise and gain profile spreadsheet

RCVRPROF, a Computer Aided Design (CAD) tool useful in the analysis and design of communication receivers and downconverters, is a customized spreadsheet with formulas and graphs that produces a detailed description of receiver performance.  Performance parameters such as noise temperature, gain, noise power, noise spectral density, and dynamic range are analyzed for each component's overall contribution to the receiver.  Written in Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Excel for IBM PC compatible computers running MS-DOS.

PROGRAM NUMBER: NPO-19472

PROGRAM & DOCUMENTATION:  $50.00

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                       COSMIC INFORMATION SERVICES

NASA's COmputer Software Management and Information Center (COSMIC) has been located at the University of Georgia since its beginning in 1966. We presently have over 850 computer programs available internationally that were originally developed by NASA and its contractors for the U.S. space program.  Software is available for a number of areas of interest including:  artificial intelligence, computational fluid dynamics, finite element structural analysis, scientific visualization, thermal and fluid flow analysis, and many more.  Programs are priced on a cost-recovery basis and usually include source code.

*Product Information*

FAX - Send a FAX to 706-542-4807

E-mail - Send electronic mail to:     service@cosmic.uga.edu

NOTE:  Get our periodic catalog updates via e-mail by requesting

       to be put on the e-mail list.

Gopher - Please access:    gopher.cosmic.uga.edu

World Wide Web - The URL of this service:   http://www.cosmic.uga.edu

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                      *** ORDERING INFORMATION ***

 TERMS:   COSMIC accepts:

  Check or money order made payable to COSMIC/University of Georgia

  Official preprinted company purchase order form (terms: net 30 days)

  VISA, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express

NOTE:   The documentation and program are priced separately except for

        licensed packages.

        The standard distribution media is indicated in each COSMIC

        program abstract.

        For information on reformatting, a printed listing, a

        character code change, or alternate media availability,

        contact the COSMIC order department.

COSMIC mailing address:      COSMIC

                             The University of Georgia

                             382 East Broad Street

                             Athens, GA  30602-4272

COSMIC telephone number:     706-542-3265

COSMIC fax number:           706-542-4807


Computer Word SEarch V4.0 for Windows
Computer Word Search version 4.0 is now available on Cica.

On ftp.cica.indiana.edu or one of the mirror sites, look for the file:

     pub/pc/win3/games/cws40.zip

Computer Word Search is the computerized version of the popular pencil and paper word search game which everyone has played. Just like the paper version, the player is presented with a puzzle grid of letters and a list of words which are hidden somewhere in the puzzle. The player's job is to find all of the words. You can play alone, or in teams. Race against the Game Clock or just relax and play at a more leisurely pace. Any way you play it, Computer Word Search provides hours of fun and entertainment. Version 4.0 adds Windows sound support, displays a custom bitmap picture as the game's desktop, and adds a handy print command to print the game and solution key.

Computer Word Search is developed and supported by CanalRun, Inc. Please direct any questions to:

  CanalRun, Inc.

  PO Box 176

  Syracuse, NY 13215

  Email: CanalRun@aol.com


Hang Man V2.0 Classic Word Game for Windows
Hang Man version 2.0 is now available on Cica.

On ftp.cica.indiana.edu or one of the mirror sites, look for the file:

     pub/pc/win3/games/hman20.zip

The classic game of Hang Man brought to Windows 3.1. The player is presented with a hidden word or phrase and is asked to guess letters in order to find the solution. Each wrong guess adds a body part to the Hang Man. Find the word before the Hang Man is complete and you win. The game is played on a desert background and includes a cartoon Hang Man graphic. Hang Man supports Windows multimedia sound. The game has three levels of play and comes with a selection of words and phrases. Hang Man is educational and entertaining and provides hours of fun for all ages.

Hang Man is developed and supported by CanalRun, Inc. Please direct any questions to:

  CanalRun, Inc.

  PO Box 176

  Syracuse, NY 13215

  E-mail: CanalRun@aol.com


Digital Equipment Corp Background Info, Feb'95
                  DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION

                  PERSONAL COMPUTER BUSINESS UNIT

                       BACKGROUND INFORMATION

                           February 1995

Digital Equipment Corporation's Personal Computer Business Unit (Digital PC) develops, manufactures, markets, sells and supports a complete line of leading-edge personal computer products and services to companies, institutions and individuals engaged in all manner of business throughout the world. The company's products and services provide PC computing solutions that meet virtually any need from home office and small office applications, to power- hungry computational tasks on the desktop or on the road. Digital PC servers help people work together by providing the power and reliability necessary for a complete range of networked applications, from basic print and file sharing to mission critical enterprise-wide applications.

The Digital PC Business Unit employs 3,500 people worldwide. With headquarters in Acton, Mass., it operates worldwide through three major geographic areas. The Americas Operations, which includes all of North, South and Latin America, is also headquartered in Acton, Mass. Europe Operations, which encompasses Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The Asia/Pacific Operations, which includes all of Asia and the Pacific Rim, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, is headquartered in Hong Kong. Each regional organization maintains its own sales, marketing, and profit and loss responsibilities.

BUSINESS STRATEGY SUMMARY

When it was formally established in July 1993, Digital PC set a goal to become a key player in the high-volume personal computer market as quickly as possible. Digital plans to achieve this end by adhering to a six-point strategy that encompasses:

    -  competitive desktop, server and mobile product lines for all

       segments of the PC market;

    -  an indirect channel sales model that focuses on long-term,

       mutually beneficial partnerships;

    -  a support and service infrastructure for both customers and

       resellers;

    -  high-quality, predictable manufacturing and supply logistics

       that balance flexibility and cost;

    -  brand franchise growth through creative marketing, awareness

       and demand generation programs; and

    -  an autonomous organization, based on a high-volume, low-cost

       model.

The success of this broad ranging strategy can be seen in the fact that, according to Dataquest, Digital PC risen in the PC industry worldwide shipment rankings from #27 in 1992, to #15 in 1993, to #11 in 1994.

THE DIGITAL PC PRODUCT PORTFOLIO

Digital PC products provide comprehensive solutions to the entire spectrum of general business and office applications and to the complex challenges that customers encounter when implementing today's client/server computing strategies. In addition, Digital PC is investing in research and development in order to continue to innovate across its product line and to bring ever higher levels of functionality, leading technical and ergonomic design and maximum ease-of-use to its product portfolio. The company is constantly improving every aspect of users' experience with Digital PC products and services, beginning with the 'out-of-box' experience -- the way in which products are packaged and presented, as well as start-up menus and documentation.

