Wyse Technology Inc, the San Jose terminal and micromaker in process of becoming another front for Taiwan Inc, has introduced its first two Unixsystems – 80386 boxes under its enhanced version System V-386 3.2. At the high end, the Wyse Series 9000i features tightly-coupled, symmetric multiprocessing at from $35,000 to $200,000 for up to 128 active users. The entry-level Series 5000i starts at $10,800 and supports up to 32 users. They arrive this quarter and come standard with Hunter Systems Inc’s XDOS Transformer, enabling users to install all the MS-DOS products that have been Transformed with the product to run under Unix. XDOS applications have identical user interfaces and compatible data formats to the MS-DOS originals, and each Wyse machine will include an XDOS Transformer with a single-user token – a floating licence that allows one user at a time to be running XDOS applications – unless the user buys further tokens. The machines will also include demonstration versions of the DataEase database management system from DataEase International and the Sprint word processor and Quattro spreadsheet from Borland International Inc converted for XDOS. Other XDOS applications include Lotus 1-2-3 2.01 and WordPerfect 5.0. Wyse also announced the WY-999 Intelligent Terminal Concentrator and the WY-997 Multidrop Communication Interface Board; no prices given.
