JCC Corp, the Fort Lee, New Jersey arm of Japan Computer Corp has expanded its line of MIPS Technologies Inc R-series RISC-based X-terminals with the addition of the GX1600, designed specifically for desktop publishing applications. The JCC GX1600 is priced at $5,000 and will ship in September, and the company says that it is negotiating with value-added resellers for distribution of the product. The JCC GX1600 supports the merging of text and graphics and offers full-page pagination on a 1,600 by 1,280 resolution 21 wide screen. Graphics from other applications and systems can be imported using the same aspect ratio as the original yet with higher resolution for finer detail and higher quality reproduction, the company claims. It reckons the terminal has all the features of the highest-performance X terminals and offers the sharp resolution demanded by several niche markets. The early beta test sites for the GX1600 included a final assembly and test department as well as computer-aided design software development departments. With the JCC GX1600, users can view a page in its current stage; view two versions of the same page next to each other, compare a new geometry to the original at any time; and examine a document on a WYSIWYG basis. It is rated at 110,000 Xstones on the old measure and optimises hardware and protocols to reduce network traffic, minimising data lengths and error packets and using an X Server Accelerator to offload X primitives to hardware. The GX1600 also allows for complete colour separation by exchanging graphics from other colour terminals and workstations.
