Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH yesterday announced Hitachi Ltd’s response to IBM Corp’s latest ES/9000 mainframes as the 99/XXX family. The new line ranges from the 99/711, 721 and 731 with one, two and three processors, available next quarter, through the dyadic and two-plus-one 822 and 832 for the fourth quarter to the 941, with four processors in single image configuration, and the 99/982 doubled-up version of that, plus two-plus-two, three-plus-two, three-plus-three and four-plus-three variants, the 942, 952, 962, 972 and 982, all to ship in the third quarter. They support Escon channels including Escon Multiple Image Facility, and Sysplex clustering. The company is also promising data compression, Asynchronous Data Mover Facility and logical partitioning extended reconfiguration at an unspecified later date. The company also added the mid-range mid-raneg 9/810 uniprocessor and 9/822 three-way multiprocessor. It gave no prices for the new models. The company also announced a new 6825 laser printer that does 60 A4 pages a minute and can print on both sides of the paper. It prints at up to 480 by 480 dots per inch and will be shipping in the fourth quarter.
