Concurrent Computer Corp, now based in Oceanport, New Jersey has unleashed a torrent of new products and services – it counts 45 all told. They include 33MHz 68040-based models in the Series 7000 family of real-time Unix minicomputers; the GA5000 and GA6000 families of two- and three-dimensional graphics display subsystems; new low and mid-range additions to the family of proprietary Series 3200 real-time systems; standards-based communications and networking products including open systems interconnection software for implementing GOSIP-compliant networks and a Fibre Distributed Data Interface communications subsystem; new data acquisition products and integration tools for very high-volume data processing; the SIMulation Workbench, an application development tool for rapid development and prototyping of complex simulation and training programmes; and a range of SureStart professional services and newly structured maintenance offerings. The 33MHz Series 7000s are otherwise the same as the 25MHz ones, including the multi-bus architecture, Ethernet, and real-time features such as high-resolution timers and counters; they run the RTU real-time Unix. The GA5000 and GA6000 colour graphics subsystems are built around the Intel Corp 80860 RISC and are optimised for Concurrent’s Unix systems. Both use the X.11 release of X Window System; the GA6000, developed with Du Pont Co’s Du Pont Pixel Systems, uses the Silicon Graphics Inc Iris GL graphics library. The new 3200-400 and 3200-600 models in the proprietary minicomputer line expand the low end and mid range of the Series 3200, using CMOS and ECL gate arrays on the single-board processors, which support a 64M-byte per second system bus. New products on the communications side are Concurrent RTnet-OSI, RTnet-FTAM, RTnet-TCP, RTnet-X25/Plus and FDDI-V6S fibre optic local area networking software. The data acquisition capabilities of the Series 7000 and Series 8000 real-time Unix systems are extended with the Intelligent Bus Interface Module, a new Serial Input-Output board, an Intelligent Bus Developers Toolkit, and specialised software libraries. The Intelligent Bus Interface Module is a data acquisition engine with a 40MHz 68030 processor, which resides on the VMEbus, enabling high volumes of data to be transmitted or received independent of the central host processor when it is used with the new input-output board. The SIMulation Workbench is a graphical user environment designed to automate design and implementation of complex real-time simulation applications and runs on the Series 7000 and 8000. And SureStart is a programme of communications and network implementation services designed to ensure that Concurrent users are able to plan, install and achieve maximum performance of their communications and networking software with minimum expense and inconvenience; the products are available, but specific prices were not given.
