The Fremont, California-based Imaging and Graphics Division of Gould Electronics Inc says its IP9000 series image processor is now supported on Sun Microsystems Inc’s Sun-3 workstation line. The IP9000 connects via Gould’s optimised interface, which the company claims gives an input-putput capability of 6Mbytes-per second to Sun’s VMEbus, about six times faster than other image processors. Gould says that 1,024 by 1,024 colour images can thus be called up in half a second. The two-year-old IP9000 was developed primarily for use with DEC VAXes, but the Gould Base software and Library of Image Processing Software have now been adapted for SunOS Unix. The IP9000 image processor is from $40,000 to $150,000 depending on options; deliveries for the Sun 3 begin in September.
