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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

	Motorola to Support SunSoft's Program to Make Solaris 
	      Available on the PowerPC Architecture

SunFLASH Vol 51 #38					          March 1993
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Contact:   Karen Andre
Org:	   SunSoft, Inc.
Phone:     (415) 336-3890
Contact:   Susan Curtin
	   Patty Kachmer
Org:       Cunningham Communication, Inc.
Phone:	   (617) 494-8202

Santa Clara, Calif., March 29, 1993 -- SunSoft, Inc., the system
software subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that it
would develop a version of its Solaris software environment for
Motorola's PowerPC reduced-instruction set computing (RISC)
microprocessor architecture.

Motorola plans to cooperate with SunSoft's development team to ensure
that the Solaris software environment will be optimized to run on the
PowerPC platform.

"Today's announcement with SunSoft underscores the continued expansion
of the PowerPC architecture in the computing industry's major markets,"
said Murray Goldman, assistant general manager of Motorola's
Semiconductor Products Sector. "Motorola is committed to bringing the
performance and versatility of the PowerPC architecture to a variety of
UNIX environments as customer needs dictate."

According to Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
"The industry momentum for Solaris continues. With Solaris available on
PowerPC, our volume position in the enterprise-wide computing market
will significantly increase."

The companies will announce more details at a later date.  PowerPC
microprocessors, being designed, manufactured and marketed by Motorola
and IBM, are intended to support a full range of embedded control and
computing applications -- from handheld, portable and desktop
computers, to midrange workstations and servers, to fault-tolerant and
supercomputing systems. Some of the companies supporting the PowerPC
architecture include Apple, Bull, Harris, IBM, Tadpole Technology,
THOMSON-CFS, and others.

Having 1992 worldwide sales exceeding $4.4 billion, Motorola's
Semiconductor Products Sector is the largest U.S.-based, broad line
supplier of semiconductors, with a balanced portfolio of more than
50,000 devices. Motorola is one of the world's leading providers of
electronic equipment, systems, components and services for global
markets. Products include: two-way radios, pagers and telepoint
systems, semiconductors, defense and aerospace electronics, automotive
and industrial electronic equipment, computers, data communications,
and information processing and handling equipment.

Motorola was a winner of the first Malcolm Baldridge National Quality
Award in 1988, in recognition of its superior company-wide quality
management process.

SunSoft, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a subsidiary of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. The company has offices in North America, Europe and
Asia. SunSoft is a leading supplier of 32-bit system software solutions
for SPARC and Intel 80386/486-based computers. The products are
licensed by SunSoft and distributed through major computer
manufacturers and resellers worldwide.

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SunSoft and Solaris are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. 
PowerPC is a trademark of IBM Corp. All other products or service names 
mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.