Fifteen personal computer and workstation vendors announced new systems built around the Pentium II at Intel’s European launch party. The fifteen were: Compaq Computer Corp, Dan Technology Ltd, Dell Computer Corp, Digital Equipment Corp, Fujitsu Ltd, Gateway 2000 Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co, the IBM PC Company, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Netpower Inc, Ing C Olivetti SpA, Opus Technology Ltd, Packard Bell NEC (and its Zenith Data Systems professional arm), Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG and Viglen Ltd. DEC pitched in with some of the first dual processors, the Celebris GL-2 PC Client and the Digital Personal Workstation 266i2, for running Windows NT, while Fujitsu Ltd added single and dual Pentium II systems to its teamserver Ci and Gi range of business servers for NT, SCO Unix and IntranetWare. NeTpower launched a dual-processor NT Workstation, the Symetra2, offering a no-penalty upgrade to the 300MHz version for early buyers. Siemens Nixdorf was also offering a Celsius 2000 Pentium II workstation, with full graphics support from next month. Last month Intel formed a new workstation division to support its OEM customers in an attempt to encourage the newly emerging market for Intel-based workstations (CI No 3,130).
