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From: garnett@rpp386.cactus.org (John Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: IBM's new workstation line (RIOS? REOS?)
Message-ID: <17428@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 11 Dec 89 01:11:11 GMT
References: <283@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>
Organization: USENET Users' Anonymous
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In article <283@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, amthor@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Geoffrey Amthor) writes:
> 
> I've been monitoring this group for some time, and have been disappointed
> that no one seems to be talking about IBM's new workstation line that's
> supposed to roll out early next year.

Those people who would know about such things are precisely those people
who wouldn't be in a position to talk about such things (i.e. confidentiality
restrictions and the like).

> a PS/2 and an AS/400.  A couple capabilities that it *may* have I would 
> really like to see: the ability to run multiple sessions of DOS, and the

AIX PS/2 currently offers the capability to run multiple sessions of
DOS using IBM's DOS Merge product (based on LCC's Merge/386).

AIX/RT currently offers the capability to run multiple sessions of DOS
using IBM's PC Simulator product.

> ability to use NeXTStep as a user interface.  The ability to run OS/2 PM would
> be really sweet, too. 

You may be interested in looking into OSF's Motif product.  Motif is a
window manager and X-Windows toolkit that was based on PM.  Motif is
available now from the Open Software Foundation (OSF).


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