DIGITAL AND MICROSOFT SOFTIMAGE TEAM TO OFFER UNPRECEDENTED
PRICE/PERFORMANCE FOR HIGH-END 3-D WINDOWS NT ANIMATION SOFTWARE

Softimage 3D for Windows NT on Alpha Workstations provides record breaking
performance at only half the previous system cost

MAYNARD, Mass., January 16, 1996 -- Digital Equipment Corporation today
announced that Microsoft's award-winning three dimensional modeling and
animation software, Softimage 3D, is now available for the Windows NT
operating system running on Alpha workstations. This combination of
hardware and software provides the same production- proven 3-D animation
environment previously available only on UNIX- based workstations from
Silicon Graphics, and at approximately half the system cost.

Softimage 3D for Windows NT, announced today by Microsoft, is available now
on the Alpha XL 266 Personal Workstation and the AlphaStation 600 Model
5/266. Digital is one of three system vendors chosen to partner with
Microsoft on this offering, and the only one offering the record breaking
speed of Alpha microprocessors. In recently conducted rendering tests,
Digital's AlphaStation 600 Model 5/266 running Softimage 3D outperformed
the Silicon Graphics Indigo II Extreme workstation by a factor of 1.5.

"Digital's Alpha hardware and the Windows NT operating system are combining
once again to expand the marketplace by bringing leadership technology to
unheard of price/performance points", said Lucia Quinn, vice president for
Digital's Windows NT Business Segment. "We've lowered the cost of entry by
offering economically priced hardware running powerful applications that
provide the kind of no compromise performance that has previously been
available only on high priced UNIX workstations."

Both the Alpha XL 266 and the AlphaStation 600 5/266 come fully bundled
with Softimage 3D for Windows NT, 20" multisynch color monitor, ZLP-L1 3D
high-end OpenGL graphics, 2 GB disk, and a choice of 64MB or 128MB of
memory. Pricing ranges from $17,995 for the Alpha XL 266 with 64MB to
$27,995 for the AlphaStation 600 5/266 with 128MB of memory.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server
solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information
systems. Digital's scalable Intel and 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.
 
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