Mitsubishi Electric Corp has added three new models to its line-up of 68040-based engineering workstations: they are the ME550 which comes with 16Mb memory, 320Mb hard disk, 3.5 floppy drive, 256-colour bit-mapped screen and costs $32,500; the ME550E, which adds a graphics engine to that configuration; and the ME550F with 32Mb memory, 670Mb disk and 1,670 colour capability, which costs $74,000; Mitsubishi has complemented the on-chip 8Kb cache with a 256Kb cache which operates in no-wait state mode; the workstations run ME/UX-II which is Unix System V with BSD extensions, and X Window System release X11.4; Mitsubishi is pitching the boxes at financial and distribution markets as well as design.
