It never rains but it pours. Following IXI Ltd’s Unix-under-Windows gambit, St Albans, Hertfordshire-based firm Omniplex Ltd has a new colour ANSI terminal emulator and integration tool that enables Microsoft Corp Windows users to set up Unix systems and applications as icons on their desktops. Omniplex says Planar Unicord enables Unix applications to be launched as normal Windows applications. Multiple Unix windows can be scaled and resized, and information can be cut and pasted between them. Unicord runs over RS-232 and supports various networks. It also enables MS-DOS and Windows processes to be started under Unix so that Windows tools and applications can be incorporated as utilities of Unix software packages. No prices were given for it.