Digital HiNote -- Digital PC has vaulted into the rapidly expanding notebook computer market with its HiNote and HiNote Ultra computers. The HiNote family combines Digital's renowned engineering expertise with leading aesthetic and ergonomic design for powerful, lightweight and easy to use notebook computers. HiNote Ultra redefines the leading edge of the notebook computing class by incorporating desktop performance in a four-pound, one-inch-high package -- the thinnest notebook computer available. The unique fold-down battery and wedge-shaped floppy disk dock provide a breakthrough notebook design. The HiNote family provides the ultimate in performance and reliability in a lightweight and stylish package, providing mobile workers with desktop computer performance and the convenience of a mobile system.

Digital Venturis -- Available in both slimline and full-profile configurations, the Venturis line is Digital PC's value-oriented desktop family designed to meet the computing requirements of general business users in standard office applications, as well as those of users in a client/server environment. Ideal for the volume purchaser, Venturis systems are simple to install, easy to use and easy to maintain, while providing room to expand as computing needs evolve.

Digital Celebris -- The Celebris line is targeted at business professionals who demand a balance of performance and price. The product line's enhanced power and flexibility meets more demanding desktop computing challenges, such as compute-intensive graphics, software development and financial analysis. Celebris systems incorporate high-performance Intel i486 and Pentium processors, PCI and IDE for faster system, disk and peripheral performance and S3 64-bit graphics processing power. Celebris PCs are upgradeable to meet changing computing demands.

Digital Celebris XL -- The Celebris XL line is comprised of Digital's highest-performing desktop computing systems and is targeted at the 'power user.' The Celebris XL line offers maximum flexibility in power, graphics and memory. Celebris XL features an upgradeable processor architecture that allows users to protect their computing investment by taking advantage of successive generations of Intel or Digital Alpha microprocessors.

Digital Prioris Servers -- Digital's full line of PC server systems meet the computational needs of workgroups of all sizes. The Prioris MTE Server is an entry-level server ideal for small workgroups' file, print and peripheral sharing requirements. The Prioris XL Server can be configured as either a midrange print/file server or an entry-level application server. Prioris XL server's scaleable design and advanced architecture enables the addition of higher-performance processors and peripherals over the life of the product. The recently introduced Prioris HX family of highly scalable application servers can support workgroups numbering in the hundreds. The Prioris HX family is currently available in single and dual processor configurations and offers a host of fault-tolerance and redundancy features for maximum reliability, including ECC memory, Remote Server Manager support, advanced disk subsystems with controller duplexing, integrated hot-swap SCSI backplanes, and internal or external RAID.

Digital Starion PC -- The Starion line is Digital PC's initial entry into the rapidly growing retail sales channel in the U.S. and is targeted at the 'ToHo' -- Tiny Office, Home Office - market. Starion PCs come equipped with CD-ROM, sound capabilities, and other multimedia features. In addition, a suite of small office applications, such as a telephone answering machine, fax modem and software, ClarisWorks, CompuServe, and tape backup drives complete the Starion package. These products are covered by one-year, on-site warranty service and are available at CompUSA and Sam's Club.

DISTRIBUTION

Digital PC is committed to a measured, rational approach to its distribution strategy as a means of minimizing channel conflict and assuring potential buyers of the widest range of purchasing choices. The strategy is based on mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with key channel partners in each geographical region. For example, Digital's partners in the America's include MicroAge, Merisel, Tech Data and Gates F/A. European partners include Simec, Computer 2000, Ideal and West Coast. Digital's most prominent partner in the Asia/Pacific region is the Founder Group. Today, Digital PC sells over 80 percent of its products through channel partners, with a goal of reaching close to 100 percent by the end of 1995.

SERVICE AND SUPPORT

One of Digital PC's greatest strengths is its ability to leverage the traditional superiority of Digital Equipment Corporation's worldclass, worldwide service and support organization on behalf of its desktop, mobile and PC server customers around the world. A three-year limited warranty is standard on all desktop and mobile personal computers, while Prioris servers are covered by a three- year, on-site limited warranty with standard next-day response from Digital's MultiVendor Customer Services organization or through a Digital Channel partner. Digital's optional Passport service program provides 48-hour express service for the full line of HiNote notebook computers in the U.S.

MANUFACTURING AND LOGISTICS

Digital PC's strategy is to maintain high-quality, predictable manufacturing and logistics operations that balance cost and flexibility. In order to maintain a high level of responsiveness to customer orders, manufacturing and logistics operations are located close to major customer in each geographic area, with major facilities in Kanata, Canada; Irvine, Scotland; and Tao Yuan, Taiwan. Digital PC also maintains integration centers which perform customer-requested modifications, such as option installation and factory-installed software loading in Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and the Peoples' Republic of China. Digital PC strives to lead the industry in cost- effective manufacturing with systems that ensure optimal inventory, delivery and quality control. The goal is to maintain competitive manufacturing costs while retaining predictability, flexibility and the ability to respond to rapid market and technological evolution.

MARKETING AND SALES

Digital is investing heavily in its PC communications activities, using advertising, public relations, industry events and other tools as a means of creating awareness among industry opinion leaders and a broader base of potential PC buyers. A crucial component of the company's strategy is to work closely on sales and marketing programs with its distributor partners in each geographical region. In this way, marketing programs can be tailored to appeal to the demands of individual locales, maximizing their attractiveness to local audiences. In general, Digital is working to broaden the brand equity it has achieved with its traditional core business customers as it expands into new market segments, and as the company grows its PC market share.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computering to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry- focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.


OS/2 Warp Sponsors Grammy Cybercast on Internet
OS/2 Warp Sponsors First-Ever Grammy "Cybercast"

GET BACKSTAGE AT THE GRAMMY AWARDS WITH IBM'S OS/2 WARP

AUSTIN, Texas, February 27, 1995 ... IBM's OS/2 Warp will provide music fans in 140 countries around the world a "virtual backstage pass" to the hippest event in the pop music industry. This year, the 37th annual Grammy Awards will be "cybercast" worldwide on March 1 via the Internet. While Paul Reiser hosts the festivities onstage, Adam Curry, former video jockey, will host the Grammy Awards cybercast backstage. Using OS/2 Warp, Curry will provide cyberpunks virtual backstage access to the biggest music party of the year. Online subscribers can join the Grammy domain on the World Wide Web and "hang out backstage" while simultaneously watching the CBS telecast.

"The Internet is opening up new opportunities for business and entertainment, like giving net surfers unprecedented access to never before seen backstage action at the Grammy Awards. And OS/2 Warp is just about the easiest way to get on the Internet -- you just point and click and you're there," said Curry.

OS/2 Warp's direct, comprehensive access to the Internet will provide the easiest way to join the Grammy cybercast. Warp users can simply type http://metaverse.com at the URL window on the Internet's World Wide Web. Net surfers who don't have Warp yet can also use an online service or alternate Internet provider to access the World Wide Web for the Grammy cybercast.

OS/2 Warp is the third generation of IBM's award-winning 32-bit operating system. It features impressive new usability features, slimmed-down system requirements and comes with a BonusPak of more than a dozen exploitive OS/2 applications, including easy access to Internet and CompuServe. OS/2 Warp comes preloaded on systems from the IBM PC Company, Toshiba, CompuAdd and 200 other PC manufacturers, and Dell offers Warp as a preload option to customers when they order PCs.

