ICL Plc weighed in with the TeamServer F5, boasting a dual-bus architecture, specifically designed to loose the full processor capacity and high-speed caching architecture. The company is positioning the box as a local network or Unix application server, but it chose to announce its strategic support for Windows NT at the same time. ICL is only announcing shipments of the 60MHz processor to start with – a pragmatic response to the shortage of the high speed parts. Indeed, on the slower systems, John Arnell, business manager with the company’s Personal Systems division admits we could not meet demand of any substance in the next month. Bulk ships will begin around the third quarter, he says, with an entry level server price of below $10,000. At around the same time, the first 66MHz versions should begin to trickle out and the company says that we should also expect a Pentium-based desktop machine in the ErgoPro range. Newer members of the existing FX server range are Overdrive upgradable.
