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Volume 5, Number ??, 1980J. Burger and D. Brill and F. Machi Self-Reproducing Programs . . . . . . . ??
G. C. Berresford and A. M. Rockett and J. C. Stevenson Khachiyan's algorithm. I. A new solution to linear programming problems . . . . . 198--208
G. C. Berresford and A. M. Rockett and J. C. Stevenson Khachiyan's algorithm. II. Problems with the algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--255
B. E. Brown and S. Levine The future of computer graphics . . . . 22--28 A. W. Grogono Graphic color slides . . . . . . . . . . 126--144 D. Sokol and J. Shepard Three-dimensional graphics for the Apple II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--150 D. K. Cohen and D. Crowe A general interpolating graphics package for the TRS-80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--310
Robert B. Greenberg The Unix operating system and the Xenix standard operating environment . . . . . 248--264
S. P. Levitan and J. G. Bonar Three Microcomputer LISP's . . . . . . . ?? Thomas A. Wadlow The Xerox Alto Computer . . . . . . . . 58--68 D. Robson Object-Oriented Software Systems . . . . 74 T. C. Nguyen Numerical methods in data analysis . . . 435--446
Anonymous Special issue on Smalltalk . . . . . . . ?? A. Goldberg and D. Robson The Smalltalk-80 System . . . . . . . . 36--48 Larry Tesler The Smalltalk Environment . . . . . . . 90--147 D. H. H. Ingalls Design Principles Behind Smalltalk . . . 286--298 Ted Kaehler Virtual Memory For an Object-Oriented Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--387
J. Pournelle Semidisk, Software Tools, the BDOS Blues, Power, and LISPs . . . . . . . . ??
D. C. S. Smith and C. Irby and R. Kimball and B. Verplank and E. Harlem Designing the Star User Interface . . . 242--282
Edward Rothchild Optical-Memory Media . . . . . . . . . . 86--106 John Smith Public Key Cryptography: An Introduction to a Powerful Cryptographic System for Use on Microcomputers . . . . . . . . . 198--218 Larry Birenbaum The IBM PC Meets Ethernet . . . . . . . 272--280
Geoff Williams The Lisa Computer System . . . . . . . . 33--50
B. Tuthill Typesetting on the UNIX system . . . . . 253--265
Marc C. Johnson and Allen Munro Pascal's Design Flaws: Modula-2 Solutions and Pascal Patches: A description of seven subtle problems with Pascal, and a look at how Modula-2 avoids them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372, 374, 376, 378, 380, 382, 384, 387--388
S. A. Ciarcia The lis'ner 1000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--124 Edwin E. Mier The Evolution of a Standard Ethernet . . 131--142 N. Wirth History and Goals of Modula-2 . . . . . 145--152 P. R. Cook Electronic Encyclopedias . . . . . . . . 151--167 Alan R. Miller TK!Solver: Software Review . . . . . . . 263--272 J. Bortz and J. Diaman LISP for the IBM Personal Computer . . . 281--291
J. Bass Translating the SAS language into BASIC 417--434
Geoff Williams The Apple Macintosh Computer . . . . . . 30--54
E. Shapiro A First Look at Dayflo . . . . . . . . . 81--86 R. Bronson Computer Simulation: What it is and how it's done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102 P. A. Schrodt Simulation of Weighted Voting: The Banzhaf Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--154 E. H. Rasmussen Queue Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--174
W. Finzer and L. Gould Programming by Rehearsal . . . . . . . . 187--210
Dick Pountain The Transputer and its special language, Occam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--366
J. L. Weiner The Logical Record Keeper: PROLOG On The IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--31
J. Pournelle On the road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--382
C. A. Whitney Generating and Testing Pseudorandom Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129 J. Markoff RISC Chips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--206
D. Pountain PROLOG on Microcomputers . . . . . . . . 355--62
W. Hershey Idea Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? B. Benzon The Visual Mind and the Macintosh . . . 113--130 W. E. Larimore and R. K. Mehra Problems of Overfitting Data . . . . . . 167--180 R. Wilton Programming the Enhanced Graphics Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--220 G. E. Hinton Learning in Parallel Networks . . . . . 265--273 J. A. Feldman Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--284 J. K. Stevens Reverse Engineering the Brain . . . . . 287--298
R. Karpinski Paranoia: A Floating-Point Benchmark . . 223--235
J. R. Anderson and B. J. Reiser The LISP Tutor: It Approaches the Effectiveness of a Human Tutor . . . . . 159--175 W. Lewis Johnson and Elliot Soloway PROUST. The LISP Program Automatically Debugs the Efforts Novice Pascal Programmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--190 M. Deering Architectures for AI: Hardware and Software for Efficient Processing . . . 193--206 Patrick H. Winston The LISP Revolution . . . . . . . . . . 209--222 Carl Hewitt The Challenge of Open Systems . . . . . 223--242
Paul Walker The Transputer: a building block for parallel processing . . . . . . . . . . 219--235 Dick Pountain Parallel processing . . . . . . . . . . 385, 386, 388, 390, 392, 395
M. Fichtelman The Expert Mechanic . . . . . . . . . . 205--216
S. Eisenbach and C. Sadler Declarative Languages: An Overview . . . 181--200 J. Darlington Program Transformation . . . . . . . . . 201--218 P. G. Harrison and H. Khoshnevisan Functional Programming using FP . . . . 219--234 R. Bailey A Hope Tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--255
Sol Libes Bytelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Kenneth W. Kerber Review of Computer Culture: The Scientific, Intellectual and Social Impact of the Computer . . . . . . . . . 57--58 W. G. Wong TLC-LISP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--292 Dick Pountain Computers as Consultants . . . . . . . . 367--376
W. Jorgensen and C. Hamel and C. Weisbin Autonomous Robot Navigation . . . . . . 223--235
Pierre A. MacKay Typesetting problem scripts. Computer typesetting provides a solution for Arabic and similar scripts . . . . . . . 201--218
G. E. Hinton Learning in Parallel Networks: Simulating Learning in a Probabilistic System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--273
C. A. R. Hoare Mathematics of Programming . . . . . . . 115--149
Jonathan Amsterdam Data Compression with Huffman Coding . . 99--108
Steve Ciarcia Build a Hardware Data Encryptor . . . . ?? P. W. Frey A Bit-Mapped Classifier . . . . . . . . ?? ?. Perry Abstract Mathematical Art . . . . . . . ?? ?. Phipps The Inversion of Large Matrices; the Pan and Reif Algorithm Provides a Solution ??
