Mitsubishi Electric Corp, preparing to launch an 80386-based Personalike, is in negotiations with Interactive Systems Corp and Softbank Research Institute of Tokyo for OEM licences to the VP/ix hypervisor that provides multi-tasking, multi-user support for MS-DOS applications under Unix System V to offer on the machine. As resident supplier of Personalikes to Unisys, Mitsubishi is in line for a big Unisys order for the 386 box with VP/ix.