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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Gary Wolfe or Jennifer Jester
Corporate Relations Department
Banyan Systems Incorporated
(508) 898-1000
BANYAN SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS 3.0
Commitment Encompasses Current and Future VINES Releases
WESTBORO, Mass., May 22, 1990 -- In a strong endorsement of
MicrosoftR WindowsTM 3.0, Banyan Systems today affirmed its
commitment to support the new product in the current VINESR Release
4.0, as well as in all future releases of VINES. Banyan had earlier
been a beta test site for Windows 3.0, and VINES 4.0 is now
shipping complete with Windows 3.0 support at no extra cost.
According to David C. Mahoney, Banyan President and CEO, "By virtue
of our longstanding, close relationship with Microsoft, Banyan was
quick to appreciate the importance to the marketplace of a network-
aware Windows 3.0 product that could be coupled with VINES to
expand our 'window' into the corporate-wide PC network. Banyan,
our users and our resellers view today's Microsoft announcement
with great enthusiasm and anticipation."
"In view of Banyan's position as a leader in corporate-wide PC
networks, we are pleased that they have made such a strong
commitment to the Windows 3.0 graphical environment," said Steve
Ballmer, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's System Software
Division. "By supporting Windows 3.0 in VINES 4.0, and by enabling
users to run both VINES and third party applications simultaneously
within the Windows environment, Banyan is providing a great benefit
to users."
By providing support for Windows 3.0 in VINES 4.0, Banyan enables
users, operating within the Windows environment, to run both Banyan
and third party applications simultaneously. All Banyan
applications are capable of operating in the Windows environment.
To support multiple, concurrently-running applications utilizing
network resources, Banyan supports virtual machines under Windows-
386. This lets each active window (i.e., application) have equal
access to the network resources which the user is mapped to upon
network login. As a result, each application can have a different
current drive or subdirectory.
Windows 3.0 compatibility within VINES 4.0 also includes
synchronous and asynchronous socket calls, as well as Interrupt 21
calls. This means that any non-Windows applications written to
Banyan DOS APIs will operate under Windows.
VINES 4.0 users can install Windows 3.0 on their local hard disk or
on a network drive. To utilize Windows with VINES, users first
login to the network, and then invoke the Windows software. To run
Windows, PC's require 2MB (minimum) to 4 MB of memory.
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About Banyan Systems Incorporated
Banyan Systems is the leader in corporate-wide PC networking.
Banyan's premier product is VINESR. a fully-integrated network
computing environment based on industry and international
standards. VINES permits the convenient accessing, sharing, and
managing of computer information and resources in distributed
systems ranging from localized PC clusters up to the largest
multinational PC networks in the world.
Operating on a growing variety of popular personal computers as
well as on Banyan's own family of network servers, VINES
transparently internetworks PCs, minicomputers, mainframes, and
other resources with local and wide area networks. The resultant
network is secure and convenient to administer, yet it provides a
single easy-to-understand user interface at each workstation. VINES
users need no knowledge of network topology. They perceive the
entire network as a virtual extension of their own PCs, and simply
access needed resources via Banyan's StreetTalkTM, the world's first
and most powerful global directory service.
Banyan Systems is headquartered at 120 Flanders Road, Westboro, MA
01581. (508) 898-1000.
Banyan and VINES are registered trademarks and StreetTalk is a
trademark of Banyan Systems.
Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows is a trademark of
Microsoft Corporation.