Century Research Center, one of Japan’s largest software houses, has come up with Compact House, a computer-aided design program for creating prefabricated homes and cars: it runs under Unix on the U-Station workstation sold by Century and comes bundled with the hardware for $180,000; the company looks to get 100 of the things away in three years.
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