SunFlash January 12th, 1995 ****************************** Contents: 73.05: AG Communication Systems to Buy SPARC/Solaris Systems 73.06: Book: Designing Visual Interfaces 73.07: Book: Sun Performance and Tuning: SPARC and Solaris 9001: General FlashBack/SunFlash Information 9002: FlashBack and SunFlash Index ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 73.05: AG Communication Systems to Buy SPARC/Solaris Systems Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) reported that it has won a large software development contract, valued at approximately $4.8 million, from AG Communication Systems, a developer of advanced telecommunications products. The company has agreed to purchase approximately 500 Sun(R) systems as part of its vision of building a heterogeneous development network to improve quality and productivity. The company will use powerful SPARCstation(TM) 20 workstations and SPARCserver(TM) 1000 departmental servers running the Solaris(R) operating environment for all aspects of its internal software development business, including applications to be deployed for intelligent network environments and other advanced telecommunications services. "Intelligent networking" is one of the fastest-growing areas in telecommunications for both wireless and wireline networks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 73.06: Book: Designing Visual Interfaces This book describes fundamental techniques that can be used to enhance the visual quality of graphical user interfaces, data displays, and multimedia productions. The authors approach interface design from the perspective of communication-oriented graphic design, industrial design, and architecture. The skills, practice, and orientation of these design disciplines are essential to the success of every graphical interface, yet few software developers, human factors professionals, or product managers receive any training in these areas. DESIGNING VISUAL INTERFACES addresses this shortcoming by describing essential design concepts as manifested in the graphical user interface. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 73.07: Book: Sun Performance and Tuning: SPARC and Solaris This book is written for the system administrator, systems integrator or software developer interested in performance and tuning on Sun workstations running the Solaris environment. It contains performance and configuration information on all SPARC machines and peripherals and on all operating system releases from SunOS 4.1 through Solaris 2.4. SUN PERFORMANCE AND TUNING is based upon customer inquiries for hard-to-find tuning information. The descriptions of how to understand and use the information given by system monitoring tools provides an insight that cannot be found elsewhere. The book is intended to be read sequentially, covering the most significant and most common performance problems first. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9001: General FlashBack/SunFlash Information This article contains general information about the electronic journals that I edit and publish: "SunFlash" , "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack" I produced "The Florida SunFlash" for nearly six years. "SunFlash" is the continuation of that journal. When "SunFlash" grew to about 100 articles per month, 140,000+ subscribers and 30,000+ article requests per month I decided that it was time to make some changes. 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