Emerald Technology Inc, the Bothell, Washington company that bought SST Data Inc, Milwaukee in May to marry its own AS/400 communications expertise with SST’s Unix skills to bring users the best of both worlds (CI No 1,183), now has the first fruits of that marriage. Emerald unveiled the latest additions to its Handshake protocol conversion line, saying it enables Unix systems such as AT&T’s 3B2 and 6386 – AT&T already markets the Emerald products – IBM’s RT and Xenix machines to the AS/400 and Systems 36 and 38, and sees them being used to link Unix-based CAD/CAM or factory floor applications and general business software on AS/400s.
