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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

                 Sun's HOTTEST Volume 3 Number 1

SunFLASH Vol 46 #1					        October 1992 
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This is the text of a newsletter, "Sun's Hottest", that is being
mailed to Sun customers. It is an excellent summary of recent products and
news. -johnj 
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                         C O N T E N T S

Solaris 2.0 is now shipping
	Tools for developing tomorrow's applications
	Get a jump on tomorrow
Sun support just got easier
	SunSolve puts expert support on your desktop
	Sun HelpDesk helps you provide expert support
Platforms and tools for the long haul
	Solaris:  the platform that accommodates change
SPARCworks Professional:  the tools for new developments
Floating licenses save you money
Trade up from HP/Apollo to Sun
In Short
	Language Interface Kits for OpenWindows Version 3
	SunNet Manager 2.0
	Type 5 keyboards
	Direct Xlib
	SBus Expansion Subsystem
Bring the power of the network to your PC


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		Solaris 2.0 is now shipping
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	Available today, Solaris(R) 2.0 combines the best
	implementation of AT&T's SVR4 standard with Sun added
	value--including multiprocessing, multithreading, and security
	enhancements-- delivering the most powerful distributed UNIX(R)
	computing environment in the industry to users of Sun's
	SPARCstation(TM) and SPARCserver(TM) 1, 1+, 2, SLC(TM),
	ELC(TM), IPC(TM) and IPX(TM) systems.
 
	Solaris 2.0 also features the ONC(TM) networking environment
	(including NFS(R), the de facto standard for file sharing), the
	OpenWindows(TM) network-based windowing environment, the intuitive
	OPEN LOOK(R) interface, and DeskSet(TM) user productivity tools.
 
	For users of our high-volume multiprocessor platforms--the
	SPARCserver 600MP Series or the SuperSPARC(R)-based
	SPARCstation 10 and SPARCserver 10 systems--Solaris 1.1 Version
	A lets developers jump-start work on future applications,
	boosts productivity for current application users, and
	facilitates the migration to SVR4 for system administrators.
	In fact, all forthcoming desktop and server products will
	support only Solaris 2.0 or later releases.
  
Tools for developing tomorrow's applications
  
	Providing the first development environment for Solaris 2.0,
	SPARCworks(TM) Professional--which includes the latest versions
	of our SPARCompiler(TM) and SPARCworks development tools--lets
	you create the distributed applications today that users will
	be demanding tomorrow.  And you can get an edge on developing
	applications utilizing multiprocessing on SPARCserver 630MP and
	670MP systems with the Solaris 2.0 MP OEM Access Kit.
  
Get a jump on tomorrow
  
	It seems that no matter what computer platforms or tools you're
	using today, there's always a "next generation" to worry about
	or, depending on your point of view, to look forward to.

	Now, with our Solaris 32-bit distributed system software
	environment and related tools, Sun takes away the worry and
	lets you not only look forward to, but get a jump on,
	tomorrow's technology today.

	That's because with built-in innovation and growth paths,
	Solaris continually provides you with access to emerging
	technologies.  Today that means such things as multimedia and
	distributed objects.  Tomorrow, well, that's something else
	Solaris users can look forward to.

	And because all Sun SPARC(R) systems, on which the Solaris
	software environment runs, are--and will continue to
	be--binary-compatible, you never have to leave your
	applications behind, whether you're developing them or using
	any of the more than 4000 SPARC software solutions currently
	available.  Plus, the leading ISVs are developing new Solaris
	applications as you read this.

	Open all the way for more details on how Sun's platforms and
	tools give you a jump on tomorrow.
	 
 
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		Sun support just got easier
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	Get round-the-clock access to support solutions developed by
	Sun experts--the industry's best UNIX support people--with two
	new offerings for Sun customers purchasing software support
	contracts:  SunSolve(TM) and Sun HelpDesk.
  
