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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 a 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 Richard 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
network, from the desktop to the
wide-area network. Is it the answer to a
network manager's dreams? It could be
--- if all the pieces fall in place . . 111
John Bryan Pumping Up Ethernet: The competition is
intensifying in the race to define a
100-Mbps Ethernet standard . . . . . . . 121
Anonymous The Great Light Hope . . . . . . . . . . 124
Stan Wszola Fax Plus OCR: More Than Meets the Eye:
The BYTE Lab reviews eight fax packages
with OCR built in. OCR on faxed
documents is not quite automatic, but
these systems can speed the transition
from graphical image to usable text data 130--132, 134, 136, 138, 140
Ben Smith NextStep for Intel: Next is back, but
not in black. NextStep for Intel
Processors brings Next's strong
object-oriented environment to PCs. Ben
tests NextStep 3.1, concluding that
Next's move to ``white'' hardware was a
wise move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Rick Grehan Mips Inside: The RISC PC: DeskStation
Technology is not the first to build a
PC for NT based on a Mips processor, but
it is the first to price machines
directly against 486s. Test results
based on BYTE's preliminary Portable
Benchmarks illustrate the speed you can
expect from the Evolution RISC PC . . . 145
Harriett Hardman New Authoring Tools for Windows: Two new
Windows applications deliver different
approaches for authoring multimedia
titles. Authorware Professional 2.0 is
more suitable for interactive training
and information kiosks, while Microsoft
Viewer 2.0 has stronger support for
indexing, searching, and linking large
textural databases . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154, 156
Dick Pountain Amstrad's Modest PDA: The first PDA is
somewhat less ambitious than systems
(like Newton) still on the drawing
board. Dick works with Amstrad's PDA 600
Pen Pad, which offers pen input with
character recognition . . . . . . . . . 161--162, 164
Jon Udell WorkMan Needs Work: WorkMan, Reach
Software's work-flow applications
development package, is the first system
to present a usable model for the
creation of work-flow applications.
Unfortunately, the implementation fails
to deliver on the architecture's promise 167
Anonymous Lab Report: Network Connections: 100
Ethernet Cards: We tested 100 Ethernet
network interface cards and picked the
best 8-and 16-bit cards for workgroups,
large networks, and transaction-based
networks; NICs for Workgroups; How We
Tested; NICs for Large Networks;
Wireless LAN Adapters; NICs for
Transaction Processing; Honorable
Mentions; Dubious Achievements . . . . . 172
Thomas Jeffries Under the Hood: Multimedia
Infrastructures: A developer's view of
Microsoft's Windows Multimedia
Extensions and IBM's MMPM/2 architecture 193
Jon Udell Beyond DOS: Exploring NetDDE: The power
of this peer-to-peer protocol in Windows
for Workgroups remains largely
unappreciated . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Gen Kiyooka Some Assembly Required: Elegant Windows
Dialog Boxes: Reusable classes let you
construct special Windows dialog boxes 203
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Basic Instinct: Programming a
QuickBasic application, tax software,
and the search for the ideal word
processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Anonymous What's New: Fargo's Primera Color
Printer, Octocom V.fast modems, and more 220
Walter S. Mossberg Commentary: They Just Don't Get It:
Needless complexity has alienated many
businesspeople from the personal
computer revolution . . . . . . . . . . 268
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: Readers react to BYTE's new
look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Behind the Wheel of the First Newton and
Zoomer PDAs: Test drives of prerelease
Apple, Sharp, and Casio Zoomer PDAs
reveal rough edges and a lot of promise 22
Anonymous Spreadsheet or Database? The Best of
Both: A new breed turns the traditional
spreadsheet metaphor on its head . . . . 29
Anonymous Windows No Mac at DTP: In desktop
publishing, Windows has come a long way.
But DTP experts say it still has a long
way to go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Anonymous Scanners Turn Business Cards into
Database Records: Is your desk cluttered
with business cards that you still
haven't entered into your database?
Technology comes to the rescue . . . . . 44
Anonymous AMD Declared Independence: AMD unveils
the first of a new line of processors 46
Anonymous IBM Announces ``Better'' DOS Than
MS-DOS: IBM releases a new version of
PC-DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous Report from Taiwan: Taiwan is
reengineering itself to be a designer of
computer products . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Hugh Kenner Books and CD-ROM's: Cyber Worlds:
William Gibson's Virtual Light; the hip
guide to NetWare; learning about
computers on CD-ROM; nanotechnology; and
other titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Jon Udell India's Software Edge: India has
contributed programming talent to the
microcomputer world. Now it wants to
contribute products . . . . . . . . . . 55
Andy Reinhardt Video Conquers the Desktop: Integrated
video capability has arrived for desktop
systems --- and with it, intriguing new
possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--67, 70, 72, 76--77, 80
Anonymous Document Conferencing Keeps Data
Close-By . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Anonymous Video Compression Standards Vie for
Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Anonymous Pandora and the Active Office . . . . . 76
Tom Thompson and
Ben Smith Apple, SGI Blaze Video Trail: With
integrated video and sound features, new
systems from Apple and Silicon Graphics
herald a new era of desktop computers 81
Cary Lu Publish It Electronically: Electronic
publishing lets you build
enterprise-wide knowledge bases . . . . 94--97, 100, 102, 106, 108--109
Anonymous Magazines Without Paper . . . . . . . . 108
Randall Cronk Unlocking Data's Content: Tagging
languages and compound document
architectures code your documents for
cross-platform access . . . . . . . . . 111
Philip Murray Documentation Goes Digital: A confusing
array of tools await those who want to
publish reference material
electronically, but the benefits might
be worth the trouble . . . . . . . . . . 121
Anonymous Finding Text Fast . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Rick Grehan C++ Does Windows: The BYTE Lab tests
five C/C++ compilers, from Microsoft,
Borland, Symantec, MetaWare, and Watcom,
to determine how well each addresses the
complexities of Windows . . . . . . . . 130
Steve Apiki The Littlest Notebooks: BYTE tests three
next-generation subnotebook machines,
including CompUSA's 4SL/25 Subnote, HP's
OmniBook 300, and the Zenith Data
Systems Z-Lite 320L . . . . . . . . . . 137--138, 140, 142
Barry Nance A Giant Leap to OS/2 2.1: OS/2 2.1
brings IBM's 32-bit operating system
forward, beyond the reach of current
desktop operating systems. Bulletproof
multimasking and support for Windows 3.1
applications are among the improvements 145
Raymond Ga Cote A FirstClass Experience: SoftArc's
FirstClass mail and conferencing system
goes multiplatform. Its elegant client
interface, strong conferencing features,
and multitasking communications engine
make it a real contender in the E-mail
market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150, 152
Bob Lindstrom Video Machine: True Desktop Video: Fast
Electronic of Munich, Germany, presents
the Video Machine, a software/hardware
combination that links with VCRs and
video monitors to turn a PC into a
Windows-based desktop video editing
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Barry Nance LANtastic 5.0 vs. Invisible LAN 3.4:
Upgraded versions of peer-LAN
operating-system staples from Invisible
Software and Artisoft offer improved
performance, better Windows integration,
and options for connectivity. Testing
speed and ease-of-use features set the
two apart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
G. Armour Van Horn CorelDraw 4.0: The Word Is More: Corel
releases an ambitious upgrade. CorelDraw
4.0 features tighter integration across
modules, multiple page illustrations, an
underlying object database, an
impressive bundle of fonts and clip art,
path-based animation, and even OCR and
forms generation. Van Horn finds out how
it all comes together . . . . . . . . . 169
Anonymous Lab Report: 32 High-Speed Hard Drives:
We stress-tested 32 hard drives to find
the best performers in capacities from
250 MB to 2 GB . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Anonymous The Best Drives in Capacities from 250
to 350 MB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Anonymous How We Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Anonymous The Best Drives in Capacities from 400
to 600 MB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Anonymous The Best Drives in Capacities from 1 to
2 GB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Anonymous Honorable Mentions . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Dick Pountain Under the Hood: Pentium: More RISC Than
CISC: Why the Pentium's architecture
doesn't measure up to its RISC
competitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Matt Pietrek Some Assembly Required: Debugger Support
in Windows 3.1: How to exploit debugging
support in Windows 3.1 . . . . . . . . . 207
Bill Hawkins and
Ed Puckett Beyond DOS: Virtual Device Drivers for
DOS: Virtual device drivers aren't just
for Windows applications . . . . . . . . 217
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: IBM's Preemptive Strike: OS/2
2.1 is technically excellent. What's
needed is widespread device-driver
support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Anonymous What's New: A workstation line with
zippy graphics, a notebook with an
active-matrix display, portable
multimedia, a RAID-5 array, CAD tools,
and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Michael Crichton Commentary: Installer Hell: Software
installation programs work in strange
and mysterious ways, says the author of
Jurassic Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
T. R. Halfhill and
E. Perratore and
D. Pountain and
B. Ryan PDAs arrive but aren't quite here yet 66--69, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80--82, 84, 86
T. Thompson and
T. R. Halfhill and
M. Nadeau Ease of use is relative . . . . . . . . 89--90, 92, 94
H. D. Crane and
D. Rtischev and
A. Rudnicky Pen and voice unite . . . . . . . . . . 98--100
D. Mezick and
D. Bricklin Pen computing catches on . . . . . . . . 105--106, 108, 110--112
W. S. Meisel and
D. B. Roe Talk to your computer . . . . . . . . . 113--116, 118, 118
M. Trask and
D. Sorensen Personal databases . . . . . . . . . . . 124--128
S. Diehl Acrobat vs. Common Ground (electronic
documents distribution) . . . . . . . . 133--134
R. Ga Cote Mac for workgroups . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
S. Chiquoine DOS dilemma: Word or WordPerfect? . . . 145--146
R. Fox and
S. Platt 62 high-power notebooks . . . . . . . . 162--167, 170, 172, 174, 178, 181--182, 184, 189--190
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Letters: Comments on OCR, Windows
development, Pournelle, and PowerPC . . 18
Anonymous Excel 5.0 Gets Smart: Excel 5.0 offers
much in the way of new features. Even
more intriguing is the tighter
integration with members of Microsoft's
Office package, such as Word 6.0 for
