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Bill Buxton Smoke and Mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . 205--210
David A. Harvey State of the Media . . . . . . . . . . . 275--282
Andrew Reinhardt Playing Catch-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Karina Lion DAT's a Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--328
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Getting Your Byte's Worth . . . . . . . 331--336
Anonymous Fax96: simple and low-cost faxing from
Fremont Communications . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Gray F/X: Xerox Imaging Systems offers a
gray-scale raster editor . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Intelligent Graphics Controller 20:
Hewlett-Packard's powerful dedicated
graphics processor . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous LapLink Mac III: move files from one Mac
to another with this program from
Traveling Software . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Portable Mainframe: Opus Systems
introduces the first portable RISC
workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Ben Smith Apollo Shrinks the Workstation Price
Tag: Apollo introduces the world's most
affordable workstation . . . . . . . . . 94
Jerry Pournelle A Matter of Style and Grammar: Seeking a
new word processor, and it's upgrade
time at Chaos Manor . . . . . . . . . . 99
David Fiedler Answers to Some Good Questions: Our
columnist answers the most commonly
asked questions, including ``Which Unix
for you?'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Wayne Rash, Jr. Cheap and Easy Publishing: You may not
need all the bells and whistles to look
like a pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Don Crabb The Big Four for Mac Databases: A survey
of the four top relational database
development systems . . . . . . . . . . 129
Mark J. Minasi A First Look at HPFS: Performance File
System allows bigger, faster, and safer
hard disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Mark L. Van Name and
Bill Catchings Apple Talk Phase 2 and You: How will
AppleTalk Phase 2 affect your LAN? The
answer depends on what you're using and
what your needs are . . . . . . . . . . 145
Stan Wszola and
Howard Eglowstein and
Tom Thompson Just what the hard disk doctor ordered
(hard disk utilities) . . . . . . . . . 152--164
Tom Thompson and
Ben Smith Sizing Up the Cube: The NeXT Computer --
advanced features, fair performance . . 169--176
Wayne Rash, Jr. Born to Travel: XT-class laptops from
GRiD and Sharp offer the right mix of
features for computing en route . . . . 177--180
Rick Grehan Hard Drivin' Mac: Utility software
distinguishes 300-megabyte Mac hard disk
drives from MicroNet, Racet, and Jasmine 183--188
Howard Eglowstein PostScript in the Palm of Your Hand:
Pacific Data's new cartridge gives HP
LaserJet II printers easy PostScript
compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--200
Stanford Diehl Mac Adapters Embrace Ethernet: Apple,
Asante Technologies, and Compatible
Systems adapters give Macs an easy
entree into swift Ethernet networks . . 203--205
Peter Wayner Mainframe Math on a PC: Macsyma, the
grande dame of computer algebra, is
finally available for PCs . . . . . . . 207--210
Andrew Schulman Glockenspiel Puts C++ to Work:
CommonView applies C++ to graphical user
interface programming . . . . . . . . . 213--217
Rodd Halstead Develop Advanced Expert Systems: Gold
Hill's new expert-system shell works
with Microsoft Windows . . . . . . . . . 219--224
G. Michael Vose New Tricks for Your Laser Printer: Dan
Bricklin's PageGarden takes laser
printing beyond most application
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--227
Bob Ryan Farewell to Chips: Semiconductor
technology is approaching its
theoretical and practical limits. Where
do we go from here? . . . . . . . . . . 237--249
Phillip Robinson The High-Octane Semiconductor: Chip
makers move gallium arsenide from
curiosity to practicality . . . . . . . 251--258
Bob Ryan A Marriage Made in Silicon: BiCMOS
proves that good things come in pairs 261--266
Trevor Marshall Creating Custom Chips: EPLDs are fast
becoming the device of choice for fast
turnaround or rapidly changing design
tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--280
Anonymous Semiconductor Sources: Your guide to the
companies with the latest and greatest 282
Lamont Wood and
Dana Blankenhorn State of the BBS Nation: Whatever your
electronic appetites, you can feed them
on a BBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--304
Daniel W. Rasmus The Mac State of Mind: A look at some
expert-system shells and AI languages
for your Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . 305--314
Ron Evans Expert Systems and HyperCard: HyperCard
can be ideal for creating
knowledge-based systems . . . . . . . . 317--324
Dick Pountain Configuring Parallel Programs, Part 2:
The Netherlands has a C compiler for
parallel processing with the INMOS
transputer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--334
L. Brett Glass Math Coprocessors: A look at what they
do, and how they do it . . . . . . . . . 337--348
Rick Grehan Stroke-Character Graphics: Using stroke
characters in PC graphics mode . . . . . 351--364, 414
K. E. Raich Using a nonstandard hard disk drive . . 8015--8013--8010
Anonymous LANtastic Ethernet Starter Kit: Artisoft
speeds up its network . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous PowerBasic 2.0: an improved Turbo Basic
compiler from Spectra Publishing . . . . 81
Anonymous PC-Write Lite: an inexpensive, speedy
word processor from Quicksoft . . . . . 81
Anonymous QMSWriter PM10: QMS brings Presentation
Manager to paper . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous TWindows: Mosaic Marketing's spreadsheet
for Windows is compatible with Lotus
1-2-3 release 2.01 . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Howard Eglowstein Hawk II Soars: Club AT's 25-MHz 80486
may actually be faster than most people
need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96D
T. Thompson Motorola's 68040 Microprocessor: This
CISC processor for the 1990s offers new
features and boosted performance . . . . 96A-96C
Jerry Pournelle Optical Disk Daze: Jerry looks at some
new CD-ROMs and educational software . . 99--114
Don Crabb Is the End Near? Not a Chance: The U.S.
computer industry is not failing . . . . 117--118
Mark J. Minasi A Letter from a Dissenter: Mark defends
OS/2 and Presentation Manager against a
reader's criticisms . . . . . . . . . . 121--124
David Ledler Dealing with Devices: Answers to
readers' questions about floppy disk
drives, printers, and upgrades . . . . . 127
Wayne Rash, Jr. Backing Up the Biggies: It takes more
than a box of floppy disks to meet
today's backup needs . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
Mark L. Van Name and
Bill Catchings New Ware's Missing Links: NetWare
products connect disparate systems, but
pieces don't always fit perfectly . . . 137--140
Steve Apiki and
Stanford A. Diehl and
Howard Eglowstein Not Just for Numbers Anymore: The
new-generation spreadsheets aid in
analysis and graphics presentation . . . 148--165
Don Crabb Hit the Road, Mac: The Mac Portable's
pluses outweigh its minuses . . . . . . 167--171
Robert Mitchell A Good Sport: The Zenith MinisPort is
appealing, but not perfect . . . . . . . 173--177
Alan Joch The LaserJet IIP: Inexpensive, not
Cheap: Hewlett-Packard brings affordable
laser printers to the desktop . . . . . 179--183
Stan Miastkowski Time to Switch: A look at five
application switchers for DOS that let
you keep multiple programs in RAM . . . 185--188
Alex Lane Get the Max from Your 80386: 386Max
breaks through MS-DOS's 640K-byte
barrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--194
Phillip Robinson The Four Multimedia Gospels: Multimedia
is taking the computer world by storm,
and it's more available than you think 203--212
Rob Lippincott Beyond Hype: Lotus's multimedia point
man tackles the question: How do we get
there from here? . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--218
Tim Shetler Birth of the BLOB: Multimedia databases
and ``binary large objects'' will revise
the way you store, access, and
manipulate information . . . . . . . . . 221--222, 224, 226
Rick Cook Desktop Video Studio: Is desktop video
going to be bigger than desktop
publishing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230, 232--234
Anonymous Multimedia Makers Mentioned: Companies
working in multimedia and related fields 236
Owen F. Ransen The Art of Ray Tracing: The perfect
match: complex 3-D image generation and
parallel microprocessors . . . . . . . . 238--242
Kenneth M. Sheldon Micro Edsels: Besides winners, we've
seen our share of duds in 15 years . . . 245--248
Peter Vogelgesang Drowning in Data: The gathering deluge
of information calls for new approaches
to data storage . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--256
Dick Pountain Object-Oriented Programming: You can use
Turbo Pascal 5.5 to learn the principles
of OOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--260, 262, 264
L. Brett Glass The SCSI Bus, Part I: The start of a
two-part look at the SCSI I/O bus . . . 267--268, 270--272, 274
Rick Grehan Multitasking for the Masses: An analysis
of different tools to put multitasking
on your desk with just a PC or a
Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280, 282, 284, 286, 288, 334
T. Yager OS/2, Unix style . . . . . . . . . . . . 8015--8013--8016
Anonymous Style and Substance . . . . . . . . . . 10
Jerry Pournelle Double Your Pleasure: A hard disk drive
saga and a Comdex report . . . . . . . . 65
David Fiedler Let Your Fingers Do the Talking: Unix
has the programs to communicate with the
outside world . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80, 83
Wayne Rash, Jr. The Family Jewels: To make sure your
data is secure, choose a strategy and
see that it's carried out . . . . . . . 85--86, 88
Don Crabb A Mac Melange: Apple is suffering from
the ``not invented here'' syndrome . . . 97
Mark J. Minasi To HPFS or Not to HPFS: Can OS/2's HPFS
and the DOS file allocation table live
together on the same disk? . . . . . . . 101
Bill Catchings and
Mark L. Van Name Serving the Power-Hungry: The age of the
super server is upon us . . . . . . . . 107--108, 110
Anonymous DrawPerfect: WordPerfect's graphics
companion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Anonymous Microsoft C 6.0: a comprehensive package
for professionals . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Anonymous OkiLaser 400: a low price compact LED
printer from Okidata . . . . . . . . . . 114
Anonymous PC-File 5.0: a flat file database pack
from ButtonWare . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Anonymous SuperScope: GW Instruments makes data
acquisition with the Mac easier . . . . 114
T. Yager Compaq's Reason to Believe in EISA:
Compaq's newest high end system, the
Systempro, may be its best yet . . . . . 122--124
M. L. Van Name and
B. Catchings Inexpensive SXes by Mail: Two 80386SX
systems that provide 80386 power at low
prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--146, 148
D. Crabb AppleShare Without a Mac: Jasmine's
DirectServe offers AppleShare file
service without sacrificing a Mac . . . 151--152, 154--155
Anonymous NetWare 386: Less Pain, Great Gain:
Novell's next-generation LAN operating
system delivers radically improved
performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160F
J. Udell NetWare 386: less pain, great gain . . . 160E--F, 160H, 162
M. Heller OS/2 1.2: A Zaftig System: Beauty goes
more than skin deep in IBM's newest OS/2
1.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168, 170--171
S. Rosenberg Art in Motion: Autodesk's Animator lets
anyone create animated graphics . . . . 173--174, 177
L. Wood Jack of all Trades: IBM's Current is a
personal information manager with
desk-accessory-style functionality . . . 179--180, 182
D. Crabb Fast and Easy CAD on the Mac:
Deltasoft's Origins provides fast
competition to AutoCAD on the Mac . . . 185--186, 188
B. Ryan The Succession Crisis: Will DOS yield
its crown to OS/2 or Unix? . . . . . . . 199--200, 202
J. Holtzman Expanding the Limits: Unix and OS/2 are
not the only solutions to memory
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--206, 208--210, 212, 214
T. Thompson Mac at the Minimum: Some suggestions and
hints for running all you can on your
1-megabyte Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--222, 224
M. L. Van Name and
B. Catchings Easing the RAM-Cram Blues: Take an
active role in managing your
applications and TSRs and their use of
your memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228, 230, 232, 234
S. J. Vaughan-Nichols Saving Space: Whatever size hard disk
you have, it's probably nearly full.
Data compression can help . . . . . . . 237--238, 240, 242--243
M. L. Van Name and
B. Catchings More Bang for Your Buck: Four integrated
software packages that won't strain your
budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--248, 250, 252
B. Ryan Coping with Diversity: Incompatibility
between computers with different
architectures doesn't have to be an
obstacle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--260
Anonymous 1-Megabyte Life Support: Products that
help you stretch the resources of a low
cost computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263
F. Hayes The Spirit of '86s: The competition
between PC-compatible CPUs heats up, as
faster 80286s, 80386 clones, and the
high-powered 1486 emerge . . . . . . . . 266--270
B. Smith The BYTE Unix Benchmarks: Before you
jump into the Unix pool, see how your
favorite system stacks up against the
rest of the pack . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--277
B. Cahill Drawing on the 8514/A: An engineer
exposes the inner workings of this
graphics processor . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280, 282--286, 288--289
L. B. Glass The SCSI Bus, Part II: Brett looks at
bus facilities, the common command set,
the common access method, and SCSI
devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--294, 296, 298
R. Grehan Some assembly required: Foreign File
Systems: Using special file systems from
within standard file systems . . . . . . 301--303, 306--308, 310, 312
Anonymous Our Man in Berkeley: A real page-turner,
The Cuckoo's Egg is a computer book that
reads like a classic espionage novel . . 360
J. Grudin A Foolish Consistency: A software
engineer argues that consistency isn't
always the best policy when it comes to
user interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Dick Pountain Virtual channels: the next generation of
transputers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4 (or 3--12??)
Anonymous Mylex Struts EISA's Stuff . . . . . . . 10
Jerry Pournelle Chaos Manor Awards: Find out if your
favorite product has been honored . . . 53
David Fiedler Getting UUCP Running, and Other Stories:
Our columnist details how to set up UUCP
communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Wayne Rash, Jr. CD-ROM to the Rescue: CD-ROM databases
can provide your business with valuable
information in a hurry . . . . . . . . . 77--78
Don Crabb Two Sides of the Same Coin: A bright
side with education, a darker side with
software development . . . . . . . . . . 81
Mark J. Minasi Living with OS/2 1.2: Life with OS/2 1.2
is a lot like life with version 1.1,
with some welcome changes . . . . . . . 85
Mark L. Van Name and
Bill Catchings Faraway LANs: You don't have to be in
the office to take advantage of the
office LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98, 100
Anonymous Lotus 1-2-3/G: three dimensions for PM 102
Anonymous LaserJet III: HP's trailblazing printer 102
Anonymous Photoshop: Adobe eases image
manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous R:base 3.0: many new features from
Microrim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Toshiba T1200XE: impressive notebook
computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
N. Baran Apple's special fx (Mac IIfx) . . . . . 111--114
J. Udell OS/2 2.0: It's a Family Affair:
Microsoft's long-awaited 32-bit OS/2
forges ahead, with DOS and Windows in
tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120, 122--123
A. Reinhardt and
B. Smith Sizzling RISC Systems from IBM: IBM's
RISC System/6000 family sets a new
standard of performance . . . . . . . . 124--128
S. Apiki and
R. Mitchell and
S. Wszola The Heart and Soul of a PC Compatible:
The BYTE Lab examines 23 25-MHz 80386
motherboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--161, 138,140142
M. L. Van Name and
B. Catchings Color Hits the Streets: NEC brings color
to a laptop, but is it worth it? . . . . 145--149
T. Thompson Svelte Scanner Is No Fistful of Dollars:
Sharp's low-cost scanner delivers
high-quality color images to those who
can afford to wait . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152, 154
L. Wood Word Processing in Windows: Ami
Professional, Legend, and Word for
Windows are the first WYSIWYG word
processors for Microsoft Windows, but
are they fast enough? . . . . . . . . . 157--160
S. J. Vaughan-Nichols A Better dBASE: FoxPro may have outdone
all other dBASE systems, including dBASE
IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164, 166, 168
J. Lussmyer Windows Rides a New Wave: With NewWave,
Hewlett-Packard expands Windows, but
it's not easy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172, 174, 176
M. Mashyna C Compilers Have Different Strengths:
Apple and Symantec bring object-oriented
C compilers to the Mac . . . . . . . . . 179--180, 182, 184
M. L. Van Name and
B. Catchings Transparent and Portable: By providing a
consistent framework, applications
architectures let software run on
different machines and operating systems 199--202
F. Hayes From TTY to VUI: Frank Hayes discusses
the past, present, and future of
user-interface design . . . . . . . . . 205--206, 208, 210--211
H. Eglowstein Behind the Scenes: Understanding your
programming interface can help you
decide which user interface to support
in a heterogeneous environment . . . . . 215--216, 218, 220, 222, 224
J. Udell Bridging Troubled Waters: Thriving in a
diverse computing environment is a lot
easier if you have the right tools . . . 225--226, 228--230
S. Osmundsen Blueprints for the 1990s: IBM's SAA
versus DEC's NAS --- how do they
compare? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238, 240--242, 244--245
H. Osher An Open Approach: With its new
Distributed Applications Architecture,
Data General challenges IBM and DEC . . 246--247
Anonymous Building Blocks: A sampling of products
and organizations involved in
applications architectures . . . . . . . 248
P. Wayner Time and Money: A program called Spawn
uses auctions to fairly allocate
precious computer time . . . . . . . . . 252--254, 256, 258
J. Duntemann and
C. Marinacci New Objects for Old Structures: Using
object-oriented techniques to convert
existing applications has its advantages 261--266
W. T. McGrath Who Owns the Copyrights: Who owns the
copyrights on independently developed
programs? An attorney discusses recent
developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--271
W. Stallings Managing the Well-Tempered LAN: ISO
standards signal that network management
help is on the way . . . . . . . . . . . 275--278, 280--283
L. B. Glass Gateways to Protected Mode: DOS
extenders deliver 16-bit compatibility
and 32-bit performance . . . . . . . . . 287--288, 290, 292, 294--295
H. Kenner Flirting with Assembly: Armed with a few
general concepts, you can make assembly
language improvements without knowing
assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298, 300, 302
Anonymous 1.5 Decades of April Fools: This is a
serious business, but it has had its
funny side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Anonymous Advise and Compute: The tortuous
evolution of copyright law in the
computer world . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Anonymous To Boldly Benchmark: New meaning for the
term ``high-level benchmarks.'' . . . . 356
Anonymous Paperless Fax and an Invitation for You 10
J. Unger Video analysis on a PC . . . . . . . . . 64IS/3--4, 6
D. Pountain Opus Datasafe 120 (IBM-compatible
machine) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64IS/11--14, 16
D. Pountain Short takes (Pocket PC and word
processor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64IS/19--20
Jerry Pournelle Backups, Fax, and Mac Disasters: A Mac
mishap prompts Jerry to look at
archiving software and backup devices 65
David Fiedler Prowling the Networks: The who, why, and
how of Unix network mail systems . . . . 83
Wayne Rash, Jr. Do-It-Yourself CD-ROMs: If you need
access to vast quantities of your own
data, you could make your own CD-ROM . . 89--90, 92
Bill Catchings and
Mark L. Van Name Microsoft's Network Heavyweight: A look
at the new version of OS/2 LAN Manager:
smaller, safer, and more secure . . . . 97--98, 100
Don Crabb The Fruits of Connectivity: A few
innovative companies are showing what
you can do with systems and software
that can share information . . . . . . . 103--104, 106
Mark J. Minasi Digging into HPFS: The more you examine
the High Performance File System, the
better it looks . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110, 112
Anonymous dBASE IV 1.1: Ashton-Tate's new
incarnation is easier to use . . . . . . 116
Anonymous HP 48SX: a calculator for engineering
and science applications . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous 20-MHz 386SX: NCR produces a quick,
quiet, and secure computer . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Pivot: Radius's full-page Mac monitor
with portrait and landscape orientations 116
Anonymous ScanMan Model 32: Logitech's redesigned
hand-held Mac scanner . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Commodore Sets Course for Multimedia . . 122
M. Nadeau The Fast Keep Getting Faster: New 33-MHz
486 machines from AST and ALR are fast
and upgradable . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--133
R. Finkelstein Multiuser Databases: The SQL: All SQL
servers are not alike. Here's a look at
the eight best-known products . . . . . 136--140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150
M. L. Van Name and
B. Catchings World's Fastest Lunchbox: Dolch is first
to sell an i486-based portable . . . . . 155--158
D. Claiborne Four 386SXes to Go, Hold the AC: Low
power consumption makes Intel's 386SX
ideal for laptops. Here are four models
to consider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--166
T. Yager Power and the Single User: Opus weds
big-iron performance to PC prices . . . 169--172
B. D. Kliewer More Than Upside-Down Mice: New
trackballs from CH Products, Kensington,
Logitech, MicroSpeed, and Mouse Systems 175--180
S. Apiki New CAD Test Shuffles 34010 Pack: New
graphics-board favorites emerge in a
Product Focus update . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
J. Udell Macintosh CAD Comes of Age: Radius's
display-list processor makes Macintosh
CAD more competitive . . . . . . . . . . 187--188,190
M. Wiggins Help for the C Sick: Microsoft sets its
sights on professional developers with
BASIC PDS 7.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--194, 196
B. Ryan Separated at Birth: Although they're the
same age, PCs and supercomputers are now
sharing more than just birthdays . . . . 207--208, 210
David Gelernter and
James Philbin Spending Your Free Time: Attached to a
network, your existing computers can act
as a powerful parallel computer . . . . 213--214, 216--219
C. Keating A Fearful Symmetry: Sophisticated
multiprocessing machines deserve an
operating system to match . . . . . . . 221--222, 224, 226, 228
S. Bogoch and
I. Bason and
J. Williams and
M. Russell Supercomputers Get Personal: The
i860-based ComputeServer serves up
power, not partitions . . . . . . . . . 231--234, 236--237
Min-Hur Whang and
Joe Kua Join the EISA Evolution: Bus mastering
lets desktop CPUs spend more of their
time processing data rather than dealing
with I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--244, 246--247
T. Marshall A Calculating RISC: Coprocessors based
on RISC engines will soon deliver
supercomputer performance to your
desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--254, 256
Anonymous Super Sources: Who's who in desktop
supercomputing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
B. Smith Around the World in Text Displays:
Computing with nonroman characters
presents some formidable obstacles . . . 262--266, 268
A. Reinhardt Power to the Portables: With new options
coming on strong, the battery battle for
portables is heating up . . . . . . . . 273--276
M. A. Covington Smooth Views: Antialiasing lets you get
better effective resolution out of VGA
displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280, 282--283
Z. Urlocker Object-Oriented Programming for Windows:
Using the Actor OOP environment to
develop applications for Microsoft
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--292, 294
L. B. Glass Reeling In the Data: Competing
technologies are driving down the costs
of tape backup units while increasing
capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302, 304, 306
R. Grehan In Any Event: Comparing the ways that
PC, Mac, and Unix software juggle input
from mice, keyboards, and other sources 311--312, 314, 316, 318, 320, 322
Anonymous Does the Walking Do the Fingers: The
worlds of the great mathematicians
influenced their discoveries; the
ubiquitous telephone virtually rules our
lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Anonymous Return of the Colossal Code: Must we go
back to the days of bloated code for
every application? . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Anonymous Taiwan, the Soviet Union, and You . . . 10
Anonymous PC-to-PC file transfers made easy . . . 64IS-18, 20
D. Pountain HM Systems' new Minstrel 486 workstation 64IS-17, 18
D. Pountain The PCL language . . . . . . . . . . . . 64IS-3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
Jerry Pournelle A Tale of Three Conventions (and Two
Cities): A look at CD-ROMs and a report
on the American Association for the
Advancement of Science . . . . . . . . . 65
Wayne Rash, Jr. Who, What, When, and Why Not: A business
scheduling package can restore your
sanity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86, 88
Don Crabb Rising from the Ashes: Don hauls out his
crystal ball and predicts Apple's near
future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
David Fiedler Free Software!: When it comes to
user-developed Unix programs, there is
such a thing as a free lunch . . . . . . 97, 100
Mark J. Minasi OS/2 Marries Desqview: The latest
version of OS/2 lets you run multiple
DOS sessions, \`a la Desqview . . . . . 103
Mark L. Van Name and
Bill Catchings A Natural Match: Sharing CD-ROMs over a
LAN seems like a natural idea. So why
isn't it easier? . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110, 112
Anonymous Ergo Model 1: The Brick: truly
transportable computing . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Full Impact 2.0: Ashton-Tate adds
features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Magellan 2.0: Lotus expands its
intelligent DOS shell . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous PageMaker 4.0: a nearly perfect program
from Aldus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Turbo Debugger and Tools 2.0: Borland's
beefed-up toolkit . . . . . . . . . . . 116
J. Udell Three's the one (Windows 3.0) . . . . . 122--124, 126, 128
R. Mitchell and
R. Grehan Cheetah's Golden Performer: Cheetah's
new 33-MHz 486 machine is one fast cat 132--133
N. Baran Sun's Low-Cost RISC: A powerful diskless
version of Sun's SPARCstation . . . . . 136--137
J. Udell and
R. Mitchell Networks of Peers: Low-cost alternatives
to dedicated server LANs . . . . . . . . 142, 144--146, 148, 150, 152--154, 156, 158, 160, 162
M. L. Van Name and
B. Catchings Two to Grow On: CPU-upgradable systems
from AST and ALR . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--167
G. Loveria Window Wonderland: VideoLogic's
multimedia board turns VGA screens into
video playgrounds . . . . . . . . . . . 170, 172, 174
T. Thompson More 16-Million-Color Fireworks:
SuperMac Technology's ColorCard/24 and
Spectrum/24 Series III video boards . . 174, 176
S. Diehl Da Vinci Does It Penlessly: Da Vinci's
speedy RasterPro 720 delivers
design-quality plots, with color
printing on the side . . . . . . . . . . 178, 180, 182
D. Crabb Fast Fonts: PostScript Gets
Turbocharged: HanZon's RISC-based
controller turns LaserJet printers into
PostScript hot rods . . . . . . . . . . 184--186
R. Mitchell Small Footprint, Big Impression: Emerald
Computers' LANstation --- small size,
big price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
M. Heller Just Add Water: Rational Systems'
Instant-C 4.0 promises instant software
gratification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188, 190
S. Miastkowski Thoroughly Totable Tandy: The Tandy 1100
FD offers all the necessities --- and
then some . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190, 192
P. Wayner The Zen of Symbolic Math: Theorist takes
the low road to equation solving by
leading you to the right answer on your
Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--194, 196
B. Catchings and
M. L. Van Name Growing Pains: Buying a LAN is kid's
stuff compared to the problems you can
encounter trying to expand it and
connect it to other networks . . . . . . 203--204, 206, 208, 210, 214
S. Fisher The Latest GOSIP: Sooner or later, the
Federal Government's new profile for
procurements, called GOSIP, will affect
us all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--213
J. J. Barron Want to Catch Some Z's: Zero-slot LANs
are a proven way to provide file
transfer and peripheral-and file-sharing
capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218, 220--222
S. Davidovici On the Radio: A wireless LAN can provide
a flexible alternative to its earthbound
cousins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224A--B, 224D, 226, 228
S. Fisher Need More Fiber: From FDDI to HDTV to
broadband ISDN, fiber-optic technology
