FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Intuitive Systems, Inc. 408 245 8540 fax: 408 245 8541 cubx@intuisys.com INTUITIVE SYSTEMS, INC. ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF CUB'X-WINDOW V5.0 Sunnyvale, California, January 5th, 1996 - Intuitive Systems, Inc. announces the availability of Cub'X-Window v5.0, the first X11R6 X Window client/server solution available for NEXTSTEP on NeXT, Intel, HP PA-RISC and Sun SPARCstations. With its still increased speed performance, optimized X visuals and numerous pre-compiled X clients and window managers, Cub'X-Window v5.0 provides the fastest and most complete X Window solution for NEXTSTEP. Cub'X-Window Cub'X-Window integrates in NEXTSTEP the functionality of a standard X Window terminal, allowing users to display on NEXTSTEP their legacy X Window applications running on any X Window workstation in the network. Cub'X-Window also provides all tools to port or develop X Window applications locally on NEXTSTEP. Moreover, Cub'X-Window bundles numerous popular X clients (XV, Mosaic...) and window managers (Motif, fvwm, XView...) already pre-compiled and ready to run. Cub'X-Window includes complete communication tools between X and NEXTSTEP (cut/copy/paste of text, screen grab, automatic launch of X applications, access of manual pages under librarian...) and allows the display of X applications in full screen or inside the NEXTSTEP environment. What's new in Cub'X-Window v5.0? - X11R6 client/server architecture The X11 Release 6 System is upward compatible with Release 5: X11R5 applications will continue to run on X11R6. In order to ensure total compatibility of compiled applications, Cub'X-Window Development Tools include both sets of tools and X libraries for X11R5 and X11R6. - Support on NEXTSTEP for Sun SPARCstation The X Window 8 bit pseudocolor visual has been especially optimized for increased display speed and perfect color tuning. - Increased speed performance Cub'X-Window v5.0 breaks the generally observed fact that increased integration between X and NEXTSTEP results in lower speed performance. With the implementation of new optimization techniques, Cub'X-Window 5.0 manages to nearly double the speed of X applications when displayed inside NEXTSTEP, making this option about as fast as the option displaying X Window applications in full screen. - Support of all standard X Window visuals Cub'X-Window v5.0 supports all standard X Window visuals (Pseudocolor, TrueColor, Grayscale) on all platforms running NEXTSTEP. All visuals are optimized and tuned for perfect compliance with the MIT specifications. - New window managers In addition to OSF/Motif and Tab window manager, the followings are now available: fvwm, XView, tvtwm, bowman. - New function keys implementation Users can now access the function keys directly on the keyboard without need for an emulation. - New pre-compiled clients Cub'X-Window v5.0 includes numerous popular clients such as Mosaic, ghostview, xfig, XV, tcl/tk... System requirements Cub'X-Window v5.0 runs on NEXTSTEP v3.2 and v3.3. Cub'X-Window v5.0 is not compatible with the NeXT Dimension Board. Demonstration version A demonstration version of Cub'X-Window v5.0 is now available on ftp.cs.orst.edu in the directory /pub/next/submissions (to be moved to /pub/next/XNeXT). You can download the following files: - CubXWindow.Demo.README - CubXWindow.Demo-m68k.tar.gz: Demo version for NeXT Hardware - CubXWindow.Demo-i386.tar.gz: Demo version for Intel Systems. - CubXWindow.Demo-hppa.tar.gz: Demo version for HP PA-RISC workstations - CubXWindow.Demo-sparc.tar.gz: Demo version for Sun SPARCstations - CubXWindow.Demo-quad.tar.gz: 4-way fat demo version for all architectures. For more information, please contact: Intuitive Systems, Inc. 599 North Mathilda Ave. Ste 19 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 tel : 408 245 8540 fax : 408 245 8541 cubx@intuisys.com Cub'X-Window is a trademark of Intuitive Systems, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. OSF/Motif is a trademark of Open Software Foundation, Inc. The X Window System is a trademark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology