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- BMETAGRAPHICS
- BCCMetaWINDOWD VERSION 4 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
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- BMetaWINDOWD - Graphic Tools That Give You More...
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- C2More Power - More Speed - More Support - More Quality
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- C1ALL PRODUCTS ROYALTY-FREE * NO POP-UP'S * NO TSR's
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- MetaWINDOW is a high performance graphic
- programming toolkit that combines speed,
- functionality, quality and support into an
- integrated graphics development system. Designed
- for PC programmers developing DOS real-mode, 286
- protected-mode or 386 protected-mode
- applications, MetaWINDOW provides a powerful
- suite of drawing functions, top-rated
- performance, and direct runtime support for
- virtually every popular display adapter and
- SuperVGA available. Using MetaWINDOW you can
- turn the promise and power of PC computer
- graphics into reality.
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- C1MetaWINDOW-DOS
- Advanced graphics toolkit for DOS real-mode
- No TSR's, No Pop-ups and No Royalties
- List Price: $249 Source Code: add $349 *
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- C1MetaWINDOW-DOS/286
- Advanced graphics toolkit for DOS real-mode
- and 286 protected-mode.
- No TSR's, No Pop-ups and No Royalties
- List Price: $349 Source Code: add $449 *
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- C1MetaWINDOW-DOS/386
- Advanced graphics toolkit for DOS real-mode,
- plus 286 and 386 protected-mode.
- No TSR's, No Pop-ups and No Royalties
- List Price: $449 Source Code: add $549 *
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- C1MetACCEL-DOS/286/386
- Dynamic link drivers for hardware accelerated SVGA's.
- No TSR's, No Pop-ups and No Royalties
- List Price: $349 Source Code: add $449 *
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- C1MetHICOLOR-DOS/286/386
- Dynamic link drivers for 16 bit-per-pixel,
- 65536-color SuperVGA modes.
- No TSR's, No Pop-ups and No Royalties
- List Price: $349 Source Code: add $449 *
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- C1PCXLab-DOS/286/386
- Add support for PCX Image files and
- Intel DCX image file libraries.
- No TSR's, No Pop-ups and No Royalties
- List Price: $249 Source Code: add $399 *
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- C1FontWINDOW
- Over 250 bitmap fonts, plus graphical font editor
- No Font Royalties
- List Price: $149
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- C1FontBUILDER
- Scaleable font utility, 20 scaleable outline fonts,
- plus TrueType and PostScript type importer.
- No Font Royalties
- List Price: $179
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- CCMetaWINDOW ROYALTY-FREE - NO TSR's - NO POP-UPS
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- BC1 MetaWINDOW-DOS
- BC1 MetaWINDOW-DOS/286
- BC1 MetaWINDOW-DOS/386
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- BMetaWINDOWD is a high performance graphic
- programming toolkit that combines speed,
- functionality, quality and support into an
- integrated graphics development system. Designed
- for PC programmers developing DOS real-mode, 286
- protected-mode or 386 protected-mode
- applications, MetaWINDOW provides a powerful
- suite of drawing functions, top-rated
- performance, and direct runtime support for
- virtually every popular display adapter and
- SuperVGA available. MetaWINDOW DOS real-mode and
- 286 protected-mode applications are fully DPMI
- compliant, and can be icon-launched and run from
- Microsoft Windows!
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- Optimized in tight assembly language code,
- MetaWINDOW provides a full set of graphic
- primitive for: points, lines, squares, rectangles,
- circles, ovals, arcs, wedges, polygons, bitmap
- text, plus seed and boundary fills. Enhanced
- features include: rounded-corner rectangles,
- object hit detection, scaleable text, dynamic font
- facing, image scaling, fill rules, dash styles,
- line cap styles, full standard and transparent
- rasterOps, Bezier curves and fills, plus
- user-definable multi-colored patterns up to 32x32
- pixels in size. MetaWINDOW fully supports drawing
- to virtual bitmaps in either conventional, EMS,
- XMS or virtual disk-cached memory. You can also
- define multiple independent windows, process
- mouse/timer/keyboard events, and print graphics to
- popular laser and dot-matrix printers. Advanced
- features include: region clipping, PostScript
- style pens and lines, colored cursors (up to 32x32
- pixels in size), and more.
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- MetaWINDOW supports over 80 graphics modes from
- HGA to SuperVGA and VESA up to 1280x1024. You
- also can expand display support with MetACCEL and
- MetHICOLOR options. Plus, MetaWINDOW benchmarks
- an average 2 to 10+ times faster than other PC
- graphics toolkits on the market, and is 15 to
- 55(!) times faster with MetACCEL driving a
- hardware accelerated SuperVGA (see "More Speed"
- above!