is changing data communications. Are you
ready to make the move to fiber? . . . . 233, 236--238
T. Hogg Primed for Performance: Balancing the
need for resources against a changing
environment is a shared problem. Can the
solution be a shared one as well? . . . 241--244, 246, 248, 250
Anonymous Making Connections: Your source to
networking products and information . . 252
D. A. Mindell Images from the Deep: Using a
fiber-optic network and oceanographic
vehicles, Woods Hole scientists are
probing the wonders of the ocean . . . . 256--260
J. J. Barron Consortia: High-Tech Co-ops: Computer
and chip consortia are working hard to
give the U.S. an edge over foreign
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270, 272, 274, 276
T. Yager DOS and Unix: On Speaking Terms: A
productive link between DOS and Unix
systems begins with an understanding of
Unix network basics . . . . . . . . . . 281--282, 286, 288, 290, 292
R. C. Alford The Evolution of ESDI: One increasingly
popular alternative to the ST506
interface is a descendant of ST506, ESDI 297--298, 300, 302, 304, 306
R. Grehan Cloak and Data: An explanation of secret
codes and a puzzle to test your skill 311--312, 314, 316, 318, 320, 322, 324
Anonymous The Father of Computer Graphics: The
roots of graphically oriented computer
systems stretch back to World War II,
MIT, and a visionary graduate student 380
Anonymous In Darkest Self-Similarity: Hugh Kenner
surveys the literature on fractals . . . 382
Anonymous The Flight of the Bee Wolf: A
bee-hunting fly performs navigational
feats that put man's computers to shame 384
Anonymous The Software Story of the Year . . . . . 10
D. Pountain Indexing with Micro-OCP . . . . . . . . 64IS-15--16, 62IS-18, 64IS-20, 64IS-22
Jerry Pournelle Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of
CD-ROMs: Jerry examines new CD-ROMs of
classics, including the Bible and
Shakespeare's works . . . . . . . . . . 65
David Fiedler Go Ahead, Make My Day: Tips on
installing freely available Unix
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82, 84
Wayne Rash, Jr. Up Close and Personal: Personal
organizers let you calculate, compute,
and transfer data on the fly . . . . . . 87--88
Don Crabb CAD: The Mac Can Do That: With
processing power galore and large
monitors, Don proves that the Mac can
deliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Mark J. Minasi Free at Last!: Thanks to OS/2's new
memory architecture, you no longer have
to squeeze code into 64K-byte segments 97
Mark L. Van Name and
Bill Catchings Networks Shouldn't Be This Hard: Getting
PCs up and running on a LAN is too much
of a hassle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106, 108
Anonymous DaynaFile: lets the NeXT Computer use
floppy disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Anonymous FrameMaker 2.0: Frame Technology's
version for the Mac . . . . . . . . . . 110
Anonymous HyperCard 2.0: Apple greatly improves
version 1.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Anonymous Plus: Spinnaker offers true
multiplatform compatibility . . . . . . 110
Anonymous Turbo C++: another landmark product from
Borland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
J. Udell and
R. Malloy and
A. Reinhardt and
H. Eglowstein and
G. Bond Windows shopping: 3.0 applications take
shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128
M. Nadeau Notebook Newcomer: The VH-286 from Airis
offers features, power, and low cost . . 133--135
S. Diehl and
S. Wszola Laser printers get personal (buyer's
guide) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--144, 146, 148, 150--152, 154, 156
C. Sandler The New 486s: Are Faster FPUs Enough:
Spear and Dyna Micro's 25-MHz i486-based
systems capitalize on the chip's
integrated FPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--163
B. Catchings and
M. L. Van Name Power Servers: File servers from Zenith
and Storage Dimensions face off . . . . 167--170
B. Smith Personal Iris: The Dream Maker: A
living-color look at the Silicon
Graphics Personal Iris 4D/25 . . . . . . 174--176, 178
S. Spicer C++, Plus: Zortech's C++ 2.0 may make an
OOP believer of you yet . . . . . . . . 186, 188, 190--191
G. Bond The Personal Network: Organize
companywide information into personal
views with Lotus Notes . . . . . . . . . 196, 198, 200
B. Buxton Smoke and Mirrors: In an industry as new
as ours, it's too early to rest on our
collective laurels . . . . . . . . . . . 205--210
Scott S. Fisher and
Jane Morrill Tazelaar Living in a Virtual World: Head-mounted
devices and stereoscopic viewers help
add sound, sight, and touch to your
computerized tool kit . . . . . . . . . 215--216, 218, 220--221
Kai-Fu Lee and
A. G. Hauptmann and
A. I. Rudnicky The Spoken Word: Researchers at Carnegie
Mellon report on voice interfaces for
computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--226, 228--232
P. McAvinney Telltale Gestures: A look at devices
that will change how you manipulate 3-D
design applications . . . . . . . . . . 237--240
E. Sachs Coming Soon to a CAD Lab Near You:
3-Draw lets you sketch out your ideas in
3-D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
G. Martin and
J. Pittman and
K. Wittenburg and
R. Cohen and
T. Parish Sign Here, Please: Interactive tablets
enable free-form communication between
you and your computer . . . . . . . . . 243--244, 246--248, 250--251
Anonymous From Hand to Mouth: A sampling of recent
developments in user interfaces . . . . 252
R. Mandel The World According to Micros: Need to
know some exotic geographic facts? Try
one of these 24 world atlas packages . . 256--260, 262, 264, 267
R. M. Brinkmann 3-D Graphics, from Alpha to Z-Buffer:
The dedicated memory of graphics
workstations speeds up their ability to
render in three dimensions . . . . . . . 271--272, 274, 276--278
Howard Eglowstein Reach Out and Touch Your Data: Three
input devices, ranging from US\$100 to
{US}\$15,000, let you ``hand it to
computers.'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--286, 288--290
D. Lancaster PostScript Insider Secrets: Don
Lancaster, a pioneer of the
microcomputer revolution, reveals
PostScript tricks for better output . . 293--294, 296, 298, 300, 302
Anonymous The BYTE VIP Awards: BYTE's readers have
chosen a host of hardware and software
as Very Important Products . . . . . . . 305
Anonymous Zen and the Art of Assembly: A
remarkable series of books argues that
assembly programming is easier than
learning to play the piano . . . . . . . 358
Anonymous Quest for a Mouseball: One man's journey
in search of an elusive IBM mouseball 360
Anonymous BYTE's New Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . 10
Jerry Pournelle Our Man in Moscow: Glasnost gives Jerry
an inside look at Soviet computing . . . 65
Wayne Rash, Jr. Charting the Course: Sophisticated
presentation software can produce
high-quality slides . . . . . . . . . . 79--80, 82
David Fiedler The Free Software Hit Parade: A quick
review of the most popular free Unix
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86, 88
Don Crabb Multimedia for Everyone: Descriptions of
realistic multimedia work done by
students on Mac Pluses and SEs . . . . . 91--92
Mark J. Minasi Managing LAN Manager 2.0: The latest
version of OS/2 LAN Manager offers
integrity, security, and somewhat easier
administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Mark L. Van Name and
Bill Catchings Space Patrol: Managing thousands of
files on today's big server hard disks
doesn't have to be a nightmare . . . . . 101, 104
Anonymous A/UX 2.0: Apple's Unix with a friendly
face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Anonymous DR DOS 5.0: Digital Research eliminates
many idiosyncracies of MS DOS . . . . . 106
Anonymous IQ Scan: an easy to use scanner from
Pentax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Anonymous OS/90: GeoWorks introduces an operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Anonymous Private Eye: Reflection Technology's
headset mounted monitor . . . . . . . . 106
S. Miastkowski Windows shopping (Authorware) . . . . . 114--115
M. Geary INSIDE WINDOWS 3.0 A Long and Winding
Road: Why your old Windows application
may not work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134, 136, 138, 140
A. Joch No-Muss, No-Fuss, Low-Cost PostScript
Printer: QMS's new laser printer offers
speed and automatic emulation for under
US\$3000. Plus, two new {Apple
LaserWriters} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--148
R. Grehan and
S. Apiki and
R. Mitchell 386SX PCs: Heirs to the Low End . . . . 152--164, 166
Anonymous BYTE's New Benchmarks: The BYTE Lab
unveils a new DOS benchmark suite . . . 158
D. Claiborne Faster Gets Smaller: Compaq's speediest
compact desktop machine yet . . . . . . 170--172
D. Crabb Voice Recognition for a Song: Covox's
Voice Master and Command Corp's Bug . . 174, 176, 178
B. D. Kliewer A Paradox for LANs and C: Borland's
Paradox Engine turns the key to better
performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188, 190
T. Yager DOS on a Pedestal: DOS goes multiuser
with Theo + DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . 194, 196
S. Rosenberg New Adventures in Graphic Design:
Micrografx's Designer 3.0 rivals
competitor Corel Draw . . . . . . . . . 198--199
S. Miastkowski Eccentric Mouse Tames Complicated GUIs:
CalComp's mouse-digitizer hybrid
simplifies PC and Mac use . . . . . . . 204
R. Cook Full Circle: Finally, modern
applications are as easy to customize as
they are powerful . . . . . . . . . . . 211--214
K. K. Obermeier Natural Selection: Natural-language
front ends access databases without a
formal query language . . . . . . . . . 217--218, 220, 222
M. D. Veljkov Managing Multimedia: Authoring systems
let nonprogrammers create powerful
multimedia applications . . . . . . . . 227--232
B. Ryan Scripts Unbounded: New, improved
graphical scripting languages may make
stand alone applications obsolete . . . 235--236, 238--240
C. Daney Rexx in Charge: Rexx now can control and
coordinate all aspects of the OS/2
environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246, 248, 250, 252--253
Anonymous Do It Yourself: Your guide to end user
programming products . . . . . . . . . . 254
J. J. Lazzaro Opening Doors for the Disabled: How
personal computers offer disabled users
professional opportunities . . . . . . . 258--260, 262--264, 266, 268
P. Kron A Software Developer Looks at OS/2: OS/2
represents a rich arena for developers,
but with pitfalls . . . . . . . . . . . 269--272
S. Fisher Mix-and-Match Network Adapters: Two
specifications NDIS and ODLI simplify
adapter driver chores . . . . . . . . . 277--279
T. Yager Alternative Operating Systems, Part 1:
The QNX Operating System: The first
installment of a six-part series . . . . 281--283
Anonymous Museum Quality: A new Smithsonian
exhibit marks 15 years of PCs and
includes one of Jerry Pournelle's early
machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
L. B. Glass Font wars (Type 1 and TrueType fonts) 289--290, 292--295
D. Lancaster High-performance PostScript (word
processing package) . . . . . . . . . . 297--300
Anonymous Of Minds and Men: Is the human mind
simply a superalgorithm? . . . . . . . . 354
Richard Hans Pettersen The Tongues of Men and Machines: Do
computer languages reflect the language
and culture of the people who created
them? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Anonymous Happy Anniversary!: We've thrown you a
party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Jerry Pournelle Fifteen Years and Counting: Jerry looks
back at 15 years of BYTE . . . . . . . . 65
David Fiedler Future History: Looking at business
software from the last 15 years and the
next 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Don Crabb The Place to Be for DTP: Talking to
professional desktop publishers reveals
surprising facts about desktop
publishing on the Macintosh . . . . . . 87--88, 91
Wayne Rash, Jr. Moving Down to Micros: Powerful
decision-support systems, once used only
on mainframes, are now migrating to
micros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94, 96, 98
Douglas A. Hamilton Mastering OS/2 Threads: Mastery of OS/2
threads taxes developers but rewards
users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102, 110
Mark L. Van Name and
Bill Catchings Unite or Die: Three developing
application areas must unite before LANs
can become a part of everyday life in
the 1990s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114, 116
Anonymous Backpack: MicroSolutions lets you add a
drive easily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous HardFacts: information on 6000 hardware
products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Legacy: a word processor for Windows 3.0
from NBI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Norton Utilities 5.0: a new version with
mixed blessings . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous SHORT TAKES RasterOps Accelerator:
speeds up Macintosh graphics . . . . . . 120
M. Nadeau The NEC ProSpeed SX/20: Take It and
Leave It: This 13-pound laptop can
double as a powerful desktop system . . 128--129
H. Eglowstein and
S. Wszola and
T. Thompson Word Processors That Build Character:
The BYTE Lab evaluates 15 WYSIWYG word
processors for the Mac and the PC . . . 132, 134--136, 138, 140, 143--146, 148, 150, 152
T. Yager DEC's Latest RISC: Digital Equipment
makes a play for the serious work
station user with its revved-up
DECstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--156
L. Wood Windows 3.0 Software Tool for End Users:
Asymetrix's TookBook lets you create
Windows 3.0 applications without
learning C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160
T. Thompson The Mac at 40 MHz: The Mac IIfx is a
powerful number cruncher in the Mac or
Unix environment . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--164
L. H. Loeb Two Different Approaches to Mac
Portability: The Outbound and Dynamac
take opposing approaches . . . . . . . . 169, 172, 174
T. Yager Open Desktop: Relief for the Unix-Wary:
SCO's Open Desktop may be the
shrink-wrapped Unix that DOS users have
been waiting for . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--178, 180
S. Diehl G Is for Graphics: Lotus finally gets
graphical with 1-2-3/G . . . . . . . . . 182--184
C. R. Gibson 9600-bps Modem Brings Apple Networks
Closer Together: Thanks to its AppleTalk
connector, Shiva's NetModem V.32 can
serve as a shared network modem and an
internetwork router . . . . . . . . . . 185--186, 88
S. Miastkowski New Floppy Drive Puts 20-MB Disk in Your
Pocket: Q/Cor's new floppy disk drive
leads the 20-megabyte vanguard . . . . . 188--190
G. Bond Strictly for Personal Information: A
roundup of seven personal information
managers shows that there is a way to
get organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--198, 200, 202, 204--205
B. Nance Speaking OS/2's Native Language:
Object-1 speaks to OS/2's Presentation
Manager in object-oriented terms . . . . 206, 208, 210
J. Scot Finnie Dual-Page Duel: Two High-Resolution
Monitors Square Off: New high-resolution
monitors from Cornerstone and Radius
aren't just for desktop publishing . . . 212--214
S. J. Wszola Flashdisk: Not Your Father's RAM Disk:
Digipro's Flashdisk plugs up to 8
megabytes of nonvolatile memory into any
available 16-bit slot . . . . . . . . . 214--215
Anonymous BYTE's 15th Anniversary Summit: What it
is, why we're doing it . . . . . . . . . 218
Anonymous Welcome to the BYTE Summit: Sixty-three
of the most creative and influential
people in the industry discuss their
perspectives on the microcomputer
industry of the future . . . . . . . . . 222
Anonymous 15 Years of Bits, Bytes, and Other Great
Moments: A look at key events in BYTE,
the computer industry, and world history
during the last 15 years . . . . . . . . 369
C. Barker Personal Computing in Eastern Europe:
Behind the crumbled Iron Curtain lie
lands of high-technology disarray ---
and opportunity . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--402, 404, 407--408, 410
D. J. Bradley The Creation of the IBM PC: Design
choices that culminated in the machine
that conquered the microcomputer world 414, 16--18, 420
B. Smith Alternative Operating Systems, Part 2:
From a Tiny Kernel: When you're building
a real-time operating system, it helps
to start small . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--424, 26
D. Friedman Sounds of Success: Professional sound
capabilities, once the exclusive domain
of high-end recording studios, are now
available to PC users . . . . . . . . . 429--430, 434, 436, 438, 442
B. McGinnis Of Monitors and Emissions: What's being
done about magnetic fields from
monitors? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--446, 448, 451--452
R. Grehan Virtually Virtual Memory: A memory
management system for MS-DOS that lets
you break the 640K-byte barrier . . . . 455--456, 458--460, 62, 64
Anonymous Images Beget Images: Visualization is a
volume that challenges our notions of
visual reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
Anonymous Litigation vs. Innovation: Mitch Kapor
argues against litigation as a business
tactic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Anonymous Taiwan, the Soviet Union, and You, Part
2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Jerry Pournelle A Lesson in Maintenance: Jerry remembers
the solution for an old problem and
examines the prospects for a new DOS . . 81
Don Crabb Science Goes Visual on the Mac: Get a
new view of scientific data with
graphics tools from Spyglass . . . . . . 99
David Fiedler Sizing It Down: A look at RISC versus
CISC and the Coherent Unix-like
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Wayne Rash, Jr. Picture This: Now you can make
professional presentations quickly and
easily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Mark L. Van Name and
Bill Catchings Welcome to Lilliput, DEC: DEC once again
visits the land of microcomputers with
LanWorks for Macintosh . . . . . . . . . 115
Martin Heller Through the OS/2 Porthole: OS/2 rolls
out the red carpet for Windows
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Anonymous ATS Convertible Classic: new life for
old Macs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Anonymous Business VEISA 32CSX: ALR's Yugo engine
on a Ferrari chassis . . . . . . . . . . 132
Anonymous MediaTracks: Farallon lets you
demonstrate software on the Mac . . . . 132
Anonymous Paradox 3.5: new features from Borland 132
Anonymous Sharp 9624e: a modem built for heavy
full-time use . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Anonymous Smalltalk-80 Enters the Nineties:
ObjectworksSmalltalk from ParcPlace
Systems features 24-bit color and
cross-platform support . . . . . . . . . 138
Anonymous What's NeXT After 1-2-3: Improv is
Lotus's successor to the 1-2-3 throne 147
Anonymous Is the Typesetter Obsolete? . . . . . . 152
M. L. Van Name and
B. Catchings 486 EISA Machines: A Slow Start in the
Fast Lane: Three 486 vendors deliver
EISA bus machines, but where are the
EISA add-ins? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--176
T. Thompson Director Takes Charge of Mac Multimedia:
MacroMind's new Director 2.0 provides
interactive control and input from more
audio and video sources . . . . . . . . 178--180
S. Spicer Object-Oriented C That Goes VROOMM:
Borland's Turbo C++ promises to bring
object-oriented programming to the
masses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186, 188--189
G. Loveria Pumping Pixels: Hercules Flexes Its
Muscles in 24-bit Color: Hercules's
economical graphics card offers 24-bit
color display on standard VGA monitors 192, 194
G. Bond The SX Turns 20: Three 20-MHz SX systems
push into 386DX territory . . . . . . . 197--200
G. A. Stewart A Database Developer That's Different
from the Rest: The Clarion Professional
Developer provides a complete
development environment . . . . . . . . 201--202
B. J. Cox There Is a Silver Bullet: The birth of
interchangeable, reusable software
components will bring software into the
information age . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210, 212, 214, 216, 218
C. Duff and
B. Howard Migration Patterns: Simulating
object-oriented techniques with
procedural languages can help you make
the transition to tomorrow's software
technology today . . . . . . . . . . . . 223, 226, 228, 230, 232
C. M. Stone and
D. Hentchel Database Wars Revisited: The relational
and object-oriented camps do battle for
database honors . . . . . . . . . . . . 233, 236, 238, 240, 242
E. Gibson Objects --- Born and Bred: Object
Behavior Analysis provides a conceptual
model for the first stage in creating an
object-oriented application . . . . . . 245--254
E. Yourdon Auld Lang Syne: Ed Yourdon Tackles the
question of whether you should jump on
the object-oriented bandwagon . . . . . 257, 260, 262, 264
Anonymous Objects of Note: Just a sample of the
object-oriented products available . . . 265
M. Eisenstadt and
M. Brayshaw A Knowledge Engineering Toolkit: The
first of a two-part series presenting a
knowledge-engineering toolkit for
building expert systems . . . . . . . . 268, 270, 272, 274, 278, 282
E. Summers ES: A Public Domain Expert System:
Develop your own expert systems --- or
experiment with some sample knowledge
bases --- with this free program . . . . 289--290, 292
T. Yager Alternative Operating Systems, Part 3:
Theos: Serious Business: A unique
multiuser operating system for business
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296, 298
S. Satchell Megafloppies: Four new technologies are
in the bidding to be the next standard A
drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302, 304, 306, 308, 310
R. Grehan Just Between Friends: Talking Tasks: The
first part of a series on interprocess
communications looks at Microsoft
Windows and Desqview . . . . . . . . . . 311--312, 314, 316, 318, 320
Anonymous Interface/Shplinterface: The latest
look-and-feel lawsuit coincides with the
arrival of a new book on interface
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Anonymous Spare Me the Details: The next
generation of computer interfaces should
handle details . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Gene Smarte Guideposts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Jerry Pournelle Casting a Chaotic Network . . . . . . . 15
Mark J. Minasi Money, SQL, and Spreadsheets . . . . . . 37
Don Crabb Crossing Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Wayne Rash, Jr. Through a Window, Darkly . . . . . . . . 47
David Fiedler IBM and Unix: Perfect Together? . . . . 51
Mark L. Van Name and
Bill Catchings Network Perestroika . . . . . . . . . . 57
Nick Baran IBM in the Nineties . . . . . . . . . . 62
Stanford Diehl Benchmarks at a Glance: 1990 . . . . . . 75--81
Stan Miastkowski PC GUIs Go Head to Head . . . . . . . . 82--87
Tom Thompson Stranger in a strange land (Macintosh
file sharing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--92, 95
Martin Heller Programming 32-bit OS/2 . . . . . . . . 97--100, 102, 104
Greg Loveria and
Don Kinstler Multimedia: DVI Arrives . . . . . . . . 105--108
L. Brett Glass DPMI: The DOS Protected Mode Interface 113--114, 116, 118
David A. Harvey Optical Storage Primer . . . . . . . . . 121--122, 124, 126, 128, 130
Colin Barker Continental Computing . . . . . . . . . 133
Matt Trask Creating Virtual PCs on the 386 . . . . 137--140, 142--144, 146
Paul Schmidt Notebook PCs Set the Portable Standard 153--156, 158
Bill Nicholls Looking at the Graphical User Interface 161--162, 164, 166
Matt Page and
Mary Page Laying out the future (DTP) . . . . . . 169--170, 172
Rick Cook Color for the Desktop . . . . . . . . . 175--180
David Moore The Migration of the X Window System . . 183--185
Bruce Van Dyke SCSI: The I/O Standard Evolves . . . . . 187--191
Robert J. Crutchfield Data to the Desktop: The SQL Advantage 193--196, 198
Sharon Fisher Making the Micro-to-Mainframe Connection 203--205
Mike Fichtelman Don't worry, use HLLAPI (programming
tool) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--208, 210--212, 214, 216
George Bond Adding, Value to Your Data . . . . . . . 217--218, 220--221
Andrew Schulman DOS unbounded: uses of protected mode 250--256
Anonymous Laptop Troubles and Triumphs . . . . . . 10
M. Banks Computers in the USSR . . . . . . . . . 72IS-11--12, 14, 16
C. Barker Amstrad's generation 3 . . . . . . . . . 72IS-21--22
Jerry Pournelle Multimedia Video: Jerry looks at
multimedia video boards, a new Modula-2,
and assorted gadgets . . . . . . . . . . 73
Wayne Rash, Jr. The Growth of Groupware: Wayne addresses
groupware and how to determine what
capabilities your company needs . . . . 89--90, 92
Mark L. Van Name and
Bill Catchings Hard Choices for Network Managers: You
can't always wait for the perfect
network management solution . . . . . . 97--98, 100
Don Crabb Working with Windows 3.0 and a Mac: Don
presents the Mac/Windows 3.0 user's
interoperability survival guide . . . . 107--108, 110
David Fiedler Not Quite Unix: The tribulations and
treats of using a US\$100 {Unix} clone 119
Steve Mastrianni Tales from the Trenches: An OS/2
device-driver specialist talks shop . . 127
Anonymous NewWave 3.0: an updated version from
Hewlett-Packard . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Anonymous ScanMan 256: Logitech's scanner for
Windows 3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Anonymous Ventura Publisher, Macintosh Edition
1.0: for a mixed-machine environment . . 132
Anonymous WinSleuth: Dariana's new diagnostics
package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Anonymous WordPerfect Rhymer: for the student of
the sound of language . . . . . . . . . 132
M. Nadeau Compaq Notebook Ups the Ante . . . . . . 140--142
O. Linderholm and
J. Bertolucci The New Macs on the Block At last, lower
prices --- and a new design . . . . . . 146--150, 152
A. Reinhardt A New Status Quo for Quattro Borland
adds 3-D graphics to its spreadsheet . . 156--157
S. Miastkowski The ALR MPS: Modular Micro Channel: ALR
gambles that it can take a bite out of
the True Blue market . . . . . . . . . . 162--164
M. Nadeau ALR pumps up PowerFlex (PowerFlex 20CSX
Model 110) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
N. Baran and
O. Linderholm Fast New Systems From NeXT: Faster
machines with lower prices and the
long-sought floppy disk drive have
arrived . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--168
S. Apiki and
S. Wszola and
R. Grehan and
T. Yager Product Focus: Massive Storage for
Multiple Platforms: The BYTE Lab puts 15
high-capacity hard disk drives to the
test across four operating systems: DOS,
Unix, NetWare 386, and the Mac OS . . . 172, 174--178, 180, 182, 184, 186, 188
M. L. Van Name and
B. Catchings High-Performance 486 ATs: The great
performance of three 33-MHz 486s shows
there's still life in the old AT bus . . 190--192B
R. Grehan FPU Face-Off: Not all FPUs are created
equal. The BYTE Lab shows performance
differences among FPUs from AMD, Cyrix,
IIT, Intel, and Weitek . . . . . . . . . 194--196, 198, 200
C. Sandler New Controller Makes SCSI Palatable to
PCs: Distributed Processing Technology's
SmartConnex/ISA hides SCSI's
incompatibility from PCs . . . . . . . . 205--206, 208
S. Diehl Windows Takes On WingZ: Informix's
graphical spreadsheet puts Windows 3.0
through its paces . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222, 224
T. Yager Mac-ish Interfaces for Unix: Looking
Glass and X desktop provide
point-and-click ease of use to Unix . . 227--228, 230
A. Joch New Bubble-Jet Outpaces Portable
Printers: Canon's new portable printer
bubbles over with sharp resolution and
flexibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
Wayne Rash, Jr. A Poqet Full of Power: It's small. It's
innovative. But is it practical? Wayne
Rash, Jr. takes the Poqet PC on the road 239, 240
B. Nance One-Size-Fits-All Code with Lattice C: A
royalty-free DOS extender is standard
with Lattice's new C compiler . . . . . 245--246
D. Dayton Document Management on Networks PCs:
Imara and ProFound offer two approaches
to keeping track of documents . . . . . 251--252, 254--255
S. Apiki Small, Low-Cost UPSes: Small and
inexpensive backup power systems make
reliable power an individual choice . . 258, 260
M. Nadeau TravelMate 2000 Lives Up to Its Name:
Texas Instruments puts AT-class power in
a 4-pound package . . . . . . . . . . . 262, 264
S. Miastkowski Pricey Hard Disk Drive Portability: The
Disctec 20 provides floppy disk
convenience with hard disk storage in a
very small package . . . . . . . . . . . 266
D. A. Harvey and
A. Reinhardt State of the Media: A look at the
conflict between traditional magnetic
mass storage devices and optical
technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--281
Tom Parish Crystal Clear Storage: The holostore, a
new mass storage device with
supercomputer performance, could
eliminate the I/O bottleneck . . . . . . 283--288
Bob Ryan Entering a New Phase: Optical and
magnetic are at opposite ends of the
spectrum. Can phase-change technology
bridge the gap? . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290, 292, 294, 296
Bob Ryan and
B. Passavanti The Once and Future King: Hard disk
technology will be your primary computer
storage medium for years to come . . . . 301--306
Anonymous Side by Side: You can store more data on
a floppy disk if you can get the bits to
stand up straight . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Walter Lahti and
Dean McCarron Store Data in a Flash: The flash-memory
disk offers a fast and rugged
replacement for both hard and floppy
disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--313, 315, 317, 318
K. Lion DAT's a Solution: Digital-audiotape
technology comes of age . . . . . . . . 323--324, 326, 328
S. J. Vaughan-Nichols Getting Your Byte's Worth:
Hardware-based data compression gives
you more bang for your QIC, DAT, and
hard disk buck . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--332, 334--336
Anonymous Masses of Storage: A guide to companies
that provide mass storage solutions . . 338
J. J. Barron Chips for the Nineties and Beyond: New
chips may make for higher-performance
and unconventional ways of computing . . 342--346, 348--350
S. E. Turner Modem Business: Confused by modern
standards like 212A, V.22, and V.32bits?
