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THECOmPUTER?APER Vol 1. No. 1

PUBLISHERIEDITOR Kinan Sin h Khalsa EDITORIAL

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Wendy Woods. Kerl Maize. Dann Blankenhom, Masayulci Miyazawa, Keizo Yamalnoto. Gram Buckler, Steve Gold and Peter Vckinis.

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Thanks I'm the responses, our reader's survey is Stil] being rabulated, but fmm the rau: ofrcsponsc, wcseem L0have hil ona mach needed publication. Our advertisers lellusyou nie giving Lhem a good rcsponse a5 well. We appreciate i: when you mention where you saw their ads. ‘flüs belps us msoll ads‚and xhemnreadswcselhthemorecoverageurecan provide of the local scene.

This month wclake a look al the rapidly growing field of Desktop Publishing. We man off with the lalesl rage in the field: DesktopPresenIafions. I: is nosurprise um

the lechnology is being channeled inlo Support for presentaLions. Tbc real slick presentatiorls these days are actually mcorporating computers lmo the presemafions via spccial auatchments toprojectors which allow the dem mbe “live”.

But I will leave the rcsl ol‘ the slory 1o Bruoe Wright.

I met Daken Arie! awhile ago amVancouverElectrorüc Publishing Associaüon (VEPA) meeting. When it came lime u:prepare this months issue, 1thougm who heuer l0 lay the foundations man Dekan with his depth of backgrourld and clear explanations.

Another old fricnd Zocy Brown gives the perspective onthe stale ofthe an, vs exüfing technology.

DeshopPublishing hascreatedagreatncedfortramülg asitputsmany people imobothnew teclmology (Computers) and new ideas (design). Mary I an: Devine gives sonne perspectivesonme need for mmingandme needs ofpeople m .

Ancl what pnbllcafion onDTP can help but get inlo the debate of which program l5best? Gordon Field of Mostly Mac in Surrey gives his vcrsion of “who is the faires! DTP‘ ptogram of all” Dave Allen fmm PaNorAmA‚ the local Amiga user group. a militant and regular Amiga user, bumnholed us about the Amigzrs new formt! capabilities. So woseid wo would give him some real esmne for lüs views. Sounds like an intcrcsfing program definitely an-interesting machirle.

Gordon Field gives m a perspecüve an the Shareware Alternative with a look a:a powerful argd inexpensive ward pmcessing program: PC-WRHE. Oneoftheberxeilmmbelungingm IhcVEPAisthatLlIey occasionally sponsoranopenholmihismonm wegman invitationmSUEC. Afastmuvingoourpanyinampidly * gruwing ama.

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Contents DeEaItments NEWSBYTES CD-ROM ..............................................4 Canadian Newsbytes ............................4 Desktop Publishing ..............................6

General .................................................6 Local Area Networks ...........................6 Macintosh .............................................6 MicroChips ...........................................4 The Stock Marlcet ...............................‚.7

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NEWS 0N CD-ROM COMES FROM USERS

CHICAGO (NB) —Jack Dreiss ofArtlntrAndersen 8LCo.. the EigEightaooounting firm.mys iflsacompetitive advantagewgiveaudltorsasmckofmlebooksonCD-ROM

drivcs inside laptop PCs. Hospital emergeltcy rootns are swimhmg tn CD—ROMs to get Micromcdcx. Mead Data Ceuualfls polson comml datahase, on CD. Ken Shnin’s Geovisiun Inc. is malting money selling U.S. Geological stuveyMapsasaüwcocatledwindowsontlneworld.“ Lotus Dcvclopment is making mote money man anyone repackagingdamottcorporationsfnrhnnlaergbrokersmnd investnrs. Meanwhile,inJapan thete’s amounting CDaudio player glut which couldmm into aCD-ROM drivc prioe war aimed at Hitachi, which owns the U.S. marloet throngn its OEM,Amdck. htlicmsoffs 3rd annual CD-ROM oonference in Seatfle Mamh 1-3 is called "The Industry Emergcs.” Look for

hypertext development kits. Microsoft's multimedla dictionary anCD-ROM. plus the usual mftofdatahase owners and Software publishers. If something cmcrgcs as a "standard” user interfaoe, CD-ROM will exceed its 400% projected growtl: rate for 1988. CONTACT: Jack Dreiss, ARTHUR ANDERSEN 8cCO.‚ (3l2)580-0669 OPTICAI. STORAGE I-IAMPERED BY LACK 0F STANDARDS, WEAK SOFTWARE ATLANTA (NB) maonts are tbc coming tlting for stoting masses ofinformation. Asingledlsltyon can hold in your hand can cnntain up 10 275.000 pages. er 550 megabytesmfinformation. Evena huge online datahase can fit on a single CD-ROM. And, since die CD-ROM drlveis similar tn the CD audio player. it can be matte cheaply; Antdlek’: l-Iitachi-made drive costs just S700. People have been pre-

