SOLARIS X86 SOLUTIONS True BASIC Development Package for Solaris x86 The True BASIC(TM) Development Package is now available for SunSoft's Solaris(TM) x86 operating environment. This complete development environment offers programmers in the business and scientific communities a variety of tools for quick and easy development of graphical applications, database front ends and general purpose utilities. True BASIC combines simplicity and power, with machine-independent graphics, built-in matrix functions, libraries and modules, record locking, a single-key binary tree package, and the ability to accommodate sound and animation. True BASIC offers numerous functions that take advantage of the power and flexibility of Solaris x86. These include support for pipe processes for interclient and interapplication communication, access to the shell, and integration of C routines such as hooks for database systems. True BASIC easily generates PostScript(R) output for publication-quality images, even from remote text-based clients. For customers moving from DOS and Windows environments to Solaris x86, the BASIC-to-True BASIC Converter will convert up to 95 percent of their DOS/Windows-specific code to platform- independent True BASIC syntax. A Stable, Open Platform Solaris x86 is a powerful and versatile UNIX(R) operating environment for the Intel(R) x86 platform. Designed as a foundation for enterprise computing, it supports major industry standards and provides high-performance 32-bit UNIX multitasking, multithreading and multiuser capabilities. Solaris x86 is compatible with Solaris SPARC(R), ensuring full interoperability between the leading CISC (x86) and RISC (SPARC) platforms. And Solaris x86 is scalable from desktops to supercomputers, so that customers can configure heterogeneous enterprise networks and expand them easily as their computing needs evolve. Solaris x86 provides native ONC+(TM) technology-based LAN and WAN networking to support broadly distributed computing and system management. Solaris also includes powerful application and Graphical User Interface (GUI) development tools through the OpenWindows(TM) facility, and a rich suite of user productivity applications under DeskSet(TM). Numerous commercial third-party applications, including many Microsoft(R) Windows and DOS applications, run on the Solaris x86 environment. True BASIC Features and Benefits * Productivity: True BASIC allows programers to create usable software solutions with maximum productivity, often 20-30 times faster than with other development environments. * Portability: True BASIC uses the same code in its DOS, Macintosh(R) and UNIX versions; users can run the same True BASIC program on personal computers and workstations with little or no modification. * Programming power: True BASIC is an advanced, structured language that meets ANSI and ISO standards. It has pioneered every phase of modern BASIC development, and now allows programmers to take advantage of X Windows and Silicon Graphics GL(TM) graphics capabilities without having to learn C language or cope with low-level X Windows details. * Pedigree: Created by the original authors of BASIC, True BASIC remains an easy-to-master, powerful programming language that fully meets international standards and is fully portable to future operating systems. * Price: True BASIC remains one of the finest software values available today. For more information on True BASIC for Solaris x86, contact UNIX R&D at True BASIC, Inc., 12 Commerce Avenue, West Lebanon, NH 03784. Phone 1-800-436-2111 or 603-298-8517, Fax 603-298-7015. E- mail: support@truebasic.com. Solaris x86 Features and Benefits * Provides enterprise computing power and true client/server architecture - Scalable to accommodate a wide range of hardware, from PCs to supercomputers - Fully interoperable with Solaris SPARC * Offers time-tested 32-bit operating system functionality derived from SunOS(TM) - Multiprocessing, multithreading, multiuser operating environment * Includes tightly coupled tools and facilities for enterprise networking, application development and end-user productivity - Industry-standard ONC+ network technology supports heterogeneous LAN and WAN configurations, allows users to work interactively with others regardless of location - OpenWindows environment provides toolkits that simplify application and GUI development, including industry-standard OSF/Motif(R) toolkit - DeskSet comprises a versatile, integrated set of user productivity applications, running under SunSoft's GUI. * Runs a wide variety of commercially oriented applications, including popular word processing, spreadsheet and DBMS programs * Incorporates new Wabi(TM) technology designed to run Microsoft Windows applications directly on the Solaris operating environment at native performance levels * Open, non-proprietary architecture provides for open-ended system and network expansion, integration of new applications, and choice of peripherals For more information on Solaris x86, call 1-800-SUNSOFT in the U.S. For international inquiries, call 415-960-3200. 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