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous Cirrus Subsidiary Leads CDPD Push:
Analog cellular phone services will soon
carry digital data, too . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous E-Mail Unplugged by Wireless WANs:
E-mail will be an important application
for wide-area, wireless communications 28
Anonymous Sony's MiniDisc for Data: Future Floppy:
Sony's new medium for storage . . . . . 32
Anonymous First PowerPC Systems Hit the Street:
The first IBM PowerPC systems should be
available soon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous At Your Own Risk: Faster Modems Now,
Standards Later: Modem manufacturers
that can't wait another year for a new
standard are shipping nonstandard
product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Intel's VDI Speeds Up Video, Miffs
Microsoft: Microsoft and Intel are at
odds on how to improve the video
playback in Video for Windows . . . . . 42
Anonymous Report from Birmingham . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous Report from Orlando . . . . . . . . . . 48
Andy Reinhardt and
Jon Udell and
Frank Hayes and
Raymond Ga Cote Books and CD-ROMs: Big Blue Tales:
Inside the walls of IBM, technological
change, constructing your own robots,
and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Daniel Joffe Get Your Kicks with Switched 56: Faster
than a speeding modem, Switched 56
service may be the answer to your
communications needs . . . . . . . . . . 57
Ben Smith and
Howard Eglowstein In Good Electronic Form: Two companies
prove how valuable electronic forms can
be . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68, 70, 72, 74
Anonymous Special Report: Is There a Better
Windows 3.1 Than Windows 3.1: Windows,
OS/2, and NT offer distinct benefits and
disadvantages. One excels at running
standard Windows applications . . . . . 85
Anonymous OS/2 2.1: A User's Perspective . . . . . 97
Anonymous Partners Seek to Unite Phone and PC . . 107
Anonymous IBM Has High Hopes for Multimedia on
OS/2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Anonymous Pen for OS/2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous IBM Makes MP Promises for OS/2 . . . . . 114
Anonymous OS/2 and Windows Networks . . . . . . . 117
Anonymous IBM's Assault on Distributed Objects . . 125
Anonymous Developers Cautiously Optimistic About
Multiplatform OpenDoc . . . . . . . . . 130
Anonymous IBM Ships DCE SDK for OS/2 and Windows 131
Anonymous Compilers: Essential Partners . . . . . 135
Anonymous Windows NT Supports Posix, but Does It
Matter? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Anonymous Will OpenGL Be 3-D Standard for Windows
NT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Anonymous OS/2 Gets Device Support . . . . . . . . 146
Anonymous Top Software for Windows and OS/2 . . . 151
John Bryan and
Bob Ryan The Power of Graphics: Advanced graphics
technologies are empowering new classes
of applications. C-Cube Marries Video
and RISC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Anonymous Three Ways to 3-D: Creating 3-D graphics
images in real time requires
sophisticated and well-balanced
computer-graphics pipelines . . . . . . 215
Norton Ewart and
Larry Thayer HP Takes a Dual Approach . . . . . . . . 216
Bill Fleming Sun Breaks the Bottlenecks . . . . . . . 218
Douglas Voorhies Damn the Torpedoes! . . . . . . . . . . 224
Peter Wayner Inside Windows accelerators: Speeding up
the operations of your graphical
interface is the job of some very
specialized technology . . . . . . . . . 229
Rick Grehan Building SQL Front Ends: SQL databases
enable sharing of critical information
throughout the corporation, but creating
client applications can be a tough row
to hoe. BYTE examines client
construction tools from Borland, Gupta,
KnowledgeWare, and PowerSoft that
provide technology that can ease the
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Dave Rowell Windows Under 4 Pounds: Two 486-class
subnotebooks for Windows: Epson's
ActionNote 4000 and IBM's ThinkPad 500 249--250, 252
Mark Clarkson Point-and-Click Presentations: Two
presentation programs for Windows square
off. While Harvard Graphics solidifies
its position as a market leader,
newcomer WordPerfect Presentations
exhibits some serious flaws . . . . . . 257--258
Howard Eglowstein The Business-Card Shuffle: Microtek's
scan-in-Dex will appeal to any
professional who makes numerous business
contacts. The scanner reads business
cards and drops the data into a
searchable Windows database . . . . . . 267--268
Mike Hurwicz and
Dan Carroll Merlin and AlertView: Two packages for
managing PC networks have similar
capabilities but drastically different
orientations. AlertView takes action on
workstation events, while NLMerlin
automates procedures with a focus on
NetWare servers. Hurwicz and Carroll
question the long-term viability of each 271
H. Holzbaur and
J. Hurd and
S. Platt Lab Report: 176 Printers Face Off: We
stress-tested 176 printers to choose the
best ones for eight important business
applications. The Best Printers for
General Business; Enhanced Drivers; How
We Tested; Dye Sublimation; Color for
Tomorrow?; The Best Printers for:
High-Quality Color; General-Purpose
Color; Workgroups; Draft Quality; Large
Format; CAD and DTP; Portable; 600 vs.
300: Trading Speed for Quality;
Honorable Mentions; Dubious Achievements 276--280, 282, 284--285, 289--291, 293, 295, 299, 301--302, 304--7
Mark J. Minasi Beyond DOS: OS/2 Extended Attributes:
How to fix problems with OS/2 extended
attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Steve Niezgoda and
Lloyd Holt and
Derek Wojciech Some Assembly Required: NT's Structured
Exception Handling: The reality of
structured exception handling in Windows
NT may not live up to its promise . . . 317
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Fenasoft and Furniture: Jerry
travels to Brazil to attend Fenasoft, a
world-class computer exposition . . . . 325
Anonymous What's New: X Window System and
dual-Pentium systems; a digital, on-line
video production system for the Mac; a
cellular link for modems and faxes;
project scheduling in Windows; and more 342
Hugh Kenner Commentary: Electronic Books: Our
eminent critic doesn't share the
excitement of books on CD-ROM . . . . . 404
Bruce Schneier Under the Hood: Digital Signatures:
Digital signatures will enable
electronic documents to serve as legal
instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3309
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Letters: Opinions on video computing,
SGML, India's software development, and
installer hell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Apple Revamps Its Lineup: We help you
sort out Apple's newest line of desktops
and preview new Apple Duos . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous Intel, AT&T, and AMD Continue the Chase:
New PDA chips from AMD, AT&T
Microelectronics, and Intel/VLSI are
slated to ship in 1994 . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Moving Toward Windows Building Blocks:
Writing an OLE 2.0 application isn't the
easiest thing to do in the world. But
the benefits are worth it . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Demand for Multimedia Upgrade Kits
Growing: If current trends continue,
CD-ROM will soon gain wide acceptance in
the business world . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous New RISC Chips For Windows NT: Windows
NT is sparking hot competition among
chip makers who want a piece of the
growing market for high-performance
desktop PCs and servers . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Microsoft Tunes WFW: Microsoft fixes
some deficiencies in its workgroup
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Anonymous WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows: WordPerfect
opts for bigger code and more features 46
Anonymous Report from Cyprus: Information
technology consultants in Cyprus get no
respect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Raymond Ga Cote and
Tom Thompson Books and CD-ROMs: Entrepreneurial
Enterprise: Starting a business, a
classic dictionary on CD-ROM, and more 49
Dick Pountain Track People with Active Badges:
Developed by Olivetti and DEC, the
Active Badge network improves at-work
communications by tracking your
colleagues' whereabouts . . . . . . . . 57
Ben Smith and
Jon Udell Linking Aids: The four key issues of
connecting networks to one another are
bandwidth, protocols, management, and
cultural conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Anonymous Reducing Router Network Transmission
Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous Political Primer for Enterprise Networks 78
Anonymous TCP/IP Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . 84
John P. Mello, Jr. Printers in Transition: People want
faster, easier-to-use printers that
produce higher-quality images. Those
demands are starting to be met . . . . . 94
Anonymous Laser Quality Without the Drum . . . . . 96
Anonymous Your Next Printer Might Be for Your TV 98
Frank Hayes The Printers Talk Back: The Network
Printing Alliance Protocol will provide
communications capabilities to your
network printer. Now you'll know when
the printer is low on toner, out of
paper, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Anonymous Talking Printer Politics . . . . . . . . 110
Peter Wayner Print Pages Faster: In the near future,
you will be asking your printer to
produce pages ever more quickly. Help is
on the way in the form of better
processors and more efficient software.
Your computer's CPU might throw its
weight behind processing print images,
too . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Michael Zeis Color Becomes Affordable: At both the
high and low ends, color printing
continues to improve dramatically.
Whether you want photographic-quality
output or to spice up a document, you'll
find a color technology that fits the
bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Anonymous Color Management Makes Color Easier to
Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Daniel Gasteiger The Big Three Square Off: All three of
the market-leading Windows spreadsheets
--- Borland Quattro Pro for Windows,
Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows, and Microsoft
Excel --- have undergone major product
upgrades. Gasteiger sorts out the field
and determines how each competitor
stacks up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--140, 142, 144, 146, 148
Steve Bosak The NetWare CD-ROM Solution: Microtest's
Discport CD-ROM server makes the
marriage of CD-ROM and Novell NetWare
easy for all concerned . . . . . . . . . 151--152
Tom Thompson Bargain Color Printers: Inexpensive
color printing from Star Micronics,
Hewlett--Packard, and Fargo. Star
Micronics' SJ-144 and Fargo's Primers
break the US\$1000 price barrier for
thermal-transfer color printing by
leaving the image processing to the host
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154, 156, 158, 160
Anonymous A Walk on the High End . . . . . . . . . 156
Cal Vornberger Beyond Bit Maps: Multiple floating
objects deliver new power and
flexibility to bit-map image processing.
Micrografx Picture Publisher 4.0 and
Fractal Design Painter X2 feature object
layers and other useful innovations . . 165--166, 168
Rick Grehan A Tale of Two Alphas: An under-the-hood
exploration of two Alpha-based systems
from DEC: The DEC 3000 Model 300, a Unix
box, and the DECpc AXP 150, which runs
Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
R. Fox Lab Report: 90 High-Speed 486 Systems:
We evaluate 90 high-end 486 systems,
with CPUs from Intel, Cyrix, and IBM, to
find the best PCs for your applications.