The 37th Annual Grammy Awards will be held at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium on Wednesday, March 1 and telecast on the CBS Television Network (8 - 11 ET). Tony Bennett, Boys II Men, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Sheryl Crow, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, Salt-N-Pepa, Gil Shaham and Bruce Springsteen are the announced performers to date. Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Sheryl Crow, k.d. lang, Tony Bennett, Salt-n-Pepa, Boys II Men, Tori Amos, Placido Domingo, Emanuel Ax, Steven Curtis Chapman, Annie Lennox, Gary Oldman and Jon Secada are set to present awards.


IBM Releases PC DOS 7 with Integrated Stacker
IBM Releases PC DOS 7 With Integrated Stacker 4.0 Compression

Continuing IBM Support for DOS Users

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 27, 1995 . . . IBM today announced PC DOS 7, the most advanced DOS available, offering more memory and more disk space than any previous version.

PC DOS 7 includes integrated data compression from Stac Electronics, the leading provider of PC compression software; an extensive on-line help system; and exclusive features designed for mobile users, such as file synchronization, docking capabilities and the latest support from Phoenix Technologies for PCMCIA cards.

PC DOS 7 is IBM's 14th release of industry-standard DOS and was designed to add value and power to existing DOS and DOS/Windows environments.

"We recognize that the world is shifting to 32-bit operating systems. The success of OS/2 Warp has proven that," said Karl LaWall, PC DOS worldwide brand manager, IBM Personal Software Products. "But the millions of DOS installations around the world won't disappear or convert overnight, and IBM is in a position to support and enrich this environment. PC DOS 7 is the best upgrade choice for MS-DOS users who want to enhance their DOS and DOS/Windows environments without taking the step to a 32-bit operating system."

The product also provides a powerful new platform for developers of DOS and Windows-based business applications and games, and for software companies who still depend upon sales of their existing DOS-based applications.

"WordPerfect for DOS, both versions 5.1+ and 6.0, are still selling quite well," said Mark Calkins, vice president and general manager of WordPerfect, a member of the Novell Applications Group. "This tells us that the DOS market is still a viable and profitable option. IBM's PC DOS 7 will extend that by offering increased function and benefits to both DOS and DOS/Windows users."

More Free Memory and Space

PC DOS 7 provides users with as much as 40KB more conventional memory than DOS version 6.x. This means there's more memory available for Windows, games and memory-hungry applications.

IBM also has integrated Stacker 4.0 for DOS and Windows into PC DOS 7, giving users the highest compression ratio and most disk space possible on DOS and Windows. Stac Electronics also provides Stacker 4.0 for OS/2, providing users with an industry-standard compression strategy across all PC operating systems. Stacker 4.0 provides more available disk space than other technologies, and users can easily upgrade to PC DOS 7 from MS-DOS DoubleSpace and DriveSpace, IBM SuperStor/DS and earlier Stacker versions without decompressing existing files.

Stacker 4.0 provides additional portability across systems with the "Stacker Anywhere" feature, which enables the use of diskettes containing compressed data on systems without compression software.

"IBM's decision to integrate Stac's complete DOS and Windows version of Stacker 4.0 in PC DOS 7 will be a boon to all DOS and Windows users," said Gary Clow, president, Stac Electronics. "The installed base of PCs running DOS and DOS/Windows is very large, and IBM has not forgotten these users. Stac expects to see strong demand from the release of PC DOS 7."

Tailor-made for the Mobile Market

PC DOS 7 has been improved for mobile computing with exclusive features such as the File Update utility, built-in PCMCIA software and docking support. The only DOS with built-in PCMCIA support, PC DOS 7 includes the latest PCMCIA and socket service support from Phoenix Technologies and makes PC card setup and configuration easy with new DOS and Windows utilities.

File Update allows mobile users to keep their work files current by comparing files on different computers and keeping them synchronized. Mobile users with Plug and Play-enabled hardware can benefit from docking support, which may eliminate the need to reboot when a notebook is docked.

Upgrading, Pricing and Availability

PC DOS 7 upgrades any DOS version 3.3 and higher and is supported on all IBM and IBM-compatible PCs. Customers should be able to upgrade for less than $60. The product is now available in the United States and other countries that sell Single Byte Character Set (SBCS) versions. Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) versions will be available within the first half of 1995.

IBM's Personal Software Products division, with headquarters in Austin, Texas, is an industry leader in the development and marketing of operating systems including PC DOS and OS/2 Warp, as well as networking products and other advanced technologies.

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                  New Features in PC DOS 7

  * More conventional memory, allowing users to run memory-hungry

    applications while maintaining complete industry-standard

    compatibility.

  * Central Point's RAMBOOST memory optimizer, offering enhanced

    multiple configuration support, including CONFIG.SYS

    organization assistance.

  * Stacker 4.0 disk compression technology from Stac Electronics,

    giving users the highest compression ratio and most disk space

    available.

  * The new File Update utility, allowing mobile users to keep

    their work files current by comparing files on different

    computers and keeping them synchronized.

  * Improved PCMCIA and socket service support from Phoenix

    Technologies, making PC card setup and configuration easy with

    new DOS and Windows utilities.

  * Hot docking support, which may eliminate the need for mobile

    users to reboot when a notebook is docked.

  * The advanced, powerful and easy-to-use REXX programming

    language, allowing users to write batch programs that are

    portable to other operating systems, such as OS/2 Warp.

  * Improved Editor, with pull-down menu, mouse and arithmetic

    support and the ability to view and edit multiple files

    simultaneously.

  * A DYNALOAD command, enabling users to dynamically load device

    drivers without modifying the CONFIG.SYS file and rebooting

    their systems.

  * PC DOS Viewer, offering on-line help and support to view

    IPF-based documents.

  * An enhanced setup program, enabling mouse use during

    installation and letting users view or edit changes to the

    CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files prior to system restart.

  * IBM's version of Central Point's Backup utilities for PC DOS

    and Windows, which now includes enhanced tape formatting and

    additional file filtering capabilities.

  * IBM AntiVirus, protecting against more than 2,100 common

    computer viruses and detecting mutated viruses.

  * PenDOS support by Communication Intelligence Corp., providing

    extensions that allow users to replace the mouse with a pen to

    launch DOS applications.


Scan/US Streets & Data USA CD-ROM V1.5 Released
Scan/US Inc., announces the release of the version 1.5 update of the Scan/US Streets and Data USA CD-ROM, a national-level geomarket analysis product for the United States. This product, available immediately for MS-Windows 3.1 or NT 3.5, comes on a single CD-ROM disk.

Geomarket analysis is the process of viewing demographic or other location-related data on thematic maps, to discover otherwise-hidden geographic patterns in data. This product is suitable for retail site selection, by-store geographic sales analysis, sales territory assignment, advertising sales support, market penetration analysis, or examining direct mail response, and many other uses.

