Yet more evidence that its bold and extraordinarily rapid move to build itself a completely new business on the 88000 RISC chip and Unix will succeed in bringing Data General Corp back from the brink comes with the news that Norsk Data A/S, also in the 88000 camp, has signed for $6m of Data General’s AViiONs for inclusion in its Uniline 88 family marketed in Scandinavia and West Germany. Separately, the Oslo company’s Dolphin Server Technology A/S subsidiary suffered a wicked theft at the Hannover Fair when at 3.30pm on Wednesday, someone walked off the stand with one of the processor boards from its Triton 88 machine – a board that holds 128Mb and is claimed to deliver 100 MIPS.
