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Local exploder aliases 58.00.F October'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. Lauderdale, FL November 1st, 1993 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 58.00.A October's Articles - 1 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 49.00 January 1993 Table Of Contents 50.00 February 1993 Table Of Contents 51.00 March 1993 Table Of Contents 52.00 April 1993 Table Of Contents 53.00 May 1993 Table Of Contents 54.00 June 1993 Table Of Contents 55.00 July 1993 Table Of Contents 56.00 August 1993 Table Of Contents 57.00 September 1993 Table Of Contents 58.00 October 1993 Table Of Contents 58.01.A SecurePrint 1.1 58.01.B Assist - Client/Server System Administration Application 58.01.C Announcing the comp.newprod archives 58.01.D O'Reilly Internet audiotapes 58.01.E Puzzle Systems: Integrating Solaris 2 and NetWare 58.01.F schematiX11 - schematic capture package for Sun Workstations 58.02 Sun Announces Millionth Sun Computer, 1.4 Million Solaris Licenses 58.06.A IRI Releases SunOS COSORT Version 3.0 58.06.B Aggregate's Equal Opportunity Computing 58.06.C Book: O'Reilly's Japanese Info Processing 58.06.D CERAM introduces a High-Speed Server Accelerator 58.06.E CERES - A Global Knowledge Network 58.06.F Informix Ships New Release of Secure Database 58.06.G HP NetMetrix now runs on Solaris 2.x 58.06.H Purify for Solaris 2 58.07 SPARCcenter 2000 and SPARCserver 1000 News Flash 58.08 SunSoft Supports Transfer of UNIX to X/Open 58.09 SMCC signs master reseller agreement with Merisel 58.10 University Students Go Back to School with Sun 58.11.A SunSelect Signs 4 Major Distributors in Asia & Australia 58.11.B Sun Commends Easing of Export Controls 58.11.C Sun Foundation Announces Grants 58.12.A Sun Announces MicroSPARC-II Availability 58.12.B Sun Announces Sale of ASIC Chipsets for SuperSPARC and MicroSPARC CPUs 58.12.C Sun Announces Semiconductor Sales Strategy 58.13 SunPC 4.0 - SunPC for Solaris 2.x 58.14 Sun Announces First Quarter Earnings 58.15 Adobe Systems Announces Adobe Photoshop 2.5 for Sun Workstations 58.16.A New Aurora 32 Port Synchronous comms server 58.16.B Box Hill Systems Corporation and SunIntegration join forces 58.16.C SBus Compressed Memory Card/solid State Disk 58.16.D CRUSHER, The Compressed File System 58.16.E O'Reilly's GNN launched 58.16.F O'Reilly ORACLE Tuning book 58.16.G O'Reilly's X Resource Issue 8 58.17 SAP and SMCC in Joint Marketing/Technology Agreement 58.18 SMCC Introduces New Multi-Port Ethernet 58.19 SMCC Announces New Imaging and Multimedia Workstations 58.20 Kodak, Adobe Support SPARCstation 10SX 58.21 Ultra-low Emission 20-inch Monitor Introduced 58.22 Satellite Broadcast: Advanced Operating Environments 58.23.A Board Upgrades to SPARCserver 600MP with Model 51 SuperSPARC 58.23.B New upgrade for Sun-3 server to SPARCserver 10 Model 40 system 58.24.A New 20 Mbps Wireless LANs Hook Into Workstation Ethernet NIC cards 58.24.B New release of Fortress UNIX System Security Software 58.24.C Low Cost Print Servers 58.24.D NetClasses 2.0 - C++ library for distributed, OO applications 58.24.E New High Resolution Portable from RDI 58.24.F New SPARC portable from RDI 58.25 SunSolutions Introduces ShowMe 2.0 58.26 SunSolutions and Sandia Announce Technology Partnership 58.27 Sun Announces Recipient of IS Visionary Award 58.28 SMCC announces a 5 year limited warranty for DRAM-based memory 58.29 SMCC Announces Availability Of Solaris 2.3 58.d1 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest September 27 to October 3 1993 58.d2 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest Octover 4 to October 10 1993 58.d3 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest October 11 to October 17 1993 58.d4 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest October 18 to October 24 1993 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 58.00.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: 58.00.