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Where's The ambo SwitchP
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evaluating software. Obviously Mr.
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in PC Magazine,and Morochove 8c Associates Computerized Accounting InFormation Networkon Suzy, andvarious
other sources. The one thing he might
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contact the companies for further infoxxnation on the products and plans
for theGST, the readers would be very
disappointed to read the arlide for GST
to Snd out that they have to do the leg
work themselveL
The one paragraph about NewViews
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in Canada, Mr. Bennett went on to comment on the Time and Billing Addmns
for NewViewa NewViews is more than
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tion on both computer hardware and

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MS-DOS machines.

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don'tneedacompilationofvaxiouswriteups &om other magazines and technical

part of the write u. Do you expect to

for George Bush? To call NewViews a

super general ledger is like calling Lotus
1-2-8 a super calculator, ignoring the
databasefimction,
esentation function and so on that is xnduded
in the Lotus spreadsheet program.
My suggestion to the paper is that,
pleasegiveusaSrat4andexperience for
anyhardwaxeandsoftwareproductL We

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CPU Syndrome
I wonder if any of youx'readers has this
problem. I bought a computer in April
6 weeks later I had lost 20 lbs. My
throat and windpipe were very sore. I
couldn't digest food. Then I went away
for 8weeka My health returned. Icame
home and as soon as I started worhngon
my computer my health problems returned. I'm curious to know if there are
others out there hke me.
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TkuAugust1990edr'tioso
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namaitorr auhickare cvming onto the market.
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vendors). Another alternative
is
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"Computer Dummies"
Ido enjoyyour paper immensely. I am
a new "computer" person, and there
have been a great many articles that I
have read with interest. I do wish however, thatyou ceuld expand out into the
Maple Ridge area.Many other people
have askedwhere Ifound outaboutyour
paper. It would also be very helpful for
those of us that are new to "computing"

if you could print some arcades for us

"dummies. I am particularly interested
in modems and whether or not you
requirea program with which to run a
modem properly. No one seems to be
able to give answers for the "new com-

puterL"
Ido look forward to my future papers

coming, as I read them with great interest

(Miss) Loralee Elliocaon

Maple Ridge, B.C,
In myopinum, thereisnosuch thing asa
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program. While the federal and provincial governments helped get the project
goinqwith acostMared grant, additional
funchng is necessary to make SARAW
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Amiga World
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BRUSSKIS, BELGIUM, Oct 10 (NB)
The new A2410 graphics card and
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The A2410 graphics card is an Shit

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TOPEKA, KANSAS, Oct 8 (NB)NewTek is shipping its longawaited
Video Toaster, a US$1595 video produc-

Available at your local Compucente

tion card for the Amiglg. The card has

seven~put switching, digital video effects,frame grab aad store, character

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Art Vancouver 90, a display of
Vancouver artists being put on at the

Robson Square Conference Centre,Friday November 2, will have a blast of

digital art along side the regular analog
stuff. The r ealms of fractals aad
hypennedia are explored in an exhibit
of digttal artist byJohn DeweyJones. His
work has appeared in Sciershjk Araertcssrs,
and on the cover of Cygrrerb So&oas ortrf
Fractafs. For more informatioa contact

Joseph Roberts at R248978.

Whileyouare down therelookaround
for an exhibit by The Brmac Caey,
(telephone7874867,2227Gsaavillest)
a new Vancouver gallery specializing in
bronze and stone sculpture. The Bronze
Gallery ls owned by our fozlner distribu-

tion manager Dayal Singh Khalsa. Very

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Newsbytes.
The Video Toaster is designed to integrate functions that h ave traditionally

been performed by separatepieces of

equipment character generator,

switching, &arne grabbing, and digital

video effects.

Four years in the making, the video

toaster is the creation of Tim Jenison,

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Apple World
Teenager Admits%ritiug

The roadtoapprehension ofthe teener began when computer consultant

ark H. Anbinder of Baka Computer,

York, the local district attorney's of5ce

announced that it will not file charges
against the author. In r eturn for this
nonaction, the author is said to have
committed to cooperate with the police,

And Releasing Viruses

Inc. in Ithaca found the CDEF virus attempting to i nfect a c lient's system.

ITHACA, NEW YORK, Oct 8 (NB)A 16-yearold high school student has

Anbinder told Newsbytes: "I have an antivirus program, Vaccine, installed on my

assistin future investigations andprovide

clients' Macintoshes. I had a call &om

one who encountered a Vaccine alert

analysis.
New York State Police investigator Ted

confessed to New York State Police in-

vestigators that he has written three

computer viruses which have recently
surfaced on Macintosh computers in
upstate New York
The teenager, whose name was not
released, admitted to writing the CDEF,

MDEF A (known as "Garfield" ) and

MDEF B viruses as well as another variant of the MDEF virus which had not
been released.

that a program was trying to install a

CDEF on the system. We stopped the
virus &om infecting my client's system
and, after analyzing it, turned it over to
authorities who eventually traced it back
to the author."
After interviewing the teenager and
determining that the virus had apparently not spread beyond upstate New

source code &om his viruses for expert

Palmer told Newsbytes that the viruses

had been spread &om single computer

to single computer through diskettes.

Palmer pointed out that the fact that
they had been spread this way, rather

than by uploading to national computer

bulletin boards, was a reason that the
viruses had been confined to a single
geographic area. Palmer also said that
the investigation had not found any data
loss caused by the virus, "While the infected parties had to spend time and,
therefore, money to remove the viruses,
we did not find any financial loss due to
the viruses destroying firms' data."
Palmer also told Newsbytes that one of
the installations hardest hit by the viruses

was Cornell University which maintains

a number of Macintoshes for public use.

Atari W o r ld
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Oct 19 (NB) Within days of a raid on a Taiwan firm

allegedly distributing thousands of bogus copies of MS-DOS, Taiwan is in the
spotlightagain in anewpiracycase. Atari's
Taiwan subsidiary has been indicted by

e% epee~

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Taipei District Court on charges con-

nected with the alleged illegal copying of

Lotus 1-2-3 and dBASE IH Plus software
for internal use at the plant. The case was
initiated by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a Washington, D.C;based
organization funded by 8 leading U.S.
software companies.

The public prosecutor in Taiwan

charges that the illegal copies were used
in performing company business and
were found to be "scattered throughout

the company's quality control and finance departments and in its computer
center," according to a BSA statement.
The violation carries a potential three
years in jail for the accused parties and

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fines up toUS$600,000 under Taiwan

law, according to one BSA source.
In addition to indicting the company,
Atari Taiwan, the public prosecutor indicted Kuo Mao Hsing, chief of Atari's
computer center,and Atari employee
Chen Jian Chung, who, the statement
says, "admitted to bringing a Soppy disk
containing an in&inging copy of Lotus 12-3 to Atari and copying Lotus 1-2-3 and
dBASE III onto a computer."
"The indictment of Atari Taiwan and
two of its employees sharply illustrates
the risks to an organization when there
appears tobe a lack of control and managementof softwareresources,"said Tom
Lemberg, chairman ofthe BSA board of
directors and general counsel to Lotus

Development.
For its part, Atari has reportedlystated

that the unauthorized programs were

used by two employees without the
company's knowledge and against its

policy.
"Being a computer company, we
are very sensitive to the software community," said August Liguori, vice president
of finance, in a published report. "We
fight Gus kind of (piracy) all the time. It

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would befoolish for us to cheat our own
peers over afew hundred dollars. Contact: Lori Forte, BSA,202- 787-7060

CanacBan Firms Pair

Statistical Data, Analyst

Software

CallaCllall

News
~ STM Systems Acquires
Apricot Distributor
TORONTO, ONTARIO,Oct 19 (NB)

STM Systenis, a subsidiary of Inter-

national Semi-Tech Microelectronics,has

acquired AIC Computers, the exdusive

distributor for Apricot computers in
Canada.
AIC, which does business as Apricot in
Canada, will continue as a separate sub-

sidiary of STM, said Ray lancashire, an

STM spokesman. The purchase price
has not been disclosed.
Lancashire told Newsbytes the move
was the first step into hardware distribution for STM Systems, Canada's largest
computer service bureau and systems
integmtor. He said he could not speculate on the possibility of further moves
into that area. I would image that a lot
will depend on how we do with Apricot,"
he said.
AIC has distribution rights for the
Apricot line only in C anada, and
Lancashire said there is no immediate
prospect the deal will lead to parent
International Semi-Tech distributing the
BriYish~ade computers through its international operations. International

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Oct 8 (NB)FirstMarkTechnologies hereand Tetrad

Computer Applications of Vancouver
have agreed to sell each other' s software.
Tetrad's PCensus and PSearch provide
Statistics Canada census and survey data,
while FirstMark's KnowledgeSeeker is a
tool for analyzing databases.

is ~

under their original names, he said, al- fi l e L Contact: Barryde Ville, FirstMark,
though FirstMark and Tetrad have had, 6 1 8-7234020
discussionsabout how theproductsmight
evolve together.
Mssion Cynas "On Ice,"
Though both companies are seehng
to expand in the United States market,
Hoping For Early Thaw
de Ville said he expc:cts more success in
VANCOUVER, B.C. Oct 17 (NB)Canada with PCensus and PScarch iniMission Cyrus, launched last year with
tially, smce the
Canaambitious plans to sell highs perdian. But he said it will be useM to
sonal computers to the North American
FirstMarkin the U.S.market tobe able to niarket, has suspended operations and
demonstrate its product working with
laid off most of its employeeL But the

data
theyprovideis

"We hnd of have a competition in

statistical databases hke Tetrad's. Tetrad

coinpany hopes toannounce a refinanc-

place right now to see who wjll sell the

has plans to produce products for the

U.S. market, he added.
KnowledgeSeeker also works with
dBase, Lotus 1 24 and Microsoft Kxcel

ingdeal within days, spokesman Balunan

Sanii told Newsbytes.

other's softwme first," Barry de Ville,

new products director at FirstMark, told

Newsbytes. The packages will be sold

First there were desktop

computers.
Thencame the
lsptops. Each offered something
that the other did not.

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tained to keep the operation going undl

But now there's something that

combines the best of both
worlds, Because now there's a
portable that's easy enough to
take with you; yet powerful
enough lo double as your oAice
computer.

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You may say that soundslike s

split personality.Wesay lt
sounds like the new Altnns One.
Altims One canrun MS-DOS
snd QS/2with ease. Plus it
features an impressive 80286
microprocessor that speeds Io s
full 16Mhz,withoutever gasping

Semi-Tech also manufiictures IBM~ompatiblepersonalcomputeis. Contact Ray

Lancashire, STM Systems, 416-97$8900

for breath.

And though lt casts hundreds

(even thousands) less, the Altims
One comeswith features ether

SCOM Gets Contract

For NehmxkTo Sagest GST

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Oct 10 (NB)
Polls suggest most Canadians aren' t
thriBed about the Goods and Services

Tax (GSI'), a broad4ased vatueedded

nsx due to take dfect January 1. The
people at &Corn Canada probably like it
better than most, though. SCom hasbeen

chosen toprovide software for a 9,000workstation network that will help Revenue Canada administer the tax.
SCam 5+Open LAN Manager software
win be the primary software for a network that will connect 54 sites across
Canada, the company has announced.
The network will give Revenue Canada's
staK access to a central GST da~

t erson

manufactures call options Like

s buil
t-in 2A00 hnud modsm. And
an optomschsnlral mouse with a
compartment for storage. And a
PCcompatible expansionsleL
Altima even remembered to give
youmore memory.Becausewith
AltimaOne,youcsn expand
from one megabyte to five.

on

a main&arne computer in OttaurL

Remuera, an Ottawa-based faciTities

management consulting firm, designed

the network. Peter Hyne, president of
Remuera, told Newsbytes his company
choseLAN Manager because of its supportt for multiple protocols, its openness
and its growing popularity. SCom's
promise to provide support for X.400

Add Io this s siunnmg

psper-white LCDbacklii display

(you' ve goi io see i( to believe

it!); s full function 10i-key

detachable keybssrdwiih

standard for electronic mail exchange

numeric keypad: s 3.5" 1.44

was also a factor, he said.

Since the network will be connected

m
egabyte internal floppy drive:
plus s40MB harl disk drive,

to an IBM main&arne, Hyne said, using

LAN Manager will allow the use of IBM's
NetView network management system.
The workstationswill be 886SXkesed
personal computers running MS-DOS.
More than 100 network servers, mostly

M6 PCs, wiU also be part of the system.

Philips Information Systems of Montreal
aud Trillium of Waterloo, Ontario, are

to provide the PCs, Hyne said. Contact:

Loretta Lam, T h e

C o m m u n ications

Group for 3Com, 4164474591; Peter

Hyne, Remuera, 613-235-N21

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newmcsney cauld be found, said Missiou

Cyrus hoped to announce a deal with a

f'ram a Sritiohbankfell through. Contact.

Sahmau Sauii, Mission Cyrus, 6044M-

Vancouver~eminvestorin about aweek.

7727

"A local party has presented a proposal

to the shareholders and creditors," he
said.
Sanii added that Farad Azine, Missiau Cyrus'founder and,president, retains his position as chief executive but
will give up his stake in the company.
Investars in Mission Cyrus included
the Discovery Foundation, au agency of
the British Columbia provincial government, and at least ane Canadian bank.
The company found itself in troubleearlier this year when expected fmancing

eral manager afstrategicmarketingprograms at Keyverord, told Newsbytes his

company will also continue selling the
software
About 80 percent of
direct sales of Keypak are far Digital

directly.

Keyword, Digital Announce

Marketing Agreement

hardware,Demca said,though versions

of thesoftware also exist for MS -DOS,

CALGARY, ALBERTA, Oct 15 (NB)

Keyward Oaice Technologies here
has auuounced an agreement under
which Digital Ecluipment will resell
Keyword's Keypak document interchange so&ware.
Digital will sell the version of Keypak
that xuns on Digital hardware to ils custamers worldwide. Denis Demco, gen-

Macintosh and Unix. Versions for

Hewlett-Packard minicomputers and

IBM mainframesareooan tobereleased,

Demco addecL
Demco said the agreement with Digital builds an a cooperative marketing
relationship in which the two companies
worked together ta sell Keywaxd's saftware with Digital's haahme.

Keypak translates word processing

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Denis Demco, Keywoxd, 408-R50-1770

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1992, according to the company's
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Toronto, Brainerd said Pagemaker and
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five years, he told reporters. Contact
Aldus Canada, 4169RW288

Microsoft ShipsPastScri jt
Clone Language
REDMOND, WAQIINGTON, Oct 5
(NS) M i c rosoft says it's shipping to

developers its TrueImage page descriptionlauguage (PDL) vervsion 1.0,software

designed to compete with Adobe Postscript. The softwaxe offers fan{as, open
architecture, campleteAdobe PostScript
compatibility, and a cheapn pxice than
Adobe's original, says Micrasok,
Cal Bauergeneral xnanager of the
printer business unit at Microsoft, says
OEMs already are i n corporating
TrueImage into their printers. They'indude Graphics Edge, Intel, mnd Advanced Micro Devicea Intel and AMD

have parted TrueImage to their 52-bit

MSCprocesooxs, theIntel i960audAMD
Am29000. LaserMaster TechnalogieswiN
uee it in its personal typeeetters and
printers.Microtek, a pioneer scanner
manufacturer, hasanuounced shipment

of its TrueLaser printer the fxrst laser

printer using Microsoft's Truelmage.

