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- SAN FRANCISCO, CA., April 16, 1992 -- Sitka Corporation today announced
- shipment of its PenTOPS networking software, which will be bundled with
- every copy of GO Corporation's PenPoint operating system. The two
- companies began working together in 1989, combining GO's visionary
- operating system with Sitka's expertise in cross-platform networking. The
- result is PenTOPS, which was jointly developed and is bundled as a native
- PenPoint function.
-
- PenTOPS commands are gesture-based and very intuitive -- in fact, there are
- only four commands, one of which is "quit." Tablet users can easily
- connect their pen tablets to other tablets, deskbound systems, and
- printers by using any of-a variety of physical and wireless connectivity
- options to access files directly -- or even files within a corresponding
- deskbound network. Once connected, remote hard drives and printers appear
- to the PenTOPS user as if they were resident on the pen tablet so there is
- no need for complex up- and down-loading.
-
- "Mobile computer users need a complete mobile networking solution that
- allows instant and effortless connectivity of pen systems to any other
- mobile or deskbound system, at any time, from any location," said Deborah
- D. Triant, Sitka president and CEO.
-
- "Traditional networks aren't the answer--network administrators and
- predefined network workgroups are not part of the 'networking on the go'
- equation," continued Triant. "Revamped DOS networks that necessitate
- booting and rebooting, or only supply point-to-point connections, won't
- fit the easy-to-use, extensible requirements either. PenTOPS, and our
- PenCentral server software provide third parties with a platform that
- would allow them to build this easy-to-use, instant connectivity into
- their pen computers, applications, and systems."
-
- "Sitka's pen connectivity solution, PenTOPS, is an important technology,
- further enabled by the PenPoint connectivity architecture," said Bill
- Campbell, president and CEO of GO Corp. "We are pleased to have teamed
- with Sitka to make this technology available on the PenPoint operating
- system free of charge to our OEM customers. With PenTOPS and PenCentral,
- Sitka has developed a unique connectivity solution for networking on the
- go."
-
- PenTOPS on PenPoint
-
- PenTOPS allows tablet users running PenPoint to easily access drives and
- printers available to PCs, Macs, and Sun workstations via a wide range of
- physical and wireless connectivity options -- from parallel and serial
- ports to infrared, radio frequency, and cellular. PenTOPS is integrated
- with PenPoint's import and export facilities to translate PenPoint
- documents to and from other file formats such as RTF and ASCII. PenTOPS is
- also fully integrated with PenPoint's "Connections Notebook" and remote
- file system architecture, thus assuring a simple and consistent user
- interface for end-users.
-
- PenTOPS can access and share data on PCs via Sitka's DosTOPS network or its
- new PenCentral server software, which comes in diskette format for easy,
- mobile installation. PenTOPS can also access Macintosh systems via
- MacTOPS, and Sun workstations via SunTOPS networks. Each of these networks
- also has the capability to then access larger NetWare and LAN Manager
- networks, so that the mobile network actually expands the capabilities of
- the existing corporate or workgroup network.
-
- Based on their extensive work with end-users over the past three years,
- Sitka has identified the following requirements for "networking on the
- go":
-
- * Turn-key networking ability: support for all
- leading computers,
- * Easy to use: end user creates network on the fly, not an
- administrator.
- * Affordable: low cost and available node-by-node.
-
- Availability
-
- PenTOPS is bundled with the PenPoint operating system, available
- immediately. Sitka also plans to provide versions of PenTOPS for other
- pen-based operating systems.
-
- Sitka Corp, 950 Marina Village Parkway, Alameda, CA 94501
- 510-769-9669
-
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