The lacklustre performance of IBM’s first crack at an engineering work-station with the 6150 RT Personal Computer is not going to be the end of the story, Entry Systems chief William Lowe has revealed. Follow-ing a talk with securities analysts in Boston, Lowe told the New York Times that a new line of engineering stations […]
The lacklustre performance of IBM’s first crack at an engineering work-station with the 6150 RT Personal Computer is not going to be the end of the story, Entry Systems chief William Lowe has revealed. Follow-ing a talk with securities analysts in Boston, Lowe told the New York Times that a new line of engineering stations running under its AUX implementation of Unix was on the way, the bottom model being the planned variant of the 80386- based PS/2 Model 80 running a subset of the AUX operating system. Above that will be a new line of RT models, this time using the Microchannel Architecture of the PS/2. Lowe said that the new RTs would initi-ally not run the OS/2 operating system planned for PS/2, implying that OS/2 would be implemented for the RTs in due course. An IBM flackette, no doubt phased by the fact that Lowe had apparently brok-en company rules by alluding to un- announced products, said that the new RT models were not imminent.
