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                                              Digital Equipment Corporation
                                          Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2571
Editorial contact:

Ruth Porter
(508) 264-5637


         DIGITAL ANNOUNCES COOPERATIVE MARKETING PROGRAM FOR
           CRAY Y-MP EL ENTRY-LEVEL SUPERCOMPUTING SYSTEM


MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- November 17, 1992 -- Digital Equipment 
Corporation, introduced today a new third-party cooperative 
marketing initiative in support of the CRAY Y-MP EL entry-level 
supercomputing system.  The program formalizes the relationship 
between Digital and its complementary service organizations (CSOs), 
allowing the companies to facilitate support of applications for 
this system and to provide them to customers.  

     Two leading supercomputing applications developers, The MacNeal 
Schwendler Corp. and Molecular Simulations Inc., were among the 
first to become Digital CSOs for this program.  Digital sells, 
markets, distributes and services the CRAY Y-MP EL entry-level 
supercomputers through a business partnership with Cray Research 
Inc.

     "By working up front with our application-developer CSOs, we 
can deliver more tightly-integrated solutions to customers," said 
Kevin McCoole, applications marketing manager for Digital's Cray 
Program Office.  "Along with the high level of application 
performance needed for departmental solutions, which is delivered 
via the Cray architecture, this integration gives the customer a 
distinct competitive advantage."

     The MacNeal Schwendler Corp., a Los Angeles-based supplier of 
computer-aided engineering software to the aerospace and automotive 
industries, believes the CRAY Y-MP EL system opens the power of 
supercomputing to a broad new customer base.  

     "Using the CRAY Y-MP EL system, development groups can now cost 
effectively run and analyze large and complex modeling applications 
within their own departments," said Tom Vorgitch, MSC's corporate 
marketing director.  "MSC's participation in this new program is yet 
another move forward in our longstanding relationship with Digital, 
and another step ahead in meeting the growing analysis needs of our 
customers."

     Another CSO to join this program is Burlington, Massachusetts-
based Molecular Simulations Inc. (MSI), a leading supplier of 
molecular modeling applications to the pharmaceutical, chemical and 
material science industries.  

     "Through this program, computational chemists can now bring 
Cray resources, which were previously available only through time 
sharing, into the facility," said Kirk Bishop, MSI's manager of 
strategic relations.  "We believe this represents an opportunity for 
reduced `time to solution' at a reduced cost for a substantial 
subset of our customer base."

     The CRAY Y-MP EL family of air-cooled processors meets the 
needs of complex technical applications that demand high throughput 
and heavy use of vector processing.  Typical production environments 
include government, science consumer product and manufacturing R&D, 
pharmaceutical research, and oil and gas exploration.  With a 
starting price of $299,000, the CRAY Y-MP EL system is the price/
performance leader of entry-level supercomputing.

     Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard, 
Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked
computer systems, software and services.  Digital pioneered and
leads the industry in interactive, distributed and multivendor 
computing.  Digital and its business partners deliver the power 
to use the best integrated solutions - from desktop to data center - 
in open information environments.

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Note to Editors:  CRAY Y-MP EL is a trademark of Cray Research, 
     		  Inc.

CORP/93/889
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