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	   MATHSOFT INTRODUCES UNIX VERSION OF MATHCAD SOFTWARE
   
SunFLASH Vol 19 #2					 	July 1990 
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Advanced Mathematics Software Now Available for Growing UNIX Platform

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--May 10,1990--MathSoft, Inc., a leading developer of
mathematical software, today introduced a UNIX version of its MathCAD
advanced mathematics software for Sun Microsystems workstations.  This
addition to MathCAD's existing PC and Macintosh product family provides
the growing number of thechnical professionals using UNIX-based
workstations with a powerful, yet easy to use, mathematics software
solution.  UNIX MathCAD  is currently available for the Sun
Microsystems Sun-3, Sun-4 and SPARCstation workstations.

"Sun UNIX is rapidly becoming the platform of choice for a variety of
general applications, as evidenced by the recent wave of UNIX versions
of popular PC software packages," said Julie Sall, MathSoft's MathCAD
product manager.  "According to Sun Microsystems, more than 50 percent
of Sun workstations are used for scientific andengineering
applications, and we expect UNIX MathCAD to gain rapid acceptance in
that marketplace."

MathCAD has been the industry standard for mathematical analysis on
desktop computers since it was first introduced on the PC in 1986.  In
1989, MathSoft introduced a Macintosh version of MathCAD to meet the
growing demand for mathematical software on that hardware platform.
Today, MathCAD has more than 90,000 PC and Macintosh users worldwide.

The UNIX version of MathCAD offers all the functionality of the PC and
Macintosh versions, yet takes advantageof the speed, memory and
graphical user interface of Sun workstations.  The program will
calculate documents faster with virtually no memory limitations, and
can handle matrices of up to one million elements.  Using UNIX MathCAD
on a Sun SPARCstation, the average speed of a calculation is
approximately two times faster than the same calculation on a 386
16-MHz machine with a co-processor.

"Mathematics is an important data analysis application area for may Sun
users in engineering, scientific and  business markets," say Catherine
Seliger, Sun's Market Segment Manager for Data Analysis/Decision
Support. "With UNIX MathCAD ported to Sun, our users now have access to
one of the industry's leading, low-priced  mathematics solutions."A
significant benefit of UNIX MathCAD is its complete file compatibility
with existing MathCAD hardware platforms. Now users can access and work
with MathCADfiles created on a PC or Macintosh on their Sun
workstations.

This development addresses technical professionals' need to move across
platforms.  In addition, most keystrokes and file commands are
identical to the PC version, so current MathCAD users will be up and
running on UNIX MathCAD immediately.

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