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              DIGITAL INCREASES DECFORMS FUNCTIONALITY

           AND ADDS A NEW, COST-EFFECTIVE LICENSING OPTION


MAYNARD, Mass. -- October 5, 1992 -- Digital Equipment Corporation 
today extended the range of its DECforms product to support both 
OpenVMS and ULTRIX operating systems.
     DECforms is a complete user interface management system, not 
just a screen generator or screen painter.  It allows application 
developers to define not only the look of the user interface, but 
the procedural aspects as well.  The new version, DECforms V1.4, 
provides a portable application programming interface (API) that 
allows developers to create DECforms applications that can be ported 
easily between the OpenVMS and ULTRIX operating systems.  By 
isolating user interface processing in the form,  the application 
program code is off-loaded from this function, providing a true 
separation of form and function. 
     Offering OpenVMS and ULTRIX operating systems, DECforms 
facilitates an application using a single form to support end users 
on multiple platforms in a consistent fashion.  "A single set of 
sources for both the application and the user interface make 
development and maintenance much easier for developers in multi-
platform environments," said Dennis Roberson, Vice President, 
Corporate Software. 
     Digital also announced today the availability of the user-based 
licensing option for DECforms.  When the number of DECforms users in 
an organization is expected to be relatively low, this option is
generally less expensive than unlimited-use licensing on mid-range 
and large processors, thereby providing a cost-effective approach to 
purchasing DECforms for computing environments with fewer users. 
     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 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:  DECforms, OpenVMS, ULTRIX, VAX and the Digital
     		  logo are all trademarks of Digital Equipment 
                  Corporation.

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