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Corel Schedules 5sd

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OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Oct 16 (NB)

Corel Systems has announced the

SecondAnnualCoreIDrawInternational

Design Contest, deigned to promote its

Windows-based graphics package
CoreIDraw..
The companywill give out more than
C$800,000 worth of cash and prmea
Karen Evans, contest cxpordinator said
last year's contest drew more than 800

e n t r ies from 12 countries, ranging from Supermac, Kbldius

fine art to corporate logos and business
Announce Graphics File
cardL The winner I'rom each country
willreceiveaC$1,000prizeandbe among
the finalists for a grand prize to be
SANJOSE,CALIF'
Oc
t 4 ( NB)
The two Ieadingmakers of Macintosh
awarded at a ceremony in Ottawa on
May 16, 1991.
monitors haveboth announced software
The grand prize consisni of C$10,000
to compress video imageL
in cash plus a complete PC system. SecRadius and Supermac Technologyinondand thirdpxizesandawardsofmerit
troduced software based on the Joint
will also be given out.
Photagxaphic Experls Group, orJPEG,
Cord,also announcedthatCorelDraw
compression standard.JPEGallowscomfor OS/2isnowshipping. The suggested
pression of video images at a rate deretail price is US$595or C$725. Contact:
scribed by Radius af up to 50 to 1 and by
Karen Evans, Corel Systems, 618-728- SuperMac of up to 80to 1. Compression
8200
is desirable because Iaxipvscreen 24bit

Com
passion

color images can easily take up several

megiibyteL A four
inch 24bit
ixnagedigitizedat
do t stakesupapile
of disk space.

JPEG
isanevolvingintexuational stan-

dard drafted by the CATT and ISO.

SuperMac said it will include its
Supexsqueeze compression softwarewith
all color cards and disk systems beginning in January 1991. In addition, purchasers of SuperMac products after October 1 will receive the product free
when it ships. SuperSqueeze will also be
generally available for US$49.
Radius aha announced JPEG compression software. As yet unnamed, the
softwaxe will be available in November
for US$800.
Both announcements came shortly
after GCube Microsystems, San Jose,
Calif, announced software which allows
developers to incorporate JPEG compression in their programa That software, called Image Compression Inter-

face (ICI) will be available in November

for US$195, the company said. ICI has
I

been adopted byAdobe,Quark,Alacldin

Systema, Electronic Arts, Salient, and
Autodesk SuperMac said SuperSqueeze
willuse theIClsoftware. Contacts: Mauxo
Bonomi, GCube,4088444800;Jennifer
Delamare, SuperMac, 408-778-4408;
Jeneane Harter, Radius, 408484-1010

CALGARY, ALBF3LTA, Oct 8 (NB)Canadian4ased Image Club Graphics

has reduced the price of its LetterPress
CD-ROM byUS$1,000 to US$8,999. The
LetterPress disc contains 600 fonts in
PostScript type 1, type 8, and outline
formats.
Image Club also offers the same
Macintosh fontcoRection on adiscwhere
the fonni are unlocked individually as
needed by purchasing passwords for the
individual fonts. Contact Brad Zumwalt,
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This is a 46page 12whapter book for
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Syquest, h5crotech Sue

Each Older Ovcu Drive

Mechanisms

EAST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT Oct

4 (NB) A major hard~
man u facturer and one of its prime vendors are
suing each other the manufiicturer
claiming
and the vendor
alleging non~
xma n ce.
Syquest Technology, Fremont, Calif.,
has ceased shipment of its removable
cartridge dxivemechanismsto Microtech

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ofEastHaven,Conn.,and

The Computer Paper/ Nov '90

issuingthevendor for US$851,000itsays
is owed it. Microtech hasresponded with
a US$1 milhon lawsuit, daiming that
Syquest failed to meet quality targets.
Delona Lang, Microtech's marketing
c ommunications m a n ager, t o l d
Newsbytes that Syquest had promised
earlier thisyear that 5percentor fewer of
its drive devices would fail, with thatlevel
dropping over time. Iong said that in a
letter dated September 6, Syquest President Syed Iftikar "admitted that he M.ed

to live up to his assurances."

Joel Levine, Syquest's vice president
of marketmg, noted in an intenriew wit
Newsbytes that his company provides
drive mechanisms to "at least 15 to 20"

companies. "Each of them places the

mechanism in their own box and with
their own electronics. When you put all
thepieces together, some customershave

low return rates, some have high return

rates with the same" mechanism.

Lang said that Syquest would continue shipping drive mechanisms for rep air an d r e p l a c e m e n ts, a n d t h a t
Microtech would continue to honor its

warranties. In addition, she said,

Microtech would offer to replace defec-

tive.syquest~d
driveswitheithercon-

ventional drives or removable-media

drives based on a mechanism built by
Ricoh.

Motorola Announces
Settlement With Hitachi In
Patent Suit
SCHAUMBERG, ILUNOIS, Oct 9
(NB) Motorola has announced that a
satistactory settlement has been reached
with Hitachi, Ltd. i n t h e i n tellectual

property and technology disputes reg arding Hitachi's H/ 8 a n d H / 1 6

microcontrollers and Motorola's 680%
and 88000 microprocessors,
Terms of the settlement were not dis-

dosed. Motorolaindicated thatitwillfile

joint motions with Hitachi in the U.S.
District Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit and the U.S, District Court for

Statesand Canada from Medical Technology International of Scotland.

The Bioclok has been sold in Britain
for about eight months, Fax told
Newsbytes. The first shipment recently
arrived in the United States. The price is
US$129, with an introductoty price of
US$99 until December SL Contact:Jennifer Fox, The Marketing Clinic, 605852-9886

PapubackSokwaae Responds
To LottIs SeNhanent
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETl'S,
Oct I'y (NB) Lotus has won a major
and final victory in its longest-running
"look and feel" suit against a maker of a

competing spreadsheet product. Lotus

Development says that it has reached an
agreement withPaperback Software and

Stephenson Software, its development

partner, for the violation of its Lotus 1-25 copyrights.
In June, U.S. District Court Judge
Robert E.Keeton ruled that Paperback

of Berkeley,
Calif.,and Stephenson Sokware of Vancouver, British Columbia,
violated Lotus' copyrights in 1-2-8 by
copying substantial elements of the soRware program'suser interface.
PaperbackSoftware,agreeing to paya
US$500,000 settlement to Lotus Development and promising to remove all its
copies ofVP Planner from the market,
will not go under as a result of the loss of
the costly fourgear suit, according to
Michael Burdick,vicepresidentsalesand
marketing'.
Burdick tells Newsbytes, "Reaching a
settlement with Lotus allows us to concentrate on the marketplace andnot the

Express Micro is a leading Canadian

computer hardware manufacturer who recognizes
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to delivering state of art technol y with competi-

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Systems are pre-configured and quality tested

before they are shipped from our well stocked warehouse. Express Micro understands that time is the

edge in business success.

Call Express Micro for your nearest

dealer when selecting a computer and be satisfied

that you chose Canadian.

courtroom. It's in our best interest to

tahe the settlement."

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The US$500,000 finewillbe paid by

insurance companies, soitwill not afFect
Paperback Software'sfortunes. "Our in-

1slss vanIsr
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tention was to continue to make a soft-

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the Western District of Texas (Austin

Division) requesting that all pending
cases
i nvo l v in g " " '," Hitachi's hasn't worked out the details of how the
micr~ontrollers and Motorola'smicrothousands of unsold copies of all three
processors be dropped.
versions of VP Planner will be taken ofF
In a prepared statement, Motorola
the market.
The programs arecarried by
Semiconductor and Products Sector distributors and retailers worldwide.
President and General Manager,James
PaperbackSoftware,
founded byAdam
A. Norling said: "We are very pleased
Osborne who is now the firm's single
with this settlement. Our unwavering
largest shareholder, has about a dozen
goals in this legal action were to protect
employees. Osborne has not taken an
Motorola's intellectual property and to
active role in the company since Februassure our customers an uninterrupted
ary, opting to put his time into an entersupply of Motorola's leadership micro- prise which is making PCs in India. Steve
processors. Thissettlementachievesboth
Cook is the firm's president.
those goals." Contact: Tim Kellogg,
Burdick says that the company will
Motorola, 708-5764642
carry on without its Lotus 1-2-$ done.
"We intend to solidify and exploit our
position as the numberwne provider of
expert system development tools for PCs."
KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, Oct 16
(NB) Researchers say the best way to He says that VP Expert is the expert
system with the largest installed base in
fight je lag, other than staying home, is
the world.
carefully timed exposure ta light and
darkness to adjust to a new time zone. A
small Britishdesigned computer, now
available in North America, is designed

performance

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specitlcaNare are subject to
change wNevl nOlke.

QMPUYER CENTRE

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Doppler Computer Centre offers a full

selection of hardware, software and

supplies. Dollar for dollar, product for

product, Doppler Computer Centre

offers students the best values in

Greater Vancouver. Find out more by
dropping in to Doppler Computer Centre
today. Or give us a call, 875-026t.

Lecal Area

to help travellers adjust.

The Bioclok calculates the right times

for a traveller to be exposed to light and

dark, based on the local times of departure and arrival, length of fight, and
direction travelled, saidJennifer Fox, a
partner in The Marketing Clinic here.
The Marketing Clinic has acquired the
rightsto market the Bioclokin the United

Networks

LAN Hmes Goes Twice

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With an eye to the environment, LAN
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mailer which had been used to ship the
publication. Contact: David Buerger,
LAN Times, 801465-1060

Network Problem Catches

ce
TORONTO, ONTARIO,Oct 15 (NB)
BankofCommercecouldnotchecktheir
bank balancesfor severd days recently
due toproblemswithanetworkcannecting the bank's branches.
Rob McLeod, a spokesman for the
hank,saidanetworkconnectingtellers
in the hank's branches developed problems after a new program was instsllecL
The hank decided to shut down the net-

work temporarilywhile the problem was

corrected, forcing tellers to record transactions manually for about three days in
the Srst week of October.
The network was shut down from
Wednesday, October 5 to Friday, October 5, McLeod saicL When service was
restored, it took most of the weekend to
update bankbalances kom the manual
recorda Until that was done, customers
using automated teller machines could
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AUSIIN, TElGLS, Oct 5 (NB) Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) says it has
created two highly integrated microprocessors that incorporate all the components o f t h e o r i g i nal I B M A T
motherboard on one CMOS integrated
circuit,
to accelerate the move to smamer, cheaper, and
lightei~ i ght laptops and other computing devices.
The single chip, the Am286ZXTM,
contains a CMOS80286 microprocessor
and ATcompatible peripherals, induding DRAM control logic, two DMA controllers, two interrupt controllers, three
counter/timers, a real4ime dock with
CMOS RAM, Sexihle clock generation
logic and an enhanced bus controller.
Supportis also provided for LIM4.0EMS
memory management. The chip is said
tobe the &nctional equivslentof an IBM
ATmotherboard that previously required
up to 175 integrated circuits. It also fea
tures battnyeaving techniques targeted
at the expanding notebook PC market.
In a development akin to the "just add
water," approach to mahng cakes, a PC
maker needs to throw in one integrated
processor, a keyboard controller and

adhv
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AMD Offers New

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completethe PC components tomakean

entire system.
AMD says samples will be available in
this quarter while production is slated to
start in the'second quarter of 1991. Both
processors will be offered initially at
speeds of
12 and 16 MHz. Pricesin 1,000unit quantities range &om US$69 for the
Am286ZX-12 toU@S9fortheAm286LX16. Contact David Frink, AMD, 5124624860

NEC Launches Tiniest

Pahntop PC
TOKYO, JAPAN, Oct 19 (NB)-

Japan's personal computer giant NEC is

leading the personal computer industry
into new tecritory with anew, superhght,
personal computer, Handy98, which is
roughly half the size of a current notebooMized computer andweighsonly 1.1
kilograms despite having a standard

MS-Works, an integrated software

program includingJapanese word processor, dautbase, spreadsheet, business
charting,and communications comes
standard in the memory card. A schedul~
age m ent software program is

available in ROM (read only memory).

Handy98 sports NEC's 10 MHz lait
V50 microprocessor, which is an upgradedverslon of the VSOequippedwith
its previous notebook 98Note. A standard buihsn battery pack allows the
computer to run for as long as seven
hours and, together with an optional
batterypack, for lS hours. The chsplayis
a 6.$mch LCD with a 640byy~ i x e l
resolution. A resume function which
recovers data last viewed when switched
on comes standard with the unit. By
attaching an optional 50,000 yen
(U8$$90) Dochng Station with a builtin S.i nch FDD (Soppy disk drive),
Handy98 can run about 500 application
software programs for NEC 5C98LT
laptop computer, which isincompatible
with Japan's de Seto standard NEC PC9801 personal computsra With an optionalRS.282Ccahle, however, the handy
computer canshare data with PGQSOL
Handy98 is priced at 198,000 yen or
US$1,520 and becomes available late
this month. NEC expects to sell 200,000
nails in the initial year.
Though a Japanese industry report
says that NEC will market an IBMcompatihle version of the machine for the
overseas market in the future, an NEC
spokeanan did not provide any details
to Newsbytes. Contact: Mr. Kato, Public
Relations CMRce,NECCorp.,08-7984511

Compaq Intros Notebook

With Aerospace Technology
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Oct 16
(NB) Compaq Computer has introduced a powerful new notebook~
computer that it daims is the most powerful computer of its hnd in the world.
It is the Srst computer to use a printed
circuit board technology known as "RegalFlex,"which wasoriginallydeveloped
by Teledyne Electro-Mechanisms for
aerospace and defense industry applications such as missile guidance systems

and stealth Sghter instrument panels

Regal Flex was initially developed to
save space and weight and to ensure
greater reliabiTity of circuit boards by
eliminating separate, detachable cables
in favor of Sexihle interconnectionL
Compaq used Regal Flex to create a
single, central circuit board for the new
notebook system, designated the
Compaq LTE 886s/20, that starts asan 8
x 11 inch sheet, snaps apartatkeypoints
and folds into a compact, multiplaned
part that ends up at a size of 4 5/4x 6x
1 I/O inches.

The Compaq LTE 386s/20 has a 60

MB (megabyte), 5/4 inch high Sxed
diskchive,creditcardsizememorycards,
and a miniature (about the size of a

packageofchewing gum) power supply.

The drive is also available in a 80 MB

capacity and the computer has optional
1 MB and 4 MB memory cards that can
QWERTY-type keyboarcL
be used to expand memory to 10 MB.
The miniaturization owes much to
The suggested retail price for the 60
~
tech n ologies, such as the incor- MB model is US$6,999. For the 80 MB
poration of an IC (integrated circuit)
model, the list price is US$6,499. The
memoxy card and a 1.25 MB (megabyte)
suggested retail price for an available
RAM (random access memory) drive for
desktop expansion base is US$1,499. The
storage. There is also a smaller LCD
new notebook computer is expected to
(liquid crystal display) and a smaller keyship before the end of this month. Conboard. The motherboard is alsc more
tact:John Sweney, Compaq Computer,
highly integrated.
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The Computes' Paper I Nov '90

Ogivar Technologies
Iatros 286 Laptop
MONTRKtkL, QUEBEC, Oct 15 (NB)
Ogivar Technologieshas introduced
alightmeightnotebookcomputer called
the Internote 286. The system features a

VGAwompatible LCD display, a full~e

embedded keyboard and a 20 MB hard
disk drive.
Without the battery, the unit weighs
only 4.8 pounds. The system employs an
80C286 microprocessox' and has a 12.5
MHz (megahertz) operating speed. One
MB (megabytes) of RAM (random ac-

cessmemoxy) issrandard and itisfactoxy-

formed into a powerful desktop machine

with the utiTization of three

types
ofdesk-

top units. The PCY-85INR will provide a

8.inch FDD (fioppy disk drive), CRT
(cathode ray tube) intexf'ace and power
the notebook computer. The
852NR will add a half~ed slot on the
basic unit and the 858NR will add an
Ethernet interface on the features of the
852NR.
The prices of the Desktop Unit xange
from80,000yento 220,000yenor US$615
to U8$1,692. Contact: 8ony Corp., 08448-2200

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x 480 pixel resolution. There is a video

'Wordstar, President Resigns

adaptor that is said t o " i ntelligently

convert" colorsinto 82 shades of grey.