Peter B. Schroeder Plotting the Mandelbrot Set . . . . . . 207--211
B. Thompson and W. Thompson Finding Rules in Data . . . . . . . . . 149--158 P. A. Schrodt Predicting International Events . . . . 177--192 J. Pollack and D. L. Waltz Interpretation of Natural Language . . . 189--198 Robert J. Schalkoff MuLISP-86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--252 William G. Wong BYSO LISP and Waltz LISP. Two Implementations of LISP for the IBM Personal Computer and Compatibles . . . 293--296
Anonymous Review of Introduction to Robotics by Arthur J. Critchlow . . . . . . . . . . 57--60
Donald E. Knuth Text Processing: Computer Science considerations (interview by G. Michael Vose and Gregg Williams) . . . . . . . . 169--172
S. L. Moshier Computer Approximations . . . . . . . . 161--178 Y. F. Chang The ATOMCC Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . 215--224
Dick Pountain Personal Supercomputers . . . . . . . . 363--368
Anonymous Special issue on Object-Oriented Systems ?? K. Schmucker MacApp: an application framework . . . . 189--193
Dick Pountain Turbocharging Mandelbrot . . . . . . . . 359--366
P. Robinson The sum: an AI coprocessor . . . . . . . ??
?. Bharath Information Theory . . . . . . . . . . . ?? ?. Bork The Potential for Interactive Technology ?? ?. Edginton Installing Memory-Resident Programs with C: Using C Programs to Extend DOS . . . ?? ?. Hansen Data Structures in a Bit-Mapped Text Editor: How Carnegie-Mellon University Displays Text on the IBM RT PC . . . . . ??
D. T. Modianos and R. C. Scott and L. W. Cornwell Testing Intrinsic Random Number Generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--178
Alan Hoenig Review of Knuth's Computers & Typesetting ?? McWorter and Tazelaar Creating Fractals . . . . . . . . . . . ?? ?. Phipps More on Pan-Reif (letter) . . . . . . . ?? ?. Roberts Optimizing Compilers: How Compilers Produce Fast Code, and How They Could Be Improved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? ?. Wayner Zero-Knowledge Proofs . . . . . . . . . ?? Brian A. Wichmann and ?. Hill Building a Random-Number Generator: A Pascal Routine for Very-Long-Cycle Random-Number Sequences . . . . . . . . ?? ?. Wittman Review of: Wresch, A Practical Guide to Computer Uses in the English/Language Arts Classroom, Prentice-Hall, 1986 . . ?? ?. Wittman Review of: Snyder-Palmer, In Search of the Most Amazing Thing: Children, Education, and Computers, Addison-Wesley, 1986 . . . . . . . . . . ?? B. Kosko Constructing an Associative Memory . . . 137--144 W. Clocksin A Prolog Primer . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--158 Catherine Lassez Constraint Logic Programming . . . . . . 171--176 Charles B. Duff Designing and Efficient Language . . . . 211--224 William Wong PC Scheme: A Lexical LISP . . . . . . . 223--226 K. K. Obermeier Natural Language Processing . . . . . . 225--233 M. Zeidenberg Modeling the Brain . . . . . . . . . . . 237--246
Jon C. Snader Look it up faster with hashing . . . . . 128--144
A. Colmerauer Opening the Prolog-III Universe . . . . 177--182
A. M. Rockett and J. C. Stevenson Karmarkar's algorithm: A method for solving large linear programming problems (technical) . . . . . . . . . . 146--162 A. M. Rockett and J. C. Stevenson Karmarkar's Algorithm . . . . . . . . . 147--160 William P. Jones and Josiah Hoskins Back-Propagation --- a generalized delta learning rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--162 L. Sterling Mathematical Reasoning --- A Prolog Program Uses Heuristic Methods to Solve Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180 G. Josin Neural-Network Heuristics: Three Heuristic Algorithms that Learn from Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--192 William Hershey Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--246
I. Malitz The Turing machine . . . . . . . . . . . 345--357
T. Thompson Fast Math \emdash A first look at Motorola's 68882 math coprocessor . . . 120--121 R. G. Brookshire Rating the IBM compatibles . . . . . . . 193--6, 198
A. Lane Trilogy: A New Approach to Logic Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--151 ?. Bourn Review of Duncan, The MS-DOS Encyclopedia (1988) . . . . . . . . . . ?? Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie The State of C . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? ?. Linowes It's an Attitude (object-oriented programming in C) . . . . . . . . . . . ?? ?. Myers Review of IBM Corp., IBM Personal System/2 and Personal Computer BIOS Interface Technical Reference . . . . . ?? ?. Myers Review of Wadlow, Memory Resident Programming on the IBM PC . . . . . . . ?? ?. O'Neill Faster Than Fast Fourier . . . . . . . . ?? Bjarne Stroustrup A Better C? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter Wayner Error-Free Fractions . . . . . . . . . . ??
