Some people think that anyone believing in Windows NT must have fairies at the bottom of their garden, the Unix community is so frightened of it that instead of burying their hatchets in each other, they have sunk them into Unix International Inc and the Open Software Foundation, and Technology News of America Co’s Infosperspectives newsletter feels the latter camp may be right: it suggests that the first mainframe manufacturer to do an implementation of NT for its machine – be it Amdahl Corp, Hitachi Ltd or IBM Corp itself – will have a big head start in optimising 390 architecture for the emerging software environment as well as hammering the final nail in the coffin of IBM’s extortionate pricing of its mainframe software.