New Scan/US feature functionality in version 1.5:

-- Study area creation can now be driven by the Scan/US Geocoder, another product available from Scan/US. Thus, you can create a new study area in the vicinity of any street address found by the Geocoder's QuickFind function.

-- study areas and associated features can be fully saved and

   restored.

-- analytic group assignments and groupings can be saved in a

   form which can be read and written by database applications

   and spreadsheets.

-- object-specific tie lines can connect labels and their objects.

-- rotated labels are available for all line features

-- dot density thematic type for polygons has been added

A full description of the Scan/US Streets and Data USA CD ROM and data products, along with cool sample color maps made with Scan/US can be found at the company's World Wide Web page:

http://www.scanus.com/scanus/4windows.html

File formats and sizes:

Scan/US processes files in either xBASE or delimited ASCII format. There is no inherent limit to file size. Delimited ASCII text files are limited to 500 fields per record. Excel files can also be read directly.

Demo Disk sets available:

A Scan/US demo, consisting of Lotus ScreenCam movie recordings of actual user sessions with Scan/US, is available on two floppy disks. Popcorn is provided. Of course, it's just virtual popcorn.

You may also request a one-floppy-disk Scan/US Working Model demo which gives full product functionality including printing and saving.

System requirements:

Computer:  An IBM or 100% compatible Intel 386SX-based or higher

           with one 1.44MB floppy drive.  A CD-ROM drive is highly

           recommended (the CD version of the program fits on just

           one CD).

Memory:    Minimum 4MB RAM, 8MB or more recommended.

Hard disk: 14MB storage for the software, 23MB min. if without CD ROM.

Operating system:  DOS 5.0 or higher recommended.

Environment:  Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher, running in 386 enhanced

              mode, or Windows NT 3.5.

Pricing:

Scan/US Streets and Data USA CD-ROM     US$495.00

Educational, network, and multi-copy pricing are available.  Competitive pricing is available to registered users of competing packages through March 31, 1995.  Registered users of Scan/US may receive their upgrade at no cost.

For the purpose of classroom teaching or student laboratory work, an institution of higher learning may purchase the Scan/US Streets and Data USA CD-ROM for US$200, a substantial discount from the US$495 standard price.

For  more information, please call or write

Scan/US, Inc.

2032 Armacost Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90025 USA

orders: 800.272.2687

inquiries: 310.820.1581

fax: 310.826.6863

email: Mr. Joseph Parker at 75540.1103@compuserve.com

www: http://www.scanus.com/scanus/4windows.html


Online Time V1.0 Tracks Online Service Usage
Online Time version 1.0 is now available on Cica.

On ftp.cica.indiana.edu or one of the mirror sites, look for the file:

     pub/pc/win3/util/oltime10.zip

Use Online Time to keep track of the amount of time you spend using online services such as Prodigy, America Online, CompuServe, or others. Online Time allows you to keep a handle on "per minute" and "extended" charges. Use Online Time to stay within the service's monthly allowance, and compare the online service's monthly bill against your own session times saved in Online Time's log file.

The log file keeps track of the user's name, the date and time of each session, the amount of time spent in each section of the service, and the total time for each online session.

Online Time is also an excellent tool for recording the time spent working on a project or contract. Maintain documentation for proper billing. Keep track of an unlimited number of projects, maintain multiple cost bases.

With your registration to Online Time, you receive a Lifetime Key ID which unlocks this and all future versions of Online Time. The complete source code for Online Time is available.

Online Time is developed and supported by CanalRun, Inc. Please direct any questions to:

  CanalRun, Inc.

  PO Box 176

  Syracuse, NY 13215

  E-mail: CanalRun@aol.com


Major Delphi Internet Services Corp. Reorg.
DELPHI INTERNET SERVICES CORP. NAMES SENIOR EXECUTIVES IN MAJOR REORGANIZATION

News Corp. Company Taps Microsoft Executive to Spearhead Consumer Services Development

Move Signals Increased Emphasis on Editorial Content, Customer Service and Expansion in International Markets for Fast Growing Online Service

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS -- February 28, 1995 -- Delphi Internet Services Corporation, one of the nation's largest online services and, since 1992, a leading provider of complete Internet access, today announced a major reorganization designed to position the Company to become the premier online service for interactive entertainment, information and communications. Under the reorganization, Delphi Internet named Mark Benerofe, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Consumer Services; Jaan Torv, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Delphi International; Bharath Kadaba, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations; Susan D. Goodman, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Marketing; Ben Feder, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Business Services; and Jerry Lyons, Chief Financial Officer.

Benerofe, formerly Director, Interactive Media for Microsoft, will lead Delphi Internet's consumer services development in preparation for the launch of its open, Internet-based platform later this year. His responsibilities will include overseeing the acquisition and/or development and placement of all consumer and general content on the online service, which will include products and services from both News Corporation and non-News Corporation media partners. "By leveraging our vast News Corporation resources and our Internet expertise, we will continue to fulfill our commitment to offering instant access to unrivaled online content and services," said Dr. Alan E. Baratz, Chief Executive Officer of Delphi Internet. "Mark has played a key role in the development of The Microsoft Network and has also been instrumental in the creation of content and services for CNN and Prodigy. He has a far-reaching vision for delivering 'networked' services -- whether online, through interactive TV or otherwise. We are extremely pleased that he is joining us to direct our efforts in developing innovative programming for Delphi Internet."

Torv, formerly Executive Vice President, Programming and Development for Delphi Internet, will head the Company's international expansion initiatives, the first of which, Delphi Internet Limited, began operations in the U.K. late last fall. "Delphi Internet has established a strong presence in the U.S. as the predominant provider of Internet access to the home and we are committed to becoming the premier global online service for interactive entertainment, information and communications for consumers worldwide," stated Baratz. "With Jaan's appointment as Managing Director of Delphi International, we will aggressively expand our services on a global basis." Delphi Internet's expansion is planned for Europe and the Pacific Rim.

Kadaba, formerly Director of Internetworking and Multimedia Services for Advantis, IBM's commercial computer network service, will head Delphi Internet's worldwide engineering efforts to develop the Company's new client/server platform technology, its service delivery infrastructure, as well as its customer support services. Kadaba will also oversee key technology partnerships to build Delphi Internet's new open technology platform, such as Delphi Internet's recent licensing agreement with Netscape Communications. "Our commitment to becoming the premier online service extends beyond providing compelling content and services," said Baratz. "Our goal is to provide the best possible customer service with the most engaging and user-friendly interface in the industry. Bharath, with his proven track record, is the perfect senior executive to ensure we meet this goal."