Here's help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354, 356, 358, 360
M. Eisenstadt and
M. Brayshaw A Knowledge Engineering Toolkit, Part 2:
The discussion continues, with a look at
back ward and forward chaining . . . . . 364--368, 370
M. Vose Hot Links to Go: A look at Windows' and
OS/2's Dynamic Data Exchange facility 373--377
B. Smith Alternative Operating Systems, Part 4:
Pick: OS or DBMS: What do you get when
you build an operating system around a
database? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--382, 384
S. Harbison Modula-3: An introduction to the OOP
language that grew from Pascal and
Modula-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--388, 390, 392
R. Alford The Mouse that Roared: The history,
anatomy, and physiology of the desktop
mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--398, 400--401
R. Grehan Some assembly required. Talking Tasks,
Part 2: Introducing the most common
methods of interprocess communications
for Unix and OS/2 . . . . . . . . . . . 403--404, 406, 408, 410--412, 414, 416
Anonymous Stomping the Nasties: Professor Kenner
examines a new volume by computer virus
hunter John McAfee . . . . . . . . . . . 466
Anonymous Promises, Promises: A lawyer looks at
the warranties --- real and implied ---
that come with computer equipment . . . 468
Anonymous A Laptop on a Chip: Almost . . . . . . . 10
C. Barker A fax machine for disks . . . . . . . . 72IS/11--12
D. Pountain A RISC workstation from Acorn . . . . . 72IS/14--18, 20
D. Pountain Simulating a primitive parallel computer 72IS/25--26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36--37
Jerry Pournelle Working Smart: Jerry looks at portable
computers and an outlining program . . . 73
Wayne Rash, Jr. Getting Bigger Groupware: With
groupware, you can communicate with
almost anyone, almost anywhere . . . . . 93--94, 96
Martin Heller Beyond DOS: Windows and OS/2. I've got
DIBs device-independent bit maps and
palette management . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102, 104
Don Crabb Inspiration at the Year's End: A look at
what Apple has accomplished over the
year, and an inspirational new product 105
David Fiedler Back to the Workstations II: Unix
workstations and personal computers
completely merge . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120, 122
Mark L. Van Name and
Bill Catchings Kicking and Screaming into the Present:
DEC slowly embraces PC networking
standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126, 128
Anonymous Amiga 3000UX, a Unix graphics
workstation from Commodore . . . . . . . 132
Anonymous Hardcard IIXL, Plus Development provides
easy storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Anonymous Muse, Occam's natural-language interface
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Anonymous ProLine Backup System. Teemar's tape
backup solution for a NetWare LAN . . . 132
Anonymous Step 486/50, a technological showpiece
from Everex and Velox . . . . . . . . . 132
T. Yager and
B. Smith Son of SPARCstation: Sun Microsystems
ups the midrange workstation ante . . . 140--141, 143, 146
J. Udell CompuAdd Delivers a Low-Cost
SPARCstation: The SS1 is a faithful
clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--143
O. Linderholm Solbourne S4000 Outguns SPARCstation 1+:
The S4000 uses Solbourne's own
integrated, 64-bit CPU . . . . . . . . . 144, 146
A. Reinhardt Suddenly, Everything's Smaller in Texas:
TI's 5.7-pound 368SX notebook . . . . . 151--153
S. Diehl and
H. Eglowstein When Laser Printers Can't Cut It: A look
at 27 alternatives to the popular laser
printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--162, 164--166, 168, 168B, D
T. Yager Sony NeWS and MIPS Magnum: A Double Shot
of RISC: Two RISC workstations join the
low-end Unix market . . . . . . . . . . 172--175
T. Yager and
T. Thompson The Norton Utilities for System V . . . 178
T. Thompson The Norton Utilities for the Mac: More
than just warmed-over versions of the
Norton Utilities for DOS . . . . . . . . 179
J. Udell CAD and NetWare 386 Join Forces:
IsiCAD's CADVance 4.0 makes good on the
promise of multiuser CAD applications 182--184
R. C. Alford NCR's S486/MC33 Has Unique Approach to
Reliability: NCR's new 33-MHz 486 Micro
Channel system is among the fastest . . 191--193
L. Wood DR DOS Offers Hope for the RAM-Crammed:
Digital Research's new MS-DOS competitor
promises to make more memory available
for applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--198, 200
T. Yager On Becoming a Clock Wise Scheduler:
Phase II Software's ClockWise helps
manage your time . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--202
B. Smith and
T. Yager Battle for the Best Unix V/386: New
releases from Interactive Systems and
The Santa Cruz Operation . . . . . . . . 206--207
B. Smith Microsoft Word Brings PC-Style Word
Processing to Unix: Unix word processing
takes a turn for the better . . . . . . 209--210
J. Unger Plug-and-Play Unix Machine: Dell's
Intel-based Unix workstation . . . . . . 213--214, 216
J. Udell LAN Manager 2.0: A Force to Be Reckoned
With: Microsoft's network flagship
proves it is a viable alternative to
NetWare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222, 224, 226
T. Thompson A Digital ``Quill'' for Mac Video
Displays: Data Translation's VideoQuill
combines text, graphics, and video . . . 229--231
R. Farris Unix and 1-2-3: Now you can run Lotus
1-2-3 under Unix . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
S. Miastkowski A `more filling' generation of tape
backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--237
Anonymous A ``More Filling'' Generation of Tape
Backup: Tape drives from Colorado Memory
Systems and Core International . . . . . 237
S. Apiki A colourful luggable . . . . . . . . . . 246
Anonymous State of the Art Advanced Graphics . . . 250
S. Upstill Graphics Go 3-D: Creating
photo-realistic 3-D images is a real
challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--256, 258
Andrew S. Glassner Ray Tracing for Realism: Simulating
light rays in a 3-D scene . . . . . . . 263--264, 266, 268--271
F. Vaughn Color WYSIWYG Comes of Age: Matching the
colors you see on-screen with your
printed output . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--277, 279
A. Bellin and
P. Del Frate True Color for Windows: Windows 3.0
makes 24-bit color a realistic option 281--282, 284, 287
N. Baran Putting the Squeeze on Graphics:
Compression technologies for full-color
graphics and full-motion video . . . . . 289--290, 292--294
A. Lippman HDTV Sparks a Digital Revolution: In the
1990s, the shift will be to
high-definition and digital pictures . . 297--301, 303, 305
Anonymous Graphics Engines: A manufacturers
roundup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
O. Linderholm Portable Chips: When it comes to chips,
small can mean powerful . . . . . . . . 312--316, 318--319
S. J. Vaughan-Nichols Relational Databases: The Real Story: Is
that a relational database manager or
not? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--322, 324--325
N. H. Gehani and
W. D. Roome Concurrent C: An AT&T language for
programming multiprocessor systems . . . 327--330, 332, 334
M. H. Anderson Strength (and Safety) in Numbers: RAID
systems may boost PC performance and
reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--339
S. J. Vaughan-Nichols X.400: Standardizing E-Mail: E-mail is
ready to live up to its promise . . . . 341--342, 344
T. Yager Alternative Operating Systems, Part 5:
Unix with a Microscope: Minix, a
low-cost Unix, runs on ordinary personal
computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
J. G. Eugenides Easier strings for the Mac. Get a handle
on Mac strings with this C++ class . . . 349--350, 352
B. D. Kliewer VGA to the Max: A new set of extension
breathes life into Super VGA hardware 355--356, 358--360
R. Grehan More Than Just Fast: A look at
programming SCSI devices on Macs and
MS-DOS machines . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--366, 368--369
Anonymous A Fairy-Tale Future: High-tech prophet
Raymond Kurzweil's latest work is a
masterful look at the present and future
of intelligent machines . . . . . . . . 418
Anonymous A Plea for Software That Works: It's
time developers started concentrating on
software integrity . . . . . . . . . . . 420
?. Fountain Modula's Children, Part II: Oberon . . . ??
Robert Jacobson Designing the Information Environment ??
John R. Mashey 64-bit Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--142
Mark A. Clarkson An Easier Interface . . . . . . . . . . 277--282
Anonymous The End of Intel's Monopoly? . . . . . . 10
Jerry Pournelle Jukebox Computing: Jerry looks at new
CD-ROMs and a CD-ROM drive, a brick of a
computer, and a new trackball . . . . . 73--74, 77--78, 80, 84, 86--88
Wayne Rash, Jr. The Power Man Cometh: The big orange
power truck pulls up again, but this
time Wayne's ready . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90, 92
Mark J. Minasi Embarrassment of Riches: A report from
the future: living with OS/2 2.0 and
Windows 3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96, 98
David Fiedler SCO Hot: A brief look at the new SCO
Unix and using PCs as X terminals . . . 101--102, 104
Don Crabb The Mac and Personal Programming: Don
shows how the Mac's oldest true personal
programming system gets even better . . 107--108, 110
Barry Nance NetWare Troubles: Whom do you call when
NetWare acts up? With the right tools,
you can do the job yourself . . . . . . 119--120, 122
Anonymous Taste, Delta Point's composite package
for the Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Anonymous Turbo Pascal 6.0: Borland almost adds
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Anonymous Toshiba T1000LE: a slimmer T1000 . . . . 126
Anonymous Volante AT1000: inexpensive high-end
graphics from National Design . . . . . 126
Anonymous Word 5.5 and Word for OS/2: updated
versions from Microsoft . . . . . . . . 126
J. Udell Citrix's New Multiuser OS/2: OS/2-based
workgroup computing without a LAN . . . 134--136, 138
Anonymous The BYTE Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
S. Apiki and
R. Grehan Product Focus: Caching Cards Speed Data
Access: The BYTE Lab evaluates eight
caching controller cards that help
relieve hard disk drive bottlenecks . . 168--172, 174, 177--178, 180, 182
R. Mitchell LAN Remote-Control Software: Better Than
Being There: The BYTE Lab examines eight
communications programs that let you use
workstations on a LAN via remote control 186--189, 192, 194, 196
T. Badgett and
C. Sandler ``Ultra'' VGA Debuts on the MicroPaq:
Monolithic's MicroPaq 452 Ultra uses the
new Edsun chip to make VGA screens shine 201--202
G. Loveria TARGA+ Lowers Cost of High-End Graphics:
Truevision's new 32-bit TARGA+ board
makes raster graphics more affordable 204--206
R. Mitchell The Compaq SLT: A Laptop Fit for the
Desktop: The BYTE Lab tests how well the
Compaq SLT laptop performs with its new
386SX engine and other enhancements . . 210--211
T. Yager A Workstation in a Mac's Clothing: A/UX
and the X Window System turn a Macintosh
into a workstation in a near-seamless
way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--214, 26
S. Kearns User Interfaces, C++ Style: Zinc's class
library brings text and graphical
interfaces to your C++ applications . . 218--220
B. Calabrese Photo-Realism for Those with Time (and
RAM) to Spare: Pixar's MacRenderMan
brings photo-realistic rendering to the
Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--225
H. Eglowstein A New Angle on OS/2 and Windows: Wide
Angle makes the virtual desktop a
physical reality . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
J. Udell and
T. Thompson Two Bumbling Detectives: Dariana
Technology Group's WinSleuth and
MacSleuth miss the mark . . . . . . . . 228--229
Anonymous Reviewer's Notebook: New versions of
Lotus Agenda and Folio Views make
much-needed improvements that address
user concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
B. Ryan AI's Identity Crisis: Can AI provide the
kind of intelligent systems that will
make all the work, and all the
introspection, worthwhile? . . . . . . . 239--246, 242, 244, 246
B. Thompson Overturning the Category Bucket:
Categorizing knowledge is one of the
primary ways that an AI system can
acquire ``understanding.'' . . . . . . . 249--250, 252, 254--256
T. J. Laffey The Real-Time Expert: Expert systems
designed to work in real-time
environments can make complex systems
easier to handle . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260, 262, 264
M. Heller AI in Practice: A real company's
real-world use of AI techniques and
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--270, 272, 274, 276, 278
D. W. Rasmus Putting the Experts to Work: The 1990s
will see the walls between intelligent
applications and conventional
applications crumble . . . . . . . . . . 281--282, 285, 287
R. M. Stein Real Artificial Life: Nature's skill and
craftsmanship, when harnessed toward the
creation of artificial life, presents a
virtually unlimited reservoir of
possibilities for engineering solutions 289--290, 292, 294, 296--298
Anonymous Resource Guide: Intelligent Software: A
guide to expert systems and
neural-network simulators . . . . . . . 300
Anonymous Micro, Micro: Who Made the Micro: Is
Gilbert Hyatt the father of the
microprocessor, or just the most
tenacious inventor in the U.S.? . . . . 304--306, 311--312
R. Seifert Ethernet: Ten Years After: Rich Scifert,
one of Ethernet's designers, talks about
its first 10 years . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316, 318, 320--321
B. Smith Alternative Operating Systems, Part 6:
FlexOS's Muscle: Digital Research's
FlexOS closes out our series . . . . . . 323--326
T. Holloway The Object-Oriented Amiga Exec: The
design of the Amiga operating-system
kernel follows the rules of
object-oriented programming . . . . . . 329--332, 234
P. K. Stys Putting Waveforms to Paper: Here's how
to get data from a Mac screen into a
file or printout . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--342, 344
S. S. Fried Personal Supercomputing with the Intel
i860: Crunching numbers with the i860 347--348, 350--352, 356, 356, 358
Peter Wayner Genetic Algorithms: A novel technique
crossbreeds algorithms to find the best
programming solution . . . . . . . . . . 361--364, 366, 368
Anonymous Math Reconstructed: Stealing glimpses at
the numbers upon which the universe is
built . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Anonymous Amateur Systems: Senior editor Ken
Sheldon discusses the next step in AI 416
D. Pountain Programming databases the easy way . . . 721S-15--16, 721S-18, 721S-20, 721S-22
Anonymous Facing Hard Times? . . . . . . . . . . . 10
C. Barker An easy solution for hard copy? (add-in
boards for PC color printers) . . . . . 72IS/21--22, 24
D. Pountain Inside a heterogeneous parallel computer 72IS/27--28, 30--32, 34
Jerry Pournelle A Pack of Laptops: Jerry picks the ideal
portable computer . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74, 77--78, 80, 84, 86--88
Wayne Rash, Jr. Corporate Style: How consistent is the
language of your business documents? . . 89
Jon Udell Whither Windows: Putting Windows 3.0 and
OS/2 2.0 on the scales . . . . . . . . . 95
Don Crabb Macintosh: The Next Generation: Don
converses with MacFolk to determine new
directions for Mac evolution . . . . . . 101
David Fiedler Heed the Standards: A look at some
current standards battles and how they
could affect Unix users . . . . . . . . 107
Brett Glass The Return of ARCnet: ARCnet Plus is a
fast alternative to Ethernet and Token
Ring hardware, and it's
downward-compatible with ARCnet . . . . 119
Anonymous Fax-O-Matic and FaxConnection: fax
machines that use a laser printer for
output from Tall Tree Systems and
Extended Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Anonymous FileMaker Pro: Claris gives a face-lift
to its database . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Anonymous Mathematica for Windows 3.0: Wolfram
Research's great addition . . . . . . . 127--135
Anonymous Storyboard Live!: IBM's multimedia
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Anonymous Stacker: Stac Electronics lets you
double your hard disk space instantly 127
A. Reinhardt New Extras for Excel: Microsoft's new
version can do spreadsheet outlining . . 136--138
Anonymous OS/2 Goes on a Diet: OS/2 1.3: leaner,
meaner, faster . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
S. Diehl and
S. Wszola and
M. Nadeau Perfectly Portable: These 15
notebook-size computers mix PC power
with state-of-the-art portability . . . 148--154, 156--157, 159--160, 162
Anonymous Libraries with Class: A handful of C++
libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
T. Yager The Littlest SPARC: Sun's SPARCstation
IPC squeezes RISC power onto even the
smallest desk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170, 172, 174
Anonymous PS/2 Blues Disappear with First
16.7-Million-Color MCA Adapter:
RasterOps releases the first true-color,
24-bit display adapter for PS/2s . . . . 176
Anonymous An Artist's Old Tool Learns New Tricks:
Adobe's Illustrator 3.0 offers improved
text handling and a new graphing
capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Anonymous Statistical Analysis for the Executive:
KnowledgeSeeker provides an analytical
statistical tool for executive decision
making that nearly works like magic . . 183
Anonymous Concern for the Editing Environment: The
Iliad Group's PIEdit creates an
integrated development environment for
cross-platform programmers . . . . . . . 186
Anonymous Dynabook Revisited with Alan Kay: From
Xerox PARC to Apple, Alan Kay's most
enduring contribution may be a machine
that has not yet been built . . . . . . 203
R. M. Carr The point of the pen (PenPoint operating
system) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--214, 216, 219--221
Anonymous Touch-and-Feel Interfaces: Laptops of
the near future will have to include
built-in pointing devices to support
GUIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
N. Baran LCDs and Beyond: Nick Baran reviews the
state of the art of display technologies
and describes some fascinating
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--234, 236
D. Gephardt and
M. C. Klonower Destination Laptop: Squeezing the
components of an AT-class machine onto a
single chip will have a great impact on
the portable computers of the future . . 239--242, 246
J. Reimer Memories in My Pocket: Solid-state
memory cards provide the size, weight,
and capacity necessary to be practical
in a notebook computer . . . . . . . . . 251--252, 254--256, 258
Anonymous Resource Guide: Portable Sources: A
who's who in portable computers . . . . 260
Anonymous The Future of Network Operating Systems:
What lies ahead for network operating
systems? Major players in the field make
their predictions . . . . . . . . . . . 268
M. A. Clarkson An Easier Interface: An innovative new
user interface from Xerox's Palo Alto
Research Center makes use of color and
3-D graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278, 280--282
J. Richter XGA: A New Graphics Standard: The
Extended Graphics Array offers full
graphics functionality as well as bus
mastering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286, 288--290
Anonymous Making Windows Work: Here's help if
you're experiencing pains with Windows
3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Anonymous Fax Facts: The little-known digital
secrets tucked inside every fax device 301
W. Stallings A Practical Guide to Queuing Analysis:
William Stallings, an authority on data
communications, presents some simple
tools for analyzing many kinds of
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--316
Anonymous Never-Never Land: Science and lunacy
collide in a fascinating book about
experiments over the edge . . . . . . . 358
Anonymous Great Expectations: Advice on how not to
get burned the next time you buy a
system for your business . . . . . . . . 360
Anonymous Of Hard Disks and Redesigns . . . . . . 10
S. Miastkowski and
R. Grehan The 386 Gets a Competitor: AMD's
innovative 386 ``clone'' chip sparks
controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--45
Anonymous Sony's Portable News: A Unix workstation
for the field . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous DesktopTV: multimedia from A View
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous Persuasion 2.0: Aldus's quick way to do
a business presentation . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous PixelView PC: Mirror Technologies
introduces the first affordable
large-screen monitor . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous SideKick 2.0: Borland's upgrade works
with Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous Tandon NB 386SX Notebook: features
power-saving technology . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous WSP-200: almost the world's smallest
printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
D. Pountain Beyond RISC: the PgC7600 microprocessor 90IS/109--114
D. Pountain Taos: an innovation in operating systems 90IS/117--126
Jerry Pournelle Desktop Publishing Fever: Jerry looks at
some new games, including Chris
Crawford's Balance of the Planet, Mac
software and hardware, and simulation
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Wayne Rash, Jr. Whose Enterprise Is It: Make sure that
your enterprise network needs are indeed
your own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108, 110, 112
Anonymous Why Doesn't Software Work: BYTE
columnists, staff, and contributors
debate the issues . . . . . . . . . . . 117
P. M. Benton The Multilingual Edge: A look at systems
that translate human languages . . . . . 124--128, 130, 132
D. Pountain Oberon: A look at the latest language to
come out of Niklaus Wirth's workshop . . 135--136, 138, 140, 142
Peter Wayner Smart Memories: How content-addressable
memory chips and other special memories
can speed searches and solve surprising
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--150, 152
Anonymous Network Management . . . . . . . . . . . 154
P. Stephenson Mixing and Matching LANs: The thorniest
network management problem is how to tie
different networks together . . . . . . 157--158, 160, 162, 164
C. Manson and
J. S. Haugdahl Dynamic and Distributed: Managing
distributed systems in general, and
doing it from a centralized location in
particular, are major problem areas . . 167--168, 170--172
J. Sloman Control Central: Providing centralized
LAN-based services often involves major
changes at each client's workstation . . 175--176, 178, 180
S. Fisher Dueling Protocols: SNMP versus CMIP: Are
they really more similar than different? 183--184, 186, 188, 190
B. Nance Managing Big Blue: A look at IBM's
network management tools . . . . . . . . 197--198, 200, 202, 204
S. M. Dauber Finding Fault: Don't get caught with
your network down . . . . . . . . . . . 207--208, 210, 212, 214
Anonymous Network Management Sources: Your guide
to producers of network management
products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
H. Eglowstein and
T. Thompson Please, Mister Postman: The BYTE Lab
tests nine E-mail packages for Mac and
PC LANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--225, 227--235
R. Grehan Ethernet's 32-bit Players: EISA Ethernet
adapters break LAN performance
bottlenecks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--243
T. Yager Newtek's Video Toaster Makes
Professional Video Affordable: ``Desktop
video'' now a reality . . . . . . . . . 245--246, 248--250, 252, 254
T. Thompson A Wallet-Friendly Mac That Delivers
Performance: The high-performance Mac
IIsi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258, 260, 262
J. M. Dlugosz Quick Relief for Windows Programming:
Winpro/3 automates Windows 3.0
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
J. Udell Powerfusion Provides the Glue for
Networking DOS and Unix: One answer to
the dilemma of interconnecting DOS and
Unix LANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268, 270, 272, 274
B. Calabrese 2-D and 3-D Mac CAD for Less Cost:
DesignCAD's new Mac program offers fast
2-D and 3-D design . . . . . . . . . . . 276--278
S. Apiki V-ATE Revs Up PC Diagnostics: Vista
Microsystems offers more than standard
power-on self-test cards . . . . . . . . 281--282
Andrew Schulman Undocumented DOS: Valuable details about
MS-DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288, 290, 292, 294, 296--298
J. H. Lubeck and
B. D. Schatzman Networking Windows: Making Windows 3.0
work on a network . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300, 302, 304, 306--307
Steve Apiki Lossless Data Compression: An
explanation of two compression
algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--312, 314, 386--387
Roger C. Alford The IDE Hard Disk Drive Interface: Soon
to be the AT standard? . . . . . . . . . 317--322, 324
Martin Heller Beyond DOS: Windows and OS/2. Windows
programming made easy . . . . . . . . . 326--328
Don Crabb The Business Macintosh: Don looks at Mac
business simulation . . . . . . . . . . 329--330, 332
David Fiedler Tricks of the Unix Gurus: Some powerful
hints for work and fun . . . . . . . . . 332, 334, 336
Barry Nance In Praise of Remote Procedure Calls:
RPCs harness the power of the
client/server architecture . . . . . . . 338--340
Anonymous More Mathematical People: Two new books
look at the lives of math whizzes and
their work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Anonymous Open Season on Unix: ``Open, schmopen,
just give me something that works,''
says one of BYTE's Unix aficionados . . 390
Anonymous Lower-Cost Downloads . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous FoxPro 2.0 Engages the Warp Engines: A
proprietary technology boosts FoxPro's
performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous A Lean, Mean SCSI-2 Machine: HP's 486
file server has an winning
price/performance ratio . . . . . . . . 47
Anonymous BallPoint, Thumbelina, and TrackMan
Portable: a clever new generation of
portable pointing devices . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous BeckerTools 2.0: Windows 3.0 gets a
