To get the message across that it is committed to downsizing, Data General Corp has launched a worldwide advertising campaign to spread the word: it hopes to zap European business travellers with the ads through Cable News Network Inc’s CNN International. Sources in the US say that Data General will this week take the wrapping off the eight-way AViiON multi-processors it has been dropping hints about for some time. The Westborough, Massachusetts-based firm claimed a lead in the commercial Unix marketplace when it launched its quad-processor Motorola Inc 88100 RISC units a year or so ago and the latest offerings are thought likely to reach 235 MIPS, and will be the last 88100 offerings before the company steps up to Motorola’s next generation 88110 part. They are set for the fourth quarter, and prices are thought to be in the $200,000 range.
