Zenith Electronics Corp has picked up the 33MHz 80386 for its new Z-386/33 personal computer, declaring that as more users demand greater speed, we’re confident that systems based on the 33MHz chip will be the cornerstone of computing in the 1990s, a quote that will no doubt look decidedly quaint in 1997 or 1998: Zenith reckons the box runs at over 8 MIPS and that it can keep pace with the power-hungry needs to drive any graphical environment, such as Microsoft’s Windows or OS/2, as well as any Unix application, or network of PCs and terminals as a file server; the Z-386/33 Model 150 has a 150Mb ESDI hard disk with average access time of 18mS and is $11,500, the Model 320 has a 320Mb disk with 16mS access time and sells for $13,500; a diskless version sells for $8,000.
