There seems to be some confusion at Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG over the future of its Nixdorf Targon Unix series. The statements from the company’s director, Otto-Hermann Grunberg, to Computerwoche in November indicated that it was not going to release any new Motorola Inc 68000-based Targons. However, Siemens Nixdorf has now added the Targon/31 M35 and M65 models to its range, which use one and two 33MHz 68040s respectively. They run Sinix-TOS V5.41, which the company claims makes Targon/31s source code-compatible with its other Intel Corp and MIPS Technologies Inc-based Sinix systems, the WX200, MX300, MX500, RM400 and RM600. Sinix-TOS V5.41 is backwards compatible with version 4.1 of the Targon operating system – TOS V4.1. With 32Mb RAM, 702Mb disk the model M35 costs around $22,500 – GBP14,500.
