From: raney@csn.org (Scott Raney)
Subject: MetaCard hypermedia/RAD 1.2 release
Followup-To: poster
Summary: MetaCard now available for RS/6000, SGI IRIS, and DG AViiON
Organization: MetaCard Corporation
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:54:50 GMT

Boulder - Nov 23, 1992.  MetaCard Corporation today announced the
availability of MetaCard 1.2, an upgrade to one of UNIXWORLD
magazine's 10 Best Products of 1992.  MetaCard is now available on IBM
RS/6000, Silicon Graphics IRIS, and Data General AViiON workstations,
in addition to the 6 platforms supported in previous releases: SPARC,
Sun 3, DECstation, HP-9000/300 and 700, and SCO Open Desktop.

MetaCard is a hypermedia/Rapid Application Development environment
similar to Apple/Claris Corporation's HyperCard, but with a Motif
interface.  Also unlike HyperCard, MetaCard supports the full range of
GUI techniques including dialogs and menus, has 24 bit color support,
and built in support for interprocess communication.

MetaCard has a wide range of uses, from developing GUI applications
and GUI front ends to shell scripts and other utilities, to producing
help systems and Computer Based Training (CBT) systems, to producing
and distributing electronic documents.  It can also be used to develop
presentations, product demonstrations, and application prototypes.

Key Features

* Easy to use yet powerful interactive GUI development
  environment, with an integral interpreted scripting language.

* Motif interface supports construction of Motif compatible
  applications including support for all button and field styles,
  pulldown and popup menus, and all forms of dialogs.

* Text editing tools that support multiple typefaces, sizes and
  colors, subscript and superscript, automatic scrolling, search, sort,
  and hypertext links.

* A complete set of full 24 bit color image editing/painting tools
  support creation and editing of images, icons, cursors, brush shapes,
  and fill patterns.

* Sophisticated color image management system allows display of full
  color images and icons on 4 bit VGA and even monochrome screens.

* Visual effects and double-buffered object manipulation and animation
  are available on all platforms, no special hardware or software is
  required.

* Object architecture, scripting language, and external procedure call
  interface are source compatible with Claris Corporation's HyperCard.

* MetaCard scripts execute 2-4 times faster than the same scripts in
  HyperCard on comparable hardware (Sun 3 vs.  Mac II).  On most UNIX
  workstations, the advantage is even greater due to the much greater
  performance of the hardware itself.

* MetaCard stacks are portable among all 9 supported platforms.

* Royalty free distribution of applications and hypermedia documents.

Single user licenses of MetaCard are $495 and can be used on any
platform.  Site licenses are available from $1,800 for five users up
to $15,000 for 250 users.  Educational users will receive a 50%
percent discount.  Upgrades to MetaCard engines will be free to
licensed users within the 1.X series of releases.

Unlimited technical support is free via electronic mail to all
licensed users.  Non-toll-free telephone support is provided during
normal business hours (MDT) for a limited time only.

For more information, or to receive a free save-disabled but
licensable copy of MetaCard, email to info@metacard.com or call 303-
447-3936.  If you have anonymous FTP access to the Internet, you can
download the current engines, documentation, and an unlicensed Home
stack from ftp.metacard.com (128.138.213.21), directory MetaCard.
Commercial users can get MetaCard from ftp.uu.net directory
vendor/MetaCard or world.std.com (192.74.137.5), directory
pub/Metacard.  If you don't have an anonymous ftp access, you can also
download MetaCard from The World using kermit or xmodem from the
~ftp/pub/MetaCard directory.  Sign up by calling 617-739-0202 (voice)
or via modem by dialing 617-739-9753 (7 bits even parity) and logging
in as new.

MetaCard is a registered trademark of MetaCard Corporation, other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
-- 
* Scott Raney  303-447-3936            Remember: the better you look, *
* raney@metacard.com                   the more you'll see -- Lidia   *
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