SunSoft Endorses New PowerPC Platform Specification; New Solaris Operating System Beta Now Available for ISVs and Corporate Developers.LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 1995--SunSoft, Inc., the information and communications infrastructure software company, today endorsed the new PowerPC Platform See PPCP. (architecture, standard) PowerPC Platform - (PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform) An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different specification, jointly announced by Apple, 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. Solaris, SunSoft's enterprise and Internet operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , now runs on PowerPC microprocessor-based computers from IBM and Motorola that adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. the PowerPC Reference Platform PowerPC Reference Platform - PowerPC Platform (PReP) specification -- the predecessor to the PowerPC Platform (formerly known as CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) A specification that was intended to make the PowerPC a standard platform. Also known as the PowerPC Reference Platform (PPCP), it defined minimum hardware requirements such as ports, sockets, bootstrap ROM and cache. ). "SunSoft's endorsement of the PowerPC Platform specification is consistent with our support and promotion of open standards," said Steve MacKay, vice president and general manager of SunSoft's Solaris Products Group. "We look forward to offering Solaris, the most scalable and secure 32-bit network operating system An operating system that is designed for network use. Normally, it is a complete operating system with file, task and job management; however, with some earlier products, it was a separate component that ran under the OS; for example, LAN Server required OS/2, and LANtastic required DOS. , on PowerPC Platform systems from hardware partners such as Apple, IBM and Motorola." SunSoft is now shipping a beta version of Solaris 2.5 for PowerPC computers, which includes SunSoft's award winning ProWorks developer tools, to software manufacturers and corporate developers creating information and communications applications. IBM and Motorola now plan to begin shipping Solaris with PowerPC computers in the first quarter of 1996. Solaris is an enterprise and Internet operating system that is scalable from laptops to 64-processor superservers, from one user to thousands, and can handle terabyte-sized databases. Solaris is available with a suite of infrastructure software for developing, deploying and managing advanced information and communications applications including customer management systems and stock trading on Wall Street. SunSoft's operating system is also available for SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill , UltraSPARC, Pentium and Pentium Pro computers. SunSoft Inc. SunSoft, Inc. is the leading provider of information and communications infrastructure software. SunSoft's products -- designed for IT professionals, systems integrators, value added resellers and computer manufacturers -- are used to deliver network, Internet, and desktop computing systems that improve a company's internal and customer communications, and lets them quickly adapt to business change. The products are licensed and distributed through computer manufacturers and resellers worldwide. SunSoft is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. For more information, contact SunSoft on the Internet at http://www.sun.com/sunsoft/. -0- Note to Editors: 1995 Sun Microsystems, Sun, the Sun logo, SunSoft, the SunSoft logo, Solaris, are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Unix is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively leased through X/Open Company, Ltd. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All other products or service names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: SunSoft, Inc. Diane McGary, 415/336-1379 or GCI GCI Ground Circuit Interrupter GCI Getty Conservation Institute GCI Global Commerce Initiative GCI Green Cross International (non-profit international environmental organization) GCI Growth Competitiveness Index GCI Great Cities Institute San Francisco Julia Scarisbrick, 415/974-6200 |
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