Terra Soft Supplies Boeing, Airforce with Flight Simulators

Loveland, Colorado -- 1 November 2004 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions has delivered 17 dual-head Apple Power Mac G5s to Ellsworth and Dyess Airforce bases to serve as flight simulators for the Boeing B1 bombers.

In the fall of 2003, The Boeing Company approached Terra Soft Solutions with desire to use Apple G5 Power Macs with dual Apple Cinema Displays as the foundation for Airforce B1 Weapons Systems Officers ("WSOs") simulation and training environments. Terra Soft was able to quickly adapt their display drivers to support the required dual displays while integrating a PCMCIA flash card reader.

Boeing extracted the actual Ada95 code used on-board the B1 and the FORTRAN and C code from its development simulators, ported it to Yellow Dog Linux, and then ported and applied a C Motif graphical user interface which simulates the physical switch panel and displays on-board the B1 bomber.

Following a successful demonstration of a prototype completed in early 2004, Ellsworth and Dyess Airforce bases expressed sincere interest in this unique solution as it enables the WSOs to conduct realtime training without the cost and risk of actual flight time.

Based upon the successful deployment of the initial production units, Boeing and Terra Soft are providing many more of these units for the B1 program. In addition, it is likely that other aircraft will be simulated on a similar system in the near future, resulting in the potential of greater than 200 systems to ship in 2005.

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About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Terra Soft is a leading Integrated Solutions Provider with proven expertise in the PowerPC architecture and Linux OS platform. As an Apple Authorized Proprietary Solutions Provider and IBM Business Partner, Terra Soft provides turnkey and build-to-order portables, desktop workstations, application and network servers, and HPC clusters. Terra Soft offers both 32-bit and 64-bit distributions to the Linux on POWER developer community.

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