[comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt] AT Simulator

johnw@stud.uucp (John Wiederhold) (06/01/88)

This is the only information I have on the AT Simulator.

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PC WEEK Vol.4 No.6   Feb. 9, 1988

From:IBM Merges PS/2 and RISC Technology
     In Workstation for the Academic Market
Page 6:
   "As expected, the computer giant unveiled the
AIX/RT PC AT Simulator, a $500 software program that
enables RT users to run applications written for DOS
and AIX, IBM's proprietary version of Unix, simultaneously.
IBM officials, said the product will be available in
June.
    With the AT Simulator, multiple DOS sessions can
execute simultaneously with one or more AIX sessions
through the X Windows interface on the RT."
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That's only part of the article.  The rest was about a
PS/2 RISC machine.  If anyone else has more information,
it would be appreciated.
              
               Thank you,
                 John Wiederhold

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grogers@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu (06/02/88)

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That's only part of the article.  The rest was about a
PS/2 RISC machine.  If anyone else has more information,
it would be appreciated.
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There is an IBM RT processor board that can be pluged into the PS/2 machines.
One version of this is the IBM 6152 which is a 286 ps/2 with an rt board.
However, the rt coprocessor only runs at about 75% of the speed of the
normal rt machines.
I believe this is an ACIS product and is only available to universities.
This machine can run one of dos, os2 (or whatever it's called), aix, or 4.3.
I've heard that someone outside IBM has made this machine work with one of
dos or os2 and one of aix or 4.3, this may just be rumors....