Omron Advanced Systems Inc, Cupertino, California – a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Japanese electronic cash register specialist – has launched its family of Motorola-based Luna workstations in the US. Rated at 4 MIPS, the entry model uses a 68030 with 8Mb RAM, 250Mb hard disk, Carnegie-Mellon’s multi-processing Mach Unix implementation, X Window System, Motif, TCP/IP and Network File System. Aimed at the OEM market, it costs $6,950 for 500 up, and will be out in the second quarter. The Luna/88K uses four 33MHz 88000 RISC processors, is rated at 100 MIPS and will cost around $50,000. Again it runs the Mach operating system, comes with X Window System, Motif, TCP/IP and Network File System, and will be out at the end of the year. Omron started its US Advanced Systems operation last year, although other members of the Luna series of stations have been available in Japan for the last couple of years.