useful file manager . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous LaserJet IIISi: HP's new network printer 52
Anonymous Supernote 386SX: a notebook from
Twinhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous 8514/Ultra and FlexScan 9080i: an ATI
8514 board and a Nanao high-res/low-rad
monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Jerry Pournelle User's Choice Awards: The best products
of 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Wayne Rash, Jr. Windows and the Business Workstation:
Windows 3.0 will change the way you buy
PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Anonymous Whither Innovation: BYTE editors debate
the state of innovation in the computer
industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Anonymous Computing in the U.S.S.R. . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous A Talk with Intel: An in-depth interview
with three of Intel's top chip designers 131
K. Krechmer High-Speed Safety: How to ensure
integrity and maximum serial
communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144, 146, 148, 150, 152
Anonymous The Paperless Office . . . . . . . . . . 156
G. P. Michalski The World of Documents: You can't choose
a document imaging system without
understanding the base technology . . . 159--160, 162--164, 166--168, 170
D. A. Harvey Catch the Wave of DIP: Document image
processing brings the goal of a
paperless office closer to reality ---
today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174, 176, 178--180, 182
D. A. Harvey and
B. Ryan Practically Paperless: Where need and
technology fit, document image
processing helps to streamline your
business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186, 188--190
C. Locke The Dark Side of DIP: Christopher Locke
discusses the complexities of indexing,
an essential element in retrieving
imaged documents . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--194, 196, 200, 202, 204
D. P. Wright and
C. L. Scofield Divide and Conquer: Neural networks
offer the promise of quick and effective
automatic character recognition . . . . 207--210
Anonymous Resource Guide: Document Imaging
Systems: A source listing for document
image processing systems . . . . . . . . 217
S. Diehl and
H. Eglowstein Tame the Paper Tiger: 14 OCR products
designed to help you tame the paper
tiger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--226, 228, 230, 232, 234, 236, 238
L. Wood Script Languages: The BASIC of the
1990s: An examination of quick-and-dirty
programming products on Macs and PCs . . 244--246, 248, 250
J. Udell and
T. Yager Atlantix, Altos Fill DOS-to-Unix
Connectivity Gaps: Approaching the LAN
connectivity problem from different
angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--256
G. Loveria Low-Cost 3-D Animation Materializes for
PC Users: 3D Studio brings affordable
animation to the PC . . . . . . . . . . 259--262
Roger C. Alford The Fastest Portable: IBM's P75 Road
Warrior: Carry your 486 system with you 265--266, 268
J. Udell Access Extended Edition and dBASE Data
with InfoAlliance: A solution for
network users with disparate data
sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--274
O. Linderholm A Graphical Environment That Runs Where
Windows Can't: GeoWorks Ensemble runs on
the smaller, slower PCs in your office 276--277
J. Unger ALR's Multiprocessing Monster Uses Six
i486 Processors: The MultiAccess system
brings multiprocessing to the masses . . 279--282
S. J. Vaughan-Nichols SX Upgrade Boards: Not for the
Fainthearted: Boards that upgrade your
286 system can be difficult to install 283--284, 286
B. Glass SPARC Revealed: A new breed of
workstation evolves from a clonable RISC
CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296, 298, 300--302
T. Thompson Macintosh Video Revealed: Tom Thompson,
BYTE's resident Mac guru, takes us on a
trek to the depths of the Mac display 305--308, 310, 312--314, 390--391
S. Lacey and
R. Box A Fast, Easy Sort: A novel enhancement
makes a bubble sort into one of the
fastest sorting routines . . . . . . . . 315--316, 318, 320
Don Crabb Roger and Me: The Quest for
Compatibility: Film critic Roger Ebert
has Mac software compatibility problems 334
David Fiedler Lost in the Woods: Changing the default
scripts and parameters for new users . . 338
Brett Glass Windows 3.0 and Networks: A marriage
(almost) made in heaven . . . . . . . . 343--344, 347
Douglas Hamilton A Smaller, Faster OS/2: OS/2 1.3:
technical success, marketing flop . . . 347
Anonymous Poets and Sleepwalkers: This month's
lineup includes works on recreational
computing and studies in programming
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Anonymous Let My PCs Go: Do we lose more than we
gain when we network personal computers? 394
Dick Pountain Chorus of Approval . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16
Anonymous CeBIT '91 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
D. Andrews and
A. Reinhardt A PC and 1-2-3 in the palm of your hand
(HP 95LX palmtop computer) . . . . . . . 44--46
Anonymous Aldus FreeHand 3.0: a new-generation Mac
drawing tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous Apple Introduces Low-Cost Laser Quality
with Style: A new dual low end for Apple
printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous Infini-D: a three-dimensional world for
the Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous MT735 and LT-20: the highs and lows of
printing on the road . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous Object Vision: an object-oriented
approach makes forms cook . . . . . . . 48
O. Linderholm Z-486/25E: the i486 and TIGA video make
a powerful personal workstation . . . . 48
O. Linderholm Apple introduces low-cost laser quality
with style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48, 50
Jerry Pournelle Atari Revisited: Jerry looks at the
Atari TT030 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Wayne Rash, Jr. The Missing Link: Heterogeneous LANs can
communicate despite a shortage of
solutions from major platform vendors 111
Anonymous Is It Time to Telecommute: Will
telecommuting save the world and our
jobs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
M. Heller Future Documents: Combine Windows text,
graphics, voice, and more . . . . . . . 126--129, 132, 134--135
L. Wood Desktop Prototyping: New technologies
make CAD drawings into solid models ---
from PCs! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138, 140, 142
N. Baran Data Acquisition: PCs on the Bench: Data
acquisition on powerful personal
computers and workstations . . . . . . . 145--149
Anonymous Managing Gigabytes . . . . . . . . . . . 150
B. Ryan The Data Swamp: Together, hardware and
software developments are making it
easier to handle massive amounts of data 153--156
R. M. Stein Browsing Through Terabytes: Wide-area
information servers can distill vast
archives of data . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--160, 162--164
Anonymous Prioritizing Information: Grace Hopper
speaks out on the value of data and
various criteria you can use to help
determine that value . . . . . . . . . . 169
M. Robinson Through a Lens Smartly: Information Lens
can simplify electronic communications 177--178, 180, 186--187
T. Toperczer From Pyramids to Peers: Data management
applications strengthen the integrity of
network data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192, 194--196, 198
R. A. Peters Giga-Storage: A variety of storage
technologies exist, and conflicting
considerations are involved in choosing
among them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--202, 204--206
Anonymous Resource Guide: Massive Mass Storage:
Jukebox manufacturers serve up gigabytes
of storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
S. Apiki and
S. Diehl 486 EISA: Born to Blaze: These 33-MHz
486 EISA systems are the fastest
machines we've seen . . . . . . . . . . 216--220, 222, 224--226, 228, 230, 232--234
T. Yager X Terminals for Workstation Power at PC
Prices: Seamless Unix and X Window
networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--242, 244
R. Grehan ``Smart'' UPSes Alert LANs to Power
Problems: New LAN-based UPSes prevent
damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250, 252, 254
B. Glass QEMM-386 and 386Max Square Off Under
Windows: Contenders for the extended
memory of Windows users . . . . . . . . 257--258, 260
S. J. Vaughan-Nichols When Less Is More: Making Mac Images
More Manageable: Storm Technology debuts
an effective image-compression duo . . . 263--264
G. Loveria High-Quality Image Editing Develops on
the PC: Image-editing software turns PCs
into electronic darkrooms . . . . . . . 266--268
S. Kearns The MultiScope Debuggers Make Debugging
Easier: The MultiScope Debuggers for DOS
provide GUI power . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272, 274
R. C. Alford Extend Your Printer's Reach Without a
LAN: A trio of printer sharers that
maximize your investment . . . . . . . . 277--278, 280, 282
A. Joch Color Printing, Diconix Style: Vibrant
but Slow: Kodak's new ink-jet printer
graces business documents . . . . . . . 287--288, 290
Anonymous IslandWrite, IslandDraw, and IslandPaint
offer an isle of productivity . . . . . 292--293, 295
J. Romkey and
S. Fisher All about packet drivers . . . . . . . . 297--298, 300, 302--304, 306
M. Mallett Networkwide interprocess communications 309
M. Mallett A look at remote procedure calls . . . . 309--312, 314, 316, 317, 384--385
David Fiedler Stars of the Show: A visit to UniForum 318
Barry Nance The AIX Alternative: Choosing a
Unix-based architecture . . . . . . . . 324, 326, 328
Mark J. Minasi Windows Tips and Tricks: Answers to some
frequently asked Windows 3.0 questions 328, 330--332
Don Crabb Professional 3-D Graphics on the Mac:
Don finds a graphics oasis . . . . . . . 334
Anonymous Up from Rosie: Professor Kenner examines
a new book of essays about fractals and
chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Anonymous Human Filters: Beyond managing
megabytes, to avoiding infolock . . . . 388
Anonymous Here We Go Again . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous The 486SX Falls Short . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Seven's a Success: A long-awaited Mac OS
offers compatibility, new features, and
a future growth path . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous GUI Programming Facility: software that
takes away some of the pain of
developing PM applications . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous HP/Apollo 9000 Series 700: the fastest
Unix system we've tested . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous Turbo Pascal for Windows: finally, an
easy way to develop Windows applications 52
Anonymous Zenith's MastersPort 386SL and
SupersPort 486: the first 386SL-based
low-power notebook and a loaded 486
portable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Jerry Pournelle DOS Decisions: Jerry works with the
Arche Legacy 486/33 and Digital
Research's DOS 5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Wayne Rash, Jr. A LAN Away from Home: Your LAN: You can
take it with you . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Anonymous Who Needs GUIs: The pros and cons of
graphical user interfaces . . . . . . . 117
K. M. Sheldon and
J. J. Barron and
B. Smith Window Wars: The leading graphical user
interfaces go head to head . . . . . . . 124--132, 134
M. Heller and
P. Wayner and
B. Smith Tools for Window Workers: Development
systems make it easier to create GUI
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--140, 142, 144, 146--148
Anonymous Resource Guide: Graphical User
Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
R. Cook Embedded Systems in Control: The
proliferation of, and new trends in,
embedded systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154, 156--158, 160
Anonymous Advanced Spreadsheets . . . . . . . . . 171
Anonymous NSTL review supplement: advanced
spreadsheets (buyer's guide) . . . . . . 171--174, 176, 180, 182, 184, 188, 190--192, 194
Anonymous Multiprocessing . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
B. Ryan Multiprocessor Surf's Up: A parallel
technology that's gone from Real Soon
Now to Here Now! . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--202, 204, 206
S. J. Vaughan-Nichols Catch as Cache Can: Cache coherency is a
critical element of shared-memory
multiprocessor systems . . . . . . . . . 209--210, 212--214, 216
M. Robinson Popular and Parallel: Various approaches
to creating truly scalable shared-memory
architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--224, 226, 228
R. M. Stein Scaling Up: Get the Message:
Message-passing multicomputers bypass
shared memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--234, 236, 238--240
M. Nudelman Symmetry, Thy Name Is Unix: Unix
SVR4/MP: A new standard for
multiprocessing with Unix? . . . . . . . 245--246, 248, 250--253
Anonymous Resource Guide: Multiprocessing Systems 255
T. Thompson and
R. Grehan Paint for the Pros: The BYTE Lab tests
eight professional-level paint programs
for Macs and PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--261, 264, 266--268, 272, 274, 276
S. J. Vaughan-Nichols No-Compromise Notebooks with 386SX
Power: From a torrent of SX notebook
introductions, one clear winner emerges 282--284, 286, 288, 290, 292
Wayne Rash, Jr. WaveLAN: A Network with No Strings
Attached: NCR's product does away with
LAN cabling --- for a price . . . . . . 294--296
S. Carpenter The NeXTstation: A High-Performance
Graphical Workstation with a PC Price
Tag: Can NeXT take on both Sun and
Apple? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--299
S. Kearns Borland C++ 2.0 Moves into Windows
Territory: Borland's latest compiler
produces DOS and Windows applications 301--302
D. Bissell What-If CAD: Parametric Math Migrates to
Windows: Design View and Cedar offer CAD
designers what-if analysis tools . . . . 305--306, 308
H. Eglowstein Windows Display Managers File Rough
Edges from Text: How's your face?
Windows font managers finally make true
WYSIWYG a reality . . . . . . . . . . . 311--312
P. Wayner The big index (file indexing) . . . . . 317--318, 320, 322, 412--413
R. C. Alford The Evolution of PCL: Version 5 of
Hewlett-Packard's PCL beefs up the
standard office printer . . . . . . . . 325, 327--328, 330, 332, 336, 338
Anonymous Just for Checking Up: Three free
utilities for DOS, Mac, and Unix systems 341
Barry Nance The AIX Alternative, Part 2: The search
for the right network-support software 343--344, 346, 348
Martin Heller Windows Meets AI: AI applications come
to Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Don Crabb System 7.0--Apple Defines Its Future:
The Mac moves into the 1990s with a new
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
David Fiedler Networking Unix: Networking on LANs and
the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Anonymous A Passage from India: An intriguing
biography of an Indian genius . . . . . 414
Anonymous Windows of Vulnerability: What will the
coming of the GUI mean to the blind and
the learning-disabled? . . . . . . . . . 416
Anonymous The Best of Spring . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous The All-in-One DOS . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous CDR-1000: Tandy's US\$399 {CD-ROM} drive
brings access to affordable information 43
Anonymous DiskPaper 1.0: a low-cost way for you
and your Mac to explore the potential of
the long-promised ``paperless office'' 43
Anonymous Northgate Slides into CEG: Northgate's
SlimLine eases the which-chip anguish 43
Anonymous WHAT's NEW: Macs and Suns talk to each
other, an image program for Windows 3.0
counts objects, and more . . . . . . . . 52
D. Pountain Learning OOP style by playing poker . . 72IS/43--44, 46, 48, 50, 52
P. Lavin Olivetti broadens its product line . . . 72IS/55--56, 58, 60
Jerry Pournelle Dredging Through the Chaos: Jerry looks
at new CD-ROMs, file utilities, and a
multilink database . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Wayne Rash, Jr. Managing the LAN: LAN management doesn't
get enough respect . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Anonymous Do Computers Save Time: Computers
generate their own impediments to
productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
K. M. Sheldon ASCII Goes Global: Computer companies
and international committees wrestle
with making ASCII large enough to cover
the globe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--112, 114, 116
G. A. van Horn The Right Graphics Tool for the Job: Are
you using the right graphics programs
for your projects? . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124, 126, 128, 130
Anonymous 1991 Readers' Choice Awards: Presenting
the hardware and software BYTE readers
find most useful . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Anonymous Advanced Desktop Publishing Programs . . 139
Anonymous NSTL review supplement: advanced desktop
publishing programs . . . . . . . . . . 139--142, 144, 146, 150, 152--154, 156--157
Anonymous Wide-Area Networking . . . . . . . . . . 158
R. Green Remote Connections: Remote sites can
share common information and send
messages to each other, courtesy of a
wide-area network . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162, 164--168
P. Stephenson Create a WAN: What you need to know and
do to implement a wide-area network in
your business . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--176, 178
S. Fisher Whither NREN: What is the government's
proper role in providing a National
Research and Education Network? . . . . 181--186, 188--189
Anonymous A National Vision: U.S. Senator Al Gore
explains why we need NREN . . . . . . . 188
Anonymous Resource Guide: Public Data Networks . . 190
S. Apiki Journey to Faraway LANs: Nine ways to
connect remote sites to your local
network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--196, 198, 200, 202--203, 205--206, 208, 210
T. Yager Five New SPARC-based Workstations
Compete with Sun: Five non-Sun systems
put SPARC's promise to the test . . . . 210--214
G. Loveria Photo-Realism Reigns When AutoShade
Meets RenderMan: The RenderMan extension
in new AutoShade brings photo-realism to
AutoCAD users . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220, 222, 0224
H. Eglowstein Full Ethernet Networking Without a Wire
in Sight: Motorola's Altair LAN leaves
Ethernet cabling behind . . . . . . . . 229--230
S. Wszola Server-based UPSes promise order during
power problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
S. J. Mastrianni OS/2 Device Drivers: A practitioner's
guide to OS/2 driver development . . . . 241--242, 244, 246, 248, 348--350
J. Reekes and
T. Thompson Macintosh Sound Revealed: A look at the
Mac's built-in sound capabilities . . . 249--250, 252, 254, 256, 258, 260, 262
B. Nance A Disk-based Print Spooler: Free
timesaving utilities for DOS, Mac, and
Unix systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Mark J. Minasi LaserJets, Fonts, and Windows: Getting
fancy fonts from Windows is tricky but
doable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--273
Don Crabb The Worldwide Macintosh: HyperCard makes
CD-ROM development easier for small
companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278, 280, 282
David Fiedler Survivalist's Guide to Unix: Methods of
Unix system backup and protection . . . 285--286, 288
William Sproule and
Jon Edwards AppleTalk over the Internet: Princeton
and Penn State interconnect their
AppleTalk LANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294, 296, 298
Anonymous Noisy Narcissists, One Genius: Two new
books explore the hacker mentality . . . 351
Anonymous The X Attitude: A developer argues for
software that looks to the future,
regardless of the cost . . . . . . . . . 352
Anonymous Moscow's Second Annual Computer Forum 10
A. Reinhardt NCR Knows Notepads: The System 3125A
tablet computer runs PenPoint or
PenWindows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--38
S. Miastkowski A Whale of a System: Moby Brick is a
loaded 486 system . . . . . . . . . . . 39--40
Anonymous Microsoft Multimedia Development Kit:
bringing audio and video to Windows
applications development . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Magnavox Metalis/286: for a wide range
of users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous PacificPage XL: high-speed PostScript
printing for the LaserJet III . . . . . 42
Anonymous QFA-700: a high-capacity, high-speed
tape backup unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Visual Basic: Windows programming gets
real BASIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
D. Pountain Out of Eden: the VPi386 . . . . . . . . 72IS/7--8, 10
Jerry Pournelle On the Road Again: Jerry looks at a new
portable computer . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Wayne Rash, Jr. Your First LAN: Tips for first-time
network buyers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94, 96
Anonymous What Is a Programming Language:
Scripting tools are real programming
languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
L. P. Deutsch and
A. Goldberg Smalltalk: Yesterday, Today, and
Tomorrow: The trial balloon of a decade
ago is now flying high . . . . . . . . . 108--110, 112--115
G. Lindhorst and
A. Anderson and
D. Dahms Programming the 68040: Tricks and traps
of software design for this high-powered
processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122, 124, 126, 128
C. Simonyi and
M. Heller The Hungarian Revolution: A developing
standard for naming program variables 131--132, 134--138
Anonymous 33-MHz 386 Systems: Eight PCs evaluated
for performance, features, and usability 143
Anonymous Fault Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
V. P. Nelson Safety in Numbers: Fault-tolerant
computing can help you increase the
useful lifetime of your system . . . . . 175--178, 180, 182--184
M. Riezenman Chips That Work: Without fault
tolerance, you'd be paying a lot more
for your next computer . . . . . . . . . 187--190
S. J. Vaughan-Nichols Disk Insurance: Fault tolerance isn't an
option; it's a necessity . . . . . . . . 195--202
D. Fowler Perpetual Networks: If the network is
the computer, then you'd better be able
to keep the power switch on . . . . . . 205--208, 210, 212
Anonymous Resource Guide: Fault-Tolerant Disk
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
S. Diehl and
S. Wszola and
B. Kliewer and
L. Stevens Rx for Safer Data . . . . . . . . . . . 218--224, 226, 228, 230, 234--235
H. Eglowstein Can a Grammar and Style Checker Improve
Your Writing: The BYTE Lab tests eight
popular programs that promise to make
you a better writer . . . . . . . . . . 238--242
S. Apiki Full Color Comes to LCDs: New portables
from Toshiba and Dolch put full-color
VGA on the road . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246, 248
R. Mitchell IBM and AT&T Enter the Fray of 386SX
Notebook Computers: The BYTE Lab tests
and compares IBM's PS/2 Model L40 SX and
AT&T's Safari NSX/20 . . . . . . . . . . 252--254
Anonymous Taking Exception to C: Add exception
handling to the C programming language 259
Anonymous The Transputer Strikes Back: A look at
Inmos's amazing new T9000 transputer
chip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Anonymous Keys, Trees, and Fonts: Free timesaving,
file-tree, and previewing utilities for
DOS, Mac, and Unix systems . . . . . . . 277
Don Crabb New Frontiers: Mac software finally gets
serious about user scripting . . . . . . 279
David Fiedler Let Me Down Gently: Handling blackouts
gracefully, and typesetting with troff 281
Barry Nance LAN Tune-Up: Revitalizing the office
network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Martin Heller Hedging Your Bets: Survival strategies
for cross-platform developers . . . . . 291
Anonymous Bicycles for the Mind: A new book
investigates computers in the CEO's
office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Anonymous You've Come a Long Way, PC: The IBM PC
turns 10 this month . . . . . . . . . . 336
Anonymous Thanks for the Memory . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Repairing the Cracks in Windows: An
early version of Windows 3.0's
long-awaited successor . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Unix Goes Indigo . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Reach Out and Link Someone: LapLink's
latest version adds a new interface and
works via a modem . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Anonymous Adobe Illustrator 3.0 for the Next: all
the Mac features, and more . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous AcerAnyWare 1120NX: a nifty notebook
loaded with useful features . . . . . . 48
Anonymous Frontier 1.0: finally, scripting for the
Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous FrameMaker 3.0: the newest incarnation
of a multiple-platform program for
desktop publishing . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous Norton Desktop for Windows: make Windows
more useful with an integrated shell . . 48
A. Redfern Kyocera rustles up the Refalo (pocket
computer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88IS-7--8, 88IS-10, 88IS-12
D. Pountain Research Machines' first notebook PC . . 88IS-15
Jerry Pournelle It's All Digital: Jerry looks at
multimedia products . . . . . . . . . . 89
Wayne Rash, Jr. Your first LAN: do it yourself? . . . . 105, 108, 110
Anonymous Computing's New World Order: Will market
forces change the PC vendor landscape? 117
Peter Wayner True Data: A look at techniques for
ensuring the authenticity of the data
you send, receive, or store . . . . . . 122--124, 126, 128
J. R. Mashey 64-bit Computing: 64-bit micros may be
coming to desktops near you . . . . . . 135--138, 140, 142
D. Appleby Classic Language, Part 1: FORTRAN: First
in a series on language survivors . . . 147--148, 150
D. Dayton and
L. Wood Windows 3.0 Applications: The state of
the market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176
Anonymous The Office of the Future . . . . . . . . 204
J. M. Tazelaar Visions of Tomorrow: What will the
office of the future be like? . . . . . 207--208, 210
Wayne Rash, Jr. Corporate Connections: Wayne Rash, Jr.
