sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash The Florida SunFlash Monthly Digest November 1993 SunFLASH Vol 59 #00 November 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 59.00 The Florida SunFlash Monthly Digest November 1993 This article contains information about the Florida SunFlash mailing list and a brief summary of each of the articles posted during November, 1993. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 59.00.A November's Articles - 1 line Summary - for those who don't want to read the longer summary 59.00.B Information About SunFlash - how to use the automatic email alias to obtain a long description about SunFlash 59.00.C SunFlash Archive Sites and Locations - locations of a number of ftp sites that store the month-by-month SunFlash archives 59.00.D Obtaining Back Issues By Email - how to get back issues by sending volume and part number to and email address 59.00.E SunFlash Aliases - how mail aliases are used to distribute SunFlash. Local exploder aliases 59.00.F November's Articles - 2 to 5 line Summary - abstract of each article This monthy digest article and the article by article abstracts are designed to help you quickly scan the large amount of information that I post to SunFlash. Please send email to flash@sun.com and tell me what you think of these changes. Your comments (good and bad) will be appreciated! John J. McLaughlin SunFlash Editor Ft. 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Announces Interleaf 6 59.06.F The Bristol Group Announces IsoFax/Win; Unix Fax For PC Clients 59.07 Upcomming Conferences 59.07.A 1994 SunSoft Solaris Developer Conference 59.07.B Sun's Internationalization / Localization Conference 59.08 Solaris Software Developer`s Kit 59.09 HOT OFF THE PRESS 59.10 SunLink PPP 2.0 59.11 New Low Emission 20-in. Premium Color Monitor 59.12 New 20-inch Grayscale Monitor 59.13 Plan for Removing SimplifySQL off the Price List 59.14 Sunergy Newsletter #12, November 1993 part 1 of 2 59.14.A Sunergy Newsletter #12, November 1993 59.14.B Broadcast Summary 59.14.C Upcoming Broadcast 59.14.D Tips -N- Tricks 59.14.E WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) 59.15 Sunergy Newsletter #12, November 1993 part 2 of 2 59.15.F Network Computing: The Network Is STILL the Computer 59.15.G Sun Solutions Announcement 59.15.H Sunergy Sign-up Form 59.16 Sun User Group Announces Keynote Speakers For SUG-West '93 59.17 Join the SunPro SIG today 59.18 October 1993 Sun Technical Bulletin (STB) 59.18 October 1993 STB 59.18.A STB Editor's Introduction 59.18.B October 1993 STB Contents 59.19 Sun User Group WEST: Conference & Exhibition December 6-9, 1993 59.19.A Sun User Group WEST: Conference & Exhibition December 6-9, 1993 59.19.B Tutorials 59.19.C TECHNICAL SESSIONS 59.19.D HOTEL INFORMATION 59.19.E Registration Form 59.20 Free NeWSprint 2.5 Upgrade Extended 59.21 Sunergy Satellite Broadcast #8 - January 11, 1994 59.22 Sun Completes Installation of Nerve Center for World Cup IS 59.23 Aggregate Computing: Seminar Notice & Technical Newsletter 59.23.A Educational Seminar from Aggregate Computing 59.23.B Distributed Directions - The Distributed Computing Newsletter 59.24 Third Party Announcements 59.24.A Book: SOLARIS ADVANCED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE by Janice Winsor 59.24.B CERAM's TurboCard RAM disk & Verilog-XL 59.24.C GNN Makes SEC EDGAR Database Available via Internet 59.24.D Software through Pictures/Object Modeling Technique Now Shipping 59.25 NEW SPARCcenter 2000 and SPARCserver 1000 CONFIGURATIONS AND PRICING 59.26 Third Party Announcements 59.26.A Accelr8 product description 59.26.B THE ASK GROUP UNVEILS NEXT-GENERATION DEVELOPMENT TOOLS 59.26.C SCREENPLAY 2.0 for Solaris Now Available 59.27 Third Party Announcements 59.27.A Impact Releases High Speed FFT SBus Board for Sun Workstations 59.27.B Translation Tool for Sun OPEN LOOK 59.27.C Book: O'Reilly's Migrating to Fortran 90 59.27.D Book: O'Reilly's Learning perl 59.27.E Book: O'Reilly's Sendmail 59.27.F Book: O'Reilly's DCE/NT Book 59.27.G Contacting O'Reilly 59.28 HOT OFF THE PRESS 59.29 SUNSOFT AND NeXT PARTNER TO DRIVE VOLUME OBJECT STANDARD 59.30 SunSoft Announces Technology Partnership with NeXT 59.31 Third Party Announcements 59.31.A SBus Interphase Network CoProcessor 59.31.B CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 