Fotlowmganotherconsecrxtive quarter

The company saysthat the keyboard

has thefeelof a desktop computer keyboard with 82 full~ k e ys and 1014ey
emulation For programs written to use a
full-101 key keyboard.
The ovexall footprint of the unit is less
than 1 square foot. It has a removable,
rechargeable NiCad battery pack thatis
good for two hours and a standard AC
Adaptor/Qaick Recharger that plugs
into an AC power source.

The Internote 286 is available immediately atalistpriceofUS$2,999. Contact:

At Safaxikas, Ogivar Technologies, 514787-8840

Red GenerationNotebook
PC From Sony
TOKYO, JAPAN,Oct 15 (NB) Sony
has announced its first notebook personal computer, QL/Note PCX410NR
series, based on the AX architecture,
and says the machine is more advamced
than the current generation of booksized computers in terms of ability to
handle large apphcations and ita pexformance on lANs (local area networks).
Expected to be released next spring,
the
machine of the seriea, the
NR7, ia so aophisficated that it can nm
Microsoft Windows 8.0, and it has a 20
megahertz i8868X CPU (central processingunit),40MB (megabyte) ofHDD
(hard disk drive) space and 2MB of main
memory expandable to 6MB. The Lowerend machines include a 16MHz CPU
version with 20 MB of HDD and 1MB of
main memory expandable to 5MB.
The three machines are 815 by 262.5
by 45 millimeters in size and weigh 8
hlograms. Sony promises that the builtin battery allows one hour of continuous
use when futly charged.
Sonyalso bundles variousapplications
with the machine: MS-DOS V.8.21, Mi. crosoft Windows V.2.11 andQUKM 't86
V. 5.1 expanded memoxy driver, which
was developed jointly with U.SAmaed
Quarterdeck Office Systems.
8ony has also given the units what it
calls a Ball-Mouse = an unique device
featured on the upper right side of the
keyboard and which functions like the
trackball on Apple Computer's Macintosh Portable.
The pxice of the lowed machine is
898,000 yen or US$8,060 with increases
in 100,000yen or U8$770incrementsfor
each higher~nd model. Shipping is
slated for the first half of December and
Sony has no plan to ship the machme to
overseas markets at this hme.
Sony has also made the handy note-

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NOVATO,CALIFORMA,Oct5 (NB)
of losses, Wordstar, formerly Micropro,
has lost ita president, Gari Gxym, and its
generalmanager and chieffinancial officer, Jim Dalrymple. The firm, once a
high fiyer in the world of word processing software, suffered a net loss of
U8$457,00QonrevenuesofUS$9,982,000
for its fourth quarter ended Aug. 81.
This loss is smaller than one suffered
this timelastyear,when thefirmreported
a net loss of US$798,000, or 6 cents per
share, on revenues oF U8$11,817,00Q.
For the fiscal year ended Aug. 81,
1990,the companyreportedrevenues of
U8$87,879,000 and a n e t l oss of
U8$4/85,000, or 88 cents per share. For
the fiscalyear ended Aug. 81, 1989,
WordStar reported revenues of
US$48,157,000 and a n e t l oss of
U8$8,084,000, or 22 cents per share.
Regarding the reaignafions of Gari
Grimm andrim Dalrymple, the board of
directors issued a simple statement, saying that it believes Grimm had accomplished the task of r educing the
company's operating expenses, and her
decision to resign was amicable on both
aides
The company says the disappointing
results are due to lower sales in North
America, a problem anticipated when
the company instituted a coatweduction
progxsm esrher this year.
The challenge for the coming year,
according to companyoKcials,will be to
improve revenue and unit sales, introduce new productsand continue the

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Keep hck Of Clients

With French Version CX
MCuilgiser
VANCOUVKR, B.C. Oct 4 (NB)Richmond softrum hasannounced that
Version 2.0 of its contact management
software Msximizer is now available in
French.
Janette Peters, a spokeswoman for
Richmond, said the program code is
actually biTingual and cau be switched
between French and Kriglish at will The
difference between the versions is the
language of thedocumentation,she said.
Because of the extra cost of adding
French capabiTity for a smaller market,

she added, the French version costs

C$895 for the ainglouaer version and
C$895 for the network version, versus
C$295 and C$695 for the Enghsh4anguage ver%on.
Richmond has ofFered French editions of previous versions of Maximizer.

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The company also offers Dutch aad
Geananvexxioasof Maximiserin Europe,
Peters said. Asked about another kind af
translation, she said their are no ixnmediate plans for a version of the software
to run en the Apple Macintosh.
Richmond has also begun offering
training for Maxamizer users. The company held its first courses in Vancouver

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SAN JOSE, CAUFORNIA, Oct 4 (NB)
Aldus Corporation has rolled eut a

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presentations pregram, for Windews.
The program can make overhead,
85mmslide,anden~een preseatationa,
It iactucles tools far outlining, wardprecessing, chawiag, chartiag, and formatting, aad can praduce black~d-

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Presenters choose a design either ane
ef the predesigned shde or overhead
templates that come wixh,the product, or

one of their own

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users te specify type, colar, automatic
text wraps, and line and paragraph
spacing. Theyam also searchandreplace
words and phrases, check their spelling,
and mix type styles, faces, colors, and
sixes within a text block. Pexsuasiaa far
Windows also includes automatic
kerniag, aad, at the user's discreifen,

everyone. Nearly aII pepular

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In some cases, Tarlowsaid, PS/2 users
have been unable ta u se expanded
m emory because there was aat 6 4 K

availablefor a memory page frame.

The BlueMax software removes the

OS/specificcede, built~
power~

BA SIC and
s e l f ' ca d e ( w hich is never

used after the machine starts up) from

thememory, freeing between 80K aad
84K~
, Ta r low said.
Due te begin shippiag September 25,
BlueMax will carry a retail price af
US$155. Those wha awn Qxalitas's
886Max or its other memoxy management productscan upgrade ferUS$25.
Contact Paul Tarlow, Qmlitas, 801-

90VA'y00

SCOTI'SVALLEY,CALllrORNIA,Oct

18 (NB) Borland is shipping an up-

New features of Qmttre Pxe 2,0 indude "SolveFor,"a technologythatselves

HILLSBORO, OREGON, Sep 28

(NB) Intel's Personal Computer Enhancement Operation announced
SatisFAXtion, its second~nexation PC
fax board, succeeding its successful
Conneciiaa CoProcessor. Like its predecessor product, SatisFAXtioa iadudes
a 2,400 bit/secend data modem, but
sends faxes. at 9,600 bits/second, or 4
pages per minute.
The new board works ia the background, and ean send files f'rom any
applicatian which can print to an Epson
FX85 printer. Epson fonts and formats
are presexved, the company said, as are
Windows screen fonts when the product
is used with Microsoft WindowxL
SatisFAXtian also supper@ the Intel/
DCA Communications Applications
Specificati
on, a proposed standard fer
effering faxserviceswithin applications.
An optional hand scanner is also available.

complete detaih - 875-0261.

exsof ether systems that reserve only 64K

Intel Ships SatisFAXtion

Fax Board

Peripherals, like printers and

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BETHESDA, MARYLAND, Sep 25

(NB)~ u a l itas, a developer of memox
management products here,has announced a memory manager designed
especiallyfar IBM PS/2systemsbasedan
the Intel 80886 chip.
Paul Tarlaw, a Qmlitas spokesman,
told Newsbytes the PS/2 hae reserves
128K of memoxy addresses between the
640K and on~egabyte levelsfor ROM
BIOSfunctions,indudiagbumt~ BASIC
aad cededesigned farnmaiag the OS/
2 operating system. This has put PS/2
users at a dixsidvantage compared tous-

speaker notes, and indude time, date,

and filename stamps.
To createa chart in Persuasion, users
simply type their figuxes into ils data
sheet or import them from spreadsheet
programs such as Lotus 1-2-8 and MicrosoftExcd, then chooseachartfexmat
Contact Jane Dauber, 206/6284674

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gradecl version ef Quattre Pra. Version

2.0,UK$495, incorporates features and
presentation graphics capabilities not
fouad in any other DOS spreadsheet
program, accardingte Borland.
According ta Dataquest, a Saa Jose,
Calif.-based market research Grm,
Borland's spreadsheet market share in
units increased te approximately 25
percent in the first quarter of 1990, up
from about 5 percenthtstyear.A study
conducted by Vista Marketing Research
indicates that over 80percentof Qmttxo
Pro users were previously Lotus 1-24

can automatically number slides and

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Memory Manager

The SatisFAXtien beard retails far

US$499 fer IBM PCs, US$549for PS/2s
and other computersusing the Micra
Channel plugarchitecture. The Hand
Scanner costs US$899. Contact Intel,
Mary Brawxxlag, 505429-7469

"whatM sceaaries; database eanaectiv-

ity, which lets users access and xnanipulate data in Borland's Paradox database
program and in SQL servers; enhanced
presentation graphics, including the
abiTityta create "branching" slide shows,

measienal graphics,color 8&cam

slide support and additienal clip art images aud import formats.
The Qmttro Pra LAN pack far network useretailsfor US$295. Registered
awaexs ofQxattro Pra 1.0 may upgrade
directly
fram Borland ferUS $79.95.
The ProShaw Power Pack, a celllectioa of graphic enhancements designed
fer users of
Pro 2.0, provides a
four~alorslideshowguidethatdescribes
the best techniques for creating slide
shows and shows you how ta implement
these techniques when creating slide
shows m Qxattra Pra. The ProShow
Pawer Pack will be induded in versions
af Qmtlro Pra 2.0. Far a limited time,
users upgrading teQuattre Pra 2.0 from
Quattra Pro 1.0 or competitive spreadsheets maypuxehase the PraShow Power
Paekfar U8$89.95,saysBarland. Call the
fixmat40848$8400. Contact Catherine
Miller, Berland, 40$489-1614

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The Computer Papowl Nov'$0

uarteakeck Unveils
Q1<MlN With Wmdows
St: New Descpiew
CHELMSFORD, ENGLAND, Oct 17
(NB) Quarterdeck Office Systems has
announced new releasesof its Qemm
expanded memory program, as well as
the company's nagship Desqview and
Desqview S86 packages.
Called Qemm 5.1, the new release of
Quarterdeck's popular expanded
memory managerand processor centrol
program providesa number of toolsfar
integrating the current installed hase of
DOS packages into the Windows S.O environment. According to Quarterdeck,
Qemm 5.1 will allew Windows S.O users
to load terminate aad stayresident (TSR)

anege,

Sante EeMedia M

A Multimedia Database

LONG BEACH, CALlFORNIA, Sep

20 (NS) HSCSoftwareof Santa Monica.
CA introduced the Santa Fe Media
Manager, a multimedia database far the
PC that has been developed under the
company's SantaFe User Interface, a
multimedia environment for the PC.
The Santa Fe Interface is a graphical

environment thatallows twoendusers to

remotelyconnect PCs over a 2400 bps

pragrams, drivers and DOS resources

inta high memarywhea runningin either

real, standard or enhanced modes(high

memoryis between640and 1024K, areas
of RAM which are usually unavulable ta

user interface (GUI) that runs in Shit

SVGAup te 1024 x 768 x 256 colors aad
in 16-and 24kit T~
omp a tible environments with the same interface and
supporting most SVGA and Targacompatible cards. Significant multimedia
product development underthe Santa
Fe UserInterface has already been accomplished including hardware controllers from Sony, Sharp, Roland, aad
Pan asonic.
The Santa Fe User Interface takes
advautage of the expanded memory
available within a PC and is the only

ductmarketresearchbefereitsexpected
commercial launch of the productin the
latter half of next year. Contact: Sony
Corp., 0344M200

600 megabyte capacity, allowing storage

of about 7,000 natural scenes or 16 national languages of aatration for one
hour.The CD-I player also can playback
an existing musical CD.
The monitor is a baclit four~ eh
color LCD (liquid crystal display) incorporating T$T (thin Sim transistor) technology. The portable CD-I player measures 1S6 by 54.5 by 160 millimeters and
weighs 850 grams except for batteries.
Sony claims that the smaller size and
lighter weight enables playback of CD-I
softvram virtually anyplace and anytime.
Sany intends ta snake the CD-I player
much smaller aad lighter as well as cen-

21 ~

DOS).

"Every Windows S.O usc:r who intends

to run DOS programs under Windows
will want te usc:Qemm 5.1 te provide
access to high memory, said Therese
Myers, president and co-founder of
Quarterdeck,announcing the new releasea
Alongside the new version of Qemm,
Quarterdeck has unveiled V2.S af
Desqview, which it says will load and run
Windows S.Oepecific programs running

THANK YOU!

The staff at TLD Computers would like to take this

opportunity to thank eachof our clients for making
September and October our best months ever!
We look forward to serving you in the future.

in real or standard modes, such as Word

for Wmdows, in Desqview windows.

"For Desqview users who want to nm
Windows S.O programs, Desqview 2.S
pravidesanenviroamentwhereWiadaws
S.O applications can run aloagside existing DOSprograms,"continued Myers.
"With this revision, Desqview retains
its position as the mast powerful and
flexible operating enviromneat far PC
users. With Desqview '2.S, users can run
DOS programs, 286 DOSextended applicatiens like I-24 Release S, and S86
DOSesrtended programs hke Paradox
S86 and AutaCAD S86 sidekymde with
Windows 2.0 and Windows S.O applicatians," she said.
In Europe, the newversions ofQemm
and Desqview are available ta end users
immediately. Qemm costs UKP 65,while
Desqview retails for UKP 99. Desqview
586 sells for UKP 149.
ExistiagusersofQuarterdecksoftware
can upgrade for various priceL Qemm
upgrade pricing ranges from UKP 15 te
UKP SO, while Desqviewupfpades range
from UKP 15 to UKP 40. Upgrade pricing is subject to a shipping charge af
UKP 5. Contact: Wilham Poc:I, Quarterdeck UK- Tel: 0245496699

Nlultimedia
Sony Develops Portable
CD-I Player
TOKYO,JAPAN,Oct5 (NB) Japan's
top CD (compact disk) player manufacturer Sony has develeped an experiental portable CD-I (compact disk ineractive) player with a small color monir, a device which Sany hopes will cape the popular imagination and spur
cation of CD-I titles by software maks.

CD-I is a nextgeneratiaa consumer

edia which Sony proposed with Nethlandebased Philips, and it is designed
o extend the capabilities of the current

usical CD. A CD-I software disk has a

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The Computer Paper I Nov '96

modem and control each other's screen
in real time.
Santa Fe Media Manager is the first
costwKective multimedia progxam that
allawsdatabases to store andretxievestill
images, videa, audie, and text. Users caa
viewPCX, GIF, or FLI (the staadard file
far Autadesk Animator) graphics with a
I/4 screen viewing window or in full
screen. Itispossible to search for specific
records based on text, values, graphics,
or audio information. Photorealisticstill
images and videe can be selected &om
the database,sectuencedandplaycd back
in order far apresentatien format. Users
can view still images or videe while simultaneously hearing sound associated
with the images. Thiis so&ware can be
used as a &ont end to all the leading
datalxase products and is fullycompatible
with Paradex 9$ since it uses Borland's
Paradox as the underlying engine to

96/24 Group III

S end/Receive

create a fully relational database.

