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

Terri A. Slater
PC Integration Business
(508) 486-2464
Networld Booth  No. 2418


       DIGITAL PREVIEWS NEW PATHWORKS PC NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY


   ...Networld '93 provides stage for early glimpse of client/server 
      software for Windows NT and NetWare technologies...


BOSTON, Mass. -- January 12, 1993 -- At Networld '93, Digital 
Equipment Corporation is previewing beta versions of two new 
products that expand the growing PATHWORKS family of PC integration 
products and services.  Show attendees will have the opportunity to 
view Digital's PATHWORKS PC networking and integration software 
incorporating Novell NetWare file and print services over the IPX 
transport protocol and PATHWORKS for Windows NT client and server 
implementations, both providing built-in wide-area networking 
capabilities to PC users as well as local area network services.

     These future offerings demonstrate Digital's on-going 
commitment to provide an open network infrastructure for client-
server computing, consisting of support for multivendor desktop PCs, 
scalable servers, multiple communication protocols and networks, and 
hundreds of applications. 

     PATHWORKS products, incorporating NetWare technologies, will 
soon give NetWare users access to enterprise data, applications and 
services in local and wide area networks.  Client/server 
applications which may be used with this future product include 
electronic messaging, group conferencing, data base query and 
distributed transaction processing.

     Digital and Novell's plans, announced in 1992, call for the 
co-development of products that enable PC users and systems managers 
to access and manage file and print services on NetWare-based 
PATHWORKS for OpenVMS and OSF/1 servers in a manner that is 
transparent to the user. 

     Another member of  the PATHWORKS family under development, 
PATHWORKS for Windows NT, will provide value-added networking 
features including file, print and applications services supporting 
the following protocols: DECnet Phase IV, TCP/IP, NetBEUI, Ethernet, 
Token Ring, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) and synchronous/
asynchronous connections.  The PATHWORKS for Windows NT product 
plans to include electronic mail, terminal emulation, networking and 
system management services.  

     PATHWORKS for Windows NT, expected to ship when Microsoft Corp. 
delivers the Windows NT operating system, will allow access to a 
Windows NT system configured as a server for DOS, Windows, Windows 
NT and OS/2 clients.  Furthermore, Windows NT client systems can 
access existing PATHWORKS servers (ULTRIX, SCO UNIX, Windows NT, 
OS/2, and OpenVMS). 

     The future delivery of  PATHWORKS for Windows NT is a 
significant milestone in Digital's strong business relationship with 
Microsoft.  Digital's strategy for becoming the preferred supplier 
of Windows NT solutions includes offering customers the best multi-
vendor integration tools and services for Windows NT as well as the 
ideal platform, Alpha AXP, for the most sophisticated applications 
of this decade.  

     With the addition of these two technologies, Digital's 
PATHWORKS will continue to offer PC users the widest range of 
choices for the integration of different PC clients: DOS, Windows, 
Windows NT, Macintosh and OS/2; servers: OpenVMS, OSF/1, OS/2, 
SCO UNIX, ULTRIX, and Windows NT; file and print protocols: LAN 
Manager, NetWare and AppleShare; network protocols: DECnet, TCP/IP, 
AppleTalk, IPX/SPX, and NetBEUI; and network topologies: Ethernet, 
Token Ring, LocalTalk, FDDI and synchronous/asynchronous. 

     Digital Equipment Corporation, with headquarters 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:  PATHWORKS, VMS, Alpha AXP, ULTRIX and DECnet are 
                  trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation.  

     		  Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks of 
                  Novell, Inc.  

     		  Macintosh, AppleTalk, LocalTalk and AppleShare are 
                  registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.  

     		  Microsoft and Windows NT are registered trademarks 
                  and LAN Manager and Windows are trademarks of 
                  Microsoft Corporation.  

     		  OS/2 is a registered trademark of International 
                  Business Machines Corp.  

     		  SCO is a trademark of Santa Cruz Operations, Inc.

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

     		  All other trademarks or registered trademarks are 
                  the property of their respective owners. 

CORP/93/920
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