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February 28, 1988

MATRA SEEKS DISTRIBUTORS FOR ITS AI WORKSTATION

By CBR Staff Writer

Distributors are being sought for Matra Datasysteme SA’s new artificial intelligence server in European countries where the French company is not represented. The X-MS 3000 station will be sold by Matra in France and by its subsidiaries in Belgium, Italy and Spain. The VLSI 32-bit processor board, which has been baptised with the curious name of Drake, is being produced from a Matra design by VTC, a Control Data Corp-owned foundry in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Matra hopes to shift production to its Matra-Harris SA joint venture next year. The Unix implementation used is based on Sun Microsystems’ SunOS with a driver added to control the Drakes. Machines with up to four Drakes are available at the moment, but seven of the co-processors are needed to deliver the 1 MegaLIPS performance claimed for the machine. The X-MS 3000 can act as a server to the Norsk Data 32 bit scientific mini, called the X-MS 5000 by Matra, as well as the Encore Computer machine that Matra sells as the X-MS 7000.

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