Adobe Ports Adobe PostScript to Motorola PowerPC 603e Microprocessor

Motorola and Adobe Deliver New Levels of Printing Performance to Power PC
Users

Mountain View, Calif., (December 4, 1995) (Nasdaq: ADBE) -- Adobe Systems
Incorporated and Motorola's High Performance Embedded Systems Division
(NYSE: MOT) today announced that Adobe PostScript software has been ported
to Motorola's PowerPC 603e processor running Adobe's standard printer
operating environment. The embedded form of PostScript software will
leverage the capabilities of Motorola's PowerPC 603e microprocessor to
offer customers and OEMs one of the highest performance embedded printing
solutions available on the market today.

Adobe PostScript is an industry standard page description language for
electronic printing and publishing. Transparent to the user, PostScript is
one of the key technologies that sparked the evolution of the desktop
publishing industry. A printer based on Adobe PostScript software is
platform independent and delivers to users high quality, consistent,
WYSIWYG output.

"Adobe and Motorola have a long history of cooperation starting from the
early days with the 68020 processor, and we have extended that to
Motorola's highest performance processors, the PowerPC line," said Fred
Schwedner, vice president of the printing and systems group at Adobe. "The
PowerPC provides the fastest PostScript language execution that we have
seen in our reference systems, providing an attractive choice for our
customers with high-end graphics and image-based application printing
needs."

PowerPC microprocessors are based on a reduced instruction set computing
(RISC) architecture, and incorporate leading-edge technologies and
processes. The 603e microprocessor is one processor in the PowerPC family
which offers advanced performance at competitive pricing. Multiple
versions of the PowerPC Architecture enable migrations to even higher
levels of performance.For Immediate Release For more information Please
contact: Jennifer Polanski Adobe Systems Incorporated 415 962.2197
http://www.adobe.com/ or Christy Weiner Cunningham Communication, Inc. 617
494.8202 christine@ccipr.com

The PowerPC 603e at 100MHz achieves 137 Dhrystone MIPS. The PostScript
software/PowerPC 603e port offers a significantly higher level of printing
performance. Starting from a PowerPC 603e with embedded Adobe PostScript
software, customers can easily migrate to higher or lower performance
levels within the existing PowerPC 6xx Family of microprocessors. Those
customers requiring lower system costs have the opportunity to migrate to
cost effective integrated PowerPC processors. Customers seeking higher
performance can upgrade to frequency enhanced versions of the PowerPC
603e, the PowerPC 604 and beyond.

"We recognize PostScript as an industry standard, desktop publishing page
description language that will provide our mutual customers with the
highest printer output quality, performance and compatibility available on
the market today," said Tom Gunter, corporate vice president and general
manager of Motorola's High Performance Embedded Systems Division. "The
port to PowerPC is significant because our customers are now able to
easily migrate to higher performance levels than ever before, while
enjoying the benefits of Adobe's PostScript technology." Adobe plans to
make a reference port of PostScript software available to its OEM
customers in early 1996.

Adobe Systems Incorporated, founded in 1982, is headquartered in Mountain
View, California. Adobe develops, markets and supports computer software
products and technologies that enable users to create, display, print and
communicate electronic documents. The company licenses its technology to
major computer, printing and publishing suppliers, and markets a line of
applications software and type products for authoring visually rich
documents. Additionally, the company markets a line of powerful but
easy-to-use, products for home and small business users. Adobe has
subsidiaries in Europe and the Pacific Rim serving a worldwide network of
dealers and distributors. Adobe's 1994 revenue was approximately $598
million.

Having 1994 worldwide sales of $6.9 billion, Motorola's Semiconductor
Products Sector is the largest U.S.-based broad line supplier of
semiconductor solutions. Motorola is one of the world's leading providers
of wireless communication, semiconductors and advanced electronic systems
and services. Major equipment businesses include cellular telephone,
two-way radio, paging and data communications, personal communications,
automotive, defense and space electronics and computers. Communication
devices, computers and millions of consumer products are powered by
Motorola semiconductors. Motorola's 1994 sales were $22.2 billion.
 
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