Hitachi Ltd has brought out its first workstations built around Hewlett-Packard Co’s Precision Architecture RISC: they are the top two models in a new 3050 series. At the bottom of the line is the Creative Station 3050, a desktop 68040-based box rated at 20 MIPS. The RISC models are the deskside 3050R and the 3050Rsv server, and use the same version of the RISC as is used in the new HP 9000 Model 720, which is rated at 57 MIPS. The machines come with up to 128Mb memory and 2.4Gb disk. The new machines come in above Hitachi’s existing 68030-based 2050 Unix workstations and servers, and bring the number of models in the line up to seven; Hitachi fabricates versions of the RISC under licence.
