Digital's Award-Winning High-Speed NICs Support Apple's Power Macintosh
Systems

June 19, 1995 -- Digital Equipment Corporation has designed and developed
Mac OS drivers for its 10/100 Mbps Ethernet and PCI FDDI network adapters
for use with Power Macintosh systems from Apple Computer, Inc.

Digital's Fast EtherWORKS PCI 10/100 adapter, which began shipping earlier
this month, features 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps data throughput via a single UTP
connection that automatically senses the correct operating speed. The Fast
EtherWORKS PCI 10/100 adapter is aggressively priced at $249, making it
the lowest-priced Fast Ethernet adapter among major market players in the
industry today. Patented features, including "parallel cut-through bus
master architecture," provide the best throughput on the market. It is
designed to operate in full-duplex mode, resulting in speeds as high as
200 Mbps. The Mac OS driver for the Fast EtherWORKS PCI 10/100 adapter
will ship this summer.

Also this summer, Digital will ship the Mac OS driver that enables its DEC
FDDIcontroller/PCI adapters to complement the capabilities of Apple's
Power Macintosh systems. These first-in-the-industry PCI FDDI adapters
provide high throughput with exceptionally low CPU utilization. This
combination allows for high-speed networking without taxing the system
CPU, making these adapters ideal for multimedia and video-on-demand
applications. In full-duplex mode, they can support speeds up to 200 Mbps.
These PCI FDDI adapters are the recipients of Network Computing's
Well-Connected Award in the "Best 100-Mbps Or Faster NIC" category, as
well as the magazine's Editor's Choice Award. Three models are offered: a
SAS UTP adapter, priced at $695; a SAS adapter that supports multimode
fiber, priced at $1,195; and a DAS adapter that supports multimode fiber,
priced at $ l ,695.

In addition to the Mac OS drivers, both the Fast Ethernet and FDDI adapters
include drivers for NetWare, Windows, UNIX, DOS, Banyan, VINES, PATHWORKS,
and OpenVMS. The adapters support multiple system platforms, including
Alpha, Intel, PowerPC, and MIPS. These adapters are offered with a
lifetime warranty.

Both the Fast EtherWORKS adapter and the DEC FDDIcontroller family were
named to Network World's Short List, which highlights products the
publication recommends users examine during the purchasing process for
fast LAN adapters. The PCI FDDI and Fast Ethernet adapters are completely
designed and developed by Digital, a networking leader and among the first
to introduce products that support the high-speed capacity of the PCI
bus.

For more information on these products, call (800) 457-8211 in the United
States and Canada, and (508) 692-2562 in other locations.

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