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                                              Digital Equipment Corporation
                                          Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2571
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Software Engineering
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             DIGITAL AND X/OPEN STRENGTHEN PARTNERSHIP 
           WITH PLANS TO IMPLEMENT NEW XPG4 SPECIFICATIONS


      ... Digital Continues Its Commitment to Open Systems ...



MAYNARD, Mass. -- October 5, 1992 -- Digital Equipment Corporation
today announced its commitment to develop and incorporate X/Open 
XPG4 specifications across its open system environments.
    "Digital is focused on delivering open systems capabilities to 
our customers, in the form of products and services, to assure their
business needs are met.  The computing environments we provide 
and support must fill today's needs as well as provide the clear 
path to the future.  Our participation in and commitment to industry 
standards such as the X/Open Common Application Environment, IEEE 
POSIX and the many international standards produced by ISO have 
given that path to our customers.  Digital will incorporate the XPG4 
specifications announced today, demonstrating Digital's unwavering 
commitment to industry standards and open systems," said David 
Stone, vice president of software engineering.
    XPG4 is an evolution of XPG3, through which many existing open 
systems products are branded.  Digital currently offers ULTRIX, DEC 
OSF/1, OpenVMS, and SCO UNIX operating systems as XPG3-branded open 
system environments.  Digital has obtained the XPG3 Base brand for 
more systems than any other vendor worldwide. 
    Additionally, Digital has been an active member in the X/Open 
Consortium Technical and Marketing Committees since joining in 1986, 
and was the first non-European company to join. 
    The X/Open brand clearly identifies open systems products and 
simplifies their procurement.  Digital is actively working to brand 
products according to XPG4 specifications, including FORTRAN, 
Pascal, the C language and libraries, NFS, X Window System, and 
elements of the operating system such as the commands and utilities.  
Digital includes X/Open specifications in its Network Application 
Support (NAS) integrated portfolio of software products and services 
to support distributed multivendor environments.  The first 
XPG4-branded products from Digital will be available in October of 
this year.
    Digital recognizes the significance of X/Open to its customers
and actively supports and promotes X/Open and its efforts to provide 
the unified path to open systems.
    Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard, 
Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked 
computer systems, software and service.  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:  ULTRIX and OpenVMS are trademarks of Digital 
                  Equipment Corporation.

                  NFS is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

                  OSF/1 is a trademark of the Open Software 
                  Foundation.

                  SCO is a trademark of Santa Cruz Operations, 
                  Inc.

                  X/Open, XPG3 and XPG4 are trademarks of the 
                  X/Open Company Limited.

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

    		  X Window System is a common law trademark of 
                  MIT.

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