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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

                Third Party Product Announcements

SunFLASH Vol 46 #20					        October 1992 
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              SBus/HIPPI High Performance Interface

             IDE's StP/IM Information Modeling Tool

                 Book: UNIX SVR4 Migration Guide

     Book on TCP/IP now available from O'Reilly & Associates

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Subject:	SBus/HIPPI High Performance Interface
Contact:	Douglas Felder
Org:		CHI Systems, Inc.
Mail:		5860 West Las Positas Boulevard, Suite 25
		Pleasanton, CA 94588
Tel:		(800) 736-2322
		(510) 463-2322
Fax:		(510) 463-2513

        CHI Systems SBus/HIPPI High Performance Interface


CHI Systems wishes to announce development of a dual slot SBus card 
providing a connection between the SBus and a Bi-directional HIPPI 
channel.  The SBus/HIPPI interface connects SPARCstations and servers, 
and SPARC compatible workstations and servers, to HIPPI channels on 
high performance computers, peripherals, and switches.

The SBus/HIPPI High Performance Interface conforms to ANSI standard 
X3T9.3 which defines a simplex 32-bit parallel interface capable of 
transferring data at burst rates up to 98 MBytes/second and up to 
80Mbytes/second on the SBus.


Features
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Features of the SBus/HIPPI High Performance Interface include:

	o  SBus performance at up to 80Mbytes/sec burst transfer rates
	o  32-bit HIPPI data path and 32-bit SBus data path
	o  Bi-directional ANSI X3T9.3 HIPPI interface
	o  One Source and one Destination HIPPI channel for dual simplex
	   operation
	o  Software drivers for SunOS 4.1.3 and provided; Solaris 2.0 driver
	   under development
	o  Double wide SBus card requires 2 SBus slots
	o  Optional HIPPI cable available for connections of up to 25 meters		o  Built-in self test diagnostic circuitry

The ANSI X3T9.3 HIPPI interface specifies a 32-bit simplex data path to support
burst transfer rates of up to 98MBytes/second.  The CHI Systems SBus/HIPPI
Interface card can supply data to the SBus at up to 80Mbytes/second.
Actual throughput will vary depending upon the SBus memory architecture.

One HIPPI source and one HIPPI destination channel are present on the card.
Bi-directional data flow is therefore through dual simplex channels.

The CHI HIPPI Interface is a standard double-width SBus card requiring two free
side-by-side SBus slots.  HIPPI cabling of 5, 10, 15 or 25 meter lengths are
available from CHI Systems or from other cable vendors.  Cut-to-order lengths
are also available.

FIFO size is 4K words/16K bytes.

Built-in diagnostic circuitry exercises HIPPI and SBus loopback tests and
verifies all data paths on the interface card.

Software drivers consist of a character driver compatible with SunOS 4.1.3.
A System V streams drivers will be provided for Solaris 2.0.


Availability

Production quantities will be available for SunOS 4.1.3 by the end of March,
1993.  Solaris 2 drivers are planned to be available by mid-year, 1993.


Pricing

The SBus/HIPPI Interface has a list price of USD $6500.  For international
pricing, please contact Chi Systems (see below).

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Subject: 	IDE's StP/IM Information Modeling Tool
Org:		IDE's 
Mail:		595 Market Street, 10th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA.
Phone:		1-800-888-IDE1.
Contact:	Nobby Akiha, IDE (415) 543-0900
Contact:	Tamelyn Holter, IDE, Europe +33 (1) 39 02 26 02 (France)

IDE recently introduced StP/IM (Software through Pictures/Information
Modeling), which provides data modeling to enable commercial 
programmer/analysts to design databases and create enterprise data models.

This announcement will make IDE's product line much more attractive to 
the commercial market.  It will also strengthen Sun's commercial CASE
offering in an area where Sun has been lacking (data modeling), especially
for commercial programmers who are now developing applications in C, C++, 
or some 4GLs such as Uniface, but who still need to design databases for 
these applications.


                      IDE Introduces StP/IM

       "The Most Comprehensive Information Modeling Tool "

Summary:

NEW YORK, NY, September 22, 1992 -- at UNIX Expo T92 -- 
Interactive Development Environments, Inc. (IDE) of San Francisco, 
CA introduced Software through Pictures( Information Modeling 
(StP/IM), the most comprehensive database development environment 
for relational database management systems (RDBMS).  Customers can 
use StP/IM to model all real-world data and their relationships 
and to generate SQL statements that work with any RDBMS.  StP/IM 
supports widely accepted information modeling notations such as 
Bachman, Martin, and Chen.  Companies can use the multi-user 
StP/IM to model individual projects and complete enterprises.  
StP/IM is easily integrated with other best-of-class tools, so 
organizations are not locked into a proprietary suite of tools.  
StP/IM resulted from IDE's decade of experience in helping 
companies downsize to UNIX, develop client-server applications, 
and take advantage of powerful RDBMSs across distributed networks.  
StP/IM supports industry standard graphical user interface 
guidelines and CASE frameworks.  StP/IM will be available December 
1992.  IDE will offer StP/IM for a special introductory price of 
$7,500.  For more information call 1-800-888-IDE1.

