Norsk Data’s French partner Matra Datasysteme is set to offer the ND500 mini under Sintran III and Unix coupled with the new 12 Mflops M64/30 vector processor announced by Floating Point Systems last summer (CI No 497), says Le Monde Informatique. The OEM pact with Floating Point, put at $1.6m, is a stopgap to the planned 100Mflops Norsk-Matra desktop minisupercomputer.