Fremont, California-based Sigma Designs Inc has plunged into the X-terminal business with launch of a full line of the X Window System display stations designed to support Santa Cruz Operation Inc’s Open Desktop 1.1. The displays are based on what the company calls Sigma Advanced Graphics Engine and are designed with use with 80386 and 80486 AT bus machines and the intelligence is claimed to enable the micro to run X Window, client applications and Open Desktop faster and more efficiently. All the SAGE displays use the 60MHz Texas Instruments Inc TI34010 processor and run Sigma’s X Window Display Server software, based on X11.4 but designed to support 11.3 client applications. The line starts with the SAGE 1280 co-processor-based colour display adaptor; ColorMAX 1280, 96dpi, 19 256 colour display system using the 1280; the SilverView GS, a 72 dpi, 21 256 gray shades display system; and the L-View GSP, a 120 dpi, 19 four gray shades display. They’re out now at from $2,700 for the SAGE 1280 board with 2Mb to $7,000 for the ColorMAX 1280 with 2Mb; the Silver View with 2Mb is $3,300, the GSP is $2,800, the server software $300.