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. You many notice changes to the names of the aliases in the sunflash-Distributed line. e.g. a sunflash-Distributed line might now have USA/TX/foobar.com As I obtain permission, the "From:" line in the mail header will be changed to the owner name listed in the sunflash-Send line. This will cause all errors and replies to go to that email address instead of mine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 58.00.F October's Articles - 2 to 5 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58.01.A SecurePrint 1.1 Installations processing classified, proprietary, or sensitive information have struggled with labelling and controlling printed output for as long as there have been printers. SecurePrint 1.1 solves this problem for UNIX environments. 58.01.B Assist - Client/Server System Administration Application Assist is a client/server system administration application with optional API interface. The application is available with both OpenWindows and command line interfaces. 58.01.C Announcing the comp.newprod archives the comp.newprod archives are now on-line and open to the public 58.01.D O'Reilly Internet audiotapes These are the "Geek of the Week" Audiotapes "European Networking" "Networked Information and Online Libraries" "Security and Networks" 58.01.E Puzzle Systems: Integrating Solaris 2 and NetWare SoftNet Utilities and SoftNet Client families are being ported to the Solaris 2.x environment. These products are ideal for those wishing to integrate Solaris-based SPARC platforms into existing PC Novell environments. 58.01.F schematiX11 - schematic capture package for Sun Workstations a Sun based, X11 general purpose hierarchical schematic capture package. schematiX11 is bundled with various options and libraries for different market segments schematiX11-spice, schematiX11-xilinx, schematiX11-asic, schematiX11-C and schematiX11-VHDL. 58.02 Sun Announces Millionth Sun Computer, 1.4 Million Solaris Licenses millionth computer joins world's largest installed base of workstations. Sun selects long-term, significant partner - Fujitsu - to receive millionth machine. 58.03 SPARCcluster 1 -- The World's Fastest File Server The SPARCcluster(TM) 1 system is the highest performing, most scalable, and affordable network file server in the industry. Leveraging the existing SPARCserver(TM) 10 platform, SPARCcluster 1 is a collection of SPARCserver 10 Model 40 system's that are configured with associated disks, tape, cluster software, and an Etherent switch to provide a scalable, cost-effective NFS(R) file server solution. 58.04 New High Performance CD-ROM Drive - New SunCD Plus is twice as fast at current SunCD drive, loads software 60% faster than current SunCD. - New SunCD Plus supports enhanced multimedia formats such as CD-ROM XA and Kodak's PhotoCD - New SunCD Plus is bundled in popular File and Database server option packs - Comes bundled with CDWare Volume 5 which contains demos of over 75 Solaris applications 58.05 UPDATED SUNSOLVE ONLINE NOW AVAILABLE Features Easy Access through Internet and SprintNet - The most current service, bug and patch information now available through the Internet and SprintNet - Easy, fast access to any size patches 58.06.A IRI Releases SunOS COSORT Version 3.0 COSORT is a sort/merge package. 58.06.B Aggregate's Equal Opportunity Computing Equal Opportunity Computing provides everyone on the network with equal access to the network of computing resources without requiring users to have any knowledge of the network. Users simply view the network as a virtual multiprocessor, accessable for every computing need. 58.06.C Book: O'Reilly's Japanese Info Processing first book for anyone interested in using Japanese on computers. It is written for programmers, users, and academics wanting to understand the many complex issues surrounding the use of the Japanese language in computing. 58.06.D CERAM introduces a High-Speed Server Accelerator TurboDisk-Cache is CERAM's latest offering based their highly successful TurboCard Solid State RAM Disk for Sun 58.06.E CERES - A Global Knowledge Network The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, in collaboration with a number of universities in Europe and Asia, has launched an initiative to create a global knowledge network to facilitate world-wide sharing of information needed for developing environmentally sound products. 