DG's big splash. (Data General's Eclipse MV-40000 and MV-40000 HA superminicomputers, Message-based Reliable Channel subsystem, Data-Sharing Architecture and DG-Open Network Management System) (product announcement)

DG's BIG SPLASH

Data General hit the field running this fall with its announcement of "the most powerful superminicomputer available," as well as other new top-of-the-line hardware and software products.

The products announced include:

* Eclipse MV/40000 and MV/40000 HA (high availability) computer systems, with a performance range from 14 to more than 50 million instructions per second (MIPS).

* Message-based Reliable Channel subsystem, a highly-available, 400 million bits per second channel subsystem, the first use of mainframe-like I/O on a superminicomputer.

* AOS/VS II, an enhanced version of the AOS/VS operating system, which supports additional high availability features and enhanced communications performance capability.

* Data-Sharing Architecture, a system software framework which provides users with a high-perfromance approach to distributed computing for superminicomputer-class applications.

* DG/Open Network …