Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.tech From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: tech Thu, Apr 23 1992 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 92 05:38:05 EDT Message-ID: 04-23 0000 DECISIONLINE: Technology USA TODAY Update April 23, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network MICRON TECH FILES PETITION: Micron Technology Inc. said Wednesday it has filed an anti-dumping petition with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission. It concerns one megabit dynamic random access memories (DRAM) and higher density memory components from Korea. The filing alleges that Korean DRAM manufacturers are selling DRAMs below their cost of production. NASA FACES BUDGET PROBLEMS: The nation's space program faces difficult times because there is not enough money to finance all projects being proposed by NASA and the Defense Department, officials said at the 29th Space Congress, being held this week in Cocoa Beach. Federal agencies must pull together and become partners in the nation's quest for new frontiers. (For more, see special Budget package below.) RESULTS OF ISDN TRIAL SUBMITTED: Participants in the New York State Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) trial submitted their final report to the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) Wednesday. The two-year trial, initiated by the PSC, successfully demonstrated advanced services over a fully interconnected, multi-vendor, multi-carrier network, according to the report. NETWORK IS INTEGRATED: Until recently, it has not been possible to make an integrated voice:data ISDN call from the service area of one telephone company to another. As a result, many ISDN users have been unable to talk to each other. In their final report to the New York Public Service Commission participants said they have resolved many issues that previously stood in the way of statewide advanced-network services. MICROCOM BUYS LAN SOFTWARE FIRM: Microcom, Inc. said Wednesday it has acquired Client Server Technologies Inc., a LAN management software development company located in New Rochelle, N.Y. CST has developed LANlord, an integrated system that provides centralized management and support for PC network users. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. RTC COMPUTER SYSTEM A MESS: The Resolution Trust Company was so eager to start up a computer system to monitor its vast real estate holdings that it ended up with a botched system that's costing taxpayers nearly $10 million to fix, according to RTC auditors. The trust accepted the lowest competitive bid of $24.3 million and gave an "unreasonable" 120 days to provide the system, auditors say. MEMOREX TELEX ADDS NEW PRODUCTS: Memorex Telex Corp.'s OEM Group said Wednesday it has released several new software products that complement its OEM line of mass storage peripherals. The products, called advanced device driver software products, allow the Memorex Telex 9274 Shamrock tape drive to attach to Sun workstations and servers and enhance the performance of the system. CHIPCOM ADDS PRODUCTS: Chipcom Corp. Wednesday introduced an ethernet FOIRL (Fiber-Optic Inter-Repeater Link) module and transceiver that enable customers to link FOIRL-based fiber-optic Ethernet networks to Chipcom's ONline System Concentrator family of intelligent switching hubs. The ethernet FOIRL module has a list price of $1,800. The transceiver lists for $495. DEC UNVEILS NEW SOFTWARE: Digital Equipment Corp. has unveiled Pathworks Desktop Backup Version 1.0. The software is designed to provide unattended distributed backup and restoration of hard disks attached to DOS personal computers on Pathworks networks. It also supports Microsoft Corp.'s Windows systems running Pathworks for DOS. NCR, BANYAN MAKE DEAL: NCR Corp. and Banyan Systems Inc. say they will resell each other's products in the USA and Canada under a pact expected to generate $25 million for Banyan over three years. The two are working to certify NCR's 3335, 3345 3445 and 3447 uniprocessors as Vines servers made by Banyan. SPECIAL PACKAGE ON BUDGET: MONEY NOT THERE FOR ALL: Too many NASA and Defense Department programs are lining up for too little money, says Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Crippen. "It is imperative in times of tight budgets we all accept the road we're going to set off on, know that we can afford the programs and stick to them," he says. Future shares of the federal budget will based on whether organizations can improve efficiency. SHUTTLE BEING STREAMLINED: Streamlining the processing of the space shuttle and its payloads is a top priority at NASA, officials said at the 29th Space Congress, being held this week in Cocoa Beach. "We've got to cut down the cost of flying the shuttle so we can afford to do the other things," said Brewster Shaw, deputy shuttle program director at the space center. (End of package.) Technology Editor: Ed Kelleher. (1-919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution violates federal law. This article is copyright 1992 Gannett News Service. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM