Apple, IBM to share technology in 4 areas

The preliminary agreement between Apple and IBM is expected to be finalized this fall. Products resulting from this agreement should reach market in two to three years. The agreement listed four "areas of general understanding":

Integration of the Macintosh into IBM client/server environments, including joint development of a version of UNIX with a Macintosh interface.
Future Mac workstations and file servers based on a single-chip implementation of the IBM RS/6000 RISC processor, which will be manufactured under license by Motorola.
The establishment of hardware-independent software standards for multimedia.
Development of an object-oriented operating system based on Apple's advanced "Pink" scalable operating system, now in the research and development stage.