Adaptive Solutions' PowerShop SWEEPS best product awards.BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 3, 1996--Adaptive Solutions(R) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ADSO) today announced that its PowerShop accelerator board An add-in board that replaces the existing CPU with a higher performance CPU. See graphics accelerator. is the winner of three best-of-class awards from premier desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, magazines. MacUser honored Adaptive Solutions with a Best New Accelerator "Eddy" award, describing it as "the smartest $2,000 a Photoshop user can spend." Computer Artist recognized PowerShop in its "Top Ten" products of the year and Photo Electronic Imaging bestowed Adaptive with the "Cool2" award for being the best imaging accelerator of 1995. In all cases, editors from each publication nominated, evaluated and selected winners based on technological innovation, quality, performance, ease-of-use, broadness in scope and affordability. The MacUser "Eddy Award" recognizes the best Macintosh hardware and software products released during the year. Computer Artist honors outstanding contributions to artists' and designers' toolboxes, while Photo Electronic Imaging's "Cool2" award recognizes the most desirable, "cool to the second power," imaging products. "To be selected best-of-the-best from a publication's in-house staff that actually uses products like PowerShop is a real honor," said Bob Anundson, vice president and general manager, Prepress for Adaptive Solutions. "When an artist, desktop publisher or designer is in creative mode, every second counts. They see how fast PowerShop speeds up their ability to experiment with design techniques and they understand the value." PowerShop, the world's fastest Adobe Photoshop See Photoshop. accelerator, accelerates Photoshop functions by factors of up to 1,000 percent over the fastest Macintosh systems, delivering unmatched speed increases to computation-intensive tasks such as unsharp mask, rotate, color transformations, Gaussian blur A type of image filter commonly used to blur an object. It may be used to blur the entire image or to produce a drop shadow effect. See image filter.  and many others. The PowerShop acceleration family is composed of two products -- PowerShop/NuBus and PowerShop/PCI -- and has a street price of around $2,000. For more information on the awards Adaptive Solutions' PowerShop received, consult the publications' web pages. MacUser: www.zdnet.com/~macuser/eddy95 Computer Artist: www.pennwell.com/compart.html Photo Electronic Imaging: www.peimag.com/cool2.1.htm Adaptive Solutions, headquartered in Beaverton, Ore., pioneered parallel processing for the desktop and embedded applications. Adaptive designs and manufactures parallel processing products using the CNAPS CNAPS Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies architecture for pattern recognition applications, including image processing and neural networks. For more information, contact Adaptive Solutions at 1400 NW Compton Dr., Suite 340, Beaverton, OR 97006. Phone: 800/482-6277; Fax: 503/690-1249; Internet: www.asi.com. -0- Adaptive Solutions and the Adaptive Solutions logo are registered trademarks of Adaptive Solutions Inc. PowerShop is a trademark of Adaptive Solutions Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. CONTACT: EDITORIAL INFORMATION KVO KVO Keep Vein Open KVO Key-Value Observing KVO Kunstvakonderwijs (Dutch) KVO Keeler, Vandyke, O'Brien (KVO Industries; Santa Rosa CA) Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Lindy lin·dy or Lin·dy n. pl. lin·dies A lively swing dance for couples. Also called lindy hop. [From Lindynickname of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Holt, 503/221-2371 lindy_holt@kvo.com or Adaptive Solutions Bob Anundson, 503/690-1236 boba@asi.com or INVESTOR INFORMATION Harris Massey Herinckx Fletcher Chamberlin, 503/295-1922 NOTE TO EDITORS: In the Internet/email address noted in this news release, there is an "at" symbol between lindy_holt and kvo.com and between boba and asi.com. There is also a tilde A symbol used in Windows, starting with Windows 95, that maintains a short version of a long file or directory name for compatibility with Windows 3.1 and DOS. For example, the short version of a file named "Letter to Joe" would be LETTER~1. Then "Letter to Pat" becomes LETTER~2. symbol between MacUser: www.zdnet.com/ and macuser/eddy95. These symbols may not appear properly in some systems. |
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