Our rankings include ISA and EISA bus
implementations, as well as local-bus
designs. The Best Systems for Windows
Applications; The Best Systems for
High-Performance Windows; How We Tested;
Pentium Performance; Energy Star
Systems; The Best Systems for Unix
Applications; Honorable Mentions;
Dubious Achievements . . . . . . . . . . 176--180, 183--184, 187--188, 190, 192, 193, 196
Peter Wayner Under the Hood: Optimal Character
Recognition: Reliable optical character
recognition faces many hurdles,
including odd typefaces and marginal
output. Expert systems, machine
learning, and other techniques can help
you tackle the problem . . . . . . . . . 203
Allen I. Holub Some Assembly Required: Using C++ for
Directory Management: Build C++ tools to
manage your directories and perform
other useful tasks . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Clean Water and Dirty
Keyboards: The water is in Stockholm;
the keyboards are in Chaos Manor . . . . 225
Anonymous What's New: A color and gray-scale
scanner; external and internal frame
grabbers; a 3-D manipulator; graphics
software; and more . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Edward R. Swart Commentary: ``How Are You at
Interfacing?'': Computers are rapidly
changing the English language . . . . . 302
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: Readers share their views on
PDAs, time synchronization, the software
bulge battle, and more . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Chicago Enters Beta Testing: Microsoft
is working on a new version of Windows
that takes several steps toward rivaling
IBM's OS/2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Apple Provides PC on a Mac: Apple's new
card lets you run DOS and Windows
applications and cut and paste among
your Mac and PC programs . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous Competition for Active Matrix: The first
commercial cold cathode field emission
displays, which may compete with
active-matrix screens, could show up
this year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Graphics Gets Down to Basics: Though not
as powerful as full-featured drawing
programs, programs like Visio and
SnapGrafx make it easy to generate
professional graphics for business . . . 28
Anonymous A Giant Leap for Borland C++: Borland
now has the best C++ environment, but
just barely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Speedy CDs Improve Video Performance:
Toshiba and others are developing new
CD-ROM players to improve the
performance of video playback on
multimedia computers . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Falling Prices Boost ISDN: The falling
prices of ISDN in Europe may spark
growth in telecomm and
videoteleconferencing applications . . . 40
Anonymous Remote Control Gets Redirected: Several
programs offer an inexpensive, though
less capable, alternative to dedicated
hardware/software solutions for remote
LAN access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Howard Eglowstein and
Ben Smith and
Michael Nadeau Books and CD-ROMs: Low-Cost Data
Acquisition: All you want to know about
data acquisition, an improved Encarta,
open systems, and more . . . . . . . . . 41
Michael Nadeau 1993 BYTE Awards: The best products of
1993 provide a window to the trends of
1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous How BYTE Selected the Best . . . . . . . 48
Dick Pountain Microprocessor Trends: Several trends
converge to threaten the near monopoly
the Intel 80x86 architecture enjoys on
the desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Power2 Takes the Lead, For Now . . . . . 77
Bob Ryan M1 Challenges Pentium: Cyrix will
compete with Intel's Pentium using an
innovative 80x86 superscalar processor 83
Anonymous Pipeline Hazards . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Bob Ryan and
Tom Thompson RISC Grows Up: RISC vendors expand their
offering to respond to the needs of a
wider variety of applications . . . . . 91
Paul Statt Intel/VLSI Join the PDA Fray: The
Intel/VLSI Polar chip set brings the
80x86 architecture to the PDA realm . . 101
Anonymous The Am386SC Does DOS and Windows . . . . 104
Anonymous The AT&T Hobbit Enters Its Second
Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Peter Wayner Digital Video Goes Real-Time: Real-time
video might soon be on your desktop
thanks to C-Cube's VideoRISC Compression
Architecture, which can encode video on
the fly using either MPEG 1 or MPEG 2 107
Jon Udell Advanced Operating Systems:
Introduction: The Great OS Debate . . . 117
Peter Varhol Small Kernels Hit It Big: Microsoft,
IBM, USL, and others differ in their
opinions on how best to implement
microkernel architecture into new
operating systems . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Dick Pountain The Chorus Microkernel: Pountain takes a
look at Chorus/MiX, a microkernel-based
distributed Unix operating system from
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Peter Wayner Objects on the March: The trend is
toward an object-oriented approach to
the design of operating systems . . . . 139
Frank Hayes Personality Plus: Multiple
operating-system personalities are here
to stay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Anonymous SunSelect's Wabi vs. Insignia Solutions'
SoftWindows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Anonymous Windows NT and Workplace OS: Plug it in 166
Anonymous A Better OS/2 Than OS/2? . . . . . . . . 168
Steve Apiki Paths to Platform Independence: With
multiplatform toolkits, you can build
applications for Windows, the Mac,
X/Motif, OS/2 Presentation Manager, and
a variety of other platforms --- from a
single set of sources. Apiki develops an
application with Liant Software's
C++/Views, WNDX, XVT Software's XVT, and
Zinc's Application Frameworks and
evaluates each product for its
programming environment and for its
portability across multiple operating
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Bob Lindstrom Opening Night for Premiere 3.0: For
multimedia audio and video, Adobe
Premiere 3.0 offers impressive editing
capabilities --- if you've got the
hardware to handle it. Lindstrom
evaluates the latest version of Premiere
as a professional tool for video
development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--180, 182
Ben Smith Digital-Media Power: Imaginative
packaging and start-up software add some
fun to SGI's new low-price workstation.
The fun doesn't detract from the Indy's
computing price/performance, 2-D
graphics strengths, and ability to work
with both Macs and PCs. Ben Smith's
hands-on testing finds the new Indy
serious about 2-D graphics and SGI's
concept of digital media . . . . . . . . 183
Oliver Sharp NT Programming's Early Leader:
Microsoft's Visual C++ 32-bit Edition
shows flaws, but overall, it delivers
effective tools for Windows NT
programming and for porting 16-bit
Windows applications . . . . . . . . . . 189
Tom Thompson New Mac Blazes Technology Trails:
Apple's new Mac Quadra 840AV makes the
move into video and voice communications
with a faster CPU, a built-in DSP, video
connections, and software for voice
recognition and text-to-speech
conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--200
Anonymous Lab Report: 70 Color Monitors: We
evaluate 70 15-to 21-inch color monitors
and choose the best for important
business applications. Best Monitors for
General Business; Energy Stars Burn
Dimmer; How We Tested; Quality Gauges;
The Keys to Image Quality; Best Monitors
for Spreadsheets and Graphics; Emissions
Overview; Is Bigger Better?; Best
Monitors for Complex Graphics
Presentations; Color-Matching Monitors;
Do-It-Yourself Monitor Testing;
Honorable Mentions . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Jon Udell Beyond DOS: Wide-Area Windows
Networking: Experimenting with routable
protocols for Windows networking . . . . 227
Jason Hyon Under the Hood: A Standard for Writing
Recordable CDs: A look at a
CD-recordable standard, ISO 13490, that
supports adding sessions and support for
new operating systems . . . . . . . . . 231
Gen Kiyooka Some Assembly Required: Subclassing in
OLE 2.0: On the road to object-oriented
system services . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Travels and Travails: An
especially busy month finds Jerry
roaming the country but also active at
Chaos Manor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Anonymous What's New: A desktop unit that faxes,
prints, copies, and scans; a wireless
device that coexists with your mouse;
software that learns from experience;
and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Thornton A. May Commentary: Shakespearean Wisdom:
Richard III and information
technologists have much in common, but
there are differences . . . . . . . . . 312
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: Readers champion their favorite
operating systems . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Just Like Magic: After more than four
years in gestation, a suite of
technologies designed by General Magic
stands poised to alter today's mishmash
of wired and wireless networks . . . . . 22
Anonymous Agents on the Loose: Telescript, General
Magic's communications-oriented
programming language, lets developers
write tools that permit casual users to
create intelligent applications that
seek out and retrieve important
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous Best of Comdex Awards: BYTE editors
worked morning, noon, and night picking
the best products and technologies at
Fall Comdex in Las Vegas . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous High-Performance 3-D Coming to PCs:
Applications such as 3-D model
animation, stock market visualization,
and other high-end programs usually
found on expensive workstations should
start appearing in 1994 on less
expensive 80x86-based PCs . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Simon Says: Communicate: IBM's new
personal communication device combines a
cellular phone, fax, E-mail, paging, and
personal productivity applications . . . 28
Anonymous Developers Announce PowerPC Mac
Applications: Apple has distributed the
first software development kits for
writing applications for the System 7
operating system on the PowerPC.
Numerous developers are now announcing
support for the Mac PowerPC platform . . 38
Tom Thompson and
Raymond Ga Cote and
Michael Nadeau Books and CD-ROMs: The Genesis of the
Mac: The birth of a computer, an
astronomy CD-ROM, legal requirements in
business, and laptop repair . . . . . . 41
Tom Thompson The Macintosh at 10: On the Mac's tenth
birthday, BYTE looks at its profound
influence on computing . . . . . . . . . 47
Tom Halfhill How Safe Is Data Compression: On the fly
data compression can double your storage
space --- but not without some hassles
and headaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Anonymous Data Compression on the Macintosh . . . 62
Anonymous Data Loss: A Cautionary Tale . . . . . . 64
Frank Hayes Today's Compilers: Challenged by
multiple new processors, parallel
machines, and operating systems,
compiler builders must rework their
mainline products to produce faster,
leaner code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Anonymous Compiler Benchmarks: How Useful? . . . . 80
Alex Lane Optimizing for Today's CPUs: Making code
run faster and smaller is an important
goal of modern compilers . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Optimizing with Pre- and Post-Compilers 82
Anonymous Pentium Optimizations . . . . . . . . . 86
Douglas K. Olson Developing for Multiple Platforms:
Writing applications to run on multiple
platforms is an art that software
engineers are just beginning to master 91
Anonymous Porting Adobe Photoshop: A Case Study 92
Olvier Sharp Compilers for Parallel CPUs: In
converting applications for parallel
processing, how much of the job can the
compiler do without programmer
intervention? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous Types of Parallel Machines . . . . . . . 98
Anonymous Converting an Application for Parallel
Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Howard Eglowstein Advancing Communications: Data
communications programs with scripting
languages can automate your on-line
sessions. Testing editor Howard
Eglowstein looks at seven popular
communications packages from four
different environments, testing them
with new 28.8-Kbps moderns . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Life at 28.8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Anonymous New and Improved . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Steve Gillmor A New Synergy for Windows: With Prodea
Synergy, you can easily automate
interapplication Windows tasks. Gilmor
builds cross-application projects with
off-the-shelf Windows software and the
Prodes tools, Doing the same chores
without ProdeaSynergy is difficult and
sometimes impossible . . . . . . . . . . 115
Joel Orr Hoops 4.0: Beyond 3-D: The common API to
most 2-D and 3-D libraries and hardware
now offers a real-time mode and a
powerful font engine . . . . . . . . . . 125
Ed Perratore Low-Priced Pentium PCs: General Pentium
price wars have started. This review
examines three Pentium systems, priced
between US\$4000 and {US}\$4500, from
ALR, Gateway, and Ambra . . . . . . . . 129--130, 133--134
Howard Eglowstein PhotoStyler Fights Back: Since Aldus's
last release of PhotoStyler, the
image-editing market has heated up with
the introduction of Photoshop on the
Windows platform. PhotoStyler 2.0
represents more than a simple face-lift.
Aldus pumped up the performance and the
features set and comes away with a
serious competitor . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Stan Miastkowski WinFax Pro Hits the Network: Delrina's
WinFax Pro for Networks lets workgroups
share fax modems . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--145
Anonymous Lab Report: 76 Cards for Fast Graphics:
Our applications-based tests identify
the best PC and Mac accelerator boards
for general-purpose and specialized
applications. Best for VL-Bus Systems
--- How We Tested --- Best for ISA-Bus
Systems --- Windows NT Drivers: Better
Late Then Never?--How to Buy a Graphics
Accelerator --- Best for Macintosh NuBus
Systems --- Best for EISA-Bus Systems
--- How Bus Architecture Affects
Graphics --- Honorable Mentions ---
Dubious Achievements . . . . . . . . . . 146
Andy Singleton Some Assembly Required: Genetic
Programming with C++: With an
appropriate algorithmic structure, you
can develop programs that are
self-modifying and evolving . . . . . . 171
Guy W. Kendall Under the Hood: Inside the PCI Local
Bus: This new PC bus provides high
throughput and self-configuring add-in
cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Jon Udell Beyond DOS: Windows for Workgroups: This
is the most advanced version of
DOS-based Windows now available . . . . 181
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Upgrades from Hell: One
assumes Jerry didn't have a great month 185
Anonymous What's New: A cellular device transmits
data; an applications development
environment lets you create
cross-platform workgroups; virtual
reality becomes interactive; and more 204
Steve Evangelou Commentary: Layoff Software: Let's hope
this doesn't become a new growth
category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: WANs, printer technology, and
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Chicago: An Ambitious Compromise:
Windows NT it's not, but Microsoft's
next version of Windows will play well
on low-end, Intel-based PCs . . . . . . 22
Anonymous Low-End PowerPC Leaves 68040 Macs in the
Dust: Preliminary test results have the
least expensive PowerPC Mac completing
compute-intensive tasks at least three
to four times faster than a Mac Quadra
900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous Teutonizing the Newton: In working on
the German version of the Newton PDA,
Apple discovered that
handwriting-recognition systems add a
whole new set of factors in localizing a
product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Tut's 10-Mbps Telephone Cord Network
Could Be Small-Office King: A new
development brings 10-Mbps networking to
companies that are put off by the
complexities of network wiring . . . . . 28
Anonymous Intel and Nestor to Commercialize
Neural-Net Chip: An agreement between
Intel and Nestor to commercialize a
neural processor could affect
applications ranging from handwriting
recognition to air-traffic control . . . 32
Anonymous Fax Gets a Face-Lift: This spring and
summer, a new wave of products will give
fax a face-lift by adding
binary-file-transfer capabilities . . . 34
Anonymous Alliances Could Mean Better Integration:
Microsoft and DEC will integrate DEC's
Object Broker distributed-object system
with Microsoft's OLE technology, and the
agreement will allow Windows- and
OLE-supported Mac applications to
seamlessly access data on a wide variety
of platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Bob Ryan and
Michael Nadeau and
Raymond Ga Cote Books and CD-ROMs: A Cache-Memory
Primer: The theory and practice of
cache-memory design, a fantastic world
on CD-ROM, multimedia production, and
strange patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Andy Reinhardt Building the Data Highway: Building the
data highway will require a blending of
diverse technologies. What's the best
way to send large amounts of data over
today's mix of copper, coaxial cable,
and fiber-optic lines? Should the
transport protocol be ATM? TCP/IP?