Pete Wilson Floating-Point Survival Kit . . . . . . 217--217
Wayne Rash, Jr. A Quintet of Worms . . . . . . . . . . . 146--151 M. F. Barnsley and A. D. Sloan A better way to compress images . . . . 215--223 F. Hayes The Crossbar Connection . . . . . . . . 278--279 Dick Pountain A Personal Transputer . . . . . . . . . 303--304 (??) Dick Pountain Rekursiv: An Object-Oriented CPU . . . . 341--349
Theodor H. Nelson Managing Immense Storage . . . . . . . . 224--238
Byte staff Hyperquotes from Hypertext Pioneer Ted Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Byte staff Will Hypertext Save Mankind? . . . . . . 14 Byte staff Twelve Volumes of English Words Now on Two CD-ROMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Byte staff Hypertext Word Processing . . . . . . . 84 David Betz and Gregg Williams Introduction LISP . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman LISP: A Language for Stratified Design 207--218 William Clinger Semantics of SCHEME . . . . . . . . . . 221--227 David S. Touretzky How LISP has Changed . . . . . . . . . . 229--234 Anonymous LISP Resource Guide . . . . . . . . . . 236 John Poplett and Rob Kurver The DSI transputer development system 249--254
Steve Apiki and Stan Diehl PostScript printers come of age (buyer's guide) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--178 J. Holtzman An 80386 with a twist (AST Premium/386) 195--200 B. N. Meeks Fax board faire (buyer's guide) . . . . 203--210 N. C. Shammas Ada comes to the Mac (compiler package) 213--216 N. C. Shammas Software for hardware-style debugging (Soft-ICE debugger) . . . . . . . . . . 219--222 L. Wood Total Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--228 L. Wood Data entry goes high-tech (DataPlex package) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--234 G. Smarte and N. M. Baran Face to face (display technology) . . . 243--252 R. Peterson and C. R. Killebrew, Jr. and T. Albers and K. Guttag Taking the wraps off the 34020 (display technology) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--272 R. Von Stroh and B. Dolinar Lighting the way (EL displays) . . . . . 275--280 Ernest R. Tello Between man and machine (user interfaces) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--293 N. C. Shammas The BASIC revival . . . . . . . . . . . 295--300 S. Ciarcia Ciarcia's circuit cellar. 2. Why microcontrollers? . . . . . . . . . . . 303--312 R. Grehan Floating-point without a coprocessor . . 313--319
R. Grehan and T. Thompson Borland beefs up its languages . . . . . 151--154 S. Apiki and S. Diehl Presentation Manager and LAN Manager (OS/2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--159 S. Apiki and S. Diehl 80386s for the masses (80386-based clones) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--176 J. Unger Bucking the system (Dell System 310) . . 179--183 Wayne Rash, Jr. The odd couple (portable computers) . . 185--190 L. H. Loeb Bringing the outside world into a Macintosh (scanners) . . . . . . . . . . 194--199 N. C. Shammas Smalltalk a la C (C-talk 1.0) . . . . . 201--204 A. Lane Turbo Prolog revisited . . . . . . . . . 209--212 P. Oppenheim D the Data Language (DBMS) . . . . . . . 215--221 L. Wood Suit yourself with Sprint (word processor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--228 J. Fiderio A Grand Vision--Hypertext mimics the brain's ability to access information quickly and intuitively by reference . . 237--244 M. Frisse From text to hypertext . . . . . . . . . 247--253 M. L. Begeman and J. Conklin The right tool for the job (hypertext) 255--266 M. Waller PC power. 1. Power protection . . . . . 270--280 S. Ciarcia A supercomputer. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . 283--291 R. Grehan Some assembly required. 2. Floating-point without a coprocessor . . 293--298
B. N. Meeks Beefed-up bulletin boards . . . . . . . 45--48 D. Crabb To Mac and back (computer links) . . . . 67--70 R. Malloy DOS 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--78 R. Malloy Memory board roundup (buyer's guide) . . 81--85 K. Newcom The Micro Channel versus the AT bus . . 91--98 M. L. Van Name Keeping up with the CPU . . . . . . . . 101--106 J. Levitt Whither IBM and Unix? . . . . . . . . . 109--110,114 D. Dougherty and T. O'Reilly DOS meets Unix . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--126 B. Nicholls Graphics: the big picture . . . . . . . 129--138 N. C. Shammas Life after DOS (multitasking operating systems) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--150 J. Gilliland OS/2 communications . . . . . . . . . . 153--166 G. B. Williams Keep your PC healthy (computer maintenance) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--174 M. M. McLain and T. E. Stevenson Writing OS/2 graphics programs . . . . . 177--184 R. Wilton VGA video modes . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--198 A. Schulman Exploring OS/2 with a Lisp interpreter 201--206
