AViiON means Pentium Pro processors in the Data General Corp world these days, and the company has followed up its original AV 4900 office and AV 5900 rack-mount Pentium Pro servers (CI No 2,955) with the AV 3600, which has up to four 200MHz Pentium Pros, each with 512Kb cache, and up to 4Gb memory. It is offered with Windows NT Server, DG/UX, NetWare 4.1 and UnixWare 2.1. It has a dual channel PCI subsystem with 15 slots. The estimated street price is under $12,000, with volume ships next month. The AV 4900 and 5900, using Intel Corp Standard High Volume motherboards, have fully redundant power and cooling and automated recovery from failures.
