Wyse Technology Inc, San Jose, California is taking its symmetric multiprocessing strategy to one further level of abstraction by offering chip sets and board-level components of its Series 7000i systems to OEM customers and systems integrators. Wyse’s Flash/MP CPU board chip set provides control logic for a copyback cache and an interface to its Wyde bus system, and includes cache controller and bus controller units. The Flash 701 error detection and correction memory board chip set manages the memory interface to the Wyde bus and controls the error detection and correction logic. It comes with an address unit, bus controller and Wyde bus buffer chips. The Flash 702 chip set provides connections from the EISA bus to Wyde bus and comes with a system board control unit, bus controller unit and Wyde bus interface. A board set with the CPU board and EDC memory starts at $7,300 – a Flash/MP chip set costs from $800. The Wyde bus supports up to five 66MHz Intel Corp 80486DX2s and is Pentium-ready. Wyse supports Unix System Laboratories Inc’s Unix System V.4, Santa Cruz Operation Inc MPX and Microsoft Corp Windows NT.