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Full Text of Press Release:

NEW YORK, NY, September 22, 1992 -- at UNIX Expo T92 -- 
Interactive Development Environments, Inc. (IDE) of San Francisco, 
CA announced today the availability of Software through Pictures( 
Information Modeling (StP/IM).  StP/IM, the latest member of the 
Software through Pictures family of integrated, multi-user CASE 
environments, allows developers to model real-world occurrences of 
data and their relationships, and then transform the models into 
SQL statements that work with any relational DBMS.  StP/IM is 
currently being tested at 20 sites and is being demonstrated for 
the first time here at UNIX Expo.

"Our goal is to support every organization developing software on 
UNIX," said Anthony I. Wasserman, president and CEO of IDE.  "When 
we say 'Enterprise-wide CASE for UNIX,' we mean it.  Our new 
information modeling product fills an important spot in the 
Software through Pictures product line.  Now we can support a 
wider range of application development, from real-time systems in 
Ada and C++ to information systems in C or a 4GL.

"IDE has a decade of experience helping customers be succeed with 
CASE, downsize to UNIX, develop client-server applications, and 
take advantage of powerful RDBMSs across distributed networks," 
continued Wasserman.  "Based on this experience, we designed our 
information modeling product to support the development of 
mission-critical applications on UNIX.  As with all other IDE 
products, StP/IM is built on an open architecture, so it has been 
integrated with many leading UNIX software products, thereby 
giving customers a broad choice of solutions.  Our plan is to work 
with our strategic partners, such as Uniface, Sybase, and Informix 
to build fully integrated environments that comply with industry 
standards."

Bruce Golden, director for Commercial Market Development at Sun 
Microsystems, said, "The commercial UNIX market is strategic to 
both Sun and IDE and we are pleased to see an OPEN LOOK, SQL-based 
CASE tool from an industry leader.  IDE has been a key Sun 
Catalyst member for many years, and the introduction of StP/IM 
will only increase the opportunities to work together for the 
benefit of our joint customers."

The Rush to UNIX:
According to Michael P. Thoma, IDE's vice-president of Marketing, 
"Recently, UNIX has attracted a surge of interest.  But, for 
nearly ten years, UNIX has been key to IDE's vision.  When, for 
example, companies consider UNIX for their next generation of on-
line transaction processing applications, they find our experience 
invaluable.  Some people are surprised to hear that IDE is the 
leading CASE vendor in the commercial UNIX CASE market, as was 
established by a recent IDC study*.  Over 30% of our sales are for 
information systems development use.  StP/IM gives these customers 
what theyUve asked for -- unsurpassed information modeling 
capability and the freedom of UNIX."

Conceptual and Logical Models:
StP/IM supports the most vital and time consuming tasks of 
Information Modeling: capturing the Conceptual Model of the data 
and then extracting a Logical Model from it.  The Conceptual Model 
is an overall view of the data, either from an enterprise-wide or 
application perspective.  It focuses on the entities and their 
relationships and attributes from a business perspective, 
regardless of planned database implementations.  Logical Models 
are subsets extracted from the Conceptual Model, and display just 
the entities and their relationships and attributes used by a 
particular function of an application such as a data-entry screen.

How StP/IM Adapts to Corporate Standards:
According to IDE's director of Information Systems Marketing, Rich 
Guth, "IDE designed StP/IM to adhere to the philosophy of openness 
and extensibility that is the hallmark of UNIX.  But we also 
realize that for any CASE tool to be successfully implemented, it 
must support an organization's chosen development process.  So we 
designed StP/IM to let customers modify it to meet their exact 
needs rather than requiring them to change the way they work.  
Users can modify many aspects of StP/IM such as SQL generation and 
documentation to fit the corporate-standard Information Modeling 
environment.  Unlike 'big CASE' products, we give our customers 
more control over their environment."

Key Features of StP/IM:
Conceptual and logical modeling support includes:
-	graphical editor supporting Bachman, Martin, and Chen 
	notations with extended constructs
-	three ways to model attributes
-	reuse of attribute definition using the Data Element and 
	Domain table editors
-	Inherited Key table, which can be queried and printed

Development process support includes:
-	Create/Read/Update/Delete (CRUD) table
-	normalization and management reports
-	data administration tools

SQL generation support for any RDBMS includes:
-	generation of meaningful Data Declaration Language (DDL), 
	Data Manipulation Language (DML), and Data Control Language 
	(DCL) statements
-	declarative referential integrity options for delete, insert, 
	update restrict, cascade, set null, and custom options

UNIX and industry standard support includes:
-	OPEN LOOK and OSF/Motif compliant graphical user interface
-	SQL-based commercial database as the CASE repository
-	ToolTalk, SoftBench, and FUSE CASE frameworks

Availability:
StP/IM will be available in December, 1992, initially for Sun 
SPARC-based workstations and servers.  IDE will offer a special, 
introductory, single license price of $7,500 for customers who 
order during 1992.