Goodman, founder of The S.D. Goodman Group, Inc., a strategic marketing consultancy and direct marketing agency based in New York, will oversee Delphi Internet's worldwide marketing efforts. Her broad business experience prior to this includes Chiat/Day Advertising, Inc., where as Senior Vice President, Director of Client Services, she developed a database marketing customer loyalty program for Nissan Canada, Inc., and directed new business efforts in North America for Chiat/Day Direct. "Susan has extensive international experience in all phases of consumer and business-to-business marketing," noted Baratz. "Her expertise in developing targeted, integrated customer acquisition and loyalty-building retention programs will be invaluable as we reach out to new markets with even more innovative content and services." Goodman will remain President of The Goodman Group, an independent and ongoing business.

Feder, formerly Vice President, Business Affairs for Delphi Internet, will lead Delphi Internet's efforts to provide products and services that cater to the needs of businesses. Feder will oversee media partnerships with both News Corporation and non-News Corporation companies for the acquisition and/or development and placement of all business-to-business content on the online service. "Ben has developed and solidified critical relationships that are forming the foundation of Delphi Internet's new services. We will continue to rely on his leadership as we provide advanced products and services tailored to companies conducting business online," said Baratz.

Lyons, formerly Senior Manager of Arthur Andersen & Company and most recently Chief Financial Officer of OCP America, a $450-million pharmaceutical distributor, will direct Delphi Internet's worldwide accounting and financial systems. "As Delphi Internet expands into more homes and businesses with increasingly diversified content and services, putting sophisticated financial systems in place to serve our subscribers and our media partners will be a critical component to our competitive edge," stated Baratz. "Jerry understands the central role finance plays in high-growth companies and will be a strong asset to Delphi Internet."

A News Corporation company, Delphi Internet develops and markets interactive entertainment, information and communications services for consumers worldwide. Delphi Internet is one of the nation's top online services and a leading provider to consumers of comprehensive access to the Internet, the data superhighway. News Corporation, led by Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch, is one of the largest global media companies with diversified international operations that include: TV GUIDE, Fox Broadcasting Company, Twentieth Century Fox, HarperCollins Publishers, Times Newspapers Limited, British Sky Broadcasting, STAR Television and others.


MediaLogic ADL Signs UNIX HSM Swr Deal
MEDIALOGIC ADL SIGNS DEAL WITH AUTOMATED NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES FOR UNIX HSM SOFTWARE

February 1, 1995 -- BOULDER, Col. -- MediaLogic ADL, developer of the industry's premier scalable data library products, today announced an expansion of software support for its breakthrough line of Scalable Library Architecture (SLA) products through an agreement with Automated Network Technologies. Englewood, Col.-based Automated Network Technologies will support the full SLA product line with its leading-edge Hierarchical Storage Management software for UNIX.

"MediaLogic ADL's SLA products are among the first on the market that have the capability to take advantage of the advanced functionality of Metior," said Automated Network Technologies President, Hal Abbott. "Metior is a perfect match for the SLA products because we share a common belief that previous solutions were not suitable for the high-throughput demands of today's UNIX storage environments," said Abbott. "The Metior-SLA combination is unsurpassed in delivering the level of performance, capacity and functionality demanded for UNIX HSM applications."

"The customer commitment doesn't stop with leading-edge hardware technology," said Lee Elizer, President and CEO of MediaLogic ADL. "MediaLogic ADL is dedicated to working with the top echelon of storage software providers to give ADL customers the option to select the software product which best fits their business needs. Automated Network Technologies provides the type of product excellence and value necessary for effective mass storage library utilization."

Automated Network Technologies' Metior HSM software is based on the IEEE mass storage reference model and is one of the first distributed HSM solutions for UNIX. Metior runs on the most popular UNIX platforms, including Sun OS, Solaris, Silicon Graphics, HP-IX and SCO UNIX. Metior also provides client support for any NFS-mountable environment, including NetWare, OS/2, Macintosh and VMS.

Automated Network Technologies' exclusive "three dimensional" hierarchy capability makes it one of the most configuration-flexible of any UNIX HSM software solutions. The three dimensional feature allows network administrators to create up to seven levels of hierarchical storage, including multiple levels of hierarchy in the same physical medium as in a single tape library. Files can be designated for migration between levels of the hierarchy based on any attribute desired by the administrator to best meet the requirements of specific groups or departments. Files can also be moved directly from one layer to any other layer in the hierarchy and can be restored to any authorized workstation directly from the tape library with no intervention by the server disk. The three-dimensional design and distributed architecture of Metior significantly reduces disk thrashing, greatly improving network storage performance.

"Just as no single storage model is the best for every environment, no single set of migration rules or hierarchical design works best for every company," said Abbott. "Metior is the only solution that delivers the flexibility to bring effective HSM to open system computing environments."

The Metior software can drive all twelve tape drives simultaneously in MediaLogic ADL's SLA-8max and SLA-4max libraries, or seven drives in the SLA-D library. In an SLA-8max configuration, for example, the SLA-8 could utilize six drives to back up data from the server, while the other six drives are responding independently to client file restoration requests and/or HSM staging requests.

With Automated Network Technologies, MediaLogic ADL has now added another company in the backup and data management software field, which includes Palindrome Corporation with backup and HSM solutions for NetWare and Workstation Solutions with its UNIX backup products.

The SLA family currently includes three series of automated data libraries: the SLA-4 Series of 4mm DAT systems with capacities of up to 960 gigabytes (with 20, 40, 72 and 120 cartridges) in a 12-drive configuration, the SLA-8 line of 8mm units, offering more than 1.23 terabytes of capacity also in a 12-drive configuration (with 14, 28, 52 and 88 cartridges), and the multi-terabyte high-performance DLT-based SLA-D product family with up to 7 drives (with 7, 14, 26 and 50 cartridges).

The innovative SLA technology gives these libraries an unprecedented level of scalability to create customized solutions to precisely meet specific customer requirements. As more cartridges are added to the libraries through the addition of higher capacity DataPaks, additional tape drives can be added to ensure that data throughput keeps pace. And each drive includes an integrated media loader, automatically scaling the data handling capabilities of the library as more drives are added to ensure that information stored in the DataPak is made available to users as fast as possible. Quick and easy data interchange is supported via the front panel accessible MixedMedia Interchange Drawer. The MixedMedia Interchange Drawer be configured with up to four SCSI devices to exchange information between the MixedMedia devices and the DataPaks.

MediaLogic ADL, Inc., headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, is a subsidiary of Massachusetts-based Media Logic, Inc. MediaLogic ADL is chartered with creating breakthrough technology in the area of innovative automated data library (ADL) solutions. The design and architecture of the new MediaLogic ADL scalable library products is expected to enhance current applications, enable expanded use of libraries and provide an excellent opportunity for VARs to participate in the profitable emerging market for automated storage solutions.

Founded in 1982, Media Logic, Inc. is a leading worldwide supplier of evaluation equipment to both manufacturers and users of flexible computer disks and tape. The company also manufactures and sells AccuCopy industrial disk drives and heads for strenuous environment and high reliability applications. The company's stock is publicly traded under the symbol TST on the American Stock Exchange.

