SYSTRAN Software Inc. Announces SYSTRAN Classic for Windows; An Affordable Version of its Highly Acclaimed Language Translation Software.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 1997--SYSTRAN Software, Inc. announces the launch of SYSTRAN SYSTRAN System Analysis Translator Classic for Windows, powerful translation software at a price-point that makes it affordable to the individual or small business user. The product will ship on Nov. 3. "SYSTRAN Classic gives consumers the same translation power that was recently available only to multinational corporations and government agencies with access to mainframe computers," said Christian Raby, SYSTRAN's vice president of sales and marketing. SYSTRAN Classic, available in English from/into French, Italian, German, Spanish and Portuguese, translates 150,000 words per hour with a Pentium processor. It is a native 32-bit program, compatible with Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT. The program enables the user to translate directly on-screen, viewing both source and target languages in the same screen or to send one file to translation with just the click of a key. SYSTRAN Classic offers one of the largest word/phrase dictionaries available and user-defined Customer Specific Dictionaries. The program retains the original document format with no pre-editing required. Source text can be RTF (Rich Text Format) A document format from Microsoft for encoding text and graphics. It was adapted from IBM's DCA format and supports ANSI, IBM PC and Macintosh character sets. , ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. , ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. or HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. files. SYSTRAN Classic will be distributed through a worldwide network of resellers and distributors. The retail price is $395 per bidirectional The ability to move, transfer or transmit in both directions. language pair. Each package contains the software for all language pairs; the buyer activates the ones they want. SYSTRAN's software is integrated into the international business interests and globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation efforts of a number of Fortune 500 companies, including Xerox Corp., Ford Motor Co., and Dow Corning Corp. The Department of Defense's Advanced Research Project Agency and the Commission of European Communities have determined that SYSTRAN products are among the most accurate in the world. -0- MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: 486 Intel or compatible, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Windows NT; recommend 16 MB RAM, 15 MB hard disk space (per language pair), 20 MB swap file size. CONTACT: for SYSTRAN Software, Inc. Barbara Metz, 619/283-1303 E-mail: metz@ix.netcom.com |
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