Digital Equipment Corp yesterday launched the first three systems in a new DECpc XL Server family of high performance, upgradable, Peripheral Component Interconnect-based servers and added five Pentium-based models to its Value Line desktop systems, all to be shown at Hannover this week. Designed primarily to be marketed by resellers, the DECpc XL Servers provide choice of processors, major operating systems and certified and supported add-on peripherals and options. They can be configured with 60MHz or 66MHz Pentium and 80486DX2 and will be upgradable to DX4 or Alpha RISC. The DECpc XL Servers replace the DECpcST and applicationDEC xP families and support NetWare, Windows and Windows NT Advanced Server, Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix, UnixWare, DEC’s Pathworks, OS/2, and Vines. The CPU-specific components are on a daughter board and the common system components on the motherboard, which includes integrated graphics controller and Fast and Wide SCSI-2 controller; seven slots, four of them EISA, two PCI-only slots and one dual-use slot; and nine bays for up to 8Gb of internal storage. Maximum memory on 80486 systems is 128Mb, with 128Kb external cache standard. The Pentiums take up to 192Mb memory and have 256Kb external cache. Prices start at $3,700 for the DECpc XL Server 466 with 8Mb of memory and a 535Mb Fast SCSI disk.
