PC486/MC                      Micro Channel 80486
NCR's PC486/MC Exploits Its Micro Channel Architecture
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
A bus-mastering SCSI controller and 128K of cache memory are but
two of the high-performance features of NCR's new top performer,
the PC486/MC.
 
At its heart is an Intel i486 CPU. The motherboard can accept up
to 16 megabytes of RAM and offers four MCA slots, plus the
standard complement of serial, parallel, keyboard, and mouse
ports.
 
The cache is contained in a pair of custom Application Specific
Integrated Circuit cache chips that permit read-and-write-back
operation and can act concurrently to boost performance.
 
NCR will offer as an option a bus-mastering graphics coprocessor
board made by GSS (and based on a TI 34010) that provides high-
speed 1024 x 768 graphics independent of the CPU. The PC486/MC
comes standard with Super VGA (800 x 600) graphics.
 
NCR said it will deliver the PC486/MC in four configurations. The
base system contains 1 megabyte of RAM, a 3.5-inch 1.44M-byte
floppy drive, and the Super VGA adapter. And the most powerful
system has 8 megabytes of RAM and a 200 megabyte SCSI drive.
 
Price: $9995 to $16,995.
 
Contact: NCR Corp., Workstation Products Division, 1601 South
Main St, Dayton, OH 45479, (513) 445-5000.
 
                          --- Andrew Reihnardt and Roger K. Adams
 
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