Alliant Computer Systems Inc says it has designed its new 80860 RISC-based FX/2800 computer (CI No 1,347) to use its Adaptive Supercomputing facility, which enables individual processor configurations to suit different application mixes: the systems run Alliant’s Concentrix and Unix System V.4, and include support for Ethernet, DECnet, UltraNet, TCP/IP, Network File System, NQS and the X Window System; Intel Corp which worked with Alliant on the architecture is also expected to announce its own offerings using the PAX Parallel Architecture eXtended used in the FXs.
