REPEAT/Year 2000 Wire/CommUnique Announces Contract to Impact Analyze 30 Million Lines of Code; CommUnique Teams with Formal Systems to Provide Large-Scale Year 2000 Analysis and Conversion Solutions with Superior Accuracy and Automation for the NATURAL and PL/1 Program Languages.ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 1997--CommUnique Wireless Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :NIQU) , developers of routing software for use in the spread spectrum radio frequency for wireless Internet and Intranet access, today announced, through its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. Tech Associates International, that it has teamed with Formal Systems, Inc., a leader in the re-engineering of legacy software and automated Year 2000 solutions, to market large-scale Year 2000 analysis and conversion solutions for the NATURAL and PL/1 programming languages. The Company also announced the signing of a contract to impact analyze 30 million lines of NATURAL code for an unidentified user. The licensing agreement enables Tech Associates to provide Year 2000 impact analysis and remediation services in the U.S. and South America through the use of Formal's NXL/NXL2000 tools. NXL NXL National XBall League NXL Network Exchange Limited 2000 is a workstation-based toolset which supports the automated analysis and the re-engineering of Year 2000 defects in the NATURAL and PL/1 programming languages. There are an estimated 1500 users of NATURAL with approximately 3 billion lines of code The statements and instructions that a programmer writes when creating a program. One line of this "source code" may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the programming language. A line of code in assembly language is typically turned into one machine instruction. requiring Year 2000 analysis and remediation. PL/1 is a programming language developed by 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) , with an estimated over 20 billion lines of code worldwide. "We are pleased to be working with Formal Systems to deliver the industry's best analysis and remediation solutions for the NATURAL and PL/1 languages," said Vasili Kalomiris, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tech Associates International. CommUnique Corp. CommUnique Corp. is a provider of communications, networking, engineering and system integration services. The Company's key product lines include wireless communications systems, using the license-free spread spectrum to provide clients with cost-effective Internet and Intranet access and impact analysis and remediation solutions for clients in need of Year 2000 solutions for the NATURAL and PL/1 programming languages. Formal Systems, Inc. FSI FSI Foreign Service Institute FSI Fluid Structure Interaction FSI Fuel Stratified Injection FSI Federazione Scacchistica Italiana (Italian Chess Federation) FSI Free Standing Insert FSI Flight Simulator , based in Fredericton, Canada, specializes in the development of sophisticated software tools that support the re-engineering and maintenance of legacy software. Over the past 7 years FSI has used NXL toolsets to re-engineer over 45 million lines of code worldwide. Current and planned development projects will allow the use of NXL2000 technology in the identification and remediation of Year 2000 date problems in other languages such as FOCUS, PL/1, DCL, FORTRAN and Unisys COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. . CONTACT: CommUnique Wireless Corp. John Velie, 510/749-7802 |
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