Insignia Solutions pledges support for newly announced Apple/IBM/Motorola standard; leading PC-compatibility vendor to further enable PowerPC technology.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 1994--Insignia Solutions, the industry leader in PC-compatibility for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). workstations and Macintosh computers, today announced that its SoftWindows product will support the new hardware reference platform for the PowerPC microprocessor announced by Apple Computer Inc., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp. and Motorola Inc. at a press conference held Monday (Nov. 7). The three companies, who are also responsible for the development of the PowerPC chip, announced that they have reached an agreement to develop a new platform standard based on the PowerPC technology. Insignia Solutions already supports the Power Macintosh See Power Mac. (computer) Power Macintosh - Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Macintosh systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. and the current PowerPC-based offerings from IBM and Motorola with SoftWindows for Power Macintosh and SoftWindows for UNIX. The new platform defines an architecture that can be used by any hardware or software vendor to build compatible PowerPC-based computer products. As such, it marks an important development for the computing community at large. ``The performance and compatibility of this new hardware reference platform will provide customers with superior computing machines,'' said Robert P. Lee, Insignia Solutions' president and chief executive officer. ``The ability to run a multitude of operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. on a single computer will make this an especially important machine for the corporate environment.'' Insignia Solutions is uniquely positioned to support the new hardware reference platform by building on its existing technology, user interface and support infrastructure for both Power Macintosh and PowerPC AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. to provide solutions across all of Apple, IBM and Motorola's PowerPC product lines. Insignia Solutions' PC compatibility solutions will provide added value Added value in financial analysis of shares is to be distinguished from value added. Used as a measure of shareholder value, calculated using the formula:
(operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. and 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. with the Mac OS and AIX environments. Insignia Solutions currently offers complete PC compatibility on Apple's Power Macintosh, IBM's RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. System/6000 machines, and the Motorola PowerStack family of PowerPC-based workstations. In addition, Insignia Solutions' PC compatibility technology is featured in RISC-based NT, including the recently released Windows NT 3.5. Apple currently bundles SoftWindows for Power Macintosh on specific configurations of its PowerPC-based machines. In addition, IBM is bundling an evaluation copy of SoftWindows for UNIX on the new RS/6000 Model 40P PowerPC-based workstation; and Insignia recently announced support for the new Motorola PowerStack family of PowerPC-based workstations. ``This new platform will appeal to a broad spectrum of PC users, and has the potential to be very successful among corporate customers,'' added Lee. ``We are enthusiastic about the announcement, and are excited that we'll be able to support this product.'' Insignia Solutions Insignia Solutions is the industry's leading developer of PC-compatibility solutions for Macintosh computers and UNIX workstations. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. develops, markets and sells products designed to run Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS applications on Macintosh computers and HP, DEC, IBM, Motorola, NeXT, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. and Sun/SPARC workstations. Headquartered in Mountain View, the company has strategic relationships with Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Novell and the industry's leading computer manufacturers, chip suppliers and operating systems vendors. The company's sales and marketing departments are located in Mountain View and Andover, Mass. Research and development are conducted in High Wycombe, England. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Copyright 1994 Insignia Solutions. All rights reserved. Insignia and Insignia Solutions are registered trademarks of Insignia Solutions. SoftWindows is a trademark used under license. Apple, Macintosh and Power Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. IBM, AIX and RISC System/6000 are registered trademarks, and PowerPC and RS/6000 are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp. MS-DOS is a registered trademark and Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corp. All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Insignia Solutions
Joanne Sperans Hartzell, 415/335-7197
Darin R. Kotalik, 415/335-7185
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