Interactive Development Environments (IDE):
IDE, founded in 1983 by Anthony I. Wasserman, supports 
"Enterprise-Wide CASE for UNIX."  The company's mission is to 
develop and sell leading-edge CASE software, to support integrated 
CASE environments, and to provide training and consulting 
services, to help customers be successful throughout their 
software development process. IDE's Software through Pictures is a 
multi-user, integrated CASE environment that includes graphical 
editors as well as code, design and documentation generators, all 
sharing a common repository.  The Software through Pictures 
graphical editors support both structured and object-oriented 
development methods and notations, including Structured Analysis, 
Information Modeling, and Object-Oriented Structured Design 
(OOSD).  Software through Pictures runs in a heterogeneous network 
of workstations and minicomputers with X terminals, PCs, and 
Macintoshes as X11 servers.

IDE leverages the open architecture of Software through Pictures 
by combining it with best-of-class tools from other vendors and 
with training and consulting into a series of comprehensive, 
integrated open solutions.  IDE's partners include Frame 
Technology, Informix, Interleaf, Sybase, Uniface, and Visual Edge.  
IDE educates executives on the benefits of software engineering, 
helps technical managers develop an effective CASE strategy, and 
trains developers in methods, tools, and techniques for a variety 
of applications.  IDE is a privately held company with over 900 
customers worldwide.  IDE's headquarters is at 595 Market Street, 
10th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA.  Phone 1-800-888-IDE1.

* IDC Report # 6829, RThe UNIX Software Development Tools Market, 
1991-1996.S

Contacts:
Ed Niehaus, Niehaus/Ryan/Haller
(415) 615-7908 [home phone (415) 346-6499]

Nobby Akiha, IDE (415) 543-0900

Tamelyn Holter, IDE, Europe +33 (1) 39 02 26 02 (France)

-Software through Pictures and the IDE logo are registered trademarks of Interactive Development Environments, Inc.  
-OPEN LOOK and UNIX are registered trademarks of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc.  
-X Window System is a trademark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  
-Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc.  
-SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International.  
-OSF/Motif is a trademark of Open Software Foundation.  
-ToolTalk is a trademark of SunSoft.  
-SoftBench is a trademark of Hewlett-Packard.  
-FUSE is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation.
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From: 		hpubvwa!bel@ssc.wa.com (Belinda Frazier)
Subject: 	UNIX SVR4 Migration Guide
Newsgroups: 	comp.newprod
Organization: 	SSC, Inc.,  Seattle, WA


For people making the transition from any version of UNIX 
to System V, Release 4 (SVR4), guidance is available.
SSC has published an 8-page UNIX SVR4 Migration Guide.

The guide is a short summary of SVR4 functionality with
an overview of the changes and enhancements, such as the
printf command, a formatted print as in the C language. 
The guide refers you to other documentation for
comprehensive assistance in the transition to SVR4.

The migration guide is included in SSC's new SVR4 Migration Pack 
which also contains a UNIX System V.4 Command Summary, C Library 
Reference for SVR4, and Korn Shell Reference in a holder for a 
package price of $22.50. The UNIX SVR4 Migration Guide can be 
purchased separately for $2.00 plus shipping/handling.
  
For more information, contact: 
Michele Boone
Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc. (SSC)
P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA  98155 USA
(206) FOR-UNIX or (206) 527-3385 
FAX: (206) 527-2806
email: sales@ssc.wa.com
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Subject: 	New book on TCP/IP now available from O'Reilly & Associates
Newsgroups: 	comp.newprod
From: 		karen@ora.com (Karen Lewis)

                     TCP/IP NETWORK ADMINISTRATION
                             By Craig Hunt
                       O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
o 502 pages
o ISBN 0-937175-82-X
o $29.95 
o now available,  available overseas in October

TCP/IP Network Administration is a complete guide to setting up and
running a TCP/IP network for administrators of networks of systems or
lone home systems that access the Internet.  It starts with the
fundamentals:  what the protocols do and how they work, how to request
a network address and a name (the forms needed are included in an
appendix), and how to set up your network.

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simple setups for NIS and NFS. There are also chapters on
troubleshooting and security.  In addition, this book covers several
important packages that are available from the net (such as gated).

Contents include:
 - overview of TCP/IP
 - delivering the data
 - name service concepts
 - getting started
 - basic configuration
 - configuring the interface
 - configuring routing
 - configuring DNS name service
 - network applications
 - sendmail
 - troubleshooting TCP/IP
 - network security
 - other sources of information
 - appendixes include: network contacts, forms, a gated reference,
   named reference

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