SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

Novadyne Enters Multiprocessing Field: Novadyne Computer Systems Inc., a Santa Ana company that sells and services business computers, has joined the so-called multiprocessing field.

On Monday, the company introduced its first family of multiprocessing computers, which use more than one processor to improve computing speed. Novadyne’s computers can accommodate anywhere from 64 to 256 users on a corporate network at the same time.

The Series XT family can use two to four RISC microprocessors, which serve as the brains of a computer based on a programming architecture known as reduced instruction set computing. Designed and built by McDonnell Douglas Information Systems Ltd. in England and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.-based Encore Computer Corp., the two-processor Series XT will be available Feb. 1 at prices starting at $62,000.