ICL ME29 users that haven’t taken the company’s preferred upgrade path via TME onto VME on Series 39 are rather left out on a limb these days, and Transaction Point Ltd, the Reading company dedicated to filling in the gaps in ICL’s software offerings, has ridden to the rescue with XME, a set of conversion utilities and an operating environment that enables on-line and batch ME29 applications to be transferred to ICL DRS Unix machines. After conversion, the applications run as Unix tasks. On-line applications written for TME/TP and MTS run under the XME/TP monitor – the first teleprocessing monitor written for Unix systems. After is protracted and futile war with Telecomputing Plc, ICL is a bit more mature about third parties offering products and capabilities ICL hadn’t planned to offer, and it not only helped Transaction Point with the development effort, but will be marketing the product outside the UK.
