With Motorola 88000 RISC-based products waiting in the wings, the UK’s Integrated Micro Products Ltd of Consett, County Durham, says it has become the first European beta test customer for the Unix System V/88 release 3.2 from UniSoft Ltd, in an agreement valued at $150,000. Developed in conjunction with Motorola Inc specifically for the new 88000 RISC chip, the new version gives users access to many of the features of the forthcoming Unix V.4 release – such as Remote File Sharing release 1.2, the Networking Support Utilities Release 1.2, and the System Performance Analysis Utilities 1.0. The implementation also conforms to Posix and the Binary Compatability Standard, jointly developed by UniSoft and Motorola, and endorsed by the 88Open 88000 user group, to ensure portability of applications between systems without the need for recompilation or relinking. The deal with Integrated Micro also covers the System V/88 optional networking extensions, including a TCP/IP transport provider, Network File System, and a set of Berkeley socket extensions.