E. Shapiro Portable software . . . . . . . . . . . 127--132 Wayne Rash, Jr. Do productivity tools help productivity? 135--137 M. Minasi OS/2's multitasking dashboard . . . . . 147--151 B. N. Meeks You can't get there from here-or can you? (gateways) . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--155 Tom Thompson and Nick Baran The NeXT computer . . . . . . . . . . . 158--175 L. Wood The promise of project management . . . 180--192 J. Holtzman SX appeal (Compaq 386s microcomputers) 197--202 M. L. Van Name ALR improves on a winner (cache store) 205--210 Pete Wilson Parallel Processing Comes to PCs (Transputer Boards for PC AT-Compatibles and Macintoshes) . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--218 J. Udell A C++ toolkit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--227 A. Lane Lint for the PC . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--234 R. Grehan SpinRite (hard disc diagnostic and maintenance program) . . . . . . . . . . 237--239 D. Gabaldon Features vs. speed (FullWrite word processor program) . . . . . . . . . . . 241--246 R. Cook and P. Schauble Remote-control communications . . . . . 249--252 K. K. Obermeier Side by Side; you can only simulate true parallelism on your personal computer today, but tomorrow will be another story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276, 280--283 Richard M. Stein T800 and counting . . . . . . . . . . . 287--296 David Gelernter Getting the job done (Linda, parallel programming language) . . . . . . . . . 301--308 M. J. Little and J. Grinberg The third dimension (3-D computer) . . . 311--319 D. Pountain Rekursiv: an object-oriented CPU . . . . 340--349 M. Waller PC power. 2. Backup power . . . . . . . 353--358 C. W. Kyd Multiple regression with Excel . . . . . 363--373 P. Wayner It's APT to write (abstract planning tool) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--384 D. Pountain Parallelizing Prolog . . . . . . . . . . 387--394 S. Ciarcia A supercomputer. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . 399--406 D. Betz Embedded languages . . . . . . . . . . . 409--416 C. J. Batory Adding dimensions (array support in C) 419--424
F. Hayes At long last, laptop (Compaq 286 SLT laptop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--110 B. N. Meeks X.400 grows up . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--152 S. Diehl and S. Apiki Plotters in perspective (buyer's guide) 162--180 J. Unger The Sun386i (Unix workstation) . . . . . 183--188 J. Holtzman A nimble AT (Dell System 220) . . . . . 193--196 J. West and D. Newton A quick look at QuickCapture (frame grabber board and software) . . . . . . 199--204 J. Holtzman Merge 386 (combined Unix/DOS environment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--212 N. C. Shammas Slick (text editing environment) . . . . 215--221 L. Wood The Database redefined (Agenda 1.0) . . 223--229 R. DeMaria MacDraw II (drawing program) . . . . . . 231--234 S. Apiki and S. Diehl Benchmarks at a glance (microcomputers) 236--238, 240 D. Engelbart and H. Lehtman Working together (groupwise) . . . . . . 245--252 T. Winograd Where the action is (groupware) . . . . 256A-258 J. Grudin Perils and pitfalls (groupware) . . . . 261--264 K. Crowston and T. W. Malone Intelligent software agents (groupware) 267--272 S. Opper A groupware toolbox . . . . . . . . . . 275--282 T. Hoeber Face to face with Open Look (Unix user interface) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--296 R. Pearson Lies, damned lies, and spreadsheets (validity tests) . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--304 D. Pountain Untangling Pascal strings . . . . . . . 307--314 T. Oren The CD-ROM connection . . . . . . . . . 315--320 Wayne Rash, Jr. Light, bright and white (laptop screens) 321--324 S. Ciarcia Ciarcia's circuit cellar. 3 A supercomputer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--339 R. Grehan An overview of overlays . . . . . . . . 341--348
?. Dodani and ?. Hughes and ?. Moshell Separation of Powers . . . . . . . . . . ?? ?. Kenner Review of Dewdney, The Turing Omnibus: 61 Excursions in Computer Science (1989) ?? ?. Thompson The Next Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? ?. Vose Review of Gehani, C: An Advanced Introduction, ANSI C Edition, Computer Science Press, 1988 . . . . . . . . . . ??
