A number of Japanese independent software vendors were exhibiting at the show, including developers such as Technology Fukui, a regional company already developing in the computer-integrated manufacturing field and now to offer a building blocks system for a flexible manufacturing control system (called F-Macs) for control of incoming and outgoing shipments, production line control and automatic warehousing the system will cost upwards of $10,000 once it is realised in March next year. Japanese company Dit Co Ltd was showing some preliminary versions of two products developed by itself in the network field – software yet unnamed that enables a Unix machine to be used as a Macintosh back-up device over a TCP-IP network, and an FTP protocol engine which is ready for use in Macintosh applications. Dit also distributes products such as K-Spool from Mt Xinu Inc. Another tool on display was Easy-Call 3.0 from Japanese company Alumex – this provides a database engine for applications coded in C. Since its release three years ago, 1,000 copies have gone to some 200 companies.
