Compsoft Services Announces Availability of Serial I/O Support for PenASCII
GREENWICH, Conn. — January 26, 1993 — Compsoft Services announced Tuesday the availability of Serial I/O support for its PenASCII product and the availability for early customer testing of its PenAPPC product.
The company also announced that it is porting all of its PenNET Series of products to the AT&T Hobbit platforms. The PenNET Series of products provides sophisticated connectivity software for PenPoint-based computers and includes PenHost, PenASCII and PenAPPC.
The PenASCII product, which has been available since November 1992, makes it possible for mobile pen computer users to have interactive sessions and to execute file transfers with systems from IBM, HP, DEC, SUN and others that support selected ASCII terminals and standard file protocols of XMODEM, YMODEM, ZYMODEM and Kermit over telephone and cellular networks. With the addition of the Serial I/O support feature users have the added flexibility of directly attaching their pen computer to the host system serial I/O port and executing their applications as though they were communicating via a modem over telephone or cellular networks.
PenAPPC is now available for early customer testing. PenAPPC makes it possible for pen computer users to have access to Advanced Program to Program Communications (APPC) applications running on IBM's System/390, AS/400, RS/6000, PS/2 and other systems that support APPC. APPC is a facility of IBM's System Network Architecture (SNA) environment and provides powerful client-server function that will allow pen computers to gain access to networking capabilities of APPN network nodes. Interested prospective customers should contact Compsoft Services at the corporate Connecticut office listed below.
By announcing that it is porting all of its pen computer products, the PenNET Series, to run on AT&T's "Hobbit" microprocessor, Compsoft Services intends to provide terminal emulator support and file transfer capability to all users of the Personal Communicators that are based on that chip. EO Corp. and AT&T have announced Personal Communicators that will use the Hobbit chip.
Dr. Trilok Manocha, president and CEO of Compsoft Services, said, "With today's announcements we are demonstrating our intention to quickly respond to customer requirements, and our intention to provide strategic communication functions for all hardware that runs the PenPoint operating systems. At COMDEX/FALL '93 several customers asked for serial I/O support in our PenASCII product. Now two months later at PenEXPO we are demonstrating this feature and making it available for customer use."
"Personal communicators based on the Hobbit chip have tremendous power and business potential for mobile users. APPC is a strategic communications direction of IBM. In supporting both the Hobbit platform and the APPC environment we are underscoring our commitment to the PenPoint operating system and our strategy to support all leading edge communications capabilities for mobile users of PenPoint-based systems."
Compsoft Services will be demonstrating the PenHost and PenASCII products in its booth at PenEXPO in San Francisco Jan. 26 and 27. PenNET, Pen-Host, PenASCII and PenAPPC are trademarks of Compsoft Services Inc. Other trademarks are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
CONTACT:
Compsoft Services Inc., Greenwich
Bob Perry, 203/531-8162 or fax 203/531-1476