Norsk Data A/S yesterday came out with three new products, a new top-end ND-5850 in its Sintran III proprietary minicomputer line, a family of Unix machines bought OEM from Motorola Inc, and a server also based on its ND-5000 mini processor. The ND-5850 is rated 15 MIPS, one and a half to two times the performance of the previous line-topper. The new Unix machines, put together by its new Dolphin A/S development subsidiary, for which it is now actively negotiating outside investments, go under the name Uniline 33, are built around the 68030 and come in models for up to 100 users. They are being offered only outside Scandinavia – back home, the company is offering its NDIX implementation of Unix on its own processors to keep faith with its big base. They presently run Unix System V.3, but will move to V.4 next year, when models based on the Motorola 88000 RISC will be offered. The new tpServer is designed to support networks of personal computers, is based on the ND-5000 32-bit processor and come in two cabinet sizes, the larger taking up to 30Gb disk. They are rated at 30 transactions per second, and the prices for the two sizes are from UKP65,000 to UKP164,000 and UKP75,000 to UKP330,000.
