-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SunFLASH April 1990 Table Of Contents SunFLASH Vol 16 #toc April 1990 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the April TOC for SunFlash. If there are any items that you missed and really want to see, please send email directly to me at flash@sunvice.east.Sun.COM. If the demand for back issues justifies the effort, I will install a program to service such requests automatically. -johnj PR: Press Release An 'official' Sun Press Release STB: Software Technical Bulletin A magazine for Customers who have purchased Sun Software Support TOC: Table Of Contents Of popular Sun/UNIX magazines -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.01 New 669Mb Disks and 8mm Tape options o Increased mass storage capacity, o 669-Mbyte SCSI disk o Better backup capabilities, and o 2.3-Gbyte 8mm backup tape drive o Easier storage configurability for desktop systems. o New prices on Disk and Memory options. $1000 Per Megabyte 16.02 Some SPARC Articles - VLSI, HYUNDAI, METAFLOW PLAN LIGHTNING 80 MIPS SUPER-SPARC - TATUNG, SOLBOURNE TO DO BATTLE OVER LOW-END SPARC GROUND - Cypress Semiconductor Corp, to develop 80 MIPS dual processor 16.03 Workstation Market Share Figures Attached are the recent numbers from the IDC 1989 workstation marketshare report indicating that Sun is the #1 vendor with a 36.3% marketshare of shipments and 31.7% marketshare of revenues of worldwide workstation/server U.S. based vendors, Calendar l989. 16.04 Sun User Group Call For Papers The Sun User Group annual conference this year will again include a track of technical presentations from the USER community and will make available a conference proceedings. Authors are invited to submit papers describing advanced work using Sun technology. 16.05 PCNFS 3.0.1 Release Notes This version of PC-NFS has been shipping for some time now, but many people have not upgraded. Also, this article also containts some useful information on 3rd party terminal emulators that work with PC-NFS and some memory management solutions - johnj 16.06 Some Information Sources Where to get 'good stuff' on the net. 16.07 DevGuide Shipping DESCRIPTION of OpenWindows Developer's Guide (Devguide) TARGET AUDIENCE who should be interested in this product SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS what must you have to use Devguide ORDERING INFORMATION how to order Devguide 16.08 DeskSet Environment for SunView Now Shipping Market acceptance of OPEN LOOK is growing. In order to support this momentum, Sun has released the DeskSet for Sunview to complement the DeskSet version already shipping with OpenWindows. This product is intended to support end-user migration from SunView to OpenWindows by providing OPEN LOOK ease-of-use to our 4MB machines. Over time, we anticipate that most customers will migrate to 8MB machines running OpenWindows. DeskSet for Sunview will help ease this transition. 16.09 Data Analysis Solutions Portfolio Description of the contents of this new solutions portfolio. 16.10 PR: Sun & PICK Sun is becomming very active in the PICK-based solutions world. 16.11 PR: McDonnell Douglas SPARC based PICK McDonnell Douglas has developed a SPARC based PICK server. A prototype is being shown at the International Spectrum '90 show, being held in Anaheim on April 11-13. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sunflash is an electronic mail news service from Sun Microsystems, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. It is targeted at Sun Users and Customers. As a field sales and support office, we try to keep SunFlash useful and interesting to you. If you have any comments or suggestions for enhancing SunFlash, please send them to us. SunFlash is ditributed via a hierarchy of aliases. Please try to address change requests to the owner of the alias that you belong to. Please address comments to the SunFlash editor John McLaughlin (sun!sunvice!flash or flash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM). (305) 776-7770.