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- MetaWINDOW comes with a 400 page softcover manual
- and direct link libraries for use with popular
- real-mode compilers. MetaWINDOW-DOS/286 includes
- both DOS real-mode and 286 protected-mode
- libraries. MetaWINDOW-DOS/386 includes both DOS
- real-mode and 386 protected-mode libraries.
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- C1MetaWINDOW-DOSD supports popular real-mode
- compilers including:
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- Borland C++, versions 3.0, 3.1, 4.0
- Borland Turbo C++, versions 3.0, 3.1
- Borland Assembler, version 3
- Borland Turbo Pascal, versions 6.0, 7.0
- (direct link TPU's, no TSR's!)
- Metaware C++
- Microsoft Assembler, versions 5.x, 6.x
- Microsoft C/C++, versions 5.1, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
- Microsoft Quick C, version 2.0
- Microsoft Visual C++, Version 1.0, 1.5, 2.0
- TopSpeed C/C++, version 3.0
- Watcom C/C++, version 9.0, 10.0
- Zortech C++, version 3.0
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- C1MetaWINDOW-DOS/286D supports DOS real-mode
- compilers listed above, plus 286 protected-mode
- environments including:
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- C2 Borland PowerPack 286 DOS-Extender
- Borland C++, version 4.02
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- C2 Borland/Turbo Pascal 286 DPMI DOS-Extender
- Borland/Turbo Pascal, version 7.0
- (direct link TPU's, no TSR's!)
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- C2 Phar Lap 286 DOS-Extender
- Borland C++, versions 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 4.0
- Microsoft C/C++, versions 6.0, 7.0
- Microsoft Visual C++, Version 1.0, 1.5, 2.0
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- C2 Rational Systems DOS/16M 286 DOS-Extender
- Borland/Turbo C++, versions 2.0, 3.0, 3.1
- Microsoft C/C++, versions 6.0, 7.0
- Microsoft Visual C++, Version 1.0, 1.5, 2.0
- Zortech C++, version 3.0
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- C1MetaWINDOW-DOS/386D supports DOS real-mode
- compilers listed above, plus 386 protected-mode
- environments including:
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- C2 Borland PowerPack 386 DOS-Extender
- Borland C++, version 4.02
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- C2 Phar Lap 386 DOS-Extender
- Metaware C++ 386, version 3.0
- Watcom C 386, version 9.0
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- C2 Rational Systems DOS/4G 386 DOS-Extender
- Metaware C++ 386, version 3.0
- Watcom C 386, version 9.0
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- C2 Watcom 4GW 386 DOS-Extender
- Watcom C 386, version 9.0
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- C1MetACCEL-DOS/286/386
- C2 Add support for hardware accelerated SuperVGA's
- C2 No TSR's, No Pop-ups and No Royalties
- C2 List Price: $349 With Source Code: $799
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- MetACCEL provides a set of enhanced graphic
- display drivers for use with MetaWINDOW graphic
- libraries. MetACCEL adds expanded support for
- hardware accelerated SuperVGA's such as S3 based
- cards including: Orchid Fahrenheit-1280, Diamond
- Stealth, Actrix Graphics Engine, plus IBM 8514
- and ATI Graphics Ultra. MetACCEL with a hardware
- accelerated card boosts graphics performance more
- than 5 to 15 times over the speed of standard
- software programmed SuperVGA's. MetACCEL includes
- libraries for DOS, plus both 286 and 386
- protected-mode.
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- MetACCEL works with compilers and DOS extenders
- compatible with MetaWINDOW for DOS, 286 and 386
- (see above).
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- C1MetHICOLOR-DOS/286/386
- C2 Add support for 64K-color SuperVGA display modes
- C2 No TSR's, No Pop-ups and No Royalties
- C2 List Price: $349 With Source Code: $799
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- MetHICOLOR provides an expanded set of 16-bit per
- pixel display drivers for use with new "hi-color"
- SuperVGA cards and MetaWINDOW graphics
- programming libraries. MetHICOLOR allows you to
- create graphics applications with near
- photorealistic images of up to 65,536 displayable
- colors. Optimized entirely in assembly language
- for tight fast code, MetHICOLOR provides the
- ultimate in hi-color graphics performance.
- MetHICOLOR includes libraries for DOS, plus both
- 286 and 386 protected-mode.
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- MetHICOLOR works with compilers and DOS extenders
- compatible with MetaWINDOW for DOS, 286 and 386
- (see above).
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- C1PCXLab-DOS/286/386
- C2 Add support for PCX image files and
- C2 Intel DCX image file libraries.
