---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Product Announcements SunFLASH Vol 38 #8 February 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This article contains 5 third party products/services. -johnj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crescendo Ships First FDDI LAN Using Unshielded Twisted Pair GAINEXPOSURE LUCID LAUNCHES ADVANCED C++ AND C PROGRAMMING SYSTEM FOR SPARC EPC Modula-2 Compiler Network Traffic Generator added to NetMetrix toolset -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Crescendo Ships First FDDI LAN Using Unshielded Twisted Pair From: bonacorso@crescendo.com (Mark Bonacorso) Manager, Marketing Communications Crescendo Communcations, Inc. 408-732-5954 Company Ships 100 Megabit Per Second CDDITM Hub and SBus Adapter SUNNYVALE, CA, January 31, 1992 - Crescendo Communications, Inc. shipped the first commercial networking products that allow FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) transmission at 100 Mb/sec over conventional unshielded twisted pair (UTP) wiring. Crescendo calls the technology Copper Distributed Data Interface (CDDI). Crescendo's first products are the Crescendo 1000 Workgroup Concentrator and Crescendo CDDI SBus adapter. They are priced significantly less than fiber optic hubs and adapter cards, but their greatest advantage is in their ability to use existing unshielded twisted pair wiring rather than requiring installation of new and expensive fiber optic cables and connectors. They can also be used with shielded twisted pair already installed for IBM Token-Ring LANs to upgrade from 16 Mb/sec to 100 Mb / sec. The Crescendo 1000 Workgroup Concentrator is a single-slot, high- performance hub. It includes SMT 6.2 station management software which is stored in flash memory that can be electronically updated in the field, as well as full SNMP in-band or RS-232 network management. It can be integrated into existing Ethernet or Token-Ring LANs. The unit is fully configurable to ensure easy upgradability. The compact, 19-inch wide unit can be rack, desk or wall mounted, but it is also attractive enough to be used in an office. Like the concentrator, the company's adapter cards for Sun SBus workstations make extensive use of VLSI ASIC designs and surface-mount technology for reliability and compactness. The CDDI-based products, which are compatible with FDDI standards, have passed interoperability tests at Advanced Micro Devices' Advanced Networking Test Center. CDDI meets Federal Communications Commission standards for class A applications or better over datagrade wiring up to 100 meters (330 feet). Crescendo's CDDI products allow customers to use most existing cable for high speed networks so it is not necessary to rewire costly shielded twisted pair or fiber optic cable. Such cost savings will enable more companies to adopt 100 Mb/sec data transmission solutions for their data-intensive applications. "Bringing unshielded twisted pair products to market is a critical step in making FDDI a viable solution for businesses, industrial plants and universities," said Mario Mazzola, president and CEO of Crescendo. "The obvious advantage of CDDI is that it can be used with any existing wiring. It also offers a price breakthrough as a network node only costs $2,500 end-to-end, including the $900 per port hub and $1,495 adapter." "It's clear that FDDI on UTP is what users want," stated Michael Howard, president of Infonetics Research, Inc., a San Jose-based research firm. "Crescendo is at the forefront of this exciting, new technology." Pricing and Availability The Crescendo 1000 Workgroup Concentrator and Crescendo CDDI SBus adapter began shipping as of January 1992. The base unit, priced at $7,995, includes 8 CDDI ports. Configured with A/B fiber optic ports for connection to the dual ring, the unit is priced at $10,990. For connecting up to ten users, the A/B slot can be used for two additional CDDI connections. This configuration is available for $8,990. The Crescendo SBus adapter, which measures only 3.3" x 5.8", is priced at $1,495. A Media Attachment Unit is also available (sold separately) that allows users to connect existing fiber LAN to a CDDI port. About Crescendo Crescendo Communications, Inc. was founded in 1990 to develop and market networking products for high-performance workstation applications. The company is located at 710 Lakeway Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4058 Telephone (408) 732-4400. FAX (408) 732-4604. Email sales@crescendo.