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The Florida SunFlash
SunFlash August 1992 Table Of Contents
SunFLASH Vol 44 #toc August 1992
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Note From The SunFlash Editor
Summary of The Florida SunFlash For New Subscribers
Summary Of August's Messages (line count + title)
Summary of Messages Sent This Month (issue # and synopsis)
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September 3th, 1992
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Line Count Vol.# Title
341 44.01 Third Party Product Announcements
103 44.02 ShowMe Computer Conferencing Software
105 44.03 SUN USER GROUP: Call For Papers
103 44.04 Sun's 4th Quarter, Fiscal Year Results
134 44.05 SunSelect Ships NetWare SunLink
85 44.06 Novell Netware Client for Sun from Spry
297 44.07 SunSolve and Sun HelpDesk
339 44.08 SBus Developer List, July 20, 1992
467 44.09 SBus Developer List, Chapters I, II
798 44.10 SBus Developer List, Chapters III, IV, V
733 44.11 SBus Developer List, Chapters VI to VIII
747 44.12 SBus Developer List, Chapters IX to XVI
123 44.13 Aug. 25th Sunergy Satellite Broadcast
460 44.14 PTF: 3Gb of UNIX Freeware
89 44.15 SMCC Introduces Multimedia Training
103 44.16 SunExpress Unveils New Low U.S. Pricing
94 44.17 SPARCstation IPX with Mid-Range monitor
68 44.18 Sun Consolidates in Chelmsford
62 44.19 Silvestri To Drive SPARC Technology Sales
149 44.20 NetWare SunLink 1.0
307 44.21 Third Party Product Announcements
90 44.22 Sun Enters S&P 500
95 44.23 SunSoft Launches SunSoft Press
104 44.24 Pre-Press Vendors And Sun
57 44.25 Sun Leads Japanese Workstation Market
89 44.26 SunSoft Introduces SearchIt
290 44.27 September 1992 STB Contents
292 44.28 New Type 5 Keyboards
115 44.29 Solaris 2.0 System Admin Class
149 44.30 Upgrades to SPARCstation 10GS
874 44.31 Full Source Software
520 44.32 Improving Performance with Direct Xlib
Total 8382
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44.01 Third Party Product Announcements
Island Graphics Delivers IslandPresents for SPARCstations
Aurora FirstScan II Supports Color And Grayscale Scanners
Sys Admin - a Journal For UNIX System Administrators
44.02 Sun Unveils ShowMe Computer Conferencing Software
Sun Unveils Easy-To-Use Computer Conferencing Software
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--August 3, 1992--SunSolutions(TM), a
product development venture within Sun Technology Enterprises,
today introduced ShowMe, an easy-to-use computer conferencing
software product. ShowMe software lets SPARC(R) workstation
users conduct on-line meetings, allowing groups to view and
interactively collaborate on documents, graphics, spreadsheets
and other images over a TCP/IP network. Using on-screen
markers, participants in a ShowMe conference can annotate
shared documents simultaneously in real time, so users interact
and communicate much the same way they would in a meeting
room.
44.03 SUN USER GROUP: Call For Papers
This is a second call for papers for the December SUG annual
conference. -johnj
From: don@doug.med.utah.edu (Don Baune 581-6088 MIRL)
Call For Papers
SUN USER GROUP
Tenth Annual Conference
December 8-10, 1992
San Jose, California
OPERATING SYSTEMS:
SOLARIS 2.0/SVR4 and Alternatives
44.04 Sun's 4th Quarter, Fiscal Year Results
BREAKS $1 BILLION QUARTERLY BOOKINGS MARK
I have prepared a quick summary of Sun's fiscal performance for
the last four years to put this article about Sun's most recent
Fiscal year into context. (This data was extracted from
previous Sun Press Releases.) Note that Sun's fiscal year
starts July 1st and end June 30th.
