As well a launching three new single and dual 90MHz Pentium-based members in its TD technical desktop personal workstation family (CI No 2,406), Huntsville, Alabama-based Intergraph Corp has introduced a pair of long-awaited Network File System programs for Windows NT, plus an X Window System server, all of which were developed jointly with the SunSelect arm of the company’s chosen chip partner, Sun Microsystems Inc. Intergraph says the new code enables full file sharing between NT and Unix workstations and networks. It includes a pair of programs, PC-NFS for Windows NT and DiskShare for Windows NT, both said to be multithreaded, kernel-mode applications. PC-NFS enables NT workstations to access Unix, VMS and mainframes. DiskShare enables Network File System clients to access NT-based servers. The X Window program, dubbed eXalt for Windows NT, enables iAPX-86 systems running NT to use X-based applications residing on a network. While the stuff is available to anybody that needs it, Intergraph’s compelling reason to have its own Network File System software for NT is simply the fact that the vast majority of Intergraph customers are still in the Unix world, and of course Intergraph itself has staked a good part of its future on a conversion of virtually all of its offerings to run under NT. SunSelect’s participation in the project also has interesting implications for the future, once the conversion of Windows NT to the Sparc architecture is complete. Price of the new Intergraph PC-NFS code is $400, with an introductory price of $200 until June 1. The eXalt code costs $500 per copy.
