Following the announcement of Corollary Inc’s multi-processing extensions to Unix at Unix Expo, which have been packaged by Santa Cruz Operation and endorsed by Compaq Computer, Birminghambased Apricot Computers Plc has emerged as the latest customer for the new system, which it will run on a 25MHz dual symmetrical processor version of its 80486-based VX FTserver, announced last week. Apricot’s Dual Symmetrical Processor Architecture – DSPA – gives each processor its own high speed 128Kb hypercache, and the two processors share the main memory and interrupt structure of the Micro Channel. The system also includes dual SCSI controllers, and Apricot says it will double the performance of current VX FTSebver models running LAN Manager, SCO Unix or Novell NetWare, though only Santa Cruz’s SCO MPX will support symmetrical multi-processing. Deliveries are planned to start late in the first quarter of next year, but no prices were given.
