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- NEWS
- Contact: Harry Ives
- (617) 271-0230
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- AUGMENT SYSTEMS INC. ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR
- QUADRA 700/900 SERIES, DASH 40Q
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- Augment's Turnkey, Plug-in Fiber Optic Link Provides
- A Data Path An Order Of Magnitude Faster Than Ethernet For The World's
- Highest Performance Macintosh Computers.
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- BEDFORD, JANUARY 12, 1993 -- Augment Systems has now added Quadra support for
- it's high-speed fiber optic based file transfer system. This includes the
- Quadra 700, 900, 950 and the Sixty Eight Thousand Dash 40Q products.
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- The Augment Retriever Plus is a hardware/software package for Apple Macintosh
- computers that enables very high-speed, point-to-point file transfers over
- fiber optic cable. It is designed as a plug-and-play solution for color
- prepress companies that need to move vast amounts of large image data files
- between two or more workstations. The Quadra platforms supplied by Apple and
- the Sixty Eight Thousand Dash 40Q system are typically used in the demanding
- color prepress market.
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- Up to five nodes may be connected to a common server, typically a Quadra 950 or
- Dash 40Q. Over the easily routed fiber cable, files may be retrieved from or
- sent to the common server.
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- QUADRA SUPPORT--2/
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- For the first time, high resolution files may be kept in one location and
- accessed by multiple users without the long wait of Ethernet or expensive
- datashuttles. Low resolution workstations can still use OPI techniques where
- desired. In addition, database techniques can now be applied, as well.
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- Breaks A Major Bottleneck
- "Retriever Plus, combined with our Dash 40Q, is an important breakthrough for
- the color prepress market because two of the biggest production bottlenecks are
- application execution and file transfer time," according to Doug Erickson,
- Marketing Director of Sixty Eight Thousand, Inc. "With desktop separations, an
- average page has about 30 megabytes of image data. Moving this data from a
- scanner workstation to an image editing workstation, for example, can take
- about three minutes. Using the Augment Retriever Plus, we can move these
- files in 20 to 30 seconds. "
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- Augment Systems, Bedford, Mass., manufactures high-speed fiber optic links.
- Sixty Eight Thousand, Inc., Scotts Valley, Calif., manufactures high-end
- Macintosh systems.
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