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Welcome to the wondrous world of CD-ROM.

By Jsm Ctcrncrsts

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What's Hot in CD-ROMs.........42

area

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solidify this market Finally, both the chicken and the egg
have arrived on the market at the same time, and the
prices are right.
CD-ROMs have been a favorite of mine since I Sxst saw
them and realixed their potential to cheaply distribute
large quantities of information. What we are witnessing
now is a deluge of information emerging in this formatencyclopedias, novels with hypertext connections,
collections of huge graphics or sound files, large
databases and multimedia games.
One of the best products I have seen to date is a
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to ever use, or in some cases even look at. It is kind of
like having your favorite BBS download all the latest stuff
once a month, without the download charges. Much of it
is useless, but occasionally, gems emerge and it quickly
pays back your investment. Online services will always
have a place because of their immediacy, but CD-ROMs
seem well on the way to becoming the delivery system of
choice for largekormat information. If you haven't yet
seen a CD-ROM in action, check out your favorite
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Iiailbox

When GeoWorks installs itself, it

analyzes the host computer and sets itself
up for the DOS environment it 6nds. If
you installed GeoWorks for MS-DOS, you
have to partially re-install it. Since you
don't have to ~ s t all all the 61es, it takes

SIS Fen
I read your March edition of lyre Computer
Paperand thorougbly enjoyed reading it
(it's hard to 6nd a computer paper that
gives the rrrkotc story these days) especially
the artides on high speed modems.

only a few minutes. This puzzled me when

I Srst installed DR-DOS, and I don't think
there is anything about it in the GeoWorks
manual (an oversight in a generally well-

designed program.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Banner

As I Ripped through your paper I

noticed a full page devoted to listing some
popular BBSs in the area This de6nitely got
my attention as I o p erate Cyberdyne
Systems (a BBS devoted mostly to 61es,
messages and online games).
Keep up the good work

A fan,

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very interesting. I picked it up at the Compu
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very nice. I enjoyed your articles about
getdng started in DTP and "Who needs it,
a nd most of t h e o t he r a r t icles. I ' m
interested in getting a subscription to your
magazine. How do I go about thatrr
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Infrrrmationan krrrri to srsbscribc can kcfrrrsndin
tkc Masthead of cack issrsc(Page y in this
sststian).

GeoWortxs Woxtxs
Dear Crrmprsrar Paperpeople,
As a happy user of both DR-DOS and
GeoWorks, I have to coxrect yow reviewers
who claimed both this month and last
month that GeoWorks does not vrork in the
DR-DOS environment. It works 6ne but
there's a trick

ComPlete with itftetfoce kl 4320.00

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Thc Computer Paper ferrrrankd yorsr

ceesescnts to tkc anxkor o
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Ccsrsy. Nrcmfrrnnssrsthat skcwiped MSDOS
Pem hcr karst disk, instalkd DR-DOS, lkcn
CrroWrrrks 1.2 trc
farc conchrdmg that ix didn' t
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Imagine how much jumping around I did
and how I ahnog had your Crrmprsrcr Paprrrr
tom into little tiny pieces after I read
Theresa Guay's misguided assessment of
DR-DOS 6 versus MS-DOS 5. I was mildly
in agreement until she got to memory
management. That's where my hands
slowly started to wxing the life out of your
mag. My own experience hasshown me
t hat D R - DO S w i n s t he mem o r y
management game over MS-DO$5 no
contesti
Ijust couldn't wait to purchase my MSDOS upgrade a few months ago. Yea, sure
I had a lot of fun trying out all those neat
things I couldn't do with DOS 4, but oh,
how I suffered when thc crashes started as
I got more daring. What a challengel I
must have read that manual a dozen times.
I started having daydreams of acrluiring
586MAX or QEMM$86.
Thc American mags were saying the new
DR-DOS is a better DOS. I couldn't resist

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PAPER MAY '92 7
pichng upa copy.
Yes, I wanted to dive in (like Theresa must
have done), but I planted myself in my
favorite chair and started reading. About
three hours later, I was ready to shde the
book into Sle 15 (the round one) but I
decided to give it a shot.
What a surprisei I r a n t h e I N STALL
program, answered the questions hey, it
works. And hke Theresa, I could not get the
mouse driver (or anything else, for that
matter) to load into upper memory unless
i t was before the lin'e M E M MAX - U V>NUL . That Sne in the Autoexec.bat Sle
effectively closes access to any upper

memory blocks (UMBs). I Rept reading and

discovered that typing MlrMMAX+U" wilt
let me play around and load all kinds of
neat things into upper memory.
Finally, my hard work and perseverance
started to pay oK I can put the DOS up
into high memory along with my buffers
and load all Rinds of drivers into upper
memory. The best part of it all is: I can use
the MEM mapping feature and see where it
all is.
I now have a lot of "junk" loaded into

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PUSLISRER I EDITOR
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BEANAGING EOIIOR
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PROOLICTION BEANAGER
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620K conventu al memoxy, 60K in upper

PRINISR
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RAM4ashing.

Did I use the word GeoWorks? Yes, it runs

great under DR-DOS 6. As a matter of fact,
you can u s e t h e p r o g ram switcher
TASIMAX in ways you can't with MS-DOS
5. I suspect Theresa has an older copy of
GeoWorks Ensemble and not the newer
GeoWorks Pro.
Yes, Theresa, DR-DOS does hve up to its
billing, especially in the critical area of
memory management. AII the time in the
world couldn't solve some of my problems
running under MS-DOS 5 and, although
DR-DOS 6 isn't perfect, it is a better
solution to the varied tasks I ask of my
computer. We all wait patiently for an
operating system that doe.sn't somedmes
act like a bull in a china shop. Dream on!

DR-DOS 6 or MS4)OS 5? If you follow basic

set-up routines and install programs with

straightforward conSgurations, either win
do thej obwith roughly the same results.
For those of us who like to taRe control,
what can I say? You gotta love DR-DOS.

John A. Collins
Texada IsLand, B.C.

Coyvec0ionm
Richard P. Koett's letter to the Editor last
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Chadnick at (416) 507%184 is the person to
calL

Roueng cables down legs cf workstation the

cables are easily hidden by pushing them
through a flexible plastic ccverlng.

Voice/Fax
Switches
0 Ident-a-Call/SmartRing

Portable pioneer packs a punch with new printer

Printer Sharing

Kodak's Diconix printer division is fighting

back against the onslaught it has Seed on
its market share of the portable printer
sector with a new offering that uses inkjet
technology to provide SOOApi printing vnth
HP DeskJet and IBM ProPrinter X24E
compatility. It weighs slightly less than six
pounds and sells for $6y5. Kodak Canada's
printer products customer information
centre can be reached at 14$LS444006.

0 CNG Detection
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0 With Spooler
0 With Buffer
0 Parallel Print through PhoneWire
0 Parallel Print to 250 ft.

IMPAQ

Cables, begone!

In an attempt to put an end to the snakelike mess around the foot of many PC
users' desks, Mississauga-based Gesike
F urniture h a s d e s igned a "cable
management system" as well as specialized
furniture for the computerized office.
Known as "Cables to gol", it puts the
channels for computer cables underneath

261-1800

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The Kodak Diconbt TO1 Prlnrer is a mobile, full

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arid'snew penWased PC enters world of haute couture

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The 2.5
pound PalmPAD, a pen computerfrom
GRiD Systems Corp., is a full-featured, M%
DOS-based computer designed for data
collection in applications.

Portable computing specialist GRiD has

announced what it calls "the first wearable
computer." Known as the PahnPAD, it is a
DO~ a sed pen computer light enough
and small enough to be used as a handheld
system and then attached to your wrist,
strapped to your belt or attached to your
arm when you' re not using it. It weighs
only 2.8 pounds, uses an 808$compatible
processor (the NEC V20) running at 9.5
MHz, indudes DOS 5.0 in ROM, 2 MB of
RAM and enough room for 20 MB of
internal solid state storage. Prices for the
PalmPA6 start at $5695 for the "standard
configuration." It does not, however, use
Pen for Windows opting instead for the
more modestly-specified D O S-based
PenRight pen software. GRiD Systems
Canada can be reached at (416) 446-1555
for fiirther information.

Apple enters DOS/Nindows scanner market,

launches new lasers, CD-ROM drive and Mac LC II
In an apparent attempt to have its cake and
eat it too, Apple has announced two new
products for DOS and Windows users at the
same time- as it aggressively pursues
Microsoft through the U.S. courts for

smeged copyright infrmgement of the Mac

interface in Mndows 5.0.

You can now bny a $1659 "easier to use

Apple OneScsnner for DOS/Windows and
the faster RISC-baaed $2649 Personal
LaserWriter NTR for DOS/Windows from
Apple. The new products are part of an
overall plan by Apple to better support
"mixed" computer environments of linked
Macs and PCs.
"This strategy is a direct result of the
success of our market share efforts," said
Apple Canada marketing vice-president
Wayne J. Arcus last month. "Our research
indicates that almost 50 percent of all
Macintosh computers are being used in
mixed environments. Wc".rc: supporting
Macintosh owners operating in those
situations by providing pedpherals that will
work seamlessly on other systems."

The Macintosh LC II, based on the 16

megahertz Motorola 68030 microprocessor,
performs twice as fast as the Macintosh Classic

and provides support for virtual memory. The

Macintosh LC II Is base priced at $2449 (Cdn).

THE COMPUTER
PAPER MAY '92 9

ATI drops video board, modem sound board prices

Mac usersneed not feel abandoned by

Apple completely, however. Thecompany

abo Launched the new Macintosh LC II a
replacement for the existing LC. It sports a
16 MHx 68050 processor, 4 MB of RAM

Canadian video-board manufacturer ATI

announced last month that it was dropping
suggested retail prices on its entire product
line by up to 50 percent. Although the addon board market is notoriously cut~oat in
its priccetlashing, ATI says its new prices are
the result of volume manufacturmg, 'The
popularity of all ATI products has given the
company an opportunity to implement
economies of scale in pricing," says ATI

(expandable to 10), builtka color support

and seven peripheral ports. It comes with

e ither a 4 0 o r 8 0 M B ha r d d i s k .
Intriguingly, the LC II also can be used

with a special aden Apple IIe card that

allows the LC II to run most Apple II
software. The company expects this option
to be of interest to educational institutionL
Prices for the Mac LC II start at gf)249 and
there is an upgrade opdon for existing LC

senior markedn~ manager Sharks Chobot.

"High demand%as made it possible for ATl
to put prices at a level most companies or
individuals can justify spending." For details
on the price changes, contact ATI at (416)

7564V18.

In an attempt to encourage the use of

CD-ROMs, Appfc has also launched a new,
low-cost CD-ROM drive known as the

AppleCD 150. It offers an avcramc access

thne of 5&0 milliseconds, inclutfes a 64K
bufFer and sells for a suggested retail price
of f/29. Contact Apple Canada at 4165155511 for details on all these productL

I s s

IBII Laserprhter 4020 Series 6A, 6P:These

ast ppm laser prtntera-the 6A for Macl(rt(xsh
computers and the 6P for IBM PCs, both wilt

Adobe'sPosf&erlpfIntetpretarbulltdn are hfesl

for users whoneed a 60Mpl prtntsr for deslttcp
publlshlngappliestlans.

New hi-res Lasers

from
Lexmark
IBM's spunwff laser printer manu68cturfng
arm Lexmark Inter-national has two
new AppleTalkcompatfble laser printers

that are said to provide up to four times

higher resolution than most other desktop
Postscript systems. Known as the IBM
LaserMnter 40R9 Series 10A and 6A, they
offer 600 x 600 dot pcr inch resolution as
well as the ability to adjust line width,
contrast and darkness-at 10 pages per
minute an d si x p a ges pe r m i n u t e,

respectively. Prices are $2695 for the 6A

and $5995 for the 10A. To getfurther
information, call Lexmark International at
&OMBM-4I468.

oettin9 the fax to cLtstomers

fast
A ncw Torontokased startmp has designed
a system vrhich l i nk s PC-based fax
technology with contact management
software to allow telephone salespeople to
respond to requests for more information
almost instantly. A system with only two
phone linescan handle more than 50,000
requests per month,' boasts Intrepid
Communications of its new IntrepidFax
software. If you are in the mood to put the
company's claim to the test, calf Terry
Moshenberg at (416) 8894550.

Now, increase the performance of your graphic environments with our new high-speed
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Q's new Local Bus Graphics Modules take advantage of recent breakthroughs in
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10 THE COMPUTER PAPER MAY '92

INichelangelo virusbuster announced

Yet another "cure" for the over-hyped

Michelangelo computer virus has been
unveilecL This one comes from Brampton,
Ontario software house EE-CAD. "The
Michelangelo virus is certainly one of the
trickiest s o f tware v i r u ses t o be
encountered," claims EE-CAD software
chief Fred Grist. T h i s virus program
resembles the artist's impatient personality
it is an elusive opponent. To hear more
about M r. G ri s t ' s fi g h t ag a i n st
Michelangelo, call the man himself at

A lawyer on your
desktop?

accountants and business people for

business and personal use. A quick overview
of the index of forms reveals such necessaxy
items as Wi l ls, Po wer o f A t t o r n ey,
Commercial Leases, Bill of Sale, Collections
Demands and Notice of Annual Meeting of
Shareholders. The package is available in
WordPerfect, WordStar, MS Word (Mac or
PC) and Word for Windows formats on 5.5e
or 5.25" diskettes for $149.

We will dispense with the bad4awyer jokes,

and get to the point here: at last someone
has come up with a software package of
standard legal documents for the Canadian
context. This type of product has been
around for a number of years in the U.S.,
b ut up ' ti l n ow, t o t h e b est of o u r
knowledge, has not been commercially
available in Canada. The package is called
The Desktop Lawyer, and contains over 150
businesscontracts, agreements, forms and
letters. It has been prepared by lawyers,

Contest: Corcoran and Associates, 2054

Gurdwara Rd., Otawa, Ontario, K2E 6A3, (613)
225-5922.

(416) 4584040.

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Cables-Power Cord 6'

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Cleaning Kits-3.5' or 5.25' Head Cleaning Kit

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Sarnpo 20" VGA Monitor.41680.00

BlaCk Legend 14" InterlacedSVGA

PC/TV Converter NTSC System

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Computer Case.........$10.008 Up

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4860X-25 Mother Board.............
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101 Keys Tact)le Keyboard

386SX Mother board
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512K VGA
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-All otrsoletre 8 damage items hove no warranty.

InsureMart is offering a software package

that allows computer users with a modem
a nd a phone l i ne, t o l o g o n t o t h e
company's computer to get quotes from a
variety of established insurance companiep.
According to company representatives, the
software was developed for Alex, Bell' s
underutilized online service. Having spent
the money to develop it, they decided to
expand the service to users who had a
computer, but weren't linked into Alex.
The service, like Alex, offers a user-friendly
online front end that guides users through
a fill-in the blanks interface. Once the
forms are complete, the system comes back
with quotes from five or more insurance
companies for a variety of home owner,
tenant and condominium coverages as well
as life insurance rates. According to the
company, auto insurance will be offered
soon. The system offers a quick overview of
available rates and packages in relative
privacy with no obligation to purchase.
Contest: InsureMart (416) 972-5946.

Most Charities
Want Money. .
The Canadian Foundation for World
Development is different. They want your
old office machines, truck trailers, building
components, surplus inventory the kind
of donations that are easy to make in a
tough economy. They send it to people
with almost nothing. Th e C a nadian
Foundation, a n o n - profit c haritable
organization, has been recyding used and
surplus
go o d s si n c e 19 77
to
underprivileged people in developing
countries. If you have old computers, fax
machines, photocopiers, and want to see
them put to good use, give them a call.

Contest: Canadian Foundation for World

Development, (416) 445-4740.
Intel inside io registered trade mark or intel corp.

Company Policy

Pizza Pizza has updated its "thirty minutes

or I'ree" order concept with the purchase of
a new RISC4ased computer systemf'rom
MIPS Computer Systems. According to
systems integrator SC, the MIPS RC 6260
system will replaced dated MAI computers
and provide for the intensive inputwutput
activity required by Pizza Pizza's growing
order volume. With over 200 franchises,
Pizza Pizza claims it is the largest pizza
company in Canada (although McDonald's
might dispute that EcL), and originated
the single number order system. The pizza
maker has over one million customers on
file and at peak volumes requires as many
as 120 operators taking orders.
SC, working w i t h M I P S s y stem
distributor, Vancouver+ased Chaps Group
Marketing Inc., p r o vided the system
s ourcing, hardware in stallation an d
software/data conversion of Pizza Pizza's
1500 programs to the Unix platform.
MIPS C o m p u ter s w a s r e c e n tly
purchased by SiTicon Graphics, the pximaxy
purchaser to date of the company's line of
microprocessors. NIPS also makes the
R4000 line of RISCbased microprocessors
which Microsoft and the ACE consortium
plan to port Windows NT to. The Canadian
subsidiary is based in Mississauga, and
operates a branch office in MontreaL
Contact: MIPS Compuler Systems, Inc., (416)
6~
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Atari Computel

At the same time, Atari Canada hosted

their National Dealer Conference, flying
dealers in from all over the country to get
the inside scoop on Atari's plans for the
coming year,view Atari product under

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n Saturday and Sunday, April 4th Ifc 5th, The Toronto Atari Federation in concert
with Atari Canada hosted the Atari Computer Exposition (ACE) at the Skyline
Hotel in Toronto. Three ballrooms, the crush court, and six smaller banquet rooms
were filled mahng this was the largest show of its hnd in Canada to date.

with Atari Developers and Atari offlcials

from Markham and Sunnyvale,CA, and of
course to attend the ACE show.
ACE was primarily an end-user show,
with a separate area for MIDI exhibitors
and the main show area devoted to dealers
and developers to show and sell their wares.
Sixteen thousand square feet were devoted
to this purpose, most of which was given

over to developers themselves to have a

chance to directly meet their customer
base, introduce new products, and make
their software and/or hardware available to
the public "direct Rom the horse's mouth."
There's a certain satisfaction in buying a
piece of software from the guy who wrote it,
seeing it run on your computer with his or
her credits, and saying, "Hey, I know that
person...."
Other booths contained dealers and
distributors selling an enormous selection
of goodies to Atari users. Some local Atari
dealers such as CompuStore, CompuPlace,
CompuWorld (hmm, do I sense a trend
here?),and JMG Computers were open for
business, as were outmf-towners Toad
Computers and Best Electronics.

