* To: Slug@Sunset.AI.SRI.COM, ALU-Board@Sunset.AI.SRI.COM * Subject: NXP1000 Press Release * From: chay@RIVERSIDE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM * Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 15:25-0400 * Cc: groberts@RIVERSIDE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM, chay@RIVERSIDE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM * Fcc: R:>bell>bell.lisp.newest * Sender: Bell@RIVERSIDE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM Contact: Mimi Englander, Sterling Hager, Inc., (617) 259-1400 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SYMBOLICS INTRODUCES THE NXP1000 FOR BUSINESS APPLICATION SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ON UNIX WORKSTATIONS --Object Oriented Programming Technology Pioneer Provides UNIX Developers Access to its Rich Genera Development Environment-- --Symbolics Takes Significant Step Toward its Goal of Becoming a Fundamental Software Developer and Services Provider-- SAN JOSE, Calif., July 14, 1992 -- Symbolics, Inc., one of the original providers of object-oriented programming systems, today announced at the 1992 National Conference of Artificial Intelligence, a significant step toward making its rich Genera development system available on all standards-based platforms with the introduction of the NXP1000. The NXP1000 consists of the Genera software development environment and a hardware peripheral which fits into a standard networked UNIX environment and is designed to run on almost any UNIX workstation or X terminal system. "The NXP1000 represents the first in a series of steps Symbolics will be taking over the next twelve months to move our Genera software off of our proprietary hardware platform and on to standard platforms, potentially including those of Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel-based systems, and others," stated Symbolics President and Chief Executive Officer, Kenneth J. Tarpey. "Our goal is to provide corporations and government agencies the ability to cost-effectively solve mission-critical business application problems not easily addressed by more limited object-oriented programming methodologies." Customers who have used Genera to develop applications include: AT&T, American Airlines, American Express, Delta Air Lines, Exxon, Lufthansa, U.S. Sprint, as well as NASA, the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force. Genera Offers Many Advantages Over Traditional UNIX-based Systems The NXP1000 Genera programming environment will give UNIX workstation developers the most comprehensive object-oriented development and delivery environment currently available, as well as Symbolics' integrated, object-oriented building blocks. Companies are increasingly encountering extremely complex problems in mission-critical business areas such as interactive planning and scheduling, financial data analysis and engineering design and analysis. These problems are usually beyond the ability of traditional UNIX-based systems to solve. With the NXP1000, which works within heterogeneous computing environments, developers will now be able to tie together enormous amounts of unstructured, diverse data and develop and deploy application solutions on a tight schedule, even with limited programming staff resources. Pricing and Availability The NXP1000, which features Symbolics' 40-bit tagged Ivory architecture, 20 MBytes of ECC memory, a 500 MB disk and Genera software release 8.2 or later, will be available in September for $18,700 (U.S.). A floating point accelerator, larger disk and memory expansion are available as options. For current Symbolics customers, the NXP1000 provides backward compatibility with Genera and with layered Symbolics products. Customers who move to the NXP1000 from older Symbolics systems will receive an attractive upgrade price and realize greatly reduced maintenance costs. Symbolics, Inc., (NASDAQ: SMBX) headquartered in Concord, Mass., is the leading provider of symbolic technology used in sophisticated applications, including on-line decision support, expert systems, scheduling and planning and computer-aided mathematical computing. The Company provides software and hardware tools and consulting services to some of the world's largest corporations, devising applications solutions to mission-critical business problems in industries including telecommunications, manufacturing, utilities, transportation, as well as the government sector. ### Genera is a registered trademark and NXP1000 and Ivory are trademarks of Symbolics, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.