And, expanding on AX, there are 14 founder hardware and software companies participating in the AX Conference Preparation Committee, and as well as Microsoft, doing the Japanese language operating system and Ascii, the Kanji processing chip, Alps Electric is responsible for the keyboard, Kanematsu Gosho for distribution and sales, Sanyo Electric with the first commercial AX machine, Mitsubishi Electric to do an AX laptop early next year, Sharp, its own machine, Just Systems to implement its top-selling Japanese Hanako spreadsheet and Ichi-taroo word processor un-der AX, Japan Soft Bank to do the BIOS, Seiko-Epson to contribute printer technology, and even Minolta Camera, to do some manufacture and Mitsui as a reseller; the AT-compat-ible standard specifies the 80386 as well as the 80286, and a graphics display of 640 by 480 pixels; the first AX machine from Sanyo Electric (CI No 767), the MBC 17 J is $2,500 for the console, $1,000 for the monitor, and the sales target for year one is 20,000.