.QQ

Newsbytes spake with John Wilcxak,

CEO ef HSC Software, who saich "Up
until new, multiaiedia has been hype
and premise and shert on delivery becausewhile the haxdwarehasbeen there,
the computer people and the audie and
video people have not had a unifying
sokwaretabmxgail thecompanentparts
together."
"So&ware is what wilL bring multimedia together aad we want to be the
leader," Wllcsak continued. "We ~
in the imaging 6eld. Photo graphics was
missiug at the84it calar levelwhexe the
massmarhetissowedeveiopedaKaxdable
image processlngsoftwsm to fillthisgap.
Nowwearemavinginto multimediawith
the Santa Fe Environment af which the
Saata Fe Media Manager is the 6rst applicatian. Our cnvixaamentgoesdirectly
to the card without layers ef software to
ga through. It emulates the caalrols on
regularVCRs and other products people
are accustomed to using so it doesn' t
farce pcoplc to learn all xlcw operations
We even chase the colaxs far the saRware en screen te be '&iendly.'"
WiiczaktaldNewsbytesthatnowisthe

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HEI; with its Santa Fe Intnfam and
Santa Fe Media Manager was the cmly
software company chosen to join
Compaq, Truevision, and Autadesk in a

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'

softwarecompaay. Of course we run 8;

16; and 24bit in the same techuelogy."

The Santa Fe Media Manager will be
available an October 5 far a retail price
of US$895 through major distxibutors,
selected OEMs and VARa
Contact: Michaela Brehm, Miller
Coxnmunications,
21$822-4669

Japan Yelecom
Offers International
Video Phone Service
TOKYO, JAPAN, Sep 27 (NB)-

(604) 322-903,'4,
(604) 731-0592

lnfospec

(604) 430-1223

VIDEOCOMInternalional,thevideo and
infoxmatiaa arm ofJapan'sinternatianal
telecamgiantKDD,star tedavideaphone
scxvice using aa interaational ISDN (integrated sexvices digital network) in October. The sexvice involved the iasialla-

tioa of KDD's calar motion picture

videophone mto booths in the U.s.,

Smgapore, anclJapan.

The sexvice is based in Tokyo, and

later will be extended to major metropolitan areas. The ovexseas booths are in
Los Angeles and Siagapaxe ta start, and

eventually will be installed m New York

and London.
A f i fteen-minute c al l e a the
videaphone &am Tokyo casts 5+00 yen
or U8$89 ta Les Angeles and 6,700 yea

ar USES to Singapore.
VIDEOCOM decided to oKer the service publidyfellowing a favorable test of
the e x p erimental i n t e r national
videophone service. In the six~oath
test, which started in September, 1988,
callers could make videophone calls for
&ee between Tokyo and New York
Contact VI D EOCOM I a t em aiional

Corp., 09405-1811

Telecom
Mitsubishi Offers Smimest,
Lightest CelMar Phoae
TOKYO, JAPAN, Oct 11 (NB)hfitsubishi Electxic has announced the
availabihty ofwhatitdaimsis the world's
smallest and lightest cellular mebile
phcme unit for die overseas market The
fixm says the phonewill be available next
week.
Thecellularphone,named Mihaxbishi
Haadheld Cellular Mabile Telephone,
measures 160 by 56 by N.5 milhmetexs
or about210 cc,and issuperlight at279
grama Itis smaller and one gram lighter
than the entreat lightest and smallest

Handy Phoae Minimo developed by

Matsustula Communication IaduslrM
The phone &am Mitsubishi has mauy
hmctions,iactudinga telephone number
memaxy capable af storing more than
100 numbers, and a 2&digit alphanumeric display. It also has Smctians such
as abbreviated pre6x dialing, battery
power level indicator, and electric 6eld
intensity display.
The world's smallest and lightest
portable telephone conforms to AMPS
(advanced mobile phone system) specificatians of U.SAmsed telecam giaut
ATILT. It will ga en sale this month in
Australia, Canada, Hang Kong, Korea,
New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the U.S.,where the AMPS systemisused. Mihaxbishiaimstosell200,000
units in a year. Contact: Mitsubishi
Electxic, 05-218-2552

America Online Enhances

APPle SerwieeS ReadieS
IBM Service
VIENNA, VIRGINIA, Oct 19 (NB)
America Online, Quaatum Computer
Services' online service for Apple II and
Mac owners, has enhanced ils xange of
scxvices, ancl coafirms plans to publicly
launch an IBM service later this year.
Among the sever6 new forums available for Apple II and Mac users are those
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and Mac, as well as MS-DOSkased comOn the MS-DOS access &ant, Naacy
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Partners
TORONTO, ONTARIO,Oct16 (NB)
Windstar, a Toronto maker of productivity tools for Informix's Unix database and fourthgeneration language
software, has signed a joint marketing
agreement with Informix.
Informix s p okeswoman C a t hy
Donohue said the agreement is one of
the first two such deals Informix has

signed. The other is with FourGen Soft-

NewsbyteL Though she denied that service has been a weakness for Sun, she
saidthe agreement would "expand and
extend our hopefully already good service."
Xerox hes more than 1,800 field service engineers across Canada, and pro-

videsthirdlysexvice under contract

with a number of hardwaxe vendorL

Contact: Carol Smith, Sun Microsystems
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Sep 26 {NB) Attempting to break out
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aggressively priced, US$2,695, 12 pageper-minute laser printer capable of Postscriptwompadble output, which it plans
to ship in the fourth quarter. Also unveiledwasnewsoftwaredesigned to allow
Sun' s SPARGbased computers to output
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Epson, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Seiko,
C anon, F u j itsu, K o d ak , X e r o x ,
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Talaris, and Versatec.
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unpriced but expected to cost around
US$700, is designed to depart from the
standard printer setup in which the
escripprinter itself harbors the pr
tion language, for emmple, Postscript,
andfonts. TheNewspxintsoftwareresides
in the Sun computer, or SPARCstation,
and it enables any output device hooked
to the Sun system, from dot matrix or
laser printers to thermal printers and
plotters, to produce Postacriptcompatible output, the company says. The
Postscript compatibility is obtained with
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Good on page 4647
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Canada.
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the actual computer video. Aninmtions,

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Applause II

Harvard
Graphics

Power Point
For Windows

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Product:Applause II business presentation graphics software.

Publisher:Ashton-Tate,20101 Hamilton

Avenue, Torrance, CA, 90509-9972

Avallablllty: Available at most retail
outlets.
Of Interest To: Executives who must
prepare their own presentations quickly.
System Requirements: IBM PC or
100% compatible, 512 KB RAM, MSDOS V. 2.1, Hercules, CGA, EGA, or
VGA display, Printer, plotter or film re-

corder
Price:$635
Key Features: Easy to use; Mouse
driven; 400 Pizzazz-clip art drawings;
Ashton-Tate Graphics Service.

Overview
Applause II is a graphics presentation
package. With Applause II,you can create
your own worksheets or import your raw
data &ommostspreadsheetsor databases

and create graphs or charts &om this

data. Onceyour infoxmatian ispresented
graphically, you can jazz up the presentation with Pizzazz chpart pictures and
drawing tools. Text can also be added to
thepresentation, with differentfont types
available. A slide show can be created
using a script editor and shown on other
computersor the images can be printed,
or sent ta Ashton-Tate'sown slide sexvice
through a built-in communication utility.

by Gcoxife Skhfc

Product: Harvard Graphics V. 2.3

Graphics and presentation package for
professional business presentations.
Publisher:Software Publishing Corp.
1901 Landings Drive, P.O. Box 7210
Mountain View, CA 94039-7210
Avallablllty: Available through most
retail outlets.

Of Interest To: Marketing professionals who wish to create multi-media

presentations. Corporate executives
who needto
presentideasand concepts
to large groups. Entrepreneurs who
wish to use their own computer for their
marketing and presentations.
System Requirements: IBM PC or
100% compatible, 512K RAM, CGA,
EGA, VGA or Hercules moncchrome
display board
Price:f719. A LAN versionis available
for a retailprice of $2,295.
Key Features:Hot key in slide shows;
Spell cheddng; Slide shows; Lotus data
import; Freehand drawing; Overnight
slide service.

Overview

Installation is a snap and takes less

than 20 minutes. Once installed, the
program is extremely easy to use. Our
experience with other presentation
packagesdid not keep us &om catching
on to Applause xluicMy. The whole system is menu driven and set up for a
mouse. In my opinion, even the most
inexperienced of users could achieve
quite nice resultswith Applause II.

Harvard Graphics is a full functioned

presentation graphics package containing most of the functions which one
would expect &om a professional presentations package. The only functions
we found missing were included in a
companion packagecalled Screen Show
Utilities which sells for a retail price of
$199. Haxvard Graphics will allow the
user to produce output on slides, transparencies, laser printers, colour laser
printers, plotters and send the file to an
overnight slide sexvice. The overnight
slide service, Autographix, offers a
$100 start-up credit to test them first.
One note the Toronto phone number
in the brochure is wrong, the actual
phone number is (416) 5874161. For us
Canadians, it is nice to see a map of
Canada included in the symbols.

Reports 8cDocumentation

Set Up and Ease of Use

We are tued of computer manuals

being bulky. And we are also tired of
software publishers thinhng thatyou are
oing to sit down and read the manual

The installation process is a simple

one that is completely governed by an
installation program. It takes anywhere
&om r minutes for a pragramanly installation on a4864ased machine (most
of that time is spent changing the 10

Set Up and Ease of Use

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Product: PowerPoint For Windows.

Desktop presentations program.
Publisher:Microsoft Corporation, One
Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 980526399
Avallablllty: Available at most retail
outlets.

System Requirements: IBM PC or

compatible with 286 or 386 processor
(386recommended) ' Windows 3.0 '
VGA,EGA,8514/Aorany video adaptor

suppoitedby Windows 3.0(except CGA)

' Mouse'1MB RAM Hard drive
Key Features:Imports data from Lotus
1-2-3,
Lotus Symphony, Excel,W orks.
Built-in word processor and spell
checker. 16 million colors. On-screen
slide show. Uses Bitstream fonts.
Of Interest To:People who do a lot of
presentations using slides or overhead
projeclors.
Price:4699.

Gverview
PowerPoint is a presentation package
specializing in creating slide shows and
overhead projector shows. With
PowerPoint, you can create your own
worksheetsor impoxtrawdata&om other
spreadsheets and create graphs and
charts &om this data. You can enhance
your presentations with 400 color
Genigraphics chpart pictures and easyto-use drawing toolL Text can be added
with a word processor and edited with
the aidofaspellchecker. You can create
handouts togo
resentations as welL Slide shows and overhead
projector shows are created and edited
with an editor, You can print your pre
sentations or send them ta Genigraphics
slide service using a built~ driver and
communications utility.

alongw
ithyourp

Set Up and Ease of Use

The installation is done in the stan-

dard Windows S.O fashion. The set up is

simple to pexform and one is given options as to how much of the package one
wants installed. Available disk space is
monitored as you select what options to
instalL This is particularly handy when

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Product:Show Partner F/X. Presentation package specializing in screen effects.

Publisher: Brightbill-Roberts & Company, Ltd., 120 E. Washington Street,
Suite 421, Syracuse, New York 13202
Availability: Available at most retail
outlets.

System Requirements: IBM PC,XT,

AT.,PS/2 or 100% compatible; 320K of

memory (256K available); One or more

disk drives; MS-DOS 2.0 or later; A

system with the following graphics

adapters or 100% compatible: CGA;
EGA; Hercules Monochrome; MCGA;
VGA (Object Editor does not support
Hercules Monochrome); IBM Personal
Computer Display, IBM Enhanced
Color Display, a display monitor from
the IBM PS/2 series, or 100% compatible; MouserequiredfortheObject Editor.

Of Interest To:People who can utilize

self-running or interactive demonstra-

tions and presentations. Show Partner

F/X presentations can be used for train)ng, tutor)als, sales demonstrations,
marketing projects and presentations of
all sorts.
Price.$469

Overview
Show Partner F/X is a presentation
software package that specializes in creating self~ n i ng shows. These shows
a re greatly enhanced with the ~ tch ing special effects provided by Show
PartnerF/X. Screens from other appli-

cation software packages can be captured, enhanced by Show Partner F/X,

and then axranged using a Script Editor
to create professiona14ookmg presentationL Captured screens are saved as
separate text or graphics files thatca be
enhanced bya Text Painter or Graphics
Editor to spice up screens or add titles
andexpianations. Aniamtion sequences
can be created using the script editor or
with the aid of an Object Editar. Presentations to be run on other computers are

put together using a Script Editor. A

Slide Shaw Editor is used to create slide
shows.

one is low on disk space (as most of us

seem to always be). Installation takes

anywhere &om about halfan hour to

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The C omputer eper

P
/Nov 'BO
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were using to review Cltarisma was a

16MHz 586 with 2MB of RAM and a

Charisma 2.0
hy Steps Mdheiss &" Getup Simk

20ms access drive. Micrografx states that

tures and toIpof the@ac drawing toolL

Text can also be added to the presentation with the 41 difFerentfont typesavailable. A slide show can be createdwith a
slid+show editor and shown on other
computers or the images can be printed,
or sent to a slide service through a builtin communicafion utility.

Product: Charisma, a graphics and

presentation package for professional
business presentations.
Publleher: Micrografx Inc., 1 303
Arapaho. Richardson, TX, 75081. Phone
(21 4)234-1 769.
Of Interest To:Marketing professionals who wish to create mulI-media
presentations. Corporate executives
who need
topresentideasandconcepts
to large groups. Entrepreneurs who

Set Up and Ease of Use

this could be used on a 286. If yeu

choose this option, I hope you like to
drink a lot of cofFee. It would be inter-

esting to compare anon-Windowaversion

of Charisma to see if the performance
improves without the sluggish overhead
of Windowa
Charisma is packed with opfions. Itis
so packed with options and fimctions
that if it did not have a graphical user
interface the package would be almost
impossible to use.

The set up and installation of Charisma is not a diffitxsit process, but it is

very time consuming. There is also ne

warning before you begin as te just hew
long it will take. Budget at least twe
hours just to copy all the files to your
disk If you are going to use all the
ClipArt and samples, then budget 5 - 4
hourL To conserve disk apace yeu have

wish to use their own computer for their

marketing and presentalons.

System Requirements: 80286 or

80386 based system, 1MB RAM, 20MB

free disk space, Mouse or digitizing

pad, OOS 3.1, Microsoft Windows 2.1
or 3.0

the option te install only the fonts and

ChpArt you want The installation is not

a standard windows installation. The
installation program is run &om DOS
and the fi
les are unarchived &om the

KeyFeature: 2200 Clip Art symbols;

On-line context sensIve help; Macros;
Bezier curve edlIng; 41 edilable fonts;
16 million colors.
Price: $595.

fiep 'ea

has a standard Windows interface. Surprisingly, it is slow in its

operation. This in itself makes the operation of the program more dilicult
and &ustrsstmg. One reason which could
account for the hLckof speed is the size of
the package due tothe abundance of
options and functions. To illustrate the
lack of speed, it took 5 seconds per letter
to type a hnewith a ~i n t font (Yes...
5 seconds a le~th is is not a typo.) We
must at this point note the computer we

Overview
Charisma is a complete graphics solution for the business user using windows.
With Charismayeu can create your own
worksheetsor importyourravr data&o m
most spreadsheets or databases and
create graphs or charts &om this data.
Once your information is presented
graphically, you can jazz up the presentation with 2200 difFerent cl~rt pi c-

Reports 8c Documentation
The documentation is gootL it is nice
to see that the documentation is not

overbearing, considering the package is

so large. The documentation mcluded a
handy quickweference chart,learning
guide andreference manual. There are
also many useful tips in the manual on
hew to create efFective presentations,

such aa the proper background design to

suit cerlain types ef screena
The number of options available to
you with this package allows yeu to create somepre + slick presentations.

