One of the growing number of companies keeping itself firmly on top of events in Eastern Europe is French Unix house International Management & Technology SA, Nice. It has introduced Cyrillix, a Russian supplement to Unix – which is also available for Xenix and AIX. It enables Cyrillic script and English to be used at command, file, programming and application levels, concurrently on the same system, and additionally supports X Window. The company is aiming Cyrillix at both Western and Eastern European markets and has a porting service available. Prices start at $850 for and Santa Cruz Operation Unix implementation of the package, going up to $1,600 on the new IBM RS/6000 system – the latter not available in the East or anywhere yet.
