Eastman Kodak Co’s Interactive Systems Corp, Santa Monica, California, has signed an agreement with Mentet Inc of Camarillo, California, for its Portable Streams environment, already chosen by the Open Software Foundation as a component of the OSF/1 operating system. Interactive will produce a stand-alone product, and a version that is bundled in with its TCP/IP and OSI transport protocol technology. The stand-alone product will allow systems integrators and manufacturers to port Unix Streams-based networking software to non-Unix operating systems. Available now under an early access program, general availability should be by the end of the first quarter. Mentat has also been working with Xerox Corp on implementations of the Xerox XNS protocols for Unix System V.3.