Announcement 59.31.C Free Evaluation Copies of CRUSHER, The Compressed File System 59.31.D Network Layout Assistant Version 1.1 59.31.E SBus Product Directory -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 59.00.B Information About SunFlash An automatic email reply that describes SunFlash in great detail can be obtained by sending mail to sunflash-info@sun.com (or info-sunflash@sun.com). Included in this reply will be: o An article that describes SunFlash o A list of SunFlash distributors by Geography o A recent SunFlash table of contents article (such as this one) o One line titles for some of the most recent articles Requests to be added should be directed to your local Sun office or sunflash-request@sun.com. Please feel free to pass this information on to other Sun users. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 59.00.C SunFlash Archives I archive SunFlash onto a number of ftp servers. Each volume (or month) is stored as a compressed tar file. When uncompress and un-tar-ed, a directory of the form xx.mmm (e.g. 49.jan) is created with files, one per article (e.g. 49.01.ppp). For each month, I produce a "table of contents" article, such as this one. It is called xx.00.toc. The toc article is also called the Monthly Digest. 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At the start of each SunFlash message you should find a couple of lines that show the name of the alias that I am actually posting to and the email address of the administrator who can make changes to that alias. (Note: some mail-relaying and mail-to-newsgroup programs remove these lines.) sunflash-Distributed to mailing list ALIAS_NAME sunflash-Send requests and problem reports to ALIAS_ADMIN_NAME Please direct requests to be deleted, changed etc. to the address listed after the "sunflash-Send" header line in your mail. DO not send mail to the whole mailing list as listed in the sunflash-Distributed line. You could be sending your message to many thousands of people, dozens of whom will send you email saying "Don't send messages like that to the whole mailing list"! I have recently reorganised many of the sub mailing lists that I use. 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This will cause all errors and replies to go to that email address instead of mine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 59.00.F November's Articles - 2 to 5 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 59.01 Third Party Announcements (2 articles 416 lines) 59.01.A Montage Announces powerful object-relational DBMS The Montage database system extends the widely-accepted relational database model, enabling users to store, manage and analyze complex data such as audio, video and images in a single database with traditional text and numbers, using industry-standard structured query language (SQL). 59.01.B Tivoli Systems Announces New Distributed Systems Management Software, Platforms, and Customer Relationships Makes $1 Million Sales of Tivoli Management Environment to GTE Telephone Operations and Motorola Business Unit 59.02 Third Party Announcements (5 articles 591 lines) 59.02.A GigaStak interlocking 'lego-style' SCSI enclosures Artecon announces a completely new family of mass storage subsystems based on innovative enclosure technology. 59.02.B Artecon Unveils Rackmount Options For Desktop SPARCs The "Sphinx" enclosures enable the use of standard desktop SPARCstations in 19" racks 59.02.C Cray Attached Parallel Processor (APP) brief Cray Research Superservers, Inc is marketing a parallel computer system called the Cray APP. It is design to provide intensive compute support for parallel applications in the standard network environment. The APP provides over 6,700 MFLOPS of performance per module. It provides an easy-to-use user interface in a SPARC compliant front-end running Solaris. The SPARC front end provides network, user and file system interfaces. 59.02.D SPRY Internet applications (AIR Navigator) AIR Navigator is a suite of easy-to-use Internet access applications. These applications will run over any TCP/IP transport which is made possible by SPRY's Application to Socket (APP2SOCK) public interface. 