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An area set aside for Lynx gaming

(Lynx is a handheld color game machine
&om Atari) sought a $L00 donation to the
Hospital for Sick Kids for the right to play
any of the new Lynx games.
Atari User Groups daimed their area of
the hall. SAGE (Spectrum Atari Group of
Erie), H B O ( H a m i l to n B u r l i ngton
Oakville), MTST ( M e tro T oronto ST
Group), WAUG (Windsor ATari Users'
Group), ASTMUM (Atari ST/Mega Users
of Montreal), and of course TAF (Toronto
Atari Federation) signed up new members,
said hello to old ones, engaged in some
friendly rivalries, and i n o n e c a se,
demonstrated specialized software. Shawn
Smith of'MTST showed his MaxiMiser 8c
MaxiDoor, spedalized telecommunications
software for BBS'ing.
One surprising booth was the Meet the
SysOp" stand, where the invisible SysOps
(SYStem OPerators) of the local Atari
Bulletin Board Systems had a chance to put
faces to the many names usually found only
in ASCII on their boards.
Telecommunications are a big part of
Atari computer use, and GEnie (General
Electric N e t w or k f o r I nf o r m ation
Exchange) and CRS (Canada Re;mote
Systems) worked at the show; GEnie went
so far as to set up two terminals for
showgoers with GEnie accounts to say
"hello live from the show floor, and to
demonstrate Aladdin, GEnie's graphical
front
end
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thei r worl d w i de
communications network. Darlah Potechin,
Chief SysOp of the Atari RoundTables on
GEnie, was chained to on e o f t h ese
terminals for most of the show; business as
usual.
In the M I D I a r e na, a n u mber of
representatives from the major software
players were available, including the Rum
Jones Marketing group, for Steinberg
software. Ian Gregory Wright of RussJones
showed me the latest Cubase running on
the Atari TI'. as well as the rest of their
products. Not being a "MIDIOT" myself, I

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PAPER MAY'92

nodded in understanding, asked some

general questions about Steinberg'a
support of the Atari market (and got an
enthusiastic responael) and moved on to
Musicware Distributors, where I overheard
one reprepeating fer what must have been
the umpteenth time that support for the
Tl' and other long~waited improvetnents
weuld b e a v ailable 'in September'.
Musicware distributes CaLAB products )ike
Notator, among others.
Away (rom the Mm area (which wasn' t
as loud as some people had feared) and
into the main showplace, Atari Canada
themselves had an incredible booth; it
looked like it belonged in Germany not
because of the language, but because of
what was being displa
The ST Book is Atari'a TOS notebookaized computer, it has a lovely keyboard nd
a unique 'Vector Pad' to replace the
mouse the computer itself isjoyto carry
and use, weighing not much more than the
actual pen-and-paper notepad I was
carrying. The screen was not bac)dit, but
rumors of backiit medels abounded; the
unit I saw had an incredible lokour battery
life rathag.
TT UNIX waa there; this is a complete
ATSrT System U Release 4 implementation
with X-Wmdows Rll and a Metif scompliant
&ont end calledWISh 2 very NeXTSTepish. Running a monochrome 1280x960
68050 system, Reb McGowan of Atari
Canada was showing oif the XFaceMaker
object-oriented development system for
interested parties.
Bill Rehbock of Atari's Professienal
Systems Group was showing MultiTOS,
Atari's soon-toke-released multitasking
environment fer their 68K cemputerL He
explained that this system is a "true preemptive multitashng operating system with
adaptive prioritization." This means that

the OS is capable of allowing multiple

applications, desk accessories, and system
tasks to r u n s i m u ltaneously, while
conserllmg CPU time te allow the foremost

process maxhnum resources.

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a hardware screening card, it turns the 82
MHz Atari into a full-blown Raster Image
Processor (RIP) when connected to an
imagesetter like the Linotype-Hell Bridget
series tha t
G o l d l eaf s e lls, o r th e
L800/880/580/680 machines. The card
allows for 'real-time rasterization,"
processing the image at such speed that it

bypassesthe usual problem of

start~drop

that can demand so much from a highwnd

ima setter.
unning
on
t he
tr ue- c o l or
Imagespeeder was Retouche Professional
CD and Didot Professional, two PostScript
applications for color4mage manipulation
a nd complete l ayout f a cilities. T h e
Imagespeeder wasn't connected to an
imagesetter at the show, but was using the
SantMate drum scanner and Polaroid Slide
Maker, as well as a Seiko Professional
ColorPoint continuous tone color printer.
Apparently, Goldleaf's system can also
accept PostScript files for output, since the
PostScript RIP is simply sofiware running
on the ImageSpeeder.
What surprised me about Goldleaf was
not their presence, but their presence in
such strength. That, and the fact that they
were actually doing business; I overheard
several very serious discussions about the
system with interested buyers. This seemed
strange at a show aimed at the casual
computer user; especially since Goldleaf
themselves were using this wonderful
ImageSpeeder system to create Mlwolor Tshirts on the spot from people's baby
pictures and other personal effects, as well
a s handing o u t T - s h i rt s w i t h t h e
Goldleaf/Retouche symbols with colorful
TIFF images imprinted on them.
I was impressed by the fact that it is
possible to set up a complete service bureau
and graphic arts production house using
Goldleaf products alone; hardware and
software, and get not only the benefit of
using the dedicated, high~peed system, but
also the compatility with world standards
like Adobe PostScript and fonts, and
Macintosh files from p r o grams like
Photoshop, PageMaker, Illustrator, and
others. Macintosh and/or DOS computers
can also be connected to the ImageSpeeder
using the built4n Apple Talk and EtherNet
ports, making the Goldleaf platform truly a
platform-independent solution.

Examples for 1,2,4 and 8 bits per pixel:

(up to 256 colors on screen)
6 40x480
220 H z
1024x768
1 0 0 Hz
1024x1024 7 6 Hz
1280x1024 6 4 Hz
Examples for 24 or 82 bits per pixel:
(up to 16.7 million colors on screen)
5 12x512
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6 40x480
92 H z
8 00x600
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This is an incredibly fast video board.
True, the TT with FastRAM helps, but the
2MB V RA M c a r d s t h emselves were

considerably faster even at the higher

resolutions than fancy cards I' ve seen
attached to Mac IHx's. Connected to the
standard VGA PTC1426 monitor at the
Atari booth, the Sunrise did an impressive
800x512 in full color; it was a wonderful
sight for these tired eyes. Incidentally,
though Cybercube has written their own
VDI driver for the board, they came to the
show prepared to use their own demo
programs and pictures to show off the
product; they were pleasantly surprised to
find that Calamus SL took such good
advantage of it. In theory, GEMwompliant
applications should have no tr ouble
running on any video board with aVDI

driver, but the facts are sometimes not so

close to theory. The Sunrise looks to be
unusually compatible.
Doewich hinted at the probability that a
lowered card would be forthcoming, with
neat gadgets like NTSC/PAL and sound
input/output, and minus the LAN ports.
He also suggested that a higher-end,
accelerated card would be available. I was
amazed that their current card is NOT
accelerated; it certainly performs as if it
were.

Continued on
Page 16

Goldleaf also showed a line of endower

applications, notably WordHair, Didot, and

Retouche ( without t h e P r o fessional
monikers).

Cybercztbss Research
126 Grenadier Creeoent
Thornhill, Ontario L4J 7V7
(416)882%284
I spoke to Ralf Doewich, President of
Cybercube Research, Ltd., about the CyReL
Sunrise M16-1280 video/LAN boarcL gute
frankly, in the hardware category this may
have been the hit of the show; Cybercube
Research has been a ray of hope for video
purists for well over a year now, and they' re
gust about ready to ship their first product.
These fellows are an impressive bunch;
they' re professional custom software and
hardware engineers who don't seem to
need to release a retail level product at all,
except for the challenge of it. This gives
them the leeway to create an engineering
"work of art" rather than bending to
market pressure and releasing the cheapest
product faster than the competitors.
The Sunrise video board was seen both
at Cybercube's booth and at the Atari
booth running Calamus SL. Cybercube's
o wn workstation consisted of a T T
connected to an Ikelema 20" color monitor

that was capable of 1280x1024 color. Since

the Sunrise is completely configurable by

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two "Sultana of Speed" were at it again,

14150 N.E. 20th Street

Suite 802
Bellevue. WA 88007
Darek Mihocka of Branch Always was

showing their wares to a power-hungry

public.

T he T o r o nt o s ho w m a r ke d t h e
CodeHeada' release of WARP 9, their
revamped version of the Quck Sl' screen
accelerator (formerly a Branch Always
product). All 15 0 copies shipped to
Toronto were soldl Todd Johnson of

Jim Allen was also displaying his T20/25

upgrades, unquestionably the beat 68K
accelerators available for Atari. He also had

Rept steadily busy showing the GEMulater,

his muchWscussed Ataxi ST emulator for
IBM compatibles. Derek says that his main
reason for being at the show was to prove to
'the public that the preduct exists, and
works. I am here to say that it exists, and

a Leonardo True<olour video board from

Cherty Fonts (now a Codeheadproduct)

Lexicor for display. I waa not able to get a

real good look at it, but thc colors on the
TT were outstanding. The Leonardo is
prhnaxily aimed at video production users,
though itwould be a great add-on for a
DTP artist, as well. Lexicor Software is

works(yes, I looked for the hidden ST"). It

does need work yet (and boy, you better
have a killer Intel system ready...) but due
to Darek's intimate knowledge of Windows
programming, he is able to put a TOS
window into Windows which mimics a real
SI' quite welL
I don't think this product will replace
the ST on your desk, but for those of you
who have to work with DOS machines, this
i s worth t h i nking a b out. S i nce t h e
emulation is done entirely in software,
GEMulator wiH be dependent on the speed.
tif your machine (the new Intel DX2 chips

waa in the booth helping out and bore thc

brunt of th e W ARP onslaught while

founders Charles F. Johnson andJohn

E idsvoog
pr ovi d e d
n on- s t o p
demonstrations of Avant Vector, McgaPaint
Professional, and the other Codehead
standards: Hotwire, Maxifile, MultiDesk
Deluxe, etc.

primarily a developer of SD design and

animation software, for the Desktop Video

market. They were unable to attend the
ACE show due to pxior commitments, but
wanted te show off their new true color
board, and therefore arranged for FAST
Technology to do so.
Dave Small is the developer of the
heralded Spectre GCR Macintosh emulator
for Ataxi computers, which allows an Ataxi
ST user with a legal set of Macintosh ROMs
to run Macintosh programs on his/her
Ataxi SI' at full spccd. Dave also produces

should provide enough power to run

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STraight FAX is a new Send/Receive fiux
application f r o m Je p p a So f t ware
Development. Joppa haa shed the modem
that was once tied to their software,
allowing the end user to choose their own
brand of Class2 Send/Receive modem.
STraight FAX supports Zoom and Supra
modems, among others, all the way to

MegaTalk, an aden beard which gives

GEMulator aa fast as a MegaSIE, I think),

Wd will require you to have a set of TOS
ROMs. If you have more than one set, you
can install up to three pairs, and switch
between them in software. GEMulator
purportedly supports all TOS versions to
2.06 (though I only saw L04 running at the
t'ime I waa at hia booth).

older Atari ST c o mputers the same

LocalTalk and SCSI intexfaces present on
the new Tl' computers and of course on all
Macs.
One interesting development was the
report of Dave Small and Darek Mihocka
being seen in conversation. Now, they
could have been discussing the show, or
business, or the heartbuxn produced by the
rapid intake of hotdogs, but one fellow
makes Mac emulators for Ataria, and the
other fellow makes Atari emulators for
IBM's.....aa Dave Small is given to say:

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demo faxmachine could go, showing how
the user can send and receive faxes created
in various ST applications or sent in
through astandard &x machine.
With a scanner, printer, m odem,
software,and computer, you can replace a
fax machine net cest~tfectivcly, true, but
since many computer owners already
possess these things, a simple software addon can make sense. The output from a Sx
modem is also of extremely high quality,
since a p p l i cations l i k e Cal a m u s,
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that makes the receiver's FAX look like a
laser printer. A must for graphic artists to
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Spring COMDEX Draws Surprising Crowds

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APR 6 (NB) A

subdued industry, battered by recession,
opened the Spring COMDEX show in
Chicago. This year's show was expected to
be smaller and less wemwttended than last
year's show in Atlanta. But surprise,
surprise, the Nm came out. Crowds at the
McCormick Place convention center
stunned analysts predicting a downturn.
While there were fewer booths, and
most products were preannounced, by
noon Interfiice Group Chairman Sheldon
Adelson was aheady calling this COMDEX
a roushlg succesL
The major announcements have been
anticipated for months. M i c rosoft is

showing its MS-Windows 5.1. with

m ultimedia extensions built-in. I BM

counters with OS/2 2.0, and is fighting
hard to play
The two companies
planned d i r ectly c o mpetitive p r e ss
conferences and receptionL Major software
vendors are trying to maintain neutrality
despite the millions many have gained
Rom support of WindowL WordPerfect has

catchy.

a serious white male with the logo "staying

with DOS." A second features a shy white
woman "Movhig to Windows." The third
has a middlewged black face"Ready for

OS/2."
It is strange to see IBM as an underdog,
b ut that's just what t he y ar e n o w .
Microsoft's market value is now higher
than even General Motors', let alone IBM,
which let it buy database vendor Fox
Software recently for a relative pittance in
stock. The move forced down shares of
B orland I n t e rnational, t h e c u r r ent
database marketleader, by $5 in one day.
IBM, meanwhile, cut staff. reorganized,
and prepared io spin~ut divisions.
So the press and vendors are treating
IBM as an underdog, hoping it will do well
and provide a counterweight to Microsoft.
But the real test will come in coming weeks
when the
on both products is
opened, and IBM learns if its former
captive market has any loyalty left.

shrinks

Dell Keynote Devoted To Users

C HICAGO, IL L I N O IS, APR 6 ( N B ) Unless the computer industry listens to its
users, it will lose them to lovapriced foreign
competitors. T ha t w a s t h e m e ssage
delivered by 27~arwld Michael Dell, CEO
of Dell Computer Corp., as the keynote

address to COMDEX Spring '92.

Using taped clips of r eal users

discussing their problems as a backdrop,

sometimes mixed with hectoring dips &em
John Dvorak, Dell led an overfiow audience
in the Chicago Room of the McCormick
Place convention center on a tour of user
kustration.
Dell, who buRt a $14allion business out
of a college dorm based on low yrices, mailorder distribution and telephone-based
service, said meeting individual customer
needs is imperative. Every telephone call to
a customer support line must be treated as
a real emergency, he said, because that' s
what it is.
He took his audience back to the big
promises of the early 1980s, which he called
unfulfilled.
"A lot of companies didn't hsten to their
customers. Now in 1992 we' re johng about
the predictions. Bu t not everyone is
laughing. We' ve heard of layoffs, pricing
pressures, and poor results. I'm here to tell

you customers are unhappy, frustrated, not

satisfied with the purchases they' ve made.

And they have higher expectations for the

future.They're not buying our hype, and
they' re not buying computers at the rate we
expectedh
"What went wrong? A lot of companies
started with technology, not customers.
They didn't design around customer
needL
Specifically, Dell attacked self~erving
"standards" like the Micro Channel, and
the ACE group, which were created for
business reasons, to lock users in rather

than grow the business. "Every company

will talk about standards, but they can' t
accept the consequences of making it

happen."

He continued: "Anyone remember

VisiOn, SAA, TopView, Patriot Partners)
There's a long list, but the idea is the same:
a n e m p h asis o n te c h n o logy f o r
technology's sake, not to solve customer

problems. In case anyone forgot, the

objective was to make technology work for

people, so they could become more
productive.
Dell pointed to the book 7%e Oeetaerhd
Amcncaa to show that workweeks have been
lengthening for a generation, and PCs have
played a part in it. The U.S. spent $80

billion on computers in the 1980s, yet

productivity rose just 1 percent a year
during that time. He compared PCs to
washing machines. "Both seem to save
labor. But we just do more laundiy. It's the
same with computers."
After his videotaped users tried to
define common industry buzzwords like
OOPs and GUIs, Dell attacked them as
techno-nonsense, saying the industry
hasn't turned the buzzwords into real
bench " I f companies spent half the time
improving ease of use they spend on
technology, customers would be better oif,"
he said.
When it comesto value, however, one
size doesn't fit all, Dell said. "Customers
demand quality and value, but they have
their own ways of defining it. That's a key
oint. There really is no average user. We
ave to address each user with the right
mix of products and services, especially
service L
Dell, who for his shameless cost~tting
and folksy size has been compared to the
late Sam Walton, recognized these may all
sound hke platitudes. "Every company in
the industry has said these things. But have
we done something? Just look at other
industries in America where companies
didn't listen to their customers. Asian
competitors took the market away. We may

not have quite the head-to-head

comtyetition of the auto industry, but 40%
of all the computers in the world today
come &om Taiwan.
"We also need to look at how we work as
an industry. We can all think of industries
that work to grow the market, while
retaining the right to compete for share.
They work toward customer needs." Dell
concluded by calling for peace between
competitors like IBM and Microsofit, in the
name of the consumer. "If we as an industry
listen to the customer we can retain the
trust and confidence of users and finally
begin to deliver on the promises we made a
deade ago.
A few moments after his speech, Dell
talked briefiy with Newsbytes. He revealed
that the Intel 80586 chip will be, in fact, a
RISC processor, calling the rest of the RISC
wars a joke. He added that Dell will offer a
pen-based system when the technology is
right and enough customers demand them.
The first-generation machines don' t
recognize handwriting well enough, weigh
too much, or don't have good enough
screens to meet real customer needs, he
~a a a Blenkcshom

6ates, Dell Address Windows World, Comdex

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APR 7 (NB) Bill
Gates and Michael DeH, leaders of two of
the biggest computer industry companies,
made keynote speeches at two separate
computer shows being held in Chicago this
week.
Gates, whose remarks were telecast on a
closed~cuit network, said that he expects
the value o f i n d u stry-wide sales of
applications for the Windows operating
system to double to $5 bQlion by the end of
1992. According to Gates, sales of Windows
applications since Windows 5.0 was
introduced just under two years ago have
already reached $1.5 billion.
Windows 5.1 had its foimal unveiTing at
the Windows World this week Gates said
his company has already shipped more
than one million copies of the popular
program, wh i ch wa s i n troduced
simultaneously in s e ven l a n guages,
including English, French, Spanish, and
German.
Windows S.l has a suggested retail price
of $149 if you do not already own an earlier
copy. If
you already have Windows, you can
upgrade to 5.1 for f79. Street prices can be
expected t o be a bout $ 129 a nd $ 6 0
respectively.
In what might be a preview of either
Windows 4.0 or W i ndows NT, G a tes
suggested that 'in our next version maybe
we should build the mail (function) into
part of the shelL
Microsoft also demonstrated its new pen
o perating system, Windows for P e n
Computing. Pen-based computers accept
input fi om a styl~
dev i ce called a pen,
with which users write on the computer
screen. The software interprets the
handwriting and transforms the writing
i nto c h aracters th e c o m puter c a n
recognize.
Microsoft says it has trained thousands
of resellers in Windows 5.1, and has in
place more than 500 product support
personneL The company said it expects to

train about 90,000 endears during April,

and more than125,000 by the end ofJune.
Meanwhile, Dell Computer chairman
Michael Dell said the computer industry
has failed to deliver on its promise of

increasing worker productivity and overaH

business competitiveness as a result of
implementing computer technology.
Dell said the way to refocus the PC
industry is a strong dose of customer
advocacy, rather than what he called
technosion sense."
" I'm here t o day to t el l yo u t h a t
customers are unhappy and fiustrated, and
a re less productive than t h e y ( t h e
customers) expected to be," Dell told his
audience during the
keynote address at Coaoaaaf oa page17
the twelfth annual Spring Comdex trade
show, also being held in Chicago.
Dell used video excerpts that his
company said were from computer users
across the country to point out that the
early promise of the PC has only been
fulfilled marginally.
Dell said that over the last eight years
productivity dedined by one percent in the
service sector of the economy, the sector
which purchases 75 percent of all computer
systems. The manufacturing sector, said
Dell, had a productivity gain of 27 percent
during the same period, but is much less
computer~tensive.
"This country has spent billions of
dollars on computers, and during the 1980s
the Bureau of Labor Statistics says the
productivity of U.S. businesses grew by oniy
o ne percent per year," Dell told h i s
audience.
In what some saw as a swat at both
Microsoft and IBM, Dell said: "In 1985, we
actually made things simpler for the user,
with DOS (developed by Microsoft) as a
single operating system standard. Now we
have operating-systems wars, processor
wars, GUI (graphical user interface) wars.
Everyone's fighting to p r otect their
proprietary technology, and users are
caught in the crossfire."
Dell said a key point is that customers,
not suppliers, should define what is
nnportant
Microsoft announced Windows 5.1 last
week, while IBM met its projected shipping
date of March Sl for its new representative
in the operating system wars, OS/2 version
J'im Male s
2.0.

