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Announcement Summary IBM United States October 29, 1996 Announcements by FAX or Internet FAX The Table of Contents in this package contains the title and letter number for each announcement. Through the FAX Information Service, you can access these or previous Announcement Letters. See the Table of Contents for the FAX Information Service Index. The FAX Information Service is toll-free, easy to use, and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All you have to do is: Step 1: From your touch-tone phone, dial 1-800-IBM-4FAX (1-800-426-4329). Note: Near the end of your call, you will be prompted for the phone number of your fax machine. Step 2: Select Option 2. Step 3: Enter the selected Announcement Letter Number. The Announcement Letter Number is the number that follows the title in the Table of Contents. In the following example, it is 196-282. IBM ARTIC Product Family Extends Warranty to Three Years 196-282 To select the fax for the detailed Announcement Letter, enter 196282 followed by the pound (#) key. Step 4: You may enter additional Announcement Letter Numbers or request other product information. Up to five documents may be requested per call. Continue following the prompts to receive your requests. Note: To call the FAX Information Service from outside the United States, you must dial 1-415-855-4329 from a fax machine phone. Internet You can now access IBM U.S. Announcement Summaries and IBM U.S. Announcement Detail Letters electronically through the Internet on the IBMLink gopher server in both ASCII and PostScript** format. The IBMLink gopher server is located at ″gopher.ibmlink.ibm.com″ and is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Users can access the Internet in several ways: • Advantis customers may access the gopher through the Advantis supplied TCPGATE product. It is available to all IBMLink customers for nominal connect charges. • You may also use a commercial Internet service provider to connect to the gopher service. IBMLink customers can also access the IBMLINK host systems directly from the gopher server. ** Product or company name is a trademark or registered trademark of its respective holder. ii FAX Information Announcement Summary • October 29, 1996 In This Issue System/390 Architecture-Based Systems IBM ARTIC Product Family Extends Warranty to Three Years 196-282 . 1 IBM Intelligent Miner for OS/390 Version 1 Discovers the Hidden Value in Your Data 296-431 . 2 IBM Net.Commerce Lets You Develop Online Stores to Sell to a World of Customers 296-432 . 3 General/Distributed Systems IBM AS/400 Advanced Entry 9401 Model 150 Transforms the Office into a Connected Workgroup 196-279 . 5 IBM Network Station Offers Low-Cost Network Computing 196-280 . 6 IBM AS/400 Advanced Entry Model 150 BasePak and Selected Software 296-416 . 7 IBM Network Station Software for AS/400 Manages IBM Network Stations 296-417 . 8 IBM Intelligent Miner for AS/400 Version 1 Discovers the Hidden Value in Your Data 296-433 . 9 Price Changes: IBM 6250 X Terminal 396-186 . 10 Hardware Withdrawal: IBM AS/400 Related Products 996-272 . 11 Storage, I/O and Related Equipment Hardware Withdrawal: Features of the IBM 3912 Page Printer, IBM 3916 Page Printer and IBM 4028 Laser Printer — Replacements Available 996-274 . 13 Communications NetWare for SAA 2.2 Provides 32-Bit Support for OS/2, Windows NT, and Windows 95 Environments 296-422 . 15 IBM Communications Server for OS/2 Warp Version 4.1 Upgrade Promotion 396-188 . 16 Non-IBM Router Trade-In Program 396-189 . 17 Software Withdrawal: IBM LAN Software Bridge Programs — Replacements Available 996-275 . 18 Software Withdrawal: IBM NetView for Windows Version 2.0 — Replacement Available 996-276 . 19 Software Withdrawal: Selected Systems Management Products — Replacements Available 996-279 . 20 Workstations IBM P50 Color Monitor Clarification of Compatibility 196-283 . 21 IBM VoiceType Simply Speaking Brings Speech Recognition Technology to Home, School, and Mobile Office 296-434 . 22 Announcement Summary • October 29, 1996 Table of Contents iii Price Changes: IBM 2489 Rugged Notebook Computer 396-185 . 23 CATIA STL Rapid Prototyping Promotion 396-187 . 24 Software Withdrawal: IBM Continuous Speech Series and IBM Speech Server Series Programs 996-277 . 25 National Software Remarketing Withdrawal: Win400 996-286 . 26 Application Offerings IBM VisualAge for Basic for OS/2 and for Windows Version 1 Lets You Build Cross-Platform Client/Server Applications 296-420 . 27 Withdrawal and Service Discontinuance: CSP/AD Version 3 Release 3 EZ-PREP, EZ-RUN, and PWS Features and CSP/370 Runtime Services Version 1 Release 1 — Replacement Available 996-273 . 28 Hardware Withdrawal: IBM Speech Accelerator Cards 1 and 2 996-280 . 29 Industry-Specific Offerings Vendor Logo: CornerStone Language Arts Now Available for Windows 296-423 . 31 IBM Adds 10-Machine LAN Pack Option for Selected K-12 Software 296-424 . 32 IBM SchoolVista Assessment Suite: Traditional Assessment Standardized Test Simulations (Grades K-5) Version 2.0 296-425 . 33 NetVista Version 1.1 Provides a Complete Internet Solution for Schools 296-426 . 34 Title I Packaged Offerings Are Now Available for K-12 Education 296-429 . 35 Vendor Logo: CornerStone Mathematics Now Available for Windows 296-430 . 36 Software Withdrawal: IBM SchoolVista Assessment Suite′s Traditional Assessment Products — Replacements Available 996-283 . 37 Software Withdrawal: Selected K-12 Education Vendor Logo Programs 996-284 . 38 Software Withdrawal: IBM NetVista Version 1.0 — Replacements Available 996-285 . 39 General Interest Transition of IBM Mail LAN Gateway/2 396-184 . 41 Announcement Letter Numeric Index . 43 iv Table of Contents Announcement Summary • October 29, 1996 System/390 Architecture-Based Systems IBM ARTIC Product Family Extends Warranty to Three Years Hardware Announcement 196-282, Dated October 29, 1996 Overview Intended Customers At a Glance Effective today, IBM is enhancing The IBM ARTIC products are ideal the IBM ARTIC family of adapters, for customers using PCI, ISA, or The family of intelligent adapters cables, and libraries by extending MCA-based computers that require previously known as “RealTime the warranty to three years and flexible, high-performance Interface Coprocessor” continues including ARTIC in the product communications. Each ARTIC to be available for concurrent name. These features were adapter is a coprocessor that processing and to support multiple previously known as “Realtime offloads the realtime demands of independent realtime applications. ′ Interface Coprocessor.” All end today s high-speed • users sales effective today will communications tasks and offers The warranty period has been receive the three-year warranty on flexible and scalable extended to three years. product purchases. End users communications configurations. • “ARTIC” has been included in should keep their original bill of The ARTIC family features include the product names. sale, as some of these products support of multiple ports and may not include this new IBM multiple protocols on one statement of Limited Warranty that single-slot adapter. indicates a three-year warranty period until new production is Key Prerequisites available at the distributors. Refer to the previous specific The IBM ARTIC family consists of product announcements. general-purpose coprocessor adapters, designed to offload Effective Date communication tasks to their own on-board processor. They provide October 29, 1996 connectivity to the diverse equipment found in most businesses through their programmability and the variety of protocols that they support. Their versatility and flexibility provides customers with a cost-effective solution that can evolve along with their business. Refer to the Description section for a list of adapters, cables and libraries. Announcement Summary • October 29, 1996 System/390 Architecture-Based Systems 1 System/390 Architecture-Based Systems IBM Intelligent Miner for OS/390 Version 1 Discovers the Hidden.