describes how networks that span entire
companies will change the way you work
in the 1990s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--220, 222--223
B. Ryan Downsizing: Bane or Boon: Downsizing
saves money, increases efficiency, and
changes the role of MIS . . . . . . . . 227--230, 232
Anonymous Is America Losing Its Edge: Some of the
best and brightest scientists are
leaving U.S. research labs . . . . . . . 233
Anonymous Resource Guide: Office Automation
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
R. Grehan and
H. Eglowstein and
T. Thompson and
T. Yager Getting Groups on Schedule: The BYTE Lab
tests 16 group schedulers . . . . . . . 250--254, 256--258, 260, 262, 264
D. A. Harvey CD-ROM Drives: How Good Is the Third
Generation: Will CD-ROM's promise be
fulfilled? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--270, 272, 274, 276
J. Pepper Quattro Pro 3.0 vs. Lotus 1-2-3 Release
2.3: Two worthy GUI spreadsheets . . . . 279--280, 282
R. C. Alford A Trio of 486SX Machines: Better Than
386 Systems: Price and performance don't
quite add up for these 486SX machines 285--286, 288, 290
B. Nance New NetWare Versions, Options Broaden
Appeal: Dramatic improvements in
connectivity and ease of installation 293--294, 296
J. Udell Debuggers for Windows Shows Promise,
Lacks Polish: MultiScope's latest
debugger does Windows programs . . . . . 297--298
T. Yager Build Multimedia Presentations with
MacroMind's MediaMaker: MediaMaker sets
the pace with captivating presentations 302--304
T. Yager Computers Go Video with NEC's PC-VCR:
There's more to this high-tech VCR than
meets the eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308
J. H. Lubeck and
B. D. Schatzman High-End Printing on a Low-End Budget:
Champagne output on a beer budget . . . 315--316, 318--320
Anonymous Inherit the Win: Taking advantage of the
object-oriented attributes of PM and
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Anonymous Power Management: How portables squeeze
power from their batteries . . . . . . . 329
Anonymous Two Text Editors: Free (or almost): two
text editors, a patching utility, and an
application switcher . . . . . . . . . . 336
Tom Thompson Networking with System 7.0: System 7.0
provides peer-to-peer capabilities . . . 337
David Fiedler Gettying Up to Speed: Tips on talking to
modems with the getty daemon . . . . . . 341
Louis J. Cutrona Class Conflict: The Windows/C++ mismatch 345
Don Crabb Mac Realities: A new software concept,
and tips for Mac happiness . . . . . . . 347
Anonymous Dreams of Artificial Reality: Recent
books examine the mind-machine
connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Anonymous How to Be a Hero: Smart training
practices produce smart users . . . . . 392
Anonymous Compaq Goes Modular . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Compatibility Is King in 1-2-3 for
Windows: Windows and Mac versions offer
backward compatibility . . . . . . . . . 39
Anonymous Full Page Pivot: a ``flippy'' monitor
brings new dimensions to Windows . . . . 42
Jerry Pournelle An Exercise in Logistics: Jerry looks at
the latest version of Q and A . . . . . 81
Wayne Rash, Jr. Defending Your LAN: Be prepared for
second-guessers when proposing a LAN
spec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous What Price Modularity: Is expandability
a real need or merely a marketing ploy? 103
M. Caudill Expert Networks: An innovative
combination of technologies lets you
build expert systems even when you don't
have an expert . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--112, 114, 116
D. A. Harvey Health and Safety First: Ergonomic
design can make using personal computers
safer and more productive . . . . . . . 119--120, 122, 124--126, 128
Anonymous Classic Languages, Part 2: COBOL: The
Common Business Oriented Language is far
from dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Anonymous New Printer Technologies: Introduction 136
M. Fiezenman Smart Printing: RISC is giving the
latest generation of printers the punch
it needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--142, 144--146
R. C. Alford Color Printing: Technologies old and new
are changing the look of desktop color
printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150, 152, 155--156, 158
A. J. Rogers Ink Jet Takes Off: Phase-change ink-jet
color printing combines brilliant color
with the ability to print on plain paper 163--164, 166, 168
M. D. Nelson Hot Colors: Thermal-transfer and
dye-diffusion printing expand your
desktop color printing options . . . . . 177--178, 180, 182
B. Smith Printing with Electrons: Will
electron-beam printing capture the
high-volume market? . . . . . . . . . . 185--186, 188, 190, 192
Anonymous Color printers (directory) . . . . . . . 194--195
S. Diehl and
H. Eglowstein Penny-wise PostScript (printer market
survey) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--206, 208, 210, 212
Anonymous Modems That Squeeze the Most out of
V.32: The BYTE Lab puts 12 V.32/V.42bis
modems --- all under US\$800 --- to the
test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Anonymous Two Ways to Program BASIC for Windows:
Visual Basic and Realizer offer
programmers an alternative to C for
creating Windows programs . . . . . . . 221
Anonymous Super-Priced Super VGA Boards: A look at
six Super VGA boards priced under
US\$400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Anonymous Image Editor Promises New Respect for
PCs: A new program produces PC-based
color separations . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Anonymous Hewlett-Packard's 425e Shows Off the
Power of the 68040: The firstborn son of
the Hewlett-Packard and Apollo merger 239
Anonymous Apple Sharing: The internals of the
AppleTalk Filing Protocol . . . . . . . 247
Anonymous The Incredible Shrinking Disk: How do
hard drives pack more and more capacity
into smaller and smaller packages? . . . 255
Anonymous E-Mail and Error Messages: Free E-mail
programs, an E-mail interface, and an
error-code identifier . . . . . . . . . 267
Barry Nance Getting the Most from NetBIOS: Barry
offers sage advice --- and a free
utility --- for NetBIOS programmers . . 269
Mark J. Minasi The Case of the Missing Memory: DOS 5.0
meets Windows 3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Don Crabb Portable Pains and Pleasures: When it
comes to portable computers, Apple's
second attempt is a winner . . . . . . . 279
David Fiedler Anonymous on the Net: You can have fast
access to worldwide resources . . . . . 285
Anonymous Tales from the Venture Woods: Gordon
Bell's new book tells of high-tech
winners and losers . . . . . . . . . . . 330
John Perry Barlow The Law Comes to Cyberspace: John Perry
Barlow, cofounder of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, tells his story . . 332
Gene Smarte R.I.P. IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Nicholas Baran This Way to 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Andy Reinhardt and
Owen Linderholm and
Ellen Ullman and
D. Barker and
David Andrews and
Rich Malloy Cornerstones of the Future . . . . . . . 27
Owen Linderholm Mind Melding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Janet J. Barron A Business Wish List . . . . . . . . . . 49
Andy Redfern The Outlook for Europe . . . . . . . . . 58
Barry Nance The Future of Software Technology . . . 69
Bob Ryan Processor Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Nicholas Baran Operating Systems Now and Beyond . . . . 93
Andy Reinhardt Disk, DAT, and the Optical Thing . . . . 102
Sharon Fisher Networking: Promises and Problems . . . 117
Michael A. Banks Are On-Line Services Delivering? . . . . 123
Gene Smarte Surveys Say . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Anonymous The Ones to Watch . . . . . . . . . . . 154
T. Thompson Desktop PCs: The Buyer's Market
Continues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--164, 166--168
Stan Miastkowski and
Tom Yager and
Tom Thompson Windowing: Not by DOS Alone . . . . . . 172
Michael Nadeau Portable Computing: Notebooks Coming of
Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--200, 202, 204, 206
Jon Udell Networks: Trends in Network Management 208--210, 212, 216, 218--220
Anonymous Momenta Points to the Future . . . . . . 48
Anonymous A Peck of New Apple Macintoshes: Apple
unveils six new Macs . . . . . . . . . . 50
Anonymous Sweet Memory: Five new memory managers,
including a new QEMM and 386Max . . . . 62
Anonymous DR DOS 6.0, Digital Research takes on
DOS 5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Jerry Pournelle Stellar Attractions: Jerry builds a new
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Wayne Rash, Jr. That Pesky 640-KB Barrier: DOS 5.0 and a
memory manager make a good team . . . . 133
Anonymous The Public Speaks on OS/2 vs. Windows:
BIX participants debate the
Microsoft/IBM feud . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Anonymous The Single-Chip PC: Does Chips and
Technologies' remarkable new chip herald
the future of microprocessors? . . . . . 148
Anonymous Classic Languages, Part 3: Lisp: The
third installment of our Classic
Languages series . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
William Stallings Faster Packet Networks: William
Stallings explains the workings of a new
and exciting data communications
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Anonymous Interoperability: The Unfulfilled
Promise: Introduction . . . . . . . . . 184
Barry Nance Interoperability Today: Barry Nance
looks at how far we've come and how far
we have to go . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Anonymous Connectivity: The Sum of Its Parts:
Interconnection using LANs, MANs, WANs,
bridges, and routers . . . . . . . . . . 197
Steve Vaughan-Nichols Transparent Data Exchange: Steve
Vaughan-Nichols surveys the current
state of networkwide data transparency 211
Anonymous Portability and the GUI: Portability for
GUI-based applications --- today and
tomorrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Anonymous Distributed Open Environments: Building
a companywide, transparent, distributed
computing system is about to get a lot
easier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Anonymous Integrating Distributed Information: The
vision behind MCC's Carnot project is
integrated information in distributed
heterogeneous database environments . . 247
Anonymous You Can't Run On Everything: Some tips
on choosing a portability toolkit or a
long-term portability strategy . . . . . 255
Anonymous Resource Guide: Sources for Network
Bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Anonymous Mix `n' Match LAN: The BYTE Lab puts
together a LAN for Unix, Mac, and
NetWare clients . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
H. Eglowstein The Next Best Thing to the Paperless
Office: Eight forms packages help
automate your paperwork . . . . . . . . 290--292, 294, 298, 300
Anonymous Peer LANs Offer a Low-Cost Network
Alternative: The BYTE Lab tests five
peer LANs and picks a winner . . . . . . 303
Anonymous New 3-D Graphics Engines Give PCs
Workstation Power: 3-D graphics boards
power PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Anonymous Three 40-MHz 386 Systems Set New
Price/Performance Standards: New
computers from Arche, Ares, and Club
earn respect in the BYTE Lab . . . . . . 321
Anonymous Photoshop vs. ColorStudio: Their Battle
Reaches New Heights: How the new
Photoshop and ColorStudio stack up . . . 327
Anonymous Printf Plus: Here's how to extend C's
printf function . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Anonymous Modular-CPU Designs: Pros and cons of
modular-CPU systems . . . . . . . . . . 351
Anonymous Connect, Check, and Plan: Plan your
time, communicate via modem, and
diagnose your Mac with these free
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Bob Ryan On the Fast Track: Frame-relay services
are creating a stir among network
managers. Here's why . . . . . . . . . . 361
Martin Heller Setting Up Shop: Setting up to program
for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
David Fiedler PCs to Workstations: How do you make a
Unix workstation out of a 386 PC? . . . 375
Don Crabb Dealing with System Errors: Don tries to
fix his recurring System 7.0 crashes . . 381
Anonymous Scientists and Simulations: A new book
plays what-if games with spiderwebs,
computers, and history . . . . . . . . . 447
Anonymous Think About the Unthinkable: Preventing
a catastrophe by leaving instructions
about what to do if you aren't around 448
Anonymous OS/2 2.0: A Pilgrim's Journey . . . . . 46
Anonymous Putting Words to Windows: A trio of
next-generation word processors set new
standards for Windows . . . . . . . . . 53
Anonymous Nanao FlexScan T560i: a new standard for
graphics displays . . . . . . . . . . . 58
L. MacDonald Smart use of color in displays . . . . . 84IS-35--36, 84IS-40, 84IS-42, 84IS-44, 84IS-46
Jerry Pournelle The Revolution Continues: Did personal
computers bring down the Evil Empire? 85
Wayne Rash, Jr. Beyond File Sharing: What fax servers,
CD-ROMs, and other add-ons do for LANs 103
Anonymous What's Wrong with Unix: Something there
is that doesn't love Unix . . . . . . . 113
R. S. Schwerdtfeger Making the GUI Talk: New technology
addresses the GUI access barrier for
visually impaired and learning-disabled
people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--120, 122, 124, 126--128
Anonymous Whither xBase: The foremost applications
development language for the
microcomputer derives its vitality from
aggressive competition . . . . . . . . . 131
Anonymous Classic Languages, Part 4: APL: Despite
its unique symbols and narrow focus,
this language is still finding new
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Anonymous Multimedia: Solutions Anticipating a
Market: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . 150
T. Yager Information's Human Dimension:
Multimedia technologies provide the
tools that can help you make your
presentations come alive . . . . . . . . 153--156, 158, 160
Anonymous Chips Deliver Multimedia: New processors
are emerging that have the features
needed to bring multimedia to the
desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Anonymous Intel/IBM's Audio-Video Kernel: A new
set of hardware and software standards
introduced by Intel and IBM promise to
speed progress in desktop multimedia . . 177
Anonymous Inside QuickTime: Apple's latest system
software can take the pain out of
producing and playing multimedia
presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Anonymous Resource Guide: Multimedia Software
Sampler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
S. Diehl The Perfect Pitch: The BYTE Lab picks
the best presentation software for
Windows, DOS, and the Mac . . . . . . . 206--212, 214, 216, 218, 220, 222, 224
Anonymous Network Fax Servers Come of Age
(Slowly): Which fax server is right for
you? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Anonymous Notebook Power Management at Its Zenith:
The BYTE Lab tests the MastersPort, the
first notebook computer to use Intel's
power-saving 386SL CPU . . . . . . . . . 249
Anonymous Sun's Newest Desktop Powerhouses Raise
the SPARC Performance Ante: The ELC and
IPX systems create new standards in
speed and price for SPARC systems . . . 257
Anonymous Sorting Out Schedules: Problems and
algorithms of organizing people and time 263
Anonymous The Mips R4000: Mips's new RISC
processor is the spearhead of the ACE
consortium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Anonymous Remove TSR DOS Programs: A TSR remover,
a help enhancer, and a communications
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Don Crabb Making Yourself Truly Mac Portable:
Don's problems with trying to find the
``perfect'' portable Mac computing
environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
David Fiedler E-Mail for Power Users: Feature-rich
mail management programs for Unix . . . 295
Barry Nance The Black Art of Networking: There's
nothing simple about managing today's
LANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Walter Oney Why Wait for NT and Win32: Writing
32-bit Windows applications today . . . 307
Anonymous The Bubbly and the Babbly: What do AI
scripts, the human mind, and gourmet
restaurants have in common? . . . . . . 371
Anonymous The Dangers of Multitasking: A
multitasking mind-set can depersonalize
human interaction . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Udi Manber and
Sun Wu Approximate Pattern Matching . . . . . . ??
R. M. Stein Safety by formal design . . . . . . . . 157
Anonymous Microbytes: Chips to the left, chips to
the right: Microprocessors and chip sets
are delivering more power and
functionality in smaller form factors 27
D. Pountain First Impressions Psion's Powerful
Pocketable: A full-fledged hand-held
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Anonymous The 1991 BYTE Awards: BYTE editors and
contributors select the best products of
1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Classic Languages, Part 5: SNOBOL: The
fifth installment in our Classic
Languages series . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Anonymous Overview: A Moving Target:
Cross-platform development presents
unique challenges in this era of
proliferating platforms and fragmenting
standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Anonymous Tributaries and Deltas: Tracking
software change in multiplatform
environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Anonymous Let the System Do the Porting: A new
generation of operating systems will
help developers write applications for
multiple platforms . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Anonymous Resource Guide: Cross-Platform
Application Development Tools . . . . . 201
Anonymous Solutions Focus Database Building
Blocks: Database libraries with the
horsepower to build powerful multiuser
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
R. Grehan and
S. Diehl BYTE Lab Product Report: DOS Data at
Work: In our first BYTE Lab Product
Report, we sample the DOS database
market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--228, 230, 234, 236, 240, 242, 244--246, 248
Anonymous Tweaking Windows: New Adapters Boost
Speed and Clarity: Six new graphics
adapters promise to make Windows more
efficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Anonymous Ample Waves of Data: Five Tools to Help
You Stay Afloat: Five data-analysis
programs promise understanding in a sea
of information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
C. R. Gibson Claris Enters the Spreadsheet Wars: A
strong contender for the Macintosh
spreadsheet crown elbows in on Excel's
and Wingz's turf . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274, 276
Anonymous DOS Extenders: Raising the Ceiling: A
look at four toolkits for building
protected-mode DOS programs . . . . . . 279
T. Thompson The Phaser III Fires Dazzling Colors:
Tektronix's dazzling new color printer 285--286
Anonymous REVIEWER's NOTEBOOK: Supercharged
SuperCalc, jaggies relief, and a tool to
improve Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
S. Miastkowski Keyboardless Sense: A touchscreen
computer that makes sense . . . . . . . 36--37
Anonymous Macs and PCs: Together at Last:
Farallon's update of an old Mac product
encompasses PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Anonymous QMS-PS 815 MR and IBM LaserPrinter 10
Model 30: a new crop of desktop
PostScript printers emerges . . . . . . 42
Jerry Pournelle The High End: Jerry discusses technology
trickle-down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Wayne Rash, Jr. Multimedia Moves Beyond the Hype: Can
multimedia succeed as a legitimate
business application? . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Next-Generation Operating Systems:
Making sense of PowerOpen, Taligent,
Windows NT, OS/2 2.0, and the competing
Unix consortia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Anonymous The Future of Personal Computing: With
the PowerPC, IBM and Apple hope to set a
new standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Anonymous Signal Processing for Multimedia: By
combining a DSP chip and a library of
multimedia functions under the control
of a low-overhead kernel, AT&T aims to
bring the power of DSP to multimedia . . 105
Anonymous Applying the Internet: The value of a
network lies as much in whom it connects
as how . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Anonymous TOMORROW's CHIPS Overview: Built for
Speed: Advances in processor chips and
architectures are driving the next
generation of computing . . . . . . . . 122
Anonymous Reshaping the Microchip: The scientists
and engineers that brought you the
microcomputer revolution are exploring
new technologies for building the next
generation of chips . . . . . . . . . . 137
Anonymous Support Your Local CPU: With standard
functions integrated into the CPU, a new
class of specialized coprocessors is
beginning to appear . . . . . . . . . . 151
Anonymous Resource Guide: Accelerator,
Coprocessor, and Multiprocessor Boards 158
Anonymous Solutions Focus File Servers Face Off:
Five high-performance file servers vie
for the top spot on tests run with
BYTE's new LAN benchmark suite . . . . . 162
Anonymous BYTE Lab Product Report: Software in a
Supporting Role: They manage files and
disks, customize workspaces, and take
the drudgery out of maintenance: Praise
be utility programs! . . . . . . . . . . 178
Anonymous Laser Muscle: Five Printers Built to
Handle Networks: The BYTE Lab tests five
network printers . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
T. Yager The Multimedia PC: High-Powered Sight
and Sound on Your Desk: A look at the
first crop of MPC hardware and software 217--220, 222, 224, 226
Anonymous Apple's Quadra 900 Sizzles and Dazzles:
Apple's new 68040-based Mac reveals
outstanding performance and new sound
and graphics features . . . . . . . . . 229
Anonymous A Natural Solution: Object-oriented
program methods lend structure to the
process of evaluating natural-language
sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Anonymous How Interrupts Work: How interrupt
processing works in PC systems . . . . . 247
Roger C. Alford How Interrupts Work:
Interrupt-Processing Mechanisms in PC
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--252, 254, 256
Anonymous Perl: Not Just for Unix: A multiplatform
utility language, DOS disk utilities,
and a Mac file typer . . . . . . . . . . 257
Mark J. Minasi Cures for C Sickness: The ``Doctor''
prescribes three Windows programming
toolkits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Bruce D. Schatzman and
Jeffrey H. Lubeck LAN Manager Gets a Foot in the Door:
What the new capabilities mean, and how
to integrate LAN Manager with NetWare 265
Don Crabb Designing Macs: A firsthand look at the
Mac's new three-dimensional drawing
prowess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
David Fiedler My First Network: Learning to set up a
TCP/IP Ethernet for PCs running Unix . . 277
Anonymous Glitzers Anonymous: Tales of GUIs gone
berserk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Anonymous Computers Out of Control: Obscure errors
in software and systems design can
result in tragedy . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Anonymous A New Unix Standard: Hewlett-Packard
again sets a standard for workstation
price and performance . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Battle of the Heavyweights: The C market
leaders slug it out . . . . . . . . . . 39
Anonymous Dell System 325NC: a color notebook that
destroys the US\$5000 barrier . . . . . 42
D. Pountain Psion Series 3: the whole story . . . . 92IS7--8, 92IS10, 92IS12, 92IS14, 92IS16
Jerry Pournelle Interrupts and Big Cats: Jerry
configures a new 486 computer . . . . . 93
Wayne Rash, Jr. Windows Moves Out: Better notebook
computers make traveling with Windows a
workable proposition . . . . . . . . . . 109
Anonymous The Future of Pen Computing: Pen
software developers and systems
designers debate the future of pen
computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Anonymous Software Without Walls: Distributed
object management systems can fuse
diverse distributed applications and
data into seamless information systems 122
Anonymous System Bus or System Bottleneck: The
32-bit EISA and Micro Channel buses are
not living up to their potential . . . . 131
Anonymous The Birth of the Microprocessor: On the
twentieth anniversary of its
introduction, a retrospective . . . . . 145
Anonymous Classic Languages, Part 6: BASIC:
Despite its educational roots, this
language has become the most widespread
and most commonly used on microcomputers 155
Anonymous Memory and Storage Advances Overview:
Scaling the Memory Pyramid: Memory and
mass-storage subsystems traditionally
lag behind the theoretical performance
limits of CPUs. Systems designers are
minimizing the performance penalty by
organizing storage in a hierarchy of
speed and capacity . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Anonymous What to Stash in a Cache: Today, caching
is a must for high performance. Now, the
questions are: What type, and how big? 175
Anonymous Storage Management: A new class of
products eases the burden of the LAN
administrator's job . . . . . . . . . . 183
Anonymous Embedded Intelligence: Demands for
higher storage performance are being
answered by disk designers: They're
adding intelligence to drives to boost
speed and accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Anonymous Resource Guide: Storage for Networks . . 204
H. Eglowstein Windows on the Road: The BYTE Lab tests
portable systems and pointing devices
with a flair for Windows . . . . . . . . 208--213, 216, 218, 220
R. Ga Cote and
D. L. Edwards BYTE Lab Product Report: Captains of
Crunch: The top spreadsheet programs for
DOS, Windows, and the Mac . . . . . . . 222--224, 228--230, 232, 234--238
Anonymous Raising the Ceiling: Nine Memory
Managers for Today's Processors: Nine
products that make more memory available
to your DOS programs . . . . . . . . . . 240
Anonymous NetWare Grows Lean, Not Mean: NetWare
Lite 1.0 earns high marks for simplicity
and interoperatibility with server-based
NetWare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Anonymous Swift Programming for Windows, in
Windows: QuickC for Windows brings GUI
integration to Windows program
development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Anonymous Apple Reinvents the Notebook: Apple's
lightweight notebook computers are
heavy-duty champs . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Anonymous WordPerfect for Windows: The big-selling
word processor is finally running under
Windows. Has it been worth the wait? . . 257
Anonymous Tapping into Sockets: Use TCP/IP sockets
to write portable client/server
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Anonymous Enhancing Laser-Printer Resolution: How
to make a laser printer act like a
phototypesetter . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Anonymous Network Sleuth: Network utilities for
the Mac and PC; an E-mail utility for
Unix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Martin Heller 32-bit Windows Today: Watcom and
MetaWare deliver 32-bit Windows
programming toolkits . . . . . . . . . . 281
Barry Nance LAN Analyzers Move to AI: AI is
redefining the role of LAN analyzers . . 287
David Fiedler X Hits the Spot: Setting up your PC Unix
for the X Window System . . . . . . . . 291
Don Crabb Managing Mac Upgrades: Don works up some
Mac hardware upgrade strategies . . . . 295
Anonymous Mirror Worlds: David Gelernter's Mirror
Worlds puts the universe in a shoebox 362
Anonymous Infoglut at Your Fingertips: All the
information search-and-retrieval
services still remain islands to
themselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Anonymous Pen-Input Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Kudos for classic languages, and
questions about OS/2 . . . . . . . . . . 14
Jerry Pournelle User's Choice Awards: Jerry issues his
annual User's Choice Awards . . . . . . 83
Anonymous The Future of Pen Computing, Part 2:
Pen-software and systems developers
discuss the limits of handwriting
recognition, display technology, and
other issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
T. Yager Practical Desktop Video, Part 1: The
BYTE Multimedia Lab's series on desktop
video production begins with a look at
video formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--110, 112, 114
Anonymous Windows Goes Real Time: The iRMX for
Windows operating system provides the
best of both worlds on a single PC . . . 119
Anonymous An Interface for All Senses Overview:
Kinder, Gentler Computing: Natural I/O
technologies provide computers with the
ultimate in user-friendly interfaces . . 134
Anonymous The Power of Speech: Automatic speech
recognition is going to radically alter
how you interact with computers . . . . 151
Anonymous Even As We Speak: Speech synthesis is a
practical and valuable computer-output
format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Anonymous The Ultimate User Interface: Information
systems create environments in which we
work. New research aims to allow better
design of these information systems . . 175
Anonymous Solutions Focus New LAN Backup Tools:
The BYTE Lab looks at eight tape backup
systems that promise to make your
network safe and sound . . . . . . . . . 192--196, 198, 200, 202, 204, 206, 208
N. Baran Rough Gems: First Pen Systems Show
Promise, Lack Refinement: The first
pen-input systems will need to overcome
some technical hurdles . . . . . . . . . 212--214, 216, 220, 222
D. Barker and
R. Ga Cote and
D. L. Edwards and
T. Thompson and
S. Wszola BYTE Lab Product Report: Art for
Business's Sake: One of these packages
is sure to make it easier for you to
create good-looking pictures, charts,
and graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--254
Anonymous LAN Manager 2.1 Opens the Gates:
Microsoft's latest showcases TCP/IP,
remote access, Mac services, and NetWare
connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Anonymous New MultiSyncs Prove That Flatter Is
Better: NEC updates the MultiSyncs with
four new monitors . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Anonymous Video Goes Digital with Fluency:
Developers get a head start with this
digital-video bundle for PCs . . . . . . 267
Anonymous Local Bus Fuels PowerMate's Graphics
Response: NEC's local-bus design
delivers outstanding graphics
performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Anonymous REVIEWER's NOTEBOOK: A superfast super
server and wireless print sharing . . . 272
Anonymous Some Assembly Required Mac Programming
Revealed: The Mac is easy to program,
within limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Anonymous Under the Hood Wireless Networking: New
technologies and standards portend the
era of mobile computing . . . . . . . . 291
Anonymous Software Corner Batch-File Toolkit:
Better automation for DOS and Unix, and
a way to hunt down Mac viruses . . . . . 295
Martin Heller Beyond DOS Inside 386 Enhanced Mode:
Under the covers of Windows 386 enhanced
mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Anonymous Ask BYTE: Getting less from VGA, Windows
batch-file botches, high-resolution
graphics for BASIC, and other topics . . 299
Anonymous Print Queue Ways to Keep It Lucid:
Designing better documents, Windows