Intel Announces Speed Doubler

Technology At Comdex
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APR 7 (NB) As
expected, Intel has extended its 486
processor fiumly with the 486 DX2, which
nms at 50 megahertz (MHz) at lower price
points. Intel is fighting off a new round of
done makers, induding a new firm called
Cyrix which claims to have cloned the 486
chip+
The new chip,reported previously by
Newsbytes, contains a technology Intel calls
speed doubler, which allows the internal
I'requency of the processor to operate at
double that of the rest of the system. This
means hardware makers can configure a 50
MHz system for the price of a 25, running
in the same bus structure. The chip costs
$550 in 1,000-piece quantities, and Intel
said a 66 MHz version will be available later
this year.
Intel also demonstrated what it calls the
OverDrive Processor. It uses the same
s peed-doubler t e c hnology t o t a k e
advantage of the built-in upgradability of
t he Intel486 SX an d D X l i n es. T h e
products meet a demand Intel itself has
been pushing in recent ads.

Fmally, the company cut the price of its

NetPort print servers up to $200, which will

help for printer support of networks, and
introduced a new line of hardware and
soflware print spoolers, the NetPort 11 and

LANSpool 5.5.
ContaeL Intel, Jim Bodio, 503-62&4486.

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changes-that's because you always tell them
how easyitisio m ake changeL"

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PAPER MAY '92

Comdex: IBM Versus Microsoft

INicrosoft Intros New Windows S.1&ornpatible Applications

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APR 7 (NB)Watching IBM's roRwut of OS/2 chase

unison with its release of Windows 5.1,

Microsoft announced that its full line of
appRcations for Windows is immediately
compatible with the new version, Bnd many
speaficaRy exploit it,
Featured was PowerPoint version 5.0,
which skipped a v ersion 2 e n t i r ely.
Microsoft executives joked that this was
Srstly because the company does not get
things right until that version and secondly
because the new version of PowerPoint

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APR 7 (NB) In

Microsoft Windows 5.1 was a little like

watching Jerry Brown dog Bill Clinton

through New York. except of course that
the user-voters were well aware these were
Srst-tier candidates. The two companies

scheduled press briefings for the exact

same hour, in hotels a mile apart and while

Microsoft moved their applications

cInnouncement over an hour, it was with a
Sontcunner's disdain.

Microsoft, of course, held the comingout for 5. 1 a s a k e ynote address by

chairman BRl Gates at the Windows World
show, which after two years is already nearly
as large as the Spring Comdex exhibit itself,
and threatens to upstage it in the future.
Gates' overview of new functions, scheduled
for 90 minutes, not only Slled the Arie
Crowne theater, but was piped into three
other Ml theaters upstairs. The speech also
ran long, forcing plenaries for other
Comdex sessions back an d l e a ving

"We' ve
appRcations,
but we chcba't
inhale."

Philippe

Eakys

$.1 drew raves. Leading the cheers were

thousands of beta testers, who were ghen
their own party the night before the

During their presentation, Microsoft

executives made numerous references to

shows somany hnprovements. An extended

dc:mo of the program was offered the

how weR various products stack up against

c ompetitors l i k e L o t u s 1 - 2- 5 a n d
W ordPerfect. Given the fact that i t s
purchase of Fox Software and its database

media, and t t o f f er s a l o t . C h a nge

something on a slide in one view, Bnd that

reference to Borland's dBase product was a

e new

attendees cooRng their heels in hallways.

But, with its improved speed, ease of seto@
+d built-in multimedia support, Windows

change is canied across other views of the

presentation. Slide styles can be simply
changed using templates, Bnd it also takes
a dvantage o f
ob j e c t li n k i n g a n d
embc,dding, as well as TrueType fonts.
Perhaps most important, PowerPoint is the
first Microsoft application to take full
advantage of sound and video.

line has not yet gone through, the only

can omo.
a e

announcement.

So there stood IBM Vice President Sc

General Manager for Personal Systems,
Cannavino, wearing a sweater and

James
tItking thinlpreRed potshots at 'Slick WRly"
GateL
"Over 800 vendors have come on board
vIIth OS/2 applications and 250 have put
out product releases today,' he said.
Cannnavino then let a pane;I of users and
e vendors have at the larger rival.
"We' ve experienced improved DOS and
Windows compatili ty," said MCI senior

vice president James Zucco, an OS/2

convert. OS/ 2 offers multitasking and

multlthreading at very aggressive pridng,
aided Lotus Development senior vice

e.
!

president John Landry, "We think the

competition is good for Microsoft," added

GeorgeGrayson, President of Maolpa8t.

"IBM has produced an in dustrial-

strength operating system, piped in Adobe

Systems chairnsanJohn Waruock "We were
caught by surprise over the success of
%endows,' admitted WordPerfect President
Alan Ashton, but, Ou r next version of

WordPetfect will take advantage of OS/2.'

Philippe Kahn, chief executive of

Borland International, quipped "We' ve

developed Windows applications, but we

didn't &hale."
We must, in fairness, ghre Microsoft the
last word, and Newsbytes asked Chahman
Bill Gates directly about whether his

pany,which has upgraded aR itsm ajor

a plications with the launch of Windows

5.1, might have an unlsir advantage.
"That's not true. AR our competitors
httve equal access to Microsoft Windows S.l
for applicadons.' Gates indicated that his

company isactuaRy more onmp of Apple

Macintosh System 7, when it comes to

porting applications, than Windows. But

le'ave it to senior vice president Mike
Maples for the very last word. With Gates
standing nearby, Newsbytes asked directly
about MicrosoS's support of OS/2. "IBM
has said that aR Windows applications run
Sne under OS/2," he said. "If they do,
we' re covered. If they don' t, then OS/2 is
an hrelevant platfotm."

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MhroaoII,Marly Tauchey,20M82-NN.

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chart showing SQL Server, Microsoft's
ODSC product, and four empty boxes.
'The next time we see you we'5 5ll those
other boxes, and be able to draw lines
across the p r o duct l i n e t o d e l i ver
solncthlng very powcr5llL
Taking questions aher the presentation,
Gates was asked about competitors'
complahtts that his company's control of

Contacts Misread, Marly Taucher, 208-8828080.

Microsoft has shipped Microsoft Windows

for Pen Coinputing, alias Windows for
Pens, a Windows S.leompatible operatmg

system designed for pen input.

Chaianm Sill Gates told Newsbytes at a
press breakfast that the code for both S.l
ancl Pen Windows was f'rozcn at the same
time, and the two operating systems atlll be
updated simultaneously from now on.
Windows for Pens also went through beta
test alongside the main system, giving him
every confidence it will be bug-free from
thc start.

they take that envhunment, he saicL 'They

gave usmore of a lead on the Madntosht he Wi ndows environment i s m o r e
coinpcnuvc

INicrosoft Intros Windows For Pens

At Comdex
Microsoft launched the new system with
CHICAGO. ILLINOIS, APR 7 (NS)-

operating systems gives it a leg-up in

developing applications.
' How well people do i n a n e w
environment depends on hoar seriously

an eve
e i m e.

After all the trumpeting, you can now try IBM's new version
of OS/2 for yourself. We' re confideiit you' ll fmd the finished

product is everything you' ve been hoping for.

0$/2 2.0
hasbeen developed to bridge the gap between the
present and the future. It protects your existing software
investment. Yet it's capable of running virtually every enduser application, no matter whether it was originally written
for DOS, Windows or OS/2.
OS/2 is a master of multitasking. It lets you initiate one

task, then move ctuickly to a second or third while your hardware works happily away on the first one. For instance, OS/2
can install a spreadsheet application while you' re opening a
file or printing out a page of graphics.
OS/2'srefined Workplace Shell (the way it organizes your
screen) allows you to group files, programs and devices under
a single icon. Click on the icon and everything you need for
your work is automatically opened up. Information can be
dynamically linked from a variety of application sources, so
that the data you see on screen is always the latest. Graphics
and text can be 'cut and pasted' between applications no
matter what operating system the application was originally
written for.

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Finally, the new OS/2 is virtually crash-proof. If any

individual application goes down, the whole system doesn't
follow. Only one application has to be re-started.
All in all, you's Rnd tbat the new Osl2
} is a completely new kind of animal, at once .
verypowerfuland a very popular pet
with your end-users.
Contact your Marketing Representative
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1-800-465-7999.
* protects your software investment

* runs DOS, Windows aild OS/2 programs simultaneously

* easy to install aild use

* makes the most of 386SX (and above) personal computers

* upgrade from Windows for $79'

a demo set to the theme of the hit movie

Wayne's World," with Gates as special
guest. While he was a bit disappointed he
did not get more laughs, the demo made
the point that there are aheady hundreds
of applications ready to run on the new
system, mduding all those which work with
Wmdows S.L

Espedally radical was a demonstration

of a cursive-recognition system from
Lexicus, although it was later revealed that
was done on a 4 8 6 -based machine.
Microsoft said a total of 187 companies
have announced support for the new
operating system, and 80 expect to ship
products this year.
After the demo, Gates tried to put the
whole thing in perspective. T his whole
idea of new interaction techniques is a
fundamental piece of o u r v i sion of
'information at your f i ngertips.' We
shouldn't t h in k o f a n y i n t e raction
t echnique replacing any other. T h e
keyboard, speech, touch, even scanning will
play roleL" However, he said: "We think the
pen is the best pointing device. Its direct,
it's more natural than even the mouse. It' s
familiar, unobtrusive, small and very
precise. This idea of predsion has greater
impact than you'd expect. Things like
gestures it's not possible with a mouse to
have these nice gestures to help you move
through and give the right commands.
Also, text recognition isn't possible without
the directness and preciseness of the pen.
Most important is enabhng mobiTity, having
use of a computer in circumstances where a
keyboard isn't possible."
Gates foresees many stationary PCs
using Windows f' or Pens, including
whiteboards which are shared by workers,
and Sat desMike screens where editors can
do layouts.
While the full operating system. with all
its bells and whistles, comes to a whopping
eight megabytes (MS)Gates said that it
can be scaled back, with applicauons, onto

a wrote% ROMchip.

Pen-based computers use a pen-like

device called a stylus, with which the user
draws, writes, or checks boxes on the
computer screen. Thc operating, system is
able to t r anslate these images into
computer-recognizable
cha r a c ters.
Wmdows for Pens supports more than 70
Amctions that developers can use to create
pen applicationL
Presently, Windows for Pens runs f'rom
the computer's ROM (readonly memory).
ROM4ased programs are stored in a chip
in the computer, instead of running from

floppy or hard disks. None of the pen

computers presently available have Soppy
disk drive@ A Microsoft spokesperson told
Ncwsbytes that perhaps someday you couM
go into your local software dealer and buy
Pen for Windows on disk, but said that is
some time down the road."

A number of OEM (OIigmai equipment

manufacturers) have alsosaid theywill prcinstaQ the Windows for Pens operating
systcnL Accorchng to Microsoft over 200

hardwareand software companies have said

of NcroaA corparsl/nn. 'Umlled time all'w explain July31,1ss2. upgrade prhs reerh la $1 ss onAugusl1, $$$2. Usi price siss. Author@edRetallera and Dealer may sell for lesa

they will support the Windows for Pens

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Gates gave Pradeep Slngh, group

product manager for Windows for Pens,

credit for evangelizing such companies as

Momenta, now hc:aded by former Apple

executive Del Yocam, to ship the Mcicrosoft
system with their products. Singh also

described pilot applications run by beer

distributors, banks, insurance companies,
h and police departments where t h e
operating system was given a workout. It' s
gratifying to note the 55 OEMs (original
equipment manufacturers) who have
announced they' ll build machines," he
said. Singh also described eight start-up
companies which are working on exciting
Windows for Pens applications.
In a question session following the
presentation, Gates was asked directly
abo

conversations. They have not licensed

Windows for Pens at this point. We' re not
sure why, but they have not." He added that

any type of input, including shorthand,

could be handled on a pen system through

the simple creation of recognizers, and

pointed to a limitless future.
"We' re working on how we can take
what we' ve done with pen and add speech
as an input technique. There are also
things related to deferred input-output,
printing and mailing and copying later.
There's also the idea that the network
connectioncan come and go, that you can
change the orientation of the display it's a
long Sst.
Contact: Microsoft, 2064824080

OSI2 2.0Gets Lotus Backing,

IBM Claims Brisk Sales
CHICAGO, ILL I N O IS, APR V (NB)Having both launched new versions of their
operating environments in the past week,
IBM and Microsoft are now engaged in a
battle of words and developer support.
IBM's first salvo during the spring Comdex
show included a claim that its phones are
ringing off the wall, accompanied by Lotus
s announcement that it plans
five OS/2 applications by the end of this

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a collie telephone order center ic set up
to take orders for OS/2, exceeding its best

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volume of calls.
Meanwhile, Locus Developm ent w a s t h e fi r s t m a j o r
applications software vendor to place
a significant bet on the new OS/2.
Lotus announced plans to release OS/2
2.0 versions of five applications packages
within a year. The list indudes an update to
the OS/2 version of 1-2N, Lotus' to~l l ing
spreadsheet program, as well as versions of
its Ami Pro word processor, its Freelance
Graphics package, its cc:Mail electronic
mail software, and its Notes
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of these applications. The new releases,
however, will take advantage of OS/2 2.0's
M-bic processing, added multitasking
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and OV/VM , and enhance its existing
SNADS and P R OFS c onnectivity. A
multitasking OS/2 cc:Mail router will be
released within 90 days, the company said,
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dient softy will ship in July.

Freelance Graphics for OS/2 will ofFer
"SmartMasters' collections of ready-made
prese:ntation pages that guide users
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prompting them to place text, charts, and
graphics in specified areas of each page.
The company's 1-2-Sfor OS/2 2.0,
which is currently in beta testing, is
compatible with versions of 1-2-5 for DOS,
Windows, Macintosh, Unix, VAX/VMS,
Digital Equipment's All-In-l, and IBM
mainframes, as well as 1-2-$ for the HP
95LX Palmtop.
The new OS/2 version of Notes will be
designed to integrate with the existing
Wmdows version, a company spokeswoman
saicL
While Lotus' announcement offered
some support for OS/2 2.0, the company is
not putting ail its eggs in one basket. Lotus
also announced an update of its 14-8 For
Windows spreadsheet and a new bundle of
Windows applications.
Another bit of support for OS/2 came
from Easel, a Burlington, Massachusettsbased maker ofapphcation development
toolL Easel said it will provide support for
OS/2 2 . 0 i n i ts E a se l W o r kbench
development tooL
Spokesman Douglas Clauson of Easel
told Newsbytes that the announcement was
"more a statement of direction" and there
is no defimte date for releasing a version of
Easel Workbench with OS/2 2.0 support.
The current version supports OS/2 1.5.
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particularly for developing "industrialstrength dient~rver applications, but aho
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Lotus, Borland, WordPerfect Support

All Sides In OS War
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APR '7 (NB) Lotus
Development, Borland International, and
WordPerfect all tried to please both sides in
the IBM-Microsoft war at Comdex by
announcing versions of their products
under all operating systems, and neuuality
on behalf of users.
L otus introduced SmartSuite f o r
Windows, a complete set of Windows
applications at fl 95, as well as coming
support of O S/ 2 i n a l l i t s p r oducts.
SmttrtSuite includes Lotus 1-2 II, Freelance
Graphics, Ami Pro, and a cc:Mail singleuser pack. The idea is that, since all
Windows products loolr. alike, the only way
to assure loyalty to a product line is to sell
the whole thing at once, at a bargam price.
Within the SmartSuite system, all the
products are similar i n a p p earance,
behavior and compatibility, passing data
back and forth seamlessly, launching one
another without interrupting sessions.
Consistent features include SmartIcons,
mail, and Adobe Type Manager support.
Users of other Lotus products, including
DOS users of 144, can upgrade to the
f ull line o f S uperSuite for $ 5 9 5
through September SO.
On the other side of the shop,
Lotus said it will deliver all its
products for OS/2 2.0 within the
next 12 months, an important
show of
s u p p or t f o r t he
beleaguered IBM operatingsystem entry. Lotus already has
OS/2 versions of its Lotus
Notes, cc:Mail, F r e elance

SmartPics for Windows sells for $195, with

node licenses at $49 each.
Your Recharge Specialists
Borland showed versions of its tooh and
applications under DOS, Windows, OS/2
and Unix. Wage suggested that if CP/M
were still around, Borland would have a
version f o r
th a t , t o o . I t s major
announcement was dBase IV version 1.5 for
MS-DOS, its first move in this area since
Microsoft bought Fox Software. Borland
promised that product, which features
- thoroughdisassembly of Laser Iprlnter
mouse support, faster "query by example"
- all componentsare removed,
support, and an open architecture, will ship
inspectedandcleaned
next month. The company also introduced
- movingpartslubricated
Quattro Pro 4.0, a new version of its
- main boardinspected
spreacbheet program. On the Wysdows side
it introduced er i R eports for Windows, a . - much, much
more
reporter writer for ObjectVision 2.0, and
a dded t h a t i t s O b j e c tVision SQL
Connection now allows users to access DB2,

which is IBM'I main&arne database system.

Finally, WordPerfect, stung by the
growing success of Microsoft Word in the
Windows word processing marketplace, but
admowledging that its market is moving to
that operating system, stressed in a
statement that its WordPerfect 5.1 for
Windows, an update of which it will
ship in 6 weeks, is already compatible
with Windows S.l. The update will
include several enhancements, like
the ality to 'drag~ dM op" text, edit
desktop-published p a g e s i n a
magnified mode, and create macro
dialogs, an updated macro

language.

