New Products

Apple Computer has announced the sion) features the same design as the nounced the Apple EtherTalk Interface second generation of the Macintosh per-Macintosh Plus, but with added internal Card, which connects the Mac II to sonal computer family with two new storage capacity and an additional slot Ethernet networks, and a version of the models. for added functions. A basic configura-Unix operating system. A/UX is an im-The open-architecture Macintosh II tion includes IM byte of memory, two plementation of the AT&T Unix, System features six internal printed circuit card 800K-byte floppy disk drives, and V, Release 2, Version 2 operating system slots for adding multiple functions, in-keyboard for $2898. A hard disk con-and includes features from Berkeley's 4.2 cluding an optional color display, net-figuration adds a 20M-byte internal SCSI BSD version. An optional Motorola work connections, and MS-DOS com-hard disk drive for $3698. 68851 paged memory management unit patibility. A basic configuration includes The Macintosh SE employs the 8-MHz is required. A/UX is expected to ship IM byte of memory, an 800K-byte flop-Motorola 68000 microprocessor. Accord-this summer. py disk drive, and keyboard for $3898. ing to the company, performance im-Apple is simultaneously releasing in-A hard disk configuration adds a provements result from a new VLSI ternational models of the Macintosh II 40M-byte internal SCSI hard disk drive, chip. A new expansion slot, the SE-Bus and Macintosh SE using ten different for $5498. The Macintosh II will be expansion slot, accommodates a variety languages. available in May. of options such as communciations The Macintosh II is based on the cards, MS-DOS compatibility cards, ex-The company has also announced 32-bit Motorola 68020 microprocessor ternal video cards, or performance ac-Desktop Express, a desktop communica-operating at 16 MHz. It includes a celeration cards. The AppleTalk network tions product that permits Macintosh floating-point arithmetic chip, the 68881. is built in. PCs to send and receive graphics be-The new model reputedly processes at a Both the Macintosh II and the Macin-tween remote locations. The software speed of two million instructions per sec-tosh SE include the Apple Desktop Bus was jointly developed by Apple, Dow ond and features transfer rates greater standard interface for input peripherals. Jones Software, and MCI Communica-than one megabyte per second over its The ADB reputedly permits users to con-tions. It will be published by Dow Jones small computer systems interface. nect up to 16 input devices concurrently. Software and available from partici-Memory …