Template Graphics Software and Silicon Graphics Inc. join to deliver 3-D and Virtual Reality to the Internet; TGS to offer WebSpace™ browser and VRML extensions for Open Inventor SDK

Business Wire, April 3, 1995

Its subsidiary, MIPS Technologies Inc. designs and licenses the industry's leading RISC processor technology for the computer systems and embedded control markets. Silicon Graphics has offices worldwide and headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

TGS produces open systems-based software tools for application developers in Fortune 500, government, independent software vendors (ISV), and academic and research organizations. TGS has offered standards-based graphics tools since 1982 and is the leading independent software supplier of cross-platform graphics tools based upon PHIGS , OpenGL and Open Inventor.

Template Graphics Software, with headquarters in San Diego, is a member of ANSI/ISO graphics committees and the OpenGL Advisory Forum, and is active in establishing new standards and directions for computer graphics technologies. TGS is a source code licensee of OpenGL and Open Inventor from SGI and was recently selected by Apple Computer as its OpenGL product and technology partner. -0-

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Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc. Netscape Communications is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corp. All other mentioned companies and products are trademarks of their respective companies.

CONTACT: Template Graphics Software Inc., San Diego

Robert J. Weideman/Diane Connolly, 619/457-5359, ext. 222

619/452-2547 (Fax)

info(at-sign)tgs.com

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