Graphics and 1 2-5. Finally,

Contest: Bryan Simmons, Lotus

Development, 617-698-1897;
Tracy Daniebt, Borhnd
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Came Carter, WordPerfect,
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Windews lIT
Coming Soon.

pla'ns to beef up the security features within

Windows NT as it develops and eventually

obtam a rating of "Bl or better.
Without at least a C2 security rating,
Microsoft would have problems getting
Wmdows NT taken seriously when used in
major U.S. government departments or
some large multinational corporations.
This desire to provide secure distributed

processing colors a number of the key

tndows NT is going to be herc

dialogue box which requires you to input a
sooner than you think. I?or those user name and tuasswoal before you can do
who may not have heard of it, anything else. This is to meet Microsoft's
MicrosoRWmdows NT (New Technology)
goal of getting a government C2 security
is a hi ghmnd, "scalable" version of
rating for Windows NT. The company even
Microsoft Wmdows designed for use with
fast, powerful Intel~ sed machines with
lots of memory as well as all systems
produced as a result of the ACR (Advanced
Computing E n v ironment) i n i t i ative
pioneered last year by Microsoflt, Compaq,
DEC, NIPS, SCO and since joined by more
than 200 other supporters

design decisions within Windows NT. It

will, for e x ample, allow a server to
"impersonate" a dicnt so that checks can
be made on the security of the system.
NT does not provide any "back doors
t hrough which users can en ter t h e

operating system and tinker. with it. This

extends to the way it handles both existing
and future apphcations. Microsoft has toM

developers of Windows 5.0 and Windows

5.1 applications that their products will not
run under Windows NT if they attempt to
modify the WIN JNI Sle directly, if they try
to directly access the disk controller or if
they modify the system date or time in any

way.
Microsoft daims that if direct hardware
manipulation were supported, aberrant or
malicious applications could affect the
hardware causing system crashes or
system instality.
Coutieueden page25

Until recently, NT has been largely

portrayed as an alternative to IBM's OS/2
2.0 (see box). Although Microsoft codeveloped 08/2 with IBM, MicrosoR has

basically given up working on OS/2 since

the two companies split over the issue in

early 1991. IBM says the future lies with
OS/2; McrosoR daims that the market is
voting with its feet for W i n dows. As
MicrosoR has sold more than nine rmilion
copies of Wmdows since May 1990 and IBM
has only managed to shift slightly more
than a milion copies of OS/2 since early
1988, it must be said that Wmdows appears
to have won this battle.
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described it as a sctfwontained operating
system with Rttt DOS emulation and all the
features o f
t he cur r e n t W i n d o ws
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interface built on top of any standard
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system in its own right.
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are support for symmetric multiprocessing
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large Unix4ased servers), an ability to run
on both the Intel family of processors
(starting with the 586 and moving up
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hardwareplatform developed by the ACE

consortium, pre~mptive multi-tasking,

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integrated networhng and full support for
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SNat%ndows apphcations.
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Offexing direct hardware accesswould
ensuring that even if problems occur with
also wreck any chance of a C2 security
one DOS application, it won't hang up the
rating. For this reason, NT applications whole system (or even any other instances
cannot "own" the machine on which they of DOS).
are running as they can under Windows
This does mean, however, that Windows
S.l.
NT is much more intelligent than any
Once you are past the logon screen aad
previous version of Windows about how it
your initial encounter with the Windows
handles DOS applications. NT launches a
NT security system, things start to look
c omplete DO S subsystem with D O S
much mor e f a m i liar. T h e W i n d ows addresses when each DOS application is
program mahager and desktop look the started. And you can run as many DOS
same as in Windows S.O although a
applications as the memoxy of your PC will
number of improvements have been
allow. The theoretical limit to the number
boxrowed from Windows S.l to make the
of DOS applications which NT could rcm at
whole thing more robust and easy to use.
once would be S2,000 on 200 "virtual
Windows NT, for example, uses the
machines."
same file manager as Windows S.l which
During our demonstration of Windows
apparently required a rewrite of the file
NT, no DOS applications were shown
maxiager code Rom assembler to C so that
running other than the DOS prompt in a
it could be made portable enough for use
window. Microsoft offers assurances,
in NT. PortaMity is very important for the
however, that DOS applications wiR bc: able
NT development team~ s i t is "parallelto run without problems under Windows
tracking" development of the Intel and
NT even when the base hardware is the
MIPS RISC implementations at the same
MIPS RISC processor.
time. Every week, the team cxosscompiles
What was interesting to see was a
the two versions of the code to make sure
healthy mix of S2-bit and 164it Windows
that no inconsistencies are creeping in.
applications running at the same time
One significant difference between
under NT. In the scrc:en shot opposite, for
Windows S.l and Windows NT, however,
example, you caa see a SNrit Bezier curve
will be in the way fonts are handled.
generator, a I&bit version of Microsoft's
A lthough b o t h wi l l in c l u d e the
Minesweeper" game (part of the Mcrosoft
Apple/Microsoft c~ e veloped TrueType
Entertaiameat Pack sold in the U.S.), a
font system, Windows S.l will also offer
specially written S2+it implementation of
Adobe's Type Manager. Microsoft saysif
Microsoft Excel S.O, the standard 16-bit
Adobe watxts to develop a thirdyarty, SMit
version of Microsoft Word for Wmdows 2.0,
Type Manager for Windows NT, it will be
a S2-bit version of the Windows S.l file
up to users to buy it if they need it.
manager and a "performance meter"
application (which shows the load on the
Up axxcl Runninl
processor, how many pages of memory are
Wmdows NT comes with all the same small
available, etc.).
applications (or "applets," as Mcrosoft likes
Any group which needs to work with
to call them) which Windows S.O has
large,- graphically oriented applications
become Ssmous for. The major difference,
should be cheered at the sight of the Bexier
however, is that all the applets in Windows curve generator Windows NT builds in
NT are full S2-bit implementations and
support for both these and full Fourier
come with support for object linking and
transforms making Windows a much
embedding (OLE) and DDE (Dynamic more credible platform for CAD/CAM
Data Exchange) built into them.
work.
Microsoft used the development effort
And because Windows NT is truly prein moving these small applications to native emptive, there's a lot less waiting around.
S2+it operation as a way of demonstrating
For example, we saw NT loading up an
to thirdyarty Wmdows product developers i mage
in
t he
stan d a r d 16-bit
how easy it will be to move their products to implementation of CorelDraw 2.0 a
NT. Mcrosoft says that for the Windows S.l
shipping Wmdows S.O product and while
file manager the applet which required
the "hourglass" was onscreen showing that
the most n u m be r o f c h a n ges the CorelDRAW was still opening the graphics
development team had it compiling as a
document in question, we could move to
Windows S2Wt application in a day. And
another application in NT and start work
within a week, the file manager which
with it.
contains something like 20,000 lines of
cade could be used to execute aad display
Intomatloxxal Standarch
directory listings (and remember, the
While we looked at an early copy of NT
security system prevents any direct calls to
running i n R e d m ond, W a shington,
the hardware to do this). As mentioned
Microsoft has definitely set its sights
earlier, the chaages within that week
internationally for development of the
included recoding several assembler
product. For that reason, Microsoft has
routines in C so that the sources could be
adopted use of the new international
c ompiled fo r b o t h I n t e l a n d R I S C Unicode character set.
processors.
Unicode is a I&bit character set each
N ot surprisingly, i t w i l l b e D O S individual character is 16 bits. These are
applications not existing Windows S.x
often called "wide characters." All the
programs which could face the most
modern characters of the world can be fit
difficulty in running under Windows NT.
within this range of 65/S6 characters. Only
The reason for this is that Wmdows NT will
displayable strings need be Unicode those
not allow applications to use CONFIG.Q5
that the user is going to see or edit on the
and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to set up your
screen. Strings which represent internal
PC so that it will run properly with the
identiTiers for programmers such as
application. That would represent a
object names, window dass names, resource
violation of the security of Windows NT.
names, etc., do not need Unicode
Instead, Windows NT will employ what
equivaleatL
Microsoft calls a "registration database" of
Windows NT allows S2+it apphcations
the things that need to be loaded with each
to be either Unicode or standard ANSI
application to make it work properly. Thus
(American National Standards Institute)
software houses whose installation routines ASCII applicafions, or even mixed Uaicode
currently cal l f o r m o d i f ications to
and ANSI ASCII caPs. Microsoft says that a
AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.KS will
strict Unicode or ANSI ASCII "mode"
have to change them if they want their
approach was not taken because of the
products to work under Windows NT.
problexxN this approach implies. Therefore
I n ad dition, N T w i l l i n c l ud e a n
every W i n d ows A P I (Ap p l i cations
"mtemxpt handler" for what Microsoft calls Programming Interface) that can take a
"dirty DOS" applications that make calls
displayable string has two countexpaxts a
directly to the hardware. The interrupt
Unicode and aa ANSI ASCII version of that
handler will prevent those calls from
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model wherein applicatione can display and
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international markets. An application can
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What'a the attraction? Well besides a
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compact disc read-only memory (CDR OM), ne c essary i n g r edients f o r
multhnedia aud the reason the product is
sometimes referred to as the multimedia
version ef WmdewL
In order to meet demand for the new
product, the company says it opened nine
manufacturing sites around the world,
operating areundeheckock shifts to meet
initial demand; procured and precessed 8
million compute disks; constructed a new
par'khlg lot at Mlci'osoft's mauufacturhlg
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additional employees and shifts; and
accumulated the equivalent of 10'y semkttacter trailer truckloads of Windows S.I for
the U.S. madtet.

Just locadng enough Soppy disks was a

chore. A Microsoft spokesperson told
Newsbytes that Microsoft had just about

cornered the market on floppy disks in

order to have the nine mkkkkon floppies
requhed to produce copies of Wmdowa S.l.
The upgrade costs US$49.99which
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is expected te cest in r e tail outlets.
"Anybody that ks actively ushig Windows will
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keep financial moduks updated with current inventory value,

while providing purchasing and order-entry functions with
current stock kvels.
anufacturing systems come
in many sizes, some less
capable of running larger
operations than others (see

sidebar for some examples).

Systems capable o f h a n d l in g small
operations with minimal inventory and
other requirements will bog down rapidly
under a heavy load, so the selection of a
m anufacturing
s y s te m th at will
accommodate your business should be
made carefumy.
Maximum attention should be paid not
only to the capabiTities or features offered
by a system, but also how much loading it
can handle. This information is best
obtained by getting references from the
vendor and pursuing them to see if the
software you are considering will perform
acceptably in your situation.

Another criterion that makes or breaks

an installation is how fiexible the software
is. Many manufacturing companies are runofWeeaiU, assembly line production plants,
but the majority are unique in t h eir
requirements. Manufacturing software is
incredibly config'urableI but this may not be
enough. If your company has unique
requirements, a system that includes source
code (the basic instructional code that can

be changed tomeet your needs) may be

more expensive, but savings can be

obtained by modifications to the software
rather than the way your company does
business.
First, we need to l ook at th e way
manufacturing software is packaged, and
the discrete modules of the software that
make up a complete system.

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manufacturing systems, which are typically broken up into
modules which allow the user to buy only thefunctions that they
require or to implement various systemfu nctions a step at a time,
Each module of a system is typically tightly integrated to its
companion modules, each maintaining theinformation for which
it was intended whik allowing other moduks to use that data as
required. For exampk, moduks which manage inventory usually

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Accoaavia Receivable (AIIO

As mentioned above, manufacturing

Obviously no company can Smction unless

mo n e yis comhsgin the door as well as out

systems are typically broken up into

A /R m odulesmanageyourcustomers,issue

separate modules, each with a role to play

in the system as a whole. In some cases,

i n v oices, track and record payments, and

r e p ort on what monies are due to come in.

notably in smaller offerings, modules T h e y also manage prompt-payment

include larger "chunks" of the syataa. For p r ograms (in case your customer is also

with
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example, the Thornapple Software Inc.

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us i ng an A/P package that let's them take

a d vantage of these programsl)

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accounting, which includes all Snancial

W hi l e o p tional in most cases, payroll
aspects of the software. Most medium to
so f t ware allows a company to manage
large systems,howver, are broken up as employee information and produce
described below.
paychecks accurately and resolve problems
easily. Fadlities for collecting information
Financial IIlodulee
on source deductions, T4 printing, and
The Snancial modules of a manufacturing e m p l oyee history are also present. It is
system are for the most part identical to
wo r t h whil e t o n ote t hat m ost
stand&one accounting systems. In fact,
ma n u facturing systems are developed in
many software manutactmers whose main
t h eU nited States, rendering their payroll
claim to f a m e a r e
systems useless in
accounting systenls
Canada.
offer manufacturing
However, s onte
modules that integrate
vendors
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accountmg modules. If
payroll packages for
their systems. If the
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modules is as follovm

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company. G/Ls provide a financial

T he second m a jor g rouping o f

manufacturi n modules can also be used as
a standoalone group of products. Since
many companies do not manutacture all or
any of their products, accurate inventoxy
control, timely purchasing and efficient
order entry may makeor break a business.

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asset package is not
us e d t h i s i n formation must be k ept
manually and the G/L upgiated by hand, a
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many machines to track informjuion otL.

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produced by the system, and also usually
indudes all the reportmg facITities used to
produce Snancial statements for your

management to see how things are going

from a global perspc;clive glui and easily.

Inventoty management indudes not only

what sits on the shelves in your warehouse,
but how much it costs, where it is stored

Accolavla Payable (NP)

and when should you buy more.I/M

Part of w h a t m a ke s m anufacturing
automation attractive is that it fadlitates
establishment of good relations and
efficient dealings with the vendors that
p rovide th e m a t erials used i n t h e

modules form the heart of manufacturing

functions, since t h e m a n u facturing
operation essentially takes stock out of a
raw~aterials inventory, performs some
manner of p r o cessing, then r e turns
Snished goods back into invmtory for sale
to the customer.

manufacturing process. A/P modules

provide the functions required to track
vendor bills and pay them in the most

dfective manner. For example, a good A/P

module will not only tell you when Mls are

due, but also when Mls should be paid to

take advantageof early payment discounts
offered by vendors. Also, detailed cashrequirement forecasts allow managers to
manage cash Sow accurately while keeping

the vendor happy and shipping product.

I/M modules also typically offer feanues

that enable inventory to be shipped to
customers, moved between warehouses (or
to and from the manufacturing floor as

mentioned) andreceived 6 om vendors.

Finally, inventory modules manage the
details regarding th e costs paid for
products, to permit accurate costing of
product so that pridng can be set such that

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saleof the product. Too many Snns price

their products 'from the hip' and hope
that when everything shakes out they ll
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surprise from time to timel

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Purdiaamg Managers are interested m how

much stock is on the shelves, how much will
be required to meet the needs of the
manufacturitsg fioor, and which vendor will
provide the beat ptice and service to get the
goods to the plant once ordered. Since
manufacturing operations come to a
grinding halt when raw materials are not
present, many managers havegrown old
prematurely trying to juggle demand with
the suppliers' ability to deliver.
W ith a Pur c h asing s y stem t o
recommend what to buy, what quantity,
and with whom to place the order, the
purchasing function is vastly simplified.
P/0 systems abo tend to keep vendorperformance data at the user's fingertips,
so that accurate item lead times (i.e., the
time Rom order until receipt at the loading
dock) can be assessed to determine who to
buy from and when. A vendor with a lower
price may not look as attractive if shipments
are consistently late. Also, products with
long lead times which need to be ordered
far in advance are managed easilyby
purchasing modules.

Order Procasslny (OIP)

Since the whole ogective is to get products
into the customers hands and get paid Sar
them, order processing plays a vital role in
triggering most of the activity of the
manuf'acturing plant. Good 0/P systems
allow order~try persons to see what stock
is available, get accurate pricing and
shipping information, and give prompt
customer service, especially when orders
are placed viatelephone. Once order
information is input, the customer's order
flows throughout the system, prompting
material to be ordered. if required, shop
time to be scheduled, products to be built
and shipped, and invoices to be issued.
Obviously, a system that 'supports seamless
integration of 0/ P to other modules is

highly desirable, to permit rapid Sow of

information while eliminating re-typing

that can lead to errors.

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Finally, the modules that actually manage

the manufacturing process can be reviewed.
These packages organize the materials and
steps required to build a product, and the
time required to do so. They say when
materials and labor should be scheduled to
mitumize carrying charges while permitting
the process to proceed in as efficient a
manner as pouible.

Bill ef iNafwlals (SON/

product's manufacture. BOMs are typically

not used directly, but aa a basis for work
orders which are given to the shop to bufid.

On completion of production, the work

order is used aa a key. to assign the costs to
the particular job and compare how the
anticipated values compare with actual
expenditures.

ProdaacIon Sehadaallnl (PN)

To take maxanum advantage of producnon

facilities, it is necessary to take routing
information from the Bill of Material and
schedule each step of the process to ensure
that not only do machines not sit idle, but
movement and set~ times are mininuzed.

P/S modules typically allow production

achedulers to automatically schedule work

orders into the phmt on a forward (based
on when a work order is released ) or
backward (based on the date the product
must be shipped to satisfy the customer' s
requirements) basis.
Obviously, the scheduler can override
the schedule thus created to optimize or
resolve problems. Schedules typically
assume infinite material availability (i.e.,
the raw materials are always on hand when
required) and finite capacity, so that
maximum use o f p l ant ca p acity b e
achieved. The next module ensures that
the materials required by a schedule are
ordered.

Material Roqulranaanla Plannlni

(1NIPj

By examining a schedule and detertnining

what materials will be required (through
the Bill of Materials for the scheduled work

order), MRP modulea verify that materials

are on hand when required by the
manufacturing process. Taqkmg lead times
set up within the I/M and P/0 modules,
the required materials are assigned a
required4y date,and compared with the
on-hand amount that the system calculates
based on anticipated usage as well as
anticipated receipts of product already on '
order. This ia an awesome volume of
information to calculate, making an MRP
calculation one of the
and
largest modules in a manufacturing system.
However, the end result is purchase
order requisitions that ensure that (baaed
on lead thnes) products can be ordered
from suppliers early enough to satisfy'
production requirements and late enough
so that money is not tied up in stock sitting
o n shelves waiting it s t ur n o n t h e
production floor. In some cases where
stock cannot be delivered in time to meet a
schedule, the scheduler must alter the
schedule and regenerate the MRP. This
can, of course, alter other scheduled items,
b ut automated scheduling and M R P
systems which are closely tied together
allow schedulers to create the most efiiclent
schedule possible rapidly and with a
minhnum of human thinhng.

longest'

A BOM consists of two parts: the materials

required to build a product and the path
and length of time that the product takes
t hrough a p l an t f r o m f i r s t step t o
completion. A BOM can be likened to a
recipe, where the ingredients are laid out
and the steps required to complete the
process are detailed. An important part of

What does your company naad?

the BOM are routmga, which descnbe the

steps required to complete the product, as
wellaawhere they are done and how long

good advice-apecKying and implementing

a manufacturing system on internal

Determining how much of a system your

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. final result that a Bill produces is an orderly
description of a product, where costs
.. (materials, labor, and overhead) can be
.combined to create an item cost, and
manufacturing lead tine (wait thne, setup,
run times, teardown and movement to the
next step) can be used to schedule the

detertnming how large a system you require

and what modules will be required.
Also, a consulting firm can assist you in
the actual implementation of the system,
which can have drastic effects on your
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Ode te a NlustyBeck
R ealism and Stephen Eing >. ,

he pretty young heroine finally

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now over. A few words into the f irst
paragraph you hear the click of a light
switch. The page fades to black. Text
becomes unreadable. A scream bursts trom
deep inside the book, followed by the
unmistakable thump of a body hitting the
hardwood floor. Words slowly reappear, but
the page itself has taken on a distinct
cmnson hue. Enough of this novel for one
night; dme to put away your stereo speakers
and switch off the computer.

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technology, it's a wonderful possibiTity. But
to a lover of musty old books, rare editions
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lovechild of literature and Nintendo, is
threatening to occupy a place in the home
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Mother Goose story collection on compact
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appropriate moments. All this is made

possible by a spinning plastic disk inside

your home computer. Just let the kids uy to

rip pages out of this book.

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streamlined version of Wordperfect 5.1.

Spokespersan Came Carter told Newabytes

that while the Works word processor
doesn't have all the features of WordPcxfect
5.1, Sles am be interchangecL If you create
a document in WordPerlect5.1, then take
it home and work on it with Works, all the
formatting codes and other features are
r etained. T he n w h e n y o u s ave t h e
document in Works, you can take it back to
the office tomorrow and complete or
change it with WP 5.1.

Works word processing supports

macros, graphics integration, a spell
checker, a thesaurus, and mail merge
capabiTitics.
Thc company says the graphics editor
allows you to create and edit WordPexfect
graphic and text Iles. Images can be sized,
scaled, or rotated, then inserted into
Lettexpexfect documents.
The Works spreadsheet can import or
export Lotus I-2N compatible Iles, and is
also compatible with Drawperfect 1.1 and
Planpexfect 5.1.
Like most other integrated programs,
Works apphcations have pumAown menus
and context-sensitive help screens. A
cuatomixable Run menu allows you to
execute any of the applications from within
the application you are presently worhng
in. You can also access other programs
from thc Shell Menu.
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WP says the database portion of Works
ks designedfor tasks such as keeping track
of contacts, sorting and prxnhxctng reports,
pxknthxg xnaHkngHsts, or nmrgkng the data
wkth the word processing applicathm. The
program comes withthree prede5ned
databases a note card, addrem book and

Works also has a fax capability.

