A new player is coming to the RISC market – Osicom Technologies Inc, Rockaway, New Jersey, has signed an agreement with Wilmington, Delaware-based chemicals giant E I Du Pont de Nemours Co Inc for its Intergraph Clipper RISC boards and systems. As well as distributing the Clipper RISC-based kit directly, Osicom is to manufacture its own workstations and parallel processing systems based on the boards, which originate from Du Pont Pixel Systems, formed when Du Pont acquired UK high performance graphics specialists benchMark Technology Ltd of Kingston-upon Thames. Osicom says that it has been shipping workstations to its own OEM customers for several months now, its main offering being a 14 MIPS, 4.5 MFLOPS workstation which is priced at $9,000. Formerly known as a supplier of hard disks and tape back-up systems, the company suffered a net loss of $3m on turnover of $108m last year.
