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From: Darren_Smith@NeXT.COM (Darren Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
Subject: NeXT PROVIDES DETAILS ABOUT NEW RELEASE OF THE NEXTSTEP OPERATING
SYSTEM
Date: 25 Jun 1994 13:50:41 -0400
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Karen Logsdon
NeXT Computer, Inc.
415/780-3786
or
Charlotte Penner
Copithorne & Bellows
415-975-2225
NeXT PROVIDES DETAILS ABOUT NEW RELEASE OF THE NEXTSTEP OPERATING SYSTEM
NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 to be released in fourth quarter of this year
SAN FRANCISCO - June 21, 1994 - NeXT Computer, Inc. today provided details
about the next version of its object-oriented operating system, NEXTSTEP Release
3.3, to attendees at NEXTSTEP EXPO, held here at Moscone Center. Based on
feedback from NeXT's customers, more than 1,000 enhancements have been made to
NEXTSTEP to address critical deployment issues for enterprise-wide
client/server applications.
The new release includes enhancements in the areas of interoperability,
scalability and ease of use. Specifically, NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 offers more
support for Intel-based PCs, eases system administration efforts, improves large
network scalability, provides enhanced mail features, and through SoftPC,
supports enhanced-mode MS-DOS & Windows applications.
"NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 combines the robustness of mainframe operating systems
with the flexibility of PCs, making it the best environment for enterprise-wide
deployment of object-oriented custom applications," said Rick Jackson,
director of product marketing at NeXT Computer, Inc. "The enhancements to this
release provide greater support for large-scale operations typical of NeXT's
corporate customers."
New Release Offers More Intel-based PC Support
Keeping pace with new PC technologies, NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 includes additional
support for new standards such as PCI and ISA Plug & Play. Release 3.3 also
includes enhanced support for portable computers, such as PCMCIA support,
advanced power management capabilities and 8-bit color. Release 3.3 comes
bundled with more than 50 device drivers to support a wide variety of peripherals.
These new features simplify the task of hardware configurations and enable
NEXTSTEP to run on a larger variety of Intel-based desktop and portable systems.
Release 3.3 Eases System Administration & Improves Scalability
To ease the task of system administration, the installation of NEXTSTEP in
large sites has been improved. With new capabilities such as network install and
network bulk upgrade, system administrators can now install NEXTSTEP through
a network server without requiring a CD-ROM drive. Templates can also be
configured so that all systems built from the server inherit the same
configurations.
Network enhancements have been included to increase scalability. NetInfo, a
proven enterprise-wide network administration database, now supports 10,000+
nodes across wide-area networks which enables corporations to grow their
networks globally without sacrificing data integrity or network performance.
Features from Mach 3.0 and BSD 4.4 have also been incorporated to improve
overall system performance.
NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 also provides enhanced system administration tools, such
as UserManager, NetInfoManager, SimpleNetworkStarter and new networking
utilities, to manage large networks more efficiently and cost effectively.
Enhanced Mail Features in NEXTSTEP Release 3.3
NeXTmail has been significantly improved in Release 3.3 to give users greater
flexibility in how electronic mail is accessed, managed and stored. New MIME
(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) support enables NEXTSTEP users to
send and receive multimedia messages with users of other popular e-mail
applications through the same intuitive NeXTmail interface.
Information such as the number of read and deleted messages, size of each
message and the number of new messages is now easily accessible. By treating
e-mail messages as generic documents, users can now save and restore drafts of
partially composed or unsent e-mail messages, including header and address
information. Additional mail features, providing time management benefits,
include: selective and summary printing; enhanced searching; selective message
archival; in-line address validation; hierarchical mailboxes; and user
defined fields.
New Release of SoftPC Supports Enhanced-Mode DOS & Windows Apps
NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 will also include an updated version of SoftPC. SoftPC 4.
0 for the NEXTSTEP/Intel operating system from Insignia Solutions, Inc. will
support several enhanced-mode MS-DOS and Windows applications, including
Aldus PageMaker 5.0 and WordPerfect for Windows 6.0.
The product will be available in July through Insignia Solutions and shipped as
a 30-day trial version with NEXTSTEP 3.3. It is priced at $249 with upgrades
for $69.
Pricing and availability
NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 will be available in the fourth quarter of this year for
$795 with upgrades priced at $199.
NeXT Computer, Inc.
NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software
for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP's
advanced object environment to rapidly develop and deploy custom,
enterprise-wide, client/server applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood
City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich
and Tokyo.
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NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer,
Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.