Corollary Inc, Irvine, California has become the first third party supplier to join the Advanced Computing Environment consortium: Corollary says it will develop multiprocessor hardware and software products based on MIPS Computer Systems Inc chips and compliant with the Advanced RISC Computing specification. It will be the first non-Intel Corp architecture Corollary has supported. Company president George White says the product line will begin with a version of one he currently has in design, the Cbus+, a faster, more symmetric iteration of the present Cbus, which will work well with the MIPS architecture. White said he joined ACE after talking with some of its European members and perceiving a niche. He is not overly confident that the MIPS Environment will achieve any volume but says it enables him to diversify and doubtless sell more into the Intel arena since the consortium is also supporting the iAPX-86 – and he more or less indicated that he has no place else to go. Solbourne Computer Corp has pretty much sewed up the multiprocessing Sparc market and he is not sure he can trust Sun Microsystems Inc anyway. Corollary technology is already sold by consortium founders Digital Equipment Corp and Compaq Computer Corp. Corollary’s first MIPS kit is planned for 1992.
