From a sleepy small business computer manufacturer called Allied Business Systems that no-one much wanted to know, Trafalgar House’s little computer company has over the past few years transformed itself into a distributor called ABS Computers that has become seductive to the point of irresistibility to a growing number of Unix systems companies. Prime Computer is the latest in a growing list to make the trek down to Brighton, and used the European Unix User Show to announce a major distribution deal in the UK with ABS. ABS, which currently distributes Zilog and Pyramid hardware, will now act as a master distributor for Prime’s EXL supermicros, which it will sell into the commercial arena. Prime itself will continue selling the systems into its more traditional markets of manufacturing, engineering and construction. The agreement was valued at UKP1.5m per year.