- C2 No TSR's, No Pop-ups and No Royalties
- C2 List Price: $249 With Source Code: $599
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- Metagraphics PCXLab provides an expanded set of
- MetaWINDOW routines for working with PCX
- compressed image files and Intel DCX image file
- libraries. Optimized in tight assembly language
- code, PCXLab allows you to develop graphics
- applications that can: import/export and display
- PCX image files, import/export and display Intel
- DCX image file libraries, scroll and scale
- PCX/DCX images, access image header and palette
- information, read/write images to local memory
- buffers, output PCX/DCX images to popular laser
- and dot-matrix printers, and more. PCXLab
- supports popular monochrome, 16-color, 256-color
- and 64K-color PCX/DCX image file formats. PCXLab
- includes libraries for DOS, plus both 286 and 386
- protected-mode.
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- PCXLab comes with a 70 page soft cover book
- describing the PCX image file formats, Intel DCX
- file library format, and use of the PCXLab
- functions with MetaWINDOW. PCXLab works with
- compilers and DOS extenders compatible with
- MetaWINDOW for DOS, 286 and 386 (see above).
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- C1FontWINDOW/Plus
- C2 250+ fonts, font editor, FontBuilder scaleable
- C2 font utility, 20 scaleable outline fonts,
- C2 plus TrueType and PostScript type importer.
- C2 No Font Royalties
- C2 List Price: $249
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- FontWINDOW/Plus provides an extended set of bitmap
- fonts, font tools and font documentation for use
- with Metagraphics MetaWINDOW. Over 250+
- additional English and international font styles
- are provided. A graphical bitmap font editor
- allows you to interactively create custom fonts or
- foreign language character sets; merge characters
- from different fonts to create a new font; create
- icons and animation fonts; or create new
- bold-faced, italicized or rotated font sets. The
- FontBUILDER utility processes scaleable outline
- fonts to create high-quality MetaWINDOW bitmap
- fonts at any size you specify. FontBUILDER
- includes over 20 outline typefaces in four font
- families (Times, Helvetica, Courier and Script),
- plus can import TrueType and PostScript fonts for
- conversion to bitmap fonts for use with
- MetaWINDOW graphic toolkits. Style facings
- include normal, bold, italic, thin, condensed,
- wide, expanded, hollow - in any combination. Virtually no
- limitation on font point sizes. Virtually unlimited font
- rasterization resolutions.
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- FontWINDOW comes with over 200 additional bitmap
- font styles, and includes a 100 page soft cover
- book describing MetaWINDOW fonts and use of the
- font editor.
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- CCMetaWINDOW - Graphic Tools That Give You More...
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- C2More Power - More Speed - More Support - More Quality
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- C1B> More Power
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- MetaWINDOW provides all the capabilities of low
- level compiler and other graphic libraries, plus
- much more! Off-screen bitmaps, hardcopy output,
- user event-queue services, automatic cursor
- tracking and flexible bitmap text are standard
- features of all MetaWINDOW products. Enhanced
- versions add support for scalable vector text,
- selected object detection, rounded-corner
- rectangles, dynamic font facing, marker plotting,
- polyfill rules, dash styles, line caps and more.
- For high-end power applications, advanced
- versions of MetaWINDOW add expanded capabilities
- for arbitrary shape region clipping, region
- computation and drawing, variable size fill
- patterns, enlarged colored cursors, PostScript
- style drawing pens, international fonts, plus
- even more. MetaWINDOW provides the most powerful
- series of graphics tools available for PC
- programmers.
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- C1B> More Speed
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- Benchmarked as the fastest PC graphics toolkit in
- the world, MetaWINDOW defines the meaning of high
- performance graphics. Optimized totally in
- assembly language for fast, tight code,
- MetaWINDOW executes over 2 to 8 times faster than
- other PC graphic libraries.
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- C1B> More Support
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- MetaWINDOW provides total direct support for
- virtually every mode of HGA, CGA, EGA, VGA and
- SuperVGA available up to 1280x1024 monochrome,
- 16-color and 256-color. Over 300+ graphic cards
- and display modes are supported directly by
- MetaWINDOW. MetaWINDOW tools also support full
- VESA standards, insuring compatibility with
- future graphics technology. Add-on MetACCEL and
- MetHICOLOR driver packages expand support for
- accelerated SuperVGA's (such as the Orchid
- Fahrenheit-1280, Diamond Stealth, ATI Graphics
- Ultra and IBM 8514A), and 64K-color "hi-color"
- SuperVGA modes.
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- C1B> More Quality
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- MetaWINDOW provides uncompromising pixel perfect
- drawing quality and accuracy fully retraceable
- drawing and clipping of all graphic elements and
- text, plus perfect alignment and edge meshing of
- all objects. MetaWINDOW real-mode and 286
- protected-mode applications can also be launched
- and run from Microsoft Windows.
