NetUSA, Inc. Announces New Software - DiskGate - Gateway to Disk Analysis, Editing & Viewing in Windows 95.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 1998--NetUSA, Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). BB:NTSA NTSA National Training Systems Association NTSA National Tuberous Sclerosis Association NTSA National Technical Services Association NTSA National Training and Simulation Association NTSA National Traffic Safety Administration ) announced today that it will release its newest software product, DiskGate and a limited demonstration version will be available on its web site now (http://www.netusa.com/pacmicro/whatnew.htm). DiskGate will be the first commercial disk editing and viewing utility developed for a Microsoft Windows See Windows. (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. 95 interface. It allows the user to view and edit a large number of storage media, many of which were previously unsupported by any disk editing utilities. In particular, DiskGate provides access to 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. , parallel port, and CD-ROM drives CD-ROM drives, which today typically means a CD-RW drive that is a combo CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW drive, come in a variety of speeds. The original drive (1x) transferred data at 150KB per second. , most of which are not supported by any other disk editing utility. The user may also edit such objects as files, logical or physical sectors, boot tables, partition tables, and directories and view them in a variety of ways. Currently, most disk editing and viewing utilities are still confined to an 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. interface; DiskGate, on the other hand, provides a Windows 95-native interface. This also greatly enhances DiskGate's capability, since the MS-DOS-native applications cannot access Windows 95's directory and file structure while DiskGate can. One engineer even jokingly said, "DiskGate is so powerful that it can show you what Microsoft Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. don't want you to see!" "DiskGate will be a very handy disk analysis, editing and viewing tool and also will provide a host of other functions that makes it useful not only to the engineers but to the general computer users as well," said President of NetUSA, Dr. Wun C. Chiou, Sr. "DiskGate will allow the copying and erasing of disks, as well as the backup of a disk to a compressed disk image and the restoration of the disk from that image. In addition, DiskGate will provide great amounts of technical information about disk drives that can greatly assist the user in trouble-shooting the drives if they malfunction." NetUSA plans to retail DiskGate at $99.95, and also plans to release a Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. version in early summer 1998, as well as a professional version with disk optimization and other powerful capabilities. NetUSA is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley. NetUSA currently has three divisions: Telecom Division, which provides top quality Internet phone (1) See IP phone and softphone. (2) (Internet Phone) The first VoIP telephone service in the U.S., introduced in early 1995 by VocalTec Communications Ltd., Fort Lee, NJ (www.vocaltec.com). Using a Windows softphone, calls could also be made to a regular phone. and fax services; Software Division (alias Pacific Micro), which produces the highly-regarded file transfer utility Mac-In-DOS; and Web Services, which provides complete web solutions for business and www.softwarecenter.com, an important software listing and ordering service. NetUSA also owned and operated www.kidscenter.net, a free home page service for kids around the world. For more information, contact Mr. Howard Lee, Executive Vice President (howard@netusa.com), or Mr. Nelson Lu, Special Assistant to President (nlu@netusa.com). The company may also be contacted at 201 San Antonio Circle C250, Mountain View, Calif. 94040, or by phone at 650/948-6200 or 650/948-6296 (Fax). CONTACT: NetUSA Howard Lee or Nelson Lu, 650/948-6200 howard@netusa.com nlu@netusa.com |
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