Data General Corp has an enviable Houdini-like record for getting itself out of situations that look to be terminal, and its AViiON 88000-based Unix computers look set to repeat the runaway success of the original 32-bit Eclipse minis, with which Data General pulled itself out of a deep hole and walked all over DEC for two or three years, and the Comprehensive Electronic Office software, which kept the company on the up-and-up for two or three more years. Latest to sign for the AViiONs is Dallas-based Recognition Equipment Inc, in for $30m of the machines over three years for use in its next generation of document processing systems.
