Laptop Unix machines have not so far played well in Peoria or anywhere else, but, following the hallowed Japanese maxim if it’s possible, do it, Sony Corp has come out with two laptop models of its News Unix workstation. The machines are built around a Motorola 68030 processor claimed to deliver 3.9 MIPS and come with 1,120 by 780 resolution screen and SCSI and Ethernet interfaces. The NWS-1230 with 4Mb processor and 200Mb hard disk is $7,900, the NWS-1250 with 8Mb memory and 240Mb disk is $9,600. Sony also announced that it had signed a pact with Oracle Corp under which the Belmont firm will do a version of its Oracle relational database for Sony’s News line and market the version to Sony’s customers.