Ermr H ttlmisg ScLimiLttions

Clsariama traps errors efFectively and
did not crash during any of our testa
There are few limitations to what Charisma can produce. However vre feel the
package's main limitation is in its speed
(or htck of it). Other than speed, the
program is c~
yno t lacking m other
areas 6 million colors, 4.2 million data
pomia, 41 type fontL

Conclusion
Chazisaus has all the functions one

expects &om a professional presentations package and more. The limits of

Charisma are so broad that fewuserswill
reach the barriers of the capabilities of

this package.
One word of caution. Most people
who are inexperienced with marketing
or presentations tend to try to pack as
many options as possible in one presentation. This same problem came about
when desktop publishing flrat arose. If
you don't have the shlls to create a good
prestmtation, this will not help. If you
aheady have good marketing skills thisis
a very powerful tooL
If you are in the business of mahng
presentations 8 hours a day, 5 days a
week andyou can afford to have thebest
and fastest hardware and peripherals

(we recommend that this package not

be considered for anything less than a
55MHz 586), Charisma is what you
should invest in.

Ratmle
Pezfozznassce - 2 - Sluggish at best
even on a 586. Should not be run on a
286based machine.
Usefulness - 4 - Has every fimction
you can think of.
Masnsa1-5.5.-Not everbearing for the
size of the package and is laid out nicely.
Avallatsmity-5.5-Not in all stores, but
major dealers will have it,
Average - 5.25

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Herverd Oraphice
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Dan Sricklin's
Deme II

disks) to 2.5 hours to do a complete

installation on a 4.77 MHz IBM PC. We
would not recommend a person with a

4.77 MHs machine attempt any form of

presehtation graphics regardless of the
pmgrtun, thus we would not consider
the time for the installation to be a
problem. Most people using this package would have a 286 or 986, which have
an installation time ofbetween Mand 60
minutea Before the installation proceeds, the system teilsyou howlongitwill
be. We found this very convenient~

you do not start an hour long process

with only a half hour of time available,

Harvard Graphics installed on our test

machine as is. All other presentation
packages required achange to either the
hardware orthe software con6guration
in order to run. The machine it was
tested on has an odd coneguration of
hardware but Harvard is universal
enough to handle it.
One functionwe appreciate on apphcations new, is the ability to set a data
directory; Harvard Graphics allows thia
The reason we appreciate this is that it
allows one to configure one's system in
such a way that one drive is used for
apphcation software and another drive is
used fordalu. This isneeded more and
more todaybecause applications tend to
take up a lot of disk space.
Harvard Graphicsiscompletelymenu
drivenand a good number of the functionscsn be masteredwithoutlookingat
the manual. Context sensitive help is
available. Thus if one gets stuck there
may be no need to pull out the manuaL

Reports 8e Documentation
There arenoreportswhichcomefmm

Harvard Graphics,
just the output for
your presentations. T his output is
nothing less than spectacular: videodriven slide shows, which can be displayed with a video projector, 55 mm
slides, overhead transparencies, laser-

printed presentationbooksorpamphlets,
and large graphs done with plotters. In
every case the output is impressive and
enhances presentation.

The documentation is verywell done.

Not only is the manual complete and
indexed well, but it is presented in a
mannerthatconumnncatesideascpnckly
and esssly.

Error Handliug 8e
Limitations
We were notable to make the product
crash in any test situations. There are a
$ew things to note which we discoverecL
In the very rare case where you are operating an EGA card and a monochrome

monitor, draw partner does not support

this configuration. Th e installation
missed settmg up the swap 6le path in
the Applications Menu.

T h i s m e ant

settingthisoptionmauuallybefore using
the opdons With these two limitations
notedwe founcl no other limits to
HaIvsrd Graphica

Conclusion
H~
Gr ap h ics is an excellent presenlations package. One thing to take

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demonstration of the application. This
would be the mostcommon use of Demo
II, yet it could also be used to create
screens and keyevents for an application
t to beproducecL Athirduse for Demo
would be to create screens which
demonslrateto ormf orm usersof anonsoftware pmduct. Iior the purposes of
this review, we focused on the softwarerelated application of this productdemonslrating an existLng product or
the prototypeof a new pmduct.

Set Up and Ease of Use

Demo H isinstaiiedsimply by copying
the distribution disks to your hard dislr.
Demo H isnot aprogram intended fora
novice user and, in fat, the primary
users of Demo H would be software developers. Perhaps this is why it is not the
mostuser4iendlyproductwe haveseen.
Once Demo H is installed, you go
through the taskofcreatingyour screens
and setting run%me functions for those
screenL If youare creating a demonstration of a p~ c i sting product, you
can save a little time in capturing the
screens from the application and importing them into Demo H. If you are
prototyping, you are able to create the
screens with an editor in Demo H, In
both situations, the most diKcult and
tim~onsuming task is setting up all the
appropriate run%me actions for each

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An effective demonstration takes several hours to plan before starting to use

Demo H. Each screen of the demo takes
up to 15 minutes to pmgram the runtime actions. An effective demonstration wiII contain upwards of 200 differentscreensor more. Thus50 to 60hours
of solid work is rettuired to complete an
effective demonstration.

Documentation

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PowerPoint
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using this product, thus the writing for-

approximately two hours if all options

mat is not a concern. Given the intended

user, a programmer or analyst, the documentation is adequate.

of the easiest of all the presentation

Ermr HIIMIIing 8eIknilafions

Demo H is a very solid product from
an error4andling point of view. It was
impossible for us to set up a situation
which would crash the product. The
only wealmess to the product from an
exror-handling point of view is that you
can create an error and the system will
trap the error. There were xarely error

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would have torely on your experience

with the pachhge to identify the exror.
Again, considering thesophisticated user

this package is intended for, this is not a

major limitation.

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available RAM left adter the application

is running. Captured screens are saved
in RAM one after the other and the
capture bufFer is not cleared until you
run Demo II again. Try to get more than
5 screensout of Ventura running on a
network. The next limilstion we ran up
are the transitionoptionsbetween
the screens of your presentation there
are only three. The hst of limitations
grows when comparing this to other
presentation and demonstration products. However, when you look at the
intended use as a prototyping system,
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as a prototyping product, and is not as
successful as a presennxtion or demonslration product. If used as aprototyping
tool, Demo II is very efFective. For use by
a systems analyst to present a prototype
system to a progxamnxer, Demo II is a
very effective product. Take Demo 11
into any other area where it cauld be
used, and you will find it somewhat limiting. Considering its limitations, if designing systems as a consultant, either
internally in an organisation or on contract, one tool we recommend is Demo

II.

Ratmll
Perfoxxnaxxee-L5 -Itbecomes cumbersome as the presentation gets larger.
Usehlaee - 2e5 - Limited to a small
vertical market (systems analysts and
software consultants).
Manual-9- Highly technical and not
easy to read, but it is complete.
Availability - 2 - Must be ordered
through specialty profp:mxning stores
or direct from Sage Software.
Avexsjge - 2.5

Harvard Graphics
Continued From Page 27
semingpackage,we fi
nd the reason for it

being the tasselling package is marketingrather than avastlysuperior pr oduc

This is not the case with Harvard Graphics. We found no significant function
which a competitive product featured
that was not availaMe in Harvard Graph-

are chosen.

Most people will find PowerPoint one

packages to use. Its slick Windows 5.0
design and logical screen layout allows
users to grasp the program quiddy. We
reviewed PowerPoint with a group of
other preseniation packages. It was the
last package we looked at and even atter
.being loaded with a number of biases
from the previouspackages, we found
PowerPoint quite ref'reshing. Not onlyis
it easy to use, it is, in this reviewer's
opinion, the nicest looking and best designed of the presentation packages we
reviewers Italso allows you to create new
presentations easily by cutxing and pasting from old ones.
Unlike morocomplete graphics presentation packages, PowerPoint sticks to

one area slides and overhead projector shows

anddoesthisquiteeffectively.
It is not packed with opfions that make
the program overbearingand sluggish.
We did our testing on a 12 MHz 286based machine and this did not hamper
performance in the least. There isvery
little waiting while charts on the screen
are beingrefold b y the program
(txyrunning Charismaon a 286). Unlike
other graphic presentation packages that
boast the "complete" solution to one' s
presentation needs, PowerPointisgeared
around producing slides, and the user
interface refiects this.

Reports 8c Documentation
Shde presentations produced with
PowerPoint are quite impressive, although not quite as spectacular as other
more sophisticated p~
s can p r oduce.
The documentation isvexygood. The
manual is hard cover and is attractive
and easyto read. A reference section
oudinesallmenuoptionsin the program
in alphabetical order. A quick reference
card for creating presentations is also
induded.

1hxer H'Indhng 8eIimhltlme

Errors are trapped efFectively and the
progxam did not crash in anyof our testa
PowerPoint is not your "total" presentation graphics solulion. It lacks a
few options that are present in other

One cannot import as many

package
file typesasother presentationpackages,
although you can import ASCII files,
data from soxne spreadsheets, and most
types ofgraphicL One caxmotcustomize
line thicknesses in the program. When
creatingcharfsor graphs,one canchoose
to autamatically display the percent or
label or value of a data point, but not a
combination of the three. Thus they
have to be added separately if you want
more than one. As well, PowerPoint
does not support CGA.
One significant limitation is the lack
of a stand&one slideshow utility. One
can view shows directly f'rom the program,but thisisnotstandMone,so shows
are not easily dispLayed on other computers. Thus it serves mostly for practisingg your presentations. There is also
only one iransition between slidea This
is aho a sifpaificant hxniiation if you want
to display ~ a t c hmg shows on other

machine
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solution, we would not recommend
PawerPoint. However, in all fairness to
Microsoft, it is net touted as a complete

solufien bythem,norisitfair to compare

itwith mare total selutien" packages. If
you need to produce presentations
quickly, easily, ancl professionally and
yau find the medium of slide shows effective, de net be without Microsoft
Power Point.

RldmNS
Performance-8.'7 - PowerPoint operates very quickly, presenting no unreasonable delayL
a 286based machine. Ne did not find this in
ether presentatien pac~
Usefulness-8-Nottoomanypackages
will produce as effective slide shows as
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few featureL
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Show Partner FX
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Set Up 8c Ease of Use

The installation is automatically run
by an install program. There are only a
few options for installation, and thus itis
quite a simple procesa
The program is somewhat cumbersome to use initially; as moving areund
the pmgxams and selecting menu eptionsseexuitebealitQeunconventional.
Ahro, each pmgram locks different and
operates slightly different fmm the next
ene, makingthe package harder to get
used to. Once used te Shaw Partner's
little quirks, we found the salware easy
to move around in and actually quite
fast. Entire scripts or parts of scripts are
easily. viewed ~ ht f r o m the Script
Editor while yeu are creating the script.
This malres editing a snap.
Te learn Show Partner F/X, one
should definitely use the tutcmal and
experiment with the sample scripts, as
this is the best way to grasp the program.
The manual should be used more as a
reference when one gets stuck. This is
definitely a package that can easily &usirate an inexperienced user. However
with a httle patience, a few hours learn-

ing, Show Partner F/X produces quite

to learn the package and use the manual

mere as areference. This is a package
that requires the user to cxeate and thus
themanualcsn benamarethan asimple
reference tool outlining and explaining
features.

mggor Handih)gpeQgmlahons

Show Partner handles ermrs quite

effectively. In the Script Miter, upon
exrers occumng, fields are nat updated
and the previouscontents are restored.
The script editor did crash a couple of
times while working with sample scripts,
though it never chd cxash when creating
aur awn. Thus we cannot conclude if i
tins%as the pfogxanL s fault er eur ewn
unfamuliariiy with the pregxanL
The Gxaphics Editor isnotassophisticated as other drawing pmgrams alxd it
was a little disappaintmg. The best bet is
ta create special screens in ether drawing programs and then capture them
with Shaw Partner F/X.
A system using CGA is the best bet ta

createpresentationsonbecausethefinal
product can be viewed by mast other
machineL One major hmitation is that
shows produced on EGA/VGA can not
be seen an a lesser machine, unless ene
uses text screenL Amajor improvement
would be to enable Show PartxLer F/X ta
pmchxce CGAkssed showson EGA/VGA
machinea

Conclusion

The versatility of Show Partner F/X's

Script Editor and the mac af creating
and editing scxipts is unmatched by any
other presentatian software package we
have seen. E~
tc h ing special effect
are easily used to bring in each new
screen in a show, greatly enhancing
presentations. Shaw Partner F/X's
strength is its Script Editors, whereas it
cannot createfancy graphs er pie chaxts
as easily as other presentation packages
can. Thus itleansmere towards creating
showsbyusmgandenhancingscxeensar
drawings from other software packages.
Based on this alone, Show Partner is a
must fer those interested in creating
tutorials, demanstrations and presenta-

Rainy:
Performance-8.R-Show PartnerF/X
operates very quickly, presenhng no unreasenaMe delays. Heveevex, it has a few
little quirks that hinder performance

shghcfy.
UseMness-8.5-Thispadcageprovides
excellent functionality. It fills a market
niche that has little competition.
Manual -8 - The manual is average.
Availability - 4 - Most retail outlets
carxy it in stock,
Average - 8.425.

Harvanf Graphics
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stunning presentations'

Ratmgs

Reporhs Se Docaunentation

PexferxuaxLee-8.5-Harvard Graphics
operates very quickly, presenting ne unreasonable delayL
Uaefulnee-8- This package provides
excement functionality but it loses one
point because the price is substantial
(particularly the LAN version).
Mamxal -4- The manual is excellent
Avalabillty - 4 - Most retail outlets
caxxy Harold Graphics in stock.
Average - 8.6

Completed presentatians can be run

using FXSHO% a special runtime
module. Yau are free to distribute
to BrightbillRoberts 8c Company.
The documentation is dear and complete but we found the manual's index
poor. Once again, one should experi-

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by Peter Milburn

Product: Persuasion 2.0

Publisher: Aldus, 411 First Avenue
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System Requirements: Any Macintosh with at least 2 MB of RAM. Hard

Drive and Color Mac recommended.

Price: US$495.

Aldus Persuasion is one ofseveral presentation packages available for the

Macintosh. Others indude Cricket Pres ents, M i c r o soft

P o w e r P oin t a n d

Symantec's More. Each package has

gone throughatleast two major upgrades
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Master Pages
Background masters act much like

master pages in a publishing program.

They give your presentation visual consistency &om slide to slide. With Persuasion however, you can assign multiple
masters.

You can nowcreate overlaycharts &om

any of the 10 chart formats in Persuasion. A drawing module is helpful for
accenling your slides with rudimentary
graphics. Otherwise you can import clip
art m various graphic formats.
For those who would rather switch
than fight, you can import PowerPoint
presentations through the Scrapbook.
Use the Export command to transfer

your Persuasionoutlinestoproductssuch
as Acta and More.

and gives the presenter more control.