59.02.E SPRY LAUNCHES AIR SERIES 2.0 SPRY announces its next generation release of Windows TCP/IP connectivity applications. The new release, AIRSeries 2.0, is the first suite of transport-independent Windows connectivity applications that ensure future compatibility and interoperability with all TCP/IP transports. The AIR Series ships with the industry standard TCP/IP transports from Novell and Microsoft providing native ODI and NDIS support. 59.03 SunSelect and Wall Data Announce OEM Relationship Wall Data Incorporated announced that it has signed an OEM agreement with the SunSelect business unit of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, SunSelect will market RUMBA for PC-NFS, a version of Wall Data's Windows-based connectivity software designed specifically for PC-NFS users. (98 lines) 59.04 SunConnect, SunNetworks Provide Services for McCaw SunConnect and SunNetworks today announced they have been chosen by McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. to provide the network management and integration services for its Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) network-a key component critical to McCaw's customer service mission. CDPD is an open specification designed to enable customers to send computer data over an enhanced cellular-based packet data network. (162 lines) 59.05 SPARCstation 10SX 24-bit Color Imaging and 2-D/3-D Graphics - New to the SPARCstation graphics family, SPARCstation 10SX at AGGRESSIVE introductory pricing - Revolutionary SPARCstation 10SX systems with integrated 24-bit color, image processing, and 2-D/3-D graphics acceleration - SPARCstation 10SX provides unprecedented 24-bit imaging and image processing on the desktop. SX graphics offers acceleration for imaging functions such as panning, zooming, rotating and convolution of images, as well as accelerating color space conversion - New lower entry price for 24-bit true color, Z-buffering, 3-D graphics! SPARCstation 10SX also provides 2-D graphics at GX performance and 24-bit Gouraud Z-buffered graphics at higher performance than GS - Other SPARCstation 10 product line changes: Removal of SPARCstation 10 Model 51 64-MB configurations off the price list (441 lines) 59.06 Third Party Announcements (6 articles 535 lines) 59.06.A TERMSIM Terminal Simulator TERMSIM works by allowing the actions of end-users to be simulated. Commands are sent and responses received under the control of a sophisticated scripting language. Complex end-user (or operator) tasks can be described in a script program so that they may be then repeated on command. 59.06.B Translation Tool for Sun: Open Look to COSE: ACCENT STP version 2.0 National Information Systems, Inc. (NIS), announced ACCENT STP version 2.0, an OPEN LOOK to Motif source code translator for Sun Microsystems-based developers who plan to migrate their applications to Motif and the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), a technology of the Common Open Software Environment(COSE). 59.06.C O'Reilly lowers price on book: The X Window System in a Nutshell It contains essential information in a boiled-down quick-reference format that makes it easy to find the answers needed most often. 59.06.D High speed DSP on Sun workstations Impact Technologies has released SunSpot916, a SBus based card for digital signal processing (DSP). Applications for the card include medical imaging, multimedia, video/audio processing and enhancement, industrial control, radar/sonar processing, financial modeling, seismic processing, etc. 59.06.E Interleaf, Inc. Announces Interleaf 6 Next generation of document software, providing new workgroup capabilities for knowledge workers and dedicated document professionals, as well as for managers of information systems. 59.06.F The Bristol Group Announces IsoFax/Win; Unix Fax For PC Clients fax software solution providing the reliability of Unix fax services to PC clients running WinFax PRO 59.07 Upcomming Conferences (2 articles 204 lines) 59.07.A 1994 SunSoft Solaris Developer Conference April 19-21, 1994 San Jose Convention Center San Jose, CA USA 59.07.B Sun's Internationalization / Localization Conference November 10-12, 1993 Hyatt Regency, Burlingame, CA 59.08 Solaris Software Developer`s Kit Consolidates Solaris developer software, tools, and online documentation onto one CD. Includes demos and sample code. Includes information on training, support, and third party developer tools available for Solaris. (348 lines 59.09 HOT OFF THE PRESS Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation's