* To: slug@Warbucks, Symbolics@RIVERSIDE.SCRC.Symbolics * Subject: UX1200S Press Announcement * From: Kimberly L. Cook * Date: Wed, 31 Oct 90 11:52 PST * cc: cook@RIVERSIDE.SCRC.Symbolics Contact: Susan Zellmann-Rohrer, Symbolics, Inc., (617) 221-1021 Mimi Englander, Sterling Hager, Inc., (617) 259-1400 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SYMBOLICS ANNOUNCES 300% PERFORMANCE JUMP FOR SUN-BASED CO-PROCESSOR FAMILY -- New Symbolics UX1200S supports multiple processors within a single Sun host -- -- Provides desktop access to cost-effective Lisp processing network server -- BURLINGTON, Mass., October 16, 1990 -- Symbolics, Inc., (NASDAQ:SMBX), today unveiled the Symbolics UX1200S, the Company's next generation co-processor for Lisp-based applications running on popular SPARC-based workstations from Sun Microsystems, Inc. This new processor offers a performance improvement of 300% over the existing Symbolics UX400S product. The UX1200S brings Genera 8.0, the latest version of Symbolics' widely acclaimed object-oriented development system, to the UNIX environment. The Company also announced that up to five UX1200S processors may be configured within a single Sun host and accessed remotely from any X Window System-based terminal or workstation. The UX1200S can now be configured as a high performance networked server offering a powerful platform for the development of AI, CAD/CAE, manufacturing and other advanced engineering applications. Gary Roberts, Symbolics' senior product manager, stated, "Combining the power and capabilities of the UX1200S with the familiarity of Sun's UNIX environment provides the developer of object-oriented and symbolic processing programs with the best of both worlds. The UX1200S/Sun combination provides a hardware and software environment that is especially designed to help the programmer tackle complex application requirements." In addition to a fast, effective instruction rate, UX1200S hardware provides such features as an extended instruction set that directly supports object-oriented programming; transparent, automatic storage management; and memory management that gracefully handles the large, active virtual memories normally used in the rapid software development process. The UX1200S co-processor including 20MB of ECC memory and the Genera development environment will be available in December 1990 for $23,500 (U.S.). An additional 20MB of add-on memory is available for $6,000 (U.S.). Symbolics, Inc., headquartered in Burlington, Mass., is the leading provider of symbolic processing hardware and software used in sophisticated applications, including interactive scheduling and planning, hypertext-based publishing, computer- aided mathematical computing and HDTV-based graphics imaging and processing. Symbolics, Symbolics UX1200S and Symbolics UX400S are trademarks, and Genera is a registered trademark of Symbolics, Inc. All product names used herein which are not the trademarks of Symbolics are the trademarks of their respective owners. 1,, Received: from IU.AI.SRI.COM by Sunset.AI.SRI.COM (4.1/4.16) id AB28609 for tyson; Wed, 31 Oct 90 14:05:05 PST Received: from Warbucks.AI.SRI.COM by IU.AI.SRI.COM via SMTP with TCP; Wed, 31 Oct 90 12:40:19-PST Received: from SLUG-EAST.SCRC.Symbolics.COM by Warbucks.AI.SRI.COM with INTERNET ; Wed, 31 Oct 90 11:37:35 PST Received: from TITANIA.OBERON.DIALNET.SYMBOLICS.COM by SLUG-EAST.SCRC.Symbolics.COM via DIAL with SMTP id 10145; 31 Oct 1990 15:37:35-0500 Received: from PUCK.Oberon.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM by TITANIA.Oberon.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM via CHAOS with CHAOS-MAIL id 10746; 31 Oct 90 15:35:42 EST Date: Wed, 31 Oct 90 15:35 EST From: MMcM@TITANIA.Oberon.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM (Mike McMahon) Subject: Trace a message To: sauthier%eldi.epfl.ch@Warbucks.ai.sri.com Cc: slug@Warbucks.ai.sri.com In-Reply-To: <901029173247.3kd@sic.epfl.ch> Message-Id: <19901031203536.2.MMCM@PUCK.Oberon.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM>