mem@sii.UUCP (Mark Mallett) (01/14/84)
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Greetings. Last week I requested information on 160xx products
either existing, under developement, or rumored. I don't consider
that enough time has gone by to have received all potential answers,
but I got a request today (Friday night, Jan 13) to post a summary
of what I had before everyone took off for Washington. This, for
those of you who read news over the weekend, is the attempt. For the
sake of brevity and speed, it will be a list of one-or-two line
manufacturer names and whatsis, plus where I got the info from. The
real summary will contain more descriptive information.
Of the systems reports, the most complete (or at least the most
complete descriptions I got) seem to be the Syte and the Silicon Valley
Micro systems.
Godbout/Compupro is/isn't quite shipping an S-100 implimentation.
flairvax!kissell
National makes a development/workstation on a proprietary bus.
(runs GENIX, National's version of 4.1bsd).
They also make a multibus demo board that I hear on good authority
is a good demo board but not very useful for applications (slow
memory circuits, etc).
flairvax!kissell, sdchema!donn
An outfit called Ebnek out of Wichita, Kansas has a VME board,
available through Elite Corp. (same town, same people, actually)
as the "Consultant" work station.
flairvax!kissell, tekecs!johnl, sdchema!donn
Syte Information Technology has a complete system with multiprocessing
architecture, with smalltalk-80 compatability features (?).
flairvax!kissell, dartvax!mss, sdchema!donn, advertisements
There's all kinds of folks (Syte, Sequent) with stuff in the works,
but nothing else I know of available off the shelf.
flairvax!kissell
Silicon Valley Micro has two systems called simply the $5000 model
and the $10000 model. There appear to be many options available
for these products.
BYTE, druny!jml
LMC: MegaMicro. Single CPU, Multibus, runs UNITY (HCR port of
4.1 BSD Unix).
sdchema!donn
Symmetric Systems: (Don't know system name). Single CPU (dual-CPU when
color graphics becomes available), proprietary bus with Multibus
and IBM-PC bus adaptors available, runs 4.2 BSD Unix.
sdchema!donn
Unidot Corp.: Concord. Dual CPUs, Multibus, runs GENIX.
sdchema!donn
"...There are also a number of companies which are
even farther from a product but intend on using 16ks, e.g. Tolerant
Systems (multiple CPUs, no bus info available but suspect proprietary,
no operating system yet but also suspect proprietary) or
Spectragraphics (they plan on a 16k workstation based around their
existing 8086-based high speed graphics unit -- single CPU, proprietary
bus, runs Unix)."
sdchema!donn
Again, more information will be posted later (probably a week from
now).
Mark E. Mallett
{decvax|ittvax}!sii!mem