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

Paul Collins
(508) 467-5164


                                           TRI-Ada Booth #308


        DIGITAL BRINGS 21st CENTURY COMPUTING TO TRI-ADA SHOW


          Demonstrates Alpha AXP workstations, Ada futures,
                     and integrated environments


ORLANDO, FLORIDA -- November 17, 1992 -- Digital Equipment 
Corporation is giving attendees of the TRI-Ada '92 tradeshow a 
glimpse of the possibilities for Ada software development with a 
technology demonstration of the DEC Ada compiler on its recently 
announced, 64-bit Alpha AXP workstations. Underscoring its role as 
the world's leading supplier of Ada products and services, Digital 
is also showing smart recompilation -- a future Ada technology -- 
and highlighting the popular Motif Ada bindings that are included in 
the current version DEC Ada for RISC ULTRIX systems.

     "Digital is committed to delivering high-performance Ada 
compilers and advanced Ada environments on multiple platforms," 
stated Pat Bernard, Ada Business and Marketing Manager at Digital. 
"The 64-bit capacity of the new Alpha AXP architecture assures Ada 
developers of a leading platform literally into the twenty-first 
century. Likewise, advanced features such as smart recompilation 
will provide Ada programmers with the benefits of the latest in 
productivity enhancements."

     The DEC Ada compiler for Alpha AXP systems is part of Digital's 
aggressive rollout of Alpha AXP software products that began with 
the announcement of Alpha AXP systems, software, applications, and 
services on November 10. The Ada compiler for OpenVMS AXP systems is 
in porting centers now, and is on schedule for delivery in the first 
half of the 1993 calendar year.

     Also highlighted in the Digital booth are the Motif Ada 
bindings included in DEC Ada Version 1.1 for RISC ULTRIX systems. 
Motif Ada bindings help Ada developers create sophisticated 
graphical and UI applications by giving them access to X and Motif 
software. Digital's Ada bindings are unique in that they are 
included with the compiler at no extra charge, and are strongly 
"typed" for Ada; that is, they are designed to look and act like an 
extension of the Ada language.

     The company is also demonstrating another future for its Ada 
product set: Ada support for the DEC FUSE programming environment. 
DEC FUSE is an integrated, graphics-based development environment, 
built on a foundation of UNIX commands and utilities.

     The other area of focus for the Digital exhibit is integrated 
environments. The COHESION ASD/SEE (Aerospace-Defense/Software 
Engineering Environment) will be the center-piece of Digital's 
computer-aided software engineering (CASE) demonstration at the 
TRI-Ada Conference. COHESION ASD/SEE is a comprehensive set of 
integrated products and services for software engineering. The 
COHESION ASD/SEE has proven successful in providing a software 
development environment to the Lockheed F-22 Advanced Tactical 
Fighter, the United States Air Force's vanguard weapon for 
maintaining air superiority in the 21st century.

     Digital's overall COHESION environment brings together multiple 
computing platforms, vendors, tools, application types, computing 
styles, and support services for development projects of all sizes.  
The COHESION ASD/SEE is a component of Digital's COHESION 
environment, targeted specifically at the Aerospace and Defense 
industries.  Other CASE solutions demonstrated in the Digital booth 
include OOSD/Ada (Object-Oriented Structured Design/Ada), a product 
of Interactive Development Environments, and PCMS (Product 
Configuration Management System), a product of SQL Software Limited.

     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.

                                ####

Note to Editors:  Alpha AXP, AXP, COHESION, DEC, the DEC logo, FUSE 
                  OpenVMS, and VAX are trademarks of Digital 
                  Equipment Corporation. 

     		  OSF and OSF/1 are trademarks of the Open Software
          	  Foundation, Inc. 

     		  UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System
          	  Laboratories, Inc. 

     		  PCMS is a registered trademark of SQL
               	  Software Ltd.  

     		  OOSD/Ada is a trademark of Interactive Development 
                  Environments.

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