MediaLogic ADL Inc

4990 Pearl East Circle

Boulder, CO 80301

303-939-9780,  fax 303-939-9745

AOL: adlinc


WinMaker Pro 6.0 Makes C++ Easy As Visual Basic
Late-Breaking News about Now Shipping WinMaker Pro 6.0,

Making C and C++ as Easy as Visual Basic

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WinMaker Pro 6.0 provides developers with easy access to the functionality of VBX controls. WinMaker Pro 6.0 not only supports VBX controls but also includes three royalty-free VBXs. Also, WinMaker Pro 6.0 is as easy-to-use as Visual Basic but provides developers with industrial strength MFC C++, OWL C++ and ANSI C code instead of Basic

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San Francisco, Software Development '95, Booth #410 - February 14, 1995 - Blue Sky Software is now shipping WinMaker Pro 6.0, the first and only Prototyper and C/C++ Code Generator for Windows, Windows 95 and Windows NT which is as visual and easy-to-use as Visual Basic. WinMaker Pro 6.0 makes C and C++ programming accessible to programmers of any level of experience and immediately doubles their productivity.

VBX Control Support

WinMaker Pro 6.0 supports VBX Controls. WinMaker' s users can quickly add VBX controls to the new customizable floating Toolbox and simply drag and drop the controls into their applications' dialog boxes and screens.

Included VBX Controls

WinMaker Pro 6.0 also includes three royalty-free VBX controls providing developers easy access to valuable functionality:

* The Progress Bar VBX displays progress bars with percentage, making status reporting very easy. 3-D effects, fonts, and colors for the control can be quickly defined by WinMaker's users.

* The LED VBX behaves like a LED, allowing the display of passive on/off indicators (modem lights, working lights. . .). Developers can easily define the 3-D effects, fonts, and colors for the control.

* The Bar-code VBX makes the creation of bar-codes fast and easy, useful for inventory applications, identification systems, and any other program requiring bar-codes.

Easily Move from Visual Basic to C and C++

WinMaker Pro 6.0 is the tool that Visual Basic programmers have been waiting for and changes the way they look at C and C++ programming. Using WinMaker Pro 6.0, Visual Basic programmers can take advantage of their Visual Basic experience to move to C and C++ programming. WinMaker's visual environment is very similar to Visual Basic. With WinMaker Pro, developers can draw and test the user interface without writing a single line of code - just like with Visual Basic. WinMaker Pro 6.0 is an easy-to-use tool enabling Visual Basic users and also novice programmers to smoothly move to C and C++ development.

WinMaker Pro 6.0 makes C and C++ as easy as Visual Basic

WinMaker Pro's new Project Manager lets users instantly access all objects and resources (dialog boxes, menus, icons, windows, etc) for their application. Three floating palettes also give the developer fast access to functionality and features: a Property Sheet, a Toolbox, and a Color & Font Palette. The developer can just drag and drop the resources from the Toolbox to create any Windows application. The Property Sheet and the Color & Font Palette allow fast editing of the application interface and the developer can instantly see the results. Users can quickly and visually design their application and attach functionality to any object without writing a single line of code. The Preview Mode lets them edit and test their application before compilation. Integrated Switch-It code generation Modules (SIMs) generate MFC C++, OWL C++ and ANSI C code. WinMaker Pro quickly regenerates code and always preserves the user code 100% upon code re-generation.

Multimedia Support

WinMaker's users can visually and quickly integrate multimedia into their Windows applications,

adding digital video, voice and sound to menus, graphical buttons and screens.

Product Information

Pricing and Availability: Suggested list price is $995. WinMAKER Pro 6.0, including the three Switch-It code generation Modules is now shipping with a special 3-month introductory price of $499 - a savings of $496. Registered users of WindowsMAKER 5 can upgrade to WinMaker Pro 6.0 for $199. The included VBX controls can be distributed royalty-free. For information, contact the Blue Sky Software Sales Department at 1-800-677-4WIN or 619-459-6365, Fax: 619-459-6366.

Blue Sky Software Corp

7486 La Jolla Blvd, Suite 3

La Jolla, CA 92037

619-459-6365,  800-677-4WIN,  fax 619-459-6366


SilverPlatter Releases Biography Index
SilverPlatter Announces the Release of Biography Index from The H.W. Wilson Company

February 1, 1995 -- Published in cooperation with The H.W. Wilson Company, SilverPlatter Information announces the availability of Biography Index. Biography Index is a comprehensive guide to biographical material which appears every year in more than 3,000 publications and in more than 1,900 current books (annually) of individual and collected biographies.

Biography Index includes information about people from every field, every age group, and every nationality. This database covers books, autobiographies, memoirs, journals, diaries, letters, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, fiction, drama, pictorial works, poetry, juvenile literature, and more.

Updated quarterly, Biography Index includes over 150,000 records with coverage dating back to July 1984.

The H.W. Wilson Company is long recognized for their editorial integrity and up-to-date reference information. Biography Index is created and maintained by librarians and subject area specialists.

For further information or to subscribe, contact:

SilverPlatter Information, Inc.

100 River Ridge Drive

Norwood, MA 02062-5043

Tel: 1-800-343-0064 (U.S. and Canada) or 1-617-769-2599

Fax: 1-617-769-8763

Internet: info@silverplatter.com


HP Upgrades Colorado Backup for Windows
HP RELEASES UPGRADE TO COLORADO BACKUP FOR WINDOWS; ADDS SUPPORT FOR CONNER AND IOMEGA DRIVES

New Version of Backup Software to Ship with Colorado High-capacity Minicartridge Drives

Palo Alto, California. February 1, 1995 -- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced an upgrade to its Colorado Backup for Windows software. Release 2.5, from HP's Colorado Memory Systems division, adds support for Conner and Iomega QIC-80 and QIC-3010-MC tape drives. It also includes streamlined configuration and installation, plus the addition of icons for "one-button backup."

Effective with Release 2.5, the full-featured version of Colorado Backup for Windows will be included with the division's Jumbo 700 and Trakker 700 tape backup systems as well as the newly introduced Jumbo 1400 system. Previously, a version with basic features -- Colorado Backup for Windows Lite -- shipped with the 700 series drives.

"With Release 2.5, Windows users can standardize on a single backup interface, whether they're using Colorado backup systems or compatible drives from other manufacturers," said Robert F. LiVolsi, marketing manager for HP's Colorado Memory Systems division. "Most organizations prefer an open software solution such as this because it minimizes training and encourages regular backups in an organization. It also simplifies system administration and support across hardware from multiple vendors."

Consistent with the division's ongoing efforts to simplify tape backup, Release 2.5 provides easier installation through improved detection of drives and controller boards, thus presenting the user with fewer questions and choices. Backup operations also are simplified with the "one-button backup" feature. Two icons are created during installation and placed in the Colorado Backup for Windows program-group window. One icon initiates a total backup, and the other initiates a backup only of files that have been modified since the last backup. A user simply double-clicks on an icon to initiate the desired backup operation.