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject:GAINEXPOSURE From: leisten@cayenne.cayenne.com Marshall Leisten Sales Manager Gain Technology GainExposure is the premier solution for UNIX software demonstration creation and distribution. This new patented technology allows your best product demos to be easily recorded, enhanced and then played back without the underlying software present. With GainExposure, you can develop and deliver high impact product demonstrations and promotions more efficiently and inexpensively than ever before possible. INCREASE MARKET REACH Lower Cost of Sales GainExposure combines the power of live software demonstrations with the potential reach of mass advertising. by coupling a GainExposure demonstration with a CD-ROM direct mail campaign you can cost effectively reach a very large audience with a very powerful and tailored message. GainExposure allows you to easily and effectively harness the power and reach of CD-ROM technology to accelerate your marketing efforts. Net results include increased sales, expanded market reach, lower cost of sales, and high-impact marketing. DISPLAY YOUR PRODUCTS IN THEIR FINEST LIGHT Without Installation GainExposure's intuitive VCR-like control panel allows you to rapidly record, edit and enhance your most effective product demonstrations. GainExposure allows you to easily highlight key points, add visual explanations in graphics or text, and annotate your demonstrations with voice-over and special sound effects. When complete, you can duplicate your demonstration easily for mass distribution or for focused marketing campaigns targeted at key customers, industry segments, tradeshow audiences, or seminar participants. With GainExposure, no special multi-media or audio visual equipment is required. You can "master" your demo on most popular UNIX workstations without any special peripheral devices. Once mastered, your demo is easily played back - without the usual difficult installation and without your software installed - on an equally wide range of standard configuration workstations. You no longer have to sort through variations in system configurations, networks, and file systems just to demonstrate your product.. ACHIEVE GLOBAL RECOGNITION Without a Worldwide Sales Force In today's global marketplace you need worldwide exposure for your products. But, until now, there has been no cost effective way to achieve this. GainExposure allows you to gain worldwide recognition by making it easy and inexpensive to develop and distribute localized versions of your demos. With GainExposure you can even demonstrate your product in countries for which you have not yet received an export license. RECORDING AND EDITING - VCR-like graphical user interface - Record multi-window applications - Rich set of annotation capabilities Imported graphics, still frame video images Captured screen displays Voice-over and music Selectable text styles Control recording volume - Compress or lengthen time sequences - Create reusable libraries of audio, text, and graphics slides - Keyboard equivalents for all commands PLAYBACK - VCR-like graphical user interface Eliminates worries about software installation, software security, export control JUMP START THE SALES CYCLE Eliminate Unnecessary Delays With new products, you need to start promoting them long before they are available. Normally this means that demonstrations have to be carefully controlled because of product instability. But, with GainExposure, you can eliminate this concern. Since GainExposure demos do not include the underlying software, your product does not need to be bulletproof. You can use GainExposure to record your demo in a very controlled environment but distribute it widely without fear of product instability. "GainExposure opens up new opportunities to create powerful presentations for Demo CDs." Lance Thornswood, Block Communications. "We can reach sites and customers using a demo that we could never have reached without GainExposure." Larry Garlick, Remedy Corporation. ENVIRONMENT Sun SPARC, Sun Compatibles, & NCD X-terminals - SunOS 4.1 - olwm v2 & v3, mwm, twm - MITX, X/NEWS HP700* - HP-UX 8.0 *Available Spring 1992 For more information call 1(800) 232.GAIN Gain Technology, Inc. 2225 E. Bayshore Road Palo Alto, CA 94303-3220 Telephone (415)855-1700 Facsimile (415)855-1703 Part # GES1/10/92 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: LUCID LAUNCHES ADVANCED C++ AND C PROGRAMMING SYSTEM FOR SPARC From: teddy@lucid.com Forwarded By: mikel@aaahq05.aaa.com (Mikel Manitius) Keywords: SPARC, unix, software, c language MENLO PARK, CA (JAN. 2) BUSINESS WIRE - Lucid Inc., a leading provider of software for UNIX programmers, Thursday announced its Energize Programming System, the first product designed to provide a natural path to object-oriented programming for UNIX programmers. The Energize system facilitates developing and understanding C++ and C code on Sun SPARC and compatible workstations by incorporating capabilities previously available only in specialized OOP languages. Said Teddy Rosenberg, vice president of marketing at Lucid, ''To date, programmers moving to object-oriented programming have had two choices: specialized languages like Smalltalk which provide integrated environments and good tools for OOP but that are off the mainstream, or C++, which is a natural extension from the well-accepted C language, but lacks the integrated support you get in the environments of special-purpose languages. The Energize Programming System brings two new dimensions to mainstream program development: It provides incremental compilation and linking to decrease the amount of time a programmer must wait when making changes