RDI Computer Corp. reduces prices on its industry-leading portable SPARC workstations.CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 1997-- Reductions of up to 26 percent for the PowerLite's product line extend company's price and value leadership RDI RDI - Receiver Data Interface Computer Corp. Wednesday announced that it has reduced list prices by up to 26 percent on its PowerLite line of portable SPARC-based workstations. Effective April 1, the reductions widen the gap in pricing between RDI's PowerLite line, the most advanced SPARC-based portable workstations in the world, and higher-cost competitive portable systems. The new pricing also lowers the premium traditionally paid for portability, giving customers the performance of SPARC-based systems at a price closer to comparable desktop workstations. PowerLite portable workstations are used extensively for software development and demonstration, geoengineering, financial modeling, MCAD MCAD Microsoft Certified Application Developer MCAD Mechanical Computer Aided Design MCAD Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (inherited metabolic disease) MCAD Minneapolis College of Art and Design , engineering analysis, military command and control and other high-end commercial and government applications. "As mobile SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill computing requirements increase for software demonstrating, information gathering and analysis plus telecommuting telecommuting, an arrangement by which people work at home using a computer and telephone, transmitting work material to a business office by means of a modem and telephone lines; it is also known as telework. , there is a need to provide desktop-performance systems at a more accessible price," said David Hartley, director of marketing, RDI. "These price reductions reinforce RDI's position as the supplier with the best value and most complete SPARC portable product line." Typical price reductions include: -- The PowerLite 110 (with 800x600 resolution display, 1200 MB hard disk storage and 32 MB memory) is now priced at $9,995, reduced 26 percent from $13,495. Incorporating a 110 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. processor, the PowerLite 110 is available with up to three 1.2 GB hard disk drives, memory capacity up to 128 MB, a 12.1-inch high-resolution display, TGX TGX Theragenics Corporation (stock symbol) TGX Trajectory Generator External graphics acceleration, fax/modem card, full-size keyboard and other features. -- The PowerLite Turbo 170 (with 800x600 resolution display, 1200 MB hard disk storage and 32 MB memory) is now priced at $14,495, reduced 12 percent from $16,495. The first portable to be powered by the new 170 MHz TurboSPARC processor, the PowerLite Turbo 170 combines up to 3.6 GB of hard disk space, 256 MB of memory, a 12.1-inch high-resolution display and SPARCstation 20 performance in a 7.5-pound notebook. -- The PowerLite Turbo 170 (with 1024x768 resolution display, 1200 MB hard disk storage and 32 MB memory) is now priced at $18,495, reduced 14 percent from $21,495. Software bundled with every PowerLite system includes either Sunsoft's Solaris 2.5 or Solaris 1.1.2 operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , unmodified to ensure 100 percent binary compatibility See binary compatible. . RDI's mobile computing software environment, Virtual Workgroup Architecture (VWA VWA Victorian Workcover Authority (Victoria, Australia) VWA Victim Witness Advocate VWA Vehicle Wash Agent VWA View with Alarm ), allows easy, automatic administration of connections to Sun and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). networks. A pioneer in combining the functionality and performance of desktop workstations with the flexibility of mobile computing, RDI Computer's customers include industry leaders worldwide, as well as a long list of government agencies and organizations. With headquarters in Carlsbad, RDI has sales offices in North America and Europe. For sales information, the company can be reached at 760/929-0992 or 800/RDI-LITE, or e-mail: info@rdi.com. RDI's Web site can be found at http://www.rdi.com . -0- NOTE: PowerLite is a registered trademark of RDI Computer Corp. TurboSPARC is a trademark of Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc. All SPARC trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of SPARC International Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: RDI Computer Corp., Carlsbad David Hartley, 619/929-0992 d.hartley@rdi.com or Chvatal Associates Kris Wm. Chvatal, 619/633-2230 kris@chvatal.com |
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