November 7th, 1994

ELSA Inc.
Contact:
Thomas Neubert
400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 109
South San Francisco, CA 94080
USA
Phone   +1-415-615-7799
Toll free         1-800-272-ELSA
Fax             +1-415-588-0113
BBS             +1-415-615-5862
Email           thomasn@elsa-usa.mhs.compuserve.com



ELSA ANNOUNCES VERSION 1.20 OF ITS WINNER DISPLAY DRIVERS

South San Francisco, CA - ELSA Inc., manufacturer of
German-engineered high performance products for computer graphics
and data communications, today announced that it released the
latest ELSA WINNER display driver, version 1.20, on Nov. 1st,
1994.

With ELSA's graphics boards WINNER 2000PRO-2, WINNER 2000PRO-4
and WINNER 2000PRO-H, version 1.20 of the driver significantly
speeds up display modes that use 16 bits per pixel (bpp). When
color space "RGB:444/16" is selected, the hardware uses the
internal color representation of the NEXTSTEP window server, thus
eliminating the need for time-consuming software conversion. The
speed gain can amount to 30 % at a resolution of 1600 x 1200.

In addition, ELSA's latest driver generally supports 256 colors
at 8 bpp under NEXTSTEP 3.3 for all WINNER PRO graphics boards.
This means that color is now available in high resolution modes
even for users of the WINNER 1000PRO.

Version 1.20 of the WINNER display driver also supports ELSA's
WINNER 2000PRO-PCI-8, the first graphics board worldwide
featuring 8 MB VRAM and a 250-MHz RAMDAC. It offers 16.7 million
colors with a resolution of 1600 x 1280 pixels at 78 Hz to
NEXTSTEP users.

With ELSA's NEXTSTEP driver, users can conveniently select the
appropriate ELSA WINNER board in a special dialog box called ELSA
WINNER Inspector. Since the default frame buffer allocation is
made board-depending, ELSA WINNER Inspector chooses the default
frame buffer address for the respective board so that users can
just can just plug and play.

ELSA Inc. will present its high-end products at COMDEX (Nov.
14-18, 1994), Sands Expo & Convention Center, booth #S 563.

ELSA GmbH is a privately-owned company based in Aachen, Germany,
with subsidiaries in South San Francisco, California, and Taipei,
Taiwan (ROC). Founded in 1980, ELSA has built its world-renowned
reputation for applying advanced engineering expertise to
computer graphics and data communications products. ELSA's
customer list includes Computer 2000, BASF, Philips, Siemens,
Hewlett Packard, Hughes Aircraft, NASA, General Electric, and
others.