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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Announcing MIX (Multimedia Information Exchange) for NEXTSTEP Date: 27 Aug 1993 20:18:36 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 84 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25m88s$n04@digifix.digifix.com> Reply-To: info@alembic.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tyler Janisch Alembic Systems International Ltd. 14 Inverness Dr. East G-228 Englewood CO 80112 (303) 799-6223 (303) 799-1709 800 452-7608 e-mail: info@alembic.com MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION EXCHANGE (mix) offers complete and seamless integration of NEXTSTEP E-MAIL, TELEPHONE, MODEM, FAX MACHINE and VOICE MAIL on the DSP! NEXTSTEP Intel versions available with DSP card! Englewood Colorado, August 10, 1993 - Introducing a universal telecommunication package for NEXTSTEP over an standard telephone line. Mix software enhances a simple telephone with comfort functions, serves as a freely programmable telephone answering machine with digital recording of announcements and incoming messages, implements a complex tele-information system with acoustic menus, sends and receives fax pages directly from the computer, and exchanges data files with other computers. Mix emulates a comfort telephone, answering machine, fax and data modem while exceeding the possibilities of a combination of standard equipment at the same time. mix operates these communication tools with a combination of hardware and software. The hardware connects mix to the telephone line, thus fulfilling the basic requirements of the different telecommunication services. The functionality of mix is not built into the hardware, rather it is a function of the software within the NeXT computer. The DSP56001 does the necessary signal processing in exchanging audio, fax, and modem data. Tightly integrated into the NeXT system environment, this software closely works together with an advanced user interface, that avoids cryptic key combinations in operation of phone, answering machine, fax machine or modem. THE COMPONENTS OF mix: MIXBOX - the universal telephone connection, connects the DSP port of the NeXT computer to the telephone line, thus setting up the basic requirements for the different functions of the following software modules. MIXPHONE - emulates the dial functions of a regular phone with an intelligent redialling mechanism and the inclusion of a telecommunication notebook. mixphone allows direct dialing out of the mix address book, the NeXT services allow direct dialing from within any other program. MIXCALL - is more than just an answering machine. It is programmable in a graphical way and its functionality adapts effortlessly to the requirements of the user. Functions ranging from a simple telephone answering machine up to a voice mailbox or a menu driven tele-information system can be implemented fast and easily. MIXFAX - is integrated seamlessly into the NeXT system environment as a powerful fax modem. It can send and receive arbitrary documents with high speed directly from the computer in exchange with any group III fax machine worldwide. MIXDATA - the flexible software modem serves as the foundation of the mix modem line. mixdata is compatible to the standard AT command set and may be enhanced in its performance step by step by means of future software updates. Alembic Systems International Ltd. is an international distributor of North American and European software for the NEXTSTEP Operating Environment. Services also available for the development of custom applications, software training courses for a variety of existing packages, and system integration of NEXTSTEP for Intel coupled with Auspex File Servers. -30-
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