DATA GENERAL OUTLINES AVIION DIRECTION

WESTBORO, Mass., June 26, 1995 -- Data General Corporation today announced
plans to expand its AViiON family of UNIX-based servers with new systems
based on Intel processors.

Commercial computing is undergoing another fundamental change, said
President and Chief Executive Officer Ronald L. Skates. The next
generation of enterprise servers will use powerful, low-cost commodity
components that will provide a massive improvement in price/performance.
Our AViiON servers will deliver that value to our customers.

Data General said the new Intel-based AViiON systems will complement its
current Motorola-based AViiON server line, which also will be expanded
this year with the addition of a 32-processor system and clusters of up to
eight servers.

DG/UX, Data General's implementation of the UNIX operating system, forms
the cornerstone of the announcement. With common source code supporting
both architectures, DG/UX will bridge the company's present Motorola-based
AViiON family and upcoming Intel-based AViiON systems, thereby protecting
customer investments. Most existing applications will require little more
than recompilation, and all AViiON systems will share Data General's
CLARiiON storage systems, systems management tools and networking
products.

According to J. Thomas West, the company's senior vice president of
Advanced Development, several technology trends will converge and have a
major impact on the industry.

The first is the reality of UNIX as the operating system of choice for
enterprise computing, a trend further strengthened by a move toward
standardized Intel applications driven by leading industry software
developers such as Oracle, SAS and Progress, said Mr. West. The second
trend, said Mr. West, is a Standard High Volume (SHV) server. Powerful,
low-cost SHV motherboards will be available in volume next year, combining
up to four Intel P6 processors, cache, memory and I/O. Commodity SHV
servers, rather than microprocessor chips, will become the basic building
blocks of the computer industry. Commodity economics always wins in the
marketplace.

According to Mr. West, future commercial servers will combine SHV boards
using Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architecture, another new
technology. NUMA systems composed of multiple SHV boards will deliver
massively parallel processing (MPP) performance using conventional
programming models.

We are delighted that Data General is using the Intel architecture for
future enterprise servers, said David House, senior vice president of
Intel's Enterprise Server Group. We expect Data General, given its proven
expertise in scalable computing, to be among the first to deliver scalable
SMP systems based on SHV servers.

The initial Intel-based AViiON servers will ship later this year, with the
NUMA systems to follow in 1996. The company also will offer a complete
portfolio of services and programs for customers who wish to utilize the
new technology in combination with their current AViiON products.

According to Data General, the installed base for the AViiON line, which
began shipping in 1990, will exceed 30,000 systems this year with a total
value of more than $2 billion.

Data General is a worldwide open systems computing company that specializes
in providing servers and related storage systems, software and services.
The company, which is headquartered in Westboro, MA, reported revenues of
$1.12 billion during fiscal 1994.
 
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