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Joe Waldygo, Director of Marketing and PR
Voice: 602/690-3215
FAX: 602/293-8065

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Bob Fitzpatrick, Investor Relations
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ARTISOFT INC. ANNOUNCES LETTER OF INTENT 
WITH PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGY, INC. FOR 
ACQUISITION AND MERGER

(TUCSON, AZ -- April 20, 1992) -- Artisoft, Inc., the 
Tucson-based developer and manufacturer of the award-
winning LANtastic Local Area Network, today announced 
that it has signed a letter of intent with Performance 
Technology, Inc. to acquire Performance Technology in 
a statutory merger. Performance Technology will be 
maintained as a wholly owned subsidiary of Artisoft. 
Under the terms of the letter of intent, the 
shareholders and stock option holders of Performance 
Technology will receive 300,000 shares of Artisoft 
common stock in exchange for their interest in 
Performance Technology.

Performance Technology, a San Antonio, Texas, 
privately held company, is the developer and 
manufacturer of such award-winning networking products 
as POWERfusion, linking PCs to UNIX processors, 
POWERsave, an archival system for networks, and 
POWERLan(R), which provides PC networking compliant 
with IBM(R) and Microsoft(R) networking products, as 
well as X/Open and OSF/DCE SMB recommendations. 
Performance Technology's POWERbridge is used worldwide 
to provide wide area networking for NetBIOS LANs such 
as the Microsoft LAN Manager and IBM LAN Server as 
well as POWERLan and LANtastic(R) networks.

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 over 20 major 
industry awards for its cost-effective features, 
performance, and ease of use. It allows up to 300 
users of IBM-compatible computers to connect and share 
information and peripheral devices such as printers, 
hard drives and CD-ROMs. 

Performance Technology's POWERfusion DOS to UNIX 
connectivity received PC Magazine's Editors' Choice 
award in 1991 and the Best of LAN Times 1992 award. 
POWERLan and LANtastic are co-winners of the PC 
Magazine Editors' Choice award for both 1991 and 1992. 
POWERLan also received the BYTE Magazine Award of 
Distinction for 1991. POWERsave received LAN Times' 
Recommended for Networking Award in 1991.

The consummation of the transaction is subject to 
approval by the Board of Directors of Artisoft as well 
as the Board of Directors and shareholders of 
Performance Technology, and other conditions.

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

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