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October 1995
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Product:
PowerLite 110 and 85 portable workstations
(PowerLite 110 starts at $12,995 and PowerLite 85 at $9,695)
Company: RDI Computer Corporation
(Carlsbad, CA)
Telephone: (619) 929-0992 or 1-800-RDI-LITE
E-mail: sales@rdi.com
URL: http://www.rdi.com
Platforms: Sun Solaris
Description:
The PowerLite models 110 and 85, with a 110MHz or 85MHz microSPARC II
microprocessor, respectively, are manufactured with the CPU, graphics,
SLAVIO, MACIO and OS supplied from Sun Microsystems. Standard features
in both models include a 1024 x 768, 800 x 600 or 640 x 480 10.4" color
active matrix LCD, TGX graphics acceleration, up to 128MB memory,
internal floppy drive, up to three 1.2GB hard disk drives for internal
disk capacity of 3.5GB, a 3-button 16mm trackball and full-sized Sun-4
or Sun-5 compatible keyboard, and a 14.4K fax modem in a compact
7.5-pound, 2.2 x 12.75 x 11.18 inch package. Options include PCMCIA
Type III and a Peripheral Expansion Unit with 2 SBus expansion slots,
increasing the hard disk capacity by up to 4GB.
Product:
SPARCengine 5 Model 110 Motherboard
($1900 in 100-piece quantities)
Company: Sun Microsystems Inc
(Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (408) 774-8119
Fax: (408) 773-8769
URL: http://www.sun.com/stb
Description:
Based on a 110 MHz RISC processor, the SPARCengine 5 Model 110 executes
78.6 SPECint92, 65.3 SPECfp92, and 140 (Drystone 1.1) MIPS in a
uniprocessor configuration. Targeted at embedded networking and
telecommunications applications, it features a 64-bit local bus
interface and power management to enable high-bandwidth I/O, fast
video-memory, and image-data transfer as well as 16-bit CD audio for
high-quality recording and playback within voice-processing and
multimedia applications. Interfaces to 10 Mbyte/second Fast SCSI,
10-Mbit/second Ethernet, parallel and serial interfaces, and floppy disk
are integrated to the motherboard. Three SBus slots with full
master/slave capability enable simple interfaces to hundreds of
expansion and networking products including Sun's PCMCIA, FDDI, ATM,
ISDN, and 100-Mbit Ethernet SBus cards and protocol software.
Product:
Tadpole P1000 Series Notebooks
Company: Tadpole Technology
(Austin, TX)
Telephone: (512) 219-2200
Fax: (512) 219-2222
URL: http://www.tadpole.com
Platforms: Solaris x86, Windows 95, LINUX, DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows NT, OS/2 Warp, OS/2 Warp Connect, NEXTSTEP
Description:
Solaris x86, Windows 95, and LINUX operating systems now run on
Tadpole's P1000 Series of ultra-high-performance notebook PCs. Tadpole
provides users of these high-end operating systems with installation
release notes and device driver software on its Worldwide Web home
page. The P1000 series includes the Tadpole P1300, based on the 133
MHz Pentium microprocessor; and the P1000, Tadpole's 100 MHz Pentium
processor, PCI-bus notebook PC.
Product: ArcView Version 2.1
($995)
Product:
Cygnus Developers Kit and VxWorks GNU development tools
Company: Cygnus Support
(Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (415) 903-1400
Fax: (415) 903-0122
E-mail: info@cygnus.com
URL: http://www.cygnus.com
Platforms: VxWorks on PowerPC, Motorola 68k, Intel i960, SPARC and AMD 29k
Description:
Wind River Systems selected Cygnus CDK C and C++ for its
VxWorks offerings. Cygnus maintains and supports GNU software
development tools.
Product:
ITEX-VIP Visual Itex Programmer
(From $5495)
Company: Imaging Technology, Inc.