Wayne Rash, Jr. So, maybe you do need a LAN . . . . . . 135--136,138 D. Crabb Hooked on Smalltalk-80 for the MAC . . . 143, 145--146 B. Glass Making applications talk (CAS) . . . . . 155--158 S. Diehl and S. Apiki Product focus: digitizing tablets: graphic details . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--166, 168--172, 174 C. Halliday Strengthening the lineup . . . . . . . . 179--184, 186 M. L. Van Name A portable with punch (Dolch PAC) . . . 189--192 N. Baran A great communicator . . . . . . . . . . 195--196,198 B. D. Kliewer Pixels on the march (8514/A and Artist 10 MC graphics coprocessor boards for the IBM PS/2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--202, 204--208 K. Nyberg and J. Udell IntegrAda (Ada programming support environment for the PC) . . . . . . . . 213--214, 216, 218, 220 N. C. Shammas QuickBASIC comes to the Macintosh . . . 223--224, 226, 228 P. Robinson Opus I (graphic/database software) . . . 233--234, 236--237 Peter Wayner Symbolic math on the Mac (Mathematica 1.0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--242, 144 J. Y. Bryce Fiber vs. metal-mix, match, and choose between fiber-optic and metallic cables 253--258 H. Saal Looking for trouble (LAN performance) 259--265 W. M. Adney and D. E. Kavanagh The data bandits (viruses, theft, and accidental destruction) . . . . . . . . 267--270 B. N. Meeks Dialing up 1990 (PC communications) . . 273--274, 276--278 J. H. Humphrey and G. S. Smock Whither the Modem? . . . . . . . . . . . 281--283 K. Thurber OS/2 hits the networks . . . . . . . . . 285--291 W. Stallings When one LAN is not enough . . . . . . . 293--298 B. Glass Understanding NetBIOS . . . . . . . . . 301--306 R. Davis A logical choice (APPC or LU 6.2 protocol) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--315 E. Tittel Making the connection (IBM PCs, Macintoshes and VAXes) . . . . . . . . . 317--320, 322--325 D. Pountain The X Window System . . . . . . . . . . 353--355, 336--360 B. Glass The Token Ring . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--368, 370, 372, 374, 376 R. Grehan Trees'n keys. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--380, 384, 386--390
S. Miastkowski and N. Baran Paradox 3: neither enigma nor riddle (relational DBMS for IBM PCs) . . . . . 109--111 N. Baran The Mac SE takes off . . . . . . . . . . 113--116 Wayne Rash, Jr. Getting into bigger LANs . . . . . . . . 145--147 M. Minasi Electing the PM (OS/2) . . . . . . . . . 157--158 B. N. Meeks The ABCs of X-, Y-, and ZMODEM . . . . . 163--166 S. Apiki and J. Udell Smoothing out C (optimizing C compilers) 170--186 J. Unger A pair of sophisticated laptops (Zenith SupersPort 286 and Mitsubishi MP-286L) 189--194 M. L. Van Name A PS/2 in channel only (Tandy 5000 MC) 197--202 M. Blaszczak Three assemblers for MS-DOS . . . . . . 205--209 D. Gabaldon Full Impact (spreadsheet package) . . . 211--214 M. Rubel dBASE IV arrives . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--222 N. Baran Two worlds converge (personal workstations) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--233 B. Nicholls The current crop (personal workstations) 235--244 T. Marshall and J. Morrill Tazelaar Worth the RISC (personal workstations) 245--249 B. Kindel How fast is fast? (personal workstations) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--254 Philip Robinson Art + 2 years = science (personal workstations) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--264 G. Comeau Networking with Unix (personal workstations) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--267 D. Pountain Digital paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--280 C. J. Butler Turbo Pascal windowing system . . . . . 283--291 B. Glass Hard disk interfaces . . . . . . . . . . 293--297 R. Grehan Some assembly required. 2. Trees 'n keys 301--307
E. Shapiro Trackball madness (ProPoint, Works 2.0 and WorkPlus Spell on Macintosh) . . . . 129--130, 132 D. Crabb A Macintosh retrospective . . . . . . . 143--144, 146 B. N. Meeks The protocol pack (XMODEM and its file transfer heirs evaluated) . . . . . . . 155--156, 158 S. Apiki and S. Diehl Upscale monitors (large-screen monitors) 162--172, 174 J. Holtzman Laptop dilemma Compaq SLT/286 and Ogivar 286 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180, 182, 184, 186, 188--189
P. Macaluso A Risky Business --- An Introduction to Monte Carlo Venture Analysis . . . . . . 179--192
J. Holtzman Advanced floppy disk drive controllers 191--195 J. Udell Extensible text editors for programmers 197--198, 200--202, 204 R. Valdes A virtual toolkit for Windows and the Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210, 212, 214, 216 N. Baran Superbase 4 (graphics oriented DBMs) . . 221--222, 224 D. Thomas What's in an object? (object-oriented programming) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--232, 234--236, 238, 240, 270--271 Peter Wegner Learning the language (object-oriented programming languages) . . . . . . . . . 245--250, 252--253, 270--271 M. H. Dodani and C. E. Hughes and J. M. Moshell Separation of powers (user interfaces and object-oriented programming) . . . . 255--256, 258, 260--262, 270--271 T. Thompson The next step (object-oriented programming simplifies and speeds software development with the NeXT computer's NextStep) . . . . . . . . . . 265--271 F. Hayes Battle of the chips (80286 vs 80386) . . 274--279 B. Glass Caching in on memory systems . . . . . . 281--285 R. Grehan Trees 'n keys. III . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288, 290, 292--293
