Although most Japanese companies are using AT&T Co’s Unix System V.4 as the starting point for their next-generation Unix implementations, and have set Unix International as their primary alignment, they are frantically hedging their bets on the outcome of the Unix Wars. Sony Corp is ready with Version 4 of its NEWS OS operating system for its NEWS workstation family, and will offer OSF/Motif instead of the current user interface which was built into the current POP OS implementation of Berkeley Unix. The new NEWS OS will also have a shared memory function for giving common memory space to two different instructions, and the company is committed to adding the functionality of both Unix System V.4 and the rival OSF/1 from the Open Software Foundation in the future. Sony is a member of both organisations and aims to stay neutral despite the cost of belonging to both.
