Annabooks Announces Microsoft Teams Up with the 1999 PC Developers' Conference and Expo.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 1999--Annabooks announced that Microsoft Corp. will be hosting a Microsoft Windows CE Pavilion for developers and partners at this year's PC Developers' Conference and Expo to be held May 24 to 27 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. The product focus in Microsoft's booth will be mainly on Platform Builder, add-on tools and the Visual Basic development system. For the first time ever at the show, a special comprehensive track on designing and developing for Windows CE will be presented. Leading developers will be sharing their Windows CE expertise. As part of the program, Microsoft's Mark Svancarek will be presenting a paper on Windows CE Hardware Reference Platforms. Cyra Richardson, also from Microsoft, will be presenting a session on Embedding Windows CE. Annasoft's Sean Liming will be discussing Platform Builder, and Intel's Vandana Verma will be presenting Pentium Based Windows CE Designs. "The PC Developers' Conference has grown to be a significant event for industry developers and engineers," said Tony Barbagallo, group product manager, Windows CE, Microsoft Corp. "Our partners will be joining us at the Windows CE Pavilion to present the latest developments in the Windows CE OS and embedded applications." In addition to Microsoft, this year's corporate sponsors include Intel Corporation, Lucent Technologies Microelectronics, Tundra Semiconductor, and Xilinx. Major exhibitors include Compaq, General Micro Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Home PNA PNA Palestinian National Authority PNA Phoneline Networking Alliance PNA Peptide Nucleic Acid PNA Personal Navigation Assistant PNA Pacific/North American PNA Polish National Alliance (established 1880 in Chicago, Illinois) SIG, National Instruments, PLX Technology, Performance Technologies, Texas Instruments, VMetro, Ziatech, and many others. Exhibition opportunities at the Windows CE Pavilion are still available. More on the Conference The PC Developers' Conference and Expo is truly a unique event - it stands at the intersection of mainstream technologies and the dedicated computing world. It affords developers the opportunity to learn today about what will be hot tomorrow. Formerly known as PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Plus, the 1999 show incorporates important current and evolving PC technologies, such as : CompactPCI, I2O (Intelligent I/O) A standard for offloading input and output to an auxiliary processor. The auxiliary processor (I/O processor) manages the data transfer while the CPU does something else. , IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394, PCI, SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. , USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. , Windows CE, and Wireless & Home Networking. The show will also cover the latest new I/O technologies, like PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. , NGI/O and Future I/O. The PC Developers' Conference is dedicated to providing real instruction rather than just industry information. Show sessions provide hard information from industry experts. From in-depth tutorials to the tightly focused technical sessions, attendees will find information that to take home and apply. The conference has been carefully structured to provide an enormous wealth of information in a short time span. The conference keynotes presented by industry leaders, the peer-to-peer panel discussions, and the "expert editors" Q&A session will get attendees up to date fast. The tutorials range from a half-day to two full days of instruction on the hottest technologies, covering the most important aspects and providing the knowledge that developers require to proceed with their designs. The one-hour technical sessions are even more focused, and provide detailed instruction on a particular aspect of an important technology. All this is combined with an exhibition featuring hundreds of cutting-edge companies displaying their products, performing demonstrations, and providing solutions to developers. Editors from the following sponsoring publications will be in attendance: Circuit Cellar Ink, Compact PCI Systems, Connector Specifier, COTS, EDN, EE Times, Electronic Systems, MicroTimes, PC/104 Systems Design, RTC See real time clock. , RealTime Development, Real-Time Magazine, VMEBus System, and Windows CE Tech Journal. More On Annabooks Annabooks has been producing books, workshops, and conferences for over nine years for the PC-compatible computer designer and the embedded designer. Their products cover a broad range of topics including PCI, CompactPCI, USB, I2O, PC Card, ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. & EISA (Extended ISA) Pronounced "ee-suh." A PC bus standard that extends the 16-bit ISA bus (AT bus) to 32 bits and provides bus mastering. ISA cards can plug into an EISA slot. , Flash Memory, Fuzzy Logic fuzzy logic, a multivalued (as opposed to binary) logic developed to deal with imprecise or vague data. Classical logic holds that everything can be expressed in binary terms: 0 or 1, black or white, yes or no; in terms of Boolean algebra, everything is in one set or , Windows CE and much more. The company also licenses the MS-DOS MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. , Windows 3.1x, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows CE, and Windows NT operating systems for the embedded market and offers custom porting and integration services. For more information, contact John Koon or Alison Pronovost at Annabooks, at 800/462-1042 or 619/673-0870. email: conference@annabooks.com or check the Web site www.annabooks.com. 11838 Bernardo Plaza Court, San Diego, CA 92128; 619/673-0870 voice; 619/673-1591 fax |
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