Motorola Announces Comprehensive Set of PowerPC Development Tools for
Microsoft's Windows NT

More than 50 Vendors Already Developing Windows NT Products for the PowerPC
Platform

AUSTIN, Texas--May 17, 1994--Motorola's RISC Microprocessor Division today
announced a suite of Windows NT and Windows NT Advanced Server development
tools for the PowerPC architecture, including Windows NT C/C++ compilers,
device driver kit, firmware kit and hardware abstraction layer (HAL) kit.
Available immediately, these tools substantially decrease software
development time and enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs),
Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs), and OEM system manufacturers to tap
the full performance advantages offered by the PowerPC's RISC
architecture.

There are currently more than 50 Windows NT developer teams porting
products to the PowerPC platform. A variety of these applications will be
demonstrated at Windows World/COMDEX on May 23-26 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Motorola will offer developers a path to the next release of Windows NT,
code named Daytona, by providing general availability on the PowerPC
architecture in the second half of 1994.

"We are extremely pleased with the growing number of major ISVs eager to
develop Windows NT products for the PowerPC platform," said Les Crudele,
vice president and general manager, Motorola RISC Microprocessor Division.
"The software development kits provide developers with a complete set of
powerful tools to take advantage of the rapidly expanding PowerPC
market."

"We are porting Microsoft Excel and Word to the PowerPC platform to take
advantage of the PowerPC's processing power," said Lewis Levin, general
manager of Microsoft's Excel Business Unit, Microsoft Corporation.
"Ultimately, our customers want to increase their productivity--and we
look forward to meeting this need by leveraging the high performance
offered by the PowerPC architecture."

"The PowerPC development tools enabled us to take our 32-bit WordPerfect
x86 Windows NT development code and have it up and running on the PowerPC
architecture with one developer in only two weeks," said David Moon, chief
technology officer at WordPerfect Corporation. "WordPerfect released the
first native 32-bit word processor for Power Macintosh and this
development shows our commitment to support other PowerPC operating
systems."

The Windows NT C/C++ cross compilation system, developed by Motorola,
enables the development of PowerPC native applications on x86 Windows NT
systems. Later this year, Motorola will offer native PowerPC versions of
these compilers. Motorola combined its back-end compiler technology with
Microsoft's C/C++ front end, providing optimized performance and complete
support for Win32, the 32-bit Windows programming interface. This
partnership reduces the time vendors need to develop products for the
PowerPC architecture.

The Windows NT C/C++ compilation system optimizes code to take advantage of
individual features of the superscalar PowerPC microprocessors, while
maintaining 100 percent code compatibility across all PowerPC architecture
family members.

The device driver kit provides sample device drivers, binaries and
development tools for IHVs porting device drivers to PowerPC systems
running Windows NT. Motorola's Windows NT firmware kit provides system
designers with the ability to develop Windows NT boot firmware for PowerPC
platforms. The Windows NT boot-compliant firmware boots Windows NT by
providing the interfaces required to load the Windows NT operating
system.

Motorola's Windows NT HAL kit consists of functions that abstract the
dependencies between Windows NT and the underlying hardware platform,
enabling a single shrink-wrapped version of the Windows NT kernel to run
on all PowerPC platforms. The HAL kit also provides HAL specification for
the PowerPC architecture and a HAL porting guide to assist system
developers in building uni-processor and, in the future, symmetric
multi-processor (SMP) PowerPC platforms.

PowerPC microprocessors are based on reduced instruction set computing
(RISC), and incorporate leading edge technologies from IBM and Motorola.
The family of PowerPC microprocessors is designed to address a wide range
of computing requirements, from portable and desktop computers to midrange
workstations and servers, to multi-processing, fault-tolerant and
supercomputing systems. PowerPC microcontrollers also will be used for
embedded control applications in automotive and consumer products.

Companies developing PowerPC systems and subsystems include Apple Computer,
Canon, DayStar Digital, Ford Motor Co., Groupe Bull, Harris, Hitachi, IBM,
ISG, Mercury Computer Systems, Motorola Computer Group, Parsytec,
PowerHouse, Scientific Atlanta, Shannon Computer, Tadpole Technologies,
the Taiwan New PC Consortium, THOMSON-CSF and YARC.

Motorola's Windows NT development tools, Windows NT C/C++ compilers, device
driver kit, firmware kit and HAL kit, are available immediately at prices
ranging from $ 195 to $995, depending upon the configuration of the kit.
Developers can call (800) 845-MOTO for technical information, product
porting assistance and to place orders.

Having 1993 worldwide sales of $5.7 billion, Motorola's Semiconductor
Products Sector is the largest U.S.-based broad line supplier of
semiconductors, with a balanced portfolio of more than 50,000 devices.
Motorola is one of the world's leading providers of wireless
communications, 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 1993 sales were $17 billion.

Motorola, Inc.
RISC Microprocessor Division
P.O. Box 202558
Austin, Texas 78720-9895
(800) 845-MOTO

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