RC International – Denmark’s largest computer manufacturer, which is now 50% owned by STC Plc’s ICL – is showing its fault-tolerant Unix multiprocessor, the RC9000, for the first time at the European Unix User Show this week. The Unix-based machine, which uses the R2000 RISC microprocessor from MIPS Computer Systems Inc, coupled with fault tolerant software licensed from Tolerant Computer Systems Inc, is aimed at intensive transaction processing applications, and according to RC has already been employed by STC in large projects in London. Based in Ballerup, near Copenhagen and now taking in ICL Denmark, RC also offers a range of Intel-based personal computers and Motorola 68000 family departmental systems, which it is networking together on the stand. It markets systems to central and local Government, manufacturing and general business customers, but is also hoping to win OEM contracts.
