Megatek Corp, San Diego, California, which takes Sun Microsystems workstations OEM and revamps their graphics capabilities, has a new X Window development environment for the Sun-3 and Sun-4 supporting Open Look, and the XView toolkit. The X-ccerator VME board uses a Texas Instruments 34020 graphics chip as a co-processor for the X server, executing on either the Sun-3’s Motorola 60303 or Sun-4’s Sparc CPU. This enables graphics functions to be significantly speeded up while reducing the load on the CPU. Each board comes with up to 7Mb memory – to which an extra 4Mb can be added – and supports an additional keyboard and mouse on the workstation. Multiple X-ccelerator boards can be configured in a single system, and the price is UKP4,000 each. Megatek, which has UK offices in Basingstoke, Hampshire, offers a range of enhanced graphics systems, including the recently introduced Sigma 70, IGW 200 and Megatek 944.