However, the person using this software

Y ou can spruce up your on~ e e n

slide presentations by using numerous
transition effects (e.g., glitter, dissolve,
curtain, etc.) Automatic "builds" are
possible, where the image components
appear over several &ames.
For those who don't have the talent to
create effective visuals, Aldus includes a
dozen Autotemplates (six in black~dwhite, six in color). These templates
have been created byprofessional designers to help give your presentation
greaterimpact on your audience.
Persuasion comes with two manuala

must also have the abiTity to assemble

One is a new features guide for these

efFective visuals.'

already familiar with version 1.0 and the

other is a complete user guide. Aldus
also packages a handy desktop reference

Presentationpackages help us organize our ideas and create visuah through

several mediums which assist in formal
presentations. Before this software became available, presenters had to coordinate the efForts of several individuals
within an organization. For example, a
slide presentation would require the in-

put of the presenter, artist and photographer. Like desktop publishing, presentation software streamlines this process

Installation
As with all Aldus products, Persuasion
comes with an installer utility that lets

you customize which files you want to

include with the program. You have the
option of installing autotemplates, tutorial files and dip art. In all, this lakes
about 4 megabytes of disk space. One of
the nice features of the installer utility is
its ability if you choose to run a set of

diagnostics. It can check your system

configuration (including INITs, CDEVs
and RDEVs) and check for font damage
and duplicate font IDs. It then writes a
report to disk that can be opened as a
TeachText document The entire
software packagecomes on a setoffive 800K
disks.
Version 2.0 is a major upgrade that
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the most significant is greater flexibihty

in the outliner, a writing tool which assists the presenter in organizing ideas.
Y ou

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in the form of a flip chart. The software

has a context~nsitive onhne help system similar to PageMaker 4.0.
Persuasion supports many of the lowend film recorders which can connect to
the Macintosh. For those who don' t
have their own in-house slide recorders,
the documentation includes booklets
describing how to prepare your presentation for
Aldus
packages a Chooser~lectable driver that
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for output at any Autographix Centre.
There is also a manual that explains how
to tweak your presentation for output to
a Crosfield Dicomed system.
This software has only one major
drawback Using a Laserwriter NTX I
experienced problems with printing
handouts. Processing was unacceptably
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errors. This is one area where Aldus
definitely haa to improve this product
Otherwise, Persuasion is a solid offering
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with the introduction of HyperCard, a
popular software erector set" for the
Macintceh. Packaged with the machine,
the program createda great deal ofexcitement among Mac owneis because,
for the Srst time, ordinary users could
create programs without the necessityof
having to master a complex language or
operaiing system.
HyperCard works, something like a
card Sle. What you sm on the screen is a
card which might hold words, pictures,
sounds, animation, and/or controls.
These cards can be manipulated like
index cards in aSle box, Groups of
related cards are called stacks," and
Mac owners have used it for evnyttiing
kom address books to complex databases to interactive annual reports.
Among its limitations, HyperCard is
slow when handling animaticm, there' s
no color or stereo sound, only one card
at a time can be viewed, and the size of
the cards can' t be larger than the size of
the Mac Plus or SE screen (512 x 842

pixels). Youcan also, generallyspeaking,

perform only one HyperCaid function
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Within the past year, Amiga developeishave begun to challenge the Mac on
what Apple has come to regard as "its
own ground," with such hypermedia
"deckkased" products as Intuitive Tech-

nologies' Uliracard Plus, and the excremetyslickCando byInovatronics Corporation.

New, Commodore itself may have
taken that ground with icz AmigaVision
authomig system. Targeted mainly at
theprofessional, training,and traditional
education markets, the program allows
theintegration of CompactlXiskstitl and
video capacities, four~hannet/Skit internalsound, MIDIeidemalsound/light
8c other systems, genlocked video, inter
nalgraphicsand animation, the Amiga's
built' computerspeech functions,and
mouse, keyboard,joystickand/or touch
screen input into full interactive instructional, informational, and/or educational applications. The program also
has bmlt~ database construction capabilities compatible with dSaseotyle data.
Diskkased run-time modules can be
created automatically which pull all elements of the presentation into one pro-

gram.

Although it's essentially a programming language, the command lines, ob- .

scure words, and cryptic statementsof
traditional programming are gone, replaced by symbols and icons in what
C ommodore refers
to as an "obiectmrie nted" system. O n b o o t in g u p
AMIGAVISION, the user or developer is
confronted by a visual chart symbolizing
the logical Sow of the operation. Sy
manipulating these ~
is ,and associating with them a series of relatively
logical commands, you can assemble
pictures and brushes, digitized sounds
or binarymusic Sles, animation, speech,
video, text and data Sles, to build programs which can be controlled interactively by the end user through virtually
any input device.
With AREXX, an interprocess communicadons and control environment

developed by William S. Hawes (now

sold independently but induded with ~
the Amiga's Version 2.0 operating system),youcannotonlyrunother sofhvare
(including Cando) as if it were an
AmigaVision module, but you can control and communicate with it, and, with
theAmiga'smultitaskingcapsbiTities,you
can have ~
piec es of software runningwhich also interact with each other.

Icon-Based Interface
AmigaVision's interface is very easy to

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use. Ao.'er dicking on the icon, you are

The b u ilt~ editor allows you to

crecon&a%ted by a grid. To create a pro- a t e "hot spots for input, either invisible
gram, you build a symbo14ased flow- (perhapsoveragraphic),asan outlined
chart on that grid by dragging icons or b o x containing text, or using a "brush"
symbolsontothegridfromasetofmenus (a small graphic created in a paint prolocated at the bottom of the screen.

There are icon~ccessible menus of

other icons for branching or logic control, interrupts, data access and manipulation, waiting for specific input
c onditions, audio/visual access, and
module (and submodule) types. As in
various subroutines in detail, and then
combine them into modules.

system developed for any machine, it is

structions. Soth tutorials, although informative, are simply explorations of

previouslywonstructed userapplications.
There is no opportcmity for the user to
work step4yetep through the all~portaut process of program creation.
.JdF Evans,productmanager ofAmiga
for Commodore Canada, admits this
shortcoming and says negotiations are
nowundexwaywith an independent fimL
to produce amanual of detailed tutoxials
for applications of different types. Still,
the necessaxy information is there, and a
determined novicecan progress to "expert," although the learning curve is
steep.
After reading the first three sections
of the manual and working my way
through the tutorials,I was able to produce a simple application for ixLstmcting
young children on the capabilities of the
Amiga, as weil as on its use and care. It

not without its shortcoxxlingL

Foremcmple, although Candoisciearly

the lesser program in termsofrawpower,
you easily can create some applications
gxaL m and then layered over the back- in Caudo (for example, a "master cong r o und text), and you may allow the trol" user intexface cxr a ample game)
i n put device to change from one brush which might be diKcultin AmigaVLsion.
t o another part of its operation.
It could be said that simple program
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g P O~ O~ O~ g g
is, overall, much easier in Cando.
M ost o f

Although AxnigaVxsion may be the

most flexible and powexfcxi authoxing

t h e r e a so n f o r t h i s i s

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As part of i t s i n t roduction o f
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Applause 0
Continued From Page 25
Like most people we know, we onlyconsult the manual when the program
crashes. Applause hassetup theirmanual
as areference guide and there is only
one page in the manual that is not in a
referenceguide format (the introduction).
The output is, needless to say, very
impressive. Note that screens can be
saved in the GX2 format which is the
same formatused by Show Partner F/X,
a very slick slideehow and special~ t s
package. Combine these two padrages,
andyoucau createstunningeelf~nning
presentations.

&XerHIn
dlhsgelamlmiimtS
All errors were trapped correctly and
reported with a message and a beep
sound. One item of noteis thatwhenwe
used Applause H with DesrIView, the
mouse action tnNrnflcantly deterioraterL
We are not sure whether this is an undesirable feature of Des@View or Applause
H. We found less deterioration with
Harvard Graphics and DestlView,

Conclusion

functions of the package. Applause H is

not as sophisticated as Harvard Graphics
or Charisma, but for the executive, Applause H has all the functions and power
needed,
Applause H is a nice package and is
probably our second choice in presentation packages. The price is lower than
our fustchoice. Ifonedoesnotneedlots
of advanced functions, Applause His the
rightpackage because of price and ease
of use.

Here today, Here tomorrow

In a marketchtuactetfaed byeipessive
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on developingthe highest
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Ratings
Performance -8- The package is very
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r o n se to user action.
aefutnea - 8s5 - For the intended
user the package is very useful but a
certain percentage will fmditlimitingin
that they want more functionL
Manual -4- Probably one of the best
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Applause H is best suited for the busy

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and discussed some of those companies'
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At $5000 for a complete system, Summation is decidedly upscale in the accountingsoftwam arena, butbased on its

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Combining innovation, quality and dedication.

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Crash proof. While they can't claim
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Built~ t ext editor. View, edit, print
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Multiple printer support, spooling,

What some readers of the Oct. issue's

Editor, or live (by recording actual key-

accounting article have asked is: why did

strokes as they are entered).

the marketing directorof one company

periods may be stored (or any combination of the two).

e 3 levels of Passwords useful for restricting user access to sensitive areas of

the program (primarily the G/Land the
utilities).
Word processor-type input line editing like Delete-line, Beginningmf-Line,
Endwf-line, Next~ r d , PrevioutPword,
Undo Changes and Paste make updating
any information within Summation a
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Networking is accomplished by
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Searching can be accomplished
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Options indude a barcode reader,
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is available for $150 that does everytl ting
the full system does, but onlyfor 60 days.
The price is refundable against the purchase price of the full version. Then just
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Provincial differences as to whether
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business of taking orders and selling
something." Oops. Amazing how these
wordprocessorsletyoucutandpaste text
into the most embazrassing places. After
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him, that NewViews does stot have an
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NewViews is non-modular, and hence
does not have separate modules for
functions like Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Payroll or Order~try.
Although the program does not have an
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Silicon Graphics:
With The Emphasis On Graphics
by WiNam Brxrr

special effects in their daily news broad-

SGI Sets The 5-D Bendunark

The automobile has succeeded in

If you watch television, you have seen
decreasingtraveltimebetweenlocafions.
what $ihcon Graphics Inc. (SGI) cornGraphic models of the real world, supputers can do. The "pseudopod" special
effect in the movie, 7%cpbyxx,was de- p o r t ed by S-D computing, decrease the
time between concepts. Word processigned and animated on an SGI cornaors are familiar to most of us, but I like
puter. The animated Crest toothpaste
to think of these machines as idea pro"SparkleGel" commercials are another
cessors.
Ifyouhaveaneedforreal4ime,
exampie CB$ also uses the video pro
three dimensional computing, SGIis the
cessing capabilities o f $GI hardware for

standard in workstations.
Most of the major vendors have intro-

trying to imagine what a mathematical

duced graphics su&systems: DEC, HPApollo, Evans 8x Sutherland, and Sun.

They all recently released graphics co-

ues. The real advantage of computers is

the ability to turn these numbers into
meaningful pictures, quickly. But some-

processors for their workstations to com-

times, this is not enough.

pete in the emerging fields of data visualization and virtual reality. However,
SGI still remains the company to beat
Even IBM bought SGI hardware for its
new R/6000 series of workstations.
Rumor has it that Apple is considering a

As the material and personnel costs of

prototyping increase, more companies
are searching for ways to build simulations and models. It follows that a more
dynamic and accurate model will yield a
better analysis of the concept. Link that

simile purchase, too.

advantage with the abiTity to change the

model (whatif we did this...) without the

Cempeting'IbN0uI@Gampufing
To most of us, rows and columns of

numbers are pretty meaningless, This

gets even more complicated if you are

function looks like over a domain of val-

need foractuallybuildingsomething, and

you have a vexy powerful design tool at
your disposaL
Imagine being able to lake your customers on a walMxrough of a high~
before the lot is even purchasedl You
could even show them various hues of
Boor finishes in photorealisuc detail.
Maybe youare a marine engineer designinga newhull. You could placeyour CAD
surfaces into a simulator and see the fiow
of water over your hull design without
building a real scale modeL Between
coffee breaks, it's possible to test ~
iterations.

To stop belaboring the point,% corn='r

pu11ngsaves design time (between 20and
40%,according to an independentstudy),
decreasesmaterial costs, and allowsfor an

inexpensive way for more ideas to be

tried. As the saying goes,youhavetopainta clearer picture to g
idea. $GI
justhappens to provide the best hardware
for rendexing that final image.

et abetter

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ported or recompiled) between applications on different pLxtforms within the
SGIline, The POWERSeriesofmachines
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over the number of available processors.
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with increasing CPU performance and
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color, 8 MB RAM, 19" color monitor,
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drive at a cost of US$20,000. Double the
price, and you get: 24bit color, 24bit Zbuffer and S times the graphics performance (200Kvectors/sec,
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systenis axe

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The Cemputer Paper / Nev '90

While most of the software packages for
the SGI machines are outstanding (two

of the best are Canadian; Alias and

VAPS), there are only400of them. There
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The graphics boards range in power
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a degree of delegation (combined with

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The Graphics Niche

When the founders ef SGI set out to

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they didn't build just another hot box.
For several years, their computers have
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so perfect a fit that every home will find

The benefits
ofhaving a computer may

that itmust have atleast one? Will they be

well beworth the expenditure to persons

chosen over VCRs by the person that has

neitherand can only purchase one? We

such as these but they do not HAVE to

have a computer. Computexa will only
become acommoditywhen theybecome
an essential home item and we' re not

think notl

Doomed To Failuxe?
For years, most in the industry have
been convinced that there is a great
uptapped home computer market and,
as soon as powerful systems could be
made affordable to the mass market,
there would be jillions sold. Yet, as industrywatcher Stewart Alsop haepointed
out, every computer designed +ecijkully
for the home has failedl Think only of
the IBM-PCjr, the TI99, the Sinclair.
Certainly, there have been many computers well used in the home but these

Tandy seems to understand where we

have to go better than IBM or, so it
seems &om the recent introductions.
The user interface and associated programs provide for such routine household items as "leaving notes on the re&igerator" and developingshoppinglists
&om recipes. Tandyalsorealizm that the

to maintain an insurance inventory of

valuables. These functions are built~

forwhateverreason,used theminahome

features of the interface and associated

prograxxm. On top of that, there is a
common user interface through
Des&hte. The user only has to learn
one setofcommandsand theyare rather
intuitive.
IBM, on the other hand, bundles Microsoft Works with ita PS/1. The user has
to leaxn how to uee a program to do any.
of the mundane functions listed above.
Certainly one can produce a more sophisticatedbudgetorinventoxyon Works
than through a canned utility, but do
most of us need this power? We doubt it
particularly if we have to learn a program to do itl
The PS/1 does, however, have one
aignificantadvantage,in ourjudgement,
over ita Tandy counterpart It is heavily
communicationsbaeedwithconnections

.tronic spreadsheet, but they were used

exclusively by programmers and engineers or by computer enthusiastspersonsforwhom computers became a

passion in themselves. We did not find,
however, Altairs, Puts, IBM 5100sor even
Applesin corporate officesunti SofLware
Arts introduced VisiCalc. With that in-

troduction, computers (in this case, the

Apple H) became firstueefu devices and
thennecessifiesincorporate offixces. They
revolutionized the way firms opexated
and now, less than 12 years after the
advent of VisiCalc, we find very few firms
of any size that do not have some type of
computer.

Who Needs It?