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Why haven't they? One reason noted by Ken Sbain ot' Genvision. producets of the GeoDisc CD-ROM witlt mappingdatafromactoss theU.S.‚ is thatdevelopers nnderestimatedhowlongitwotfldtaketoorgatfizedtedataonuffiß ROMso itcontldberetrievedeasily. OmerCD-ROMdevclomnote thateachprodttceriseontingttpwitlt thoiroivn seamh software, soflippittg from one CD-ROM to another ismorelikegoingfiomlemtingWortlStartoWordPetfect

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A. tltiid wealtness noted by infonnation breiter Roh Amon of Aaron- Smith Asaociates, Alleine, is in the seamh Software put onto the CD-ROMs by tbeir dei-elopets. He says it's crippled. “You can only search b5’ ltey words. It's not free-text seatvching,” as you'd find online. "It's only searchablc 111c way a printed finde: would be.” The real prohlem is in to the hardware, h: adds. “CD-ROM players have aeoess tirnes of ahout a ltalf-secnitd, while magnetic mediameasureacocmtimesin millionthsofasecond. soll's hardtogetthetypenfsearclting yotfldgeton DialogorLexis will: the same datahase on CD-ROM. As a rennt, the flexibility is much rcduced.” 'I‘he futute may have to waiL CONTACI‘: KenShain, GEOVISION (404)448-8224; Roh Aaron, AARON-SMITH ASSOCIATES (404) 688-6024

MICROCHIPS CHIP BREAKTHROUGHS FROM IBM, GB AND JAPANESE SAN FRANCISCO (NB) Several impressive new milestones have been reached in 111e semiconductor world, accorfling to news coming from the International Solid Stare Clncuit Confemncc. IBM says i! has perfected the technology required to create the world's fastcst DRAM chip.

IBM’s version reuieves a bit of information in just 20 hillionms of a second tlmcc Limes fester than culrent DRAMS. General Electric annouttced a 32-bit chip with a vcry

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TUNITY: A CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE. “Wo camtot Buttbehiggestnewscatnefrotn tltelapanese. NECpne- afimlwdothesameinsoftwxefthereportcontends. The sentedapnperclaimiitg the wouitPs fastestonekilobitRAM docntnentsets forth Sörooommendations mtderthelteadchip hmad onsuperconductittg mnterial. For speed. check ings of public attihtde, maflteüng, financifls. business and outtltis access time- one bitin 570 trillionthsofaseoond. tecltnloal expertise, reseatth and clevelopment. intellectual Matsushita. I-Iitaehi, and Toshiba also unveiled DRAMs property, international trade and govet-runent procurement which each hold l6 megabiu; nf infnrmatiort. Don’t expect policies. Among die motesignificantrecommendations, the

toseettmn arounmhowever. unrilatleast 1991 or 1992.

CHIP SHORTAGE PLAGUES VALLEY SAN FRANCISCO (NB) While Clllp makers from atound the wnrld wem in San Francisco trading ncws ontbc next gcncration of Chips. Silicott Valley was complaining that lt couldn't get enough of thc cutrent one’s. In sltort stipplyare25ol{and 1 rnegahitchips which fonhemostpan areimported from Japan. lapanese firms claim the short fall is due to conversion o1’ production lines from 256K t o l megabit chip ptoductinn. Mcanwhile, the sudden shortage haspushedupthepfioefrotn lass thanSZforaZSGK DRAM last yea: t0 ovcr S3 today.

In a related story. Apple Computer has rcportcdly appointed a task force to look inw whether the firm should malte its own semioonducnors. ‘Iltetaslcforceis also charged with pinpointing future suppliers of custom chips called ASICS. The taslt force is expcctcd t0 rcport its findings a: the end of March.

IHOTOROLA UNVEILS Irsmsc CHIPS CI-IICAGO (N8) Motorola isfacingrenl competition for its new RISC chip scfics. designed for engineering WorkstaLions. The Sun SPARC Chip is causing a lnt of excixcntent.

