Adobe Systems and DayStar Digital Announce Multiprocessor Support for Adobe
After Effects

DayStar Genesis Multiprocessor Workstation Boosts Performance of Adobe
After Effects

MACWORLD EXPO, San Francisco (January 9, 1996) -- Adobe Systems
Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) and DayStar Digital, Inc. today announced
multiprocessor support for the Adobe After Effects 3.0 for Macintosh on
DayStar's Genesis MP. DayStar is the creator of Genesis MP, the first
Macintosh OS-based multiprocessor system. Adobe Systems is the maker of
Adobe After Effects, a high-quality compositing, 2D animation and special
effects program used by broadcast, film and multimedia professionals.
Adobe will be in booth #1229 and DayStar in booth #1429 at the Moscone
Convention Center this week.

DayStar's Genesis MP Plug-in Accelerator will accelerate a variety of core
functions inside of Adobe After Effects by 200 percent to 300 percent when
the application is running on a 4-processor Genesis MP. These functions
include frame compositing, anti-aliasing, interframe motion blurring,
scaling, rotating, transparency, blending and many plug-in effects.

The Genesis MP Plug-in Accelerator is available exclusively from DayStar.
It is bundled with all Genesis MP workstations or can be downloaded free
of charge from DayStar's worldwide web site @ http://www.daystar.com/.

"Deadlines are forever looming," said Rob Burton, the digital production
supervisor at Dream Quest, an Academy Award- and Emmy-Award winning
post-production visual effects studio in Simi Valley, California. "The
success from effects that we have done for films such as Crimson Tide, The
Abyss and Total Recall has increased our presence in the television
industry. But there, deadlines come quicker. Adobe After Effects has made
it possible for us to be competitive in television. The speed gains that
we have seen with Adobe After Effects on Genesis MP will ensure that we
stay competitive."For more information please contact Patricia J. Pane,
Adobe 415 962.2967 Fax 415 962.2930 ppane@adobe.com http://www.adobe.com/
or Ted Cheney, DayStar 770 967-2077, ext. 291 Macworld Expo Booth 1429

"In the demanding professional production environment, deadlines are
counted in seconds, not hours," said Keith Zentner, product marketing
manager for Adobe After Effects. "Anything that makes our users more
productive is a boon, and we are committed to working with DayStar to add
even more robust MP support to boost performance in future versions of
Adobe After Effects." DayStar Digital, Inc. develops, manufactures, and
markets high performance MacOS-based work-stations for professionals
engaged in media publishing. Additionally, DayStar offers a full line of
performance upgrade products for Apple Macintosh computers. DayStar
Digital, Inc., is head-quartered in Flowery Branch, Georgia,40 minutes
north of Atlanta.

DayStar maintains a Home Page on the World Wide Web at
http://www.daystar.com/. Contact DayStar Marketing via email at:
marketing@daystar.com. DayStar currently manufactures Genesis MP, PowerPro
601, PowerCard 601, Turbo 601, Universal Turbo 040, and Universal
PowerCache families of products.

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.Page 2
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