Huntsville, Alabama-based Zaiaz International Corp has entered the systems business with its Zaiaz 933 STW scientific and technical workstation, which uses a 30MHz Intergraph Clipper RISC processor – these Alabamians stick together – and either an 80286 or 80386 as a front-end processor. Zaiaz, which is primarily known for its board level products using the Clipper and NatSemi 32000 Series chips, provides a base level system with 4Mb RAM (expandable to 64Mb), and employs both the AT bus structure and a 32-bit expansion bus: 14 AT bus slots are available. The presence of the Intel processor enables MS-DOS to be run on the system in addition to Unix V.3 ported onto the Clipper. Zaiaz says it will also carry out custom configuration for its clients in the areas of graphics, memory, and input-output subsystems. The company, which was started in 1982 and employs 18 people, has its eye on business from the aerospace and defence industries, handy because of its position in Huntsville, where the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, US Army Missle Command, and the Strategic Defence Initiative Organisation are situated. Zaiaz says it is now working on multi-processor versions of the workstations; it hopes eventually to sell on systems with up to four processors, and will also be upgrading to the forthcoming 50MHz version of the chip.
