IBM is pretty pleased with how open its networking has become it reckons it can now do Open Systems Interconnection with Systems Application Architecture and AIX 3, TCP/IP with all AIX Unixes, Systems Network Architecture Logical Unit 6.2 on AIX 3 and SNA, Ethernet in the Network Control Program, NetWare in OS/2, and that it also has Fibre Distributed Data Interface and CallPath implementations, and it is now turning its attention to Frame Relay and enhanced multi-vendor networking; observers reckon that Digital Equipment Corp is further down most of those roads, but c’mon – there was a time not long ago when you could have any networking from IBM as long as it was SNA…
