newsbytes@clarinet.com (02/04/90)
TOKYO, JAPAN, 1990 JAN 26 (NB) -- SRA or Software Research Associates will cooperate with U.S.-based MIPS Computer Systems' to offer new software features for MIPS' RISC-(reduced instruction set computer) architecture-based machines. The VAR (value-added reseller) agreement between the hardware maker and software house comes on the heels of a prior technical support agreement last October in which the two sides agreed to make international versions of Unix/OS, the Unix of MIPS' RISC chip, into Korean, Chinese and Japanese languages. Under this agreement, SRA will port its original Unix software tools to MIPS computers. SRA is now operating a so-called System Integration Business on a workstation and it will place the MIPS machines as high-end machine for system sales. It is expecting 50 sets of the systems or one billion yen ($6.9 million) worth of business in the initial year. (Naoyuki Yazawa/19900201/Press Contact: SRA, 03-239-5473)