De La Rue Plc subsidiary Crosfield Electronics Ltd, producers of computerised systems for graphics, design and news publishing, yesterday launched two new products, Galan – a fibre-optic, token passing local area network, which can transfer data at a rate of 100M-bits-per-second with 80% efficiency, making it the fastest high performance local net in the world – and the Galaxy 9000, a new family of workstations ranging in price from UKP19,400 to UKP32,000; built around the Motorola 68020 processor with bit-slice graphics co-processor, it has a memory mapped display that allows real time pen and zoom and scrolling of pages over the entire main memory; evaluation units are set for May, full production begins at the end of the year.
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