August 5th, 1994 ELSA Inc. Contact: Thomas Neubert 400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 109 South San Francisco, CA 94080 Phone (415) 615 - 7799 Toll free 1-800-272-ELSA Fax (415) 588-0113 BBS (415) 615-5862 email thomasn@elsa-usa.mhs.compuserve.com ELSA RECEIVES "OBJECT HONORS AWARD" ELSA's WINNER PRO Graphics Board Series Offers Outstanding Performance in NEXTSTEP Aachen, Germany/San Francisco, CA - ELSA Inc., manufacturer of German-engineered high-performance products for computer graphics and data communications, announces it has received The Object Honors award for its WINNER PRO line of graphics boards. Sponsored by NeXT, DCI and SHL Systemhouse, The Object Honors acknowledges companies whose products are based on NEXTSTEP, the only object-oriented operating system available today. An independent panel of journalists and industry analysts selected ELSA's WINNER PRO series of add-in graphics accelerator cards on the basis of its ability to improve customer productivity through high resolution and true color display. ELSA unlocks the colors and the clearness of images necessary for power users who need increased detail and picture quality at high resolution with TrueColor support. Less panning and zooming allows the end user to view everything with precision, and reduces the amount of time spent on the editing or analysis process. ELSA WINNER PRO boards can be added into any existing PC system. With the user-friendly ELSA WINNER Inspector dialog box, users can customize screen resolution, color depth and refresh rate to a specific monitor. "We are very proud to receive The Object Honors award. This award confirms both our expertise in graphics acceleration and our commitment to the fast-growing NEXTSTEP market", said Theo Beisch, managing director of ELSA responsible for the computer graphics division. "We are especially pleased to be the first company worldwide to offer 1600 x 1200 resolution for NEXTSTEP. With crisp, clear images and high refresh rates, our customers know that we've designed our boards with ease of use and ergonomics in mind." The forward-looking operating system NEXTSTEP, which is based on Unix and the MACH system kernel, distinguishes itself by its functionality and intuitive usability. It offers Display Postscript and true WYSIWYG, supports network and client/server operations and is a powerful developing tool that allows custom software to be easily created. NEXTSTEP is the operating system of choice for the desktop publishing, color publishing, and digital image processing industries. Banking, insurance and stock exchange firms are quickly adopting this advanced system. Both the VESA Local Bus version and the PCI bus version of the ELSA graphics boards with their 64-bits graphics controller Vision964 or 864 offer the highest resolutions and refresh rates to NEXTSTEP users. ELSA boards come with a NEXTSTEP driver, as well as drivers for Windows 3.11, 4.0, Windows NT, OS/2 and AutoCAD. The WINNER 2000PRO-PCI-H with its 4 MB VRAM and 200-MHz RAMDAC is ELSA's latest development for the graphics board market. It allows a resolution of 1600 x 1200 with 16-bit color at 77 Hz. TrueColor mode with its 16.7 million colors is available at 1152 x 864 pixels and a refresh rate of 80 Hz. ELSA's affordable WINNER 1000PRO is also available for the NEXTSTEP system - and like all WINNER graphics boards, eases eyestrain with its flicker-free refresh rates. All ELSA WINNER boards are available right now. ELSA Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ELSA GmbH, a privately-owned company based in Aachen, Germany. Founded in 1980, ELSA has built its world-renowned reputation for applying advanced engineering expertise to computer graphics and data communications for harsh environments. ELSA's customer list includes BASF, Philips, Siemens, Hewlett Packard, Hughes Aircraft, NASA and General Electric. WINNER 2000PRO and WINNER 1000PRO are trademarks, and ELSA is a registered trademark of ELSA, Inc. All other copyrights, trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.