Following delays that meant that the company had to re-write portions of Microsoft code for copyright reasons (CI No 1,455), Atlantix Corp, Boca Raton, Florida, which formerly traded under the fairly ludicrous name of CocoNet Inc, has finally been able to come out with a Lan Manager version of its Xenix and Novell Inc NetWare-based networking software, getting it into public view at the NetWorld exhibition in Dallas the other day. Designed for Intel 80386- and 80486-based personal computers running Santa Cruz Operation Inc’s SCO Unix, Atlantix Axcess is a Microsoft Lan Manager-compatible local area network which will support Unix, Xenix, MS-DOS, OS/2 and Apple Macintosh computers, and integrates with Novell NetWare, TCP/IP-Network File System, Lan Manager and NetBIOS networks. Axcess enables the personal computer to act as a server supporting local area networks. Users get transparent access to Unix files, applications and peripherals from their native environments, and there is a Microsoft Windows facility – Atlantix WindowView – which provides users with access to multiple Unix and MS-DOS sessions concurrently from personal computers. Axcess supports up to 255 concurrent users per server, and topologies supported include Token-Ring, Ethernet, Twisted-Pair Ethernet, Datapoint Corp ArcNet and StarLAN; a 32-user version is $4,600, WindowView is $200 per personal computer.
