Faced with an extremely soggy personal computer market, Dell Computer Corp has scaled right back its ambitious Olympic project to design a multiprocessor personal computer using a RISC CPU, for which the company hired three former IBMers, reports the Wall Street Journal. Last July, the company said that it was looking at four RISCs – the Motorola 88000, the Cypress version of the Sparc, the Intel 80860 and the MIPS Computer R-series, saying that it wanted to be sure that it had picked the right one (CI No 1,210). At that time, the company was also considering a parallel multiprocessor 80386 machine but has not yet even got a 33MHz single processor 80386 machine down to the wire. A further setback for the company is that president Lee Walker has resigned for health reasons, although he remains on the board.