TCP/IP over ATM? The major players ---
the phone companies, the cable
companies, and proponents of the
Internet --- each have their own vision
of what the data highway should be.
Whose vision should prevail? . . . . . . 46
Anonymous Government Policy on the Data Highway 52
Anonymous Data Highway Lags in Japan . . . . . . . 56
Anonymous Europe's Many Data Highways . . . . . . 58
Anonymous Highway Safety: The Key Is Encryption 60
Anonymous The Tools for New TV . . . . . . . . . . 62
Scott Wallace Managing Mass Storage: Advances in
storage technology struggle to keep up
with the burgeoning pace of storage
requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Anonymous Storage Hot Spots . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Peter Wayner Digital Hard Drives:
Digital-read-channel technology will
double the capacity of a standard hard
drive, letting you pack more data on
your hard disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Anonymous PRML at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Joe Bryan IDE Takes Off: A low-cost solution,
enhanced IDE will allow you to connect
more and different peripherals to your
PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous SCSI vs. IDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
David K. Campbell and
Kraig Proehl Optical Advances: A convergence of
technologies is set to take the capacity
of magneto-optical drives into the
stratosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Bill Lawrence Three Suits Deals: Office application
suites are taking the market by storm.
But do you really get extra
functionality and smoother integration
by turning to a single vendor for all
your major applications . . . . . . . . 120--126
Anonymous OLE 2.0: Death to Monoliths? . . . . . . 122
Raymond Ga Cote Multiprocessor Horsepower: BYTE compares
three dual-processor PCs from ALR,
Compaq, and VTech. Running two
processors --- whether 486 or Pentium
--- gives a big boost to Microsoft's SQL
Server under Windows NT . . . . . . . . 129
Steve Apiki Q+E: The Key to ODBC: With ODBC drivers
and Q+E's 2.0 release of Database
Library, you can build a
database-independent applications. The
drivers enable a transparent connection
to multiple data sources, while the
library of DLLs delivers features ---
such as transactions support and
explicit record locking --- not
necessarily supported by the database
engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Ben Smith Client/Server Made Easy: NobleNet's
EZ-RPC takes the sting out of writing
client/server applications. Whether
converting existing stand-alone programs
of starting from scratch, applications
programmers can write distributed
applications without any network
programming skills . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Tom Thompson Budget CD Recording: Cutting your own
CD-ROMs has become affordable now that
CD-R drives with recording software go
for around US\$4000. {Tom Thompson}
tests three, from {JVC}, {Microboards},
and {Pinnacle Micro}, on both {Mac} and
{PC} platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Raymond Ga Cote Desktop Telephony: PhonePro makes it
easy to build phone automation
applications for the Mac . . . . . . . . 151--152, 154
A. Lennon Lab Report: 46 Powerful Portables: 486
processing power now comes in two
portable-computer form factors. See our
exclusive ranking to find the best
notebook and subnotebook for your
application. Best Windows Notebooks; New
Pointers; How We Tested; Essential
Features; Best Color Notebooks; Dual
Scan: An Economical Compromise?; Best
Desktop Replacement Notebooks; Mobile
Multimedia; Best Subnotebooks;
SL-Enhanced CPU's: Power Misers, but
Rare; Lithium Promises Longer Battery
Life; Honorable Mentions; Dubious
Achievements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--160, 164, 166, 169, 171--172, 174, 177--178, 180--181
Kurt Piersol Under the Hood: A Close-Up of OpenDoc: A
new vendor-neutral document standard
provides a natural way to work with
information while operating on different
platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
David Betz Some Assembly Required: Life with
NewtonScript: Programming the game of
Life in the Apple Newton's scripting
language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Jon Udell Beyond DOS: Visual Basic Custom
Controls: Exploring Visual C++ 1.5's
powerful OLE support . . . . . . . . . . 197
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Booting, Benchmarking, and
Bob's Your Uncle: A potpourri of
activity at Chaos Manor as Jerry
continues his exploration of the Windows
machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Anonymous What's New: A PCMCIA card with its own
audio; Windows software for powerful
imaging; Visual Basic tools; and more 220
Victor J. Cosentino Commentary: Virtual Legality: As the law
struggles to catch up with technological
changes, what happens to our legal,
social, and ethical responsibilities? 278
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: Compression problems, the
Richard III-MIS director comparison, and
Mac SCSI hints . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Intel Pushes the 80x86 Envelope: In
terms of sheer processing power, Intel
is behind the RISC curve. Its
next-generation Pentium may only keep
the gap from widening. But that may be
enough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous Apple Opens the Mac OS: After years of
carefully guarding its Macintosh system
software, Apple (Cupertino, CA) is
taking steps to spread the Mac OS to
several different platforms . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Video Acceleration in the Fast Lane: Two
coalitions, VESA and an Intel-ATI
pairing, have offered new graphics
standards to speed digital video across
the desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous 35mm-Size Display Has VGA Resolution:
Thanks to Kopin's Smart Slide
technology, it may not be long before
you can wear a head-mounted display
that's about the size of a 35mm slide
yet sports 640-by 480-pixel VGA
resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Motif Offers Variation on LCD Theme:
Motif says its active addressing offers
the best of both worlds --- the low cost
of passive matrix and the fast response
of active matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous New Access Targets Wider Audience:
Access 2.0 is what Microsoft wanted
Access 1.0 to be: an easy-to-use,
full-featured, relational database for
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Dave Vislosky and
Rich Friedman and
Roger Goode and
Lee Zaslow Books and CD-ROMs: Internet Resource
Guide: Thousands of Internet listings,
government information on CD-ROM,
computer design, and repetitive strain
injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Tom Thompson and
Bob Ryan Apple, IBM Bring PowerPC to the Desktop:
The first PowerPC systems for the
desktop provide many pleasant surprises,
especially low price . . . . . . . . . . 44--47, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60--63, 66--68, 70
Richard Marlon Stein Object Databases: Object-oriented DBMSes
solve the problem of storing persistent
data from an object-oriented application 74
Anonymous The Object Database Standard . . . . . . 82
Craig S. Mullins The Great Debate: To store complex data
objects, relational database systems
must perform expensive and CPU-intensive
transformations because of their
simplified storage capabilities. Object
database systems and object-oriented
programming languages make it possible
to store and access such data in an
easy, efficient manner . . . . . . . . . 85
Russell Kay Objects in Use: The object-oriented
approach looks great in theory --- but
what's it like out in the field? Here's
a look at how object database technology
is being used in a variety of real-world
applications --- the reasons, the
benefits, the drawbacks, product
selection, and wish lists . . . . . . . 99
Steve Apiki Windows on RISC: Emulating Windows on
even the fastest RISC workstation might
mean disappointing performance . . . . . 109
Anonymous Intel, TI Show Off the 486DX4 . . . . . 112
Tom R. Halfhill Emulation: RISC's Secret Weapon:
Emulation is beginning to appear as an
integral feature in some new operating
systems, and its ambitious goal is to
shield users from the incompatibilities
of different hardware and
operating-system platforms . . . . . . . 119
Randy Thelen Under the Hood: The Power Mac's Run-Time
Architecture: The RISC-based Power Mac
uses a dramatically different
application architecture that provides
compatibility with past applications and
future applications . . . . . . . . . . 131
Alex Lane Developing for RISC: RISC development
tools must offer more variety and
greater ease of use . . . . . . . . . . 139
Anonymous Porting to RISC: Not Just a Recompile 142
Jon Udell Justifying NT: Available on RISC, CISC,
and SMP platforms, Advanced Server and
SQL Server make NT a viable choice to
provide file and database services to
your LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Anonymous How We Tested SQL Server on NetWare,
OS/2, and NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Anonymous SQL Server for NT on CISC and RISC . . . 158
Anonymous LAN Operating-System Testing . . . . . . 164
H. Eglowstein Almost as good as being there
(conferencing enhancements) . . . . . . 173--174, 176
Anonymous Whiteboarding with Software . . . . . . 178
Ben Smith Multiprotocol Print Server: A US\$695
multiprotocol print server from {Axis
Communications} connects as many as
three printers directly to {Ethernet
LANs}, providing equal access to {PCs},
{Macs}, and {Unix} machines. The {NPS}
550's virtual printer technology
simplifies configuration and
administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Barry Nance Easier Ethernet: Plug Tut Systems'
US\$99 {Silver Streak} adapter onto your
{Ethernet} card, and you can string
inexpensive, easy-to-install
silver-satin phone cord instead of thin
{Ethernet}. The {Silver Streak} allows
full {10-Mbps Ethernet} speed over the
{UTP} phone cord . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Anonymous Ethernet Cabling Methods . . . . . . . . 186
Anonymous Verifying Your LAN Cables . . . . . . . 188
Shelley Cryan Multimedia Presentations:
Time-line-based presentation software
can enliven a traditional computer-based
presentation with motion, animation,
video, sound, and interactive controls.
