The sale of assets of its Parallel Computer Inc acquisition by General Automation Inc to Integrated Micro Products Ltd, Consett, County Durham really is all wrapped up and out in the open now: the UK firm paid $900,000 in cash, securities and transferred debt, and Anaheim, California Pick systems vendor General Auto will have to take a $3.8m after-tax write-off on the unhappy adventure, it says. Integrated Micro plans to incorporate the Parallel technology into its current product range, resulting in what it claims to be the most extensive range of binary compatible Unix machines in the business. Built around a common family of Motorola-based boards, Integrated Micro’s Magi and Parallel series start at individual workstations and expand to multi-processor fault-tolerant systems and 400-user parallel processors. Now trading as IMP Inc and based in Santa Cruz, Parallel will continue research and development work into fault tolerance, while Parallel’s Edison, New Jersey sales office will market all IMP products in the US. Most Parallel staff have been re-employed, and the company is starting recruitment: it brings with it a 100-strong user base and distributors in Europe and Japan. Based in Consett, County Durham, Integrated Micro Products sells its VMEbus, SCSI, 68000 family and 88000 products running Unix and OS-9 on the OEM market and through value-added resellers.