58.06.F Informix Ships New Release of Secure Database INFORMIX-OnLine/Secure 5.0 is a new version of Informix's multilevel secure database server for secure UNIX platforms, and INFORMIX-STAR/Secure, the company's connectivity tool for secure distributed and client/server applications. 58.06.G HP NetMetrix now runs on Solaris 2.x Hewlett Packard Company announced that HP NetMetrix applications 3.10, which make an integrated tool set for monitoring and analyzing distributed heterogeneous networks, now run on Solaris 2.x Internetwork Monitor NFS Monitor Load Monitor Protocol Analyzer Traffic Generator Power Agent 58.06.H Purify for Solaris 2 Purify uses Object Code Insertion Technology to determine incorrect memory access errors in your C, C++ programs at run-time. 58.07 SPARCcenter 2000 and SPARCserver 1000 News Flash Update on Performance and Options Supported 58.08 SunSoft Supports Transfer of UNIX to X/Open The following announcement is being made today, October 11, 1993, by SunSoft. Ed Zander is participating in a press conference with Novell, X/Open and several UNIX companies to announce the news. Sun announced its support of Novell's transfer of the UNIX system trademark to X/Open. The company also endorsed X/Open's plans to manage the ongoing evolution of the UNIX specification in a public and vendor-neutral forum. 58.09 SMCC signs master reseller agreement with Merisel SMCC Simplifies Value Add Model. The value-add provided by a reseller will now be determined by the reseller's business model. Historically, value-add was evaluated on a per transaction basis. Master resellers are now Merisel, Inc. and Access Graphics, Inc. 58.10 University Students Go Back to School with Sun Major wins for the SPARCclassic and SPARCstation LX desktops at several leading universities worldwide, including Ohio State, University of Hertfordshire, Seoul National University, Nihon University, National University of Singapore, KyongBook University and University Malaya. With the new installations, Sun computers are present in over 1,400 universities around the world. 58.11.A SunSelect Signs 4 Major Distributors in Asia & Australia Move Extends SunSelect's Reach into Growing PC-to-Enterprise Markets and Increases Its Scope Internationally. The distributors signed include Mercuries Data Systems Ltd., based in Taipei, Taiwan; Mitsui Computer Ltd., of Sydney, Australia; ASL (Automated Systems Ltd.) of Singapore; and ASL of Hong Kong. 58.11.B Sun Commends Easing of Export Controls US Government will lift restrictions on the export of computer systems with a composite theoretical performance (CTP) of 500 million theoretical operations per seconds (MTOPS) or less and will change the current definition of a "supercomputer" to include systems with a CTP of 2,000 MTOPS or more. 58.11.C Sun Foundation Announces Grants Nonprofit Groups Receive $208,461 for Community Development 58.12.A Sun Announces MicroSPARC-II Availability SMCC announced availability of its new microSPARC-(TM)II CPU in sample quantities. Samples of microSPARC-II running at 70 MHz are available through SMCC's SPARC Technology Business (STB) unit. 58.12.B Sun Announces Sale of ASIC Chipsets for SuperSPARC and MicroSPARC CPUs SMCC announced it is selling system support ASIC chipsets for the first time 58.12.C Sun Announces Semiconductor Sales Strategy Expands SPARC Technology Business Product Line to Provide "One-Stop Shopping" Alternative For SPARC Customers 58.13 SunPC 4.0 - SunPC for Solaris 2.x - Runs on Solaris 2.1 or a later Solaris 2.x release - Has identical functionality to SunPC 3.1 - SunPC 3.1 continues to support Solaris 1.x only 58.14 Sun Announces First Quarter Earnings Sun reported record first-quarter revenues of $960.5 million, up approximately 12% from the $855.9 million reported for the corresponding period of fiscal 1993. Net income for the first quarter was $16.6 million, or $0.16 per share, compared to $4.8 million, or $0.05 per share, for the same period a year ago. Net income for the period includes a one-time credit of approximately $6 million resulting from recently enacted 1993 U.S. tax legislation. 