Cryan evaluates the best multimedia
presenters for Windows and the Mac . . . 189--190, 192--195
Raymond Ga Cote Mac Programming Power Tools: Cote finds
Mainstay's new C and BASIC programming
environments for the Macintosh hard to
pigeonhole and harder to resist . . . . 199
H. E. Holzbaur and
S. M. Platt Lab Report: 57 PCs That Set the Pace:
Should you buy a high-end 486 or a
Pentium? We evaluate 37 66-MHz 486DX2
systems and 20 Pentium systems to find
the best performers for Windows, Unix,
and DOS applications. Best Pentiums for
Windows; How We Tested; Best Pentiums
for Unix; Best ISA 486s for Windows;
Best EISA 486s for Windows; Best 486s
for Unix; Best 486s for DOS; Honorable
Mentions; Dubious Achievements . . . . . 206--211, 215, 217, 219, 221--222, 224--228
Anonymous NIC Update: 22 New Ethernet Cards:
16-bit NICs from Asia, evaluated by the
Taiwan-based independent testing lab
LANBit Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Tom Christiansen Some Assembly Required: Developing
Applications in Perl: This widely
supported public domain language can
easily solve many general programming
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Jon Udell Beyond DOS: Essential Reading: A look at
four recent books on Windows NT, Win32,
and OLE 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: What's Hot, What's Not: It's
time once again for the annual User's
Choice Awards from Chaos Manor . . . . . 241
Anonymous What's New: RediDockit and DigiDial
provide wireless control for your PC;
Rapport Script brings object-oriented
word processing to Unix;
Internet-In-A-Box lets you access the
Internet from your PC; and more . . . . 252
Fred Shapiro Commentary: The First Bug: Exposing the
myth of the first bug . . . . . . . . . 308
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: The data superhighway, the
``real'' reasons for technical-support
calls, and environmental concern . . . . 18
Anonymous What's New: Sparcbook 3 ships with the
Solaris OS; Face to Face provides
real-time cross-platform document
conferencing for PCs and Macs; and more 20
Anonymous The Engines to Make Multimedia
Mainstream: As industry groups seek to
standardize software programming
interfaces, DSPs may hold the key to
bringing voice video, and telephony to
low-cost PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous LANtastic 6.0 Creates Peer Pressure:
Peer LANs have evolved from
limited-function packages to
full-featured systems that integrate
into enterprise LANs . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Front Ends Ease Internet Access: A
number of companies are releasing
software designed to make accessing the
Internet easier . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Adapting GUI Software for the Blind Is
No Easy Task: The widespread adoption of
graphical applications adds a whole new
set of challenges for applications
developers and visually impaired users 33
Anonymous Motorola's Envoy First to Run Magic Cap:
Despite initial disappointing results in
the area of PDAs, companies continue to
develop hand-held,
communications-centric computing devices 34
Anonymous CAD Gets Objective: CAD software vendors
are beginning to exploit new
technologies such as object-oriented
programming and OLE 2.0 . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Apple's and Microsoft's System Software
Road Map: Apple recently divulged new
information on plans for its Mac
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Rick Cook and
Lamont Wood and
Dave Vislosky and
Ben Smith Books and CD-ROMs: Entertaining Math
Models: Mathematical modeling, CD-ROM
databases, computer ethics, and 3-D
graphics libraries . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Jon Udell Componentware: Component software, as
exemplified by Visual Basic's custom
controls, is succeeding where
object-oriented computing has failed . . 46
Anonymous Object Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Dick Pountain and
Clemens Szyperski Extensible Software Systems: New
programming tools are needed to develop
software systems tha can be easily
extended with new modules . . . . . . . 57
Anonymous Subtyping or Subclassing? . . . . . . . 58
Anonymous Inheritance or Delegation? . . . . . . . 60
Scott Wallace The Computerized Patient Record:
Computerized patient records will
improve health care and reduce costs . . 67--68, 70, 72, 74, 76
Andrew W. Davis Desktop Data Conferencing: A new breed
of multifunction DSP-based peripherals
makes data conferencing inevitable and
lays the groundwork for personal
videoconferencing . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84, 86
Anonymous The High Cost of Videoconferencing . . . 82
Anonymous DSPs and the PC Mainstream . . . . . . . 84
David A. Harvey and
Richard Santalesa Wireless Gets Real: Buoyed by new
products, services, and access
standards, wide-area wireless
communications is ready for prime time 90
Anonymous PCSes Are Coming . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Cees Links and
Wim Diepstraten and
Vic Hayes The IEEE brings order to the chaotic
world of wireless LANs by agreeing upon
a foundation protocol for media access 99
Anonymous The Evolution of a Standard . . . . . . 102
Peter Wayner Agents Away: Telescript provides the
glue that lets personal communicators
access the world. It could change the
way you talk to the world . . . . . . . 113
Anonymous Speaking the Same Language . . . . . . . 118
Howard Eglowstein and
Ben Smith E-Mail from Afar: Lotus cc:Mail and
Microsoft Mail provide the necessary
E-mail tools for communicating with
offices in far-flung locations. We liked
both user interfaces, but cc:Mail is
easier on the administrator . . . . . . 122--124, 126, 128, 130
Anonymous E-Mail in Your Pocket . . . . . . . . . 124
Anonymous Can PC E-Mail Be the Wrong Choice? . . . 126
Barry Nance Without Peer: Zenith Data Systems' new
US\$999 {Z-Stor Personal Server} is a
dedicated file server that makes sense
for small workgroups. Bundled with
{Novell}'s {Personal Net} ware, it
almost installs itself on {Ethernet
LANs} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Rick Grehan Poet in Motion: Poet 2.1 is a true
object-oriented database that also
includes all the features of a
full-blown multiuser database: compound
indexes, locks, even multilevel
transactions. Grehan explains how
programmers can use the same structures
of C++ code to support the database . . 137
Stanford Diehl Desktop Dictation: The IBM Personal
Dictation System brings computer-based
dictation services to a mainstream
corporate audience. With its support of
voice input of system commands and its
sophisticated dictation application, the
system can support text entry in a fully
``hands free'' environment. Its accuracy
and ease of use make the system viable
for general business correspondence . . 145--146
Anonymous Learning to Listen . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Ed Perratore Printer at Work: The First At Work laser
printer. Lexmark's WinWriter 600
provides good performance and an
excellent user interface . . . . . . . . 149
Steve Apiki Big-Screen Stars: Capable 21-inch
monitors from Nanao and Nokia push
resolution to a flicker-free 1600 by
1200 pixels. Both can support an 80-HZ
refresh rate if you've got the right
graphics card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Tom Thompson SITcomm Is Serious: Apple Events support
is one reason Thompson finds Aladdin
Systems' SITcomm a standout among Mac
communications packages . . . . . . . . 161
Scott Higgs and
Chandrika Mysore Lab Report: Head to Head: 71 Printers:
We use our PC and Mac printer tests to
choose the best of today's laser,
ink-jet, dot-matrix, and color printers
for six important business applications.
Best for General Business; As We Went to
Press; How We Tested; Best for
Workgroups; Best for CAD and DTP; Best
for Color; Best for Draft Quality; Best
for Listings and Forms; Honorable
Mentions; Dubious Achievements . . . . . 164, 166--169, 171, 173, 175, 177--178, 180--184
Scott Boggan and
Michael De Laurentis Under the Hood: The Panose
Typeface-Matching System: A look at a
font-matching system based on visual
characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Ralph E. Griswold Some Assembly Required: The Icon
Programming Language: Icon does string
and structure processing and numerical
computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Barry Nance Beyond DOS: IPX and NetBIOS for OS/2:
Over-the-wire message passing with
NetBIOS and IPX in an OS/2 environment 201
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Crash, Bang --- Quake: Jerry
survives an earthquake, installs a LAN
server, and gives out more User's Choice
Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Tom R. Halfhill Commentary: The Introversion of America:
Are virtual communities on the Internet
taking the place of neighborhood
communities? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Letters: PowerPCs, the legality of
E-mail contracts, a data-highway reality
check, and Chicago's effect on software
development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
A. Reinhardt Desktop Conferencing Takes Off: Although
not as flashy as full-length feature
films on CD-ROM or 3-D virtual reality,
desktop conferencing applications can
save you time and money . . . . . . . . 24--25
Anonymous Switching Hub Get Their Due: Somewhat
overshadowed by ATM products, Ethernet
switching hubs are now getting the
respect they deserve . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous The Memory-Card Manager Grows Up: The
committee works on a new PCMCIA standard
that will add bus mastering, a 32-bit
data path, and 3.3-V operation . . . . . 32
Anonymous Vendors Work to Cure Incompatibility
Blues: Backup software and hardware
vendors hope that a new standard, the
System Independent Data Format, will
make incompatibility problems obsolete 32
Anonymous OS/2 On the PowerPC Slated for This
Year: By year-end, IBM plans to release
its first Microkernel-based Workplace OS
product for the PowerPC, which is, in
essence, OS/2 running on the PowerPC . . 33
Anonymous Users: Give Us Connected PDAs with
PCMCIA: BYTE interviewed and surveyed
about 30 current or former PDA users and
came up with a 10-point wish list for
next-generation PDAs . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Options for Notes Developers to Improve:
Developers frustrated by a limited
number of visual-programming tools
should see a change this summer . . . . 40
Rick Grehan and
Tom Thompson and
Raymond Ga Cote and
Scott Wallace Books and CD-ROMs: Levels of Secrecy: A
look at cryptography, Marvin Minsky on
CD-ROM, ``plugs,'' and visualization of
scientific data . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Dick Pountain The Fine Art of CD-ROM Publishing: The
electronic version of the National
Gallery collection demonstrates how
traditional material can be adapted to
new publishing media . . . . . . . . . . 47--48, 50, 52, 54
Karl M. Guttag Multimedia Powerhouse: The designer of
the TI MVP discusses the multimedia
functions that drove the design of the
chip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Anonymous 1994 Readers' Choice Awards: BYTE
readers separate the best from the rest 65
Tom R. Halfhill 80x86 Wars: The Intel-based 80x86
continues to dominate the desktop, and
it will likely continue with the
anticipated introduction of new designs
from Intel and its competitors . . . . . 74
Anonymous NexGen Nx586 Straddles the RISC/CISC
Divide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Anonymous BYTE Lab Benchmarks the First P54C