S. Apiki 32.5 MHz and climbing SIAs 386/32 . . . 106--109 Wayne Rash, Jr. Groping for groupware (group productivity software) . . . . . . . . . 135--138 D. Crabb Smalltalk can be cheap . . . . . . . . . 141--146 B. N. Meeks E-mail economics . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--155 S. Apiki and S. Diehl and R. Grehan Curing the brownout blues (UPSs) . . . . 162--176 T. Apodaca The RenderMan interface . . . . . . . . 167--176 M. L. Van Name High-tech computing, cafeteria style (Wells American CompuStar 286) . . . . . 179--184 T. Thompson Full-spectrum scanners . . . . . . . . . 189--194 R. Valdes Extend (simulation toolkit) . . . . . . 197--200 L. Stevens Mac desktop presentation software . . . 203--205 M. L. Gibson The CASE philosophy . . . . . . . . . . 209--218 K. Orr and C. Gane and E. Yourdon and P. Chen and L. L. Constantine Methodology: the experts speak (software engineering) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--233 C. McClure The CASE experience . . . . . . . . . . 235--236 P. Robinson Variations on a screen . . . . . . . . . 251--264 C. Mundie Interacting with the tiny and the immense (scientific visualisation) . . . 279--288 K. Sakamura and R. Sprague The TRON project . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--301 B. Glass The IBM PC BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--310 R. Grehan Floating-Point Revisited . . . . . . . . 311--318
N. Baran Two powerful systems from Sun . . . . . 108--112 F. Hayes Intel's Cray-on-a-chip . . . . . . . . . 113--114 N. Baran Apple's new compact Mac IIx . . . . . . 117--118 D. Crabb A perfect word processor at last? . . . 157--158 B. Holtz and J. Udell The third dimension (3D modelling packages, survey) . . . . . . . . . . . 178--180, 182--186, 188--190, 192 Wayne Rash, Jr. Computing in hand (hand-held computers) 195--196, 198, 200 P. Robinson Easy reading (page-recognition systems) 203--204, 206, 208 D. Crabb Mac goes fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208C--D, F, H B. Nance TopSpeed Modula-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 211--214 A. Schulman A different kind of CASE tool . . . . . 217--220 L. Wood A window on word processing . . . . . . 221--223 D. Fiedler and J. Paul Future imperfect (Unix) . . . . . . . . 227--228, 230--234 J. Unger One Man's experience (Unix) . . . . . . 237--238, 240--242 B. Smith The Unix connection . . . . . . . . . . 245--251 P. Wood Safe and secure? (Unix) . . . . . . . . 253--254, 256--258 G. E. Pajari Interrupts aren't always best . . . . . 261--264 M. A. Clarkson The quest for the molecular computer . . 268--273 M. Reed The quantum transistor . . . . . . . . . 275--281 L. B. Glass Digital video interactive . . . . . . . 283--289 R. Grehan Directory assistance. 1 . . . . . . . . 291--294, 296--298
J. West and M. Anderson Writing Macintosh device drivers . . . . 96IS-53--60 R. Malloy The fastest 80386s ever? . . . . . . . . 109--112 J. Udell Greased lightning (Zenith system) . . . 114--116 E. Shapiro Then and now in word processing . . . . 137--140 Wayne Rash, Jr. Just a few fax (PC fax boards) . . . . . 143--144 M. Minasi OS/2 disk geography . . . . . . . . . . 151--154 M. L. Van Name and B. Catchings Anatomy of a LAN operating system . . . 157--160 S. Apiki and S. Diehl 4800 bits, no errors (modems) . . . . . 162--172 T. Thompson Big Mac power in a small Mac box . . . . 175--178 J. Unger Dead heat (microcomputer review) . . . . 181--184 M. L. Van Name and B. Catchings Handy scanners (PC hand-held scanners) 187--191 B. D. Kliewer Debunking 16-bit VGA . . . . . . . . . . 195--199 R. Valdes Smalltalk/V comes to the Mac . . . . . . 201--204 A. Lane Domesticating Microsoft Windows (software package) . . . . . . . . . . . 205--207 P. Tuten Claris CAD (software package) . . . . . 209--210 S. Rosenberg Corel Draw shows great promise (graphics program) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--216 J. Eugenides Pushing Standard File to the limit (utility program) . . . . . . . . . . . 225--231 D. Crabb The Mac interface: showing its age . . . 235--237 L. H. Loeb A portable companion for the Macintosh (laptop computer) . . . . . . . . . . . 241--244 Martin Kochanski How safe is it? (computer security) . . 257--264 Asael Dror Secret Codes (any good data security system must rely on encryption) . . . . 267--270 Ross M. Greenberg Know thy viral enemy (computer viruses) 275--280 Peter Stephenson Personal and private (microcomputer security) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--288 Anonymous The safety zone (security products for microcomputers) . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291 F. Chen PC-DOS: pulling out the stops (version 4.0 features to speed up file access) 294--299 A. Lane An end to duelling rules (rule base checking in Prolog) . . . . . . . . . . 303--308 S. Diehl The ultimate upgrade (IBM PC AT upgrade to 80386 based workstation) . . . . . . 313--319 L. B. Glass Modern modem methods . . . . . . . . . . 321--326 R. Grehan Directory assistance. 2. (MS-DOS, Unix, Macintosh HFs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--336
