The new distributor for Lynx Realtime Systems Inc, Nisshin Software Co, is an independent software house with around 550 employees and projected sales this year of $60m: it has a history of developing software as varied as personal computer operating systems, credit shopping and hotel systems, as well as hardware such as self-diagnosing systems: it will market Lynx as the only true real-time Unix in Japan – other products such as VxWorks from Kobelco Inc, and Xenix are restricted to particular hardware lines – the 68030 and the 80386 respectively – and do not offer true Unix portability and the ability to develop on the same machine on which the application will run; target markets include measurement, factory automation and process plant control.