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous An 80x86-Compatible PowerPC? . . . . . . 86
Russell Kay Software Goes Global: U.S. software
developers scramble for a piece of the
international pie . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Chris Miller Transborder Tips and Traps: A look at
the many technical issues and problems
involved in moving software . . . . . . 93
Anonymous Observing the Conventions . . . . . . . 96
Kumiyo Nakakoji Crossing the Cultural Boundary: Cultural
factors impinge on software design . . . 107
Edward Yourdon Developing Software Overseas: The
developing countries are also developing
competitive software industries . . . . 113
Anonymous Quality: The Hidden Offshore Advantage 114
Anonymous Software in Russia . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Michael D. Millikin DCE: Building the Distributed Future:
The Distributed Computing Environment
standard provides the services to make
distributed computing manageable,
multiplatform, and transparent to users 125
Jane Richter Distributing Data: Although complex,
businesses are relying more and more on
distributed databases . . . . . . . . . 139
Andy Reinhardt Managing Storage: How do you get the
most recent, important data where it is
needed in a distributed environment? . . 153
Russell Kay Distributed and Secure: Securing
distributed systems starts with
controlling access . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Karen Watterson The Changing World of EIS: The role of
EIS in a distributed environment is
uncertain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Michael Nadeau Remote Connections: Access performance,
and data integrity are some of the
issues of connecting remote clients . . 197
Anonymous Distributed-Computing Resource Guide . . 206
Tom Thompson Power to the New Macs: Affordable Power
Macs run old 680x0 software surprisingly
well. The new Macs save their
performance punch for a small but
growing number of programs compiled for
the PowerPC 601 processor . . . . . . . 209--210, 212
Ben Smith and
Howard Eglowstein Scheduling Across the Enterprise:
Group-scheduling software relieves some
of the tedium and frustration of
corporatewide scheduling by accessing
the combined calendars of all the people
across an organization. The BYTE Lab
evaluates six cross-platform schedulers 216--220, 222
Bruce Dawson Plug-and-Go File Server: As simple to
use as an appliance, the FAServer 400 is
a fast, affordable NFS file server for
TCP/IP networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Bruce Dawson Dial-Up Networking: Telebit's NetBlazer
remote routers enable telecommuting. The
NetBlazer PN1, a small Ethernet router
with a built-in V.32bis modem, supports
IP, IPX, and Apple Ethernet protocols 233
George Stewart Forecasting the Future: Business
forecasting software predicts future
trends --- sales projections, inventory
levels, energy usage --- by
incorporating traditional forecasting
methods. The four programs reviewed here
guide businesspeople through a
forecasting session and generate
accessible reports and graphs . . . . . 237--240
Terje Mathisen Novell's Newest DOS: Is Novell DOS 7 a
better DOS than Microsoft's? . . . . . . 241
Bob Ryan and
Tom Thompson PowerPC 604 Weighs In: IBM and
Motorola's latest CPU outperforms the
Pentium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Michael Kogan Retrofitting OS/2 for SMP: OS/2 well
exploit symmetric multiprocessing
hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Ben Smith From Here to There: A look at the
growing popularity of the Point-to-Point
Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Rick Grehan Port Mac Applications to the PowerPC:
Apple finds a way to ease the task of
moving programs over to the Power Mac 273
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: A Pentium Is Sounded Out:
Sound boards clash with hard drive
controllers on new Pentium system . . . 277
Anonymous What's New: InterActive Communicator
talks back, HotDocs automates document
creation, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Raymond Ga Cote Commentary: Think Multiplatform: A
software engineer's perspective of
multiplatform applications development 344
Anonymous Lab Report: 66 Ethernet Adapters: We
test Ethernet NICs, PCMCIA cards, and
parallel-port adapters to find the best
networking hardware for desktop and
mobile applications. Best 16-bit NICs;
Hassle-Free NICs; How We Tested; Best
PCMCIA Cards; Best Portable Ethernet;
Adapters; Honorable Mention; Dubious
Achievements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Letters: Readers resist hype and respond
to coverage of object computing, object
databases, and medical databases . . . . 18
Anonymous Borland Readies dBase, Takes Aim at
Microsoft: It looks like dBase for
Windows, Borland's long-delayed Windows
version of the popular database
development language, is close to
release. Based on a look at a prerelease
version, the program will offer features
that won't be available in FoxPro for
Windows for several months. Also
covered: the next release of Paradox for
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous WordPerfect Enters Paperless-Document
Arena: With WordPerfect Envoy,
WordPerfect joins Adobe, Farallon
Computing, and No Hands Software in
offering portable electronic-document
solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous The Best of Interop + Networld: Editors
from McGraw-Hill's TechNet magazines ---
BYTE, Data Communications, LAN Times,
and Open Computing --- recognized
companies that have products that
advance global networking . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous High-Speed 1394 Train Still at the
Station: First products based on the
proposed high-speed serial-bus P1394
interface, also known as FireWire,
likely won't begin showing up until
later this year . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Anonymous 1-2-3 Proves DOS Isn't Dead: Lotus's
latest DOS spreadsheet includes many
slick features already proven in 1-2-3
for Windows, such as nameable index tabs
and SmartIcons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Anonymous PIMS Are Not So Personal Anymore:
Proving that no person is an island,
software developers are adding
group-collaboration features to PIMs . . 40
Jon Udell and
Hughes Pack and
Ben Smith and
Scott Wallace Books and CD-ROMs: Put Fuzzy Logic to
Work: A calculus of everyday concepts, a
CD-ROM about the space shuttle,
cross-platform connection, and
electronic imaging . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Dick Pountain Parallel Course: With Taos --- a
radically different, object-oriented,
parallel operating system --- it's
possible to harness together the power
of different types of processors . . . . 53
Scott Wallace Accelerating Engineering Design: A
sophisticated engineering design system
--- combined with concurrent engineering
methodology --- is compressing time on a
Lockheed Missile and Space Corp. missile
development program . . . . . . . . . . 62
Jon Udell Computer Telephony: The means to link
your phone and computer is now available
to nearly everyone . . . . . . . . . . . 80--82, 86, 88--90, 94, 96
Anonymous First-Party vs. Third-Party Call Control 86
Anonymous Macintosh Telephony . . . . . . . . . . 89
Anonymous Distributed Computer Telephony . . . . . 94
Scott Wallace Working Smarter: Process-analysis and
modeling tools provide core support for
workgroup and work-flow applications.
Experience in the trenches shows that
technology is only part of the solution 100--101
Thornton May Know Your Work-Flow Tools: The four
basic classes of work-flow tools vary
widely from one another . . . . . . . . 103
Anonymous DEC and Wang Put It All Together . . . . 106
Meichun Hsu and
Mike Howard Work-Flow and Legacy Systems: Legacy
systems are good at what they do; it's
what they don't do that's the problem 109
Anonymous Software Roundup: Network Management
Systems: BYTE evaluates software tools
for managing complex LANs. The utilities
range from desktop administration tools
to high-end products with
enterprise-wide device management . . . 121--122, 124, 126--127, 130, 132
Greg Loveria Easing Windows' Graphics Bottleneck:
Greg Loveria tests new 64-bit graphics
adapters from five companies. All are
blazingly fast with 24-bit graphics; one
is surprisingly affordable . . . . . . . 133
Anonymous A Bigger Bus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Bruce Dawson PowerPC Hits the Road: IBM introduces
the first PowerPC-based notebook. The
RS/6000 N40 borrows many nice features
from IBM's ThinkPad line, but though
strong on performance, it's weak on
battery life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Ira Eglowstein Friendly Acquisition: The latest Windows
data acquisition software lets you build
applications without writing a line of
code. Graphical programming saves time
and money, allows more flexibility,
reduces programming errors, and empowers
nonprogrammers, Eglowstein evaluates
seven current Windows tools . . . . . . 147
Edmund Dejesus Linking Development Teams: With a
distributed-objects architecture, a full
suite of programming tools, and seamless
version control, DEC's Cohesion WorX
delivers a sophisticated environment for
software development across
heterogeneous networks . . . . . . . . . 153
Anonymous Controlling Cross-Platform Objects . . . 155
Ben Smith Power Workstation at a Pentium Price:
The HP 9000 Series 700 Model 712/60 uses
innovative hardware packaging and the
superscalar PA-7100LC CPU to achieve
breakthroughs in low cost and high
performance for a Unix workstation . . . 161
H. E. Holzbaur Lab Report: 26 Modems: Faster Than 14.4
Kbps: High-speed modems flout standards
but promise faster transmission and
lower costs. We evaluate 26 modems to
see which are ready for data and fax
applications. Best V.34 Modems; V.34
versus V.32terbo; How We Tested;
Impaired Lines: Crash Tests for Modems;
Best V.32terbo Modems; Portable Modems;
Honorable Mentions . . . . . . . . . . . 168--173, 175--176, 178--181
Jon Udell A Taligent Update: Taligent's
long-awaited developer's kit debuts this
summer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Peter D. Varhol Visual Programming's Many Faces: A quick
climb through a growing family tree of
visual programming products and
paradigms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Terje Mathisen Pentium Secrets: Undocumented features
of the Intel Pentium can give you all
the information you need to optimize
Pentium code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
William Stallings Pretty Good Privacy: Privacy and
security are important issues to
commercial users of public E-mail
systems. PGP, an E-mail security
package, is finding acceptance as the
way to achieve protection . . . . . . . 193
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: An Educational Trip: A
journey to England finds Jerry attending
a conference on education and a computer
show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Anonymous What's New: A stackable Ethernet switch;
portable wireless LAN adapters; imaging
in Windows NT; object-based programming;
and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Andy Reinhardt Commentary: Call in the Feds: The
government must be involved with the
data highway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: How to preserve a sense of
community in neighborhoods while still
enjoying on-line communities . . . . . . 18
Anonymous OS/2 Gets Lean and Mean: IBM has
released the first beta of a new version
of OS/2 for Windows: a 32-bit operating
system that will run well on 4-MB PCs.