58.15 Adobe Systems Announces Adobe Photoshop 2.5 for Sun Workstations This powerful image editing software offers the same feature set as the Macintosh and Windows versions, and creates fully binary-compatible files that can be shared with these versions via diskette or network for true cross-platform capability. Adobe Photoshop 2.5 software is expected to ship on Sun workstations in November 1993. 58.16.A New Aurora 32 Port Synchronous comms server Server features on-board dedicated RISC processing, hardware flow control, and multi-protocol support for improved system performance and reliability 58.16.B Box Hill Systems Corporation and SunIntegration join forces SunIntegration Services has announced an agreement with Box Hill Systems Corporation to resell Box Hill Hot-Swappable Removable Storage Subsystems, the Box Hill RAID Box, and the Box Hill Tape Box and Media Changers. 58.16.C SBus Compressed Memory Card/solid State Disk CERAM has announced the availability of a new, higher-speed version of its popular TurboCard compressed memory SBus card/solid state disk. 58.16.D CRUSHER, The Compressed File System CRUSHER is a new file system type 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. 58.16.E O'Reilly's GNN launched free Internet-based information center, is up and running. GNN consists of a regular weekly news service, an online magazine, The Online Whole Internet Catalog, and a global marketplace containing information about products and services. 58.16.F O'Reilly ORACLE Tuning book We have just released this book that pulls together the experiences of many ORACLE system users and administrators who have learned how to tune their ORACLE systems 58.16.G O'Reilly's X Resource Issue 8 featured articles include: "The X User: Drawing Figures With Xfig," by David Flanagan, "Imakefile Troubleshooting," by Paul DuBois, etc. 58.17 SAP and SMCC in Joint Marketing/Technology Agreement SAP AG and SMCC to pport R/3, SAP's suite of integrated business applications, to SPARC and establish centers in the U.S., Europe and Japan to make R/3 available on systems from SMCC worldwide. 58.18 SMCC Introduces New Multi-Port Ethernet Sbus card supports four fully buffered twisted-pair Ethernet ports. Each of the Ethernet channels can run independently at 10 megabits per second. 58.19 SMCC Announces New Imaging and Multimedia Workstations - SPARCstation 10SX - SPARCstation 10M - SPARCclassic M - "multimedia bundle" New workstations bringing fully configured, high-end image processing and multimedia capabilities down to a new low price range. These new systems feature revolutionary imaging capabilities and the industry's lowest-cost real-time video capture/compression technology, both developed by SMCC. The multimedia package includes the SunVideo capture/compression card, video camera and multimedia CD-ROM disc. 58.20 Kodak, Adobe Support SPARCstation 10SX Kodak will incorporate the SPARCstation 10SX system in several imaging products that produce Photo CD discs. SMCC announced today that the SPARCstation 10SX system will come with a coupon redeemable for a complimentary copy of Adobe Photoshop, the industry-leading image processing application from Adobe. 58.21 Ultra-low Emission 20-inch Monitor Introduced SMCC introduces industry's highest-performance, lowest electromagnetic emission color monitor. Replaces current 19" monitor with no price change. Supports 1280x1024 at 76 Hz, is stereo and multimedia ready and has a cute remote control. 58.22 Satellite Broadcast: Advanced Operating Environments Tuesday November 16th 1993, Pacific 10:30 am - 1:30 p Eastern 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Call 1-800-316-4882 or send mail to 73241.17539@compuserve.com to register or call 1-800-400-8022 for a fax back memo. "The Building Blocks of Distributed Computing" "...the ability to harness extraordinary technological change will define economic winners and losers in the forseeable future." Business Week, June 14, 1993 58.23.A Board Upgrades to SPARCserver 600MP with Model 51 SuperSPARC Continuing its tradition of providing its server installed base with attractive upgrade opportunities, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) announces upgrade paths for Sun 3x0 and 4x0 server customers to take advantage of SPARCserver(TM) 600MP 50-MHz processing power. The upgrade requires a board swap of the existing CPU board with a new board which consists of a SuperSPARC(TM) 50-MHz processor with 1-MB SuperCache, and 64 MB of memory. 