For those who can’t resist opening their presents before Christmas, here are some of the key announcements 1988 holds in store according to Forrester Research Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts: before the end of this year, it looks for DEC to announce the VAX 8900 and VMS 5.0, followed by a BI bus version of the MicroVAX 3600 in January, when Wang is tipped to offer a VS 7320; in February, Forrester looks for Data General to shoot up the power range with an MV/30000, and for Hewlett-Packard to add a top-end HP3000 Model 970, while IBM may add new versions of the 3174 controller and DEC come out with an SNA gateway with link to VM, and a bridge to Profs; March sees the Apple Macintosh 3 and April on the Forrester calendar offers an IBM PS/2 Model 70 (using the unannounced 80388?), and a Personal VAX from DEC; May is Wang’s month with a cluster system for the VS; June sees a low-end HP3000, the Model 910, and an IBM 9377 Model 80 slotting in below the biggest current Model 90, and Compaq is tipped to come out with a PS/2 clone; July is pretty blank, except that Forrester sees IBM restructuring and posting poor profits; August sees a Mac II Plus with 68030 processor; and before the crystal ball clouds over, September sees the IBM Silverlake, and AIX Unix on the PS/2 Model 80.
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