But support for APIs for future versions
of Windows is uncertain . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Hubs Branch Out of the Wiring Closet:
When combining hubs with devices that
give users WAN access, vendors are
making sure the components complement
each other so that the combination is
often better than what you'd get if you
bought the pieces separately . . . . . . 30
Anonymous IBM Plans Ambitious Network: This fall,
IBM will introduce Intelligent
Communications, a set of communications
services that span the gulf between
different access providers, mail
systems, delivery media, and user
devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Add Seamless ZIP Support to Your Windows
Applications: DynaZIP lets you build
Windows-based C/C++ or Visual Basic
programs that can read and write
standard ZIP files . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Anonymous Help for Patent Fever: New products and
services are out that can help a
developer file a patent application or
search for prior patents . . . . . . . . 44
Anonymous CorelDraw 5.0 Adds Better Image-Editing
Tools: CorelDraw 5.0 offers an improved
PhotoPaint image-editing application and
numerous new image-editing tools . . . . 48
Anonymous Kurzweil Brings Voice Dictation to
Windows: At least three Windows
voice-dictation programs will be
available by year-end. Kurzweil Applied
Intelligence's Voice for Windows 1.0 is
the first . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Rick Grehan and
Tom Thompson and
Michael Nadeau Books and CD-ROMs: Embedded Systems
Programming: Developing embedded
systems, a Holocaust story on CD-ROM,
and a look at the future of publishing 49
Amin R. Ismail and
Rhonda Copley Fine-Tune LANtastic: The LANtastic API
gives you an unprecedented degree of
control over your network configuration 55
Peter Wayner Silicon in Reverse: Reversible logic
circuits promise to radically decrease
the power requirements of future VLSI
chips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Low-Power Chip Technology . . . . . . . 68
David F. Bacon Cache Advantage: CPUs get the glory, but
cache type and organization are just as
critical in determining system
performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Andy Reinhardt Managing the New Document: As compound
document architectures make their way
into the desktop computing mainstream,
the way we manage documents is
fundamentally changing . . . . . . . . . 90
Anonymous Standards Efforts Aim to Ease
Interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Distributed Document Management with OLE
and OpenDoc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous Image Retrieval for Compound Documents 104
Russell Kay Back of the Bus: Connecting add-on
devices to your computer can be an
exercise in frustration. New buses
promise to simplify the process . . . . 108
Dinah McNutt SCSI and Beyond: New standards clarify
the future direction and higher-speed
capabilities of this long-established
workhorse interface for PC, Macintosh,
and Unix platforms . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Anonymous Purchasing Hints, Troubleshooting Tips 112
Mark Clarkson Seriously Serial: Two new serial buses
contend for desktop acceptance --- the
low-speed Access. bus and the high-speed
P1394/Fire Wire. Each has special
strengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Anonymous Pumping Up the Parallel Port . . . . . . 118
John Bryan Fibre Channel Speeds Up: Here's a new
route to the fast lane on the serial
superhighway, opening up the
capabilities of optical-fiber
connections and incorporating other
buses and protocols . . . . . . . . . . 123
Anonymous Software Roundup: Virus-Prevention NLMs:
As the computing world becomes
increasingly interconnected through
LANs, wide-area links, the Internet, and
on-line services, corporations are more
vulnerable to the threat of computer
viruses. BYTE evaluates a convenient and
effective solution: antivirus software
that works as NetWare NLMs. We test
seven products for performance,
effectiveness, usability, and
versatility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130, 132--134, 136
G. Armour Van Horn Flatbed Color Professionals: New color
flatbed scanners from Agfa, Microtek,
and Umax provide a price/performance
balance that should appeal to graphics
professionals. You may not need your
local color service's drum scanner for
image processing . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--141
Tom Thompson Apple Redefines the Notebook: The latest
PowerBooks set a new standard for
notebook computers: built-in Ethernet,
an innovative trackpad, optional PCMCIA
expansion, 16-bit color, stereo sound,
and a fast 68040 processor upgradable to
PowerPC. Tom Thompson tests the new
PowerBooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--145
Ben Smith Blazing the Path: DEC's LinkWorks
delivers a multiplatform --- Unix,
OpenVMS, PC, and Macintosh --- work-flow
system. If groups in your organization
collaborate on the creation and
development of documents, images, or
data, LinkWorks can provide an effective
set of tools for automating your most
complex work-flow tasks . . . . . . . . 147--148, 150
Steve Apiki SPARC Workstations to Go: SPARC
portables from RDI, Sun, and Tadpole put
workstation computing on the road. These
systems have at least a 50-MHz
MicroSparc CPU, 32 MB of RAM, 340 MB of
internal SCSI storage, and a color TFT
display. All include software to handle
such mobile problems as rapidly
reconfiguring between different network
situations. Apiki tests for performance,
features, and portability . . . . . . . 153
Tom Thompson ``The'' Debugger Is Aptly Named: This
program is an essential tool for
developing native PowerPC programs . . . 159
S. Higgs and
J. Kane Lab Report: 21 Pyrotechnic Pentiums: Our
application tests identify the best
Pentium systems for general business and
high-performance computing. Best
Pentiums for General Purpose Windows;
486DX4: A 100-MHz Alternative to
Pentiums; Best Pentiums for
High-Performance Windows; Best Pentiums
for Unix Applications; How We Tested;
Beating the Heat; Honorable Mention . . 164--167, 169, 171, 174, 176, 178--181
Dick Pountain Functional Programming Comes of Age:
Following a decade of crucial research
breakthroughs, functional programming
languages are catching on, even in the
realms of parallel programming and
real-time systems . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Anonymous The Eriang Language . . . . . . . . . . 184
Dick Pountain A Different Kind of RISC:
Hewlett--Packard's PA-RISC 7200
superscalar processor is not typical,
and neither is its performance: It's
likely to hold the title of ``fastest
RISC in town'' for the immediate future 185
Tom Thompson System 7.5: A Step Toward the Future:
System 7.5 is a significant evolutionary
step toward a new Mac OS . . . . . . . . 187
William Stallings and
Ben Smith SNMP Version 2: SNMP is maturing as
evidenced by the added functionality of
SNMP 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Traveling Light: Jerry
experiments with minimalist computing 193
Anonymous What's New: The Quartet provides four
PCI ports; Enable for Windows integrates
five applications; and more . . . . . . 202
Tom R. Halfhill Commentary: R.I.P. Commodore 1954-1994:
A look at the company that introduced
millions to personal computing . . . . . 252
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Letters: Computing in a global
environment, computing and U.S.
politics, and a few clarifications . . . 18
Anonymous Into the Enterprise: New software
releases by Lotus and announcements by
Microsoft and WordPerfect reflect the
companies' different strengths and
philosophies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Color Laser Moves Toward Mainstream:
Color laser printers for under US\$5000
may be appearing in offices soon . . . . 25
Anonymous Photoshop and Picture Publisher Get a
Face-Life: The top vendors of
image-processing software are unleashing
new versions of their high-end programs 30
Anonymous Businesses Turn to BBSes: Amid all the
information-highway headlines, business
and government agencies are turning to
an information-sharing technology that's
existed since the early days of personal
computing: the electronic bulletin board
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Getting CISC into RISC: The RISC-CISC
debate is taking some interesting turns
that could have a profound effect on the
future of the personal computer industry 38
Anonymous Bigger and Better: Reality is setting
in: Small too often translated into
flimsy and underpowered products.
Subnotebook vendors' renewed efforts
will hit the market this summer and fall 40
Anonymous Inexpensive, Fast, and Slow to
Acceptance: When looked at from a
technological viewpoint, Windows
printers ought to be big sellers. But
analysts don't expect the category to
take off for a couple of years. Here's
why . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Jon Udell and
Rich Friedman and
Rick Cook Books and CD-ROMs: PowerPC: Cultural and
Technological Perspective: A chronicle
of the PowerPC revolution, college
selection via CD-ROM, and an
encyclopedia of computer cracking via a
network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Dick Pountain The Last Bastion: ``Computer on a chip''
is old hat; are you ready for a
``supercomputer on a chip''? . . . . . . 47
John Bryan Data over Cellular: Support builds for
AT&T Paradyne's Enhanced Throughput
Cellular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Rick Grehan Processors Proliferate: While most CPU
designers seek bigger processors with
more power, others are looking for less.
Small is a strategy that's working
remarkably well in niche markets . . . . 67
Anonymous The Taming Power of the Small . . . . . 68
Tom R. Halfhill Transforming the PC: Plug and Play: For
over a decade, users have struggled with
the arcana of expanding a PC system.
Plug and Play promises to make system
configuration --- and reconfiguration
--- a simple and painless affair.
Getting from here to there, however,
won't be nearly as simple or painless 78
Anonymous Plug and Play with DMI . . . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Tips for Plug and Play . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous What They're Saying About Plug and Play 86
Anonymous Building a Better BIOS . . . . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Connecting Networks: Linking up
multiple, far-flung networks for an
enterprise calls for high-bandwidth
digital connections . . . . . . . . . . 98
Peter Wayner On the Road to ATM: ATM is a strong
contender for connecting enterprise
networks cost-effectively. Among the
first to adopt ATM will be small
workgroups that need to move large
blocks of data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
John Bryan LANs Make the Switch: Three types of
packet-switching hardware ---
shared-memory systems, shared-bus
designs, and multistage switch matrix
units --- make it easier to maintain
high-speed connections among an
organization's LANs . . . . . . . . . . 113
Anonymous What's on the Market . . . . . . . . . . 114
Jeffrey Fritz Digital Remote Access: No longer an
expensive and hard-to-justify luxury,
high-speed remote access to networks is
now possible using ISDN and other
digital services available from the
phone companies . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Anonymous The Analog Alternative . . . . . . . . . 126
Anonymous Software Roundup: Remote-Control
Windows: With remote-control software,
you can access all the resources of your
desktop computer system from just about
anywhere. BYTE evaluates the six
remote-control programs most widely used
for running Windows applications. We
test the programs for performance,
features, usability and versatility . . 137
David Essex Big, Fast IDE Drives: New IDE drives
provide performance suitable for
local-bus systems and capacities that
exceed a gigabyte. We test eight of the
latest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Jim Carls Access 2.0: The Best of Both Worlds:
With new ease-of-use features and
enhanced development tools, Microsoft
Access 2.0 aims at database dabblers and
developers. Reviewer Jim Carls evaluates
Access as both an end-user tool and a
development environment . . . . . . . . 157
Eric Garland SparcStation Overhaul: Sun has updated
its graphics workstation lineup. BYTE
looks at the inexpensive SparcStation 5,
powered by Sun's new MicroSparc II
processor, and the SparcStation 20,
which holds up to four SuperSparc
processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Anonymous Dual SuperSparcs . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
J. Bruce Dawson Power of Cooperation: Linux is a freely
available version of Unix, developed by
individuals from all over the world. But
it isn't a bare-bones Unix clone. It is
full of the features you would expect to
find only in a commercial implementation
of Unix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Dany Dion Low-Cost Simulation: A circuit simulator
lets you try before you fry . . . . . . 171
Anonymous Lab Report: 24 CD-ROM Drives:
Double-Speed Rules: We test 24
double-speed and faster CD-ROM drives to
identify the price/performance leaders.
The Best Double-Speed CD-ROM Drives; Do
You Need Quad Speed? How We Tested; Fast
Access to Multiple CDs; CD-ROM for the
Road; Honorable Mentions; Dubious
Achievements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Peter Wayner Silicon for 3-D: Inexpensive 3-D
hardware is coming to a PC near you, and
games, slide presentations, virtual
reality --- even spreadsheets --- will
never be the same . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Jon Udell The Fix Is In for Chicago: Chicago will
be the most radical Windows upgrade
ever. Here's what's important and
improved in Microsoft's newest operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Rick Grehan Object-Oriented COBOL: Object-oriented
--- hold on to your hat --- COBOL is in
the works. How could such a thing remain
true to the spirit of the language ---
and what would it look like? . . . . . . 197
David Yavin Optimizing Notes Replication: The issue
of replication scheduling is moving to
the forefront. Buyers and vendors of
distributed data systems should raise
their level of awareness about this
potentially critical issue . . . . . . . 201
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Don't Blink: Jerry tackles
the trinity of SCSI, video cards, and
sound cards; as usual, he wins . . . . . 205
Anonymous What's New: PCMCIA connects notebooks to
Ethernet, Macs become multimedia-ready,
open architecture brings visual
development to C++, and more . . . . . . 220
Jon Udell Commentary: Why IBM Should License
Win32: To survive as an operating-system
vendor, IBM will need a credible Win32
strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: Reactions to Commodore's demise 18
Anonymous BPR Tools Help You Work Smarter:
Applications for the desktop that let
managers implement business process
reengineering projects and, in some
cases, create work-flow applications . . 24
Anonymous The Pentium Goes Mainstream: Intel has
reduced prices on all but it 100-MHz
Pentium chips. The result: a new line of
affordable Pentium-based PCs, some with
enhanced IDE drives, high-speed serial
ports, and 64-bit graphics acceleration
for US\$2500 or less . . . . . . . . . . 25
Anonymous TV Services Add Value to Desktop PCs:
Cable TV may soon provide a lot more
than clear reception of the Simpsons.