SunSolve puts expert support on your desktop
 
	SunSolve makes support a whole lot easier and more convenient.
	Now you can toss (or better yet, recycle) a mass of manuals,
	guides, and bulletins--because SunSolve puts all this
	information on a single CD-ROM that's updated quarterly.  (In
	most countries, SunSolve is also available electronically
	through a modem.  This version, called SunSolve Online, is
	updated nightly.)

	SunSolve gives you the latest and most important system
	information to help keep your workstation up and running.
	You'll have instant access to common system symptoms and
	resolutions, software bug reports, bug and patch descriptions,
	a variety of service information databases, and optional
	integration with Sun's AnswerBook(TM) document database.

	Based on the OPEN LOOK graphical user interface, SunSolve
	software is intuitive and easy to use.  Just type in a problem
	description, press a button, and read the solution.  With its
	two powerful tools; SearchTool (which finds solutions in the
	service information databases) and DocViewer (which lets you
	view documents onscreen), SunSolve makes it simple for you to
	get exactly the information you need--without ever leaving your
	workstation.
 
 Sun HelpDesk helps you provide expert support
  
	If you're a service provider supporting large numbers of Sun
	systems, Sun HelpDesk will make your job a whole lot easier.
	It gives you the tools and support information you need to set
	up your own help desk, handle service requests in the Sun
	environment, and maintain your help desk to better support your
	customers.

	HelpDesk has all the capabilities of SunSolve (see story,
	left), including the easy-to-use OPEN LOOK interface.  In
	addition, HelpDesk's TechEscalator tool gives you direct access
	to Sun's support engineering staff through electronic mail, so
	you can receive backline assistance when a solution is not
	available in the online service information databases.

	With its online and backline features, Sun HelpDesk helps Sun
	contract customers provide their customers with expert
	support-- faster and better than ever.
 


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		Platforms and tools for the long haul
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	The future is uncertain enough without having to worry about
	whether your computer will be able to run the next generation
	of applications and take advantage of new technologies.  Or, if
	you're a developer, whether the tools you're building
	applications with today will even work for the applications of
	tomorrow.  Sun knows you have enough to worry about, so our
	engineers have designed platforms and tools that you can stay
	with over the long term.
  
Solaris:  the platform that accommodates change
 
	Solaris is the first system software product to combine so many
	high-performance computing features--such as multitasking,
	multiprocessing, multithreading, and network security--with the
	ease-of-use capabilities of a graphical user interface.  And,
	it is the only software solution available today that provides
	a compatible path to next-generation object-based computing.

	Solaris 2.0--also known as "the killer environment" that's
	designed to meet the evolving needs of application users,
	software developers, and system administrators--is now
	available for all Sun's  SPARCstation and SPARCserver 1, 1+, 2,
	SLC, ELC, IPC, and IPX systems.

	Soon, it will also be available for Sun's high-volume,
	multiprocessor desktops and servers, including the SPARCstation
	10, SPARCserver 10, and SPARCserver 600MP Series.  In the
	meantime, Solaris 1.1 Version A provides the ideal transition
	to Solaris 2.0 on these systems.  Like Solaris 2.0, Solaris 1.1
	Version A features OpenWindows Version 3, Sun's latest
	windowing environment (available now in French, German,
	Swedish, and Italian to facilitate your migration to Solaris
	2.0 worldwide) and DeskSet Version 3, a set of 15 user
	productivity tools.  Plus, Solaris binary compatibility lets
	you keep working with any of the more than 4000 SPARC
	applications you already know how to use.
  
SPARCworks Professional:  the tools for new developments
  
	SPARCworks Professional is the first complete development
	environment for Solaris 2.0.  It consists of your choice of
	four SPARCompiler products--for the latest versions of C, C++,
	FORTRAN, or Pascal--plus the suite of six powerful, graphical,
	and integrated SPARCworks 2.0 development tools.  You can
	purchase SPARCompiler products and SPARCworks tools separately,
	but it's more economical to buy a complete SPARCworks
	Professional package.  And since the SPARCworks toolset works
	across all four languages, you can simply add individual
	SPARCompiler products for multilanguage development projects.
 
