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Solaris Offers ...

PROGRAMMING

• Solaris supports up to 20-way symmetric multiprocessing.
• Solaris supports user-level multithreaded applications.
• The new version of the language compilers generate code that runs 10-15% faster than the previous version.
• The new version of the SPARCworks tools supports runtime error checking.
• The new version of the C++ compiler is a native-code complier, not a preprocessor. This results in a 300% improvement in compilation time.
• The new version of the C++ compiler includes the new features added to the language in the ANSI draft standard.
• The new C++ compiler includes the Tools.h++ class library.
• The new FORTRAN compiler supports ANSI FORTRAN77 and VAX/VMS FORTRAN 4.0 extensions, and also some supercomputers like the POINTER type.
• The new FORTRAN compiler automatically parallelizes code for use on multiprocessor systems.
• ANSI C and POSIX make C programs more portable.

GRAPHICS

• The OpenWindows server is now based on MIT X11 Release 5 and Adobe Display PostScript Level 2.
• Support for PHiGS Extension to X(PEX), 2.0/2.1
• XGL 3.0 (3-D graphics)
• XIL (JPEG, MPEG, H.261, CellB)

APPLICATIONS

WABI

Run Microsoft Windows applications on your SPARC workstation under OpenWindows

IP Multicast

Multimedia conferencing applications and other stuff such as the Internet Multicast Backbone (MBONE)

ShowME

Interactive videoconferencing with shared whiteboard and shared application execution

Multimedia Mail

Electronic mail with audio, video, graphics, and other fun things

Volume Manager

Automatic mounting of CD-ROMs and floppy disks

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