Bothell, Washington-based Andrew Corp, dedicated to making sure that IBM AS/400 machines and their predecessors can speak peace to alien systems, has now come out with a version of its Handshake-Alliance 5250 terminal emulation and file transfer product for IBM’s RS/6000. Handshake-Alliance is a combination of workstation and host-based software, and hardware adaptor board, providing 5250 terminal emulation and file transfer on the IBM Unix box. Prices range from $3,750 to $4,700 depending on configuration, and it is shipping now. The company also offers the 5250 emulation separately as Handshake-Emulation, enabling users of Unix workstations to exchange information, access applications, execute programs and share systems resources with AS/400s, at $2,340 to $5,400; and the file transfer separately as Handshake-Express at $1,050 to $1,600.
