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	PRIME SIGNS $200 MILLION AGREEMENT WITH SUN
		TO RESELL SPARC WORKSTATIONS
 
 
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --October 24, 1989-- Sun Microsystems announced
today that Prime Computer has signed a two-year, $200 million agreement
under which it will resell Sun's SPARC(TM) workstations and servers.
Prime will offer the Sun systems with its industry-leading CADDS(TM)
software as well as its Medusa, THEDA and GIS software.  The Sun/Prime
solution is aimed at the computer-aided engineering, design and
manufacturing (CAE/CAD/CAM) as well as the computer-integrated
manufacturing (CIM) marketplaces.  Prime has selected SPARC as its
principal RISC architecture for all Prime workstations and servers.

"We believe that Sun's SPARC technology is fast becoming the industry's
top RISC solution," said Robert A. Fischer, Prime's corporate vice
president of marketing and business development.  "We looked at other
RISC alternatives, but SPARC was clearly our number one choice because
of its scalability, superior system and application software offerings
and leadership position in the market."

Sun and Prime have a long-time relationship that began when
Computervision -- now a division of the $1.6 billion Prime Computer --
became one of Sun's first resellers.  Prime has remained one of Sun's
largest partners.  Its CADDS software is sold exclusively on Sun
workstations.  Besides reselling SPARC workstations from Sun, the
company plans to license the SPARC achitecture for possible use in
future systems it will develop.

Prime is one of many large vendors that have licensed SPARC or will
resell SPARC systems from Sun.  The current installed base of SPARC
computers is 30,000, a number that is expected to triple this year.  In
addition, SPARC system developers are now designing a range of
machines.  These systems can take advantage of the industry's largest
selection of third-party RISC software, called SPARCware(TM).  Already
more than 1,100 applications have been verified by Sun as being SPARC
compatible.

Prime Computer, Inc., with headquarters in Natick, Mass., supplies
integrated solutions to the international manufacturing, government,
financial services, education and scientific marketplaces.  It is the
world's second largest supplier of CAE/CAD/CAM 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(TM)
operating system and productivity software.

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Computervision, a division of Prime Computer Inc.  All other products
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