SunRiver Corp, Austin, Texas has a new VGA line, the SunRiver Terminal family, said to offer personal computer look and feel at terminal prices. Designed to replace ASCII-ANSI terminals in multi-user systems, they communicate at 32Mbps over fibre optics or twisted pair. Full console graphics and multi-screen support is provided for applications such as Santa Cruz Operation Inc Open Desktop and Interactive Systems Corp X.11. Six models offer VGA colour or monochrome resolutions up to 1024 by 768 by 256 colour and one serial port with a parallel and second serial port optional. Up to 17 users can be supported on a single multi-user CPU. They are immediately available and prices range from $650 to $1,000.
