ICL Plc has also announced its first Intel Corp-based DRS 3000 Unix box with a 60MHz Pentium CPU, the Level 656. ICL says the box will support up to 100 users and will be priced at from $7,500 when it ships in mid-October. The server is bundled with DRS/NX 7, ICL’s implementation of Unix System V.4.2. ICL has been evaluating Novell Inc’s UnixWare NetWare-ready operating system for some time, but hasn’t yet reached a decision about whether to offer it on the DRS 3000 line. The systems are effectively Unix versions of the ICL’s TeamServer personal computer systems, in this case, the F5/60 Pentium box. Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix and OS/2 will also run on the architecture and can be bought separately for the TeamServer system. ICL claims it now has an installed base of 8,000 DRS 3000 machines, 1,500 of them shipped this year. ICL also has plans to offer Windows NT, but does not expect it to take off for two or three years.