Public Relations' newsletter. Statistics about Sun and its market and news from the Sun 'planets'. The editor of "HOT OFF THE PRESS" (HOTP) has asked for your comments. What do you like/dislike about HOTP ? Would you rather have a well-formatted, graphic 'newsletter' version (in PostScript) or this plain ASCII ? Both ? Do you forward HOTP (or parts of it) to colleagues ? Are you sometimes surprised by the facts presented (e.g. competitive market share data) ? Do you think it appropriate to post HOTP to SunFlash or should it have its own mailing list ? Please send your comments to me (flash@sun.com) and I will forward them to the HOTP editor. Thanks! -johnj (620 lines) 59.10 SunLink PPP 2.0 - Supports Solaris 2.2 and above - Provides transparent interconnection for TCP/IP Local Area Networks using synchronous Point-to-Point links - Optimises available bandwith, by distributing traffic between ports in a load sharing configuration - User-friendly graphical user interface for configuration - Includes a SunNet Manager agent (111 lines) 59.11 New Low Emission 20-in. Premium Color Monitor Sun's flagship color monitor: a new 20-in.display with industry leading low emissions, high performance, compact/distinctive design (203 lines) 59.12 New 20-inch Grayscale Monitor Sun introduces a new 20-in. grayscale display capable of running at industry-standard 1280 x 1024 @ 76 Hz resolution (126 lines) 59.13 Plan for Removing SimplifySQL off the Price List SimplifySQL is being removed from the SMCC Price List Users can upgrade to IQ Software's product or use another product. Source code to SimplifySQL is available. (194 lines) 59.14 Sunergy Newsletter #12, November 1993 part 1 of 2 (5 articles 461 lines) 59.14.A Sunergy Newsletter #12, November 1993 Introduction to the November Sunergy newsletter. 59.14.B Broadcast Summary 7th Sunergy interactive broadcast aired on September 28. This article is a recap of the topics covered. 1. Internet Talk Radio/Internet Town Hall 2 Internet Faxing 3. WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers). 4. National Information Infrastructure. 5. Video Teleconferencing. 59.14.C Upcoming Broadcast Next Sunergy Broadcast: January 11, 1994 59.14.D Tips -N- Tricks By richard.w.scott@Corp.sun.com. Some Sound Ideas 59.14.E WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) WAIS Inc., of Menlo Park, California, is positioned to provide publishing systems and services to help "Network Publishers" set up shop on the Internet. 59.15 Sunergy Newsletter #12, November 1993 part 2 of 2 (3 articles 430 lines) 59.15.F Network Computing: The Network Is STILL the Computer by Dr. Eric Schmidt, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 59.15.G Sun Solutions Announcement Already posted to SunFlash, so not included. 59.15.H Sunergy Sign-up Form If you are not already a member of Sunergy and would like to join, simply fill out and return this form. 59.16 Sun User Group Announces Keynote Speakers For SUG-West '93 SUG announced that it has finalized agreements to bring several industry notables to its December show. John Gage of Sun Microsystems, Dr. Bruce Nelson of Auspex Systems, and Wayne Rosing of FirstPerson will all be giving plenary sessions at the Eleventh annual Sun User Group Conference and Exhibition. (100 lines) 59.17 Join the SunPro SIG today SunPro is the software development business of Sun Microsystems. The special interest group, SunPro SIG, is designed to provide a worldwide forum for exchanging software development information. This is your invitation to join our world-class organization for professional programmers. (131 lines) 59.18 October 1993 Sun Technical Bulletin (STB) The STB "Table of Contents" and "Editor's Introduction" are posted to SunFlash so that customers who have a support contract are made aware of the contents of this execellent publication. (215 lines) 59.18 October 1993 STB (2 articles 215 lines) 59.18.A STB Editor's Introduction Brief description of each of the major STB articles by the STB editor. 