Sony Corp has a new booksize workstation it calls bigNEWS NWS-3150, and has priced it at $5,645, making it just possible for the individual user to afford. With dimensions of 12.7 by 14.3 by 2.7, 9 lbs 14 oz in weight, it is based on a 40MHz R3081 chip, which achieves performance of 37 MIPS, runs just one hour on the internal battery; the display puts up 1,024 by 768.Sony Tektronix Inc, the 50-50 joint venture between Sony Corp and the Beaverton, Oregon company, displayed two series of X-terminals: two models in the XP11 series, the 19 inch XP12 model, and the 17 XP18 256-colour X-terminal, both low-end, low-price displays aimed at business applications; and four models in the XP330 series, based on an R3000 RISC chip, designed as an X11.4 server in technical applications. In Japan, a Tektronix representative admitted to some disadvantage from not having full Japanese language support – though kana-kanji keyboards and kanji fonts in Flash EPROM are supported. It sees the Japanese market for X-terminals growing at 100% over the next few years.