Documents created in Works are sent to
the fax program. Fax images can be
examined before they are sent by using
Lettexperfect's View Document feature,
then sent to an indiYiduak or a group. Your
coinIruter wHl need a Hut modem ro use this

iuventoxy daixdaxse.
WP says the communications portion of

Stature.

Works was developed by Magkcsoh. It lets

price of $150 in the US and $150 in

you connect to oYer computers, transfer

Hles, or download Sum electronic buHetkn
boards. It has a dialing directory and
suppotts modems wkth speeds up to $8,400

baud. Terminal emulation for VT100,

VT52, ANSI/BBS, IBM$101, TIY and IBM

$270 is supported. AvaHable Ske transfer

protocols include Kermit, X M o d em,

%modem, and ZModenL

WordPerfect Works has a suggested list

Canada. You need a hard dhk and at least

400K (kHobytes} of free memory (that' s

after DOS and any terminate-and-stay

reskdent programs are loaded).
WordPexfect Corporation maintains a
tolNree number (8004514151) to answer
quesrkonsabout ktsproducts.

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icon on screen to a deuinaikon foler, then
helping users protect their data and to
kettinq go of the mouse button which
provide a gxaphicsk user iuteriace, even iu
drops the icon. The keyboard can be used
the DOS envhoument. The new products
t o accomplish t h e "drag-and-drop"
are Norton Desktop for DOS, Norton
functions as weH, Symantec said.
Desktop for Windows version 2.0, and
The new DOS product also adds Sle
Norton UtkHtkes for Madntosh verskon 2.0.
compression compatible with the ZIP Hke
The D e s k to p p r o d u cts Norton format, Sut PCce4'C Hle transfer over aerial
Desktop for DOS 1.0 and Norton Desktop a nd parallel c o n nections an d o v er
for Windows 2.0 oHer similar functkonaHty Networks, automated MCI MaH support,
for IBM and compatible computers, and a c a l e n dar , S y mantec a d d ed.
Symantec said.The company released
Automated backup, virus scanning, and
Norton Deslr top for Windows 1.0 last year data recovery technology are sH features
and says the DOS version offers the same
integrated into the DOS product as well.
features and keystrokes as its upgraded
The Norton Desktop for DO S 1.0
Windows counterpart.
requires an IBM or compatible PC, XT, AT,
Symantec says the DOSyroduct is the
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Srst to offer "drsg~dM o p
c a pabHity for support for DOS 5.0), is compatible with
fHe management to DOS users. Moving or
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The new Macintosh version combines

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The new version incorporates the

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COMPUTER PAPER MAY '92

P
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Shorn
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hLunch of Windows 5.1 and OS/2 Version

2.0 was palpable at the show. MicrocoR

chose the occasion to launch Excel 4.0,

IIy &eea 8sagIII jsl)4abc

arch 2$, A and 25 saw the debut h o t product (Windows). high-profile

of a new computer show fo r

spe a k ers (Bill Gates of Microsoft, Rob

Toronto, the PCp/Nndows Show. Burgess of Alias Research and Philippe

Turnout at the Metro Convention Centre
Kahn of Borland) and top4evel vendors to
was not huge (9,600 according to the press display their wares (IBM, Microsoft, Apple,

release), but as they say in the ahles, eR

qualifierL" ICSSE, the show o
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managed to get the right c
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their besteeliing spreadsheet, Borland

showed gBmpses of their soon-to-bereleased Qmttro Pro for Wmdows as well

ll Sm

as dBASE forWindows and Paradox for

Windows. The Fox Software/Microsoft
merger was announced during the show,
and took a litic wind from Borland's big

database plans.

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Mierocctt chase the occaalcn tc launch Excel 4.0

(418) 22S6000.

winner. They are also in the unique

position of playing David to Microsoft's

ieae

De g , Mitsubishi, ORvetti, Canon and Lotus IBM was touting the release of OS/ 2
to n a me a few.) The excitement of both version 2.0. From the looks of the beta
th e f orthcoming (at the time of the show) product, IBM may again have itself a

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user interface, the loss of the 640K DOS
hmit and true multitashng. (This translates
into being able to format a disk at the same
tine as using your word processor, etc.)
OS/2 version 2.0 was, according to IBM's
press releases, put into beta at over 30,000
test sites (including 1,500 in Canada).
When OS/2 was originally announced, it
w as supposed to run b etter on I B M
computers than anyone else' s. That was
then, this is now. IBM wants a share of the
operating-system market and has set the

goalof mahng OS/2 run wellon everyone

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else's computers
IBM also announced a new strategy
targeted at fighting the clone business.
They announced IBM Direct,a new 1400
number to allow customers to order direct
f'rom IBM for selected products. They
brought the price down on many of their
PS/'2models, between 19 and 42%.
Contact: IBM Canada, 1-800485-1234.

Delrlna TecImology

Dchina Technolomr displayed its WinFax

Pro fisx software for Wmdows as well as its
forms software. WinFax Pro looks like the
software to buy, if you plan to run your fisx
board under Windows. Delrina announced
merger plans with WordStar.
Contact: Dclrlna Technology, (418) 441%676.

APP!e Canada

Apple Canada uied a decent size booth to

showing off its new LC II computer, CDROM and laser printer. In addition, Apple
reps were emphasi)ung some of the new
QdckTime capabihties of System '7. They
had a display of teleconferencing over
telephone lines, combining TV telephones
with shared computer screens.
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looked like a National Geographic. Only
on doser inspection did it reveal itself as
an advertisement for 'their boards. The
insides were not so spectacular, but gave an
interesting overview of the video-board
m arket, m c l u ding a l is t of t h eir
conlped'tors.
ContactsLava Computer Manufacturing Inc.,
(41 6) 674-5942.

Frame Technology
Frame Technology demonstrated its
Wmdows version of PrameMaker 5.0. This
highwnd desktop-publishing package is
ideal for longAocument publishing. The
company was also showing FrameReader, a
companion product that provides an
inexpensive way to distribute and print
onhne hypertext4ased documents. Frame
has recently opened two new offices, one
in Ottawa and one in Vancouver.
Contact: Frame Technology, (416) 477-2409.
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56 THE COMPUTERPAPER

MAY'92

Grnrinccatprwa
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Floppierhas been improved and can be
conSgured to copy entire disks or only diik
space that is occupied.
D irectory Assistance i n 2 . 0 ha s
custpmizable menus, drive selection, and
meaW for Sworite Sles and folders as well

as being fully System 7wompattble. Fast

Find has also been improved with the
addition of an icon editor and Speed Disk
now allows defragmentation of Sles on a
startup volume, Symantec said.
Thc Norton Utilities for Madntosh will
work with a Madntosh Plus and higher with
one MB of RAM and is compatible with
Systfnza 6.0.4 and higher. Symantec says the
product needs two MB of RAM if operating
with System 7.
The DOS version retails for $179. The

II II II t I II

Norton Desktop for Windows version 2.0 is

retail priced at $149, but users with the

previous version can upgrade for $49,

Symantec said. The Norton Utilities for
Madntosh product retails for $149, but
customers with earlier versions of SUM or
Norton UtiTities Sxr Madntosh can upgrade.

for $39 and $8 shipping/handling.

Symantec bought Peter N o rton
Computing of Santa Monica last year.
Peter Norton Compudng was known for its
utility products for the IBM PC offered and
was led by indusuy guru Peter Norton, who
i s still i nvolved at Symantec in t h e
development of utilities for personal
computers.
Contact: Ana Shannon, Symantec, tel 310-4534600, fax 310-4584636.

Inside the Windows

Announcement
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APR 7 (NB) Most
major software vendors at this Springfs
Comdex show are exhibiting at Windows
World, which has its own press faciTities, a
separate upside-down showbook bound
with the Comdex guide, and the entire
North Hall of McComaick Place.
They' re all here to support Mictesoft's
announcement of worldwide avallabiTity for
Wmdows S.l. In addition to holding a press
brieSng and party on the Srst day of the

I I i I I P II t I IIs

s,~~i

show, and ofmmng Chairman Bill Gates for

a Windows World keynote, Microsoft is also
offering a second day of plenaries, and a
week of sessions devoted to hyping the
differences between this version of
Wmdows and Version 3.0.
One of the advantages of Windows S.l is
an Express Setup feature so it can be
installed by merely typing a user's name
and spedfying a prmter. A StartUp group
feature instructs Windows to start-up any
application as the computer is turned on.
Features like th e F il e M a n age;r and
SMARTDrive disk cache are faster, and
there are power management functions for
laptop computers, as well as Scalable
True Type font technology providing
instant accesses to typefaces on any monitor
or printer supported by Windows. Object
linking and embedding, as well as built4n
multhnedia support, and improved network
support, are also part of the mix.
Say you upgraded last year to Windows
3.0. It will cost you another $50 for S.l, if
you act by June 1, after which it's $80. You
can get the upgrade and a 44-font
TrueType font package for$100 through
June 1, and it jumps to $180 after that. This

is why

Microsoft's stock m arket

capitalization is higher than General

Motors.
Contact ColBne Hemingway, Microsoft, 2068824080.

New For PQ New True-

Vype Fonts For Windows

REDMOND, WASHINGTON, MAR 2'7

( NB) Microsoft Corporation

has

announced a collection of 44 additional

TrueType fonts for Windows. The new
fonts supplement the 14 that ship with each

copy of Windows.

Called the TrueType Font Pack for

Windows, the additional fonts work with
any appBcation, display, or printer that is
supported by Windows. Truetype uses the
same font for printing and for display,
prcNading a WYSIWYG (what you see is what
you get) output.
According
to
the
M icr o s o ft
announcement, the Font Pack setup
program automatically installs the fonts and
makes them available to all Wmdcnsskased
apphcationL
Microsoft said that the 44 additional

fontsare from Monotype Typography and

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not include formulas, applications, forxns

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styles: hne, bar, three4imensional bar,

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was performed with ease. A test fil was
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Structured Query Language, server to be

searched using Paradox's QBE, Query By
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can provide more information related to
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Although the manuals exhibit the
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pichng up a few of the after~ k e t books.
Qne, Same, IDG, Brady, and Wxndcrest atl
have after-market tides which address
varying levels of expertise.

database information. Paradox offers an

interactive graphics generator. Somethnes
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numbers. Paradox 8.5 will look at a crosstabulated sluexy, then present the graphic
depiction of your choice.

flnd in the after-market books. Sams' Thc

F&stBooisaf Panakx 3.S by Jonathan Kamin
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recommended as'begixmer"how to books.
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program for graphic representation of the

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rotated bar, area, XY, stacked bar, pie

chart, markers, combined lines and

markers. Graphs help make the Ixxint when

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There is even more versatility with the
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Paradox's SQL Link, $495, allows a SQL, or

Here's a brief overview of what you' ll

Hartman, Prague, and Hammitt, and

Brady's UadsssraasSag ad Ussrsg Pansskx 3.S
by Rob Krumm, are recommended for
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Manipulating data can be more than
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one program which makes that a reality.

B orland's Reflex and o ther fla t fl l e

databases are generally more practical for
individual use.
MANUAL: (4} Six manuals are provided
and to fully utilize the program they are
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Dutu, Parson+ hpplknxiurs Luagxxgs,and a

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class. I would still reconunend picking up a
few after~ k e t books attuned to the level
of database management desired.

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PERFORMANCE: (4) Paradox is Sist, easy,

and great at manipulating data It builds an
answer flle before making the report/print,
an extra step not found in some databases.
VROOM keeps the process moving right
along.
USEFULNESS: (4) For c onstructing,
manipulating, and reporting on data in
large and multiple databases Paradox 8.5
shines. Street prices are affordablefor small
businesses. While it is a great package for
an indiYidual who might have the money, it
is unlikely that it would be fully utilhed.

AVAILABILITYi (4) We found Paradox 8.5

can be located at most major vendorsat
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$489.99, EggHead Software at $549.99, and
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Microsoft had three giant booths, one
selling Window S.l anil all their Chinese
Wall" applications such as new versions of

time to Windows and OS/2 software in

their booth.And at the "covered-wagonsquare of PCs demoing OS/2 there were
only one or two representatives of ISVs
present to explain their software on display.
Contrast this with the Windows NT booth
which had representatives f'rom most of the

Excel (4.0),Project (5.0), PowerPoint (2.0),

Mail (5.0), SQL Server (4.2), but not
d a tabase product

(perhaps the impending purchase of Fox

Software had an effect here). Finally,
Microsoft had a number of seminars and

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developers to get copies of OS/2 and

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substantially reduced costs. One would
think that this seed money would be repaid
with developers demonstrating their
(independent s o f tware v e n dors) software either at their own booths or atthe
demonstrating thar applications working
IBM demonstration square with lots of
in Wmdows NT (read NewTechnology' or
people around to help if users got stuck
trying it out. No on both counts. I counted
portable OS/2 version 5.0 with a dash of
DEC's VMS, since the principal architect of just over 80 booths prominently displaying
Wmdows NT is Dave Cutler, ex DEC VMS
OS/2 software. Of the major software

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Wmdows S.l and what were the advantages

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future products. As for technical sessions
and conferences IBM a g ai n t r a i led

Microsoft badly. Why did this happen)

Perhaps IBM is a little defenave about

the status of OS/2. This was the tenor of an

IBM technical briefing at Comdex.

What was IBM's response to this threepronged marketing offensive7 It was

strang'ely muted and understated, except

Although it is an enormous achievement to

get such a'product to the marketplace
worhng as well as it does, there are still
kinks to be worked out in OS/2. It does run
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PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, APR 5

recreates the work environment when the

user returns, Xsoft said.

(NB) -'Xsoft, a division of Xerox, says it

haa developed a somme program it caRs

Rooms for Windows, to simplify the
Windpws graphical user interface (OUI)
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"wiridowa threshing.

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a house, is used so aR the appRcations and
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maintains. A nagging problem in window

based interfaces in general is displaying
more than a few vnndows at once is not
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t o t he n ex t , f a c i n g

ia hi each ~
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multiple applications at the same time.
very much like loohng down into a house These dimcultiea are what Xsoft calls
with dach set of tools separated by NwaRs.
"window thrashing."
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To get away from the problem of,
'window thrashing,' Xsoft says Rooms for
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appRcation or another.
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for several desktops" with each one as
to work the way they' re accustomed to, like
large as the monitor. Each Room haa aR the
they would if everything waa spread out on
tools necessary for work for a single dient,
the 4ning room table or a desktop, Xsoft
project, or task. When the user quits for the

mult
iple

However, this ayproach causes

copies of a single document or object in

aevead rooma Xsoft says it thought of that

as well and an object can be set up by the
user ao a change made in one room will
afFect all the copies in other rooms. If a

user needs a single tool in each room,

placement of that tool in a special Overlay
room automatically makes the tool appear

in every room.
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environment as they go and multiple users
on the same computer can aet up a suite for
each individual with just the rooms that
mdividual works with, Welsh maintains.
Xerox says innovation at PARC ia
fostered because nearly half the staff
working on new concepts are notfrom
computer backgrounds, but are instead
psychologists, social sociologists, phyaicists,

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, MAR 17

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NfpntPerfect For Wincfows 5.1

Users Angry Over Product
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MAR I'7
(NB) WordPexfect Corporation, known
for cheering crowds of loyal users, may be
in for a tough time. WordPerfect for
Windows users said they are angry to
WordPexfect Vice President of Marketing,
Andre Peterscm, at a recent demonstration
of the product by Peterson given at a
meeting of the Los Angeles Computer

Society (LACS).

WordPerfect users are well-known for

their layslty to the product. However, aber
the demonstration of the WordPexfect for
Windows product at the LACS, during
whiCh Peterson kept aommendng that the
audience was a 'tough crowd" several
WoxdPerfect users who had purchased the
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about serious problems.
P a r d Pe r f e c t
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combinations of
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DOS product except

the actual typing of
the texL At installation of WordPerfect far
Windows, users are given a choice of a

can)mon user access (CUA) keyboard or a

DOS WordPerfect 5.1 keyboard, with the
CUA keyboard as the deisult Irst choice.
WhQe keystrokes in the DOS WP keyboard
remain the same, keystrokes in the CUA

layout are different. Some unsuspecting

users who didn't understand the differenci
and understood keystrokes for WordPerfect
for DOS would work the same in the
WordPerfectfor Windows product have
ins)ead found have unexpected and
disastxeus consequences in Mndows.
One user who described herself asJust
plain mad said she'd spent some time on a

dopunent inWordPerfect for Windows,

then went to use the WordPeriect version

5.1, block text keystroke Alt4'4 (holding

dcnlxn the Alt key and then pressing the F4

key) to hig

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application without saving and WordPexfect
cannot do anything about it. Another such
command is CtrhF4, which in WordPerfect
5.1 for DOS allows the user to move, delete,
or copy text, but in the Windows CUA
keyboard, doses down the active document
in an application.
Keystrokes w er e n o t t he on ly
complaints, however. Another woman
wanted to know why printing was so slow in
WordPexfect for Windows. She said: I give
the print command and
I could knit a sweater
before the document
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print s ."
O ther
use r s
complained about
the slowness of the
graphically-based
WordPerfect for
vvindows. Peterson
~d he personally handles
nnat problem by creating the
document in the DOS version, then
s tarting Windows and d oing al l h i s
formatting there.
One interesting note, WordPexfect had
an interesting promotional item it gave out
to members of the LACS. WordPexfect for
Windows has a feature called the 'button

bar" which allows users to pull commonly

used commands fram the p
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ulldown
to "buttons" that perfoxm the commancL

The buttons are user selectable and can

also be macros the user has written
themsehes to automate common tasks.
To comm e m o rate. the button bar,
Peterson had everyone in the audience
receive a "Button Bar" a chocolate candy
b ar t h a t sa i d on t he pack a g e
'WordPerfect's Original Button Bar for
Windows, Version 5.1. On the wrapper,
t he b u t to n b a r ha d the sy s t em
r equirements f o r W o r d P erfect f o r
Windows, as well as a description of
WordPerfect for Windows under the

heading 'WordPerfect for Windows

h t t ext to move it. She said Ingredients.' I n side the chocolate was
she. suddenly found herself out of
impressed with example 'button" icons
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f rom a sample button bar, and a toll~ e
opportunity to do a save. She said she was number, 800-284M'/2, provided on the
so angry, she didn't even bother to call
package for WordPerfect questions.
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New Musie Proctucts
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APR 8 (NB)Midisoft launched a number of new music
products alongside the release of Windows
S.L
Studio for Windows Version 5.05 was
upgraded for the new operating system, the

company said, and supports leading sound

cards such as the Sound Blaster, Ad Lib,
and Pro Audio Specnum. Music Mentor is
designed as an enternnning music tutorial,
using a notation-based MIDI sequencer

which can bring musical concepts to life

even for beginners. While that sounds neat,

the new program requires a 586SX

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or higher, 2 megabytes of RAM, 4

megabytes of hard disk space, and a
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Development has an of'fer designed to

make switching a bit less of a battle. Lotus is
offering registered users of its Ami Pro
word processing software a free on-line
training tool aimed at foxmer WordPexfect
The Ami Pro SwitchKit olers two levels
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numbered steps. Level 2 displays the same

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perform the operation using a pulldown

menu.
The SwitcbKt also indudes a batch Ile
conversion program that txanilates groups
or, whole subdirectories of WordPerfect
Iles hxto Ami Pro format. The translator
saves each file with its axigmal name and a

ncIw (ssAM) extension.

processors, but Lotus will probably be

worhng on anything that makes sense.
Reghtered Ami Pro users can order the
SwitchKit, comprised of a diskette and

manual. by calling 1400CO LOTUS.

alsobeenacceded, according

to the Aldus announcement.