(Bedform, MA)
Telephone: (617) 275-2700
Fax: (617) 275-9590
Platforms: Gui: Windows. Target systems: Windows, DOS, Solaris 1, Solaris 2, VxWorks, and OS/9
Description:
A point-and-click interface that can be used to
generate C code optimized for Imaging Technology's 40 MHz
pipeline vision processing hardware, the MVC 150/40. An application
can be viewed as a series of modules, connections, and timings. With
ITEX-VIP a developer graphically connects the inputs and outputs of
each acquisition, computation, memory and display module in their
systems and then sets the properties and operations for modules using
pop-up windows. Users can reconfigure hardware and/or software to
test-out new approaches to vision problems (automated machine
guidance, industrial inspection, biomedical image analysis, defense
applications, etc).
Product:
IX/92 and IX/Connect HP terminal emulator
($395 for IX/92; $245 for IX/Connect)
Company: Software Licensing Corp.
(Incline Village, NV)
Telephone: (800) 831-0882 (702) 832-0881
Fax: (702) 832-0883
Platforms: Solaris 1, Solaris 2, HP-UX, SCO
Description:
An HP terminal emulator and companion networking product.
This new release adds 40 new script language commands
and file transfer in ASCII or binary between HP3000 host and
the local UNIX system. With IX/Connect, users of IX/92
can make network connections to HP3000 computers using
HP's NS/VT network protocol.
Product:
LP Plus version 2.4
Company: Digital Controls Corporation
(Springboro, OH)
Telephone: (800) 274-1627
Platforms: Solaris 1, Solaris 2, AIX, HP-UX, DG-UX, Intel SVR4, SCO Unix
Description:
A software utility that provides mainframe-like features to Unix
printing. New network features includes centralized printer and queue
management that is transparent to users, direct addressing of terminal
servers, and real-time monitoring of remote and local systems. LP Plus
can print to and accept print requests from all network systems and
devices that support the LPD/LPR protocol.
Product:
MainWin Studio
(MainWin XDE $5000 single-user license,)
Company: Mainsoft Corporation
(Sunnyvale, CA)
Telephone: 800-MAINWIN (624-6946), (408) 774-3400
Fax: (408) 774-3404
E-mail: info@mainsoft.com
URL: http://www.mainsoft.com
Platforms: Solaris 1, Solaris 2 (SPARC and Intel), HP-UX, Digital Unix, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX, SCO Unix
Description:
Consists of MainWin eXtended Development Environment 2.0 (XDE),
MainWin Help, MainWin Test 3.0, and Visual SourceSafe for Unix 4.0. MainWin Studio is designed to be a single
answer for all the challenges of cross platform development: a single souce
code base for Windows multiple Unix platforms, a single set of test scripts,
one version control system, unified documentation and a single set of help
files.
Product:
NetLOCK secure network communications software
Company: Hughes Aircraft Company
(Fullerton, CA)
Telephone: (714) 732-2224
Fax: (714) 732-4155
Platforms: Sun, HP and UnixWare
Description:
A software-only solution designed to protect the privacy of sensitive data,
including EDI transactions across the Internet and other public
networks. It provides end system authentication, integrity, and DES
encryption of all data on the network. NetLOCK's patended automatic
operation provides complete user transparency without modification of
application software. Available for LAN Workplace in November, Macintosh
System 7 in December, and Windows 3.1 and NetWare platforms in January,
1996.
Product:
OneServer Software
(Starts around $50,000.)
Company: CONNECT, Inc.
(Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (415) 254-4000 (800) 262-2638
Fax: (415) 254-4800
E-mail: info@connectinc.com
URL: http://www.connectinc.com
Platforms: Sun
Description:
OneServer, Internet server software, provides administration and management capabilities for both systems and
applications content and includes advanced functionality for targeted,
one-to-one marketing. Other features include usage
tracking, access control, and three integrated search mechanisms:
textual, relational, and hierarchical. CONNECT also offers professional services to help with site design.
