Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.tech From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: tech Fri, May 22 1992 Date: Fri, 22 May 92 05:21:01 EDT Message-ID: 05-22 0000 DECISIONLINE: Technology USA TODAY Update May 22-25, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network YOCAM LEAVES MOMENTA: Delbert Yocam, former chief operating officer of Apple USA, resigned Thursday from one of Silicon Valley's most promising new computer companies, Momenta. Yocam, 48, was CEO and president of Momenta since early April. Momenta is a promising company that offers a pen-based computer that also has a keyboard so users can switch back and forth. CONGRESS SAVES SEAWOLF: Congress voted resoundingly on Thursday to rescue one of two Seawolf submarines President Bush wanted to kill, taking a compromise course the White House said it would accept. The legislation slashing $8.2 billion from the 1992 budget was approved by the House on a 404-11 vote. The Senate sent the measure to Bush on a 90-9 tally. PORTABLE HARD DRIVE ON MARKET: Sysgen Inc. said Thursday it is now shipping a 210-megabyte version of its Mobile Disk, a portable hard drive that plugs into the parallel port of any personal or portable computer. The Mobile Disk weighs two pounds. It is priced at $1,250. A version with 42 megabytes of storage is prices at $550. UNIONS SUPPORT SALE TO SAUDIS: The presidents of six major labor unions representing 5 million members have jointly signed a letter to President Bush urging support for the sale of 72 F-15 Eagles to Saudi Arabia. The letter says the sale would preserve 40,000 aerospace jobs and inject $5 billion into the U.S. economy. COMMITTEE OKS SEMATACH FUNDING: The House Armed Services Committee Thursday recommended $100 million in federal funding for SEMATECH. SEMATECH is a consortium of high-tech companies launched to recover the USA's lead in semiconductor manufacturing. "This is a tremendous vote of confidence in SEMATECH's ability to perform and deliver," said SEMATECH CEO William J. Spencer. RASTEROPS, TRUEVISION MERGE: RasterOps Corp. and Truevision Inc. said Thursday that they have signed a definitive agreement to merge the two companies. Truevision will become a wholly owned subsidiary of RasterOps. The merger is expected to completed in August. Truevision makes personal-computer based video imaging products. RasterOps makes graphics arts products for the Macintosh platform. NOVELL UPDATES OPERATING SYSTEM: Novell, Desktop Systems Group has introduced an update to its DR DOS 6.0 operating system that makes it fully compatible with Microsoft Windows 3.1. The update is being sent free of charge to all registered DR DOS users. It is also available for downloading from CompuServe and America Online via the DR forum and through the Desktop Systems Group's own bulletin board: 408-649-3443. TANDY MOVES INTO EUROPE: Tandy Corp. opened a Computer City SuperCenter in Denmark Thursday and announced that it will open additional superstores in Sweden and Norway in the next few months. The supercenter in Glostrup, a suburb of of Copenhagen, Denmark, is Tandy's first in Europe. Among the brands that will be carried are Apple, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Victor. CENTER TO DEVELOP PCS TECHNOLOGY: Northern Telecom says it plans to set up a wireless development center of excellence in Calgary. It will concentrate on wireless development projects, primarily in the area of personal communications services. PCS is a wireless technology that uses low-powered radio frequencies to provide services traditionally delivered over wired networks. TRW TO BUILD NETWORK EQUIPMENT: TRW Thursday said it plans to build and market high-speed networking equipment, with product lines aimed at communications switching and high-performance computing applications. TRW's Space Communications Division plans to unveil two product lines late this year: A series of broadband access switches and a line of high-performance parallel interface extenders and switches. MULTIMEDIA MARKET TO GROW: Ovum Ltd., a consulting firm based in London, says the business-oriented multimedia market will grow to $9 billion by 1997. The market had about $500 million in revenues in 1991. The firm sees multimedia growth tied to three technology phases: Customized systems, packaged multimedia software and advanced desktop communications. MERISEL, SYSKONNECT MAKE DEAL: SysKonnect Inc. and Merisel Inc. jointly announced Thursday an agreement that allows Merisel to distribute SysKonnect products in the USA and Canada. Merisel will carry the full SysKonnect desktop internetworking product line including fiber distributed data interface, ethernet and token ring products along with the new SK-Passport series of software connectivity products. ADVISORY: Decisionlines will not be published Monday, May 25, in observance of Memorial Day. Decisionlines will resume publication on Tuesday, May 26. 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