In its final throw before being sold to Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Apricot Computers Plc has laid down the gauntlet to IBM with an 80486-based Micro Channel Architecture machine that starts at just UKP6,085. The Qi 900 series is a desktop family designed for use as a personal computer, network server or Unix host. It comes with 80387 maths co-processor and Apricot Hypercache memory cacheing, with 128Kb of 15nS zero wait state static RAM, which has a 128-bit data path to enable the CPU to operate in burst mode. It will be built to customer specs.