U.S. Price and Availability

Colorado Backup for Windows is available now and is included free of charge with Colorado Jumbo 700, Trakker 700 and Jumbo 1400 tape backup systems. It is $42 when sold separately. Users of earlier full-featured versions of Colorado Backup for Windows can upgrade to Release 2.5 for $19.95.

Colorado Memory Systems, a division of HP, is located in Loveland, Colo. It manufactures a wide range of tape backup solutions and accessories, including Jumbo, Trakker, PowerTape and PowerDAT backup systems. According to Dataquest reports, Colorado was the clear market leader in minicartridge drives in 1994. Colorado Memory Systems sells its products through a network of computer OEMs, major national distributors and retail outlets.

Information in this release applies specifically to products available in the United States. Product availability and specifications may vary in non-U.S. markets.


PCB Design Conference March 20-24, Santa Clara
CHANGING NATURE OF ELECTRONIC DESIGN WILL BE FOCUS OF KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT PCB DESIGN CONFERENCE

CEO of Industry Consortium to Discuss How 'Information Highway' and Worldwide Distribution of Expertise Drive a New, Borderless Model

San Francisco, Calif -- February 15, 1995 -- Competitive pressures, globalization and the emerging electronic information highway are having a dramatic impact on the electronic design industry. D. Marshall Andrews, CEO of the Interconnection Technology Research Institute (ITRI, Austin, Tex.), will give his perspective on these changes in the keynote address at the 1995 PCB Design Conference, March 20 - 24 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif.

"Rapid changes in technology are altering the way companies do business," says Andrews. "Single companies cannot maintain expertise in all aspects of system design, so OEMs are looking for suppliers who bring unique capabilities to the table. At the same time, the ability to link multiple design centers electronically is making concurrent, borderless design a reality."

Andrews will discuss how design professionals can best work in an environment where customers may be next door or on the next continent, and review the new skills required to remain competitive in today's environment.

As head of the ITRI Consortium, a group of 55 companies working to improve circuitboard technology and develop more efficient manufacturing techniques, Andrews has a refined perspective on the problems -- and the great potential -- of today's electronic design and assembly industry. He notes that design professionals have to be cognizant of all stages of the system design process, even if they are only responsible for a single aspect. Additionally, developers of the software tools used throughout the industry must move from supplying point solutions to seamless systems that allow electronic hand-off of designs between each stage of the total process.

Now in its fourth year, the PCB Design Conference is the premier industry conference and trade exhibition focused on the interests of printed circuit design professionals. Andrew's keynote, at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 21, is the official kick-off for the technical program and the three-day trade exhibition. Workshops, seminars, lectures and full-day tutorials for design professionals begin on Monday, March 20, and the latest in products and services for electronics system design will be exhibited from March 21 - 23. Other events scheduled during the conference include the EDA Face-to-Face Roundtable, 8:30 - 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 22, and PCB Benchmark '95, an independent grading of EDA tool vendors posted on Thursday, March 23.

The PCB Design Conference is the annual showcase for engineering technologies used in the design and manufacture of printed circuit boards. It is produced by Miller Freeman, Inc., the third largest trade show producer in North America. A wholly-owned subsidiary of United Newspapers pld of London, England, the company produces dozens of electronics and software conferences and trade shows, including: Autodesk University, The Embedded Systems Conferences (East and West), MechanCAD, Surface Mount International, and OS/2 World Conference and Exhibition.

Sales Contact:      Megan Forrester   or   Meredith Hahn

                    415-905-4998           415-905-2586

Attendee Contact:   Yloanda White

                    415-905-4994

Press Registration: FS Communications

                    415-691-1488

Miller Freeman Inc

600 Harrison St

San Francisco, CA 94107


Racal PremNet Helps Public Power Company Comm.
RACAL-DATACOM PREMNET FIBER BACKBONE HELPS PUBLIC POWER COMPANY DELIVER STATE-OF-THE-ART COMMUNICATIONS

--Massachusetts municipal utility and PremNet system give voice to Town Hall, Fire Department and schools today; LAN data transport and video in future--

February 22, 1995 -- SUNRISE, FL -- A convergence of factors is prompting public power companies and other utilities to deliver communications as well as kilowatts. Regulatory changes, increased bandwidth over fiber networks, and the digital revolution are redefining business opportunities for utilities with technological savvy, such as Braintree Electric Light Department in Braintree, Massachusetts.

"It is not far-fetched that public utilities could provide communications within our municipalities," says Walter McGrath, Chairman of the American Public Power Association's Communications Infrastructure Subcommittee. "After all, public power companies have always been there to serve, and we already run wire directly to homes and offices."

PremNet Fiber Optic Backbone Makes It Possible

While other utilities investigate the delivery of cable TV and other communications, Braintree Electric Light Department is already delivering voice service to several municipal locations in Braintree, MA, a suburban town located 15 miles from Boston. The PremNet backbone saves Braintree money by reducing local-exchange carrier charges for the publicly-owned power company.

Braintree Electric Light Department recently became the first power company in the United States to implement T-1 voice over fiber backbone. Braintree chose the PremNet system from Racal-Datacom as the fiber backbone to run the voice application in it's 12-mile fiber network, citing its capability to deliver voice, data and video communications.

"Braintree needed to replace existing equipment, but we wanted to maintain the advantages of our installed fiber backbone," says McGrath. "We wanted a system that would deliver voice now and be able to handle future needs for video and data over fiber. PremNet backbone capabilities coupled with the Racal-Datacom service reputation answered our needs."

PremNet Presents Business Opportunities for Utilities

Braintree Electric Light Dept. plans to extend the fiber backbone to more sites, including homes and other municipal government departments. "We want to have fiber to every home and business in Braintree," says Parker, adding that the plan is about 10 years from goal.

Price and flexibility also helped the PremNet system win over traditional devices offering only multiplexing functionality. "For the same price I was ready to pay for multiplexers with limited interfaces, PremNet offers a wide variety of data types. Support for high-quality video was a factor, too, since Braintree wants to offer video to our schools for distance learning and other applications," explains Jack Parker, business division manager at Braintree Electric Light Dept. The utility plans to use the fiber network to run E-mail, read meters, give on-line energy rates, and eventually bill customers and accept payments.

The Braintree fiber backbone project has already installed 72 fiber pairs for 12 miles of cable. The three-node ring topology PremNet backbone network links private branch exchanges (PBX) at the town hall, high school, fire department, and the Electric Light Department headquarters and generator station. Each PremNet system chassis is equipped with one or more DS1 interface modules for connection to the PBXs.