Support for the JPEG
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iree eyedepper
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valuable hard drive space.
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Photostyler 1.1A, an update to its fullwolor
im~
roc esstng program that runs under i mages of 20MB o r m o re , an d i t i s
compatible with Windows S.L Bauer said
Windows.
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should rnn hem 10 to 1,000 percent faster
a printer 24kit color, gray scale, and blackthan its predecessor.
andmhite images.
New features indude support for rawContact: Brad Stevens, Aldus Cespoyalon, 208image data formats and for the Joint
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Lotus Offers Free "Switch Kit"

For WordPerfect Users
The batch file conversion program also
converts files created in other popular word
rocessors such as DisplayWxite, WordStar,
ultMate, Mcrosoft %ord, and Word for
Windows, Lotus said.
The Ami Pro SwitchKit is a memoryresident utility and can be configured to
load autamaticaHy at Ami Pro startup. The
instruction window can be placed in any of
the four comers of the screen, Lotus said,
allowing users to follow instructions and
work on a document at the same time. It
indudc:s a custom SmartIcons palette for
easy operation, and c o mes with six
decorative wiimpaper choices.
At present Lotus offers the SwitchKit
only for WordPerfect users. Michelle
inguen, aspokeswoman for the company,
said, there are no official plans to offer
similar kits for o t her p o pular word

s tandard fo r i m age f i l e
compression and expansion.
A ldus said i t h a s a l s o
improved
memory
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up image handling. TIFF
L ZW c o m p ression a n d
decompression
and
clipboard operations have

(NB) Lotus Development has announced

SmartPics for Windows, a dip art library
with a browser' for Windows applications.
SmartPxics indudes more than 2,000 pieces
of artwork, the company said.
A key feature of the software is its
"browser," which makes it easy to scroll
through the dip art library and search for
images, said a spokesman. The browser is
the same technology used in L o tus'
Freelance graphics software, he said.
SmartPics for Windows supports object
linking and embedding (OLE), allowing it
to appear as part of another application if
that package also supports OLE. For Lotus'

own Windows applications, 1-2-5 for

Windows, and Ami Pro, the company also

supplies SmartIcons and macros for pushbutton access to images from within a
spreadsheet or word processing document.
When used with another Lotus application,
SmartPics "appears to be part of the

application itself," the spokesman sand.

The clip art library indudes images in

categories such as business, medical, sports,
education, and thematic cartoons. It also

offers page backgrounds, arrows, graphical

elements, and polygon typefaces. Along
with stylized drawings and asricatures, the
dip art indudes more realistic images such
as typicaloffice situationL
SmartPics can be used as a stand&one
program or shared among users over a
network. It requires a personal computer
w ith an I n tel 8 0 286, 586, or 48 6 o r
compatible pr o c essor, a Wind o wscompatibie display, at least two megabytes
of random access memory, a hard disk,
DOS 5.0 or later, and Wmdows 5.0 or later.
SmartPics supports all major Windowssupported networks, Lotus said.
SmartPics for Windows sells for a
suggested retail price of US$195, for a
version that can serve a single user or rnn
on a network server. Network node licenses
have a suggested retail price of US$49. The
'
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e in the first week

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rogram as part of his Windows World
eynote. The demonstration, according to
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Windows will be the standard PC-CAD
operadng environment ofthe mid 1990L
The company also said it is invesrtgadng
WmdowsNT and extender technologies for
a future $2-bit version of AutoCAD for
Wmdows.
Autodesk said the ability to move data

fram one application to another and the

multitasldng capalities of Wmdaws make
it attracthre to AutoCAD users.
However, the Windows environment is
slower nd Autodesk says when users want
morc speed, the DOS environment is the
ptace to get tt
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re youready for an arcadeetyle game

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room, some of the rooms have heating
vents and other devices that can propel our
plane in the right direction.
ln addition to the normal obstacles that
one would expect in a house like tables,
chairs, and cabinets of aII sorts,the game
exhibits some zany humor. For instance,
several of t h e r o om s feature paper
shredders. Needless to any, a paper airplane
should not plan on going through one of
those unscathed! Others have some very
h,ulty electrical wall sockets that Bterally fry
you if you touch them at the wrong time;
yet other rooms have toastera that spew out
slices of toast that must be avoided. Oh, I
almost forgot, the fish m the aquariums are
piran has!
There are also various things that you
can pick up to assist you in your journey.
Additional planes can be constructed from
the loose sheets of paper. Batteries (!) give
you a bit of extra power. Alarm clocks
supply you with points while boxes of
rubber bands can be used to shoot the
occasional balloons. These seem mainly to
be there for you to take out your
frustrations they aren't really necessary.
There aremore things both good and bad,
but I do not want to spoil your enjoyment

of the game by telling alL

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Although I have not played the Shareware
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case you are given a bit of an advanced
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la gomg on.
There are various sound effects beyond
the e x clamation d e scribed a b o ve.
T hroughout y o u r f li g h t y o u ar e
accompanied by a steady twanging of a bass
guitar. It's interesting in the beginning but
gets a bit monotonous Inter on. When you

capture a helpful thing, you are rewarded

both by a sound distinct for each object-

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PAPER MAY '92 69

New For Nlac: WardPerfect v2.1

Apple/Sharp To Jointly Develop Hand-held Computers

ADDLESTONE, SURREY, ENGLAND,

OSAKA, JAPAN, MAR 27 (NB) Despite

MAR 20 (NB) WordPerfect has released

WordPerfect 2.1 for M a cintosh. The
company says it's System 7 savvy and takes
advantage of Apple's new QuickTime
technology.
Using QuickTime, users can build
dynamic documents which include video

caps in addition to text and graphics. As a

QuckTime "movie" has been inserted into
a document, the user double+dicks on the
icon to bring it to life.
David Godwin, general manager of sales
and marketing with Word Perfect U.K, said
that he sees QuickThnc as the next step in

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word processing. "Because of its universal

usc, a word processor is an ideal apphcation
for dynamic media. We are receiving a
great deal of interest from coxporate users
who want dynamic media capabilities
without buying additional applications," he
said.
WordPcrfect 2.1 for Mac includes
support for a variety of System 7 features,
including the publish and subscribe facility,
Apple Events and Balloon Help. Virtual
memory is also supported.
Ccnfecl: WcnfPerfeat U.K. Tel: 0982-850500;
F ax: 0982~ 1 0 .

early reports that Apple was planning to do

business with Sony to develop the personal
digital assistants (PDAs), the products
announced by Apple President John Sculley
at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show,
Sharp says it is the first licensee to partner
with Apple on the planned PDA devices.
A PDA is a device described by Sculley
as a small, portable infoxmation device that
uses digital technology for communication,
information storage, and information
retxie~
meth i ng that would bridge the
gap between current personal computers
and consumer electronics products.
While Sony has a relationship with

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Apple it is manufacturing one of the

versions of the Powerbook Apple notebook
computer Apple said in Januaxy it was not
at that thne releasing details about the PDA
devices or its alliances in developing PDAs.
Shaxp says both companies have foxmed
project teams and have begun aggressive
product development efforts. Targeted
product delivery date for the PDA is 1995,
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NEW YORK, NEW%)RX, MAR 16 (NB)-

David Rose, president of Ex Machina

Corporation. speaking to the New York

Ainateur Computer CXub (NYACC), said

that nevsevent diiven operating systems,
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Rasterops maintains the board is one of
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video dig cheer couiponent which anows the
recording of movies in auy QuickTime
application, so creation and editing of
QuickTime iuovies can be done in one
sokware sjliplcscion.

development of QsickXime.
RasterOps says live video display,
The 24-bit board offers display at SO essential for i n t eractive multimedia
kacnes per second of video output to any applications, is delivered without any
jitsering at SD fcames per seamd, kern the

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i. Buy a Macintosh Computer
2. Buy your Macintosh Computer at our new Retail Centre

smanest vlindaw to a full 640 z 480 screen

with the 24STV board. Also the board
supports composite and S-Video input, as
well as video outpm to any NTSC or PAL
device, such as celeaYion or videotape, with
the addition o f a R a s terops Video
Expander 11, the coinpany maintains.
An Adobe Photoihop plug4n lets usecs
access live video4n~ do w , so a kame of
video can be captured aud integrated it
into a Photoshop document without ever
bsnmg to leave the application, Rasteroln
mamtamL
More control is also availabl.e for
p roducers, Rasterops said, with t h e
inclusion of controls to manage hue,
brightness, contrast and saturation;.
odd/even or full4aame video Selds; and
hcrimntal aud veniad video flip.
Rascerops is mathig the aiuunmcement
on the heels ofan annouuceuient kom

Apple, Supermac Technology, Adobe

Systems, and Macromind-Paracomp of a

series of seminars planned for March,
Aptly and Maythe coulpsllies ace Jomtly
p roducing to show users how to d o

Spigoting.' 'Spigoting is deSned by

Supermac as cating livevideo from a

camcorder or video cassetterecorder

(VCR) and scoring it on a hhcintosh hard

drive, editing the video clips, creating

special effects, and integrating live video
into software applicatiouL

Openingin early May, our new Retail Centre will offer everything you need to
get started, including a wide selection of hardware, software, accessories, books,
even training courses to really get you going fast. You won't see "top of the line"
Macs here (or toasters and microwaves), but you wi11 see Apple's latest in easy-touse Classics, PowerBooks and fu11-colour LC's, as well as carefully selected
peripherals to complete your system. Best of all, you get friendly, knowledgeable
"Mac Only"expertise atw arehouse prices,and the realconvenience of having a
complete service department right on the premises. In a word, value.

Rasterops says its 24SFV is priced at

$999. Videosyigot users am get their 4550
credit by calhug 8004AYWOLOR or by
conmcting a Rasterops authorized dealer,
the company said. The offer expires June
SD, 1982 and is only audlshle so users who
purchased Videospigot boards prior to
March Sl, 1992.

Cocctsnt: Canie Cappe, Rastcsops,Cal408-5824280, fsx 408-QR-4085.

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Hayes Microcomputer Pr oducts has

announced it is now shipping special
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Optima 2400 aud 9600 modems.
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71

Quarterdeck Ships Desqview/X-Windows

ID6 Intros CD-ROM-Based Enterprise Computing Database

WASHINGTON, DC, MAR 51 (NB)-

W ASHINGTON, DC, MAR 50 ( N B ) CD-Answer 5.0, Dataware's hyperlink

International Data Group, or IDG, has retrieval system, will be standard for all
announced that it is producing a new line these IDG database publications, according
of CD-ROM databases for the information to Earl, bringing one important new aspect
technology executive who needs access to to the CD-ROM publication field the
information found in IDG periodiads. The ability to hyperlink between different
newly formed Emerging Technology artides and publications on a single disc.
A pplications ( E TA ) o p e r ating u n i t
Another major new feature which ETA
developed the databases in conjunction will be offerhig, according to Paul Earl, will
with CD-ROM e x p erts a t D a t aware be custom CD-ROM databases designed for
Technologies.
customers and published with just the sort
Paul Earl of ETA told Newsbytes that of data they need. Such databases, which
IDG is pladng fullcext and useful graphics, Earl says will be priced as low as $10,000,
"not photographs, but useful charts and could and probably will include a way for
data," from two and a half years of Nctcoorh companies to s e arch ou t p o t ential
Workf, CocapstcrWorkf,and Infoworld, on a customers using various criteria, but the
CD-ROM which will be updated monthly.
names and addresses will probably not be
Research data f rom ID C R c scarchon the customer disc.
Databaseand Link are also included on the
Instead, Earl told Newsbytes, people will
disc, which has a first year subscxiption rate have a way toquickly send the company
of $695 for 12 issues.
their search criteria. The company will then
Other publications will be a dded print up a set of labels that matches the
regularly. For instance, CrOwiti be added in criteria they have already refined through
July and the company will continue to add their own searcheL
other appropriate IDG publications.
Contact: PaulEarl ETA, 508-8794006.

Quarterdeck Office Systems chose FOSE

(Federal Ofiice Systems Expo) as the site to
unveil the much anticipated third version
of that company's powerful multitasking
operating environment, Desqvfew/X.
Desqview/X, a full client-server X
Window implementation, runs on a 586 or
faster computer using MS-DOS 5 and
higher or DR-DOS 6 or higher, having EGA
or better graphics, and a minimum of four
megabytes of RAM. Desqview/X will run
DOS, Windows, and X applications on
stand alone PCs or across networks.
This is the very first full MS-DOS
client / server implementation of t h e
international standard X-Window System.
Included in the $275 list price is the
QEMM-586 memory manager and the

driver needed to run the environment on a

Novell network. TCP/IP or Transmission
Control P r otocol/ I n t ernet P r o tocol
network drivers are an additional $200.
The environment can beconfigured to
have three different intc:rfaces, the X
Window environment which is inClude, an
OSF-Motifinterface for $250 more, or an
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'ace for $200 more.
In addition to the X Window icon,
menu, an d t h r ee-dimensional look,
Desqview/X provides the important abiTity
to cut-and-paste information between
applications running in different windows,
without regard to t heir i n ternal file
formats. This can even be done across a
network, but the company daims that the
new environment is a major advance for
stand&one PC users also.

PCANinCIOWS ShOW .p >.. 4

Exctra Sytras
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an impressive array of speedup boards for
the older Mac Plus, SE and Classics. The
same wire~
e gr a p hic was shown being
rotated byan 8 MHz Plus, a 40 MHz and a
50 MHz accelerited Mac Plus. The first unit
on the top was being whipped round at a
great rate. The company was also showing
off the new Turtle Beach MPC audio carcL

Systems, whose WindowPhone board allows

you to utilize the Caller ID function which
has recently become available through BelL
When a phone call comes through, if you
have thatnumber in your databaseyou can
have the computer pull up a database
record on whoever is calling from that
number. And you wondered how those
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procedures for a spedfic type aircraft or
automobile on Hehnsman and eliminate
paper copies of technical advlsories.
Helmsman allows businesses to store
documents on either a CD-ROM or in a
data hase for transfer to a computer where a
document search can take place. Using the
pubhc telephone network and fibermptic
connections, acompany can keep a data
base in one location and distribute the
documents, and any updates as they occur.
Training m a n u als, r e p ai r m a n u als,
regulations and other documents can be
updated from one location to another
location around the globe.
Contact: Northern Telecom, Frank McNally,
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Next-generation
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TOKYO, JAPAN, APR 6

tNB) Japan Zeon

and Kurareare jointly marketing a compact

disk (CD) made of a new technology which

is said to enable the CD to produce even
higher quality sound than today's discs,
T he n e w C D ma t e r ia l i s c a l l e d
"Zeonecks" which is a combination of
spedal alloys. One amorphous part of the
disc material consists of a combination of
iron, cobalt and n i ckel i n a r a n d om
arrangement of atoms. The advantage to
this material, the companies say, is its
durabfiity and hardness, and its sensitivity to
magnetic fields. As a result, it is said to
reproduce sound crisper and dearer than
existing CDs.
The price of the new CD is still much
higher than conventional CDs. According
to a Kurare spokesman, the new Zeonecks

technology is priced 50 percent higher than

regular CDs at400 to 500 yen each. But

both firms are confident that they will be
wellwccepted in the music industry.

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weeks. Zeos, however, has announced that
its Zeos 486SLC-25 should be available by
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The Cyrix 486 processor, the Cx486SLC,
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comparable Intel microprocessor, but also
because Intel is loudly and vehemently
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The market.
Cyrix claims the new 486 ch ip i s
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Tendon says it will be the first to oifer the
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have m i c r o processors h o u se d i n
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removed and a new one put in its place.
Tendon says the. new 486 PCs will be
available in volume and will provide 70
percent greater performance than IBM's
new 586SLC/25 at half the. price of the new
IBM computer.
Tandott also p o i nts ou t e x i sting
customers will be able to upgrade their
systems to the new 486 CPU.
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Toshiba says it has introduced the world' s the SVGA display is what makes the
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(TFT-LCD) 486SX color n otebook
Toshiba also boasts the T4400SXC
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Called t h e T4 4 0 0 SXC , T o s hiba (RAM), memory that can be expanded up
America's Information Systems (TAIS)
to 20 MB in 2 MB, 4 MB, 8 MB or 16 MB
Computer System Division says the new uscr4nstamable memory moduleL The Intel
notebook offers a 486SX microprocessor at
25 MHz 486SX microprocessor comes with
25 mcgahcrtz and options for either a 120
8 hlobytes (K) of internal chip cache and
megabyte (MB) or 80 MB hard disk chive.
can be upgraded to a 25 MHz 486DX,
The 8.5-inch TIT-LCD color display
Toshiba said.
provides video graphics array (VGA) 640 X
The notebook also comes with a 5.5480 resolution, a wider viewing angle, and
inch 1.44 MB diskette drive and an internal
is over five times faster with more contrast dedicated modem slot for an optional
than standard LCD displays, Toshiba
inteinal 9600 bit per second (bps), cellularmaintains. The T4400SXC also supports
ready, data or fax modem. The removable,
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640 X 480 from a palette for 185,195
three hours of battery life in normal use
colors) simultaneously on both the intexnal
and recharges the battery in approximately
and external monitor displays, a feature
90 minutes, Toshiba added.
Toshiba says can be taken advantage of for
In January, Toshiba announced a color
sales and training presentations.
portable 486 computer, the. T6400, also
Toshiba maintains its new c olor
with TST. Toshiba said the TFI' display has
notebook is the only notebook to really
the advantage of no distortion at the
measure up for color applications where
corners or convergence problems often
r ealistic d i splay o f s c a n ned c o l o r found in CRT monitor screenL
p hotographs is necessary or to t a k e
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Dolch Offers New, Portable Multimedia Hardware

Formatted 3.5"HD

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MLHTAS, CALII!WRNIA, MAR 17 (NB)Dolch Computer Systems, known for its

high~nd presentation and field durable
computer products has announced three
new offerings geared toward multimedia.
They indude a color stand&one momtor
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conversion of video signals into video
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The DVI video controller is available for

from IBM o r c ompatible personal DOS, Unix, and OS/2 operating systems,
computers (PCs) a n d M a c intosh Dolch added.
computers, or NTSC video, Dolch said.
The PRISM will fit in a briefcase, Dolch
added. Its dimensions are 15.Nnches lotal,

The company says it is demonstrating

the new products live at trade shows
t hroughout this month, an d al l t h e

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products are available as part of the

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that lays on an overhead projector or can
be con~
to a m onitor with the addition
of a snap-in backlight. The PRISM can
display still or full-motion video output

rates are user selectable from 8:1 up to

150:l.
B ecause the compression ratio i s
selcctable through firmware quantization
and Huffman tables, the JPEG option can
accept video/audio input from a variety of
sources, induding NTSC, PAL, and CCIR
601, Dolch added.
Dolch is also offering a DVI video
controller option that the company says csn
handle signals from industry standard DVI
sources and convert them to digital RGB in
the VGA format. The controller is capable
of driving 256 colors to T$T (thin film

Dolch is also offering compression for

video built into its PA.C. computers. A
hardware m odule, t h e s y mmetrical

compression/ decompression option

utilizes the JPEG standard algorithm

running at video rates for full motion video

and audio compression and storage to the

system disk Dolch says the compression

multimedia product line.

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has been designing and manufacturing

portable computers since 1987. Thc
company wasfounded by Volker Dolch, a
Geranan interested in the development of
nucroprocessor mstrumcntationo

Confaol: Sieve Critz, OolohComputer Systems,

tel 408-9674576, fax 408-2884305.