We do not have a similar compelling
reason tobuy a home computer. Certainly, it's helpful for persons who use
computers in a business to have a similar

computer at home to work on. Likewise,

it simplifies a student's life to be able to
use a computer at home for papers,
online research, etc. But these people
could make otherarrangements work
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1000s and Macintoshes all generalpurpose computers whose owners have,

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personal computiersavailable before the
introduction of VisiCalc, the first elec-

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toshoppingfiiicilities, technical assistance

and phhin fun things. We think that this

feature is extremely important and
should have also been an integral part of
Tandy's design. Tandy can, of course,
point out that communicafions can easily be added to ira unit, but that's not the
point. It's not part of the soul of the
machine.
Where do we go &om here? Well, for
one thing, the hunt will go on for the
compelling application. We tend to believe that it will be found in the kitchen,
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for a machine to be successful in the

kitchen~andthatPENtechnologycanbe
of importance here. Tandy, through its
GRiD subsidiary with pen technology
alreadyinplacewiththeGRiDPad,seems
to be in an excellent position to move in
this area.
Another point that seems important
to us is the intent i on with other home
electronic devices. Why should people
have to have both computer and television screens or both computer and stereo speakers? Some may wish to, but

thosefimitcdbybudgetorspace,suchas
a college student, should not have to
duplicate c o s t a n d sp a ce . I f
modularizarion isavailaMe,itmustnot
be as di8icult to hook up as a good
stereo. Perhapsvideo andaudioconnections through wall jacks will become
common in homesl
Evcn t ualy the computer should become the home controller with a
screen, perhaps, right in the rtjrigerator and a pen dangling next to it This
home controller will be able to set the

microwave,sendmessagestootherplaces
in the house (wherememberscan access
them on the television screen through a
pressing of a remote control button),
retrieve information from a remote data
base or from a more rzadititmal PC elsewhere in the home, order items automatically from selected star~ etc. In
short, do in an improved manner all of
the tedium that always used up the
homemaker's time. Itmustbe done with
pizzazz, it must be done inexpensively
and it must be easy to usef It can all be
done but rm cwtaiop area't tirreu yell

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WP 5.0 waslarger and didn't add a
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One past upgrade of Norton UliTities
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leader in font technology.
defect rales are typically around one
During all af this mayhem, you can bet thousand defects per million at other
that SteveJobs was especially uneasy. His computer companies, at NeXT's robotcompany, NeXT, Inc., is inextricably en- controlled factory the defect rate is only
twined with Adobe in a uniquely intimate PusPe'atiliera, This amaunglylow defect
fashion. NeXT computers use Pastscript rate is possible due ta the fact that at
not only for their printers' page descri- NeXT, computers are completely manuption la nguag,but alaata dispiaycucy
rrhirtg factured and optically ettatained by tirean the screen.For ance, the famottsacrolessly precise zabotL
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ecL 9 0 ~ e (p p . 5 8-59), the new
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ket, it is more likely that buyers will per- new 68040 microprocessor, boosting
ceive this as a selling point in favor of the perfarmance by N0-500%, and are
NeXT. Even better, with the slaw accepced extremely attractively
at
tance af
OS/2 by the PC world, and con995 US far a camplete system with 8
fusion surroun ' A p p l eand Microsoft's MB af RAM, 105 MB hard drive, I.8 MB
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A colorversion af "the
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The usual complaints heard about the outplusRGBoutfar the color MegaPixel
original cubeehapedNeXTcoznputerwas display,builtm genlock,reaI4ime image
that it was too slaw, priced too high, had compressionand decompression hardno Sappy disk drive and no color display. ware, and an Intel i860 graphics accelNot surprisingly, NeXT Inc. has moved eratorcapable of processing images and
quickly to address these issues. InJanuary interactive 3-Dgraphicsinnearreal time,
of this year, development began on a or as SteveJobs demonstrated at the
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back ful~otion video direct &om disk

Also included is a near version of
NeXT'saward-winning NeXTStep operating system, plus a substantial suite of
other bundled sofbsare.

IdealPuhiliihhkg Hatfoml?
For publishers eyeing the options, the
Seyboldconference showed thatNeXT
is picking up steam. While Apple was
present at the show, their sparselyrat-

tended booth vms at the back, ancf apeared largely unfocused. By contrast,

eXT's large booth (playfully called

Gutenberg'sGarage) was &oat and center, right near the entrance, and was

em~pped with a plentif'ul supply of

the new NeXTslations.

Inside, Adobe showed Illustrator 8.0

r unning in color on the new color

N eXTsiation (ooh, ahh), and
displayed a beta version of their NeXT
Xpress to the eager throngs. Frame
showed a new version of their powerful
FrameMaker pubLthingsoftware,which
is already shipping. Several scanner and
other peripheral manufircturers.also released or announced NeXT versions of
their hardware.
The NeXT booth was packed with
people even when the rest of the booths
were comparatively empty; many folks

Qmek

who were prepared to be unimpressed

came away with a sense that NeXT is

TIFF or EPS files. NeXT mail can even

indude digitized voice annotations, us-

coming on slrong.

ing the computer'tr built~ microphone.

Stealing Apple's Thunder

Instant Software

One oftheslickest thingsaddedto the

new NeXT system software is a geaeric
fitx modem driver. This allows you to
plug in a regular Macintoshaype Srx
modem, such as the popular Model 24/
96 made by Abaton, and sead or receive
firxes &om any NeXT application. By
simpkyinvokmgaa OCRoption, the con-

Largely because of the NeXTStep developmentenvironment,NeXTsoftttrare

is unusually easy to write. Using the
NeXT's Application Builder, a fullyfunctional user interfirce can be developed in minutes, aever mind weeks or
montha In fact, in the words of one of
the developersof WordPerfect for the
NeXT, "Our development cycle is one

tents of the incoming fax am be converted back to editable text in an mstant,

whileorphicelements can be saved as

third of the time it normally takes."

Similarly, in their October 1990 issue,

Byts magazine says, "Lotus had their own
reasons for choosing that platform, not

the least of which is the killer develop-.

ment environment that comes standard ..

on the NeXT." Of the results of Lotos'
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I hack a chance to test Improv, and 1suggestthatanyoae whoregularkyuacs l-'

2-8 or Excel on those "other machimme '

take a few minutes and try Improv for
yourself (Improv can read and write'
standard Lotus I-2-Sfiles). Itsdikferences
&om the usual post-VisiCalc spreadsheet .
model are so striking, yet it is so simple!; .
and obviously a bslsr rsrry, that I predict '
that in five years, this will be theway
spreadsheets are. For now, though, it is;.;
clearly one of NeXT's unique ~
:,
tages.
As a special offer, NeXT has announced that a copy of Lotus' spreadsheet Improv vrill be sent &ee of charge '
to allnew system purchaserswho sendm
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Dec. 51st, 1990.

Largelydue to NeXI"scommitmentto
the higherWucatioa market, the origi-'rr
nal cubes have been available for sale at .
SS.U. and inthe U.B.C. bookstore for.over a year already', and U.B.C. has acquired a NeXT lab consisting of overr
,.:,t
fortycubeL Even U.B.C. musicprofKeith~'.,,
Hamill, author of Macintosh music pro,,"'';:
grams NoteWriter and NoteWriter II;;
hasboughthanselfaNeXT.Atuniverskty ';-.',:
prices, it's no wonder. An education~~,,"
only NeXT pricelist seen at the U.B.C.""-.;"
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bookstore s h ow s t h a t t h e 8 M B: : ;;
NeXTstation sells to faculty or students ';.'

for under $4500 Canadian. A roughly.,'

comparable Macintosh IHx system(with.'
"only" a 68030) wouldcostnearly$12,000.; .'

Local
Ad
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With the announcement of the new

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mentwithArkvantage Computers tomar-..
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ket NeXl'solutions to businesses, andin.""'-'-

Vancouver NeXT has iis own oIBce. oa..,'.".''

Gxanvtlle Island where the rest of us can-,".'-,
purchase a unit. (
of the new ';.'

Quanitties

models areexpected around the end of':;

November.) Asmentioned above, higher-,;"

education studentsare entitled to spedal';.:.;
discounts,asare thosewhobecomeNeXX.'::-, commercial software developers. Foi"-'
people lucky enough to have a NeXF-;,=':,
already, the NeXT users' club meets at,"
the company's of6ce on th e l ast'.
W ednesday of
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Hsi
The Macintosh IIsi is Apple's replacement for the alsocfiscontinued Mac

IIcx (released in June of. 1989, this

discontinuation must set some kind of
newrecord for rapid obsolescence.Justa
few months ago, the IIcx was Apple's
most popular modell).
The IIsi, like the LC, features an inte-

grated microphone for audio digitization, allowing the recording and playback ofvole~, alert beeps and other
audio input in various programs. The
IIsi features a 20 MHz 68080 CPU (five

times fasts than a Mac Plus), onward

S-bitvideo,
and aPDS, which can double

as either a NuBus slot, or an SK/80 PDS

using optional adapters. (Apple warns
that due to space, power supplyand CPU
performance considerations,notallcards

may be compatible.) The adapters also

provide the IIsi with a 68882 math coprocessor, which is lackmg on the standard model The computer, with built-in
8-bit RGB video output, is priced similarly to the recent 16 MHz IIcx without a
video card, which demonstrates its rela-

tively good value. Still, at $5277 for the

2MB RAM/40MB hard disk model, calling this unit a lowest Mac is clearly
stretching thing+ A 5MB/80MB hard
diskwquipped model is also available for
$6897. Unlike the Classic and the LC,

IIsi
aresoldseparately.

keyboards for the

Lower Cost, Lower Res

Along with the new Macs, Apple's

duoofnewlowerwostmonitorssupplants
their earlier
butsteeplypriced ofFexings. The 12" RGB Display,
an $889 Mitsubishi-manufactured moni-

highlyw
egarded

but is said to not work with older Apple

video cards. Also announced but not yet
available is a new 12" monochrome dis-

play priced at $419.

Do You%ant ColorP
Overall, the question of which machine to buy may not be as simple as

tor has a .28 mm dot pitch and a resolu-

" How much m oney do you want t o

tion of 512x884. On the market since

1987, the sSl~ l a b le Trinitronkveed .
AppleColor RGB model has a resolution
of 640x480, a.25mm dot pitch and a
street price of $120041800. The new
monitor w'Il work on any Mac using
Apple's4+8,8+24or 8+24GCvideo cards,
or the built' circuitry of the Mac IIci,

spend?" although the price is, of course,

a contributing factor. With th e M a c

Classic selling for around $1800, I don' t

see a significant difFerence between the
target audience for it, and those that

recently would have paid a similar price

for a Mac Plus (which,now discontinued,
can be found for significantly less). Of
the two machines, the Clasiic ofFexs a

25% speed advantageover the Plus, as

well as increased disk capacity and fiexibility. Chalk one up for progresL
The bigger question is really "Do you
want color?" because unlike a PC,Amiga
or Atari you just can't add a color monitor to a Mac Plus, SK or Classic. It is a
decision thatmustbe made at the time of

purchase. And unfortunately, there is a

sizable subset of Mac programs (mostly
graphicsrelated) that do not work without Color Qaickdraw, which, as you may
guess from the name, is not available on
the monochrome-only 68000-based
Macs. Hovvever, acolor-oxpabkMac, such
as the LC or Ilsi, even if it only had a
grayscale monitor, would still be able to
run these programs, albeit in shades of
gray rather than glorious living color. It
. is a way of keeping your options open.

RSS1C

The richest market segment that I see

opening up for Apple is the buyer who

wantsalovpendcolor~pable Mac. These
folks previously may have gone out and
priced perhapseven purchased aPC,
Amiga or Atari ST computer to sate their
desire f'o r a colorcich graphical environment Now, vxlth the Mac LC (or a
886SX running Wxndows 8.0, but that' s
another story), these buyers have an
opportunity to own what they may not
have been able to previously afFord.
lf anything, I expect Commodore and
Acari mustbe feeling the crunch of everlower PC and Mac pricea The "big guys"
are homing in on what has long been

he wait is over. Finally, Apple has

introduced a Macintosh the entry level
usercan afford.Imagine,aMacatan
IBM Compatible PCPrice!
The word is now out! The consumer demnd is
exceeding the supply of Classics. If you wish to
reserve a unit, give Byte acall.
As the units becomeavailable, you will be given
the first opportunity to buy at our best price.
Decide once you see it but assure yourself a
place in line.

Come in
andseeademoof
the Macintosh Classic and
you could be on your way to
another dassic,The Grey
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their terxitoxy.

However, I'm not forecasting doom

yet. The Amiga and SI' computers have
been thrivmg foryearswith their share of
loyal enthusiasts, particularly at the low
end of the market, where their feature
sets comparevexyfavorably with PCs or
ATs. And those companies are pretty
tough, because the low end is a tough
place to be. IBM realized that in the early
SO's, when the Commodore 64 stomped
all over their PCjr.
Apple may not realize it yet, but what
sells Amiga 500's or Acari STK's is often

Novem
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meg of RAM for seven or eight hundred

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three new computers.
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were to have shipped with System Software 6.0.6. Developers had been seeded
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dated in Apple's auditorium. Of those

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with the old version.

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version 6.0.6 to discard it and use 6.0.'7

instead. Like all system software upgrades,

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(NB) With the slick production of the
best American game show, complete with
wild audience applause, flashy multimedia onscreen presentations, undulating
spotlights and prominent Bay Area media personalities, Apple Computer has
launched three new computers, including two of its lowest cost models.
The October 15 show, based in an
auditorium and on the assembly line of
the company's Fremont, California factory, was viewed simultaneously by an
Apple-estimated audience of 100,000 and
included satellite broadcasts from five
other sites, even East Germany.
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Fastback+ (ths best) ...........................139
FastPac MaiL.................................,...,.,79
Rle Shuttle(laptop to PC)...................,... 109
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Clarion Pmfessional .. .,.......................499
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Norton Commander
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Optune(drive ehsehw)
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PC File .........,...................................129
PC Globe
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PC Globe
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PC KwikSuperDishAccelsmlor ...............89
PC Nations(for PCGlebe)...................,....28
PC Paintbrush 4/PLUS ...................99/175
PCToolsDeluxev6 ............................99
Per Form v21 ...,........................,.....219
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PerumnelPolicy(powerup).....................62
Pioturs Parted ....................................229
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PopD
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PowerPlaint .....................................449
Present It (powerupi ................,......,..... 62

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Prin Right....,...........................,............69
Print Vision ......................................,.65
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Procomm
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ProfessionalFge ..............,................,.185
Professional Plan...,....., .......................... 19
Professional Writsv2.2 new ........,. ......199
Project v4.0 Microsoft ...........................365
Prelect Windows ...,..........................589
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Qualro ProStation ..............................269
Quearo .........,.........,.........,.....,.....119
QuaamPRO ,.....,......,...,...,......,..379

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Quick CAsssmdsr ..............................135
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SmartMoney .......,......,.....,..........,...S5
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259/595
Supercstc 5.0(super value,..............., ....349
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Timeline 4.0 withGraphics..........,...,....549
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TradingPlaces(tsr Dbase) .............,.......69
TurboCvv .........,.............,......,...125
Turbo C vvProfessional .....,...............,..219
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VCR Companion
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Vemurav3.0Windows..................,........689
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Windows Devel
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Windows3.0,........,.............................118
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Word 5 0
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Word ForWindows ... n...........,...........,.299
WordPerfect 50 French,.......,...............329
WordPerlect 5.1..........,...........,.............279
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eer-to-peer networks are going to be the driving

force this decade as the small business connectivity tool. By offering users a cost effective, yet
p owerful a l t ernative t o
server-based LANs such as
B Y TOD D
Novell Netware, Microsoft
D RAH O F F
LAN Manager, and Banyan
Vines, peer-to-peer networks
are here to stay.

B Y DEFINI T I O N

A peer-to-peer network
is simply a group of PC's operating under MS or PC DOS,
linked together via interface
cards and cabling (see figure
1). They allow users to share
filesand programs, expensive hardware resources such
as laser printers or CD-ROMs,
and communicate via electronic mail.

Although peer-to-peer
DOS-based networks offer
good value th
most definitely not about to dethrone
mighty server-based LANs.
Designed to meet the connectivitp' needs of larger
workgroups, LAN operating
environments such as Novell's Netware still offer a
highergrade of performance
and expandability.
From a price/performance standpoint, however,
peer-to-peer LAN's offer ex-

ey are

ANO Of6ce Automation

ceptional value for sm all workgroup environments

running word processing, spreadsheet, and small database applications. T he ability for users to transfer
files, backup all network
drives from one station, utilize electronic mail, or share
expensive hardware could
end up paying for itself very
quickly.

antasy
Lan

"LANtastic's peer-to-peer network

is notonly easy to use,and packed
with features, it also won 't gobble
up your precious RAM"

A BEST BUY
In a recent poll by a major American computer publication, LANtastic from Artisoft, a Tucson, AZ based
company, wasselected as the
second most sought after
network operating system on
the market today (Novell's
N etware ELS Level I I

was

number one). PC Magazine,

Byte, and PC World (to name
just three) have also garnished it with awards as the
best low-cost choice for small

DOS-based LANs. No wonder we selected it as our peer-

to-peer network operating

system of choice.
One of the easiest to use,

LANtastic is also one of the

most feature

ri c h.

