Fremont, California-based Opus Systems Inc, which has been undergoing the trauma of prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings – a sort of jail sojourn where the keys are left in the door – has announced the SparCard 2+, its next generation Unix single board computer for plugging into personal computers, offering 25% performance improvement over its predecessor, the SparCard 2. SBus performance is also claimed to have been increased 25%. The 50MHz SparCard 2+ single board computer delivers 35.6 MIPS and is designed for personal computer builders and systems integrators needing additional processing power for their embedded Unix systems. Host performance is said to be unaffected by the board. The Sparc Compliance Definition-conformant board includes a maximum 64Mb SIMM, on-board Ethernet, SCSI connectors, two SBus connectors, two serial ports, an audio port and AT interface. It supports Solaris 1.1. Pricing starts at $5,000 with deliveries in June.
