NCR Corp’s offering at the UniForum feast was a family of Open Systems Interconnection compliant network management and communications products for its Tower Unix micros. The new line is headed by NCR Tower OSI Networking, a set of Open Systems communications designed to enable the Tower to operate in multi-vendor wide-area networks. The set comprises OSI Network Services; OSI Application Services; X400 Message Handling Services; OSI File Transfer, Access and Management; and Central X500 Directory Services. The NCRMail X.400-compliant message handling system runs on both the Tower and the proprietary NCR System 10000 under the ITX operating system. NCRMail is designed to provides a common mail facility for all major NCR computers operating over multi-vendor, multi-national private or public networks. Also new is NCRNet Manager, an integrated, enterprise-wide network management system for users of Token Ring and Ethernet local area networks and X25 wide area networks providing local and global management functions over a wide range of computer types. No further details or any prices were given.
