[mod.newprod] SunIPC

usenet@cuae2.UUCP (Netnews Admin) (07/02/86)

 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- June 24, 1986 -- Sun Microsystems today announced
the introduction of [...] the Sun Integrated Personal Computer (SunIPC),
a high-performance 10-Mhz 80286 coprocessor board for Sun workstations
that provides compatibility with the IBM PC/AT, allowing Sun
workstations to run MS-DOS applications in a window under UNIX.The SunIPC is one of the first two products from Sun's East Coast
Division in Lexington, Massachusetts. 
The SunIPC board contains a 10-Mhz Intel 80286 microprocessor and one
megabyte of memory to provide PC/AT compatibility with superior
performance on a Sun workstation.  The SunIPC supports the
Lotus/Intel/Microsoft expanded memory specification, so PC applications
running on a Sun workstation can access up to four megabytes of
memory.

The SunIPC is a VMEbus board that executes color or monochrome
applications written for MS-DOS applications requiring either the IBM
AT color graphics adapter, or the Hercules monochrome adapter.  It also
features one parallel port and allows the use of two workstation ports
as standard PC serial ports.  An optional 8-MHz Intel 80287 math
coprocessor is available, as are external 1.2-megabyte and 360-kilobyte
floppy disk drives for MS-DOS software access and transport.

SunIPC includes MS-DOS 3.1, Microsoft's GWBASIC, transparent
filesharing software for the NFS, and utilities to convert ASCII files
between MS-DOS and the Sun operating system.  The software also
features transparent conversion of MS-DOS program output for Epson
FX-80 for FX-100 printers to network shared or dedicated Sun
LaserWriter printers.  The software also emulates the Microsoft PC
mouse interface for use with the standard Sun workstation mouse.

Although the SunIPC resides in one Sun Workstation, other
workstations on a network can access it to run MS-DOS applications.  In
this way, Sun workstation users who occasionally use PC-DOS
applications can have low-cost access in the same desktop package.  The
SunIPC board is $1995 in single quantities, and the accompanying
software is $395 for the single-user version.  The multi-access version
is $995.  When one SunIPC board is shared by remote workstations, the
per-user cost of the system quickly drops.  If the SunIPC board and
software are shared by three users, for example, the per-user cost is
under $1000.  The SunIPC products will be available to customers in the
third quarter of 1986.
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