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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

                     ProCompiler & ProWorks

SunFLASH Vol 45 #31					      September 1992 
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These products will *not* be Price Listed by SMCC, but it does mean that
the exact same environment will be available on both SPARC and Intel.
Users who have mixed PC and SPARC accounts have the opportunity to
unify the software environment with Solaris 2.0 and the ProWorks
tools.

Two announcements are included. The first is about ProCompiler
and the second is about ProWorks.

-johnj
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Article 1
           	SUNPRO TO INCORPORATE METAWARE'S CODE-GENERATION
                       TECHNOLOGY IN NEW COMPILER FAMILY

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       SUNPRO TOOLS FOR x86 PLATFORM SHIP WITH SOLARIS EARLY ACCESS KIT

    ProCompiler family for Solaris for X86 operating environment combines
   SunPro's proven language systems with industry's top x86 code generator

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--September 22, 1992--SunPro(TM), a Sun
Microsystems, Inc.  business, and MetaWare Incorporated today announced
a licensing agreement in which MetaWare's highly regarded x86 code
generation technology is used in a new family of SunPro compilers for
personal computers. The family, called ProCompiler(TM), makes available
the first compilers for developing applications on the Solaris for X86
operating environment.

SunPro's compiler technology is part of a 10-year old legacy at Sun,
which has a long track record for producing high-end UNIX(R) language
systems and development tools. This robust technology is further
enhanced with the sophisticated optimization technology of MetaWare's
x86 code generator.  ProCompiler language systems will also provide
developers with source code compatibility across SPARC(R), the most
popular workstation processor, and x86, the leading processor for
personal computers.

"This is an ideal partnership: combining the high performance of
MetaWare's generated code and SunPro's ANSI-conformant, easy-to-use
compilers," said Jon Kannegaard, vice president and general manager of
SunPro. "MetaWare's technology, combined with our front-end products,
will help ProCompiler users take full advantage of the x86
architecture."

"We are pleased to help SunPro bring the leading high-performance UNIX
system development tools to the x86 environment," said Franklin
DeRemer, president of MetaWare. "SunPro's track record on SPARC
platforms, its friendly user interface, and its ability to handle
large, advanced applications, will all serve it well in the x86
environment."


Availability

Early versions of ProCompiler language systems are included in the
ProWorks development environments available immediately through
SunSoft's Solaris for X86 early access kits. SunPro will provide
pricing and volume availability at a later date.


About MetaWare

MetaWare Incorporated, headquartered in Santa Cruz, California since
1979, is a leading supplier of 32-bit, advanced-technology, C/C++,
FORTRAN, and Pascal, native and cross compilers for professional
software developers.


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Article 2

       SUNPRO TOOLS FOR x86 PLATFORM SHIP WITH SOLARIS EARLY ACCESS KIT

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             ProWorks family becomes first development environments
                        for Solaris for X86 platforms

UNIX EXPO, NEW YORK--September 22, 1992--SunPro(TM), the software
development business of Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced the
availability of the ProWorks(TM) family of development environments for
the Solaris(R) for X86 operating environment. The initial ProWorks
offerings provide the principal development component of the Solaris
for X86 early access kit, which was announced today at UNIX Expo by
SunSoft(TM). SunPro is demonstrating its ProWorks development
environments at UNIX Expo in booth #1761.

"The ProWorks products are the first development environments to
support the x86 version of the Solaris computing environment," said
Allan Snell, SunSoft's director of x86 product marketing. "These are
the same tools we used to build our Solaris for X86 product, and
application developers will find them effective in accelerating their
own porting and development efforts."

SunPro is the leading supplier of UNIX(R) programming tools for the
SPARC(R) version of the Solaris operating environment and is now taking
that expertise to the x86 platform. The same development team that
created SPARCworks(TM), SunPro's family of integrated tools for the
SPARC platform, built ProWorks for the x86 platform.

A Common Development Environment for x86, SPARC Platforms

SunPro has optimized both ProWorks and SPARCworks for Solaris,
SunSoft's premier UNIX environment.   With the shipment of ProWorks,
SunPro becomes the first vendor to provide a common development
environment for SPARC and x86 -- the two most widely implemented
processors in the computer industry.

As a result, developers on both PCs and SPARC workstations can build
applications within a single, uniform programming environment, enabling
the PC to be included as part of a UNIX development effort. Engineers
can port applications from the SPARC to the PC platform (or vice-versa)
without having to modify the source code. In addition, installations
can scale applications developed under ProWorks to run across a wide
range of platforms, from 32-bit personal computers to high-end
workstations and servers.


Comprehensive Toolset

The ProWorks family of integrated development environments for C, C++
and Fortran consists of the ProWorks tools and a ProCompiler(TM)
language system for C, C++ or Fortran. This comprehensive set of
programming tools speeds and simplifies tasks developers do most:
creating, debugging, analyzing and tuning application software. The
ProWorks tools, which use the OPEN LOOK(R) graphical user interface,
include:

      o     Session Manager, for launching and managing individual tasks

      o     Debugger, for dynamically analyzing programs;   a complete
            debugging facility with support for optimized code and shared
            libraries, and performance data collection

      o     SourceBrowser, for displaying function call hierarchies and
            relationships, which helps developers to understand program
            structure quickly and clearly

      o     Analyzer for tuning program performance and memory use

      o     MakeTool, which assists developers in understanding and managing
            the application building process

      o     FileMerge, for combining source code from multiple programmers


Availability

Early versions of ProWorks development environments, including the
ProCompiler language systems, are available immediately through
SunSoft's Solaris for X86 early access kits. SunPro will provide
pricing and volume availability at a later date.


About SunPro

SunPro, established in July 1991 as a business of Sun Microsystems,
Inc., is dedicated to serving the needs of professional software
developers. With headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., SunPro is the
worldwide volume leader in professional software development products
for the SPARC and Solaris platforms.


FOR PRESS INQUIRIES:		
SunPro	Pattie Walters (415) 336-4638

FOR PRODUCT INQUIRIES:
SunPro 	Jay Goyal (415) 336-1685

FOR METAWARE INQUIRIES:
MetaWare	Kevin Grimes (408) 429-6382

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