ICL Plc says the Award systems it is creating around Data General Corp’s ccNUMA technology will not simply be re-badged AViiONs but like the servers Unisys Corp is developing using the same technology – the backplane design and software plus Scalable Coherent Interface boards to link Intel Corp’s four-way Standard High Volume boards and the Data General ccNUMA-enabled UnixWare – will be a joint design effort. Meantime, ICL’s loss-making personal computer and low-end server business, turned over to a new Fujitsu ICL Computers Ltd volume products group owned 80%-20% respectively by the two firms, says its one-to-four way 200MHz Pentium Pro Super-Servers running UnixWare will be out shortly, along with the 142MHz HyperSparc quads running ICL’s own NXV7 Unix System V.4.2 MP implementation (CI No 2,880).
