Having, like DEC, pulled out of the mainframe market, effectively handing over what was left to its partner, Mitsubishi, Oki Electric Industries is following the DEC route by returning to mainframe power levels, this time with superminis. By year-end it plans to bring in the Okitac 8300 series, a 3.5 MIPS single processor aimed at […]
Having, like DEC, pulled out of the mainframe market, effectively handing over what was left to its partner, Mitsubishi, Oki Electric Industries is following the DEC route by returning to mainframe power levels, this time with superminis. By year-end it plans to bring in the Okitac 8300 series, a 3.5 MIPS single processor aimed at the IBM 9370 and DEC VAX, but in two years plans to have a uniprocessor, code-named RX 2, delivering 20 MIPS. It will run a proprietary operating system, but will support SNA, and will feature a user and programming interface common to all Oki micros and workstations. It will be aimed at applications such as banking.