M ost

importantly it doesn't gobble

up a lot of your base memory
when the network drivers are
loaded in. The main station

uses lessthan 40K of RAM,

while just under 12K is required for

each workstation. Utilizing the optional ROM daughter board can reduce the amount of base memory
used on the workstations to OK.
Artisoft offers two v ersion of
LANtastic. The most cost effective
option uses a proprietary 2Mbps card
designed for low traffic, work environments.
The second, is an Ethernet version which fully complies with the
IEEE 802.3 and NETbios standards
for Ethernet connectivity. One obvious advantage is that users looking at
possibly expanding into a full serverbased network in the future, won' t
have to throw away their investment.
As well, it offers maximum throughput on the network of up to 10Mbps
- 5 times that of the proprietary version.

DISKLESS

W ORKST A T I O N S
For usersthat do not require a
floppy or hard drive at their worksta-

tion, LANtastic also directlysupports

diskless. workstations. Essentially, a
diskless workstation is a PC with a
monitor and keyboard, but without
any storage devices. When the system is turned on, the user is automatically logged onto the server via a
module which plugs into their network interface card.

ELECTRONIC MAIL

One of the most under utilized

featuresofLANtastic, from our experience anyway, is electronic mail.
In a nutshell, electronic mail (email for short) allows messages to be
sentback and forth between users on
the LAN. E - mail can be used for
phone messages,
quick conversations
while on the phone, internal memos,
or however you need to communicate without getting your message
lost in the paper shuffle.
When you send a message to a
user, the message will pop up onto
the users screen. If the user does not
respond within a defined length of

Artisoff's LANtastic
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Laser
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ANOVATION

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time the message is saved for future

reference. The message will state
who it is going to, what the message
is about, and who sent it.
E-mail, when used properly can
be an effective tool for streamlining
your offices communications system.
One of the most impressive features of LANtastic's e-mail system is
voice mail. Acting as an electronic
answering machine, userscan improve the effectiveness of their mail.
Such features as sending recorded
m essages,
and chatting back and forth
over a phone hand set plugged into
the optional voice card, as well as the
ability to erase, rewind, forward,
pause, or even broadcast a message
to a multiple list of u sers, make
LANtastic's e-mail facility a useful
business tool.

L ANTASTIC IN A C T I O N

The first thing that will astonish

you when you open the package is its
lack of documentation. This is not a
sign of how lazy Artisoft is, rather it
is a reflection of the systems simplicity.
Initial installation is quick and
straight forward, via a completely
automated routine with p lenty of
support available through an on-line
help function. Of course the faint at
heart should let a professional do
this, as DOS based systems tend to
have mish mash CONFIG and AUTOEXEC files which tend to complicate matters.
Once theserver and workstations
are setup, the systems menu driven
a dministration facility all ows f o r
quick setup of system users and res ources. Each user is setup wi t h
predefined permissions which restricts access to sensitive data or hardware resources.
After the applications software is
setup, users can then share common
files and hardware resources spread
across the system.

G ENTLE REM I N D E R

station requires a network card,

Don't go running out and
cabling,and a Tconnector tosplit
buying any network without first
the line.
investigating your existing apThe 2Mbps version is an 8-bit
ISA card which supports XT, 286,
plications to see if they are network compatible.For example,
386, and 486 compatible systems.
if you decided to link together
Artisoft's16-bit Ethernet version,
the accounting department runalsosupports these standards by
ning ACCPAC, you would have
sensing whetherthe system bus
to purchase a Network manager
expansion slot is 8 or 16-bit.
For users with IBM PS/2
pack for every 4 users that will
LANtastic's
resource shurin means no.lineu s.
MicroChannel systems, Artisoft
be sharingthe system.
Although WordPerfect5.1 is
supports Western Digital Ethalready network aware,you stillhave to purchase workernet Plus/2 adapters via an optional software driver kit.
station modules to link in the various stations. Other apSimply plug in the card, load the driver onto the PS/2, and
you' re
in business. This must be used in corespondence
plications, Lotus 1-2-3 and dBase to name just two, require
with the Ethernet version of LANtastic.
you tobuy a fileserver version plus the necessary workstation packs.
Other options available include a ROM daughter card
Of course, if your intent is simply to transfer files from
to helpreduce the amount of base memory used by the netstation to station, or utilize electronic mail, then buying
work drivers,a boot ROM daughter card for diskless
network versions is usually irrelevant.
workstations, voice adapters for voice mail, and "The Network Eye" LAN management software for the more adI N GENERA L
vanced system administrator.
As we explained earlier, there are two version of
Overall, LANtastic is a smooth running, cost effective,
LANtastic-2Mbps and Ethernet. Each can be purchased
feature rich system designed for the small workgroup.
as a starter kit which includes the LANtastic software
With the minimal investment required, your productivity
which supportsup to120 users,two network cards,one 25'
Cna
gains will soon pay for themselves.
cable, and two terminating resistors. Each additional

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AST Research is now offering end-users
in the United States and Canada a new tollfree telephone number with extended service
hours. This makes AST the first major nondirect manufacturer offering this level of support. The new technical support telephone
number is 1-800-727-1278. Other current support programs for end-users include a technical publications subscription service and a 24
hour electronic bulletin board which offers
technical bulletins, software utilities, switch
and jumper sett
ings, press releases and product specifications.

W P UN IX AU T H O R I Z E D
We are proud to announce that the
WordPerfect Corporation of Utah, has officially authorized ANO Office Automation to

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resell their products in the Unix environment.

WordPerfect, the number one selling word
processingpackage, brings to Unix userswhat
DOS users have enjoyed for years!

S UPER BUN D L E
Brace Yourself! Thanks to an exciting
new promotion, buying the award-winning
PC Tools from Central Point Software's about
to get even better. Between now and December 31, 1990, customers who buy PC Tools can
receive free, a full featured copy of 386MAX
5.0. The newest release of Qualitas' acclaimed
memory manager for80386 and 80486 based
personal computers... a $130 value!

JUMBO GOES XENIX

backup units operating under SCO Xenix 386.

The drivers allow for data compression up to
2 times what the normal tape is capable of
storing. For example, the Colorado Jumbo
tape drive with a DC-2000XTD or DC-2120
tape will store up to 120MB of data on a single
cartridge. As well, you can link multiple volumes, andeven archive DOS and Xenix files
on the same tape!

W ELCOM E A B O A R D
ANO Office Automation is pleased to
announce the addition of Mr. Imad Zahrawi
to ANO's sales team in Richmond, B.C. !mad
is an experienced systems analyst, specializing in networking personal computers under
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both Novell and Banyan Vines.

Colorado Memory Systems is now offering a driver for their Jumbo and QFA tape
NOVI-:MBF I< 19<i) ANOVATION

TECH TALK
Q. What is meant by the term "low
level format" for hard disk drives?
A. Essentially, low level formatting
is a process whereby a raw hard disk
is prepared for use before the operating system is loaded on. This is done
by way of a t h ir d p a rty software
package such as On Track's Disk
Manager, or through the hard disk
controller itself.

During this process the hard drive

is primed and a bad track table, which
is simply a list of the undesirable
spots, is created and embedded in the

initalization track. When DOS, OS/

2, or Novell is loaded onto the drive,
the low level format makes sure that
you don't write data to the bad portions (note that Xenix and Unix hard
drives, although they must be low
level primed have their own table
which you setup during installation).
Let us compare this to baking a
pie. Before you put your dough (the
operating system) into the pan (the
hard disk), you usually grease it with
butter or lard (the low level format).
If the pan is not greased, the crust will
char and stick, thus creating a rather

Business today has come to rely on its

PC vendors to offer top notch service at a
reasonableprice. To many thismay seem
to be a contradiction of terms, but to us at
ANO it is a reality.

In response to this demand, ANO

offers a comprehensive support package
geared to meet every level of business
user. Starting with our Connect Support
Program, every user can take advantage
of complimentary telephone support. This
program allows users to call us up with
queries on their spreadsheets, database,
desktop publishing, or even communications packages without worrying about
receiving a bill for support.
For the corporate user looking at stabilizing expenses, and reducing billing
headaches, while, receiving top notch onsite service and support, we offer our
Security Support Program. Since billing is
done once a year, there are no worries
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consider either bringing your system
in for a PC Tune Up, where we redo
your hard drives low level format
(DOS systems only), or consider
purchasing a software package such
as Gazelle's Optune 2.0 or Gibson Research'sSpin Rite II.These packages
will reconstruct your hard drives low
level format without damaging any
data.
Should you have any questions
for Tech Talk, please feel free to send
them to:
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c/o ANO Office Automation

110-11100 Voyageur Way
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about reconciling your support bills or

going over budget. As well, security subscribers receive priority service over nonsubscribers. Since, security is on-site service, there are no delays in shipping your
system for depot service, The work is
done in your office by a trained service
technician.
One added variation ANO provides
its users with Security Support, compared
to other on-site service organizations, is
best put into words by Mr. Derek Godfrey
of Molson Breweries, who states that "the
people at ANO take the time to analyze a
problem over the phone before rushing
out to help. This means that when they
actually come to our office they are prepared to resolve the problem. Our down
time is reduced, thus our productivity is
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The Security Support Program also extends to local and wide area networks. Our fully qualified support staff offer not only support for existing and
new equipment, but we also offer installation and training for NovellBanyan
Vines, and LANtastic. So, whether your starting our with one PC, or twenty
PC's, we will be there every step of the way.
"Service and support have been the pillars by which ANO stands on.",
states Mr. Ken Wong, Service Manager at ANO's head office in Richmond, B.C.,
"without service we cannot expect customer satisfaction, and without customer
satisfaction we would become a memory like many of the discount operations
we' ve seen in the past."
Connect and Security, two support programs to fit both your budget and
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The most recent "hot" product to
hit the streets this year has been personal workstations powered by Intel's
new 80386sx-20 microprocessor.
In keeping with a commitment to
offering the latest in PC technology,
AST Research is proud to announce a
new member of its Premium familythe AST Premium II 386sx/20.
Built around AST's patent pending CUPID-32 architecture, this new
power house offers a built-in migration path to allow performance upgrades as your needs grow.

CUPID ARCHITECTURE
In a nutshell, CUPID-32 (Comp letely U n i v ersal Processor I / O
Design) isolates those components
most likely to change with technology (microprocessor and math coprocessor) on a replaceable processor casd. Buying into this technology
leaves the option open to a simple
upgrade to the next level of processing be it386/25 or 33, 486/25 or 33,
or even the 586 (when available).
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AN OVA T I ON N O V EMBER 1990

Todd Drahoff, manager of ANO's

Corporate Systems Group, exclaims
that "One of the main reasons we
chose AST for our clients is the commitment AST has shown to the future. They are realists. They know
that since technology changes, and
users needs change, so should their
computers be able to adapt to the
times."

M AXI M U M
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Designed to offer full expandability, AST built a Super VGA adapter,
mouse port, floppy controller, hard
drive host adapter, and the I/O ports
right into the
oard. Freeing
up expansio'n slots for LAN boards,
modems, mainframe emulation, and
specialty cards is just another way
AST is looking out for your future.

system
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YOUR BUCK
There's a lot of power packed
into the AST Premium II 386sx20.

Besides a dedicated CPU b o ard

loaded with the 20mhz,80386sx processor, two full megabytes of ram,
sockets for up to 16MB of memory
and support for80386sx math coprocessor,you'll also find AST's cache
memory architecturefor increased
performance.
"Since the inception of the Intel
SX processor," Drahoff explains, "we
have seen a massive migration in the
business community away from 286
based systems. A c cording to our
clients, they see the SX as a more
stable technology t hat p e r fectly
compliments applications such as
Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3.1 and Microsoft's Windows 3.0. In our opinion
this new offering from AST will become the benchmark for workhorse
personal computers!"

H APPY A N N I V E R S A R Y !
Apart from this new release, Fall
1990 also marks the 10th anniversary
for AST Research. Way back in 1980
AST was a pioneer in PC expansion
technology. Over the nextdecade
they have maintained their commitment to expandability.
Such productsas theirCUPID-32
architecture, h i g h p e r f o r m a nce
memory expansion boards, PC-toMainframe links, network interfaces,
and the development of what we now
know as theLIM EMS 4.0 expanded
memoryprotocol,provethattheyare
truly the leader in extending the life
span of personal computers.
Congratulations AST for a job
well done, and our best wishes in
your next 10 years!
NOTE: A lorig 'with this intro--.
'duction AST has also announced,.
substantial price reductions on~"
its Premium 386sx/16. >'

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7 6MHz 3869X only $1,495

~ STAN D A R D

High performance is the name of

the game here. This line packs premium power into a well designed
desktop case. Five drive bays mean
optimum expandability now or in

Ideal as a Unix console, or Novell

file server. ANO's Business Tower
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Connectivity in an attractive 6 drive

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$100.00

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CANON BJ-10e Only $575.00

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CANON LBP-4 Only $1,450.00

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NOVEMBER 1990 ANOVATION

Attention all Mac desktop and portable users! Announcing

the affordable alternative to high priced Apple printers. With
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JetLink Express is as simple to install as it is to use. Package
options are available for both types of printers, which include the
necessary cables and software.
Compatible with the Macintosh Plus or higher, operating
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quality output at a more than attractive price.
Mac portable users will definitely appreciate the portability
of the Cannon BJ-10e which offers exceptional resolution in a

light weight package.

More sophisticated CAD users, or those wishing for peace
and quiet even while they print, the Canon BJ-130e promotes

superb text and graphics at less than 45dB - in other words it' s
quiet.
Not to be left out, Canon's laser printers will leave you
breathless. Whether your needs are small and compact (the LBP4), or big and complex (the dual bin/duplex LBP-S111 T), Canon
has a printer for you.
Designed with strict adherence to Apples interface guidelines, JetLink Express will work wonders with whatever your
application. Including but not limited to PageMaker, Adobe
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even Adobe Type Manager.

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October srd,1989

Dexton is theparent companyof the ArgonneDevelop-

ment Corporation.Dexton'sspectrumof products andservices is diversified. It ranges

from simple worl

precesslnganl latabase systemstoleveloplng

lual link terminal anl telescopeInterfacesfor
the Universltff of British Columbia.It also extends
into supplying the I.E.E.E.student brancheswith computing equipment tofacilitate parallel data processing, installation of the first Canadianremoteinterface tothe United
Airlines Apollo terminal, anddeveloping customizedsoffware for ICBC
agents in their

pilot program.
Dexton's intensecommitment to projects suchasthe
Shad Valley program,theCanadian Centrefor Creative
Technology, theArts, SciencesandTechnology Centre,
and the Variety Clubtelethon hasgarneredsignificant

profile for thecompanyboth inthecorporateandacademic environment. It is just asmall portion of our lell-

catlon anl commitment tosociety that pavesthe

way tobecominggoodcorporate citizens.
If you require anymore information regarding thecom-

pany ortheline of productsandservices, please feel

free to contact usat 433-9000 ortN7-0077. We
will be morethan happyto help.

"My experiencewith DEXTONbegan

over twoyearsagowhenI boughttwo
separat
emachines.Onemachinewas
applied tostandardoffice work,
book-keeping,text-processing and
terminal emulation. It hasworked
flawlessly fromdayone.Thesecond
machine
wascustom adapted(by
DEXTON,
ataminimal charge)to the
application ofcontrolling UBC'slargest
telescopeatop theGeophysics and
Astronomybuilding. Themachineblew
a powersupplydueto an electrical
short some14months after purchase.
Even thoughthis waspast thenormal
warranteeDEXTONcameout and
replacedthepower supply at only
labour cost.Everything hasbeen
fine since.
I would behappyto allowa
demonstration ofourDEXTON
machines toanydnewho is interested. I
recommend
thefirm without
qualifications asfarasmyexperience is

concerned."
David Vogt,Curator
University otBritish Columbia
December1,1987

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