PRESS RELEASE: RDI and Bifrost Announce 1024x768 NEXTSTEP/Sparc on RDI PowerLite LAPTOPS, Information Session During Object World Week
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Bifrost Workstations, Inc.
Jason McNamara
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10850 Richmond Ave., Suite 270
Houston, TX 77042
(713) 952-9949
(713) 952-9934 fax
RDI
John Bentivegna
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2300 Faraday Ave.
Carlsbad, CA 92008
(800) 734-5483 toll-free
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CARLSBAD, CA / HOUSTON - RDI and Bifrost Workstations, Inc.
(BWI) are pleased to announce that BWI has further added to
its already extensive line of NEXTSTEP hardware solutions.
The newest addition is the PowerLite series of
Sparc-compatible laptops.
"The PowerLite portable workstations provide the power and
convenience needed to efficiently run graphics based,
compute- intensive applications, anywhere you need to, and
without compromise," said John Bentivegna, Manager of
Commercial Sales for RDI. "Because we are 100% compatible
with the SPARC-workstation hardware and software computing
environments, the user can be confident in being able to do
whatever he/she is accustomed to doing, with the added
benefit of being able to easily transport the platform to
where it needs to be."
"The high resolution of these machines is what makes them a
long- awaited solution," stated BWI President Dan Kramer.
"Many in the NEXTSTEP community require 1024x768 screen
resolution, a resolution which until now has only been
available on portable machines in an inconvenient "virtual"
mode. Now the NEXTSTEP market has access to a complete
portable workstation capable of running 1024x768 on board."
In addition to a sharp TFT screen, the PowerLite laptops
also have a complete set of interfaces: SCSI-2, Ethernet,
Fax/Modem, External video up to 1280x1024, Serial,
Parallel. All come on board the system, and all work
flawlessly under NEXTSTEP. There is no worrying about
drivers or having to buy a docking station.
The RDI PowerLite is the acknowledged leader in portable
SPARC-based technology and features numerous advantages
over alternative solutions. NEXTSTEP is available from
Bifrost, or we will load your NS/Sparc license for free -
BWI does not charge "testing" fees to install NS licenses.
Representatives of RDI and BWI will be in San Francisco
during the week of ObjectWorld to demonstrate the
unsurpassed capability of NEXTSTEP on the PowerLite.
Please come by our information session to test-drive a
laptop yourself. The informal presentation will be held at
the ANA Hotel on Wednesday 16 August from 3pm-5pm in the
Commonwealth Room on the third floor.
The ANA hotel is located only one block from Moscone Center
at 50 Third Street (between Market and Mission Sts.) Take
an afternoon break from the floor and come see the RDI
portables!
RDI is a Carlsbad, CA company specializing in the design,
manufacturing, and distribution of a diverse family of
portable Sun SPARC-based workstations. RDI's products
balance the power of full desktop workstation functionality
with the added benefit of flexible mobile computing.
Based in Houston, Bifrost Workstations, Inc. offers an
extensive line of hardware focused solely at the NEXTSTEP
market (Hewlett- Packard and SUN workstations/servers,
several lines of Intel machines, and portables from
Omegabyte and RDI). In addition, we also offer software
and networking options to the NEXTSTEP market.