While reaffirming Santa Cruz Operation’s plans to release versions of Xenix for IBM’s Personal System/2 range – the implementations are currently at the beta test stage – by the end of the year, the Santa Cruz, California company’s David Bernstein said that both Microsoft and Santa Cruz are working on a bridge to OS/2 for software developers. Consisting of compatibility libraries that map system call between OS/2 and Xenix, the product will also provide compatibility between the OS/2 LAN manager and Xenix-net. This, said Santa Cruz UK’s Stuart Hooper, sounds like a natural extension to VP/ix. VP/ix was developed jointly by Phoenix Technologies and Interactive Systems for running PC-DOS under Unix. Rival Locus Computing signed a joint development contract with IBM recently for the development of a subset of AIX for the PS/2.
