TERA Technologies Introduces EZ-Win -- Personal Access to Windows 95 Applications and Peripherals from UNIX Workstations and X Terminals.BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 1998--TERA Technologies, Inc. today introduced EZ-Win(TM), software that allows virtually all X-windows based UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). workstations and X terminals to remotely run Windows 95 and DOS applications, and access PC peripherals over a local area network. UNIX system Noun 1. UNIX system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX operating system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services administrators can also use EZ-Win to administer Windows 95 machines over the network. EZ-Win users can remotely run Windows-based word processors, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, database applications, and other popular applications. EZ-Win works with Windows 95 and uses actual PC hardware to run applications that are not compatible with software-only PC simulators. EZ-Win provides an interface to PC-based hardware such as fax-modems, scanners, CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). writing drives, and instrumentation, as well as allowing DOS applications to be run in their own DOS window. EZ-Win also functions as a virtual docking station for UNIX users who also use Windows 95 laptops. EZ-Win enables them to connect their full-sized UNIX screen and keyboard to their laptop. "EZ-Win saves me time because I can remotely setup and operate a classroom-based PC and LCD projector from the 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 in my office. EZ-Win works well, even on a 100 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium, and unlike a software simulator, it doesn't consume my workstation's CPU time and memory," said Dr. Richard Auletta, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to:
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