Chuck Peddle, whose original claim to fame was that he designed the Commodore Pet before going on to create the IBM-incompatible MS-DOS personal computer business with his Sirius Technology, the company that degenerated into Victor Technologies but not before it had put Apricot Computers Plc on the map in the UK, still has start-ups in his blood: his latest effort is called THStyme Inc say it this time, he has tapped Chris Buckham, formerly with Apricot to handle marketing communications, and the new company is planning a machine that can be offered as a universal solution in the Unix market by supporting applications written for a wide variety of Unix machines.