58.23.B New upgrade for Sun-3 server to SPARCserver 10 Model 40 system Sun-3(TM) desktop server customers can now take advantage of SPARCserver(TM) 10 Model 40 system power. Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) announces a new upgrade path for Sun-3 server customers, to move to SPARCserver 10 Model 40 system, with 32-MB memory and a 1.05-GB Fast DSCSI disk. 58.24.A New 20 Mbps Wireless LANs Hook Into Workstation Ethernet NIC cards By incorporating breakthrough RF technology within the 902-928 MHz band, Wi-LAN makes it possible for SPARC-based wireless networks to support three times as many users as wire-based Ethernet with no degradation in performance. 58.24.B New release of Fortress UNIX System Security Software Woodside Technologies recently announced major enhancements to its Fortress UNIX System Security Software. Fortress 3.0 is designed to provide instant and in-depth security for Sun systems. 58.24.C Low Cost Print Servers Microplex has reduced the price of its M200 and M201 multi-protocol, multi-port print servers to $595.00 US -- making them the lowest price of any multi-protocol print servers on the market. Note that the M200/M201 print servers supports both SunOS "lpr" and Solaris "lp" printing. 58.24.D NetClasses 2.0 - C++ library for distributed, OO applications NetClasses is a set of C++ class libraries that is designed facilitate the development of object-oriented distributed systems applications. NetClasses provides the tools needed to develop complex distributed applications without having to deal with the details of low-level communications. 58.24.E New High Resolution Portable from RDI RDI announced the availability of a high resolution color LCD for its BriteLite LX portable SPARC workstations. The BriteLite LX can now be ordered with a 1024 x 768 resolution active matrix color LCD 58.24.F New SPARC portable from RDI RDI Computer Corporation announced a new family of portable workstations -- PowerLite. PowerLite provides the SPARC workstation user with the performance, capacity, and display characteristics expected on the desktop in a slim-line portable. 58.25 SunSolutions Introduces ShowMe 2.0 industry's first complete, easy-to-use desktop video conferencing solution that enables workstation users to collaborate interactively, in real time, with a full range of video, audio and screen sharing tools. SunSolutions will support ShowMe on multiple platforms. 58.26 SunSolutions and Sandia Announce Technology Partnership Sandia National Laboratories, a U.S. Department of Energy multiprogram R&D laboratory, and SunSolutions, the video conferencing and collaboration business of Sun Microsystems, Inc., have entered a technology transfer partnership 58.27 Sun Announces Recipient of IS Visionary Award Development of an innovative SPARC-based Pay-Per-View/Video-On- Demand (PPV/VOD) system that will "instantly" provide households with top-rated box office movies by simply dialing an 800 number earns executive Sun's Visionary Award. 58.28 SMCC announces a 5 year limited warranty for DRAM-based memory - Covers main memory DSIMMs in BOTH systems and X-Options - Extends current warranty from 1 year to 5 years - Return-to-factory warranty 58.29 SMCC Announces Availability Of Solaris 2.3 o Solaris 2.3 provides improved quality and performance plus improved binary compatibility with Solaris 1.x applications o Solaris 2.3 now incorporates the latest, industry standard, X11 window environment o SMCC offers new Solaris 2.3 packaging and pricing for the global enterprise 58.d1 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest September 27 to October 3 1993 A weekly summary of messages posted to "The Florida SunFlash", a Sun-related mailing list with 120,000+ subscribers. 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