It seems that Motorola’s rollout today is strictly a New York affair – strange as it is claims over 50% of its profit from computer systems is down to European sales, and even IBM, which Motorola reckons it will be besting in performance with the new machines, got its act together and held a joint UK-US bash for the launch of the RS/6000 a couple of weeks ago. Motorola’s plans include 68000 family – 68040 presumably – as well as 88000 RISC-based offerings in the range, from workstations through to multi-user systems and servers. The 88000 boxes all comply with 88open’s Binary Compatibility Stan dard, which means a range of soft ware is already available for them. There is also expected to be a whole host of applications bundled in. Insignia Solutions’ SoftPC MS- DOS emulation product is being offered across the range and IXI’s X.desktop version 2.0 – which supp orts multiple languages – will be on the 88000-based systems in Eur ope after an agreement struck with Motorola Computer Systems Europe.
