IBM Announces S/390 Open Systems Adapter

Message from Nick Donofrio

"We are designing mainframes to be servers of servers and servers of clients. The S/390 Open Systems Adapter announcement along with the new S/390 Parallel Servers enhance the role of the mainframe in the client/server environment with direct industry-standard connectivity to Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI LANs while reducing the cost of computing."

Nick Donofrio
General Manager, IBM Large Scale Computing Division

November 22, 1994