IBM Corp still hasn’t given up on the idea of the attached processor 370 for its personal computers – but this time it is going after the OEM market, and at Comdex it announced the Personal/370 Adapter/A co-processor for bigger models of Micro Channel-based PS/2s. The co-processor, presumably using the microprocessor that is the basis of the desktop 9371s – one of which was anyway built into a PS/2 – is claimed to add stand-alone S/370 functions to PS/2s running OS/2 – and 370 and OS/2 applications can run concurrently. The P/370 also supports all 9370 networking. It runs the VM and – surprisingly – the VSE operating systems and also supports CADAM and GDDS, and the Script document- and text-processing program. OEM prices were not given.
