QUARTERDECK DEBUTS COMPLETE FAMILY OF PRODUCTS FOR THE INTERNET AND PRIVATE
DISTRIBUTED DATA NETWORKS

Product Line Includes Tools For Creating, Disseminating and Viewing
Electronic Documents Following International HTML Standard

ATLANTA, GA., September 12, 1994-- Quarterdeck Office Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ:QDEK) today provided a first look at its complete family of
software products for use on the Internet or private distributed data
networks.  The product line, collectively referred to as the Normandy
project, gives individuals and organizations the ability to create,
disseminate and view distributed electronic documents.

The Normandy project consists of three separate but related product areas;

  - viewers 
  - authoring tools
  - servers

The Normandy viewer will make its public debut at the Networld+Interop
trade show, where it will be demonstrated to the show's 60,000 expected
attendees. The authoring tools and server will be privately debuted to
industry analysts and members of the media at Quartredeck's press suite
for the Atlanta-based show.

"We are very excited about the Normandy project", said group product
manager Frank Gerstenberger.  "There has been a lot of talk about the
Internet being used as an Information Super Highway. Quarterdeck is proud
to be a pioneer in the development of this electronic freeway by providing
a complete set of tools to bring this concept to reality."

The most popular component of the Normandy suite will be the information
viewing and navigating tool.  Based on concepts developed by the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this tool enables users to easily locate and
examine  documents located anywhere on the Internet. The user is relieved
of the tedious tasks of finding intended documents, retrieving them from
their remote locations, and re-formatting them for local viewing.

The Quarterdeck viewer has a newly developed drag-and-drop user interface
that allows users to easily collect, sort, and save the identities and
locations of  documents they may want to revisit in the future. This
folder-based storage scheme makes it easy for even the newest of users to
become an accomplished traveler on the electronic highway.

Also incorporated into the viewer is the ability to use a variety of
communication methods for establishing a link to the Internet.  In
addition to the standard TCP/IP and SLIP protocols, Normandy supports
IPX/SPX, netbios and a variety of other protocols.

The Normandy HTML authoring tools are actually templates for use within
popular word processors like Word Perfect for Windows and Microsoft Word
for Windows. The use of these familiar environments helps users avoid the
significant learning curve usually associated with new editing systems . 
It also lets users access writing tools like spell checkers, thesauruses
and grammar checkers, resulting in higher quality documentation.  Once the
user has completed a document in their word processor they simply run a
conversion macro that automatically transforms the document into HTML
format.

The Normandy WEB server runs on the popular Windows platform.  This allows
any Windows user to install, configure and operate the server, eliminating
the need for specialized Unix servers and their requisite dedicated staff.
The server will take advantage of Quarterdeck's multi-protocol technology,
allowing it to utilize the company's existing investment in network
technology.  Quarterdeck will beta test and begin shipping its Internet
products during the last calendar quarter of 1994 and early 1995.

Quarterdeck is a leader in software technology and specializes in Making
Things Work Together.  Their best known product, QEMM, manages a DOS
system's memory resources to make sure that applications, utilities, DOS
and Windows programs can work together.  Other Quarterdeck products
provide multitasking of DOS applications running on one computer; while
still others support seamless distributed computing by ensuring
cooperation among multiple systems in cross platform applications.

Quarterdeck Office Systems, Inc. is located at 150 Pico Boulevard, Santa
Monica, CA  90405. The company can be reached at (310) 392-9851

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