* To: slug@Sunset.AI.SRI.COM
    * Subject: SYMBOLICS ENTERS SECOND PHASE OF MAJOR SYSTEMS/SERVICES CONTRACT WITH SPRINT
    * From: Lynda Little <Little@RIVERSIDE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
    * Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:38-0400

	Contact:  Mimi Englander or Leslie Scott, Sterling Hager, Inc., (617) 259-1400

								FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SYMBOLICS ENTERS SECOND PHASE OF MAJOR SYSTEMS/SERVICES CONTRACT WITH SPRINT

		--Sprint Completes Phase I Development of State-of-the Art,
			Real-Time Telephone Fraud Detection Application
			Using Symbolics' Object-Oriented Technology--

	CONCORD, Mass., September 24, 1992 -- Symbolics, Inc. today
announced that it has completed a significant contract with
telecommunications industry leader, Sprint.  This has resulted in the
development by Sprint of a real-time telephone fraud detection
application using Symbolics' object-oriented programming environment.
The contract is a two-fold agreement consisting of Symbolics' systems
and consulting services.

	First, Sprint purchased more than 50 Symbolics turnkey systems
for developing the fraud detection application.  The initial phase
involving the development of the application has been completed and is
in the process of being deployed.  In the second phase, Symbolics
Consulting Group is assisting the Sprint project team in several
facets of application development and deployment, including
integrating multiple mainframe andIworkstation-based systems in a
wide-area network supporting TCP/IP, X.25 and SNA.

	"This contract epitomizes Symbolics' strength as a provider of
comprehensive solutions to mission-critical business problems," stated
Symbolics Vice President, Development and Consulting, Saiid Zarrabian.
"We believe we offer the best application development environment
currently available to address problems of this magnitude and
complexity, and our Consulting Group possesses the expertise to assist
customers like Sprint with programming services, systems analysis and
computer network integration to help ensure the most feasible
migration path for the application."

	Commenting on the relationship with Symbolics, Sprint's
Director, Toll Fraud Prevention, Myra DeVall, stated: "This
application will help Sprint maintain a leadership role in the
telecommunications industry in terms of enhancing our commitment to
provide our customers with the best protection against fraudulent
telephone usage.  We selected Symbolics because it meets our needs
from the standpoint of providing the appropriate equipment, consulting
services and programming development assistance to address a specific
business problem.  Symbolics' consulting services personnel have
worked closely with us to ensure that the application will function as
it should and integrate easily and without penalty into our existing
systems."

	Sprint is a diversified international telecommunications
company with $8.9 billion in annual revenues and the United States'
only nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network.  Its divisions
provide global long distance voice, data and video products and
services, and local telephone services to more than 4 million
subscriber lines in 17 states.

	Symbolics Consulting Group, an operational division of
Symbolics, applies advanced technology to solve mission-critical
business problems that are beyond the realm of conventional software
approaches.  The Consulting Group provides services in the areas of
systems planning, application development and feasibility analysis for
the development and deployment of advanced information systems.

	Symbolics, Inc., (NASDAQ: SMBX) headquartered in Concord,
Mass., is the leading provider of symbolic processing technology used
in sophisticated applications, including online decision support,
expert systems, and scheduling and planning.  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 the telecommunications,
manufacturing, utilities and transport industries.

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