Data General Corp has turned its Dasher/386 personal computer workstation into an entry-level, multi-user Unix system by fitting it out with 386/ix from Interactive Systems Corp, Santa Monica, and languages from Langauge Processors Inc, Framingham, Massachusetts. The 16MHz 80386-based machine comes with up to 16Mb memory and 318Mb disk, and intelligent eight-line serial controllers for up to 26 asynchronous serial terminals, modems or printers, plus an integrated parallel printer port. Language Processors is supplying Basic, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, PL/I and the LPI-Debug interactive source-level debugger. Language Processors will also supply the compilers for Data General’s planned Motorola 88000 RISC-based Unix machines. The Dasher/386 Unix system with 4Mb CPU, 40Mb disk, and 386/ix runtime system is $7,320, $8,020 with 70Mb of disk.