programming, and object-oriented
technology explained . . . . . . . . . . 366
Anonymous Hidden Persuaders: The computer you use
determines how you work --- and how you
think . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Anonymous Mac Clones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous MICROBYTES: DEC hopes its new Alpha
microprocessor will take it into the
next 25 years of computing . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous First Impressions:The Fail-Safe PC: The
Texas Microsystems FTSA PC builds in
fault tolerance from the ground up . . . 34
Anonymous Cyrix's 486 in 386 Clothing: The first
family of 486 clones arrives in a
familiar package . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Anonymous SPARCs on the Road: Portable Unix and a
lot more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous T4400SXC, Toshiba unveils its new 486
notebook with an active color display:
NetMounter, connecting your Macs to a
file server over Ethernet doesn't have
to cost a lot, Networks Connect,
Symbiotics brings network awareness to
the Windows Clipboard I325VM Floptical,
a new kind of drive has arrived Ad Lib
Gold 1000, a second-generation audio
board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous WHAT's NEW: The QMS-PS 1700;
RangeLAN/ISA; PowerPlay; and more . . . 62
Jerry Pournelle Unsolved Mysteries: A Windows mystery
revealed; and wrapping up the annual
User's Choice Awards at Chaos Manor . . 85
Anonymous Making Sense of Multimedia: Multimedia
is flashy, but is it practical? . . . . 107
Anonymous Intel's Double-Fast CPUs: Intel's 486DX2
puts 50-MHz power in a 25-MHz system . . 114
Anonymous Practical Desktop Video, Part 2: Raw
Material: Plan and shoot your own
professional video . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Anonymous Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Where
do we go after relational databases? . . 141
Anonymous 3-D: The Next Generation of Graphics
Overview: Roots and Branches of 3-D: The
use of 3-D graphics is significantly
changing the ways computers let us
visualize information. The high-end
technologies that allow realistic images
are advancing into mainstream
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Anonymous Photo-Realism: Photo-realistic 3-D
images are now within your grasp with
the help of a mix of sophisticated
techniques and an abundance of computer
power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Anonymous Radiosity: Computing the effects of
indirect lighting for use in 3-D
rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Anonymous Voxels: Data in 3-D: Now you can use
voxels to sample 3-D space . . . . . . . 177
Anonymous 3-D Displays: Interactive 3-D display
technology is a reality, although no
system is the best of all worlds . . . . 183
Anonymous Resource Guide: Realistic 3-D Rendering
and Volume-Imaging Software . . . . . . 190
Anonymous Precision Times Three: With micro-based
3-D CAD packages, you don't have to rob
a bank in order to draw one . . . . . . 192
Anonymous BYTE Lab Product Report: Monitors:
Beyond VGA: The BYTE Lab tests two dozen
noninterlaced color monitors . . . . . . 208
Anonymous Downsizing Media: 3 1/2-inch MO Drives
Arrive: New 3 1/2-inch magneto-optical
drives receive mixed reviews . . . . . . 240
Anonymous Fast Fifties: Three 486/50 Systems
Redefine PC Performance: The fastest
Intel-based systems show surprising
variation in price and performance . . . 255
Anonymous Edit Video at Your Desk: StudioMaster
Pro helps turn a Mac into a professional
video editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Anonymous What You See Is What You Solve:
Mathematica and MathCAD for Windows:
Mathematica and MathCAD take different
approaches to tackling math problems
using the graphical Windows interface 263
Anonymous Windows Printer Shines in Speed,
Resolution: LaserMaster's new laser
printer does Windows . . . . . . . . . . 269
T. Yager Presentation Graphics That Deserve an
Extra Bow: Curtain Call makes
high-impact presentations easy and
affordable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Anonymous REVIEWER's NOTEBOOK: A local
bus/accelerator combo for Windows and
two parallel-port hard drives . . . . . 277
Anonymous A Ride on the SBus: Design goals and
operational details of Sun's SBus . . . 283
Anonymous It's a Multithreaded World, Part 1:
Multithreaded operating systems are
becoming the norm. Here's how your
applications can exploit them . . . . . 289
Anonymous Getting from BASIC to C: A BASIC-to-C
translator, a Mac application launcher,
and a Unix version-control program . . . 300
Douglas A. Hamilton OS/2 2.0 Goes Down to the Wire: IBM's
OS/2 2.0 Limited Availability release is
less than palatable . . . . . . . . . . 301
Anonymous Microsoft responds; setting a page
frame; and other issues . . . . . . . . 305
Anonymous The Methods of Madness: Game theorists
shouldn't play with nuclear weapons . . 370
Anonymous Digital Deceptions: Digital video just
might redefine reality . . . . . . . . . 372
Anonymous Microbytes: Nutek continues to work on a
computer that will run mainstream
applications for the Mac under Motif . . 25
Anonymous The Best of Comdex/Spring: BYTE's picks
from an especially exciting Comdex . . . 48
Anonymous A 66-MHz Executive Jet: A 66-MHz
processor plus a local bus equals power 53
Anonymous FrameMaker for Windows: maximum desktop
publishing power comes to PCs . . . . . 58
Anonymous New Wave 4.0: a robust Windows desktop
and environment package . . . . . . . . 58
Anonymous Picture Publisher 3.0: Windows image
enhancement gets polished . . . . . . . 58
Anonymous Procomm Plus for Windows: a Windows
version of the venerable communications
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Anonymous Paper Works: paper becomes a computer
interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Anonymous TCNS: a network from Thomas-Conrad that
doesn't compromise speed . . . . . . . . 58
Jerry Pournelle The Mac Goes to School: Jerry sends a
computer to college . . . . . . . . . . 101
Anonymous The 1992 Readers' Choice Awards: BYTE
readers name their top products . . . . 121
Anonymous Practical Desktop Video, Part 3: Winning
Graphics: In this installment, you'll
learn how to build attention-grabbing
graphics into your desktop videos . . . 131
Anonymous OOPS via DDE: The DDE approach eases
entry into the OOPS world in a
controlled manner . . . . . . . . . . . 145
C. Locke Overview: Making Knowledge Pay: How to
mine the knowledge scattered throughout
an organization . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--252
J. E. Warnock The New Age of Documents: Establish a
viable document-interchange strategy . . 257--260
Anonymous Electronic Books: They're coming soon to
a computer near you . . . . . . . . . . 263
Anonymous Search and Retrieval: New methods for
managing large document-retrieval
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Anonymous SGML Frees Information: Standard
Generalized Markup Language helps you
turn mounds of documents into
information that can boost your
productivity and innovation . . . . . . 279
R. Ga Cote and
S. Diehl Searching for Common Threads: Ten text
management packages help you organize
your files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--305
D. Barker and
D. L. Edwards and
S. Wszola BYTE Lab Product Report: Writing in
Style: WYSIWYG word processors give your
text visual appeal . . . . . . . . . . . 306--315
T. Thompson Color at a Reasonable Price: The BYTE
Lab tests seven color PostScript
printers for PCs and Macs . . . . . . . 316--324
Anonymous Looking for Answers? Ask Muse: Occam's
Muse makes it easier for Mac users to
find answers in mountains of data . . . 327
Anonymous Database Publishing with Style: Ventura
DataBase Publisher and PageAhead apply
desktop publishing polish to database
reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Anonymous Two Tools of the QuickTime Trade:
SuperMac's VideoSpigot and Adobe's
Premiere help you create digital movies
easily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Anonymous RLN Spells Long-Distance Ethernet: RLN
extends Ethernet connections across
phone lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Anonymous REVIEWER's NOTEBOOK: S3's 86C911 GUI
accelerator, and a new MicroPhone for
the Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Anonymous The Importance of Being Singular: War
and the intelligent machine, and other
selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Anonymous How Scanners Work: New techniques make
color scanning better and more
affordable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Anonymous It's a Multithreaded World, Part 2:
Multithreaded operating systems are
taking over. Are your applications
ready? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Anonymous On-the-Fly Disk Compression: Diet Disk
compression utility, automated Apple
Menus, and organizing Usenet news . . . 357
Barry Nance Windows NT and OS/2 Compared: Windows NT
and OS/2 2.0 have a lot in common . . . 359
William F. Buckley Reflections on the ``Privacy'' Question:
William F. Buckley, Jr. asks, Who should
have access to your electronic medical
records? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Anonymous A New Wave of Portables . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Microbytes: Last year, reports surfaced
about a Bill Gates memo that allegedly
discussed the ``nightmare'' of IBM
``attacking'' Microsoft in systems
software and Novell ``defeating'' the
company in networking. Now, Windows NT
appears poised to turn the tables . . . 25
Anonymous First Impressions Battle of the Super
Spreadsheets: Quattro Pro for Windows
takes on Excel 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous First of the Red-Hot R4000s: SGI Crimson
lights the flame for the R4000 processor
from Mips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous Born-Again Compaq: Compaq fires low at
the competition . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Anonymous AcerPac 150: a multimedia powerhouse . . 68
Anonymous IBM LaserPrinter 10A: an IBM printer for
your Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Anonymous LanRover/L: a box that unites PowerBooks
and AppleTalk networks . . . . . . . . . 68
Anonymous MultiView 24: a fast full-color graphics
board for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Anonymous WHAT's NEW: The SPARCard 2 joins DOS and
Unix; the I/O Station 464 collects data
remotely; and more . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Jerry Pournelle Computer Ferment: Jerry looks at Windows
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
O. Linderholm and
S. Apiki and
M. Nadeau The PC Gets More Personal: Apple and
traditional notebook PC vendors take
divergent paths toward the ultimate
personal computer . . . . . . . . . . . 128--134, 136, 138
Anonymous Practical Desktop Video, Part 4: Making
the Cut: It ain't over till it's edited 143
Anonymous Overview: Display Technologies: Soon
you'll see an assortment of display
technologies, but CRTs won't go away . . 158
Anonymous Color and Resolution: There is more to
your display than just a bunch of pixels 171
Anonymous Monochrome to Color: Two new
technologies provide ways of obtaining
brighter and bolder displays that have
better resolution . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Anonymous HDTV Is Coming to Desktop: HDTV will
help improve computer-monitor technology
and digital-image manipulation . . . . . 189
Anonymous Displays: The Human Factor: Knowing how
our vision works is the basis for
developing superior displays . . . . . . 195
Anonymous Resource Guide: Displays . . . . . . . . 202
Anonymous Code on the Move: The BYTE Lab tests
seven portable user-interface libraries
and tells how to choose the one that
best fits your needs . . . . . . . . . . 206
S. Diehl and
D. L. Edwards BYTE Lab Product Report: Scanning the
Spectrum: The BYTE Lab evaluates 24-bit
color scanners for the PC and the Mac 230--236, 238--240, 242
R. C. Alford Upgrading at the High End: Six modular
and upgradable EISA and Micro Channel
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--248, 250, 252, 254
R. C. Alford Dueling DX2s: The First 486 Clock
Doublers: Intel's new 486DX2 doubles the
clock on eight new systems . . . . . . . 259--262
R. Vannatta Borland Builds a Better Quattro Pro:
With Quattro Pro 4.0, Borland builds an
even better DOS spreadsheet . . . . . . 267--268, 270
M. Schnapp Arago Raises the Xbase Ante: With Arago
Professional providing a
dBase-compatible interpreter and a
compiler, Wordtech becomes a dark horse
in the Xbase race . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274, 278, 280
Anonymous Bleepers of the Gates: Two industry
exposes target Bill Gates, Ed Yourdon on
the decline of the American programmer,
telephone listings on CD-ROM, and other
subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Anonymous Under the Hood Keyboards Without Keys:
Touchscreens aren't just for kiosks
anymore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Anonymous Some Assembly Required Macintosh Menus
Revealed: Creating the right menus for
your Mac applications . . . . . . . . . 293
Anonymous Software Corner Opening the Lines of
Communication: A functional INT 14th
replacement, communications for the Mac,
and ZMODEM transfers from Unix . . . . . 301
John Barker Beyond DOS Writing a Device Interface
for Windows: The smart approach to
writing Windows device drivers . . . . . 303
Anonymous Information-Age Warriors: As personal
computers invade the battlefield,
interoperability becomes crucial . . . . 370
Anonymous Ethics of Electronic Information . . . . 10
Anonymous Kudos on Mac programming; rebuttal on
relational databases; speech synthesis
in York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Microbytes: Apple's strategy, which
first started shaping up in late 1990,
is paying dividends . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous A Pair of Paradoxes: A new pair of
database managers from Borland . . . . . 32
Anonymous Coherent Grows Up: Unix clone Coherent
4.0 is no longer a toy . . . . . . . . . 37
Anonymous Keeping in Step with Windows: CorelDraw
and Adobe Illustrator make the grade
under Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Back-It for Windows, Gazelle brings
backup power to Windows; Premium Exec
386SX/25C, AST's; affordable portable
color 386SX Norton Desktop for DOS,
Symantec's desktop cornucopia . . . . . 46
R. Schifreen Practical PC data security . . . . . . . 94IS-23--24, 94IS-26, 94IS-28, 94IS-30
Jerry Pournelle Multimedia Medley: Jerry looks at the
latest in multimedia products and
upgrade kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Anonymous All Systems Go: Parallel-processing
technology has finally hit the
mainstream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous RISC Enters a New Generation: DEC's
Alpha architecture defines a new
generation for RISC technologies and
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Anonymous Overview: Real-Time Computing: The
techniques developed to serve real-time
applications --- some of the toughest
challenges in computing --- are
extending the horizons of computer
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Anonymous The RTOS Difference: Discover how the
key features and behaviors of real-time
operating systems ensure performance in
critical applications . . . . . . . . . 161
Anonymous Real-Time Posix: Portability and
openness finally come to real-time
applications through Posix . . . . . . . 177
Anonymous Objects in Real Time: Object orientation
may be the key enabling computer
technology for distributed real-time
systems and applications . . . . . . . . 187
Anonymous Real Time Goes Home: Real-time operating
systems bring multimedia into the home 195
Anonymous Resource Guide: Real-Time Operating
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Anonymous Solutions Focus Surveying Far-Flung
Networks: The top six tools for
distributed network monitoring and
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
S. Wszola and
D. L. Edwards PostScript's middle class (PostScript
printers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--230, 232, 234, 236--237
Anonymous No More Data Loss: The BYTE Lab Tests
Six Disk-Array Subsystems: Disk arrays
can provide a ``hot-swapping''
capability that protects your system
from drive failure . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Anonymous OS/2 2.0: A Mixed Blessing: The latest
version excels at DOS multitasking . . . 247
Anonymous Was Desqview/X Worth the Wait: You can
run DOS, X, and Windows programs locally
or remotely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Wayne Rash, Jr. NEC's Notebook Compromises for Color:
NEC's active-matrix color notebook is
colorful but cumbersome . . . . . . . . 253--254
Anonymous A Fresh Approach to Databases: Approach
for Windows is a relational database
that doubles as a front end to dBase,
Paradox, and Oracle SQL . . . . . . . . 255
Anonymous Macintosh Impersonator: Xcelerated
Systems' Liken brings Mac applications
to Unix workstations . . . . . . . . . . 257
Anonymous Power Tools for Visual Basic:
Microsoft's new toolkit extends the
Visual Basic programmer's reach . . . . 259
Anonymous Mac LC II: The Sequel: With its new CPU,
the Mac LC is better (and cheaper) the
second time around . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Anonymous REVIEWER's NOTEBOOK: The BYTE Lab clocks
faster speeds for the new version of
LANtastic and looks at QueryDOS, a new
file manipulator . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Anonymous From AI to Puzzles: Bright Air,
Brilliant Fi2re, TOG on Interface, great
cities on CD-ROM, and other titles . . . 266
Anonymous Digital Signal Processing: The new
digital signal processors will change
how PCs handle sound and image data . . 269
Anonymous A Shared Resource Access Manager, Part
1: How do you manage access to shared
resources on networks or multiuser
systems? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Anonymous The Right Profile: Timing DOS file
access; debugging Unix code; and getting
reminders on the Mac . . . . . . . . . . 288
Mark J. Minasi Exorcising the A20 Poltergeist: Here's
what to do when keystrokes seem to
appear on-screen at random in your DOS
and Windows applications . . . . . . . . 293
Anonymous Reclaiming lost disk space; extending
computer life; and spelling-checker
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Anonymous Stop Bit the Productivity Macguffin:
Networks and portable computers are
helping companies finally realize gains
from their computing investments . . . . 360
Anonymous Acorn A4, this notebook shows the power
of the ARM processor . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Ami Pro 3.0, the feature battle rages ??
Anonymous GammaFax MLCP-4/AEB, GammaLink
broadcasts fax capability . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous MacinStor, a portable gigabyte drive for
the Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous NetOctopus 1.1, a useful network manager
with an odd name . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Oxford English Dictionary, a 20-volume
reference on CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . ??
D. Barker Tools for Lassoing the Paper Cyclone . . ??
Mark A. Clarkson SONET: A Standard for Today . . . . . . ??
Howard Eglowstein A New Thumper . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
H. Scott Hinton Smart Pixels and Free-Space
Interconnection . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Sing H. Lee Interconnecting the Pieces. . . . . . . ??
Dennis Allen Editorial: The Globalization of BYTE . . 16
Anonymous Letters: Color Postscript printers; SGML
image editors; and other topics . . . . 20
Anonymous Microbytes: Kaleida, the Apple/IBM
multimedia venture . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Rich Friedman Report From Moscow: Programming talent
abounds here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Alan Joch Report From Taiwan: Vendors want to move
from being lowcost providers to
technology leaders . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Patrick Waurzyniak First Impressions AutoCAD Gets a
Face-Lift: And AST's Power Premium 4/50d 46
Andy Reinhardt Acquiring Data Through Windows: Visual
programming for data acquisition . . . . 63
Anonymous Olivetti Quaderno, a 2-pound subnotebook
with Italian style . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous Whats' New: HyperSpace Shuttle handles
up to 3 GB of on-line storage; NetRunner
integrates voice, fax, and network
traffic; and more . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Jerry Pournelle User's Column: The Amiga Revisited:
Jerry looks at the Amiga 3000T . . . . . 113
Tom Yager and
Ben Smith Is Unix Dead: Unix: A Child of a
Thousand Parents: The History of Unix
says much about its future . . . . . . . 134
Andy Reinhardt and
Ed Perratore and
Andy Redfern and
Rich Malloy The Greening of Computers: The computer
industry wakes up to ecological concerns 147
Nicholas Baran The Outlook for Pen Computing: Before it
can deliver, pen-based computing has
many rivers to cross . . . . . . . . . . 159--162, 164
Jack Weber Overview: Photonics: Revolution or
Evolution: Optical technologies are
changing the way we process information 168
Demetri Psaltis Parallel Optical Memories: A performance
breakthrough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Mohammed N. Islam Light Switches: The best way to switch
an optical signal is with another
optical signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
David Casasent Is What You See What You Get: Access to
optical information processing is now
easier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Raymond G. A. Cote and
Ben Smith Solutions Focus: Profiles in Document
Managing: The BYTE Lab looks at four
PC-based document management systems . . 198--200, 202, 204, 206--208, 210--212
Rick Grehan and
Stan Wszola BYTE Lab Product Report Workhorse
Computers: The Lab Evaluates the new low
end of computing: 386SXes . . . . . . . 215--217, 220, 222, 226--229, 232, 234
Jim Carls Eight Notebooks Keep a Tight Grip on
Power: A thorough review of 386SL and
386SXL portables . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--242, 244
Barry Nance 486 Notebooks Double as Desktop: Power
to go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250, 256, 258
Cal Vornberger A New Illustrator for Windows: A few
problems temper the enthusiasm for
Adobe's latest release of Illustrator
for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Shelley Cryan A Power Boost for PowerPoint: Microsoft
breaks new ground . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Tom Yager IBM's New System Speaks for Itself: The
PS/2 Ultimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270
Othar Hansson Microsoft's Lucky Number: Microsoft
joins the C++ minions with its newest
compiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Tom Yager Animation Energizes Rio's World-Class
Graphics: Rio Animator brings a slick
look to presentation graphics . . . . . 279
Steve Apiki Bringing the Outside into Windows:
Outside In for Windows brings DOS
documents into Windows . . . . . . . . . 281
Tom Thompson A/UX 3.0: The Mac's Odd Couple: Apple's
latest version of Unix . . . . . . . . . 283
The Byte Lab Reviewer's Notebook: A Personal
Librarian for Windows and a low-cost
bundle of applications for the Macintosh 285
Hugh Kenner and
John Unger and
Stanford Diehl Book and CD-ROM Reviews: The Origins of
Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and hypertext,
street maps on CD-ROM, and Unix primers 286
Konstantin Othmer Under The Hood: Inside QuickDraw: A
detailed look inside Apple's imaging
engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Rick Grehan Some Assembly Required: A Shared
Resource Access Manager, Part 2:
Introducing a resource access manager
server and C client functions that you
can link into your applications . . . . 297
Barry Nance and
Tom Thompson and
Ben Smith Software Corner: Software with Curves:
Bézier curves under Windows,
synchronizing PowerBooks, and the
language of bit maps . . . . . . . . . . 305
Anonymous Ask BYTE: Choosing a Unix; TWAIN
explained: and more . . . . . . . . . . 309
Nolan Bushnell Stop Bit: The Artichoke Theory: What
applications can learn from PC games . . 378
Anonymous Amstrad Notepad NC100, surely the last
Z80-based computer . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Dashboard for Windows, a new way to
drive Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Filemaker Pro 2.0, Claris offers Mac and
Windows users a dynamite database . . . ??
Anonymous ScanMan Color, color your view of hand
scanners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dennis Allen Editorial: Open Markets, Better
Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: Infoglut kudos; responses to
William F. Buckley, Jr.; Usenet news
groups; WEB's compression; and other
topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Microbytes: The first version of the P5
will run about twice as fast as a 66-MHz
486 DX2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
T. R. Reid Report From Tokyo: In the Land of the
Double Byte: Japan's software developers
work wonders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Tom Thompson and
Tom R. Halfhill First Impressions: Apple's Performas:
Macs for the Home: Apple tackles the
home market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous ProTracer, this printer/plotter
incorporates exquisite detail . . . . . 58
Anonymous What's New: Trakker backs up from the
enhanced parallel port; PC/Television
puts TV on your PC; and more . . . . . . 68
Jerry Pournelle On the Road Again: Laptops, Flashdrives,
and power supplies at Chaos Manor . . . 101
Trevor Marshall Fast Transit: New buses dramatically
increase speed and will be showing up in
systems soon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
T. J. Sejnowski and
P. S. Churchland Silicon Brains: Innovative computer
devices are coming from studies of the
human brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Daniel Dern Plugging Into the Internet: If you've
ever wondered how you can access the
Internet, here's how . . . . . . . . . . 149
Merik Voswinkel Locating Internet Access in Europe . . . 149
John Donovan Overview: Operating-System Trends:
Desktop operating systems deliver
mainframe/minicomputer features . . . . 158
Jon Udell Windows NT Up Close: Microsoft's
next-generation operating system could
live up to its hype . . . . . . . . . . 167
Mark Minasi OS/2 at the Crossroads: Overcoming
market resistance . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Tom Thompson The Future of System 7.0: Apple's plans
for a smooth transition to RISC . . . . 182
Mary Hubley GUIs, Applications, and Unix: Vendor
unity and Unix . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Tom Yager NextStep: The Sleeper: NextStep quietly
fills the need . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Matt Trask Univel's Trim Unix: A thinner, more
attractive Unix . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Raymond G. A. Cote and
Stanley Wszola The New Wave of Removable Storage: From
MOs to docking bays, the BYTE Lab
selects the best removable-storage
solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Stephen Platt and
Tadesse Giorgis and
Leslie Reisz and
Steve Apiki Fast 486 File Servers: Tests of 12 486
file servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
G. Armour Van Horn CorelDraw 3.0: A Swiss Army Knife for
Illustrators: More than just an
illustration package . . . . . . . . . . 223--224, 226
Howard Eglowstein Compaq's Newest Notebooks: The colorful
LTE Lite/25c and inexpensive Contura
make welcome additions to Compaq's
notebook line . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
Howard Eglowstein Color Ink-Jet Printers Take Whacks at
Wax: Hewlett-Packard and Canon release
colorful new products . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Jake Richter DGX Takes the Direct Approach to
Graphics Performance: Dell's direct
graphics accelerator speeds Windows and
CAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Tom Thompson Racing at 33 MHz: Quadra 950 and Radius
Rocket 33: Apple's most powerful
Macintosh and Radius's latest
accelerator board provide ample
computing power . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Tom Yager FrameMaker: Power Publishing for
Windows: FrameMaker brings its
workstation-bred document publishing
power to Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 249--250
Roger C. Alford Cyrix Cx486SLCs Hit the Desktop: The
Tandon Option 386SLC/50 and Zeos
486SLC-25 are the first desktops to
incorporate Cyrix's new processor . . . 251
The Byte Lab Reviewer's Notebook: The BYTE Lab finds
a solution for testing removable storage
devices: CorelSCSI and Adaptec
controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Hugh Kenner and
Tom Yager and
Raymond G. A. Cote and
Stanford Diehl Is Artificial Life Possible: Steven
Levy's Artificial Life, Visual Basic for
beginners and pros, and Corporate
Snapshots on CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . 256
Roger C. Alford Disk Arrays Explained: Inside RAID drive
array specifications 0 through 5 and
beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
James H. Parshall Mac OOP Explained: Build a tool palette
as you learn object-oriented programming
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
James Stading and
Tom Thompson and
Ben Smith Creating Bit-Mapped Buttons: A Windows
file manager, Telnet for Macs, and dired
sans emacs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Steve Mastrianni OS/2 2.0 Programming Tools Arrive ---
Finally: OS/2 programmers now have a
wide choice of development tools . . . . 277
Anonymous Ask BYTE: Internet access; modem
failures; file-compression utilities;
and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Daniel Seligman Trivial Pursuits: Computing diversions
offer their own rewards . . . . . . . . 348
Anonymous Editorial: BYTE Focuses on Windows . . . 6
Jon Udell Using Windows NT: How will NT affect you
and your environment? . . . . . . . . . 27
Tom Yager Windows Speaks: A quick guide to using
Windows Multimedia Extensions . . . . . 33
Barry Nance How OLE Works: Some sobering experiences
with OLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Mark Minasi The OS/2 Alternative: There is some kind
of 32-bit OS in your future . . . . . . 55
Hugh Kenner The Pick of Windows: Windows books for
every skill level . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Nicholas Delonas Spreadsheets Under Scrutiny . . . . . . 70--72, 74--76, 78, 80
Greg Loveria 24-bit Display Adapter Roundup . . . . . 84
D. Barker Image Doctors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Mark Scapicchio Looking good for less (windows word
processors) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--106, 109--110, 112
Dick Pountain Four Windows desktops (desktop
enhancers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--116
Daniel Yahdav Tracking the elusive project (project
management packages) . . . . . . . . . . 119--122, 124, 126
Jan Fiderio BYTE's Guide to 128 Top Windows Products 128
Anonymous DOC.IT, a printer, fax, copier, and
scanner all in one . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Infolio, have pen computer, will travel ??
