The following announcement was made today, 7/19/89, by AT&T:


	Morristown, NJ -- AT&T and Sun Microsystems today said that
AT&T will incorporate Sun's scalable font technology into AT&T's
UNIX(R)  System V Release 4.0.

	Sun's technology, called OpenFonts(TM), allows software
developers to provide users with a wide choice of typefaces in which to
display their applications.  Thus users have more freedom to tailor
applications to their liking by having access to a variety of
typefonts.

	OpenFonts, when integrated with the OPEN LOOK(TM) graphical
user interface, will provide scalable fonts for use by OPEN LOOK
applications, greatly enhancing the variety of font styles and sizes
available to application developers.

	"Having a wide variety of outline fonts in a non-proprietary,
common format is a big win for electronic publishing, imaging and
office automation applications," said Mike DeFazio, director of system
software at AT&T's UNIX Software Operation.  "It illustrates again that
UNIX System V is the open systems platform of choice for advanced
computing environments today and tomorrow."

	A number of leading typeface vendors -- Linotype, Monotype,
Berthold, ITC and Bigelow & Holmes among them -- have agreed to make
more than 700 trademarked fonts available in the OpenFonts format.

	Sun introduced OpenFonts last March and announced plans to
license the technology to type suppliers, application manufacturers and
device manufacturers.  OpenFonts software generates high-quality
bitmaps for raster screen displays, laser printers and imagesetters.
Sun will provide a core set of 57 scalable fonts in X11/NeWS(TM)
windowing system.

	By incorporating OpenFonts scalable font technology into AT&T's
UNIX  System V Release 4.0, AT&T allows choice of fonts from a wide
variety of suppliers, without the compatibility problems users have
faced in the past.

	AT&T's UNIX System V Release 4.0 is scheduled for release this
fall.

	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.

	AT&T's UNIX Software Operation, headquartered in Morristown,
NJ, is a leading supplier of open systems software, including the UNIX
System V operating system, to industry vendors.  The UNIX Software
Operation is part of AT&T's Data Systems Group.

Press Contact:
Cindee Mock 
(Sun Microsystems)
415-336-3563 (office)