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September 1995
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New or updated products for advanced systems computing.
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September 1995
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Product:
Practical C++ Programming by Steve Oualline
($29.95)
Product:
Fiber Optic Media Converter
(Model 371 - $299; Model 370 - $220)
Company: Telebyte Technology, Inc.
(Greenlawn, NY)
Telephone: (800) TELEBYT
Fax: (516) 385-8184
E-mail: Sales@TelebyteUSA.com
Description:
These
LAN Spreaders allow the user to deploy Ethernet segments longer than 100
meters to enable communication with remote workstations or
server-to-server communications links. These devices promise
protection from electrical interference and surges. Models 370
and 371 operate transparently to Ethernet LANs. They are
plug-and-play additions and do not require any software.
Product:
NPI-PCI Adapter
(From $795)
Company: Network Peripherals Inc.
(Milpitas, CA)
Telephone: (408) 321-7300
Fax: (408) 321-9218
Platforms: All popular system bus architectures including EISA, ISA, SBus, MCA, PCI
Description:
This adapter allows workgroup servers to connect to a 100-Mbps FDDI
workgroup backbone through the PCI
bus (up to 133 MBps) over copper (CDDI) or fiber FDDI networks. The PCI adapters support
the need for high performance bus structures and high-speed networks to
handle such processor- and data-intensive applications as graphics,
voice, and video operations. The company claims independent tests demonstrated that the
NPI-PCI adapter can sustain a transfer rate up to 90 Mbps, an increase
of at least 30 percent over EISA, ISA or MCA FDDI adapters, with server
CPU utilization as low as eight percent.
Product:
PowerSwitch for Unix
($6,000 approx.)
Company: APCON
(Wilsonville, Oregon)
Telephone: (503) 685-9300
Fax: (503) 685-9099
E-mail: info@apcon.com
URL: http://www.apcon.com
Platforms: available on all operating systems, newest version for Unix/Sun
Description:
APCON's PowerSwitch for Unix provides fault tolerance failover for all Unix
based servers. The PowerSwitch is designed to
eliminate network downtime due to server failure.
Product:
LOOK!
(2,000 UK Pounds per seat, volume discounts available.)
Company: Objective Software Technology
(Winchester, UK)
Telephone: +44 1962-877907
Fax: +44 1962-877908
E-mail: info@ost.co.uk
URL: http://www.scotnet.co.uk/ost/
Platforms: SunOS, Solaris, AIX, Win 16, Win 32
Description:
LOOK! parses C++ executables and can reconstitute animated object
diagrams, playing them alongside your application as it executes. The
result is a C++ exploration and debugging environment in which
you can see your objects communicate as your application
progresses.
Product:
MO-SOL for Solaris 2
($450 U.S.,$650 CDN)
Company: INSTAR Corporation
(Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Telephone: (403) 264-7274
Fax: (403) 264-7286
Platforms: Supported optical disk drives include HP 171hT, Sony F531, Olympus MOS525E, IBM 0632, MaxOptix Tahiti III, Panasonic 7030, and many more.
Description:
MO-SOL Version 5 is a SPARC Solaris 2.x and SunOS
software interface package for optical disk drives using erasable
media (3.5", 5.25" and 12"). MO-SOL treats the optical disk drive
as a standard Sun hard disk drive promising access to gigabytes of information
through a single host computer. MO-SOL supports all Sun disk drive interfaces
and is bootable.
Product:
PDO
Company: NeXT Computer, Inc.
(Redwood City, CA)
Telephone: (415) 366-0900
Fax: (415) 780-3714
URL: http://www.next.com
Platforms: Solaris, HP-UX, Digital Unix, Windows NT
Description:
The distributed object model at the heart of OpenStep will become
CORBA-compliant, providing a single universal Object Request Broker
that allows seamless interoperability between OpenStep, OLE/COM, and
CORBA objects. PDO is the ORB used universally throughout NeXT's
object software. It is embedded inside NEXTSTEP and OpenStep, and it is
packaged separately to run on operating systems such as
Solaris, HP-UX, Digital Unix, and Windows NT.
Product:
PKZIP Unix
Company: Ascent Solutions Inc. (ASi)
(Dayton Ohio)
Telephone: (513) 885-2031
Fax: (513) 885-2032
E-mail: support@asizip.com
Platforms: SunOS, Solaris, most other platforms
Description:
Data compression for Unix platforms, PKZIP features 2-way
exchangability between the DOS, Windows, and Macintosh versions of PKZip,
which the company also produces and licenses.
Product:
PureDDTS 3.2
($950 per license, with a minimum purchase of ten licenses.)
Company: Pure Software Inc.
(Sunnyvale, CA)
Telephone: (408) 720-1600
Fax: (408) 720-9200
E-mail: info@pure.com
URL: http://www.mnl.com/pure/
Platforms: Solaris, Sun OS, HP-UX, AIX
Description:
PureDDTS is designed for development and quality assurance professionals to
measure product quality by tracking the product's known defects. PureDDTS 3.2
includes a SQL database, offering users a standard way to store and access
data. It also includes an SQL interface to support
Oracle relational databases.
Product:
Tornado
Company: Wind River Systems, Inc.
(Alameda, CA)
Telephone: (800) 545-WIND (9463), (510) 748-4100
Fax: (510) 814-2010
E-mail: inquiries@wrs.com
URL: http://www.wrs.com
Platforms: Hosts: SunOS & Solaris, HPUX Windows 95 and NT
Description:
A development and execution environment for embedded
and real-time applications, Tornado consists of three integrated
components: The Tornado suite of tools, a set of
cross-development tools and utilities on both the host and the target.
The VxWorks run-time system, a scalable, real-time
operating system which executes on the target processor. Plus, a full
range of communications software options such as Ethernet, serial line,
ICE, or ROM emulator for the target connection to the host.
Product:
WinDD 1.1
(From $3495 for one server with a 10-user license)
Company: Tektronix
(Wilsonville, OR)
Telephone: (800) 547-8949
URL: http://www.tek.com
Platforms: X terminals; workstations . Other X Window desktop systems.
Description:
Based on Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5, WinDD allows Unix platform
users to access Microsoft Windows 3.x applications running in native
mode on a PC application server with 486-class or better performance.
The same capability will soon be offered for Windows 95 applications.
WinDD 1.1 offers better links between Windows and Unix data by allowing
users to take advantage of the Network File System (NFS).
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