3Com First to Reach PC 98 Certification Milestone.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 1999--3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ) today announced it has obtained the first PC 98 certification on CardBus LAN adapters for mobile computers. The PC 98 designation guarantees that the 3Com Megahertz One million cycles per second. See MHz. MegaHertz - (MHz) Millions of cycles per second. The unit of frequency used to measure the clock rate of modern digital logic, including microprocessors. (R) 10/100 LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. CardBus PC Card is compatible with Microsoft Windows NT(R), Microsoft Windows(R) 95, Microsoft Windows(R) 98, and other products that bear the PC 98 logo. The PC 98 certification process includes a rigorous set of tests to ensure products are stable, easy-to-use, and take advantage of the new features of Microsoft operating systems The following is a list of Microsoft operating systems. For the codenames that Microsoft gave their operating systems, see Microsoft codenames. Before Windows
Available with 3Com's durable XJACK(R) connector, the 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card (models 3CCFE CCfE Commonwealth Consortium for Education (UK) CCFE Commercial Contractor Furnished Equipment 575BT and 3CXFE575BT) delivers the easiest, most reliable 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX network connections for notebooks with 32-bit CardBus slots. Additional product information can be found at http://www.3com.com/mobile. 3Com's announcement of PC 98 certification for the Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card comes shortly after the January 19 announcement of the 3Com-Microsoft alliance -- a strategic relationship intended to accelerate deployment of a new generation of converged networks. 3Com also announced that it will open a development center near the Microsoft campus in Redmond to ensure product quality, bring products to market quickly and support cooperative product development. 3Com, Megahertz and XJACK are registered trademarks of 3Com Corporation. Microsoft, Windows and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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