The company regarded as most responsible for bringing Japan into the personal computer era through the development of the Atok Japanese keyboard handling and character conversion software, Just Systems Inc of Tokushima, is to do versions of the Atok system utility and the best-selling IchiTaroo word processing package to a Unix workstation base: Just Systems says that the request for it to do this came from many sources, including universities, which wanted to be able to use workstations with the same ease as personal computers with Japanese language processing support; since Just Systems released Ichitaroo in 1985 cumulative sales have reached 600,000 units and doing versions of Atok and IchiTaroo to a Unix base will open up a wealth of applications to Unix; sales this year of Unix workstations tipped to rise 50% to 130,000 units.
