Wang Laboratories Inc has moved up to the EISA bus with its latest 80486 machine, a 33MHz EC480/33C designed to be used as a file server, workstation or Unix host. As a server, it runs Banyan Systems’ Vines or Novell Inc’s NetWare 386 and can be used as a server for Wang’s Open/Image document processing system. It will also be offered with Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix as a low-end multi-user system, and Wang will be pitching it at the legal, professional services, manufacturing, government, insurance and some other vertical markets. It will also be offered as a workstation for computer-aided design. It comes with 4Mb to 64Mb memory, eight EISA slots, 1.2Mb or 1.44Mb floppy drive, two serial and two parallel ports and mouse port at $9,000.
