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The Chromatic 7900 workstation has been announced for a while now and they
had one at the Chicago NCC.  Their address/phone:

  Chromatics
  2558 Mountain Industrial Boulevard
  Tucker, Georgia 30084
  (404)493-7000

Here a few facts off their CGC 7900 literature:

  16-Bit processor (MC68000)
  19" color monitor
  1024x768 viewable bitmap (in a 1024x1024 bitmap memory)
  Up to 256 simultaneously displayed colors
  Palette of over 16 million colors (i.e. 8-bit DAC for RGB)
  10MB Fixed Winchester Disk (8.4 MB formatted)
  Dual floppies
  light pen, joystick
  Maximum of 16-bitmap planes (no more than 8 displayed at once)
  Maximum of 2MB of processor memory

Rand reviewed this machine last year and might have purchased one if it
hadn't been quite so new (at the time they had not delivered any, and we
needed a mature system).  When I priced it, a useful system was running
around $60K.

Oh yes, they're planning on running the 68000 unix look-alike.


Jim