to the program. It also is designed to allow a programmer to navigate easily through an entire program in the process of understanding code structure and isolating problems. The Energize Programming System is distinguished by an architecture based on a client/server model and object technology. The result is a system that speeds the development cycle and improves the ability to navigate through complex code. Energize will ship on SPARC systems in Q1 of 1992 and will be ported to other leading UNIX workstation platforms over the next 12 months. Energize is intended to be a system the programmer will ''live in,'' and is therefore priced so that each programmer in a workgroup may have his or her own product. For 5-person workgroups, it is priced at $3,250 per seat; the price for a 10-person group is $2,950 per seat; and additional discounts are available for larger workgroups and sites. The quantity one price is $4,250. The product comes with full documentation including on-line tutorial. A complete program of customer support, including hotline, also is available. The Energize Programming System is designed to speed the edit-compile-debug cycle by making possible incremental compilation and linking at the function and class levels. This ability to work at a finer level of granularity than any other solution on the market eliminates the need for programmers to wait through long recompilation and relinking, which is especially significant when only a small portion of a program has been changed. Also, because the system incorporates a production-quality C++ and C compiler, the programmer is always acting on the real program code and not a simulated version as in other products. The system is further designed to help programmers find problems in new programs as well as maintain existing code. Energize provides a variety of tools for navigating through code and viewing program elements and program structure from different perspectives. Unlike other systems, Energize handles very large programs without sacrificing performance or forcing programs to be viewed module by module; views into the entire program are always available to the developer. The Energize Programming System's client/server architecture, which distinguishes it from other programming environments, makes the system expandable through the addition of new tools and connection to industry standard programming frameworks. Energize is composed of two parts: 1) the Server that provides both control and data integration and 2) The Tool Set, which includes a suite of advanced new programming tools as well as familiar UNIX tools. Underlying the server, to store all the information collected about the program, is a commercial object-oriented database. The Energize Tool Set integrates a group of standard tools, including the GNU Emacs editor, the GNU debugger, and Lucid's C++ and C compiler, as well as a series of new tools -- collectively, the browsers -- that provide multiple different views into the program under development. All of these tools work together unobtrusively, sharing the same information about the program and able to work in concert with each other courtesy of the server. Lucid Inc. is a seven-year-old UNIX programming software company with leading market share in Common Lisp compilers. In January 1991, Lucid acquired Peritus International Inc., a technology leader in C and C++ compilers. Together, under the Lucid name, the companies are broadening their business strategy with the release of C and C++ compilers and other tools and programming environments for the C and C++ developer. CONTACT: Lucid Inc. Teddy Rosenberg, 415/329-8400 teddy@lucid.com Smith & Shows Heidi Fuller, 415/329-8880 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ercs50@castle.ed.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.newprod Subject: EPC Modula-2 Compiler Organization: Edinburgh Portable Compilers Ltd. EPC Modula-2 from Edinburgh Portable Compilers Ltd (EPC) EPC Modula-2 is an efficient and robust implementation of the high-level language designed by Niklaus Wirth as a successor to his earlier language, Pascal. EPC Modula-2 includes a high-speed compiler, extensive run-time libraries, automatic program "make", superb post-failure diagnostics, and full documentation. Various compiler switches are available to control the degree of run-time checking and the detail of diagnostic information. The compiler was designed to provide fast compilation and reliable code generation coupled with a very high degree of compile-time and run-time checking. During compilation, over 200 informative error warnings and comment messages can be generated. At run-time, checks can be applied to detect undefined variables and sub-range violations. In mid 1992, EPC will release edb, an interactive source-level debugger providing high-quality support for Modula-2. EPC was formed in 1984 in Edinburgh, Scotland, around a team with many years experience in providing compilers extensively used in academic and industrial environments. EPC has established an excellent reputation for providing high- quality, high-performance