The official opening of Unisys’ new office at City Gate, London yesterday coincided with the launch of Asynchronous Terminal Server for its Unix line, and the 80386-based U6000/55 processor in the U Series. The new Server, built around the National Semiconductor NS32016, is the Annex II product that also includes an Intel 82586 Ethernet controller, (CI No 933), developed by Encore Computer Corp and sold to Xylogics Inc at the end of last year. Unisys has an OEM agreement with Xylogics, Burlington, Massachusetts for the TCP/IP Annex II server, worth up to $50m over the next five years and the biggest in Xylogics’ history. The Server comes in 16- and 32-port versions, supporting 128 or 256 sessions respectively, and is designed for use with the U5000 and U6000 families. No price or delivery details were given. The new 6000/55 uses a 33MHz Intel 80386 processor with 64Kb of enhanced cache memory and 64Mb of cacheable system memory, and supports up to 64 users and 4Mb to 80Mb of memory. It has built-in 150Mb cartridge tape and 5.25 floppy and takes up to 2Gb disk in the system cabinet. Out next month, it costs UKP41,000 in typical configuration. Oracle 6.0 and Informix are both supported.