Fiscal Actual Revenues ( $ millions ) Revenue Growth (%)
Year Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Year Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 FY
92 755 909 952 973 3,589 11.5 20.7 12.3 3.2 11.4
91 677 754 848 943 3,221 25.7 26.7 34.1 34.6 30.6
90 539 595 632 700 2,465 24.9 46.8 27.1 62.4 39.7
89 431 405 497 431 1,765 67.8
88 1,052
44.05 SunSelect Ships NetWare SunLink
Prices and availabilty of NetWare SunLink for SMCC customers will be
announced shortly. -johnj
Supported By Oracle and Ingres
BILLERICA, Mass.--August 3, 1992-- SunSelect(TM), a business unit of
Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced the immediate availability of
its NetWare(R) SunLink(R) software for integrating Novell(R) NetWare
networks with SPARC(R) and Solaris(R) environments. The NetWare SunLink
product allows DOS, Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and OS/2(R) NetWare system
users to share data, files and print services with UNIX(R) system
workgroups.
Based on NetWare for UNIX Version 3.11 from Novell, the NetWare SunLink
product provides an easy way to move from a departmental network to a
powerful, integrated SPARC/Solaris enterprise network. By simply adding
NetWare SunLink on a Sun SPARCserver(TM) system to the network, NetWare
customers protect their investment in their existing network while
gaining direct access to UNIX system files, applications and services
including distributed processing, client-server computing and open
systems. With the NetWare SunLink product, the multitasking
44.06 Novell Netware Client for Sun from Spry
This is a third party product announcement from Dave Pool
(dave@spry.com), President of Spry Inc. This software allows a Sun
to access files that reside on a Novell Netware server via the
Novell IPX protocol. I.e. with this software, a Sun can be added into
an existing Netware network as another client.
It complements the recent SunSelect announcement of SunLink Netware,
which allows Novell Netware clients (usually PC's) to access a Sun via
the IPX protocol. I.e. with this software, a Sun can be added into an
existing Netware network as another server.
(I guess this means that a Sun with Spry's Netware Client could
get file services from another Sun running SunSelect's NetWare SunLink
with the IPX protocol.)
-johnj
44.07 SunSolve and Sun HelpDesk
- SMCC announces two new products:
- SunSolve (TM)
- Sun HelpDesk
- These products provide access to Sun service information such as:
- common Sun workstation questions and answers
- symptoms and resolutions
- bug and patch descriptions
- technical bulletins
- optional integration with AnswerBook(TM) documentation
- and more...
Sun HelpDesk also includes:
- an escalation tool to obtain backline support from Sun
- documentation on how to set up and maintain a help desk
- SunSolve is provided to Personal AnswerLine(SM), AnswerLine(SM),
and Software Update Service software contract customers:
- CD-ROM version is updated & shipped quarterly
- electronic version, called SunSolve Online, can be
centrally accessed via modem and is updated nightly
44.08 SBus Developer List, July 20, 1992
The July 1992 SBus Developer List is also available in the SunFlash
archive servers as a single compressed file e.g. on solar.nova.edu
it is:
42948 pub/sunflash.1992/sbus-july.21.Z
The next four articles are the 16 chapters of the SBus developer
list group so that no article is greater that 32Kbytes.
Thanks to Harold Sonenklar (Harold.Sonenklar@Corp.Sun.Com) for
putting this list together.
Note that there are embedded control-l (page feed) characters in these
articles. If you remove the SunFlash headers and cat these 5 articles
together, the result should print OK.
-johnj
44.09 SBus Developer List, Chapters I, II
I. PARALLEL/SERIAL I/O
II. BUS ADAPTERS
44.10 SBus Developer List, Chapters III, IV, V
III. GRAPHICS, VIDEO, and DISPLAY
IV. INSTRUMENTATION INTERFACES
V. COPROCESSORS
44.11 SBus Developer List, Chapters VI to VIII
VI. I/O DEVICES AND INTERFACES
VII. NETWORKING/COMMUNICATIONS INTERFACES
VIII. STORAGE and DISK CONTROLLERS
44.12 SBus Developer List, Chapters IX to XVI
IX. MODEMS, FACSIMILE, and COMPRESSION
X. INDUSTRIAL I/O
XI. MEMORY
XII. ENABLING PRODUCTS and SERVICES
XIII. MIL-STANDARD INTERFACE
XIV. DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS
XV. AUDIO, VOICE, and SPEECH SYSTEMS
XVI. DR-11W INTERFACE
44.13 Aug. 25th Sunergy Satellite Broadcast Live From Japan
This is from Miyong.Byun@Corp. -johnj
Sunergy announces the next interactive satellite broadcast
Live from Japan!
