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- SIAM : More than a BBS
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- Contact:
- COMPUTER ANSWER LINE
- Philippe GILBERT
- 92, cours Vitton
- 69006 LYON, FRANCE
- (33) 78 24 09 48 fax (33) 72 74 04 85
- AppleLink : COMPUTANSWER
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- Lyon, France--23 Feb 93 :
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- COMPUTER ANSWER LINE announced the new release of SIAM.
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- SIAM is an Information and Application Unix Server for Micro. It allows
- Macintosh and Pc's under Windows to connect to a A/UX (or UNIX) server with
- AppleTalk or X25 access and to consult informations, graphics or applications.
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- As soon as you are connected, icons appear like a local use of the Micro. By
- double clicking you will :
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- • open a folder,
- • open a text window or a spreadsheet,
- • consult graphics,
- • download a file,....
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- But SIAM is more than a BBS :
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- • SIAM is made for Macintosh or PC's,
- • you can launch standard application : mail, product catalogue and ordering,
- expert system, ...
- • you can develop your own application with a C function library ans connect
- the SIAM server to your host computer,....
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- What you can do with SIAM:
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- • replace your old BBS by a powerful server easier to use ,
- • build a customer information service with Hot Line, marketing information and
- ordering product,
- • Internal Electronic Newspapers,
- • Client/Server applications with access to database,...
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- A macro language allows you to define your own applications, install icons,
- text and graphics...
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- What you need:
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- . For the SIAM server : UNIX system 5 or Macintosh working with A/UX 2.0
- (16 Mo RAM, disk 150 Mo).
- . For the SIAM Client : any Macintosh or PC/Windows
- . For the network : Ethernet, Appletalk, X25, TELETEL, TVR.
- Some examples : BBS, Database access, File transfer, Electronic Newspapers,
- Client Server applications,....
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- It's the new system for broadcasting informations on Macintosh and PC's.
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- What's new with this release :
- • client software can run either on PC's or Macintosh,
- • a new and easier management system for posting information on the server,
- • a powerful file transfer system with holmd facility and automatic restart in
- case of interrupt,
- • some new application like inter-user mail, connection on AS/400, ...
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- © 1993 COMPUTER ANSWER LINE. All rights reserved.
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- This information is provided by the product's developer or distributor and
- constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation by Apple Computer,
- Inc.. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to selection, performance or
- use of this product. All understandings, agreements and warranties, if any,
- take place directly between the developer and the prospective user.
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- 23-Feb-93
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