Anonymous Optiquest 4000D and HiColor Turbo F/X, a
winning color combination . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Quicken 2.0 for Windows, new features
make this popular finance program even
better . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Windows Sound System: Microsoft enters
the sound board market . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Ways for Windows, translation the easy
way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Steve Apiki and
Tom Thompson Less Expensive, or Cheap? . . . . . . . ??
Georges Zanellato and
Bart Verhaeghe Digitally Speaking. . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dennis Allen Editorial: PCs Will Become More Personal 12
Anonymous Letters: How to get Unix for free; OS/2
2.0 defended; clarifying the A20
problem; and other issues . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous Microbytes: With Microsoft's Windows NT
nearing availability, IBM is working
hard to improve OS/2 2.0 . . . . . . . . 28
Stephen Banker Report From Sao Paulo: Over 450,000
people jam Brazil's Fenasoft software
show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Ed Perratore First Impressions. New Systems \ldots
New IBM: Big Blue comes out swinging . . 50
Jon Udell Windows for Workgroups: Peer-to-peer
networking and more with Windows for
Workgroups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous LANtastic for Macintosh: Artisoft's
PC-to-Mac connectivity solution offers
power, simplicity, and low cost . . . . 58
Anonymous What's New: The Freestyle/SL Notebook's
screen swivels; IDL for Windows lets you
do high-power scientific computing; and
more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Jerry Pournelle User's Column. Pondering OS/2: OS/2
invades Chaos Manor . . . . . . . . . . 109
Andrew Reinhardt Penny-Pinching PCs: How They Did It:
Low-priced PCs bring benefits --- and
risks --- to buyers . . . . . . . . . . 128--136
Philip Chien Smile for the Computer: Your computer
might be your camera's best accessory 139
Mark Clarkson The Information Theater: Xerox PARC
presents a new way to view your data . . 145
Eric C. Anderson and
Stephen Shepard and
Phil Sohn Overview: Signal Computing: Watch for
hazards when moving information from the
analog to the digital realms . . . . . . 154
John Bryan Signals on the Desktop: You don't have
to wait for DSP technology; it's here
today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Peter Wayner Inside Signal Computing: The
architecture of DSP chips mirrors the
functions they perform . . . . . . . . . 177
Tim Counihan A Platform for Signal Computing: The
signal-computing environment tries to
set a signal-computing standard . . . . 185
Ben Smith and
Raymond Ga Cote Solutions Focus. Stalking the Ultimate
Workstation: Eight Powerhouses reviewed 192
Howard Eglowstein and
Stan Wszola BYTE Lab Product Report. 486 Systems for
a Graphical World: The best 33-MHz 486
systems for today's demanding
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210, 212, 214, 218--221, 224, 226, 230, 234, 236
Tom Yager Cut to Video: Four Programs for Moving
Presentations: The BYTE Lab looks at
four video-presentation programs . . . . 238--240, 242, 244, 246
Greg Loveria Compaq Unveils a New Network Printer:
Compaq enters the printer market with
the powerful Pagemarq line . . . . . . . 249
Othar Hansson Borland Targets Windows Developers with
Latest C++ Release: Borland C++ 3.1
contains some features we've been
waiting for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
D. Barker Sophisticated Graphing Under Windows:
DeltaGraph Professional brings good
chart-making tools to Windows . . . . . 256
Tom Yager Style Meets Substance in Matrox Studio:
Studio turns your PC into a video
powerhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Barry Nance LANlord Evicts LAN Problems: Microcom's
high-level LAN manager uses OS/2 to
manage DOS and Windows workstations . . 265
Steve Apiki and
Tom Thompson and
Jon Udell Network Modems Dial in, Dial out, and
Route Packets: Microtest's Lanmodem
versus Shiva's NetModem/E . . . . . . . 269
Alan Joch Reviewer's Notebook: The BYTE Lab,
Behind the Scenes: An invitation to look
over the shoulders of our testing
editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Hugh Kenner and
Raymond Ga Cote and
Tom Thompson and
Stanford Diehl Book And CD-ROM Reviews. Amok in
Cyberspace: A look at The Hacker
Crackdown, Macintosh Programming
Secrets, Support on Site, and other
selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Udi Manber and
Sun Wu Some Assembly Required. Approximate
Pattern Matching: Agrep's algorithms let
you perform text searches using an
approximate pattern . . . . . . . . . . 281
Dick Pountain Under The Hood. A Call to ARM: The
32-bit ARM610 is a high-performance,
power-saving RISC CPU in a tiny package 293
Ben Smith and
Tom Thompson and
Steve Apiki Software Corner Bash, the Bourne Again
Shell: A free Korn-shell replacement, a
JPEG viewer for Macs, and a Windows file
utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Bruce D. Schatzman Beyond DOS. An Objective Way to Compute:
The object-based model in Windows NT
forms the foundation for Microsoft's
future operating systems . . . . . . . . 301
Anonymous Ask Byte: Winnowing down Windows; BYTE
listings on UUNET; getting from CP/M to
MS-DOS; and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Esther Dyson Stop Bit. Artificial Life and Natural
Markets: Parallels between artificial
life experiments and competitive markets
demonstrate the advantages of a
free-market system . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Roger C. Alford CPU Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous PCMCIA LAN adapter from Xircom; new
pointing devices; and more . . . . . . . ??
Trevor Marshall Portable Fax Software Rated for DOS and
Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Trevor Marshall WorldPort Palmtop Fax/Data Modem:
USRobotics designs modems for hand-helds ??
Michael Nadeau Zeos Pocket PC One-Ups Poqet PC . . . . ??
Tom Thompson The Mac on the Road. . . . . . . . . . . ??
Gene Smarte PowerExec: AST Research's new notebook
features two PCMCIA 2.0 slots . . . . . 8
Michael Nadeau and
John Wolfskill BYTE's Essential Guide to Notebook PCs:
The BYTE Lab compares 65 notebooks . . . 15--18, 20, 22--23, 26, 28, 30, 32--40
Stan Miastkowski Tag-Along Hard Copy: Seven portable
printers offer near-laser-quality output
in surprisingly small packages . . . . . 41--45
Wayne Rash, Jr. and
T. Marshall Fax Modems to Go: These 10 portable
packages deliver varying degrees of
performance when you're traveling . . . 49--51, 54, 56
Wayne Rash, Jr. Making Connections: Seven portable
Ethernet adapters reviewed . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous Convertible, pen computing without
compromises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Gateway 2000 4DC2-66V and Hyundai 466D2,
low-cost DX2 local-bus systems . . . . . ??
Anonymous HP Vectra 486/33N, a low-cost system
from an upscale vendor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous R4000 upgrade, a leap in power for SGI's
Iris Indigo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Video for Windows, coming soon to a PC
near you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Mark Clarkson Objects and Penpoint . . . . . . . . . . ??
Mark Clarkson What's In An Object? . . . . . . . . . . ??
Raymond Ga Cote Lab Tests: Does Brand Matter? . . . . . ??
Daniel W. Rasmus Object-Oriented Case. . . . . . . . . . ??
Andy Redfern and
Dave Andrews and
Andy Reinhardt and
Tom Halfhill Other Players Find Niches. . . . . . . . ??
Dennis Allen Editorial: Testing and CPUs . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Letters: Unix lives! . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous Microbytes: SPARC-compatible
workstations priced similarly to
high-end PCs, are expected by early 1993 30
Andy Redfern Report From Israel: Coming In from the
Cold: As Mideast tensions wane, Israel
can sell its wares more openly . . . . . 41
Tom Thompson First Impressions: New Macs for the
Desktop and Road: Apple is updating
computers and introducing new ones as
rapidly as possible . . . . . . . . . . 44
Jon Udell Microsoft's Windows Database: Microsoft
Access, the happy union of SQL and
Visual Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Anonymous Apricot XEN-LS II, is value-added worth
it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous What's New: Watch TV on the 486SX/25
Multimedia Computer System; centrally
manage electrical power to local or
remote LAN components with LanSafe II;
and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Jerry Pournelle User's Column: A Computer in the Hand:
Palmtops, PCMCIA, virus newsletters, and
the BBS scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Andy Redfern Make the Right CPU Move: New CPUs
confuse PC buying decisions . . . . . . 114
Greg Loveria True Type A to Z: Why TrueType is a key
part of Windows 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . 129
Jeffrey D. Shepard Lower the Voltage, Raise the Power . . . 137
Cary Lu Overview: Objects for End Users:
Document-oriented computing is the
logical culmination of the
object-oriented revolution . . . . . . . 142
Peter Wayner Brave New Desktop: Object technologies
will let you shape your computing
environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Daniel W. Rasmus Relating to Objects: Object technology
finds a place in database management . . 161
Sergiu S. Simmel and
Ivan Godard Objects of Substance: Object storage is
a natural for persistent-data servers 167
Anonymous Resource Guide: Object-Oriented Database
Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Tom Yager and
Rick Grehan Solutions Focus: Grab Your Audience with
Audio: With current sound boards,
sequencers, and editors, you don't have
to be a recording engineer to add audio
to your presentations . . . . . . . . . 174--194
Mike Wiggins Windows BASICs: Three Windows BASIC
programs square off . . . . . . . . . . 196
Steve Apiki Clocking the Fastest PCs on the Planet:
Performance comparison of 66-MHz DX2
systems from Compaq, Dell, ALR, and NEC 205
Shelley Cryan A New LaserJet, A New Standard:
Hewlett-Packard's LaserJet 4M should
shake up the printer market . . . . . . 209--210
D. Barker TypeReader Takes OCR Toward Better
Recognition: ExperVision's TypeReader
OCR software is a step toward better
recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--214, 216
Tom Thompson The Phaser II SD Prints Dazzling Dyes:
Tektronix's new dye sublimation printer
costs under US\$10,000 . . . . . . . . . 217
Raymond Ga Cote Stepping Up to XVT 3.0: The latest XVT
marks interface library improvements and
new development tools . . . . . . . . . 224
Stanford Diehl and
Dana Hudes The Windows File Shuffle: File
conversion under Windows solves the
complex problem of divergent graphics
formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Howard Eglowstein Reviewer's Notebook: A Real-World
Notebook Battery Test: Notebook
battery-life testing . . . . . . . . . . 232
Hugh Kenner and
Tom Yager and
Tom Thompson and
Jon Udell and
Stanford Diehl Book and CD-ROM Reviews: Photographic
Lies: The search for visual truth,
design tips, TCP/IP explainer, the times
of physicist Reichard Feynman, and more 234
Roger C. Alford Under the Hood: The PCMCIA Redefines
Portability: The PCMCIA 2.0 PC card
standard opens a new world for
subnotebook and hand-held computers . . 237
Randall A. Nagy Some Assembly Required: Writing a
Windows DLL: Here's a simple DLL-based
debugging aid for Windows . . . . . . . 247
Barry Nance and
Tom Thompson and
Ben Smith Software Corner: Audit Your LAN: Easy
LAN inventory, a crash disk for System
7.0, and face-saving Unix utilities . . 256
Gen Keyooka Beyond DOS: Object-Oriented DLLs: Build
reusable objects with Windows DLLs . . . 257
Anonymous Ask Byte: The BYTE Lab Responds on clock
inconsistencies, loopback plug pin-outs,
and other issues . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
James Burke STOP BIT: Technology and the New World
Order: Advancing technology is creating
a new, more complex social order . . . . 324
Bruce Schneier Digital Signatures . . . . . . . . . . . ??
P. Wayner Optimal Character Recognition . . . . . ??
J. P. Mello and
P. Wayner Wireless Mobile Communications . . . . . 147--154
P. Wayner Stretching the Ether . . . . . . . . . . 159--165
Anonymous ColorFrame: A portable color display for
Macs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Datafax: A Windows fax program . . . . . ??
Anonymous Epson Progression: A 486/33 with a
graphics-acceleration Wingine . . . . . ??
Anonymous Flexscan F340iW, Graphite Card, and
Paradise Accelerator: Working toward
clearer Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous InFax Pro 3.0: Fax software with OCR and
a cool cover-page designer . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Visio: A new approach to graphics . . . ??
Eduard Hovy MT at Your Service. . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ed Perratore A Higher End For Compaq Notebooks. . . . ??
Bernard E. Scott The Five Layers of Ambiguity. . . . . . ??
Muriel Vasconcellos Is MT Right For You? . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dennis Allen Editorial 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Letters: Responses on BYTE's global
perspective, the October editorial, and
other topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Microbytes: Preliminary info on
Motorola's 68060 is impressive, but the
PowerPC 601 will probably ship first . . 32
Andrew Reinhardt Report From Hong Kong: Hong Kong hopes
to profit by its ties to mainland China 41
Gene Smarte First Impressions: Two Toshiba Systems
to Go: The T4500 notebook and the
Dynapad T100X pen-based computer . . . . 46
Tom Yager UnixWare: New Hope for Unix: The
friendliest Unix around . . . . . . . . 51
Anonymous Turbo Pascal 7.0 and Borland Pascal with
Objects 7.0: A new generation of Pascal 54
Anonymous What's New: The ScreenStar displays two
full-size documents; the Digibot II
``reads'' multidimensional objects; and
more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Jerry Pournelle User's Column: The Principle of Pursuit:
Microsoft moves to dominate with Access
and Windows for Workgroups . . . . . . . 97
Michael Nadeau The 1992 BYTE Awards: BYTE editors pick
the best products of the past year . . . 116
Dick Pountain Computing Without Clocks: Asynchronous
processors turn computing on its head 145
Muriel Vasconcellos Overview: Machine Translation: Machine
translation is coming to your computer 152
Eduard Hovy How MT Works: There is more than one way
to perform machine translation . . . . . 167
L. Chris Miller Babelware for the Desktop: Many
machine-translation systems are
available on workstations and personal
computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--178, 80, 182--183
Anonymous Resource Guide: Machine-Translation
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Ben Smith and
Howard Eglowstein Solutions Focus: Putting Your Data on
the Map: Connecting maps with data helps
visualize information . . . . . . . . . 188
Rick Grehan Making Windows Rock and Roll: The BYTE
Lab looks at 16 accelerators that speed
up Windows operations (for as little as
US\$139) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Rob Mitchell AST's PowerExec Goes Modular:
Upgradability meets portability in AST's
new PowerExec . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Jon Udell Desktop CD-ROM Publishing: Philips'
CDD521 ushers in the second CD-ROM
revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Maureen Caudill Neural Net Adds Smarts to Spreadsheets,
Slowly: If I only had a brain: Braincel
aims to smarten spreadsheets with
neural-network technology . . . . . . . 221--222, 224
Steve Apiki Next-Generation Code Generators for
Windows: Latest versions of Case:W and
WindowsMaker Professional ease the task
of generating Windows code . . . . . . . 225
Tom Yager Topas 4.0 Simplifies 3-D: Topas 4.0
makes quick work of realistic 3-D
graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Tom Yager Commodore Gets Tough: Two new
69040-based Amigas . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Howard Eglowstein Photography by the Numbers: Professional
electronic cameras from Kodak and Sony
deliver instant results to your Mac or
PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Rick Grehan Reviewer's Notebook: How to Give Windows
a Workout: The BYTE Lab introduces new
Windows benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Hugh Kenner and
Bob Ryan and
Raymond G. A. Cote and
Tom Thompson Book and CD-ROM Reviews: Going-On at the
Edge: The science of complexity . . . . 248
Jean Renard Ward and
Debra Schultz Under the Hood: Digitizer Renaissance:
Pen computers are reinvigorating
digitizer tablet technologies . . . . . 251
Barry Nance Some Assembly Required: OS/2's System
Object Model: The OS/2 2.0 System Object
Model offers a language-neutral approach
to object-oriented programming . . . . . 261
Barry Nance and
Tom Thompson and
Bem Smith Software Corner: Your Own Devices: DOS
device drivers, hexadecimal editing in
Unix, and monitoring System 7.0 memory
partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Jon Udell Beyond DOS: Connecting Windows to Data
with ODBC: Open Database Connectivity is
an API for database-enabled Windows
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Anonymous Ask BYTE: Internet access solutions,
Procomm problems, and other issues . . . 278
Roger Ebert Stop BIT: Cinema by Computer: Movies no
longer offer an escape from reality . . 334
Anonymous Falcon030, Atari's PC with a DSP. . . . ??
Anonymous Freelance Graphics for Windows 2.0,
prepare presentations painlessly. . . . ??
Anonymous QMS 1725 Print System, the latest 17-ppm
screamer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous TyIN 2000, a packed adapter card. . . . ??
Anonymous VideoSpigot for Windows, SuperMatch's
video-capture board . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows, an
impressive upgrade. . . . . . . . . . . ??
Tom Halfhill Buying a CD-ROM Drive. . . . . . . . . . ??
Ed Perratore The New Breed Of CD Players. . . . . . . ??
Andy Reinhardt Optical Flavors. . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jon Udell and
Howard Eglowstein Affordable CD-R Drives. . . . . . . . . ??
Dennis Allen Editorial CD-ROM: Now Is the Time . . . 12
Anonymous Letters: Operating-system trends, OS/2
at a crossroads, digital photography,
the ultimate workstation, and other
issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Microbytes: HP, DEC, and Sun unveil new
high-powered workstations . . . . . . . 32
Rich Malloy Comdex: Bigger Than Ever: Picking the
best products at the show was even
harder than usual . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Andy Redfern Computers Italian Style: The Italians
love stylish computers but crave
innovation from abroad . . . . . . . . . 47
Kenneth Sheldon Lotus Improv for Windows: A radical
application comes to Windows . . . . . . 52
Anonymous FoxPro 2.5, the cross-platform strategy
begins to pay off . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous What's New: Tektronix offers printers
for workgroups, SunConnect extends LANs
to global networks, and more . . . . . . 72
Jerry Pournelle LAN Wars: Windows for Workgroups battles
LANtastic for domination at Chaos Manor 97
Jon Udell Start the Presses: CD-ROM publishing
comes to the desktop . . . . . . . . . . 116
Cary Lu Is ITV Here to Stay: Interactive TV's
survival and prosperity are in question 139
John P. Mello, Jr. and
Peter Wayner Overview: Wireless Mobile
Communications: The ability to
communicate anytime, from anywhere, is
almost here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Peter Wayner Stretching the Ether: Technology expands
the wireless spectrum . . . . . . . . . 159
Bob Ryan Communications Get Personal: AT&T's
Hobbit powers a new generation of
personal communications devices . . . . 169--176
Anonymous Resource Guide: Plugging into Wireless 177
Raymond Ga Cote and
Steve Apiki and
Stan Wszola Network Fax on Tap: The BYTE Lab peers
into 11 fax servers for PC, Mac, and
Unix networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--180, 182, 184--190, 192, 194, 196
Rick Grehan New Tricks for Slow Macs: The BYTE Lab
tests 17 Mac accelerator boards . . . . 198
Tom Yager The Second Premiere: Premiere 2.0 for
the Mac offers QuickTime movie editing
at its best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Tom Yager A BASIC Breakthrough: Visual Basic for
DOS makes powerful programs easy to
write . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Stan Miastkowski Forging a Business Tool: Three Fax
Software Packages for Windows: Three
next-generation fax software packages
bring new abilities to communications 209--210, 212
Stanford Diehl Complete Communications for Small
Businesses: A new fax and voice-mail
card from Prometheus takes on the
upgraded Complete Communicator . . . . . 213
Barry Nance Stacking Up TCP/IP for Windows: Linking
Windows clients with Unix hosts via
TCP/IP stacks from Beame and Whiteside,
Frontier Technologies, and NetManage . . 215
Birrell Walsh Correspondence That Looks Good Globally:
Multi-Lingual Scholar, a word processor
for the global market . . . . . . . . . 219
Tom Thompson Reviewer's Notebook: Retooling a
Classic: The BYTE Lab updates its
Macintosh benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . 221
Hugh Kenner and
Dick Pountain and
Jon Udell and
Raymond Ga Cote Again the Swinging Gates: Another look
at Microsoft's leader, a controversial
Windows book, how to program in Oberon,
and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Andrew W. Davis and
Joe Burke The Mac Goes to the Movies: A detailed
look at Apple's QuickTime architecture 225
Randall A. Nagy Handling Input Events Using C++: Use the
Event class to handle keyboard and mouse
input across platforms . . . . . . . . . 231
Barry Nance and
Tom Thompson and
Ben Smith A Small Browser with Everything: A
powerful DOS browser, a faster Finder,
and Perl-based recursive grep . . . . . 235
Mark J. Minasi A New OS/2: IBM's ServicePak and the
Professional Developer's Kit CD-ROM are
dissected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Anonymous Ask BYTE: Adobe Type Manager conflicts,
the Next as document manager, and more 239
Andy Nicholson Software Gluttony: It's time for
programmers to rein in today's bloated,
resource-hogging applications . . . . . 286
Anonymous Personal Communicator 440: Start-up EO
does it right the first time . . . . . . ??
Anonymous PowerExec EL: Forgoing some notebook
frills means big savings . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous SPARCstation LX: Sun's feature-packed
little Unix box . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
James D. Gantt and
Catherine M. Beise The Public Reacts To Group Decision
Support Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
David H. Mitchell Being Here And There. . . . . . . . . . ??
Jon Udell E-Mail From The Workplace Shell. . . . . ??
Jon Udell The Vines Advantage. . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dennis Allen Editorial: The State of BYTE . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Letters: Choosing a CPU; low-cost PCs;
BYTE's Windows issue; and other topics 20
Anonymous Microbytes: The first HDTV sets are not
likely to appear in U.S. homes before
1995, yet companies from Microsoft to
HBO are already involved in programming
projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Jay Ranade Report From India: High-Tech
Opportunities Abound: The government is
high on growth but down on imports . . . 37
Tom Thompson and
Tom R. Halfhill First Impressions: A Spring Harvest of
Apple Macintoshes: With street prices of
about US\$1000 to {US}\$4500, these new
Macs are price-conscious and powerful 40
Anonymous Lotus 1-2-3 for OS/2 2.0 and Lotus
Freelance Graphics for OS/2 2.0: Two
major applications for IBM's OS . . . . 46
Anonymous What's New: BriteLite LX puts SPARC
power on the road, LANDesk simplifies
network management, and more . . . . . . 58
Jerry Pournelle User's Column: CD-ROM Secrets: The trick
to integrating CD-ROM and Windows for
Workgroups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Andy Reinhardt Smarter E-Mail Is Coming: Intelligent
E-mail delivers more than messages. It
will change how your business works by
improving communications and automating
workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90, 92, 94, 96--98, 100, 102, 105--106, 108
Jeffrey Hsu and
Tony Lockwood Overview: Collaborative Computing:
Computer technology brings workgroups
closer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--114, 116, 118, 120
Mark A. Clarkson Hitting Warp Speed for LANs:
Collaboraative computing demands faster
networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Tom Yager and
D. H. Mitchell Better Than Being There: Desktop video
conferencing is on its way . . . . . . . 129--130, 132--134
Howard Eglowstein and
Ben Smith Solutions Focus: Mixed Messaging:
Multiplatform internetwork mail can link
diverse clients on widespread networks 136
G. Armour Van Horn A New Resolution for Desktop Lasers: A
comparison of the latest 600-dpi laser
printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Kathleen LaRiviere and
Stan Miastkowski How to Deal with Taxing Questions:
Tax-preparation software for DOS, the
Mac, and Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Barry Nance Compaq Stakes Out Both Ends of the
Server Spectrum: Compaq's new high-end
Systempro/XL and low-end ProSignia
servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Tom Thompson Two PowerBooks Great and Small: The
PowerBook 180 and PowerBook Duo 230 show
different design directions . . . . . . 173
Tom Yager Visual Basic for Windows Gets a
Face-Lift: Microsoft improves its
programming package with version 2.0 . . 177
Raymond G. A. Cote Imagining the World: Macintosh software
for simulating systems from the
administrative office to the factory
floor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Rick Grehan Reviewer's Notebook: It Worked Fine a
Minute Ago: Reflections on Macintosh
compatibility problems . . . . . . . . . 183
Hugh Kenner and
Dick Pountain and
Raymond G. A. Cote Book And CD-ROM Reviews: The AI Debate
Revisited: What Computers Still Can't
Do, guides to the Internet, and updated
Grolier's multimedia encyclopedia, and
more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Thomas Jeffries Some Assembly Required: Divide and
Conquer: Here's how to debug interrupt
service routines . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Roger C. Alford Under The Hood: CD-ROM Inside and Out:
Exploring the complexities of CD-ROM
drives, discs, and associated standards 197
Barry Nance and
Tom Thompson and
Ben Smith Software Corner: Automatic NetWare
Log-Ins: Let your applications log in to
NetWare; a Mac text editor; and a
graphics file viewer . . . . . . . . . . 208
Bruce D. Schatzman Beyond DOS: Next-Generation OLE: A
faster, simpler OLE looms on the horizon 209
Clifford A. Pickover Stop Bit: Fractal Fantasies: Fractals
add a new dynamic to game design . . . . 256
Anonymous AudioMan: An easy and inexpensive
approach to Windows sound . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Encarta: A multimedia CD-ROM
encyclopedia worth exploring . . . . . . ??
