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August 1995
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New or updated products for advanced systems computing.
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August 1995
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Product:
Computer Crime: A Crimefighter's Handbook
($24.95)
Product:
impro5 system board upgrade
(starting at $2,600)
Company: Workstation Technologies
Telephone: (800) 882-0007, (603) 890-6700
E-mail: Info@wtieast.mv.com
Fax: (603) 890-6720
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2
Description:
The impro5/85 is an 85-MHz system board upgrade for SPARCstations. This
product promises to increase the performance level of SPARCstation 1,
1+, and 2s to that of a SPARCstation 5. The board is designed to be
user installed.
Product:
SB-MIO-16E-4
($2,495)
Company: National Instruments
(Austin, TX)
Telephone: (800) 433-3488, (512) 794-0100
Fax: (512) 794-8411
E-mail: info@natinst.com
URL: http://www.natinst.com
Platforms: Sun, SPARCstation
Description:
A high-performance multifunction analog, digital, and timing I/O
plug-in data acquisition board for SPARCstations. It has no DIP
switches or potentiometers because it is completely software
configurable. The SB-MIO contains a 12-bit sampling ADC with up to 16
analog inputs, two 12-bit DACs with voltage outputs, 8 lines of
TTL-compatible digital I/O, and 2 user-available 24-bit up/down
counter/timer channels for timing I/O. The SB-MIO-16E-4 comes with
NI-DAQ for Sun driver software and is compatible with LabVIEW and
LabWindows/CVI application software.
Product:
Database Xcessory
($5995 single user license)
Company: Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.
(Cambridge, MA)
Telephone: (800)-800-ICS1 (617) 621-0060
Fax: (617) 621-9555
E-mail: info@ics.com
URL: http://www.ics.com
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2 and HP for Sybase 4 and 10, Oracle 7
Description:
A visual development environment that allows developers to create Motif
applications that, the company claims, interact directly with
relational databases without writing a single line of X, Motif, or SQL
code. Database Xcessory lets you quickly develop database applications
that require the performance and flexibility of a 3GL development
environment. Create an application with the ease of drag and drop and
generate the code (C or C++) with the push of a button.
Product:
FIGleaf
(Free from the download areas of EBT (http://www.ebt.com))
Company: Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. (EBT)
(Providence, RI)
Telephone: (401) 421-9550
Fax: (401) 421-9551
E-mail: info@ebt.com
URL: http://www.ebt.com
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2.x, SGI IRIX 5.x, HPUX 9.x, IBM AIX 3.x Microsoft Windows 3.x, and Windows NT.
Description:
A multi-format graphics viewer for the World Wide Web. FIGleaf enables
viewing of a variety of graphics formats, directly supporting viewing
of Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) files, a pending vector graphics
standard for the Web, as well as a broad range of other popular raster
and vector file formats, including TIFF, GIF, EPSF, CALS (CCITT GP. 4),
Bitmap, Sun Raster, and JPEG formats. FIGleaf is configured as a Web
browser helper application. Helper applications, specified in Web
browsers' Options/Preferences area, the company claims are launched
when a browser encounters a format that it does not support natively.
Product:
LabVIEW
($2,995)
Company: National Instruments
(Austin, TX)
Telephone: (800) 433-3488, (512) 794-0100
Fax: (512) 794-8411
E-mail: info@natinst.com
URL: http://www.natinst.com
Platforms: Sun, HP-UX, Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, Power Macintosh
Description:
A graphical programming enviroment used to build data acquisition and
instrument control applications. With LabVIEW, engineers and scientists
build software modules called virtual instruments (VIs) instead of
writing text-based programs. LabVIEW 3.1 features new configuration
management tools that aid users building larger applications and call
dynamic link libraries (DLLs) and shared libraries directly.
Product:
LabWindows/CVI
($2,995)
Company: National Instruments
(Austin, TX)
Telephone: (800) 433-3488, (512) 794-0100
Fax: (512) 794-8411
E-mail: info@natinst.com
URL: http://www.natinst.com
Platforms: Sun, Windows, Windows NT
Description:
A visual programming environment used to design instrumentation
applications with C that run with Windows and Solaris. Includes an ANSI
C compiler, linker, debugger, variable trace display, and memory
checking capabilities. Specialized function libraries and new visual
development tools for creating, editing, and debugging event driven
programs save engineers and scientist time and money by automatically
genertaing code. Programs written with LabWindows/CVI for Sun run with
LabWindow/CVI for Windows and Windows NT.
Product:
Orbix
(From $999 on Windows 3.1 to $5,000 on Unix)
Company: IONA Technologies, Ltd.
(Boston, MA, and Dublin, Ireland.)
