Applied Digital Data Systems Inc, NCR Corp’s Hauppauge, New York-based terminals subsidiary, has traded in its allegiance to Motorola Inc 68000 family chips and switched to RISC with the Intel Corp 80960 for a new line of X-stations introduced this week. The company says it has been previewing the new X stations for three weeks and already has taken orders for over 2,300 units. The new 3533 XLR line of stations comes in nine models offering a variety of monitor sizes in monochrome, grey scale, and colour. They offer simultaneous operation of a local network connection and two serial ports plus a separate parallel port for network printing, and xEasy software to help manage installation, operation, and remote administration of the X station; xEasy encompasses a range of X-station-specific processes, scripts and software features designed to enhance the installation, operation and maintenance of X Windows-based terminals from both a system administrator’s and a user’s viewpoints. The XLR X-stations offer standard XTerm, local client support of Motif Window Manager and VT220 terminal emulation, and two serial and one parallel ports, the company says. The line offers an automated host installation and is fully scripted for NCR System 3000, Sun Microsystems Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co, Digital Equipment Corp DECstation, and IBM hosts. ADDS is also previewing a 3270/X program that provides an X Window migration path for IBM 3270 terminal users moving to NCR’s System 3000 Unix line. The 3270/X software will provide 3270 client capability, with integrated access to other network resources such as Unix, X Window applications and standard character terminal applications, and is planned for first quarter 1993. With monitor, keyboard, mouse and 4Mb memory, the XLR14C, 14 colour 1,024 by 768 pixel model is $3,100; the XLR15C 15 variant of that is $3,400; and the 17 XLR17C version is $4,300. With the same memory and peripheral content, the XLR17CHR is a 17 colour 1,280 by 1,024 model at $4,900, and the XLR19CHR 19 version of that is $5,900. The XLR17G is a 17 grey scale 1,152 by 900 model at $3,100, and the XLR19G is a 19 1,280 by 1,024 variant at $3,500. The 17 and 19 mono versions are $2,600 and $3,000 respectively.
