Tadpole Technology Plc will be taking Motorola’s formal announcement date for the 88000 RISC, April 18, to announce a hardware and software development environment for the new processor. Tadpole will be using the 88000 to provide a single board computer for VMEbus or MultiBus II with an optimising C compiler from Green Hills Software Inc. The Cambridge firm also plans to announce two other 88000 projects that day.