Key PremNet Advantages: Single Network, Multiple Interfaces

Rather than requiring separate networks for each application, the PremNet system enables a single flexible backbone to simultaneously transmit voice, multiple data types, and full-color, TV-quality video with stereo sound -- at speeds up to 200 Mbps. This native speed transport is possible because a PremNet backbone operates at the ISO physical level and is transparent to higher level protocols. Devices on a PremNet backbone appear to be on the same logical network, though they may be located hundreds of miles apart. PremNet system design consolidates cabling, reduces hardware and maintenance costs and makes networks simpler to manage, modify and expand. Each chassis supports up to eight interface modules. With 20 interface modules to choose from, users can mix-and-match to design the perfect PremNet backbone solution.

Network Management and Service Capability

Like all Racal-Datacom products, the PremNet backbone is managed by the Racal Management System, a single, open and integrated network management platform. The Racal CMS 400 workstation offers a client/server implementation delivering extensive management capability and control over both local and wide area networks. The PremNet backbone can also be managed via SNMP or by its on-board management system via the RS-232 port.

With a national support team numbering 500 professionals, Racal offers complete services to areas ranging from small towns to major metropolitan markets. Services include design, implementation, installation, applications support, network monitoring, control, diagnostics, spares and maintenance.

Racal-Datacan provides network solutions for the delivery and management of information between headquarters and remote locations. The company's broad product line includes local area, wide area and metropolitan area networking systems that assist organizations in managing their migration from host-based to client-server-based communications. Racal-Datacom products and services support telecommuting and mobile computing, and connect devices such as ATMs, reservation systems and point-of-sale terminals. Wherever there is a need to put people in touch with information from central databases or distant locations, Racal-Datacom offers a solution.

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Mailing Address: PO Box 40744, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33340-7044

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Biography Index from H.W. Wilson Co.
SilverPlatter Announces the Release of Biography Index from The H.W. Wilson Company

Published in cooperation with The H.W. Wilson Company, SilverPlatter Information announces the availability of Biography Index. Biography Index is a comprehensive guide to biographical material which appears every year in more than 3,000 publications and in more than 1,900 current books (annually) of individual and collected biographies.

Biography Index includes information about people from every field, every age group, and every nationality. This database covers books, autobiographies, memoirs, journals, diaries, letters, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, fiction, drama, pictorial works, poetry, juvenile literature, and more.

Updated quarterly, Biography Index includes over 150,000 records with coverage dating back to July 1984.

The H.W. Wilson Company is long recognized for their editorial integrity and up-to-date reference information. Biography Index is created and maintained by librarians and subject area specialists.

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Next Gen. Server-based Data Warehouse Reports
SI and HP Join Efforts to Provide Next-Generation, Server-based, Data Warehouse Reports

Houston, Texas, February 21, 1995 - Software Interfaces (SI) and Hewlett-Packard Company today announced SI's ProReports will be integrated with HP's Intelligent Warehouse. ProReports allows a report to be created on a client and run on any client or server while retaining the identical formatting attributes. With SI's ProReports and the HP Intelligent Warehouse, users can schedule when to run a report on a server so system resources are optimized: the client is freed for other tasks, and network time and traffic is reduced. Also, large reports can be printed out on heavy-duty printers attached to the servers.

"We are very pleased to have been asked by Hewlett Packard to join in this effort," says Rahul Mehta, President of Software Interfaces. "HP is years ahead of the competition in the implementation of management solutions for data warehousing."

"We have recognized Software Interfaces not only for their excellent end-user information access and delivery capabilities, but also for their powerful client/server design strategy," says George Ferguson, HP's OpenWarehouse Program Manager.

ProReports allows users to create multiple queries from multiple databases in the same report -- allowing innumerable ways to access, view, analyze, and present on previously inaccessible data. For example, a user could combine manufacturing data from Informix in an HP Intelligent Warehouse, purchasing information from Oracle on another HP Intelligent Warehouse, and forecasting information from Microsoft ACCESS on a PC -- all in a single report. In addition to allowing multiple queries on heterogeneous data sources, ProReports allows users to perform operations on the results of those queries, and these results can then also be incorporated in the same report.

"SI's ProReports has very powerful, yet easy-to-use report writing features," says Ferguson. "With ProReports' multiple-query capabilities, users can easily do simple to complex comparisons -- for example, compare this year's results to last year's results and display this side-by-side in a report. This is how people think and how they want to see their data presented, but it is very difficult to do this with present-generation report writers. SQL does not support this in a single query. ProReports, however, does this easily and presents the information very nicely."

Beyond allowing the user to create presentation-quality reports on a client with just clicks of the mouse, ProReports' client/server capabilities further enhance the report design process. With ProReports, users can define breaks and sort fields at run time, and import graphics at run time. They can also make changes to reports without re-executing queries. Also, ProReports' Performance Advisor can detect and suggest alternatives to queries that may consume the resources of a data warehouse. There are many more features like these in ProReports that facilitate the implementation of a true client/server strategy.

"We feel that ProReports together with HP's Intelligent Warehouse will give companies the ultimate in data warehouse systems: ease of use, power, and flexibility, plus a system extensible to support an enterprise's changing needs," says Mehta. "Together they offer scalability for departmental, to multi-site, and to enterprise-wide data warehouse system solutions."

"Our client/server strategy for querying and reporting perfectly complements the design strategy of data warehousing, which is to optimize system resource usage while providing end users with fast and easy access to corporate information," says Mehta. "We are currently the most advanced querying and report writing tool in its class to incorporate a true client/server methodology. This strategy allows us to provide host-based batch reporting capabilities with the ease of use and full desk-top publishing capabilities users expect from GUI-based tools. Additionally, the powerful yet easy-to-use querying technology in ProReports lets users create reports that were never before possible without heavy 3GL programming."

In addition to accessing Intelligent Warehouse-resident databases through ODBC, ProReports can natively access CA-OpenIngres, DB2, Informix, Oracle, Rdb/VMS, and Sybase. It can access other data sources through middleware like EDA/SQL, SequeLink, and more. ProReports for Microsoft Windows pricing starts at $695.00 on the client. ProReports pricing for the server starts at $10,000.

HP is the second-largest computer supplier in the United States, with computer-related revenue of $19.6 billion in its 1994 fiscal year.

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications, and measurement products recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 98,400 employees and had revenue of $25 billion in its 1994 fiscal year.

Software Interfaces, founded in 1985, is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices in The Netherlands and Singapore. Its software solutions are currently in use by thousands of users in the Fortune 500. SQLASSIST, SI's flagship product, was judged by Dr. Paul Dorsey, President of the International Ad Hoc Query SIG, to be the best ad hoc query tool available, "SQLASSIST is a highly polished, well-planned product... The great number of advanced features made it a winner for novice and power users," -- Client/Server Supplement, Information Week, May 1994.

Software Interfaces, Inc

1400 Broadfield, Suite 600, Park 10

Houston, Texas 77084

(713) 492-0707,  Fax: (713) 492-0725