Last week Motorola fired back hy putting out the specifications on its RISC chip set. Look for a 3—chip set which can rtm at l7 MIPS (million insmictions per second). handling uptoflllvflminpamllelprocessntgnemninproccssorhas bnth an intngcr and flnating polnt unit. the Erst time both have appeared on the same slitne of silicon. 111c two eache chips, one for data and one for instmcfions, result in a parallel flow of dm. called a Harvard-style amliitecttne.

Motorola said ING.‘ 200 onmpanies are re-‚riewing its RISC chip sei-iss. and early samples are alraady being evaluated.

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L312 4V7. (416) 886-1987 WATT AND SEE AITUUDE PLAGUES TORONTO COMPUTER MALL TORONTO (NR) Scvcral companies am intcresled in spacein'l‘ocronto’s Computermall.buLth:y'rea1l walting for others t0 move in First. Sofar. only one company occupies the malt.completed last spring in the west end ofToronto.

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LTD.‚ (416) 675-6500 SOFTWARE 88:Nnrwonmomnnamvnas TORONTO (NB) About 225 delcgatcs wen: at the Metro Tomnto Convention Centre last week for Software 88, a sympmimnsptmmedby thefederal DepanmentofCom-

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theestdofttnisyear. Fnrthatplnposefloshihawillmodify mutimiomandtheoimfiobfinisflvnrmm mumcationa. ‘Ihenlüeofdteoonfeteneefnrmostwas part Oftlte IMDRAM farilitiesto4M DRAM prodnction ‚probablfbestsummedupbyadeleganenvertteamtallcingon lines. a early on Ihr:oonferetioeä ftrst day. "It’sgood,“ INTEL WILL CUT PRICE 0F 80386 MPU: INTEL hepay phone said, “I've made one good contact alteady." Delegates JAPAhPS FRESIDENT wer-e welcomed by the faden] and ptovincia] ministers TOKYO (NB) Intel will cut the pfice of its 80386 MPU responsible for the oonferenoe, both of wltom said nioe by 20% by the end of this year. aocnrding tn Intel Japan‘s things about the software imlustry and nothing much else. presidcnt, whoproclaimedthenewrsata business meetingon Other sessions dealt with basics of telecommmücations, Februar)! l7. The price cut will be applied t0 its ZOMHZ marketing, expurt strategies and similar topics.

80386 Version. Thepresidentsnystltispficecm willbemade whcn chip production is intrreased at lts Albuqnaque plant PAY UP FASTER 0N TAX CREDTTS, HIGH-TECH . . in New Mexioo. Willi Iltis price cut‚ Intelexpocts to boost FIRMS TELL OTTAWA the sales ofits 80386 three Limes higher lhan sales in 1987. OTTAWA (N13) Canadian firmsthat qualify for research and devolopmcnt tax crcdits wait as long as two and half JAPAN REaDY T0 ENTER lüM-DRAM ERA yearsto get the money. That's one ot‘1h:findings of a survcy TOKYO (MB) ‘Ihree Japanese chip makers including by the Chnadian Advanced Technology Association Matsushita. Tosniba, and Hitachi. havc devclopod a 1o (CATA). CATA mys Lhc dclay is unaceeptable, and it's megabit dynamic random acoess memoty chip. These next maldng lifedifilcultforCanadianhiglt-techcompanies. The generation Chips will be shown at the International Solid association wants the payments made tastet, and it says die Statt: Circuit Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco on Feb. has “overreacted” to scandals surrotmding the 17. According t0 industry sources. Matsushita and Toshiba govcmment Scientific Research Tax Credit program in which Otlawa have applied auench method, while Hitachihas used a Stack out sums for research umwas never done. method l0 develop these brealctltrough Chips. I-Iowcvcr,thcy paidThc lauge SRTC program cost Ouawa about C335 hillion in are not tlte first makers to have developed a I6M DRAM. foregone tax revenues. About 65 companies are still being Japan's teleoom giant NTT im nlready dcvclopcd the same investigated in connection vom the program, which was capacily chip, and introdnced it at last year's ISSCC. closcd down in 198S. Scvcn charges of fraud have been laid.