59.18.B October 1993 STB Contents 59.19 Sun User Group WEST: Conference & Exhibition December 6-9, 1993 (5 articles 726 lines) 59.19.A Sun User Group WEST: Conference & Exhibition December 6-9, 1993 59.19.B Tutorials 1) "Porting Applications to Solaris 2.x" 2) "KORN SHELL PROGRAMMING" 3) "NFS for System Administrators" 4) "Introduction to Solaris System Administration" 5) "Introduction to Motif Programming" 6) "Topics in Modern System Administration" 7) "Responding to Security Incidents" 59.19.C TECHNICAL SESSIONS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1993 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1993 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1993 59.19.D HOTEL INFORMATION 59.19.E Registration Form 59.20 Free NeWSprint 2.5 Upgrade Extended Special free NeWSprint 2.5 upgrade available until December 31, 1993 with qualifying printer order (126 lines) 59.21 Sunergy Satellite Broadcast #8 - January 11, 1994 The next Broadcast will be on "Global Information Infrastructures". It will follow up on the last broadcast which discussed the Internet. Topics will include: Interoperabilty and standards, available applications, tools, critical factors, US National Information Infrastructure & the rest of the world. (80 lines) 59.22 Sun Completes Installation of Nerve Center for World Cup IS Two SPARCcenter 2000 servers, set up in a high-availability configuration, will serve a network of more than 1,000 Sun workstations and 50 servers to provide event management functions for the World Cup. (118 lines) 59.23 Aggregate Computing: Seminar Notice & Technical Newsletter (2 articles 430 lines) 59.23.A Educational Seminar from Aggregate Computing "Distributed Computing in the 90s The Future of Computing" is a free, half-day technical seminar for software engineers and project managers who are interested in improving the performance of client/server applications through parallel and distributed processing Locations: Santa Clara, CA New York, NY Boston, MA (54 lines) 59.23.B Distributed Directions - The Distributed Computing Newsletter Welcome to Distributed Directions, the distributed computing newsletter from Aggregate Computing. Whether you are a developer, manager, or executive, Distributed Directions is designed to keep you informed about the latest distributed computing technologies. If you manufacture software or if software applications are criitical to your company's mission, you should know what's happening in the world of distributed computing. Subject: DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING: THE SECOND WAVE Subject: SPECIAL REPORT: CATCH THE WAVE Subject: CHANGING THE WAY WE USE NETWORKS Subject: WRITING SECOND GENERATION DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS WITH NETSHARE Subject: FREE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SEMINARS Subject: SERIES: DEVELOPMENT ISSUES FOR DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS (33 lines) 59.24 Third Party Announcements (4 articles 453 lines) 59.24.A Book: SOLARIS ADVANCED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE by Janice Winsor This companion volume to the "SOLARIS SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE" covers more advanced Solaris 2.x system administration tasks in the same practical, step-by-step, task-oriented style for which the first book was applauded. It is ideal for system administrators who are experienced with day-to-day system maintenance and who need to add system components, improve service access, or automate routine tasks. (57 lines) 59.24.B CERAM's TurboCard RAM disk & Verilog-XL Benchmarks of Verilog-XL and Verilog-XL Turbo performance completed by a number of users and Cadence Design Systems show an average five times, and up to seven times, speed-up of large timing simulations running on Sun Microsystems workstations and servers using CERAM's TurboCard RAM disk. (53 lines) 59.24.C GNN Makes SEC EDGAR Database Available via Internet The Global Network Navigator, an Internet-based online resource center, reported this afternoon that the Internet Multicasting Service, in conjunction with the New York University Stern School of Business, will be participating in a project to provide access on the Internet to the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) EDGAR database. (65 lines) 59.24.D Software through Pictures/Object Modeling Technique Now Shipping Interactive Development Environments, Inc. (IDE) and the Advanced Concepts Center (ACC) of Martin Marietta (formerly GE Advanced Concepts Center) announced immediate availability of the Software through Pictures/Object Modeling Technique (StP/OMT) tools