Telephone: (508) 460-6868 +353 1 6686522 (800) orbix4u
Fax: (508) 460-6099 +353 1 6686573
E-mail: info@iona.ie
URL: http://www.iona.ie
Platforms: Windows 3.1x, Windows NT, OS/2, Macintosh System 7.5*, Sun Solaris 2.x, Sun Solaris x86, SunOS 4.1.3, SCO Unix, HP-UX 9.x, Silicon Graphics Irix 5.x, IBM AIX 3.2.5, Digital Unix (formerly OSF/1), Digital Ultrix, Siemens-Nixdorf Sinix, Novell UnixWare 2.0 , OpenVMS AXP and the real-time operating systems VxWorks, QNX and LynxOS.
Description:
An implementation of the Object Management Group's Common Object
Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standard. Now available on 20
platforms enabling developers to create distributed objected-oriented
applications that communicate across multiple platforms following a
staightforward and standards-based model.
Product:
Photoshop 3.0 for Unix
(From $995)
Company: Adobe Systems Inc.
(Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (415) 961-4400 (800) 628-2320
Fax: (415) 961-3769
URL: http://www.adobe.com
Platforms: Sun SPARC/Solaris and Silicon Graphics
Description:
The new version of this photo design and production tool offers users
enhancements that provide stronger creative control, improved
production capabilities and a claimed friendlier user interface.
Multiple layers increase creative control by allowing users to
manipulate elements of an image on separate layers. Version 3.0 offers
users the ability to work cross-platform since the Unix, Macintosh, and
Windows versions of the product share a common feature set, user
interface, and set of file formats.
Product:
Rational Apex Ada 2.0
($22,000 (U.S.) on all platforms)
Company: Rational Software Corp.
(Santa Clara, CA)
Telephone: (408) 496-3600 or (800) RAT-1212
Fax: (408) 496-3636
E-mail: product_info@rational.com
URL: http://www.rational.com
Platforms: Digital, HP, IBM, and Sun
Description:
An integrated, interactive, software-engineering environment for
controlling the development of complex software systems. Rational Apex
Ada 2.0 incorporates code-generation technology that provides improved
code quality and shares a common set of runtime libraries with the VADS
family of cross-compilers. Rational Apex 2.0 also features significant
improvements in Ada and mixed-language debugging technology, including
the addition of debugging features.
Product:
Version Control System (VCS)
($1,000 per seat)
Company: Diamond Optimum Systems, Inc.
(Woodland Hills, CA)
Telephone: (800) 362-8271 (818) 224-2010
Fax: (818) 224-2009
E-mail: DiamondOS@aol.com
URL: http://www.DiamondOS.com
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2, IBM AIX, HP-UX, HP/3000, MS Windows, Macintosh, OS/2.
Description:
Release 4.5 of VCS uses the client/server technology to provide a
single point of control for software development and distribution
activities. Release 4.5 supports the Powersoft Corp. Powerbuilder
environment by providing automatic documentation, impact analysis,
version control, and distribution for the Powerbuilder libraries and
objects. VCS allows the users to view the change history for any file,
object, developer, project, release, and date as well as to compare
multiple releases and recover old versions if necessary.
Product:
WebTap (Hot Java applet)
(Free download from EBT (http://www.ebt.com), or via a link from Sun
(http://java.sun.com, select "The
Latest Cool Applets"))
Company: Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. (EBT)
(Providence, RI)
Telephone: (401) 421-9550
Fax: (401) 421-9551
E-mail: info@ebt.com
URL: http://www.ebt.com
Platforms: WebTap requires Sun's Hot Java 1.0 Alpha 3, which is currently available only for Solaris.
Description:
WebTap is a Hot Java applet developed by EBT that stress tests and
statistically analyzes World Wide Web servers. EBT created WebTap
to test its DynaWeb SGML-based, large-document Web server
software. WebTap can be directed to "tap" a Web server and
report back such data as response time (in bytes per second), document
download time, and processing time for document request. These features
enable developers to create benchmarks, in the form of quantitative
data, for Web server performance tuning. In addition, WebTap enables
"continuous tapping," a feature that can be used to
stress-test Web servers. WebTap can send out a user-defined barrage of
simultaneous requests every few seconds (cycles), and record cumulative
statistics as the Web server(s) respond. This feature simulates real
world occurrences of hits on high-volume Web servers, a heretofore
difficult scenario to recreate.
Product:
XRT/field
($995)
Company: KL Group Inc.
(Canada, Toronto.)
Telephone: (800) 663.4723, (416) 594-1026
Fax: (416)-594-1919
E-mail: info@klg.com
URL: http://www.klg.com/
Platforms: Alpha/OSF, Alpha/VMS, DECstation, DG AViiON, HP 9000 Series 700/800, IBM RS6000/AIX, QNX, SCO ODT, Silicon Graphics, Solaris 1 & 2, SVR4 on x86 (including UnixWare and Solaris) and VAX/VMS.
Description:
An integrated collection of widgets that will prompt users for a valid
value (based on an edit mask), validate the value as it is typed, do
automatic value completion if required, and finally convert the value
to an easy-to-use string, date, integer, or float.
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