Tektronix Inc revealed the fruits of its earlier agreement with Network Computing Devices (CI No 1,198), and showed off a pair of NCD-based display terminals at the Xhibition last week. The colour XN11 is a high resolution (1.024 by 768), high performance 15 display station using dual Motorola 68000 processors with up to 8Mb memory, maintaining compatibility with software written for Tektronix 4111 and 4200 terminals – cost is $7,500, with a special introductory price of $7,000 until the end of November. The monochrome XN5 has a 16 1,024 by 1,024 screen and a single 68000 pro-cessor with independent graphics co-processor, with up to 4.5Mb memory: no price given. Both have an Ethernet TCP/IP interface and RS-232C host ports.
