Following the launch of its uniprocessor Intel 80486-based 3000SP33 last week, Acer America Corp, San Jose, California, has added the multi-processing 3000MP to its AcerFrame series, an EISA bus machine that will come with up to four 50MHz, 40 MIPS 80486 parts when it becomes available – it uses the 33MHz implementation for the present. It supports between 32 and 128 users and, like its uniprocessor relative, can run Novell Inc NetWare, Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Interactive Systems Corp Unix, Banyan Systems Inc Vines and OS/2 LAN Manager. It’ll come with from 8Mb to 256Mb RAM and 6.4Gb disk, 16 EISA expansion slots, SCSI interface, and Ethernet. The system, scheduled to begin shipping in August, costs $15,000. Meanhile Acer’s Altos Computer Systems sibling has announced two new Series 1000 Unix systems based on Intel’s new 80486SX microprocessor. The 1820-486SX, with 200Mb disk is priced at around $10,000 – while the 1844-486SX, with a 435Mb hard drive will come in just above that. Ships are expected early next month.