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- CCExperience That Counts
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- Metagraphics has been a pioneer in the PC graphics
- software industry for more than ten years since
- its founding in 1983. Today Metagraphics is a
- recognized leader in PC graphics with more
- commercial software products shipped using
- MetaWINDOW, than with any other graphics
- programming toolkit. MetaWINDOW technology has
- been licensed for use in major applications by
- virtually every major computer industry leader
- including:
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- Autodesk
- Britannica Software
- Compaq Computer
- Davidson Associates
- Great Plains Software
- Hewlett Packard
- IBM
- Ithaca Software
- Maxis
- National Instruments
- Polaroid
- Santa Cruz Operations
- Siemens
- Software Toolworks
- Sony
- Symantec/Peter Norton
- ... the list goes on!
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- These companies, plus over a thousand more, are
- now shipping commercial applications based on
- MetaWINDOW. And now that MetaWINDOW is ROYALTY
- FREE, there's no reason for you not to use the
- best graphics toolkit available. Professional
- developers have tested the field demanding the
- best - and have found it with MetaWINDOW!
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- CCLook Who's Talking About MetaWINDOW!
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- "MetaWINDOW is written in hand optimized assembly
- code and is very fast. It is virtually bug free,
- and the manufacturer has been very responsive to
- questions. If you intend to do any graphics work
- at all, you must have this product." "A
- technological tour de force for fast PC
- graphics." "One high-powered piece of artillery."
- "Customer support is excellent. I've called
- Metagraphics several times and have gotten
- prompt, accurate help each time." "If you do any
- graphics programming in C, try Metagraphics'
- MetaWINDOW - you'll like it!" Turbo Technix / PC
- Tech Journal
- C2 Jeff Duntemann
- C2 PC Techniques
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- "MetaWINDOW provides a complete DOS solution for
- our cross platform graphic tools. Our WNDX
- software works with multiple high-end platforms
- including Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh,
- Unix X-Windows and OS/2. MetaWINDOW is the best
- graphics toolkit we've found. It provides the
- speed, power and support we need for running in
- DOS and 286/386 protected mode."
- C2 Kevin Greenwood
- C2 WNDX Corporation
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- "For serious developers who are ready for more
- than elementary graphics, MetaWINDOW offers an
- outstanding combination of power and performance.
- Incredible speed coupled with support for
- practically every video card available puts
- MetaWINDOW way ahead of the pack."
- C2 Dave Herman
- C2 Island Systems
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- "MetaWINDOW provides the graphics power of
- Macintosh, Windows and X-Windows for use with PC
- DOS. Drawing speed is easily five times faster
- than any other PC graphics environment, and it
- supports just about every graphics card
- available. MetaWINDOW is our first choice for
- graphics tools, and the ONLY choice for DOS."
- C2 Tod Brannan
- C2 Oxford Consulting Group
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- "MetaWINDOW's speed and broad display support
- makes Menuet applications shine!"
- C2 Marv Luse
- C2 Autumn Hill Software
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- "MetaWINDOW is a mature product with support for
- probably more graphics adapters than anyone else
- on earth."
- C2 William Gates
- C2 Midnight Engineering
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- "MetaWINDOW is truly an exceptional graphics
- library. When used with .RT-Link you can build
- megabyte MetaWINDOW programs that run in standard
- 640K DOS."
- C2 Byron Reese
- C2 PocketSoft
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- CCPoints To Consider In A Graphics Toolkit
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- o Top rated drawing speed.
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- o Professional drawing quality.
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- o Full direct display support, plus VESA.
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- o 286 & 386 protected-mode versions.
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- o Builds Windows launchable real-mode
- and 286 protected-mode applications.
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- o Versions for accelerated S3 & 8514A SVGA's.
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- o Versions for 64,000-color SuperVGA's.
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- o Tight, fast object-oriented API.
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- o Versions with advanced power features.
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- o Source code available, if needed.
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- o Used in more major commercial applications
- than any other graphics toolkit.
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- o Leading vendor with performance products
- for more than 10 years.
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- C2BFOR MORE INFORMATION -
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- C1METAGRAPHICS CORPORATION
- 269 Mount Hermon Road, Suite 104
- PO Box 66779
- Scotts Valley, CA 95066
- U.S.A.
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- Sales: 800/332-1550
- Main: 408/438-1550
- Support: 408/438-6750
- Fax: 408/438-5379
- BBS: 408/438-5368
- CompuServe Mail: 75300,3053
- CompuServe Forum: GO METAGR
- Internet: sales@metagraphics.com
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