This program will be broadcast from the SunWorld Expo in Tokyo
on August 25 at 6:30pm PDT. The late hour is due to the fact
that the show is being downlinked throughout Japan. You may
want to tape it for future playback.
The preliminary agenda is as follows:
Introduction to show John Gage (Host)
Todays news John Gage
Report from show floor John & Gene Banman
First 10 years Scott McNealy & John Gage
look at Sun's first 10 years
44.14 PTF: 3Gb of UNIX Freeware
Issue 1-2 of Prime Time Freeware (cover date July, 1992)
Prime Time Freeware (PTF) is a large, inexpensive collection of
UNIX-related freeware source code. This article describes how
to obtain the PTF CD-ROMS and an appendix is a Hierchical
Package List of the key packages included in this 3Gb
collection. -johnj
44.15 SMCC Introduces Multimedia Training
Incorporates Audio, Video, Text, Graphics and Simulation
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- August 17, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems
Computer Corporation (SMCC) announced today that it is shipping
the first in a series of on-line interactive training tools,
condensing more than 16 hours of classroom lecture into a
lively multimedia experience. Called "SunTutor: OpenWindows
Environment for Users," the new course is designed for
first-time users of Sun workstations, allowing them to be
trained on a Sun system in the convenience of their own
office.
With the new SunTutor series, SMCC is leading the workstation
industry by combining on-line audio, video, text, graphics and
simulation into a multimedia, self-paced training course that
interacts with the application. The course takes full
advantage of the multimedia capabilities of the Sun
SPARCstation , requires no extra hardware or software for users
of the OpenWindows environment and can be downloaded to the
network.
44.16 SunExpress Unveils New Low U.S. Pricing
Outlines New Business Direction
LINCOLN, Mass. -- August 17, 1992 -- SunExpress, a business
unit of Sun Microsystems, Inc. unveiled dramatic price
reductions across its entire U.S. product line. Effective
today, the company's U.S. operation has moved from list pricing
to highly competitive non-discountable "street" pricing, which
is what customers typically pay for products from a direct
sales organization. The new pricing is part of SunExpress' new
business direction, which is to focus on satisfying end user
demand by being the low-price, direct source for Sun(TM) and
third-party customer installable non-system products.
SunExpress has also broadened its product set to include many
leading third-party hardware and software solutions.
44.17 SPARCstation IPX with Mid-Range monitor
- SPARCstation IPX now available with Mid-Range monitor
- Lowers entry price to accelerated graphics performance
SMCC is introducing a new SPARCstation IPX configuration with
the recently announced 16" Mid-Range monitor. The new
configuration of the SPARCstation IPX enables Sun to offer an
even lower price for a fully-configured, high performance
accelerated color system.
The new monitor is a lower-priced aperture-grille product that
offers excellent text performance and very good graphics
performance. Compared to most monitors of this size available
in the PC and Macintosh environments, the Mid-Range monitor
offers superior front-of-screen performance and a larger
screen.
44.18 Sun Consolidates in Chelmsford
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- August 12, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems,
Inc., announced today that it has signed a long-term lease for
three buildings in Chelmsford, Mass. The 320,000 square feet
of office and production space in Altid Park will serve as the
company's East Coast headquarters and will consolidate four
existing Sun offices located throughout Massachusetts
(Billerica, Andover, Methuen and Westford) into a single
"campus."
44.19 Silvestri To Drive SPARC Technology Sales
Will Head New Group to Capture SPARC Design Wins
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- August 13, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems
Computer Corporation (SMCC) today announced that Chester J.
Silvestri has joined the company as vice president, technology
sales. In his newly created position, Silvestri will manage a
new group devoted to securing technology design wins across a
variety of industries, markets and geographies for SPARC(R),
the leading RISC CPU architecture developed and championed by
Sun. Silvestri, who will report to Joseph Roebuck, SMCC's vice
president of worldwide field operations, comes to the company
from Silicon Graphics, Inc., where he was most recently vice
president and general manager of the Technology Products
Group. Silvestri became part of Silicon Graphics when it
acquired MIPS Computer Systems this year.
44.20 NetWare SunLink 1.0
- Enables SPARCsystems to act as servers in Novell PC networks
- Transparent access to Solaris file, print, terminal services for
NetWare client PCs (DOS, Windows, OS/2)
- Will provide basis for application vendors (e.g. RDBMS vendors like
Oracle) to develop high-performance Solaris back-ends for
PC networks
Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) announces
SunSelect's NetWare SunLink product to provide full NetWare
services on SMCC systems. NetWare SunLink provides NetWare
file and print connectivity while retaining the much more
robust application environment of Solaris and enabling server
functions such as RDBMS back-ends.
44.21 Third Party Product Announcements
db++ version 1.3 - C++ for portable database applications
IPT's, Apple Agent Man (SNMP)
NetMake 1.1 released
Sendmail Made Simple Seminar
44.22 Sun Enters S&P 500
Wang Labs Chapter 11 filing triggers changes in the S&P indices
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sun Microsystems Inc., a leading
supplier of high-performance workstations, servers and
networking software based in Mountain View, Calif., will be
added to the S&P 500 effective at the close of trading on
Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1992.
Sun is replacing Wang Laboratories Inc., a computer systems
manufacturer, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
earlier today. Sun will be added to the S&P 500 Computer
Systems industry group.
44.23 SunSoft Launches SunSoft Press
Announces Partnerships with Ziff-Davis and Prentice Hall
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-- August 19, 1992 -- SunSoft, Inc., today
launched SunSoft Press, a publishing group to develop, market,
and distribute books on the Solaris software environment and
associated Sun products to mainstream users. The company also
announced strategic partnerships with Ziff-Davis Press, a
leader in commercial and retail book publishing, and the
Professional Technical Reference (PTR) division of Prentice
Hall, a leader in professional and technical book publishing,
to deliver Solaris expertise through their worldwide network of
retail and technical bookstores.
44.24 Pre-Press Vendors And Sun
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- August 25, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems
Computer Corporation (SMCC) today announced that six leading
pre-press software and systems vendors will market new
applications for the SPARC(R)/Solaris(R) platform. The
applications bring advanced desktop, database and processing
capabilities to SMCC's line of SPARC workstations, including
the newly introduced Sun(TM) SPARCstation(TM) 10.
Developers offering new applications on Sun systems include
Crosfield Electronics Ltd., Digital Technology International,
DuPont/Camex, ECRM, Linotype-Hell Company and System
Integrators, Inc. Their products will be used for output and
production flow management, display ad make-up, spot and
process color imaging, raster image processing and database
management.
44.25 Sun Leads Japanese Workstation Market
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- August 24, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems
remains the top workstation vendor in Japan, according to a
just-released Dataquest report, having led in that market since
1987. Dataquest Japan's "Analysis for the Information Systems
Industry" stated that Sun Microsystems remained the market
leader in Japan during 1991, with 29,800 units shipped and $483
million (U.S.) in revenues, up 26 percent and 22 percent,
respectively, from 1990. Sun accounted for approximately 25
percent of the Japanese market in terms of both units and value
of shipments for 1991.
44.26 SunSoft Introduces SearchIt
SUNSOFT ANNOUNCES NEW SEARCH-AND-RETRIEVAL
Application FOR SOLARIS
Faster And Easier Access To Critical Information
Across The Corporate Network
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- August 25, 1992 -- SunSoft, Inc.,
today unveiled new full-text search-and-retrieval application
for the Solaris software environment. Called SearchIt, the
new application acts as a personal reference librarian that
quickly and easily locates on-line business data such as
reports, proposals, and correspondence stored anywhere on the
corporate network. In addition, SearchIt enables users to
manage and manipulate this information for their specific needs
through its easy-to-use intuitive interface.
44.27 September 1992 Software Technical Bulletin Contents
This article describes the contents of the Software Technical
bulletin (STB) for September, 1992. Is posted to SunFlash to
make those customers who have a support contract aware that
they should be receiving this execellent publication.
