Sun Microsystems Inc announced at UniForum that 50 companies and universities have licensed its NeWS software technology, and those with products based NeWS include AT&T, Silicon Graphics, Santa Cruz Operation, Parallax Graphics, Acorn Computers, and Raster Technologies: these companies will be making the NeWS technology available on a wide variety of systems including the Macintosh II in early 1988, under OS/2 by mid-1988, and under Xenix by late 1988; Sun has also added support for the 80386 microprocessor running standard Unix System V.3 to the NeWS software product.