L. H. Loeb Understanding the Macintosh resource editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88IS/49--52, 88IS/54 T. Thompson Apple's 32-Bit QuickDraw covers the spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--102 J. Udell Clash of the object-oriented Pascals . . 104--106 M. L. Van Name and B. Catchings The LAN road to OSI . . . . . . . . . . 148--150, 152 S. Apiki and S. Diehl and R. Grehan Battle of the network stars (PC-LAN operating systems) . . . . . . . . . . . 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168--170 C. Halliday IBM's new speed king . . . . . . . . . . 173--176 K. Quirk Color by numbers (thermal printer) . . . 177--179 J. Holtzman EMS with a cache (memory board) . . . . 181--182, 184 M. Heller Breaking the memory barrier with 386 mod VMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188, 190 B. D. Kliewer HOOPS: Powerful portable 3-D graphics 193--194, 196, 198 D. Allen Text retrieval with a twist . . . . . . 201--202, 204 D. Crabb The flying spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . 207--208, 210 G. Wai and M. L. Smith and G. White Take your pick (distributed processing) 215--218, 220, 222--223 B. J. Walker and G. J. Popek A transparent environment (distributed processing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--226, 228--231, 233 C. Manson and K. Thurber Remote control (distributed processing) 235--238, 240 D. Hough The paperless office (distributed processing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242, 244--246 F. Hayes and N. Baran A guide to GUIs (graphical user interfaces) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--257 R. E. Kimbrell and L. Correll and R. Bass The Qsim simulation toolkit . . . . . . 259--266 L. B. Glass The light at the end of the LAN . . . . 269--274
N. Baran and M. E. Nadeau Ever-expanding laptops . . . . . . . . . 90--96 J. Y. Bryce Growing pains (network OS) . . . . . . . 135--136, 138 M. L. Van Name and B. Catchings The painlessly portable PC (NEC UltraLite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--164 B. D. Kliewer Ultra Graphics (graphics coprocessor board) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--169 A. Schulman Modula-2 and OS/2 join forces . . . . . 171--174 S. Miastkowski A new world for DOS (DOS shell packages) 177--178, 180--181, 183 K. K. Obermeier and J. J. Barron Time to get fired up (neural networks) 217--220, 222--224 D. S. Touretzky and D. A. Pomerleau What's hidden in the hidden layers? . . 227--228. 230--233 A. Waibel and J. Hampshire Building blocks for speech (neural networks) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--238, 240, 242 D. A. Mindell and J. E. Hart and S. Kittelman and D. Ohlsen Dealing with a digital world . . . . . . 246--248, 252, 256 P. Wayner VLIW: heir to RISC? . . . . . . . . . . 259--262 K. B. Glass Hard disc maintenance software . . . . . 265--268, 270, 272, 274, 276 R. Grehan If memory serves \ldots (memory management) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280, 282, 284, 286, 337 D. Pountain Minicomputer performance on a personal computer (coprocessor board) . . . . . . 801S/3--8
F. Pascal A brave new world? (DBMS) . . . . . . . 247--250, 252, 255--256 M. L. van Name and B. Catchings Serving up data (database server) . . . 259--260, 262, 264 R. Davis Sharing the wealth (distributed databases) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--270, 272--274 J. Dawson A family of models (object-oriented databases) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278, 280--282, 284, 286 Anonymous The data file (DBMS) . . . . . . . . . . 291--293 G. White A bus tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--300, 302 G. L. Graef Graphics formats . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306, 308--310 G. Comeau The Unix shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316, 318--321
T. Thompson and F. Hayes The portable and the powerful . . . . . 98--108 S. Apiki and H. Eglowstein The optical option (storage) . . . . . . 160--174 M. L. Van Name and B. Catchings MCA meets SX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--184 T. Yager X Window System on the march . . . . . . 201--206 R. D. Lasky How Super is SuperCard? . . . . . . . . 217--220 Dick Pountain Occam II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--284 G. C. Fox and A. W. Ho and P. Messina and T. Cole Hands-on parallel processing . . . . . . 287--293
