IBM’s Tuesday announcement was headlined by a program that enables PS/2s running under AIX Unix to support the new Xstation 120 X Window System server station when linked to the PS/2 via an Ethernet, or, optionally a Token Ring. The AIX PS/2 Xstation Manager is $500 plus $50 for the Workstation Feature and arrives second quarter. The company also announced its AIXwindows Environment Version 1.2 for the PS/2: the thing is based on the Motif user interface and OS/2 Presentation Manager, and enables users to develop and run AIXwindows applications and AIX PS/2 X Window-based applications. It consists of the AIXwindows user interface and toolkit; the AIXwindows Desktop graphical desktop enabling users to browse the file system and start up applications; and AIX PS/2 X Window 1.2 based on the X Window System. It costs $500 from this Friday. And, completing the line-up, IBM announced a PS/2 version of the NeXTStep user interface that IBM picked up from Steve Jobs’ NeXT Inc. AIX PS/2 NextStep Environment 1.1 is $500 from September 30 next. And IBM announced that the heavily delayed 1.2 release of the AIX PS/2 version of Unix for the PS/2 was finally available this week.
