Sun Microsystems Inc’s new 33MHz, 22 MIPS, graphical go-faster version of the IPC workstation, due on the 22nd of this month (CI No 1,705), is expected to come in at around the UKP8,500 mark. The new workstation is dubbed the IPX – known internally as the Node Warrior 4/25 – and its arrival means that the existing 25MHz IPC will likely be phased out soon. Indeed in the UK, Sun is believed to have been pushing IPCs out fast and furious into the market over the last few months in anticipation of, and ahead of, both the IPX announcement and the end of its financial year, which closed on June 30. Sun is also giving the diskless version of the Sparcstation 1 – the 20MHz SLC box launched last May – a faster CPU. The reason for this revamp appears to be that sales have so far proved disappointing for this entry-level machine.
