The following announcement was made today, 4/5/89:
 
SUN WORKSTATIONS USED ON DEALING FLOOR BY SWISS BANK
Network Runs Advanced Micrognosis Software 
 
LONDON--April 5, 1989-- One of the most advanced electronic securities
dealing floors in the world just went live at Swiss Bank Corporation in
London.  Micrognosis, a major systems integrator for dealing rooms,
designed and installed Swiss Bank's new trading room, which includes
more than 250 Sun386i(TM) workstations and sophisticated Micrognosis
software.  This is the world's first dealing floor integrating digital
and video information from several external and internal sources
displayed on a single trader's workstation.

"Traders need access to both digital and video information from several
sources, as well as to applications written under UNIX(R), MS DOS, and
other back-office systems.  Micrognosis' software combined with Sun386i
workstations uniquely integrates these capabilities at the trader's
desktop," according to Gary Little, manager of financial services
marketing at Sun.

The networked Sun386i workstations have been linked to a variety of
in-house systems and external information providers via Ethernet using
the industry-standard TCP/IP and Micrognosis' powerful Data
Distribution System protocols.  Other in-house information systems are
connected to the Sun workstations via IEEE 803.5 token ring protocol.

Telerate, Reuters, Topicline, composite pages and PEDS can be accessed
on multiple windows in a single, 16-inch video monitor.  Dealers can
also cut, zoom and pan standard pages within the windows.  If more than
one screen is required at the dealing station, up to four slave
monitors can be attached, all under the control of the workstation's
keyboard.

Sun workstations are moving rapidly into the financial services
industry because of their price/performance advantages, advanced
networking and use of industry standards.  According to Craig Abbott,
chief operating officer of Swiss Bank, "We chose Sun Microsystems
technology partly because their products are able to leverage the
maximum benefits from our existing computer systems."

Sun Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a
leading worldwide supplier of network-based distributed computing
systems, including professional workstations, servers and UNIX
operating system and productivity software.

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