Corollary Inc hitched a ride on Microsoft Corp’s Windows NT wave at the show and announced it will offer a symmetric multiprocessing 80486-based system for developing and debugging NT applications, the MP Developer Station. Corollary president George White believes there is no doubt that NT is going to win a significant stake of the personal computer open systems market. It doesn’t matter that Windows NT is late, Microsoft can afford to do whatever it wants. The personal computer market wants NT and it’ll surprise the hell out of a lot of Unix vendors. In a base configuration the Developer Station includes three 66MHz Intel Corp 80486 CPUs, 16Mb to 256Mb memory, 400Mb disk, CD-ROM and a selection of ports. The software features a multiprocessing interrupt controller. There are three ways to handle interrupts in the Corollary system: to transfer all the interrupts to one processor, transfer them to the CPU with the lowest priority tasks or distribute them to more than one processor. The MP Developer Station will be available in February 1993 and is priced at $15,000.
