RAPID GROWTH OF TIA, THE INTERNET ADAPTER, POINTS TO ACCEPTANCE BY USERS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS ALIKE.

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 1995--TIA,(TM) The Internet Adapter, continues winning acceptance as an alternative for those who want full graphical access to the Internet without the complications and typically higher cost of a SLIP or PPP account.

InterMind(TM) Corp., marketer of TIA, has announced that paid single-user licenses for TIA are approaching 14,000, and that host and site licenses have climbed past 400 -- all in the eight months since TIA's introduction in August, 1994. With four new versions of TIA now available -- for 68000-based Sun 3 systems, Silicon Graphics IRIX 5.2, Linux 1.1.59, and Novell Unixware 1.1.3 -- TIA 1.03 runs on a total of 16 host computer platforms. Versions for additional platforms, including VAX/VMS, are in progress.

TIA upgrades an Internet dial-up, or "shell," account to provide the capabilities of a full SLIP account. Users of shell accounts with TIA can connect to the Internet using graphical programs such as the Mosaic and Netscape Navigator World Wide Web browsers, e-mail clients such as Eudora and Pegasus, and any other popular Internet access tool conforming to the SLIP/PPP standard. InterMind will demonstrate TIA at Internet World Spring '95, in the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, Calif., on April 10-13, 1995.

"Corporations and institutions are moving to the World Wide Web in unprecedented numbers," said Drummond Reed, president of InterMind. "This movement is reflected in the number of regular Web users -- two million by one estimate(1). In just the eight months between August, 1994 and today, the number of Internet users covered by TIA licenses grew from zero to over 200,000, reflecting the huge demand for graphical access to the net."

Reed attributes the demand for TIA to two factors: 1) User demand for reliable, low-cost graphical net access, and 2) the ability of Independent Service Providers (ISPs) to offer low-cost SLIP-compatible accounts using TIA without having to obtain and administer Internet "IP" addresses for each user. "TIA gives the ISP a competitive advantage," said Reed. "The ability to offer customers full graphical connectivity without the administrative complexity of managing IP addresses is tremendously appealing."

According to Reed, both TIA users and providers have commented favorably about TIA's performance. "People think of it as a 'SLIP emulator,' and they expect it to be slow," he said. "They're surprised when they find that TIA is often 5% to 15% faster than SLIP, in part because data can be retransmitted from the host computer much faster than from the user's local computer.

TIA is available through marketplace.com, the World Wide Web site maintained by Cyberspace Development Inc. and InterMind Corp. at http://marketplace.com. For more information about the single-user version of TIA, send blank e-mail to [e-mail]. If you are not connected to the Internet, call the TIA fax-on-demand line at 800/807-3601 for a three-page summary of how to get a low-cost graphical Internet connection using TIA and a shell account. Newcomers to the Internet can also call SoftAware, an authorized TIA reseller in Los Angeles, at 310/314-1466.

For more information about host or site licenses for TIA, access providers should send blank e-mail to [e-mail].

TIA is jointly delivered by InterMind Corp. and Cyberspace Development Inc. Cyberspace Development, the creator of TIA, specializes in software development for the Internet. Its engineers have over 25 years of commercial development experience and have been active on the net since 1980. Located in Boulder, Colo., Cyberspace Development operates Marketplace.com: The Internet Information Mall,SM and the on-line ordering and information center for TIA. Marketplace.com can be explored via World Wide Web browsers or gopher at http://marketplace.com/.

InterMind is a Seattle firm whose mission is the development of new technologies for intelligent information exchange. InterMind worked closely in the design of the Internet-based sales system used to distribute and support TIA, and is responsible for TIA marketing and sales.

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-- The Internet Adapter and TIA are trademarks of Cyberspace Development Inc. InterMind is a trademark of InterMind Corp.

(1) "Catching Customers on the Web," Steven Dickman, Inc. Technology, Summer 95, page 56

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