DIAMOND COMPUTER SYSTEMS LICENSES PANACEA'S DELUXE AUTOCAD DISPLAY LIST
DRIVER FOR LINE OF ACCELERATED GRAPHICS PROCESSORS

LONDONDERRY, NH -- November 6, 1992 -- Panacea Inc. today announced an
exclusive licensing agreement with Diamond Computer Systems, a leading
manufacturer of graphics adapters and co-processors. Under the terms of
the agreement, Diamond will include Panacea's TurboDLDDeluxe AutoCAD
software accelerator, which has a retail value of $249, with its line of
accelerated graphics products, including the recently announced SpeedStar
24x Hi Color graphics processor.

Panacea's TurboDLDDeluxe produces significant performance improvements in
AutoCAD, as much as 25X over VGA when redrawing, panning or zooming,
typically the most time consuming tasks. The product also includes "The
Big Picture", a movable and sizable "bird's eye" view of the current
AutoCAD drawing with the active editing area highlighted. Other features
include real-time panning, pop-up menus, a ZoomPreview spyglass, a drawing
viewer, and fully reconfigurable digitizer buttons. In addition to
supporting AutoCAD Release 12 and earlier versions of AutoCAD, the
TurboDLDDeluxe software enables users to render and display images in
Autodesk AutoShade 2 with RenderMan and Autodesk 3D Studio.

Combining Diamond's speed enhancement technology with the 90C31 graphics
processor chip from Western Digital, the SpeedStar 24x performs up to 25X
faster than SuperVGA cards in Windows 3.X and other GUI environments. The
Stealth supports all SuperVGA resolutions at standard 72 Hz refresh rates,
plus extended resolutions up to 1280 x 1024, and is capable of displaying
up to 16 million colors in Windows and other applications.

According to David Bates, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Diamond,
"Due to its price/performance ratio, the SpeedStar 24x has become our
mainstream controller for graphics intensive applications, including
AutoCAD and Windows. Panacea's Display List Drivers for AutoCAD share
these high performance, low cost characteristics. That's why they're so
popular among AutoCAD users--it's also why we've provided Panacea products
with our graphics cards for a number of years...and will continue to do
so." (more)

Added Jake Richter, President of Panacea, "With its low price, the
SpeedStar 24x is making it possible for every Windows and AutoCAD user to
realize the benefits of accelerated graphics processing. Thanks to this
latest agreement, SpeedStar 24x users will now be able to take advantage
of a feature-laden AutoCAD driver."

The SpeedStar 24x retails for $249 and is available through a worldwide
network of resellers and distributors, and OEMs.

Diamond Computer Systems designs, manufactures and markets high-performance
graphics and multimedia products for the ISA bus markets. Corporate
headquarters are located at 532 Mercury Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Phone:
408-736-2000.

Panacea Inc. is the world's leading provider of commercial and OEM display
drivers and software-only applications accelerators for graphics-intensive
applications. Panacea specializes in PC-based software for graphics
processors and graphics boards. In addition to supporting leading SuperVGA
adapters, Panacea markets products that work with the IBM 8514/A, TIGA, S3
and XGA graphics platforms. Corporate headquarters are located at 24
Orchard View Drive, Londonderry, NH 03053. Phone: 603-437-5022.

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