EPSON ANNOUNCES FAMILY OF PCS DESIGNED FOR
                        NEXTSTEP FOR INTEL


     TORRANCE, Calif., May 25, 1993 -- EPSON today announced the 
Progression NX, the first of a line of personal computers optimized for 
the NEXTSTEP environment.  The Progression NX is designed exclusively 
for NEXTSTEP developers and power users.  This summer, the Progression NX 
will be joined by the EPSON NX, the first end user product designed, 
configured and preloaded with NEXTSTEP for Intel processors.

     "The hallmark of our Progression line is its top notch performance 
in graphics intensive environments.  The development of NEXTSTEP for 
Intel processors provided a unique challenge for the Progression and we 
stood up to the test," said Steve Huey, vice president, PC product 
marketing, EPSON.  "As a result of this technological relationship and 
the strong performance of the Progression, we developed our NX line of 
products specifically for NEXTSTEP.  In fact, the motherboard of each 
machine has been developed and optimized for NEXTSTEP." 

     "We are extremely excited about EPSON's new family of NEXTSTEP 
machines," said Warren Weiss, vice president of sales  and marketing 
of NeXT Computer, Inc.  "The graphics architecture built into EPSON's 
NX products has proven to be a big win for NEXTSTEP customers, and 
we're pleased that EPSON will be providing these systems pre-loaded 
with NEXTSTEP."

EPSON Strength for NEXTSTEP

     The NX family of computers includes two distinct machines.  The 
Progression NX features Intel's 486DX2/66 processor with support for 
future Intel OverDrive processors, including Pentium class processors.   
It is equipped with 36MB of RAM standard expandable to 68MB on the system 
board via SIMMS.  The Progression NX has 2MB of Video RAM standard with 
RAMDAC support for 1120 x 832 resolution.  In addition, the Progression 
NX comes  standard with a 525MB SCSI hard disk drive, six ISA slots, five 
drive bays, a multimedia sound card and Ethernet LAN adapter.  It also 
boasts EPSON's proprietary memory architecture, VirtualCache.  

     With EPSON's VirtualCache architecture, the Progression NX outperforms 
standard cache in multi-tasking environments.  As a result, it is able to 
display NEXTSTEP applications ten times faster than standard super VGA and 
up to five times faster than traditional local bus implementations.  
"Developers need speed, quality and reliability -- that is synonymous with
EPSON and the Progression NX.  This platform gives NEXTSTEP developers the 
best performance available and will propel the development of new 
applications for this operating system," said Huey.  

     This summer, EPSON will begin shipping the EPSON NX, the first end user
machine designed and configured for the NEXTSTEP operating environment.  The
EPSON NX will be preloaded with NEXTSTEP.  The EPSON NX features a high
performance 170MB IDE hard disk drive and 20MB of RAM standard expandable to
68MB on the system board via SIMMS.  It also comes standard with 2MB of
video RAM with RAMDAC support for 1120 x 832 resolution, four ISA slots and 
three drive bays.  The EPSON NX will give users a truly plug-and-play 
solution for NEXTSTEP for Intel. 

     The Progression NX is currently available to NEXTSTEP beta sites and
NeXT-authorized independent software vendors for $5,349.  The EPSON NX 
will have an estimated selling price of less than $3,700.

     EPSON America, Inc. sells and markets innovative computer products and
peripheral devices.  Headquartered in Torrance, Calif., the company is an 
affiliate of the Seiko Epson Corporation.

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