Encore Computer Corp must be wondering now why it sold the NS32016-based Annex server product line to Xylogics Corp: first Unisys signs for $50m of the things (CI No 1,286), and now the Burlington, Massachusetts company has won a UK heavyweight, Racal-Milgo Ltd, to become the sole UK distributor of the new Token Ring version of the product – the original version is for Ethernet. Racal-Milgo’s Racalan Business Group will market the 802.5 Token Ring server for Unix systems, pitching it at medium to large users in defence and other markets. The terminal server enables up to 32 devices to be integrated into a corporate Unix environment, and complements the UK company’s existing local area network product family.