	Also, because the SPARCompiler family and SPARCworks 2.0
	toolset support both Solaris 1.0 and Solaris 2.0, you can use
	the same toolset throughout your migration and quickly deliver
	high- performance applications.

	Optimized to produce very efficient code for all SPARC systems,
	the new SPARCompiler products yield an 8-12% performance
	improvement over the previous releases for applications running
	on SuperSPARC-based systems.  The new SPARCompiler products for
	the four most common Sun software development languages
	include:
 
	o SPARCompiler C 2.0, which supports both ANSI and K&R C, as
	  well as 64-bit integer types

	o SPARCompiler C++ 3.0, based on the UNIX System Laboratories
	  de facto standard Cfront release 3.0, gives you access to
	  templates, a powerful new feature

	o SPARCompiler FORTRAN 2.0 has faster I/O performance, support
	  of 64-bit integer data types, and supports better viewing of
	  array data within the SPARCworks Debugger

	o SPARCompiler Pascal 3.0, based on the Berkeley Pascal
	  compiler, has Domain Pascal extensions for easy migration from
	  Apollo (Note:  for easy hardware migration, see the "Trade up
	  from HP/Apollo to Sun" story on this page)
 
	Working with all four languages, the SPARCworks 2.0 toolset
	includes four new and two enhanced tools:
 
	o NEW.  SPARCworks Manager manages the other tools and allows
	  Sun and third-party tools to be managed as a single session

	o ENHANCED.  SourceBrowser is a static program analyzer that
	  lets you easily get information about your code, make
	  intelligent queries into the code, and instantly get a
	  graphical layout of how the code functions are working
	  together
 
	o ENHANCED.  Debugger, based on Sun's dbx, gives new support
	  for optimized code and shared libraries, and its integration
	  with other tools speeds the edit/compile/debug cycle

	o NEW.  Performance Analyzer, a powerful, graphical performance
	  analyzer and optimizer with a unique disk paging improvement
	  tool, reduces virtual memory requirements of applications

	o NEW.  FileMerge, especially useful for concurrent
	  development, simplifies the task of comparing and merging
	  source files

	o NEW.  MakeTool, an OPEN LOOK interface for the UNIX "make"
	  utility, features animated icons that show the status of
	  programming builds
 
 
Floating licenses save you money
 
 
	Sun's new floating licenses for SPARCompiler products and
	SPARCworks 2.0 give you lots more freedom and flexibility, and
	save you money to boot.  Unlike the former node-locked systems
	that tied software to a specific user or machine, floating
	licenses let many part-time users share a single license to the
	software.  Like a library, occasional users "check out" the
	software to use it and "return" it when they are done.  Your
	licensing fee is based on the maximum number of concurrent
	users of the product--not the total number of users that may
	ever use the software.  A true network resource, our floating
	licenses can be configured in a variety of ways to meet your
	changing needs, increasing flexibility and reducing costs.
 

Complete Ada development environment
 
 
	Providing unparalleled functionality and performance, Sun Ada
	Development Environment (ADE) 1.1 is the leading Ada
	development environment available on UNIX.  It includes Sun Ada
	1.1--the industry's most robust Ada compilation system--and
	SPARCworks/Ada 1.1, a comprehensive set of OPEN LOOK tools that
	accelerates Ada development.
 
 
Trade up from HP/Apollo to Sun
  
	Are you working on an HP/Apollo workstation, or do you know
	someone who is?   Now through October 31, 1992 you can
	participate in Sun's special HP/Apollo trade-up promotion and
	start working on a SPARCstation instead.  We're offering better
	products, better prices, better availability, and a better
	future than HP is offering to its own customers.

	Plus, to ease your move from HP/Apollo's CISC/Domain to Sun's
	SPARC/Solaris architecture, Sun provides help with
	Domain/Solaris interoperability, software migration to Solaris,
	and migration support services.  (You'll also be interested in
	the information on SPARCompiler Pascal 3.0 in the "SPARCworks
	Professional" story on this page.)
 
