Unix Solutions Ltd, the Dunstable, Bedfordshire-based UK arm of US Sparcstation 10 cloner Pinnacle Data Systems Inc, says that it hopes to receive an initial delivery of its parent’s Texas Instruments Inc Viking-based workstations within two weeks. First out of the gate will be the IPX Sparc 3 – a Sun Sparcstation 2-compatible machine with Mbus and Texas Instruments’ superscalar chip – which is expected to retail for between UKP8,000 and UKP9,000. The main problem the Columbus, Ohio-based Pinnacle Computer Systems – no connection with the UK company of the same name – will have in getting to volume production of the new machines is Sun’s current monopoly of Viking CPU and memory component supplies. Unix Solutions director Quing Tsang, adds that its agreement with Sun does not run to supporting software on the Mountain View, California-based company’s kit, only on its own machines, at present.