Anonymous microWriter: Texas Instruments' low-cost
laser printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Maxine D. Brown Visualization Applications. . . . . . . ??
Jeffrey D. Shepard Japanese Leaders In Fuzzy Logic. . . . . ??
Lloyd A. Treinish Inside Multidimensional Data. . . . . . ??
Dennis Allen Editorial: Fatware Strategies . . . . . 12
Anonymous Letters: The Amiga 3000T-040/200 and
4000-040/120, OS/2 2.0, Braincel
defended, and other reader mail . . . . 20
Anonymous Microbytes: Tandy and Casio stand poised
to compete with Apple's Newton PDA . . . 28
Neven Prasnikar Report From Croatia: Recovery Through
Technology: Technology helps a troubled
country rebound . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Jon Udell First Impressions: Easy Does It with
MS-DOS 6.0: Microsoft adds compression
and memory management to the venerable
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Tom Yager Photoshop Now Does Windows: Version 2.5
is new for Windows and improved for the
Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Anonymous Stylus 800: Epson is back in the ink-jet
business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
What's New The Dauphin 5500 Color Pentop flips its
display, the Pocket Faxxer sends
paperless faxes, ParaSet helps you
develop and maintain software, and more 62
Jerry Pournelle User's Column: What's Hot, What's Not:
Pournelle's annual Orchid and Onion
parade arrives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Ed Perratore and
Tom Thompson and
Jon Udell and
Rich Malloy Fighting Fatware: Bloated software slows
you down, but help is on way . . . . . . 98--102, 104--106, 108
Janet J. Barron Putting Fuzzy Logic into Focus:
Fuzzy-logic applications arrive on the
desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Jack Weber Overview: Visualization: Seeing Is
Believing: Visualization lets you see
the meaning of numeric data . . . . . . 120
William Ribarsky Navigating the Data Flood: Find your way
through large data sets visually . . . . 129
Peter Wayner Image Building: A look at the core of
modern visualization software . . . . . 137
Nahum Gershon and
Jeff Dozier The Difficulty with Data: Visualization
requires diverse data types and formats 143
Anonymous Resource Guide: Visualization Software 148
Rick Grehan and
Stan Wszola Solutions Focus: Shrink to Fit: The BYTE
Lab tests on-the-fly data compressors
for Macs and PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Robert E. Calem Ultraportable PCs: Worth the Trade-offs:
Subnotebook or palmtop? BYTE looks at
the alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--166, 168, 170, 172
Tom Thompson PowerBook Peripherals: New hardware
makes your Apple notebook more useful 173
Tom Yager OS/2's Multimedia Extensions: IBM builds
a strong multimedia foundation for OS/2 177
Raymond Ga Cote Two Ways to Say VL-Bus: Testing two
motherboards that mix VL-Bus and EISA 179
Stanford Diehl Teaching Macs to Fetch: Aldus introduces
Fetch, a new multiuser, mixedmedia
database for the Mac . . . . . . . . . . 183
Tom Yager Macs and Windows PCs Share Control:
Timbuktu for Windows makes
cross-platform remote control possible,
but it can be slow . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Benjamin Fried and
Othar Hansson Sun's C Solution for Solaris: Sparcworks
Professional C is a solid compiler with
a few good tools . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Ben Smith A Beefier MKS Toolkit: MKS Toolkit 4.1
is a bigger and better collection of
Unix tools for DOS and OS/2 . . . . . . 191
Howard Eglowstein Pioneer's Super CD-ROM Drive: Pioneer's
new minichanger can access six CDs at
quadruple speed . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Hugh Kenner and
Raymond G. A. Cote and
Jon Udell and
Tom Thompson and
Rob Mitchell Book And CD-ROM Reviews: Market as
Virtual Reality: The Death of Money,
Windows 3.1 Insider, and other titles 194
William Stallings Under The Hood FDDI Speaks: The FDDI II
standard mixes voice and data on a
single medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Raymond G. A. Cote Some Assembly Required: Processing Magic
on the Mac: How to exploit the System 7
Process Manager in your applications . . 201
Barry Nance and
Tom Thompson and
Ben Smith Software Corner: LAN Remote Control:
Remote-control programs for NetWare and
Apple Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Jon Udell Beyond DOS: Simple MAPI Delivers:
Microsoft's first-release messaging API
is easily supported . . . . . . . . . . 211
Anonymous Ask BYTE: Laptop parallel-port problems
and creating dynamic arrays . . . . . . 215
Patricia Seybold Stop Bit: The Learning Organization:
Distributed computing won't work unless
companies are willing to change . . . . 264
Anonymous Editorial: Windows Reaches Beyond the
Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Windows News and Views: Claris Works,
VL-Bus accelerators, WordPerfect
Presentations, Windows CAD, and more . . 10
Anne Fischer Lent Workgroups by the Numbers: Ten essential
tips and techniques for getting the most
out of Windows for Workgroups . . . . . 32--35
Anne Fischer Lent Workgroups Partners: A guide to products
that integrate seamlessly with Windows
for Workgroups . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Dick Pountain Extending Visual Basic: Visual Basic
extensions let you produce quality
programs faster than ever before . . . . 43
Greg Loveria The Fine Art of Windows Printing: How to
speed up printing from Windows . . . . . 52
Tom Yager Inside Video for Windows: Microsoft's
new extensions for desktop video open
new horizons to Windows computing . . . 57
Nicholas Baran Keyboarding!: How to put your mouse out
to pasture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Tom Yager Color you can carry anywhere: combine a
486 CPU with a color active-matrix LCD,
and you get a dynamite Windows notebook 69--70, 72--73
Kenneth M. Sheldon Do you know where your money is?
Microsoft Money and Quicken for Windows
let you get a grip on your personal-and
not so personal-finances . . . . . . . . 75--76, 78, 80
Ed Perratore The Case of the Missing File . . . . . . 81
Stan Miastkowski Beyond word processing: word processors
aren't just for juggling text anymore 85--86, 88, 90
John Bryan Desktop publishing made easy: Windows
desktop publishing is more accessible
than ever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--93
Steve Apiki Compressing with Fractals . . . . . . . 95
Stan Wszola Info Select clears clutter: this PIM for
Windows works the way you do . . . . . . 97--98
Mark A. Clarkson Presentations to go: the best
presentation graphics package is the one
you don't have to think about . . . . . 99--104
Barry Nance Serving Up the Works . . . . . . . . . . 105
Henry Fersko-Weiss Contact Managers: Keeping in Touch . . . 109
Raymond Ga Cote Mathcad: Better Than Paper . . . . . . . 115
Anonymous Short Subjects: MicroPhone Pro for
Windows, Dr. Floyd's Desktop Toys, and
more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Jerry Pournelle Unsung Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Anonymous Compel: Multimedia presentation software
from Asymetrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous HP LaserJet 4Si and 4Si MX:
Hewlett-Packard's newest network
printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous NoteJet 486: Canon's notebook/printer
makes a dynamic package . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Painter 2.0: A ``natural,''
professional, and fun paint tool . . . . ??
Anonymous PagePlus 2.0: A US\$59.95 desktop
publishing package . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dennis Allen Editorial: Our New Lab Report: Your New
Consultant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Letters: Coming to terms with software
gluttony; OS/2 hassles; machine
translation; and other topics . . . . . 20
Anonymous Microbytes: Bringing UNIX into the
NetWare fold presents Novell with a
marketing dilemma: what to tell software
developers who ask which platform to
write applications for . . . . . . . . . 24
Patrick Waurzyniak First Impressions: AutoCAD Draws on
Windows: Autodesk's best-selling CAD
software goes Windows . . . . . . . . . 33
Ben Smith A Heavy-Hitting Unix for PCs: Solaris
for Intel is the most complete PC Unix 37
Anonymous NetWare 4.0: The next step for a growing
network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous What's New: The DTR-1 is a notebook or a
pen computer, the SmartLink V32bis
FaxModem encrypts your data, LapCAD 5
for the Mac gives you finite modeling,
and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Jerry Pournelle User's Column: Once More into the
Breach: User's Choice Awards wrap-up . . 75
Tom R. Halfhill Intel Launches Rocket in a Socket:
Intel's new Pentium CPU doubles the
speed of the fastest 486 . . . . . . . . 92--94, 96, 98, 100, 102--104, 106, 108
Dick Pountain Oberon: A Glimpse at the Future: A
radically object-oriented design
previews future operating systems . . . 111
Paulina Borsook Overview: Seeking Security:
Mainframe-type security is coming to the
client/server environment . . . . . . . 118--122, 124, 126, 128
Peter Wayner Should Encryption Be Regulated: U.S. law
enforcers want to limit your use of data
encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
John DeHaven Stealth Virus Attacks: Anonymous attack
software targets networked computers . . 137--138, 140, 142
Anonymous Resource Guide: Virus Protection for
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Richard Fox and
Alan Joch and
Chandrika Krishnamurthy and
Stephen Platt and
Leonard Presberg Lab Report: Hands-On Testing 126
Printers: Our testing shows which
printer is best for your needs . . . . . 146--149, 152, 154, 156--158, 160, 162, 164--166, 168, 170, 172, 174--5
Greg Loveria Solutions Focus: Making the MPC Upgrade:
Some of the best options available for
bringing multimedia to the PC . . . . . 176
Nicholas Baran Personable PIMs: Ten PIMs for Windows,
DOS, and the Mac, ranging from simple
organizers to full-blown project
managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--198
John Rydberg Banyan's ``StreetTalk for NetWare'':
Banyan's distributed directory meets
server-based NetWare . . . . . . . . . . 199
Tom Yager Windows Video Recorders: The hardware
side of Video for Windows . . . . . . . 201
Howard Eglowstein Tape Backup on the Go: A review of four
parallel-port tape drives for backup . . 205
Nicholas John Delonas Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3.4 for DOS: Lotus'
latest high-end DOS spreadsheet is
faster, but you still may prefer the
low-end line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Hugh Kenner and
Steve Apiki and
Tom Yager Book And CD-ROM Reviews: From the Mind
of MIT: Windows NT, multimedia, MIT,
Compton's on CD-ROM, and more . . . . . 210
Dick Pountain Under The Hood: Computing on Wheels:
This month's column literally goes under
the hood to examine a new generation of
automotive-control computers . . . . . . 213
Allen Holub Some Assembly Required: The Power of
Inheritance: How to take advantage of
multiple inheritance in your C++ class
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Gen Kiyooka Beyond DOS: Getting a Handle on NT:
Windows NT offers outstanding
exception-handling tools. Here's why you
need them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Hans Berliner Stop Bit: Losing the Human Edge:
Computers are about to mount a new
challenge in the chess world . . . . . . 282
Dennis Allen Editorial: More Personal Pathways . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: Readers respond on E-mail, Mac
accelerator boards, computing in Italy,
and other topics . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Nicholas John Delonas Lotus Takes Another Run at Windows:
Windows version of 1-2-3 is a serious
challenger to Microsoft Excel . . . . . 22
Dick Pountain and
Amstrad's Affordable Pen Package The Pen Pad PDA600 may not offer the
dazzle of Newton, but it's affordable
and it works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Tom Thompson PostScript Level 2: Adobe Takes the
Driver' Seat: You may already have a
PostScript Level 2 printer, but now you
can take advantage of it with Level 2
drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Ben Smith Going to Extremes: With a powerful new
graphics processor, Silicon Graphics'
Indigo2 was born for data visualization 34
Andy Reinhardt HP Takes Color Mainstream:
Hewlett-Packard's DeskJet 1200C meets
the demand of users who covet color . . 38
Patrick Waurzyniak WordPerfect Goes GUI with DOS Update:
It's taken WordPerfect more than three
years to update its DOS word processor,
but version 6.0 may be worth the wait 42
Tom R. Halfhill A Peek at PowerOpen: The first PowerPC
chip may not equal the Pentium's
performance, but at one-fifth the price,
you may not care . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Tom R. Halfhill Visual Basic 3.0 Strengthens
Connectivity: The newest version of
Visual Basic inherits Microsoft's Access
database engine . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
D. Barker Report from Mexico: Local programmers
wait for a break . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Hugh Kenner and
Raymond Ga Cote and
Howard Eglowstein and
Rob Mitchell Reviews: Books and CD-ROMs Computer
Ruminations: Unix Power Tools, Things
That Make Us Smart, and other titles . . 51
Joseph J. Lazzaro Computers for the Disabled:
Off-the-shelf products help you meet the
needs of disabled workers . . . . . . . 59--60, 62, 64
Anonymous Readers' Choice Awards: BYTE readers
name their favorite products . . . . . . 65
Jon Udell Windows, Windows Everywhere: Microsoft
wants you to someday use a version of
Windows for every computing platform.
The unique demands of each platform,
however, might make this goal
unrealistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Anonymous The Mips Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Many Processors, Many Threads . . . . . 84
Anonymous Windows Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Anonymous NT's Architects Speak . . . . . . . . . 92
Ellen Ullman Client/Server Frees Data: Client/server
brings data to your desktop . . . . . . 96
Anonymous Unix Database Servers Are Not for
Everyone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Serving Mobile Clients . . . . . . . . . 106
Mark Clarkson The Many Flavors of SQL: Market forces
complicate the search for a database
access standard. While vendors pitch
their versions of SQL, users suffer . . 109
Paul Korzeniowski Make Way for Data: Middleware --- such
as remote procedure calls and
message-passing systems --- invisibly
aids data exchange. With it, you can
save development time implementing your
client/server applications. Programmers
don't have to modify applications to
accommodate network protocols . . . . . 113
Randall D. Cronk EISes Mine Your Data: Client/server
computing revolutionizes executive
information systems. EISes can help you
find and analyze your data, but it's not
always as easy as it might sound . . . . 121, 123, 125, 127--128
Tom Thompson Apple's Midrange Mac a Heavy Hitter:
Benchmark results and hands-on
experience with two of Apple's newest
Macs, the Centris 650 and PowerBook 165c 129--130
Jim Hurd Microsoft's Visual C++: Is Visual C++ a
more powerful Visual Basic or a more
graphical C++? Jim Hurd checks out its
new tools and capabilities . . . . . . . 133
Stan Miastkowski and
Marc Schnapp Two Roads to Windows Databases: Paradox
and FoxPro migrate to Windows: Borland's
Paradox for Windows wraps its powerful
features in an object-oriented package.
Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 for Windows
maintains its solid Xbase underpinning
and is built for speed . . . . . . . . . 136--138
Anonymous Performance Comparisons . . . . . . . . 138
Howard Eglowstein HP's Simple Laser: HP's new LaserJet 4L
brings laser-quality output to the
desktop, along with low cost and simple
operation. The BYTE Lab examines the
speed, quality, and expansion trade-offs
of the 4L series . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Tom Thompson BASIC for the Rest of Us: Zedcor's
FutureBasic provides a powerful
development environment for the
Macintosh that's actually easy to use.
Thompson builds a project with
FutureBasic and a helpful add-on, PG:PRO 143
Raymond Ga Cote The Renaissance of Imaging: Kodak hopes
to change the way graphics professionals
process electronic images with Photo CD
and supporting software. BYTE examines
two of Kodak's flagship Photo CD
software products, PhotoEdge and
Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--147
Stan Wszola Windows Dressing: The Windows user
interface isn't for everyone. The BYTE
Lab examines 12 accessory packages that
plug the gaps in the Windows user
interface, including New Wave, Power
Launcher, and Norton Desktop for Windows 148
Richard Fox and
Alan Joch and
Leonard Presberg and
Leslie Reisz BYTE Lab Report: Desktop Dynamite: 116
Fast 486s: We tested 116 50-and 66-MHz
486s to tell you which is best for your
DOS, Windows, and UNIX applications. How
we tested; Poor Quality; Bus Choices . . 156
Dick Pountain Under the Hood The Multiprocessor
Solution: Multiprocessor architectures
lead the charge to improve I/O
performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Barry Nance Beyond DOS, IBM Unleashes a New OS/2:
IBM delivers a full-featured successor
to OS/2 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Michael J. Young Some Assembly Required Animation for
Windows Applications: CSprite class
forms the foundation for adding
animation to Windows programs . . . . . 197
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Statistics Programs Help
Businesses Work: Mysteries revealed . . 201
Anonymous What's New: The Paperless 1 imaging
system reduces paper consumption, the
Raidion LT provides fault-tolerant
disk-array storage for OS/2, and more 220
Clifford Stoll Commentary: The Cuckoo's Egg Revisited:
Five years after a hacker broke into a
computer at Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory, the repercussions still echo
across the Internet . . . . . . . . . . 274
Dennis Allen Editorial: The Real Multimedia . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: Fighting fatware, MS-DOS 6, the
Commodore Amiga, and other topics . . . 19
Barry Nance WordPerfect Office 4.0: The latest
version of WordPerfect's groupware
product supports multiple operating
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Tom Thompson QMS Strikes with Color Laser Printer:
ColorScript Laser 1000 brings color
laser printing into a more affordable
price range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Dave Andrews RAID Down to the Desktop: This storage
technology is moving from mainframes and
minicomputers to the desktop . . . . . . 28
Tom R. Halfhill Ruling Won't Mean Lower Prices for 486
Chips: Despite AMD's winning the latest
round in its legal battle with Intel,
don't expect a big price drop in 486
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Gene Smarte Toshiba Gets Aggressive with Passive
Color: Toshiba's T1900C could change the
way you look at passive-matrix color
displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Patrick Waurzyniak HP's Superior Subnotebook:
Hewlett-Packard packs a lot, including
Windows and applications in ROM, into
its 3-pound Omnibook . . . . . . . . . . 32
Peter Wayner Encryption Chip Draws Fire: A new
encryption chip promises to protect your
electronic messages, but there's a
catch: A trapdoor lets the government
eavesdrop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chris Kofer A Quicker Quicken: A new Mac version of
Intuit's personal-finance software . . . 40
Khaldoon Tabaza Report from Jordan: Localizing software
in Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Hugh Kenner and
Stanford Diehl and
Raymond Ga Cote and
Michael Nadeau and
Rick Grehan Reviews: Books and CD-ROMs Quest for the
Silicon Grail: Tales of AI hackers, the
green PC, art on CD, and other subjects 49
Michael J. Gutmann Cluster PCs for Power: A look at network
high-end PCs able to run applications
that were once too big for your server 57
Ben Smith Data from the Depths: Engineers at the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
deploy inexpensive, autonomous data
loggers on small underwater vessels.
BYTE Lab editors study the Woods Hole
solution and the latest trend in data
acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Andy Reinhardt and
T. R. Halfhill Pentium Changes the PC: The Intel
Pentium CPU demands subsystems and I/O
that can keep pace and that call for a
fundamental rethinking of how to build
everything from the expansion bus to
memory architecture . . . . . . . . . . 80--82, 84, 86--87, 90, 92--93
Raymond Ga Cote and
Barry Nance Pentium PCs: Power to Burn: Fast and
ready to roll, the first Pentium systems
are now available . . . . . . . . . . . 94--96, 98, 100, 102
Sara Hedberg New Knowledge Tools: Combining knowledge
systems with other technologies can
improve your cost/performance figures 106
Jay Liebowitz Roll Your Own Hybrids: Emerging
technologies --- such as neural networks
and genetic algorithms --- can add
robustness to knowledge-based systems.
Stand-alone expert systems could go the
same route as the dinosaurs . . . . . . 113
Sara Hedberg See, Hear, Learn: With smart multimedia
and virtual reality, you can create
virtual Cheshire cats to answer your
questions. Projects at Northwestern
University and Andersen Consulting are
putting this technology to use . . . . . 119, 121, 123, 125, 127--128
Howard Eglowstein Applying the Power of the Pen: The
promise of pen computers has been dulled
by a lack of innovative, pen-centric,
general-purpose applications. Here are
nine software packages for Go's PenPoint
and Microsoft's Windows for Pen
Computing that challenge the notion that
pen systems are only good for vertical
markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Jon Udell NetWare Goes Global: NetWare 4.0 has
arrived, claiming support for serious
enterprise networking. NetWare,
Directory Service brinks NetWare beyond
the LAN, and 4.0 adds other features
like file compression, CD-ROM sharing,
and data migration . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Robert Schmidt Dynamic Documents: Folio Views 3.0 comes
to Windows and brings with it some
exciting new features, including an open
client/server architecture, concurrent
multiuser editing, embedded graphics and
multimedia support . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146, 148
Tom R. Halfhill ClarisWorks 2.0 for Macintosh:
ClarisWorks is already established as
the leading integral package for the
Macintosh, but it's not resting on its
existing modules. Version 2.0 adds new
features and applications to this
seamlessly integrated software . . . . . 151
G. Armour Van Horn PageMaker 5.0 vs. Quark 3.1: Recent
releases of these two popular
page-layout packages duke it out both on
the Mac and under Windows. Van Horn
determines which of these aggressive
competitors currently has the upper hand 157--158, 160
Jon Udell One Thumb Up, One Thumb Down: Release 3
of Lotus Notes delivers long-awaited
features, including Macintosh support
and full-text indexing, but it lacks
development tools needed to build
effective groupware. Our reviewer finds
some significant improvements and some
significant disappointments . . . . . . 161
Jim Hurd BYTE Lab Report V.32 or Better: 69
Modems: We run line-impairment nd
data-throughput tests to measure the
efficiency of 9600-bps and faster
modems. Results reveal the best for
high-speed communications, portability,
data-only applications, and all-around
communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--176, 178, 180--182, 184, 186--187, 192--197, 189--190, 192--195
Benjamin W. Slivka and
Eric Straub and
Richard Freedman Under the Hood: Inside MS-DOS 6: MS-DOS
6's designers examine the inner workings
of MemMaker and DoubleSpace . . . . . . 197
Steve Mastrianni Beyond DOS: Confessions of a DDK
Developer: IBM's OS/2 DDK is a good
start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Eric Shapiro and
Tom Thompson Some Assembly Required: The Mac
Extended: Savvy programmers can write
their own Mac Extensions . . . . . . . . 205
Jerry Pournelle The DOS 6 Question: Our columnist finds
DOS 6 is the least expensive route to
disk compression and memory optimization 209
Anonymous What's New: The latest Tektronix
dye-sublimation printer, Smartcom for
Windows from Hayes, Alps Electric's
wireless LAN adapter, and more . . . . . 226
Paul Saffo A Conspiracy of Silence: The dangers of
electromagnetic-field radiation are
evident. So why isn't the industry doing
anything? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: From Pentium to printers,
readers register their comments . . . . 18
Anonymous Illustrator 5.0: New Face, New Features:
The new version of Adobe's drawing
program for the Mac offers layering,
gradient fills, and an interface
make-over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous A New Graphics Standard from Matrox:
Matrox's new 64-bit video card for the
PC represents a new standard for
accelerated graphics . . . . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous PCI: Apple's New Bus: The Peripheral
Component Interconnect local-bus
architecture receives a powerful
endorsement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous QuickRing Gets Closer, Expands to
Networking: Apple and National
Semiconductor say QuickRing will be used
to deliver 180-MBps data transfer over
fiber-optic networks . . . . . . . . . . 27
Anonymous Acrobat Bounds into the Paperless
Publishing Arena: Adobe's Acrobat has a
tough balancing act in delivering
electronic, no-font-hassle documents to
the screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous IBM and Apple Work to Perfect Voice
Input: Two technologies that will
eventually let you interact with your
computer solely through spoken commands 32
Anonymous The PowerBooks of Summer: Apple, TI, and
Tadpole deliver a new wave of color
notebook computers . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Report from Hannover: The European
Community takes a community approach to
research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Hugh Kenner Books and CD-ROMs: The Pocket Godzilla:
The impact of Nintendo, Mac networking,
nanotechnology, artificial life, OS/2
programming, and other subjects . . . . 49
Tom Thompson PowerPC Performs for Less: Will your
next desktop PC be RISC-based? The
PowerPC 601 has the performance, low
cost, and support for multiple operating
systems needed to make that a
possibility come true; PowerOpen Gives
Users Freedom of Choice; The PowerPC
Does Windows; Pentium Out-Powered;
Translation Tool Ports Programs in a
Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Bob Ryan RISC Drives PowerPC: The PowerPC puts
all the best features of RISC ---
pipelining, branch prediction, and
plenty of registers --- into a scalable,
low-price package . . . . . . . . . . . 79
John P. Mello, Jr. Future Communications: Beyond file and
print sharing, networks are evolving
into the preferred medium for all sorts
of communications --- voice, text,
graphics, and video . . . . . . . . . . 94
Anonymous Storage Without Limits . . . . . . . . . 104
Mark Clarkson All-Terrain Networking: ATM can span the