	Not only does Sun have twice as many applications (over 4000)
	to choose from as HP, we give our customers the freedom to grow
	like no other vendor.  And our history of
	innovation--continually in the making--is unparalleled in the
	industry.
 
 
In Short
 
	In our ongoing efforts to meet the needs of the international
	marketplace, Sun has introduced localized Language Interface
	Kits for OpenWindows Version 3.  French, German, Italian, and
	Swedish Language Interface Kits are now available worldwide.


	SunNet(TM) Manager continues as the price/performance market
	leader with the introduction of SunNet Manager 2.0.  New
	capabilities in this release enable you to quickly and easily
	manage networks of virtually any size--from local area networks
	to enterprisewide networks--through a single versatile tool.


	Sun has introduced two new Type 5 keyboards for the
	SPARCstation product line:  1) the Type 5 standard keyboard
	features an industry-standard extended PC-101 layout, including
	numeric edit/cursor control pads, 12 function keys, an 11-key
	OPEN LOOK keypad, a new "System Control Keys" keypad, and the
	availability of international and universal country kit
	versions; and 2) the Type 5 UNIX layout, which is the same as
	the Type 5 standard except for 4 keys (ESCape, CAPs LOCK,
	CONTROL, BACK SPACE) that have modified locations.


	Direct Xlib is a new product that significantly improves
	rendering performance of your graphics-intensive MCAD, EDA,
	visualization and other OpenWindows Version 3 Xlib-based
	applications.  Running Xlib benchmarks such as "x11perf" on a
	SPARCstation 2GX results in roughly doubled raw Xlib rendering
	speed for many common graphics operations, and testing with
	real applications has shown up to 50% faster performance in
	graphics operations.


	The SBus Expansion Subsystem provides three additional SBus
	slots for SPARCstation IPX, SPARCstation 2, SPARCstation 10,
	and SPARCserver 630MP systems.  Plus, complete support for two
	424- MB drives provides the potential for increased disk
	capacity.
 
 
Bring the power of the network to your PC
  
	PC-NFS was the first product on the market to integrate the MS-
	DOS(R) platform with UNIX resources.  Now, PC-NFS 4.0 is the
	first networking product to support both MS-Windows(R) 3.1 and
	MS-DOS 5.0.  This new release is complemented by the PC-NFS
	Programmer's Toolkit 4.0, which is the first version that
	enables developers to write TCP/IP network-based distributed
	MS-Windows applications in addition to MS-DOS applications.
 
  
	PC-NFS 4.0 enables DOS and Windows users to effortlessly share
	information and resources with users on workstations,
	minicomputers, and mainframes.

 
 
	Credits:  Lance Lawson, Software Product Marketing Programs
	Manager; Victoria Ryan, Marcom Manager; Carl Swirsding, Marcom
	Manager, Europe; Diane Merrick, Marcom Manager, International;
	Bill Shinnick, Editor; Harding & Associates Design Group,
	Design and Production; Kathy Cooper Parker, Writer; Ironwood
	Lithographers, Inc., Printing; Marketing Response Systems, U.S.
	Mailing.

	We welcome your comments and suggestions.  Please send
	electronic mail to comments@joes.Corp.Sun.COM
 
 
(c) 1992 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun
logo, Solaris, SLC, ELC, IPC, IPX, ONC, NFS, OpenWindows, DeskSet,
SunSolve, AnswerBook, and SunNet are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All SPARC trademarks,
including the SCD Compliant logo, are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SPARC International, Inc.  SPARCstation, SPARCserver,
SPARCworks, and SPARCompiler are licensed exclusively to Sun
Microsystems, Inc.  Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based
upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.  UNIX and
OPEN LOOK are registered trademarks of UNIX System Laboratories,
Inc.  MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows are registered trademarks of
Microsoft Corp.  All other product or service names mentioned
herein are trademarks of their respective owners.
 
 
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