The Masscomp end of Concurrent Computer Corp in Westford, Massachusetts has turned to Simpact Associates Inc, San Diego, California for front-end communications processors for its 5000 and 6000 Series real-time Unix multiprocessors, inviting Simpact to offer its products to the VMEbus-based machines. The Simpact Intelligent Communications Processors are built around the Motorola 68020, and include the VCI 300, VCI 2000 X25, VCI 3000 HDLC, VCI 4000 ADCCP NRM, VCI 4200/ADCCP ABM, VCI 8000/DDCMP, VCI 151001/MarketFeed 2000 Receiver, and VCI 15300/MarketFeed Receiver. The multi-port devices are prog rammable front-end processors that off-load communications processing from the host CPU, freeing it to perform more time-criti cal applications, Concurrent Computer said.