and OMT Success Packages. The team of IDE, ACC, and GE's Corporate Research & Development Center are working together to provide comprehensive object-oriented (OO) software UNIX development solutions for deploying GE's Object Modeling Technique (OMT) methodology. Using StP/OMT analysts and designers reduce life-cycle costs, improve communications with end-users, and reuse classes and class structures to create high quality OO applications. (206 lines) 59.25 NEW SPARCcenter 2000 and SPARCserver 1000 CONFIGURATIONS AND PRICING - New SPARCserver 1000 configuration using high density memory - Significant price reductions on systems and options using high density memory - New system board options for both SPARCcenter 2000 and SPARCserver 1000 systems - Minor price increases on SC2000 systems and options using low density memory (278 lines) 59.26 Third Party Announcements (3 articles 512 lines) 59.26.A Accelr8 product description VAX/VMS MIGRATION to SUN APPLICATION MIGRATION FORTRAN SOURCE CODE CONVERTER VAX BASIC CONVERSION DATA INTEROPERABILITY USER TOOLS -- DCL and VMS editors MIGRATION PLANNING (63 lines) 59.26.B THE ASK GROUP UNVEILS NEXT-GENERATION DEVELOPMENT TOOLS The ASK Group will deliver the first two products in its new ASK OpenROAD* family of application development tools, along with new services offerings, over the next 6-9 months. OpenROAD, which stands for open Rapid Object Application Development, allows developers to achieve as much as a 10-fold productivity improvement over current methods. In addition, by providing OpenROAD on more than 20 hardware and software platforms, the ASK Group is setting a standard for platform support among independent tools providers. (180 lines) 59.26.C SCREENPLAY 2.0 for Solaris Now Available RAD Technologies is now shipping Release 2.0 of ScreenPlay, part of a family of PowerHouse Multimedia tools for Sales and Marketing Presentations, Multimedia Electronic Mail, Training Tutorials, and Software Demonstrations. This new release of the best-selling screen video recording software now has powerful editing capabilities to produce professional on-screen presentations, software demonstrations and training tutorials for playback from CD-ROM or over the network from within any application. (202 lines) 59.27 Third Party Announcements (7 articles 430 lines) 59.27.A Impact Releases High Speed FFT SBus Board for Sun Workstations Impact Technologies has released SunSpot916, a SBus based card for digital signal processing (DSP). Applications for the card include medical imaging, multimedia, video/audio processing and enhancement, industrial control, radar/sonar processing, financial modeling, seismic processing, etc. The single slot card plugs into any system that has a SBus slot, which includes the popular SPARC based systems such as Sun workstations and single board computers. (72 lines) 59.27.B Translation Tool for Sun OPEN LOOK ACCENT STP version 2.0 is an OPEN LOOK to Motif source code translator for Sun-based developers who plan to migrate their applications to Motif and the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), a technology of the Common Open Software Environment (COSE). ACCENT STP (Sun Transition Pack) allows Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and in-house software developers using XView, Devguide or OLIT to protect their existing investments by migrating applications through translating the source code to OSF/Motif, the ``look-and-feel'' standard of CDE. (91 lines) 59.27.C Book: O'Reilly's Migrating to Fortran 90 Just published practical guide to Fortran 90 for the current Fortran programmer. It provides a complete overview of the new features that Fortran 90 has brought to the Fortran standard, with examples and suggestions for use. The book discusses older ways of solving problems--both in Fortran 77 and in common tricks or +extensions-- and contrasts them with the new ways provided by Fortran 90. (33 lines) 59.27.D Book: O'Reilly's Learning perl "Learning perl" provides a systematic, step-by-step, tutorial approach to learning the language. There are numerous short code examples punctuating a relaxed, informal, and precise tour of all the main features of the language. (35 lines) 59.27.E Book: O'Reilly's Sendmail "sendmail" is a comprehensive explanation of the program that acts like a traffic cop in