FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

          Contact: Joe Waldygo, PR Manager
          Voice: 602/293-4000 ext. 3215
          FAX: 602/293-8065
          MCI Mail: JWALDYGO

          ARTISOFT INTRODUCES JAPANESE KANJI VERSIONS OF LANTASTIC (r) V4.1
          & LANTASTIC(r) FOR WINDOWS(tm) NETWORK UTILITY

          Also A New AN-3 Ethernet Adapter For NEC PCs

          (TUCSON, AZ -- March 4, 1992)
          Artisoft, Inc., the  Tucson-based developer  and manufacturer  of
          the award-winning LANtastic Local Area Network, announced 
          several new  products for  the Japanese  market and  demonstrated
          them at the  LAN Expo 1992 Trade  Show held in Tokyo,  Japan last
          week. The new products introduced included LANtastic v4.1 and the
          LANtastic(r)  for   Windows(tm)  network  utility,  as   well  as
          Artisoft's AN-3 Ethernet adapter for NEC  PCs. All three products
          are scheduled to ship in the second quarter of 1992.

          "LANtastic's strong performance, efficiency, and ease-of-use as a
          networking solution  should greatly  enhance its  success in  the
          Japanese market," commented Jack Schoof, Artisoft's President and
          CEO.

          LANtastic  v4.1  increases the  performance of  the award-winning
          LANtastic network with a faster NetBIOS, resource caching, random
          access  caching, and  delayed  record  locking.  Its  new  System
          Manager features allow users with the System Manager privilege to
          accomplish  a  number  of  network  tasks  from  their  own  PCs,
          including  setting up  user  accounts  for  the  entire  network.
          LANtastic  v4.1 also  offers increased printing  performance with
          immediate  despooling as  well as a  feature that  notifies users
          when their  print jobs will start,  how long they will  take, and
          when they will finish; an important feature for users printing to
          a printer at another location.

          The  LANtastic(r)  for  Windows(tm) network  utility  allows  the
          LANtastic  network to  be run  totally  from within  Microsoft(r)
          Windows  3.0  and   requires  LANtastic  v4.0  or   higher  (sold
          separately) to  operate. It offers  the same features as  the DOS
          version's   NET  and  NET_MGR  programs,  but  within  the  easy,
          graphical user  interface of Microsoft Windows'  pull-down menus,
          icons, and on-line  help. It also supports  Dynamic Data Exchange
          (DDE) so that  Windows applications can  use LANtastic e-mail  to
          exchange messages  and transfer data.  For example,  with DDE,  a
          user can create an Excel spreadsheet and send it to a remote user
          who can  then  double-click  on  the  file  to  open  it  in  the
          application in which it was originally created.

          Artisoft's AN-3 Ethernet adapter is  designed for the NEC BUS and
          supports thin and thick coaxial  cabling as well as 10BASE-T. The
          AN-3  Ethernet  adapter  has substantially  increased  throughput
          compared to its predecessor the NE-3. 

          Artisoft  develops and manufactures  a full line  of hardware and
          software  for local area  networks including the  LANtastic Local
          Area Network. The LANtastic network  is recognized as the leading
          DOS-based  peer-to-peer  network and  has  won  numerous industry
          awards  for its cost-effective features, performance, and ease of
          use. It allows up to  300 users of IBM(r)-compatible computers to
          connect  and share  information and  peripheral  devices such  as
          printers, hard drives and CD-ROMs. 

          For  more information about Artisoft or its product line, contact
          Artisoft, Inc. at 
          691 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85704. 
          Sales 800/TINY RAM. 
          Corporate 602/293-4000. 
          Fax 602/293-8065.

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