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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 15:15:46 +0100 (BST)


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                            BRAND NEWS
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               UNIX 98 - FIRST REGISTRATIONS ANNOUNCED
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      These products are the first to guarantee compliance
      to the UNIX 98 Product Standard.

      Today, 20 May 1998, three companies registered products:
      International Business Machines Corporation, Sun Microsystems Inc.,
      & NCR Corporation.
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      IBM registered the following:-
      IBM POWER, POWER2 and PowerPC(TM) Systems with
      IBM AIX(R) Version 4.3.1 or later and C for AIX Version 4.3 or later
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      Sun registered their:-
      Solaris 2.7 and on, on 32-bit and 64-bit SPARC based systems
      and
      Solaris 2.7 and on, on X86 based systems
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      NCR registered:-
      Solaris 2.7 and on, on NCR World Mark and 'S' series
      (X86 based systems)
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      For more information please refer to the Directory of
      Registered Products section of our WWW server
      http://www.opengroup.org/regproducts
      or contact:-
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           Jenny Wilkinson
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 O P E N   Apex Plaza, Forbury Road, Reading RG1 1AX, UK
G R O U P  Mailto:j.wilkinson@opengroup.org   Ph: +44 118 950 8311 x2273
           WWW: http://www.opengroup.org      Fx: +44 118 950 0110

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