Tricord Systems, Inc. Announces Support For IBM's OS/2 For SMP Operating
System

PC EXPO, New York City, June 28,1994 - Tricord Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRCD),
the industry's leading developer of enterprise server technology, today
announced support for IBM's OS/2 for Symmetrical Multiprocessing (OS/2 for
SMP) on its PowerFrame Enterprise Servers. Tricord has worked closely with
IBM as a strategic partner by providing engineering expertise and
PowerFrame enterprise servers as key development platforms for OS/2 for
SMP. This announcement coincides with IBM's announcement at PC EXPO in New
York City where several PowerFrame systems are being used by IBM to
demonstrate the new OS/2 for SMP operating system.

OS/2 for SMP provides users of Tricord's Intel-based multiprocessing
PowerFrame systems the benefit of higher performance and efficiency for
compute intensive applications such as relational databases and
transaction processing, as well as, high demand graphic applications such
as multimedia and imaging. By automatically dispatching application
processes to any of up to six Intel Pentium microprocessors, OS/2 for SMP
takes full advantage of the PowerFrame's scalability for both compute and
disk I/O performance.

"Increasingly larger networks created through LAN consolidation and the
higher demand placed on these networks by compute-intensive network
applications and services requires a high performance operating system to
allow users to realize the full performance and functionality of today's
enterprise servers," said Mark Garver, vice president of corporate
strategy and marketing for Tricord. "OS/2 for SMP meets this requirements
by taking full advantage of the Tricord SMP architecture to allow users to
run multiple concurrent activities and applications under DOS, Windows and
OS/2 while at the same time providing significant performance gains."

New network services that demand more server processing power will benefit
significantly from the combination of Tricord's balanced system
architecture and IBM's OS/2 for SMP operating system. The Tricord
PowerFrame architecture features symmetrical and functional
multiprocessing in combination with independent, intelligent disk I/O and
separate network I/O subsystems. This enables Tricord to provide not only
the processing power, but also the network I/O bandwidth and disk I/O
throughput necessary to support the emerging field of new network services
today.

"We are pleased to be working closely with Tricord Systems to ensure that
OS/2 for SMP fully exploits the multiprocessing architecture of Tricord's
PowerFrame enterprise servers," said John Soyring, division director of
IBM's Personal Software Products division. "With OS/2 for SMP, users gain
the benefit of growing the processing capacity of their systems to even
higher levels for their OS/2-based applications."

Tricord Systems, Inc., is the leading supplier of enterprise servers to the
network superserver market, which is the fastest growing segment of the
network market. The company designs, manufactures and markets the
PowerFrame family of enterprise servers for use in all applications of
networking, including file serving, LAN consolidation, application serving
and communications serving.

Tricord Systems Inc
3750 Annapolis, Suite 105
Plymouth, MN 55447
612-557-9005,  fax 612-557-8403

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