Convex Computer Corp, not yet back in the black (figures in page five) plans to phase out its Gallium Arsenide machines and become a pure Precision Architecture RISC shop, today’s edition of our sister paper Unigram.X reports. This week at Hewlett-Packard Co’s facility in Milan – and later in the quarter in the US – the Richardson, Texas company will unveil a new series of Exemplar SPP1000 scalable parallel processor servers for the technical computing market using the latest PA-7200 RISC, and will sketch out a route up through PA-8000 for the SPP2000 and the PA-9000 for the SPP3000. There are to be no further iterations of Convex’s GaAs C series vector superminis planned, only input-output and other peripheral upgrades to the latest four-way C4; there is no future for point vector products, Convex believes. It will continue to service C2, C3 and C4 customers but will seek to migrate them to Exemplar with code generators for recompiling ConvexOS application code to run on the Hewlett-Packard RISC.