Anonymous Megahertz madness (fast PCs) . . . . . . 13--18, 20, 22, 26, 28, 30--32, 34, 36, 38, 42, 44, 46, 48 M. Heller Redefining the standards . . . . . . . . 56--58, 60--64 R. Sartore The 80486: a hardware perspective . . . 67--70, 72--74 F. Hayes Stretching DOS to the limit . . . . . . 79--80, 82, 84 M. J. Minasi The state of OS/2 . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88, 90, 92--93 B. Smith AIX on the PS\slash 2s . . . . . . . . . 95--96, 98, 100--101 S. Miastkowski Looking beyond the DOS prompt . . . . . 105--106, 108, 110--112, 114 D. M. Yancich Using expanded memory . . . . . . . . . 123--124, 126, 128 B. T. Anderson and M. A. Puhnaty Serving many masters (bus masters) . . . 131--132, 134, 136, 138, 140 R. Cook Clash of the graphics titans . . . . . . 143--144, 146--148, 150, 152, 154, 156 B. Nicholls Is it really super? (VGA standard) . . . 159--160, 162, 164 M. L. Van Name and B. Catchings SQL: a database language sequel to dBASE 175--178, 180, 182 J. Kerr Unix filenames for Turbo Pascal . . . . 185--186, 188, 190, 192 R. Watson Which LAN? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--198, 200 K. Quirk The language of lasers (printer control languages) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--206, 208 S. Fried Optimizing numeric coprocessing . . . . 221--224
D. Pountain HM Systems' Minstrel Workstation . . . . 80IS-3--10 N. Baran EISA arrives (HP Vectra 486 PC) . . . . 93--98 M. E. Nadeau Cheetah Gold 33: an economical powerhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--110 F. Hayes PowerFlex: a versatile, upgradable AT clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--113 N. Baran A PC in your pocket . . . . . . . . . . 115--117 M. J. Minasi Getting your priorities straight (OS/2) 159--162 S. Apiki and H. Eglowstein and R. Grehan The brains behind the graphics . . . . . 178--198 B. Smith and R. Mitchell DEC's RISC powerhouse . . . . . . . . . 201--206 B. Catchings and M. L. Van Name The LAN terminal alternative . . . . . . 211--214 T. Thompson LAN aid: Mac booster modules . . . . . . 219--223 D. Crabb DAT drive eases Mac backups . . . . . . 225--230 S. Satchell X.25 pads performance (packet assembler/disassembler) . . . . . . . . 233--235 R. Valdes Ease into Mac programming SmethersBarnes Prototyper 2.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--244 A. Lane MicroExplorer in Action! (hybrid Macintosh/Lisp technology) . . . . . . . 247--249 E. Reno For power users only (Lotus 1-2-3 release 3.0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--262 M. C. Rubel Alpha Four: no programming required (related DBMS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--268 J. Udell The power of the press (Interleaf's TEchnical Publishing Software) . . . . . 271--276 J. Bretzmann A new twist on an old technology helical-scan technologies . . . . . . . 380--388 A. Tevanian, Jr. and B. Smith Mach: the model for future Unix (object-oriented operating system) . . . 411--417 C. Hunter and J. Banning DOS ar RISC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--418
T. C. Jones Why choose CASE? . . . . . . . . . . . . 80IS3--4, 6, 8, 10 F. Hayes and M. E. Nadeau and S. Miastkowski Laptops forever . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96, 98, 100, 102--103 M. J. Minasi OS/2 multitasking revisited . . . . . . 133--136 Anonymous Making a case for CASE (buyer's guide) 154--171 S. Satchell Downsizing the desktop (ADC Powerlite 386 SX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--182 J. Holtzman Upscale Acer (Acer 1100/33, micro) . . . 185--186 T. Thompson How to put 16 million colors to work (video-graphics boards) . . . . . . . . 189--196 F. Hommel Power to the programmer (Watcom C 386) 199--202 B. Smith High-fashion Unix on a PC (HP display server) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--208 M. Schnapp Clipper applications get SQL . . . . . . 211--214 D. Gabaldon Move over, PageMaker (DTP package) . . . 217--220 L. Wood Manage it with pictures (project management package) . . . . . . . . . . 223--226 H. Eglowstein What price color PostScript? (wax-transfer printer) . . . . . . . . . 229--232 G. Smarte and W. Penney Sounds and images . . . . . . . . . . . 243--256 B. Saffari Putting DSPs to work . . . . . . . . . . 259--272 R. Kurzweil Beyond pattern recognition (speech recognition systems) . . . . . . . . . . 277--288 B. M. Dawson Changing perceptions of reality (image editing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--304 I. Scherr Pepperoni and paperwork (voice/document delivery system) . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--316 Anonymous Words and pictures (voice and image product guide) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--321 T. R. Licklider Ten years of rows and columns (spread sheet programs) . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--331 N. Margulis The Intel 80860 . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--340 Dick Pountain Configuring Parallel Programs -- Part 1 349--352 J. J. Barron The wizards of the Media Lab . . . . . . 353--360 M. Wller Making waves (packet radio) . . . . . . 363--366 E. Giguere Electronic Oxford (dictionary computerisation) . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--374 L. B. Glass Protected mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--384 R. Grehan Input: keep it clean . . . . . . . . . . 387--392, 442