routing and delivering electronic mail on UNIX-based networks. It is authored by Bryan Costales, with sendmail creator Eric Allman and IDA sendmail authority Neil Rickert. (36 lines) 59.27.F Book: O'Reilly's DCE/NT Book "Distributing Applications Across DCE and Windows NT" We will publish this book that tells what can you really accomplish with the compatibilities between Microsoft platforms and DCE. The book also has material for decision-makers and site administrators. Its first chapter discusses general industry problems and compares the distributed access offered by DCE/Microsoft RPC with other common solutions. (33 lines) 59.27.G Contacting O'Reilly Worldwide contact information for O'Reilly. (23 lines) 59.28 HOT OFF THE PRESS Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation's Public Relations' newsletter. Statistics about Sun and its market and news from the Sun 'planets' (415 lines) 59.29 SUNSOFT AND NeXT PARTNER TO DRIVE VOLUME OBJECT STANDARD SunSoft and NeXT will publish an open specification, called OpenStep, and SunSoft will license NEXTSTEP's application environment for use in its Solaris enterprise system software. (143 lines) 59.30 SunSoft Announces Technology Partnership with NeXT SunSoft made the following announcement today, November 23, 1994, regarding their new agreements with NeXt Computers Inc. SMCC supports these agreements to create an open, object-oriented applications environment standard. This announcement further reinforces Sun's commitment towards the development of standards, open interfaces at multiple levels, and open systems. (163 lines) 59.31 Third Party Announcements (5 articles 618 lines) 59.31.A SBus Interphase Network CoProcessor This intelligent, dual port Ethernet adapter enables SBus-based network servers to offload network protocol processing, thereby freeing up server CPU cycles and resulting in dramatic performance improvements. The 4627 SBus Network CoProcessor (NC) is the successor to the NC300/400/600 series of VME Network CoProcessors (98 lines) 59.31.B CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 Announcement The CS6400 is a 4-XDBus, 64 processor, 16 GByte, 16 SBus (that's buses, not SBus cards) implementation of the XDBus architecture, complementing the SS1000 and the SC2000. It is directed at the commercial and technical data centers, and to that end, also incudes a whole range of availability features, such as N+1 power supplies, and hot-swap capability for system boards. CRS has also signed a memorandum of understanding with SMCC for SunIntegration Services to become a reseller of the CS6400 system. (209 lines) 59.31.C Free Evaluation Copies of CRUSHER, The Compressed File System CRUSHER is a new type of file system, not an application, that provides users the capability to create compressed partitions on any disk drive. Data written to or read from the partition will be automatically compressed/decompressed transparently on-the-fly. The compressed files appear in all respects identical to UFS files. (66 lines) 59.31.D Network Layout Assistant Version 1.1 Qualix is pleased to announce the availability of Network Layout Assistant Version 1.1. The Network Layout Assistant brings network device mapping facilities to SunNet Manager. It works by reading the network information in your SunNet Manager database and automatically repositioning the device icons and their connections. (73 lines) 59.31.E SBus Product Directory The Winter Quarter edition of the SBus Product Directory, the world's most comprehensive guide to SPARC based workstations and add-in products, is now available. This is the 10th edition in the ever expanding SPARC marketplace. This edition profiles over 210 SBus products and 150 SPARC based platforms from over 100 manufacturers. (85 lines) ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on draco.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au For last month's digest, send email to flashadm@sun.com with a Subject line of 59.00 For Gopher and WAIS access: sunsite.unc.edu. (Login as 'gopher' for a simple gopher client, 'swais' for a simple WAIS client (over 500 databases). All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. Please contact your local Sales Representative for details of pricing and product availability in your region. 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