PowerPC Commitment to COMDEX reflects 'importance of event'.NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 3, 1994--The announcement yesterday that the PowerPC Alliance (Apple Computer, 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) and Motorola) will be a major exhibitor at COMDEX/Fall '94 in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , November 14-18, "confirms again the importance of the event in resolving technology issues of the utmost seriousness." That, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Interface Chairman and COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). founder, Sheldon G. Adelson. He added: "COMDEX/Fall is where technology issues are resolved, because the event is structured to offer attendees the opportunity to make meaningful, side-by-side comparisons of competing systems and products." At COMDEX/Fall '94 more than 190,000 computer-communications industry professionals, from more than 100 countries, will be "comparing the claims and counter-claims from vendors involved with Intel, PowerPC, Alpha and SPARC-based systems," Adelson concluded. The big PowerPC Pavilion will be located directly in front of the main entrance to the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. , and will feature dozens of independent software developers demonstrating "native applications" running on a variety of PowerPC-based systems. More than 2,200 companies from the global computer-communications industry will be exhibiting at several Las Vegas locations during COMDEX Week. CONTACT: COMDEX/Fall'94 Peter B. Young, 617/449-6600 |
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