Santa Ana, California-based Pick-popper Novadyne Computer Systems Inc, the former McDonnell-Douglas Information Systems, has come out with a 40MHz Sparc-based LX/2200 model to top off its LX Series of multi-environment machines. The LX/2200 is designed to combine the communications capabilities and power of Unix with the commercial application base of the Reality implementation of the Pick operating system. The machine is rated at 28.5 MIPS and features an advanced memory-management scheme, and comes in above the 25MHz Sparc-based LX/2100 and comes with either RDBMS from UniData Inc or uniVerse from VMark Software Inc, each of which recreates the Pick environment under Unix. It comes with up to 5.3Gb of disk and 64Mb memory. There are communications controllers for Ethernet, X25 and a range of SNA and other IBM interfaces. It has up to three SCSI interfaces and half-inch tape back-up capacity to 240Mb, and can support up to 130 users, coming with one synchron ous and up to four parallel printer ports. No indication of prices.
