US reports suggest that Data General Corp has slated March 13 as the day it will unveil tightly-coupled multi-processing servers built around Motorola’s 88000 RISC part that will go to 100 MIPS with four processors, running a System V.4-compatible version of its DG-UX Unixalike – a future four-processor model is likely to top 200 MIPS, the same reports suggest; meantime the Wall Street Journal hears that the new model will improve price-performance, being priced at around $170,000: Data General’s current AViiON workstations top out at 27 MIPS and the biggest is $100,000.