Note that copies of the STB are sent to the people listed in your
support contract. They have limited duplication rights (see notice
included each month within the STB).
****** I have been given permission to place just two PostScript STBs
(about 100 pages each) in the SunFlash archives
on solar.nova.edu:/pub/sunflash/1992
185,395 stbaug92.ps.Z
171,958 stbjul92.ps.Z
These files are also on ftp.uu.net:systems/sun/sunflash/1992
Consider these two PostScript versions as examples of what's
included in this monthly service.
I will continue to post the Table Of Contents and Editor's
Introduction so that you can determine if you should obtain a
copy of the STB from the person listed in your support contract
(if you have one).
44.28 New "Type 5" Keyboards for the SPARCstation Product Line
- New Sun "Type 5" keyboards available for all SPARCstations as
of July 1
- New ergonomic industrial design & "Industry Standard"
keyboard layout
- Type 4 U.S. and universal country kits will continue to be
available
- New European international Type 5 country kits will begin
shipping on all European systems July 1, 1992
Sun announced the availability of the completely new Type 5 keyboards
for the SPARCstation product line beginning July 1, 1992:
* the Type 5 Standard layout (PC-101 based layout)
* the Type 5 UNIX layout.
44.29 SA-271 - Solaris 2.0 System Administration
This is a course announcement from Sun's Educational Services. -johnj
**************************************************
** Sun Microsystems Educational Services **
** SA-271 - Solaris 2.0 System Administration **
**************************************************
The person taking this course should be very knowledgable in
SunOS 4.1.x and will be upgrading to solaris 2.0 between now
and December 31, 1992 at their site. If you are planning to
upgrade after January 1, 1993, we will offer a revised
version of this course for you at that time. Please see our
upcoming January-June 1993 education catalog for the revised
version and course dates.
44.30 Upgrades to SPARCstation 10GS
Sun announces four "box swap" upgrades from SPARCstation 2GS to
SPARCstation 10GS. Customers can upgrade to either the
SPARCstation 10 Model 30 or the Model 41. The box swap upgrades
include Sun's new GS frame buffer:
Upgrade to Model 41 GS UG-S2GS-S10-41
Upgrade to Model 41 GS diskfull UG-S2GS-S10-41-P43
Upgrade to Model 30 GS UG-S2GS-S10-30
Upgrade to Model 30 GS diskfull UG-S2GS-S10-30-P43
The introduction of the four upgrade paths to SPARCstation 10GS
changes the upgrade plan announced on May 19, 1992. Originally,
the GS upgrades to SPARCstation 10 were to be handled
individually with the customer returning their entire
SPARCstation 2GS system, including monitor.
44.31 Full Source Software
This article describes a third party product which is a collection
of tools, utilities and accessories from Full Source Software.
-johnj
From: Gary Kremen
Org: Full Source Software
Phone: 1-800-999-UNIX
Fax: 1-415-949-4825 (fax)
email: fss@btr.com
We also have distribution (from Qualix Group 1-800-245-UNIX and UNIX
Central 1-800-553-UNIX).
Save time and make your job easier with Full Source Software's
collection of tools, utilities and accessories.
44.32 Improving Performance with Direct Xlib
This article is reprinted from the STB by permission of the author.
-johnj
By - Jamshed Doctor, SMCC Marketing Development Engineering
Direct Xlib is Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation's new,
unbundled product that transparently improves the rendering
performance of graphics-intensive Xlib-based applications. The
improved performance depends on the application's use and mix
of graphics primitives. Applications using the standard Xlib
Application Programming Interface (API) should not have to make
any changes to their source code, because Direct Xlib presents
the exact same MIT X11R4 interface.
Direct Xlib is a set of supplemental (dynamic and static) Xlib
libraries for OpenWindows 3.0. It can be easily disabled when
standard server rendering is desired, and can be used for
either the entire window system or on an
application-by-application basis. A dynamically linked
application can use Direct Xlib without any recompile or
relink. A statically linked application must relink with the
static Direct Xlib library provided. Performance increase is
provided only when both the window client and the window server
are on the same machine. Otherwise, standard Xlib is used for
rendering.
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