Sinoe dtat debocle. the governmcnt has chcckcd out companies verycarefully beforepaying outtaxcrediu. CATA says Ouawzfs caulion is desuoying the tax breaks’ incentive ASSOCIATION SEEKS MEASURES T0 STRENGTHEN SOFTWARE INDUSTRY effect, and says the govemment must find a way In pmcms MARKHAM,Ont. (N13)—Canadiangovcrmnant,business claims fester. and edueatinnal institutions should he wondng tngethcr to ONTARIO T0 SELL 3 TECHNOLOGY CENTRES su-engthen this country's softwarc industry. So says the TORONIO (NB) Threeofthe Province ofontnticrs five York Technolngy Association, a group representing hightechnology centres will be sold to (he private sector, prolach companies in the Toronlo suburb that is horne toabout vided buyers can be found. Rick Winston. a spokcsman for halfof Canada's computer indusny. (IBM Canada, Apple tht: provincial Ministry of Industry,Trade and Technology, Caflada. Cotnmodore Business Machines and AT&T Can- told NEWSBYTES CANADA the eentrcs were neuer inada are all hased in Mai-klamm) tcndcd tobc gnvcnunent-run forevet. He said the Centre for Canadamissed theboatinoomputcr hmdwaIeJheYTA hficroelectronics in Otlawa,thcCentre forAutomotiveParts

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in SLCamarines and thc Cenlre for Advanced Mannfacnning with facilitics in Cambridge und Peterborough will be pnt m [h8 block.

Winston would not oommem an whether any private-

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H: said the Mixiisny ol‘ Indnstry, ‘man and Technology plans moontinne operating its Ccntre for Resümee Indnsn-y Technologyinsudbmy. while lhecennefcr Farm Mankin-

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U.S. daily and weekly newspapers.

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afree-LradeagreaneaubenveenCanadaandilmU.S.—an idoawhichhasattrwtedsupponfrommebusmesscommunilyinCanadancar-hysmicalopposiflmfiml asizeable panofihellanndimpopnlaüomandvimmllynoanenfionm the U.S. “Setting asid: fears about socinl or political dominafiDn„IIEl'e81iSSlIOiShOW5h0lJldC-fll3(fim firmsdnbnsincss t0 wmpcte effectively in du: U.S. and around the world,”

Alberssnuäfiecüvecompctitionisantaixflywlmwe must be sensitive l0. and omiLinunIly strive for.”

Albois joim IBM Cannda Presidmt John ‘Ihompsoit

nndheathofsevemlhigh-mchindnstryassociafionshaem h3 snpponfortbeagreement. CONTACI‘: NCRCANADA 0m. LSN IE2, LTD.‚ 686S Canon-y A m , (416) 8269H!)

‘THEVANCOUVERTECHNOLOGY MARKE!‘ LE'l‘TERwill fioldmflesstlwbusincscmbercstnncmredsoon.

Publishcr David Roberts 101d THE FINANCIAL POST recenfly his IO-montll-old newslettu lias faiied t0 anmcl enouglisubscribmlobeviablc. Hcsaidsubomibuswillgnt " back 80 per oent of imdolivered subscriplion costs.

DESKTOP PUBLISHING BRODERBUND, San Rafael. Ca., says it has sold its 0m: nlillionth copy ofTim Print Shop. Originally introducod in 1984, Ihn pmgram quickly became a favorite and has remainod on Sensors Hotlisi for 185 wccks.

DTP HELPS CREATE NSTANT BOOK 0N CALGARY DLYMPICS CALGARY (NB) Ifyou think Ihose downhill skiers and

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One wrilm’ and 70photographers wondng for die Vancouvex-bosed publisher covered the progress of the Olympia Torch acmss Canada. Along wilh a lcam of editors and anisls back in Vancouvex. they're producing a 224-page book enfitlelffsharethe Flame,” t0 belaunchcdon Februnry 25. Whatmakeslltispomible isdeshoppnblishingusing IBMPsrz Computers ancl Pagemaker softwam. plus an IBM PCConvenible onthc mad. And plenty ofooffee.nodoubt.

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COREL RELEASES DTI’ TOOLS OTTAWA (NB) -—— Corel Systzms C0111. a makcr ofdesktop publislüng soflware. has inlroduoed two new text manipulminn programs fm M5-DOS oomputers. Corel Headlineletsnsmadideleteormodifytemlinesandgraphic figtnes, and provides an assortment of seinen pauems. üulputisinPostscrijnfmmaxatldcarlheimporwdinto Vemuna Publishe: or PagcMaku. Corel Nevrfont allows creation of hollow, shadowed. shadcd. skcwed, anglod n: stretched vetsions ofsmndard PostScript fonts. Each of 111e two packnges will soll for C5250. CONTACI‘: COREL SYSTEMS CORP.‚ 1600 ülrling Ave.‚ sme 190. 011mm, 0m. KlZ 7M4‚ (613) 728-8200

GENERAL THE COMPUTER PAPER GOES AFTER WESTCOAST MARKET

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monthly publicalion for thc consumcr PC market. ’I'HE COMPUTER PAPER,a monthly tnbloid. will bedislributed free. Bnclcers cxpect aninitial circulation of ahout 30.000.