Companies are testing custom news
services, on-line access, local
discussion forums, and other services
that will be delivered to your PC or a
set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Taiwanese Vendors Wait for Operating
Systems: They're ready with the
hardware, but major Taiwanese PC
manufacturers continue to wait for a
wider selection of operating systems
than just AIX to load on the PowerPC
clones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Low-Cost Video Acceleration Arrives:
Graphics accelerator cards that deliver
improved video playback should arrive in
force this fall at prices under US\$500 34
Anonymous Ethernet Switching at a Fraction of the
Cost: Even with the benefits of improved
network performance, companies hesitate
to adopt Ethernet switching, fearing
expense and unfamiliarity. A new class
of product, a switching hub on a PC
card, eliminates both objections . . . . 36
Anonymous Blasts from the Past: Highlights from
two decades of covering the computer
revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Raymond Ga Cote and
Rich Friedman and
Russell Kay Books and CD-ROMS: Build Power Macintosh
Applications: Power Mac program
development, a science CD-ROM, and
object-oriented programming languages 45
Andy Reinhardt The Network with Smarts: Intelligent
networks from AT&T and IBM could
dramatically change the way you work and
may set the model for a future of mobile
software agents . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--52, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64
Anonymous Don't Write Off the Internet . . . . . . 52
Anonymous Telescript Security . . . . . . . . . . 64
Oliver Sharp and
David F. Bacon Measure for Measure: The more you know
about benchmarks, the more you can use
them intelligently when evaluating
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66, 68, 70, 72
Anonymous A world of Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . 68
Peter H. Salus Unix at 25: For a quarter of a centry,
Unix has defined the design of
commercial operating systems. Here's the
story of what gives Unix its staying
power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Scott Wallace Solutions Focus: Experts in the Field:
Expert-system technology can pay off by
capturing and codifying knowledge from
throughout an organization . . . . . . . 86--88, 90, 94--96
Anonymous Get That Data!: Modern business runs on
information. New tools and standards
help capture and process that
information in nontraditional ways . . . 98
Sara Reese Hedberg Design of a Lifetime: Product designers
today face new requirements: They must
account for the entire life cycle up
front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Anonymous Made in the USA . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Mark Clarkson Process Control's New Face: Personal
computers are a cost-effective tool for
controlling industrial processes . . . . 111
Peter Wayner EDI Moves the Data: Eliminating the
paper chase can speed up business and
cut costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122, 124, 126, 128
Anonymous Digital Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Anonymous Whose Authentication Systems? . . . . . 128
Mark Hettler and
Scott Higgs Software Roundup: SQL Front Ends for
Windows: NSTL evaluates three high-end
SQL packages for developing
sophisticated applications in a
client/server environment. PowerBuilder,
SQL Windows, and Object View are tested
for performance, versatility, power, and
usability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Howard Eglowstein Networking on a Beam of Light:
Photonics' Cooperative infrared LAN
connects a roomful of Macs wirelessly.
It's simple to use: You plug the small
transceiver unit into a system's
LocalTalk port . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Howard Eglowstein Due Recognition of OCR: We compared the
new high-end Windows products of major
OCR vendors Caere and Calera with each
other and with the international edition
of less-know Recognita's product. We
also tested Xerox's low-cost TextBridge
2.0 against all three. For serious OCR
work, accuracy is critical, but if you
don't do high-volume OCR, TextBridge may
be your best bet . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--148
Rick Grehan Watcom C/C++ Get a New Face: With
version 10.0 of its C/C++ compiler,
Watcom has added a complete graphical
development environment and enhanced
cross-platform capabilities. From a DOS,
OS/2, Windows, or Windows NT host, you
can now generate executables for DOS,
Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, Novell
NetWare, and AutoCAD. And from a single
host you can produce both 16-and 32-bit
code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Tom Thompson Mac SCSI Utility Sampler: Two SCSI
utilities that let you attach
third-party SCSI drives to your Mac . . 159
Cote Raymond Ga Cross-Platform Warrior: Metrowerk's
CodeWarrior is a powerful, exciting
development environment for both 680x0
Macintosh and Power PC platforms . . . . 163
Howard Eglowstein One World, One Fax: Global Village's One
World fax server gives a Mac network an
easy shared fax solution. The One World
fax server installed on the BYTE
editorial LAN is evaluated for its
performance, flexibility, and ease of
use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
A. J. Lennon Lab Report: 31 No-Compromise Portables:
We choose the best high-performance
notebooks and subnotebooks. We also rate
the leading portable printers for speed
and print quality. Best High-Performance
Notebooks; PowerBook Update; Best 486
Based Subnotebooks; Best Protable
Printers; How We Tested; Honorable
Mentions.; Dubious Achievements; Roll
Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--177, 181, 183, 186, 188, 192--195
Bob Ryan Alpha Rides High: The 21164 is head and
shoulders above the rest . . . . . . . . 197
Peter D. Varhol QNX Forges Ahead: New uses for QNX, a
venerable, micro-kernel-based operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Steve Niezgoda Charting the Uncharted: Market dynamics
may force you to port your Unix
applications to Windows NT. Here's a
guide to translating calls from one
operating system to the other . . . . . 203
Jeffrey Fritz Clearing Away the ISDN Roadblocks: ISDN
still isn't smoothly interoperable, but
there's hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Odds and Ends: Jerry looks at
a dramatic morphing program, a neural
network, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Anonymous What's New: DECtalk Express Speech
Synthesizer goes where you go; Visual
Thought communicates ideas graphically;
and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Craig Nova Commentary: Slouching Toward the
Internet: A world of information can
seem just out of reach . . . . . . . . . 282
Dennis Allen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: Plug and Play new and old,
split routing, Linux sources, OS/2 with
Win32, and Ghost Busters . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous The Web Means Business: The Internet's
popularity is booming, and it's being
partly driven by the World Wide Web's
red-hot popularity . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Solutions to Internet Traffic Jams: The
number of bytes transferred on the
Internet has doubled. Many Internet
observers are busy working to prevent
network overloads in the future . . . . 27
Anonymous Polysilicon: The Path to Better
Displays: New fabrication techniques for
creating screens based on the
polysilicon technology could result in
bigger, higher-resolution LCD displays
than currently found on laptop computers 34
Anonymous New Languages Reflect Different
Priorities: With their newest C++
products, Borland and Microsoft have
taken fundamentally different focuses:
Microsoft emphasizes cross-platform
coverage and the ability to create OLE
Custom Controls, and Borland introduces
a highly modular set of OLE 2.0 tools 38
Anonymous CD-ROM Drive Prices Drop: A combination
of strong competition and new technology
should force prices for CD-ROM readers
to drop this fall . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous Apple Redefines the Macintosh: Apple
Computer is embarking on a two-to
three-year project to redefine the Mac's
proprietary hardware/software
architecture to accommodate industry
standards and eventually merge with
IBM's PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) 56
Anonymous Blasts from the Past: Highlights from
two decades of covering the PC
revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Craig Nova Books and CD-ROMs: The Joy of the
Internet: A look at 10 guides to the
Internet and a CD-ROM on morphing . . . 61
John Bryan PCMCIA: Past, Present, and Promise: With
Chicago on the horizon and adherence to
standards improving, PCMCIA promises
peripherals that truly let you plug and
play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Dick Pountain Starting with a Clean Sheet: Objects are
the future of programming, and the
CleanSheet spreadsheet construction set
gives you a picture of what that future
holds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Andy Reinhardt Smarter Copiers, Printers, and Fax
Devices Are Coming: Microsoft and Novell
believe that peripherals and PDAs need
their own operating system . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous The New CPUs: As competition heats up
both in the PC and the workstation
marketplaces, many of the industry's
leading companies stake their futures on
new ground-breaking CPUs . . . . . . . . 92
Tom R. Halfhill AMD vs. Superman: The AMD K5 is an
innovative marriage of RISC and CISC
technology that will challenge Intel's
strangehold on the high end of the PC
market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Peter Wayner SPARC Strikes Back: The latest
incarnation of SPARC can perform with
the big boys and is a multimedia
screamer to boot . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Tom Thompson and
Bob Ryan PowerPC 620 Soars: The newest member of
the PowerPC family targets the
workstation market with fast throughput
and speedy floating-point performance 113
Tom R. Halfhill T5: Brute Force: Using aggressive
superscalar techniques, the T5 gives a
big boost to the Mips architecture as it
battles Windows NT competitors Alpha and
Pentium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Jon Udell Exploring Chicago and Daytona . . . . . 132
Andrew W. Davis Windows Becomes DSP-Aware . . . . . . . 151
Tom Sheldon MAPI Blooms in Chicago . . . . . . . . . 163
Dean Abramson Globalization of Windows . . . . . . . . 177
Peter Wayner Automating TCP/IP in NT . . . . . . . . 189
Keith Pleas Extending the Reach of OLE . . . . . . . 199
Barry Nance Windows Becomes LAN Friendly . . . . . . 207
Tom R. Halfhill Managing Color in Chicago . . . . . . . 215
Eric Garland and
Dave Rowell Face-to-Face Collaboration: BYTE takes
an in-depth look at a sampling of
desktop videoconferencing systems . . . 233--237, 240--242
Anonymous The C-Phone Solution: Out of Band . . . 239
G. Armour Van Horn Windows Illustration: Similarly priced
but miles apart in the features they
offer, CorelDraw 5 and FreeHand 4 for
Windows both hold their own in the
competitive Windows design and graphics
illustration arena . . . . . . . . . . . 243--246
Ben Smith Network Problem Solver: Fluke's LANMeter
675 tests and analyzes protocols,
networking hardware, and cables. This
tool can quickly isolate problems on
both Ethernet and Token Ring LANs . . . 247--248, 250
Jeffrey Fritz Switching ISDN: Symplex Communications'
DirectRoute is a flexible and powerful
tool for remote LAN access. It provides
aggregate bandwidth on multiple ISDN
channels, data compression, and
connection-oriented switching . . . . . 251--254
Bobby Joe Reff Software Roundup: Dynamic-Viewing
Spreadsheets: Lotus Improv gained
exposure and praise as a tool for
viewing strategic data in a variety of
useful ways. Although Improv has been
discontinued, other programs deliver
similar functionality, slicing and
dicing data to create analytical models.
NSTL evaluates Microsoft Excel, Quattro
Pro, and TM/1 Perspectives . . . . . . . 255--258
J. Kane and
J. McDonough 92 Printers Go to Battle: Ninety-two
laser, color, ink-jet, and fast
dot-matrix printers go head-to-head in
our latest round of real-world tests.
Our rankings identify the best models
for six important business uses, ranging
from general business to high-end color
applications. The Best Printers for
General Business; How We Tested; The
Best Printers for Workgroups; CAD and
DTP; High-Quality Color; Draft Quality;
Listings and Forms . . . . . . . . . . . 262--265, 268--269, 271, 273, 277, 279--283
Peter Wayner VLIW Questions: Does the Intel/HP
alliance spell the beginning of the end
for RISC? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Bruce F. Webster Whither NextStep: Concepts of the
NextStep operating system are finding
new life in OpenStep . . . . . . . . . . 289
Tom Thompson Power Mac Code Optimizations: Avoid
performance pitfalls in Mac OS . . . . . 291
Michael McParland and
Ethan Wilansky Running the Frame-Relay Race: Frame
relay is an affordable way to get your
LANs talking to each other . . . . . . . 297
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: A Look to the Future: Jerry
highlights some major trends he sees in
the computer industry . . . . . . . . . 299
Anonymous What's New: Scan color graphics in a
single pass; converse and hold
interactive conferences from a distance;
turn workgroup objects into networked
discussion forums; and more . . . . . . 308
Hughes Pack Commentary: Teacher Training Is Key: Too
many schools are buying computers and
stinting on the training . . . . . . . . 366
M. Williamson High-tech training (Anderson Consulting) 74--75, 78, 80, 84, 88
T. Thompson Low-cost color lasers . . . . . . . . . 139--140, 142, 144
C. O'Malley Simonizing the PDA (personal digital
assistant) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146, 148
S. Miastkowski Collecting facts from fax . . . . . . . 153--154, 156, 158
C. Mysore and
J. McDonough 19 Pentiums at 90 MHz . . . . . . . . . 192--195, 198, 201, 203--204, 206--209