Product:
PEEK
($200 to $2000 based on number of PEEKable Users)
Company: Computronics
(Addison, IL)
Fax: (708) 941-7714
E-mail: info@computron.com
Platforms: SunOS4, Solaris2, DG/UX, Ultrix, OSF/1, Motorola, AIX, HP-UX, MIPS, IRIX and DYNIX
Description:
Train/demo by displaying the same screen on multiple terminals. Data
in the current buffers is displayed to
allow diagnosis of problems after they have occurred. POKE Mode lets the
operator type anything on behalf of another user. Supports any logged
in user (except graphical X-Windows users).
Product:
Quick Restore V2 network backup and recovery
Company: Workstation Solution, Inc.
(Amherst, NH)
Telephone: (603) 880-0080
Fax: (603) 880-0696
Platforms: Sun, HP, IBM, ATT, Digital, SCO, Apollo, SGI
Description:
Distributed computing software that enables automation of backup
and restore functions
for heterogeneous Unix computing environments. Includes
support for industry standard tape formats, unattended 'lights-out'
operation, seamless integration with robotic media handlers,
and support for 4mm, 8mm, and DLT tape formats
Product:
STW/Coverage 3.0 application development/test tool
($4125 for single license)
Company: Software Research, Inc.
(San Francisco, CA)
Telephone: (800) 942-SOFT (415) 957-1441
Fax: (415) 957-0730
E-mail: info@soft.com
Platforms: Solaris 1, Solaris 2, HP-UX, AIX, Digital Unix, IRIX
Description:
A next-generation product intended for developers and testers
working on host-based, client/server, and embedded-product
environments. Using recursive descent compiler technology, STW/Coverage 3.0
handles all standard constructs and the latest language enhancements
to C and C++ and has the ability to do branch and call pair
coverage in a single test run. It also provides users with
multiple ways to look at coverage results through a variety of
textual, graphical, and tabular reports.
It is part of the integrated TestWorks multi-platform suite
of coverage testing tools, and is also available for Ada,
COBOL, and FORTRAN.
Product:
Sysmaster for Unix (systems monitoring and management)
Company: LOAN SYSTEM
(France (FTPO agent in Chicago, IL))
Telephone: (312) 222-1235
Fax: (312) 222-1237
Platforms: AIX, HP-UX, Solaris 1, Solaris 2, AT&T SVr4
Description:
An administration package for heterogeneous networks.
The Resource Manager provides features
for real-time monitoring of more than 100 system parameters
of Unix servers and workstations and the Event Manager monitors
critical server events and stores a complete history
of alerts that can be consulted by type, date, or priority.
Product:
VCL-V VMEbus graphics board
Company: Peritek Corporation
(Oakland, CA)
Telephone: (510) 531-6500
Fax: (510) 530-8563
Platforms: VME systems; Solaris 1, Solaris 2, OSF/1, Motorola's Unix, LynxOS, pSOS+, and OS-9
Description:
This highly integrated VME board drives high-resolution analog and
digital displays with 8-bit or 24-bit resolution. With hardware
accelerated drawing features like VBLT and VFILL, writing speeds of up
to 160 Mpixels/second can be achieved. On-board intelligence allows it to
function with a resident X11R6 server or to run customer-developed,
board-side applications. Other features: supports digital flat panels
up to 1280 by 1024; 24-bit true color up to 1600 by 1280; 10 bit DACs;
independent overlays; flexible video generator allowing connections to
most current and older analog and digital displays.
Product:
VRML Explorer, by Tim Wegner
($54.99)
Company: The Coriolis Group
(Scottsdale, AZ)
Telephone: (602) 483-0192
Fax: (602) 483-0193
Description:
The Coriolis Group has teamed up with Tim Wegner, graphics expert,
developer of popular imaging software POV-Ray and Fractint, and creator of
the new PNG graphics format to produce an
in-depth book on VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling
Language). This book not only acts as a reference and
tutorial for learning VRML, but it provides a highly conceptual
presentation on creating 3D worlds. The book will feature the VRML 1.1
language specification along with techniques on adding VRML to World
Wide Web pages, programming VRML applications, using powerful VRML
tools, and creating interactive 3D scenes. Available in January
1996.(ISBN: 1-883577-74-8)
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