Comdex: NCR Rolls Out New Computers, Notebook

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APR 8 (NB)-

megahertz Intel 80486SX processor. The

ATtcT'8 NCR unit launched a ncw version

of the Saiarl notebook computer, the Sl'70.
The new machine weighs 5 pounds and
features a PCMCIA slot.
It measures 8 inches by 11 inches by 2
inches, approximately. It comes standard
with a datakax modem, an 80 megabyte
hard drive, 2 megabytes of RAM, and an
I ntel 8 0 886SL c hi p r u n n in g a t 2 5
megahertz. The system is the result of a
deal announced last year between parent
ATScT and Marubeni of Japan.
NCR has also introduced the System
8580, a personal computer using the 16-

5580 is NCR'8 first machine combining a

486 chip with the AT (Industry Standard
Architecture) bus. Thc company offers
several 486-based systems with Micro
Channel Architecture (MCA) buses.
NCR said the System SMO is aimed at
office users who are running multiple
apphcations in a distributed environment
using Microsoft's Windows operating
environment, or who n ee d h ighp erformancc s t o rage o r gr a p h i c s
capaMitieL

The SSSO can beupgraded to a full

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Dell Shuns Pen Computing For New Graphics PC

first to ship a color notebook priced under

AUSTIN, TEXAS, APR 8 (NB) Dell

Computer will shun pen+used computing

data modem, DOS 5.0, Borland Sidekick

2.0 and Prodigy software. It has a 25
megahertz (MHz) microprocessor, weighs
7.S pounds, includes a 60 megabyte (MB)

Dell said the company is in discussions

w ith p o t ential c o nsumers o n t h e i r
requirements for pen computing.
Dell announced that it will be preloading Windows 5.1 on its new computers.
A bundle which includes Windows S.l, MSDOS 5.0, and a mouse will cost $149; a
similar bundle which indudes Microsoft's
Ballpoint Mouse carries a price tag of $199.
Users who already have Windows but
want to upgrade to version S.l can order it
from Dell for 445, or you can buy a
WindowsS.1/DOS 5.0 package (without the

for now, but has introduced a new dPesktop

system with a graphics display that Dell says

will run as much as ten times faster than

existing super VGA displays.

D ell Chairman M i chael D el l t o l d

Reuters news service that the company has
no immediate phms to enter the pen4ased
computer market,although the company
does see some initial demand for the
product.
'The first generation of pen%seed PCs
are kind of a joke, Dell reportedly said
after his address at COMDEX, the semi
annual trade show being held in Chicago
this week. Dell dted weight and operathtg
problems with pen-based computers. He
did not rule out future interest in penbased computers, saying, "We' re not

mouse) for $89.

D ell says its new 450DE/ 2 D G X ,

powered by the recently announced Intel
486DX2 50 megahertz chip, can deliver
high r e solution, w o rkstation-quality
graphics by directly coupling a graphics
subsystem to the microprocessor. The new
design efiminates the need for a specialized
graphics coprocessor to obtain video
perfomtance better than super VGA.

jumping in right now. The pen market is

probably six to nine months from starting
to take off."

The new system has a suggested list

price of $5,499 including a 16-inch color
monitor. Dell compared that with a
similarly configured system with a S4020
graphics coprocessor supporting 1280 X
1024 resolution, which selb for $6,199.
Dell said the new video technology was
developed jointly with Intel Corporation.
According to the company, customer
r esponse was overwhelming when i t
previewed the v i deo d i splay at l a st
October's COMDEX trade show in Las
Vegas.
The 450DE/2 DGX is scheduled to ship
in May, and i n cludes a 52-bit EI SA
(extended industry standard architecture)
bus. Standard system configuration
includes four megabytes of system memory
(RAM) which is expandable to 96 MB,
128K or secondary cache memory, 2MB of

video RAM, onehigh4ensitySoppy drive,

and an 80MB hard disk

Contact: t.ha Rohl, Doll Compuler, 512448S182 or 500-2504855.

AST Ships Color Premium

and Achrantage Notebooks

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, MAR 17 (NB)-

AST says it has begun shipping its color

Premium Exec S86SX/25C notebook and
the Advantage! NBA notebook,
AST has lowered prices on the color
notebook over 20 percent, making it the

US$4,000.
The Advantagel is preconfigured with a

hard disk drive, a 1.44 MB S.inch diskette

drive, a 2,400 baud internal data modem,
and four MB ofRAM expnndablc to 8 MB.
It also includes one setial port, one parallel
port, one external monitor port, one
numeric keypad/mouse port,a SLst~harge
AC adapter, and a nylon carrying case.
Not available thorough nationwide
retail distribution outlets, AST says the
Premium Exec color notebook has been
shipped in limited quantities to select
major accounts since February. The
computer weighs just over seven pounds, is
battery powered with a nine4nch diagonal
video graphics array (VGA) color screen at
6 40 by 480 pixel resolution, and 16
shnultaneous colors. The screen can display
up to 256 colors, but at a lower resolution
of S20 by 200. The screen is based on thinfilm supertwist nematic (FSTN) technology
and contains two backlit cold cathode
flourescent tube (CCFT) panels, AST
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T he P r emium E x e c a l s o h a s a
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the external and built4n screen at the same
thne for use in presentationL
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Overview
Lotus' Freelance Graphics for Wmdows is a
good news/bad news story. The good news
is plentiful: superb use of W i n dows
technology with the combination of
SmartIcons, SmartMaster templates, an

SIIlmrtwlmatato
It is ironic that Lotus, which was a late
adapter of the Windows interface, is now
leading the pack in innovative use of
Window's GUI features. For example,
Lotus' Ami Pro was one of the first software
applications to take advantage of icons,
HP's New Wave, and later OLK.
Recently, Lotus has adopted for all its
Windows products the use of SmartIcons.
SmartIcons are just a group of icons laid
out like a ribbon across the top (or along
any of the sides of the screen or evm in a
floating box). I c ons allow the user to
access or perform with one click an
operation which would normamy require

several steps (e.g., dichng the Sdssors icon

causes selected text/objects to be cut away
onto the clipboard).
This in itself is not a unique innovation
as Mcroso& Excel and Word for Wmdows
provide shmlar window bars across the top

of their programs. The innovation from

Lotus is i n m a k ing th e S m artIcons
customLtable by the user.
We have already seen that the user has
many choices as to the placement of the
SmartIcons (or if they are to be visible in
the first place). Even nicer is the ability to
choose not only which icons are to be
shown but also their order of placement on
the icon bar or ribbon. In sum, SmartIcons
provide the best of both worlds intuitive
visual icons for the novice and startmg user
with customizal i t y for the power user.
Look for all Windows applications to be

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Freelance Graphics ~t p p g yy
adopting SmartIcons-like features as
WordPeifect did for their recently released
Windows word processor.
Smartlcons are veiy useful in the world
of presentation programs where the user
needs to change frequently fiom one view
or tool to another. SmartIcons help to
eliminate the need to remember which
pulldown menu to use. But Lotus has not
stopped here. With their implementation

of SmartMasters they have again pumed off

a product@eading innovation. The idea of
SmartMasters c o m b i ne s M i c r o soft
PowerPoint's SlideMasters with Aldus
Persuasion's Auto-Templates, plus Lotus'
own on-screen SmartMaster pr ompt
technology. The result) Produdng higlaquality slides or presentations is a snap.

4 P r esentation packages should

strive to offer as many and as-easy-aspossible links to all the major software
products and/or file formats.

How Smartmwaiters Nelp

The idea of a master page layout is starting
to appear in many word processing aud
g
DTP programs but the idea has its fullest
flowering i n
gr a p h i c p r e sentation
program@ The idea is to define a common

and putting together a presentation. First

there is the outline view. The outliner looks
hke a Fined yellow notepad with a doublepage layout including not only page line red column for the left marginorientation, size, margins but also repeating
shades of grade school days.
headings, footers, color scheme, logo
Don't be m i staken, however; this
placement, etc.
outliner is a powerful tool to help organize
Every
p a g e us e d in
the
a presentation because all the text that
document/presentation has the same
appears on each page or slide is shown on
common elements at the outset. Programs the outliner in an informative fashion. The
then allow more or less control over
start of each slide is indicated by one of two
customizing of these elements on any
icons in the left margin. An empty slide
individual page. Autocemplates takes the
icon indicates the slide contains only text
idea of a master page and pluralizes it. The
(or a logo as pait of the template master)
notion is that most presentations and slide but no graphics or other bitmap image.
shows are made up of common types of
If there is a small triangle in the slide
sFides.
icon, then there is also a graphic on the full
For example, most presentations have a page/slide as well as all the text you see to
title slide, several text slides with bullet
the right of the red column line down to
points, plus some slides with one or more
the next slide icon. This outliner view is
graphs on them. But all the slides/pages
invaluable to get a feel for the overall
retain a standard look (ke., from the master
message which you are trying to convey in a
page layout). Autotemplates provide these presentation without the clutter of graphs
common slides or pages. In Freelance
and symbols.
Graphics, the list of template pages/slides
Best of all you can edit the text of your
includes:
slides; just remember the simple rules:
Title, 1-Column Bullets, 2-Column
Istcank lines become slide dtles
Bumets, l&raph, 2~phs, +Graphs, Bullet 2nd~ k l i nes are indented and become
L Graph, Bullet L Symbol, Basic Layout
bullet points
(master page layout), and Blank Page (no Srd-rank lines are indented again and
master page elements).
become subkullet points.
The groundMeaking innovation is that
Hit the Tab key on a line and the line is
Freelance Graphics provides on each
lowered one rank, i.e., after Tab a bullet
template what I
c a l l " d i sappearing line becomes a sub-bullet (2nd to Srd
SmartMaster promptL
rank). Likewise Shift-Tab promotes a line.
SmartMaster prompts tern the user how Simple but very effective.
to fill in a particular template. For example,
The page view is the second and more
the 1&olumn Bullet SmartMaster has two
conventional approach to page/slide
prompts. One at the top of the page in
editing, here you get a WYSIWYG view of
large text prompts: Gick here to type page the page/slide with full editing capabihties.
title." Another just below in smaller type
Besides the SmartIcons there is a tool bar
promptL "Click here to type bulleted text.'
to the left of the slide that allows you to
When you dick on the prenpt, the textquickly add or change text, put in a symbol
entry box pops up to allow typing in the or bitmap image, plus add/ modify a
appropriate title or bullet. After filling in
numeric plot/chart.
the title, for example, the text of the title
All these operations are quite intuitive
then ppearson the page in the Sent style,
to do. Just point at the object you want to
size and position that the prompt originally edit, then you can move or re-size the
occupied. Likewise with bullets created by object (be it text, image, or plot). Then if
dickmg on the Bullets prompt.
you dick on the object's icon in the tool
But the really nifty thing is if you
bar (such as the "ABC" icon for text) you
p review a s l id e w i t h a m i x t u r e o f
can add ormodify as required.
SmartMaster prompts and your own filledIn addition, most of the pulldown and
in text and/or graphs the SmartMaster
SmartIcons commands are available for
prompts disappear from the preview (or changing color palettes, font style and size,
printout) and you get a true view of how drawing with a robust set of tools, adding
your slide will look. TMs is very handy. In arrows or comment boxes, etc. Because you
sum, SmartMasters makes the of ten- can create your own SmartMaster slides,
complicated task of putting together a
you.can also edit every aspect of the 60 prepresentation
m u c h si m p l e r and
built ants provided by Lotus. Rate the Side
straightforward.
editor robust and easy to use.
The third view is a slide sorter with 12
Other FeHaees
slides visible on a screen. Think of this as
Once you have chosen your SmartMasters the visual outliner. You can "pick up a
template (or you may have chosen the s lide an d c h ange i t s o r de r i n t h e
Nomaster template which, as its name
presentation. Change the SmartMaster and
i mplies, is a b l a n k m a ster w it h n o
get a visual feel for the new impact of your
t emplates), F r e elance G r a phics f o r
presentation. I like to print from hereWindows provides three ways of viewing selecting one slide and then alternately

laser printing in BaW the Speaker notes

then the Audience handout and finally the
full slide.
Try the slid~how feature from here to
see ho w a com p u t er-based v i sual
presentation will look Aldus' Persuasion is
the one presentation program that comes
closest to the f e atures in F r eelance
Graphics for Windows; but even this fine
product is not as firs and, though offering
some nifty features of its own, does not
match the overall easewf~e of Freelance
Graphics for Windows.

The Slips

If you' ve gotten this far in the review you

might wonder how, between cup and lip,
did Lotus let such a good product slip)
First, skimp on the documentation. Next,
allow imports and exports only to your own
products, not other industry standards such
as Microsoft's Excel, Borland's Qmttro Pro
and Paradox, etc.
Then, provide charting features that are
not just the poor-boy among presentation
p ackages but a lso i n f erior t o y o u r
wordprocessor's (i.e., Ami Pro) charting
capabilities. Don't provide org charting
capabilities. Then, add filters for importing
.BMP, .TIF, and .PCX files which make the
original good image look bad. Finally,
sprinkle a few random changes on Wmdows
clipboard and DD E i m age transfers.
Voila the slip 'twixt cup and lip.
Let us examine these problems one by
one.
In Freelance Graphics for DOS version
4.0 the main reference manual is 500 pages
of wem~lanized and amply imustrated text;
for Windows the manual shrinks to under

SOO pages.The i~age quick-reference

booklet becomes a six-page foldout card.
Two startup booklets become one terse 20page manual. The online tutorial bombs in
two of the lessons. The online help index
contains less than 40 items, which are then
linked to lower4evel items.
The result is that getting at specific
technical details can be tim~ onsuming.
Partially, the ease of use of Freelance

Graphics for Windows makes up for the

shorter documentation. Unfortunately, the
c omplex n a t ur e o f t he Wind o w s
environment does require unearthing
technical details more often than in DOS.
Examples are the DDE and OLE links,

printer setup and changes, performance

tuning, etc. A good reference manual

where each pull<own command is

systematically explained or the equivalent
list at the top of the online help would
certainly be usefuL
The whole arena ofinterchanging data
is at the heart of o pen systems and
interoperability. Presentation packages are
right at the data crossroads since many slide
presentations are used to pull together
diverse sources of information in an

organization and likewise export to equamy

broad range of target environs/products.

Thus, presentation packages should
strive to offer as many and as-easy-aspossible links to all the major software
products and/or file formats. In its current
version, Freelance Graphics for Windows
fails well short of its competitors in both
import/inlin k
a nd exp o r t / o u t l ink
cap amitie L
Three to five years ago the charting
feature ofFreelance Graphics for Windows
would havebeen a source of pride; but now
it is well behind the capabiTities of even the
charting module of Ami Pro a word
processor. This would not be too serious if
the data and image/object interchange
capabilities of Freelance Graphics for
Windows were topnotch. Unfortunately,
that is not the case. The f'act that Freelance
Graphics for Windows does not support
organization charting while some of its
competitors do, underscores the problem.
Given that Freelance Graphics for
Windows has a relatively small number of
import/export modules/file filters, one
would expect them to be top performersf ast and absolutely accurate i n t h e i r
transfers. In the very important case of
.BMP, .PCX, and .TIF imports, Freelance
Graphics for Windows faBs well short of
presentation quality. This is probably one
of the most serious shps in the product.
For example, I captured a DOS screen
using Aptec's Pizzazz Plus in .PCX, .BMP
and .TIF formats. When these files were
imported into Zsoft's PC Paintbrush (with
the exception of .TIF format which is not

supported), there was no discernible fallof

in image quality. When these same files
were imported in Lotus' Ami Pro, there was,
a small d e c lin e i n im a g e q u a l ity.
Unfortunately, for aU three file types, the
imported images with Freelance Graphics
for Windows were unacceptable. Calls to
technical support at Lotus did not bring a
resolution of the problem. I'd give up org
charting capabiTities anytime, any day, any
minute for rock<olid imports and exports
of images and graphics.
If you can't import the images, let's try
t o get the data in using the DDE and :
Windows clipboard. More bad news in the .
case of images and objects, good news in
the case of numbers and character strings.
Importing Lotus 1-2-5 graphs as objects
either through the clipboard or through
the DDE l i nks almost inevitably left
something behind or scrambled. The
legend or titling might be lost, the colors
might be switched, the gridlines might
disappear. In contrast, if you moved the
data over as numbers and strings then
produced the graph in Freelance Graphics
for Windows, everything appeared to work
The problem is that many charts from a
vast library of 1-24 charts/plots have to be
redone fo r F r e elance G r aphics for
Wmdowa
.

Conclusion
These are not major slipL The product is
relatively fiist, prints well, and performs veiy
reliably given the obvious complexities of
its powerful SmartMasters technology. It
appears the program was rushed to market;
how else to explain slips which take the !
sheen off an otherwise brilliant product.

Remember, though, image is important

to presentations. So if you need to import a l

lot of images/bitmaps or need really robust
charting capabilities, you might want to
hold off until Lotus issues an update.
Otherwise, Freehmce Graphics for Windows
sets the standard for easeef-use features
which the other presentafion packages will
have to measure up to.
Jacques Stav?syss is I pcwaur mik Applicatioa
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Aceclit Graphics Tablet

Product:

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Overview
This product is dearly a great alterztative to
a mouse. It delivers the benefits of a
standard g r a p hics t a b le t a n d the
compactness of a mouse. The Acecat is wem
constructed and is designed to l o ok
attractive alongside the other bits of
c omputer h a r d ware n e c essary f o r
"machine/human i nterface. I t i s a
reReshing change Rom the common mice,
track4alls, touch screens and regular CADtype graphics tablets.

The Mouse Killer

The product news release refers to the
Accent as a mouse killer.' It's doubtful that
the milions of mice will drop dead due to
the appearance of a gmphics tablet bnt it
is hkely that this product wim be a popular
choice for those of us who are just plain

bored with pushing a soap bcr around the

deikl
Two of the most appealing features of
the Accentare its sh e (outer dimensionL 8"

x 9$") aud weight (1.21 lb.). The size is

tablet emulation, a mo use driver for

Microsoft mouse emulation, and a Windows
dArer which allows for tablet settings inside
MS Wmdows 5.0.
The Acecat p~
incI u des the tablet
itself, twe4utton stylus pen, cables (RS2M
serial) and software. An optional fourbutton cursor puCk, sixteenketton cursor
puck, power adapter and anti~tatic dust
cover are ~
e sep a rately. Thedeviceis
covered by a on~
wa r r anty.

attractive because it actually takes up

(more or less) the same desktop space
as a mou se mat. The weight is
attractive be
tablets, it islight as a feather and
can be moved enortlessly with
one hancL
moving th
off the desk and onto
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ustng a mouse on

Summary

your pant legl).

A Mini T ablet
The Acecat graphics tablet is a
miniature g r aphi cs tablet which
emulates both Summa Graphics' MM 961
graphics table.t aud a Nncroson mouse. to
switch between each mode, one must use a
hardware switch on the tablet itielf. This
brings up one small problem with the
design: if you use the Acecat m MS mouse
mode under Windows,you have to reboot
the computer to switch to taMet mode for
use with, for example, AutoCAD. This is
annoying, but considering the cost of this
device, acceptable.
The active area of the Acecat is 5" x 5".

This may sound very smaH, b ut

ezgcmomically it is just right for wrist and

arm movement. In mouse nrode, this
means only a couple of strokes to go Rom

upper
left corner to the lower right.
I n tablet mode the 5" x 5 "
active area of the tablet is absolute, that
is, thc; upper left corner of the tablet is the
upper Iefl corner of the screen.
The Acecat has a resolution of 1000

lines per inch and an accuracy of+/%.01",

which is about average for graphics tablets.
Thc:
involved is electromagnetic
inductive. It ts compatible with over 400

techn
ology

CAD/CAE and graphicswpplication

software programs (due to its emulation).

