Los Altos, California newcomer Dux Corp – the name is meant to conjure up a developer and distributor of Unix software (CI No 1,489) is already diversifying: it is preparing a line of Unix entertainment software, starting with a little number called Ishido, The Way of Stones, an ancient oriental strategy game that also brings I Ching, the old Chinese divination book into play; the software is already available for MS-DOS and the Apple Macintosh and now those with Sparc machines can fool around with it under Open Look, complete with sound – if they have $100 to spare; meantime Dux has integrated Quintet, its already integrated word processor, spreadsheet, database, graphing and communications package for Sparc-based machines, with a new MS-DOS version of the product, enabling a user working remotely on a personal computer to link dynamically with a Unix Sparcstation by phone or modem via PC-NFS; Quintet, developed by the originator of both Supercalc and dBase, will soon have to change its name to Sextet – they’re adding a sixth module called Presentation.