and well-supported products, and strategic relationships have been established supplying a number of major companies in Europe and the USA. EPC's family of compilers, which includes Fortran 77, Pascal-E, ANSI C, C++ and Modula-2 are available on a wide range of Unix systems, including SunOS, SVR3 and SVR4. Local support is provided by EPC and their distributors around the world. EPC Modula-2 offers the Sun user community * Sun Compatibility and Software Developer Productivity - compatibility with Sun's Modula-2 language and libraries - faster compilation times - support for Solaris (SunOS) dbx, tcov, prof and gprof * EPC's extended functionality - em2make utility for automatic incremental compilation - improved interface to standard Sun "make" - language extensions from emerging standards, such as: - extended type conversions (VAL) additional data-types multi-dimensional open-arrays module finalizations - other language extensions, such as:- bit operators non-printing characters in strings pragmas for mixed-language programming * Diagnostics, support and future Standards - superior run-time error-checking facilities and automatic postmortem diagnostic displays in source language terms - responsive support for error corrections, trouble-shooting and consultancy - EPC Modula-2 developments committed to emerging ISO Standard EPC Modula-2 will be made available on Solaris 2.0 (SunOS 5.0, the SVR4- compatible release) as soon as possible. If all dependent software schedules hold to current plans, this should be early in 1992. EPC Modula-2 is also available on Intel/SVR4-based systems, and plans are already being put in place to support Solaris 2.0 on Intel platforms. EPC also plans to release its interactive, source-level debugger -edb- in 1992, which is specifically designed to work with EPC Modula-2 and other EPC compilers. For further product and support information including pricing, please contact: In the U.S., Canada and Mexico: John Buchanan, Migration Software Systems, Ltd 2107 North First Street, Suite 600 San Jose, CA 95131 Tel (408) 452-0527 Fax (408) 452-0686 E-Mail: mss_sales@migration.com In other international areas: Kathleen Smith Edinburgh Portable Compilers Ltd 17 Alva Street Edinburgh, EH2 4PH Scotland Tel +44(31) 225 6262 Fax +44(31) 225 6644 E-Mail UK: support@uk.ac.ed.epc E-Mail International: support@epc.ed.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Network Traffic Generator added to NetMetrix toolset From: metrix!neeraj@uunet.UU.NET (neeraj sangal) Here is a submission of an announcement to sunflash of our latest network tool for Sun Workstations. NetMetrix is a network toolset which includes a Protocol Analyzer, Load Monitor, NFS Monitor and a Traffic Generator. This tool is frequently sold in conjunction with SunNet Manager. We are a member of Sun Catalyst and a SunConnect Partner. If you need any further assistance please feel free to contact me. Neeraj Sangal Metrix Network Systems, Inc. 1 Tara Blvd, Nashua, NH 03062 uunet!metrix!neeraj (603) 888-7000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Network Traffic Generator added to the NetMetrix(tm) toolset Metrix Network Systems, Inc. announces a new tool for the NetMetrix toolset. NetMetrix is a Sun based network monitoring toolset which includes a Protocol Analyzer, Load Monitor and NFS Monitor. Now a new tool, a Traffic Generator, has been added to this family of tools. The Traffic Generator is useful for simulating load on the network, for testing load on routers and bridges, for verifying alarm conditions, and for testing protocol and application implementations. Here is a summary of some of the features of the Traffic Generator: - You can send packets out on the network at a configurable rate and configurable size. - A powerful packet editor which includes a protocol decoder allows you to craft packets of your choice. It will also automatically recompute the checksum fields for most protocols including IP, UDP, TCP, ICMP, AppleTalk, DECnet and XNS protocols. You can edit any field in a packet including the protocol headers. - You can send out packets and capture their responses. It is programmable and allows you to create scripts which can be saved and reloaded. - Dozens of packet templates have been provided to assist you in creating your own packets. You can create and save your own packet templates. - You can retransmit packet traces captured using the NetMetrix Protocol Analyzer. - A developer's kit allows you to add support for decoding your own protocols. As part of the new release, a large number of improvements have been added to the Protocol Analyzer, Load Monitor and NFS Monitor as well. The complete package is regularly priced at $1995. Metrix Network Systems, Inc. 1 Tara Blvd Nashua, NH 03062 Tel: (603) 888-7000 Fax: (603) 891-2796 email: ...uunet!metrix!corp ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Archives are on solar.nova.edu, paris.cs.miami.edu, uunet.uu.net, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au 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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