The Acecat software disk comes with an
AADI driver for Autodesk applications, an
ACE96 driver for settings to support 9" x 6"

Overall, this product offers a reReshing

change Rom a mouse and deserves a close
look. It has capabilities beyond those of a
generic mouse. It is a fully functional
graphics tablet; although not really capabie
of serious digitizing (due to size), it can
perform all the tasks of a "real" graphics
tablet.
There are only two points of criticism
about this product which deserve mention.
One is the problem of switching between
tablet mode and mouse mode. The other is
that the two-button pen needs to be a bit
h eavier (to counter the drag of t h e
connecting cable). These two points are
minor, however. This is a great product
which merits serious consideration when
thinhng about a pointing device; it should

be thought of as a great alternative to the

ubiquitous mouse.

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Thinking Computer Part II, $100,000 Loebner Prize

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, MAR 12

(NB) The Cambridge Center for

Behavioral Studies, has announced the date

and site of the second " Quest for the
Thinking Computer" contest which will
test computers against human beings and
each other in the "Turing Test." The next
test will bc held at the Computer Museum
in Boston on November 17, 1992.
Last year's contest, also held at the
Boston Computer Museum, featured ten
judges using eight terminals in an attempt
to determine which ones were controlled
by people and which by computers.
The $100~0 Loebner Prize in Artificial
Intelligence will be awarded to the first
computer which am convince judgesin an
test that they are talking with
another human via computer terminals,
rather than just getting reactions from a
computer.
Since computers at present are only
capable of competing in a singlecopic area,
the 1992 winner will only receive a bronze
m edal and $2,000, but th ere will b e
periodic opencnded, non-topic-restricted
tests which let computers compete for the
top $100,000 piize.

openh
anded

Alan Turing, th e f a mous English

mathematidan who developed many ofthe
basic concepts used in modern computers,

proposed a contest which would place a

person at a teletype terminal and if that
person could not tell whether he or she was
aexying on a discussion with a computer or
another person, then the computer would
be considered truly intelligent.
For further information or to purchase
a transcript of the conversations held
during the 1991 contest, contact Xathleen
Towne at 617491-9020, or fax 6174911072. Applications to compete must be
accompanied with anon-refundable $25
fee for individuals or $100 for schools or
groups.
The $2,000 prize will go to the highest
scoring machine entry.
Three of the judges last year thought
that the two humans were computers, while
one of the six computer entries was able to
fool half of the judges into thinking that it
was human.
Contaat: Or. Robeit Epstein, Cambridge Center
for Behavioral Scales, 819-5844281, 611+762716.

New Internet Rules

WASHINGTON, DC, APR 5 (NB) The

National Science Foundation (N SF),
sponsor of the NSF-NET backbone of
Internet, has reluctantly released a set of
ground rules defining just what sort of
messages can be sent over the network
which was originally intended for use by
government and nonyrofit groups such as
universitieL The written rules refic;ct this
original intention but are opposed by many
present nonwommercial and potential
commercial users of Internet.
The most important written rules
concern what is considered inappropriate
use by the National Science Foundation
which pays for the heart of the system.
Specifically prohibited or at l east
f'rowned upon are any messages sent to
ibrther "for profit activities." Another aiea

I Know befoxeyour eompetitar what's happemnl

which should be carefully monitored is

extensive use for personal or private

in your induehy- a11 OVer lie WOrld.

communication L
New product or service announcements
will be encouraged, as well as all activities
directly related to basic research, both
foreign and domestio this will include
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within a few years nearly nine percent of
the registered Internet users will be
commerdal rather than academic.
Surprisingly enough, the NSF agrees
with this idea of removing appropriate use
requirements from the NSFNET and has
asked Congress to relax the no~rofit use
r ule s o t h e N S F c a n r e m ov e t h e
olicy which it says restricts
important economies of scale which would
be realized if the NSFNET were opened up
to all users.
Of course, as any Internet user knows,
those rules about personal communications
are violated on a massive basis every day
and there is no real mechanism in phce to
disdpline those violators.

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U.S. Robotics Intros 10

New Fax/DataINodems

SKOKIE, ILLINOIS, MAR 50 (NB) U.S.

Robotics has chosen this year's (Chicago)
Spring COMDEX to premic:re 10 new
combination fax and data modems, all of
which offer full 9600 bps Group III faxcompatible transmissions and reception
paired with a range of data speeds &om
2 400 bps t o 1 4 , 400 b ps. T h e n e w
combination modems are all additions to
the Sportster or WorldPort lines.
Thc Sportster line of m o dems is
intended for home/small business users
and all of the new ones, except those
designed to run with Apple Macintosh
systems; include U.S. Robotics' own control
software, Blast Fax.
This software provides for. WYSIWYG
( what you see is what you get) f a x
transmissions which r e t ai n s p ecial
formatting and type (such as italics).
The Sportster Mac products use STF
Technologies' FAXSTF softwam.
WorldPort m o d ems ar e b a t t eryoperated "pocket" modems intended for
use with laptop and notebook computers.
Unlike many other portable modems,
WorldPorts include builtm speakers.
Due to ship by the Srst of June with a
list price of $699, the WorldPort 9696
provides 9600 bps V.52 data transmission
(world standard protocol) with errorcorrection and datacompression features

provided by inclusion of MNP 2-5.

M icrocom developed the MN P o r

Microcom Networhng Protocols toprovide
inexpensive and standardized ways for
modem builders to include compatible
data compression.
Using MNP 5 compression on some
iles and running at 9600 bps would. allow
users to transmit documents at a full
19,200 bps throughput. This is analogous
to compressing iles using a udTity such as
PE2XP but is a transparent hmction of the
two modems, with an uncompressed file
going in at one end and an identical Sle
coming ou t at t he othe r MNP
compression is done in the modems'
hardware. The WorldPort 9696 is also
Group HI Stxwompatible and cosnes with
WorldPort Fax Software, but not the
WYSIWYG Sx capabiTities oKered by' Blast
Fax.
The WorldPort Palmtop, with full
ASCII fax capability in a 2400 bps data
modem designed for use with the HewlettP~
95LX a n d Sharp Wizard palmtop
computers, will ship in March and carry a

list price of $249.

The full line of new Sportster PC
fax/modems is priced from the $229
internal Sportster 2400/PC hx at the low
end to the $549 external Sportster 14,400
Fax, a V.42, V.42bis, MNP 24 modem. All
include full Group Ill Six and all will ship
in April or May, with the fastest models

shipping Srst.
The two extexnal MackFax Sportsters,
which also ship in April (faster) and May
(slower unit), come with Macintoshcompatible software and operate at 14,400

bps ($599 list) and 2400 bps ($529).

The W o rldPort 9696 portable
modem/fax ships in May with a list price of
$699, while the slower 2400 bps palmtop
modem/fax, with the ability to convert
ASCII iles directly into fax format without
any software, is already shipping at $249.
For further information, call 1-800DIAL USR.
Contael: U.S. Robolcs, 7059&2-5010.

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GE Intros Cross-Platform Information INg't System

WASHINGTON, DC, APR 6 (NB) GE
Information Services has announced the
BusinessTalk System 2000, an information
management system for Windows, MSSOS,
and Madntosh computers. At thc heart of
the software is an eemtl system that bridges
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intended to provide a basis for massive

NIPS To Offer RISC ARC-Compliant

Workstations For Windows Nr

information sharing and email across all

MPS chrims it is the Srst to begin shipping

systems it says will bridge the gap betwccn
personal
co m p u t ers (PCS) and
workstations, which are also the first
designed according theAdvanced RISC
Computing (ARC) spedfication of the ACE
(Advanced Computing Environment)
mltiativc.
ARCcomphant means the systems have
the minimum hardware requirements
needed for running the planned Windows
NT operating system and the Unix for ACE
operating system. The idea is to get and
maintain compatibility in applications
between X86 microprocessor-based PCs
and ARCScomplalnt Unix systems.
MIPS says the Arcsystems are reduced
instruction-set c o m p u ting (RISC)
technology-based and are two to three
times fiister than 50 megalicrtz (MHz) 486based PCs. The current Arcsystems nm at
50 megahertz utilizing the NIPS R4000
microprricessor chip, but thc coxupany says
upgrades to 67 MHz and 75 MHz R4000
micropxucessors will be available later this

three major platforms.

Through a choice oficon- or menubased interface, the BuslnessTalk software
wiH provide large businesses with a
common user interface for everyone
n eeding to send and receive ~ a i l a n d
access databases.
Pricing for single user copies of the
interface software is $249 per copy and the
comxnoxi user intermsce will operate across a
number of difFerent IAN platforms.
Contacts Jacelyn Ssienson, GE Information
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Competitively priced with bighead PCs,

MPS claims the Arcsystem family offers
color configurations at special prices to
Wmdows NT and Umz developers staxdng
at $5,995,and am dchvcr pexfoxmance up
to 60 Specmarks. Regular retail prices
range from $9,990 to $14,990 forcolor
configurations in the desktop models and
from $10,990 to $15 rt90 for the Sle server
models, NIPS said.
MIPS last month announced it was
merging with workstation manufacturer
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Silicon Graphics Had To "Buy NIPS,

Says Dataquest

Steve Jobs Hires Nevv 'Partner' For NeXT

REDWOO D CITY, CALIFORNIA, MAR

headed by
for Miicrosoft's new WindowsA operating Steve Jobs who is probably best known for
system.
his cofounding of Apple computer, has
Dataquest is implying that Silicon
taken on asecondmcommand, one Peter
Graphics cannot manage N I P S a s a
van Cuylenburg.
technology-independent product. If it
Van Cuylenburg will manage NeXT with
cannot, the market research 6rm asserts the Jobs in a new "office of the president"
other manufacturers will move away Rom p osition the two will share. All t h e
MIPS, and Silicon Graphics will lose the
company'svice presidents as well as daycoeconomies of scale in h ardware and
day management will be handled from the
software to make the technology viable.
newly created o61ce.
Dataquest says if SiTicon Graphics can keep
The appointment is getting auention
MIPS products technology independent, it
because Jobs has a reputation as a loner
wiR be the 6rst to do so. No other company
after his split with Apple President John
has proven it can manage both a systems Sculley some time ago. Allison Thomas,
business and a t e chnology licensing
owner of t h e p u b li c r e l ations firm
business, Dataqucst asserts.
representing NeXT, said Jobs' split with
Silicon Graphics however, daims it can
Apple was, 'The most publicized divorce'
manage MIPS as technologyindependent
in history." However one split doesn't make
with equal access to the product for other
Jobs a loner, Thomas quipped. "People
vendors as well as addressing genuine or
remarry andJobs is no exception," added
perceived time-to~ a r ke t and design
TholnaL
control advantages it has over other
The reason for bringing in van
vendors who license N I PS . S i l i c on Cuylenburg is the company's recent growth
Graphics says it expects to become a $5
spurt, Jobs said. NeXT reported in January
billion a year company who can compete
a 445 percent increase in growth, with
w ith th e m a instream players in t h e
revenues for 1991 of $12'/ rnilhon.
workstadon market, instead of remaining in
Jobs said NeXT has fought an uphill
its traditional niche in the technical, three
battle with entrenched systems like Sun, but
dimensional graphics market.
is winning because the NeXT is signi6cantly
San Josobased Dataquest decribes itself
better. People by Sun workstations or
as a market research and consulting
NeXT Step computers to build applications
company that provides services to the high
on, and the NeXT allows applications to be
technology and 6nancial community.
built up to 10 percent Sister,Jobs explained
in a prepared statement.
Cadael: Mary Hand, Oataquest, tel 40SM7So growth in the market is what Jobs
8000, fax 408.4374292.
says prompted his quiet search for a COO
last spring. Jobs gave the reasons for
choosing van Cuylenburg as his experience
in running alarge company.
Van Cuylenburg, a British national, was
group director of United Kingdom4ased
Cable and Wireless PLC, a $64illionmgear

ompu
ter,

t.

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, MAR 16

(NB) Workstation manufacturer Silicon
Graphics was 6rced with no alternative but
to merge with NIPS Computer Systems,
which can be viewed as Silicon Graphics
buying MPS, says a Dataquest report.
The merger was hnperative as MPS was
moving toward financial collapse and
Silicon Graphics, who is dependent on
MIPS' reduced instruction-sct computer
chip (RISC) technology, had to mike the
merger investment, market research 6rm,
Dataquest, asserts.
I n th e short t er m t h e m e r ger i s
expected to be a drain on SiTicon Graphics,
but in the long term the company's control
over the underlying technology is expected
to benefit Silicon Graphics customers,
Dataquest says. Silicon Graphics is following
a tradition established by other major
pLayers in the workstation market who have
also purchased the underlying technology
for their workstations. For example, Sun
owns SPARC; IBM owns Power RISC;
HewlettPackard owns PA-RISC; and DEC
owns Alpha.
A further downside to the merger,
according to Dataquest, is business condicts
that might arise within the Advanced
Computing Consortium (ACE) if MI PS
processors lose their vendor-neutral
technology. As ACE is looking for a
platform to back as a standard, the merger
is likely to affect whether ACE backsa MIPS
platform or goes with the new 586 chip
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and Wireless PLC van Cuylenburg was chief
executive of Mercury, a Cable and Wireless
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he anticipates with the addition of van
~e n b erg to work with
engineering and
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Thomas ~
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T HE COMPUTER PAPER MAY '92

Autodesk i'i Windows Extensions & New Autodesk BD Studio

SAN I
13 (NB~

NCI S CO, CALIFORNIA, MAR AutoCAD customer trying Windows and

uto d esk has announced it has t aking a d v antage o f it s ben e f i t s

entered the Windows computer aided

design (CAD) market and will release a new

release of its 3D Studio product.
The AutoCAD Release ll Extension Sar
Wmdows is a transitional product available

for $99 to allow Autodesk 11 users to work

i n b o t h t he DO S and Win d o w s
environments. Further, Autodesk says this is
just a Brst step.
Autodesk believes Microsoft Windows
wIII be the standard PGCA9 operating
environment of the mid-1990s,' said Ruth
Connolly. general manager of the
A utoCAD D i vision. W e d o n ' t w a n t
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John Walker,an Autodesk founder and

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AutoCAD for DOS, but the next~neration
feature set of AutoCAD will be enabled by
graphical, multiwpplication environments
like hScrosoft Wind,owa
The company also said it is Investigating
Windows NT and maender technologies for
a future 32-bit version of AutoCAD for
Windows.
Autodesk said the abiTity to move data
from one application to another and the
multitasking capabilities of Windows make
it attractive to AutoCAD users.
However, the Windows environment is
slower and Autodesk says when users want
more speed, the DOS environment is the
place to get it.
Suggested retail price of AutoCAD
Release 11 for IBM and compatible 386

computers is $3,500. More informationis

available 415/331O356 or type GO ADESK
on CompuServe.
Autodesk's Multimedia Division also
announced Autodesk SD Studio Release 2
for graphics professionals ushtg 386 or 486-

based IBM and compatible personal

computers (PCs).

The company says over 100 changes,

including increases in speed of between
200 and 600 percent and a broadcastquality set of 24-bit rendering tools that is
one of the fastest available.
3D architectural walk-throughs and

industrial visualizations ar'e possible from

AutoCAD Bles with the product's improved
.DXF Ble handling cspaMities. Also a new
video postyroduction module allows a new
environment for combining multiple
animations and b a ckground d u r i ng
rendering an effect that used to require
spedal haalware, Autodesk said.

readily

A compact disc
memory {CDROM) containing over 500 megabytes of
3D objects, textures, and animations is
induded. Autodesk describes some of the
items induded on the CD being everything
from Indy radng cars to a terrain model of
the Grand Canyon, as well as textures
i ncluding 62 varieties of marble, l l
different cloud patterns, and 59 types of
wood.
The Autodesk 3D studio recently
received attenuon as it was a tool used in

the Mitchell Brothers mur er trxal. An

animation created with the product was
used by the prosecution to demonstrate to
the jury,based on evidence gathered by
ballistics experts, how they believed victim
Artie Mitchell was struck by three of the 8

shots Bred by his older brotherIim.

Autodesk 3D Studio Release 2 software

win be availaMe this quarter at a suffgested

list price of $2,995 (U.S. domestic) through

authorized Autodesk Multimedia Dealers,
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cunent owners of Autodesk SD Studio can

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information is available toll free at 1400-

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(NB) Microsoft ' Corporation
has
announced that Japanese versions of its
Excel spreadsheet program and Microsoft

Word for Windows are now shipping.

According to Microsoft, Word for Windows
is the first Wlndowskased word processing
application ever translated intoJapanese.
According to a recent study issued by
I nternational Data C orporation, th e

Japanese personal computer market is

expected to grow by at an annual rate of
23.9 percent throughout 1995.
A Microsoft spokesperson declined to

tell Newsbytes how many copies of Word

for Windows had been sold in Japan, but
saith at has enjoyed enormous success."
Newsbytes notes that Microsoft does not
usually reveal sales Bgures for its products,

occasionally.
In 1982, lvBcrosoft introduced a version
of the Muldplan spreadsheet program in
Japan. Since then, the company has
delivered 17 other localized versions of its

various products. In January this year, it

announced aJapanese version of Wmdows

3.0. Development of the localized products,
induding Excel and Word for Wmdows, is
d one a t M ic r o soft's r e search a n d
development center located in Tokyo,

where most employees areJapanese.

The Japanese version of Excel has a
suggested hst price of 98,000 yen (just over
$700). while Word for Wbtdows will seII for
58,000 yen, or a little over $415.
Conlaef: Katy Ehrlich, for Microsoft, 2064879097.

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85

Computer Calendar

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522-2508. 1st Thurs. Tutorials, 2nd Thurs.
Tuesday every month, Stanley Park Pavilion.
June ~
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home business, and the future seems wide
Bruno Blenheim, Inc. 201446-1400 or N0-820- speakers at 7:00 pm. 825 for members, 840 for
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meetings for members, plus PD copy session. VANCOUVER NETWARE USERS GROUP,
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02194-2722.
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Come Play ln ozzr Sanlzox

In the conferences and technical sessions,
Miicrosoft was evezywhere. In two technical
sessions, one on Unix versions and the
other on Client Sezvcr environs, Microsoft
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anels. The situations were sometimes
iaarre. At the Unix session, spectators
w itnessed Ed Z a n d er , p r e sident o f
SUNSOFl' (which is introducing SOLARIS
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Sparcstations and 586/486s) arguing with
Microsoft's Carl Stork. The point of the
dispute) Zander was asking Stork why
Microsoft was not porting its Wmdows NT
(competitor of SOLARIS) to SUN's SPARC
systems, given that SPARC was the most
successful workstation in the marketplace.
Zander argued that Microsoft, a marketdriven company, was not rational in
supporting the MIPs chip with their tiny
market share, or to even consider DEC's
Alpha chip which was a new product, while
ignoring SUN's SPARC which leads the
workstation market with 55+% of the
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were arguing the question of whether
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software monopoly' so forcefully and
vodferously that the chahperson had to aslr.
that they cease and desist. Interestingly,
when they decided to leave while cazrymg
on the debate even more animatedly,a
number of other attendees chose to tag
To add my silent two cents worth to the
above debate, Microsoft has long had a very
lucrative monopoly in PC operating system
software. Until the mtroduction of DR DOS
5.0 and 6.0,Microsoft had no effective
competition for PC DOS operating system
purchases or upgrades an 8-12 million
units/year market with very lucrative
s. With DOS and Winetows and its
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