IBM ANNOUNCES NEW VERSION OF PenDOS; ADDS POWERFUL PEN CAPABILITIES TO MOST
DOS APPLICATIONS

NEW YORK, June 29, 1993 . . . IBM's Personal Software Products (PSP)
division today announced a new version of the PenDOS system for pen
computing. With this release PenDOS is now available from IBM directly to
end-users for the first time, in addition to being pre-loaded on a variety
of pen-based computers from other vendors.

PenDOS Version 2.2 brings a broad range of pen-based capabilities,
including handwriting recognition in any one of six languages, to DOS
applications. PenDOS also allows developers to design sophisticated
pen-based applications using virtually any popular DOS development tool,
or to add pen-based capabilities to existing DOS applications. It is ideal
for developers who desire high performance pen computing in a low-overhead
DOS environment.

Direct availability to end-users of PenDOS also makes it an excellent
upgrade option for existing owners of pen-based computer users who wish to
make use of DOS applications.

Other PenDOS capabilities include: integrated, user-trainable handwriting
recognition which can adjust to individual handwriting styles; a pop-up
handwriting window which adds recognition capabilities to most traditional
non-pen-aware DOS application; standard and user customizable gestures;
and a pop-up keyboard. For the first time, PenDOS now includes support for
opaque tablets, and integrates pen-based applications for expense
reporting and sending handwritten faxes.

PenDOS is multilingual, with versions that support six popular languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.

"PenDOS is an excellent add-on for people who have already purchased
pen-based computers," said PSP Marketing Director Wally Casey. "With
PenDOS, these pen computer users can take to the road with the same DOS
applications they use at their desks. In this way, PenDOS allows users to
do much, much more with the pen-based computers they already own.

"PenDOS also offers developers an easy way to create pen-based applications
using their existing DOS development tools," Casey said. "Many of these
developers can even use PenDOS to transform their existing desktop
applications into pen-based applications."

PenDOS offers one of the fastest and most accurate handwriting recognition
engines available today. PenDOS' s handwriting recognition engine is user
trainable, allowing users to improve accuracy by tailoring the system to
their unique handwriting characteristics. A set of handwriting gestures
can be used to control applications. Since these gestures are a subset of
those available in IBM' s Pen for OS/2 product, it is easy for users to
move between different pen-based systems. Gestures can also be
user-defined to execute menu commands or macros in both pen-based and
traditional applications.

Advanced add-on capabilities for PenDOS are available from Independent
Software Vendors (ISVs). One such module is signature capture and
verification modules that can be used to create applications which accept
a user' s signature, then analyze that signature to determine if it is
authentic or a potential forgery. Such a module offers a high level of
accuracy by utilizing a sophisticated signature verification algorithm.

PenDOS also allows users to operate most mouse-enabled DOS applications
using the pen as a mouse. For these applications, a PenDOS handwriting
recognition window can quickly be called up which will accept handwriting
and pass it back to the application as traditional text. A pop-up
on-screen keyboard also allows users to enter traditional text, numbers
and commands using the pen. For developers, PenDOS capabilities can be
accessed from any DOS application development environment through the
PenDOS application programming interface (API).

Applications for both sending handwritten faxes and for expense reporting
ship with PenDOS. The freehand fax application enables users to quickly
hand write and fax notes using their pen-based computer and any Class
2-compatible fax modem. The expense reporting application makes it easy
for users to record and tally their expenses while traveling.

PenDOS is now available to both end-users, OEMs, ISVs and systems
integrators. Single unit end-user pricing is $89. Volume discounts are
available for OEMs.

PenDOS has the following minimum operating requirements: an 80386SX
computer running DOS 5.0 or higher; a pen sensor (digitizer) integrated
with a display or a digitizing tablet; 2MB of RAM and 1MB of hard disk
space for most versions, with 4 MB of RAM and 1MB of hard disk space
required for the Japanese version. Support is provided for a wide range of
hardware, including select pen-based computers from IBM, NCR Corp.,
Samsung Electronics and Dauphin Technology, Inc. and select external
digitizing pads from ACECAD, Kurta, CalComp, Wacom, Appoint and FTG Data
Systems.

A PenDOS developers tool kit is available to assist ISVs and corporate MIS
to develop their own PenDOS applications. In addition, IBM has scheduled a
series of one-week workshops to help developers both create pen-based
applications and also add pen capabilities to existing applications. For
more information on these offerings call IBM at the following numbers:
end-user sales, (800) 342-6672; OEM sales, (800) 426-4579; and developers'
assistance (404) 238-2200.

International Business Machines Corp
IBM United States
1133 Westchester Ave, White Plains, NY 10604

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