As briefly reported (CI No 1,141) Unisys Corp has boosted its Personal Workstation range with 25MHz 80386-based systems using boards sourced from Intel Corp. The new PW2 800/25A – available immediately – has internal mass storage expandable to 640Mb, and according to Unisys, is ideal for SCO Xenix, as a data and print server in local area networks, and for PC-based desktop publishing or artificial intelligence. It comes in four configurations: diskless, floppy disk, 80Mb hard disk or 140Mb hard disk systems, and has 2Mb RAM, expandable to 18Mb in 4Mb increments. Optional Intel 80387 or Weitek 3167 co-processors are also available. The machine is supplied with MS-DOS 4.01 and MS-Windows, but OS/2 and SCO Xenix are also available. UK prices start at UKP3,615, rising to UKP5,740 for the 140Mb system. New VGA monitors were also introduced.
