Concurrent Computer Corp, Oceanport, New Jersey has launched a Series 7000 Investment Protection Programme under which its customers can buy and install a new Concurrent Series 7000 system and then order the compatible upgrade to the next generation system, which will be introduced later this year. Customers would have to pay only the difference between the price of the Series 7000 System and the new-generation system, which for a low-end system would be minimal. The programme runs to August 31 and customers must agree to take delivery of the new-generation system by March 31 next year. The planned R4400-based system will be one of the first available system implementations of the highest performance line of RISC chips developed by MIPS Technologies Inc, Concurrent claims. It will run the same version of Concurrent’s RTU Real-Time Unix as the existing models. Series 7000 systems range from $14,000 to $70,000, depend ing on the number of main processors.