Publishc-‚rKixlansüiglnKhalsasnys mepaperwilldcalwith Canadinn poynoll pmgrams. locally produced oompatibles. the Western Canada Software indusny and information on local bulletin board syswms. Its Editorial conlent also

rently available LCDs. APPLE BUYS QUICKDRAW, PASSES UPDISPLAY

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includcs ponions of NEWSBYIES. Distribution will be thmugh oomputcr storcs, newsstands. bookslorcs. and by mail m Computer-wund businesses and individuals. the publishers said.

PETER ‘IUKYO (NB) Is apersotial computer display hmmfulan our eyes? I1could be yes. BntTokyo-based Software hause Copushaschallmgedthisomtceptby turningthchardwm frommeaihnmtmmecummordermmalceapemorml oomputeratooltoimproveuseflseyesight. thecompanyhas developed imiquc eyesight unlning Software called Metaknn. ‘Ihesoftwaredisplayseyctraining ringsonlhcscrem wliilslhcfiiafinnfkeepswatclfingfllflnfiom lhedislnnoe usingaspeciallongcableemmectedto thekeyboard.

Copushasapplied ibeoryoftrainingoyesight. staringal smrsaxiddistamlandscapes. Copus isplannmgwcxponflie

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CUPERIWO. Ca. (NB) —-Apple has madc official ils

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choioeofancw screenroutinenndmewinnerisAndy Henzfelcrs enhancemealts 1o QuickDraw QuickcrDmw. ‘Iliesoftwaxeis expectodto be niclucledin coming vnrsions of tbe Mncinmsh and will not bc an exclusive Apple property. I-Icrtzfeld says he's also liccnsing i: t0 Radius Corp.‚ among Others. Quickerniawismpposcdlobcfluufimes

faswrataddressixigtlneacrwmlharxiisfmebenr. Incaseyou

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APPLE’S UNVEILS UNIX OFERATING SYSTEM CUPERTlNQCa. (Nm-Applecomputcrhmnilroduoed

aUNlXoperatingsystetnfoa-lhemidnloshflaxnaflas‘

UniFonnn convenfinn, an inmmafionnl fomm for tbe Unix commimityflhenewA/Uxopenfing systemisexpoctcdm

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lmlzlhe lucrafive federal manwtfowovctayear.

NUXcm-tbeptmhasedinstalledonansomegabyte softwareinflwfuture. Ifyocibelieveigbuyaxidnyusingtho harddiskinaoompleteMacmtoshllemeulblefot 58.600 m software. The schwere is priced a:24,800 yen er 3190.80. 310.745, dcpmding on options. Or ein-mm Macintosh II And i1: extended cable oosls about 10.000 yen or 576.90. ownuscmpurchasetbeopexaflngsystem withanupgiade "handle"oonsisting ofm 80megabyte hitu-nal or exwmal FLOPPY DISKS FOR ‘THE BLIND COLDRADO SPRINGS, Co. (NB) Fou- the firsl timc. a AppleCompmerhatddiskinsmlledwithMJxmidPml‚ manufactm-er ofdisk pnckaging matrrials has nddressed fne and4megabytesofRAM nmwiunm slightlyiesslhan

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And forme firsnime, Applehas tfiexedaonmpehensivestxppoltpmgiam. Boy thchardwamandyougetfiee blindpcrsontoreeflmeoonmtsofthepackngemdthe mamial and softwme npdatns. Buy an enhanccd snppnrt descriptionofthcdisksixißmille. ‘lbcspecialpacknsesof conunclforßßßayezrandgetaocessmamfl-fmemlüm Braille diskeuos also come nritli a labol Kit will: which diroct t0 lhe UNIX gums a1 Apple. additional Braille labels can be ueatcd.

NEXT APPLE INTRODUCFION: CD-ROM CONTACT: Lowell Beil. BROWN DISC, 303-593-1015 CUPERTlNQCa. (NBfl-Appleiswidclyexpectedminn-odnce iLs longwwaitedCD-ROM (oompnct disk naad only memouy) (irive an March 4 a1 xhe. next Microsoft CD-ROM LANS BOOMING ACROSS THE LAND confcrence in Seanle. Speculalioa has it [hat lhe devicc will Dollar salcs 01' cost about 31,500. Apple wil! become the sooond major PLYMOUTH INAEETING. Pa. (NB)

hasdeslgnedlabelsfordisknandpackagingthmcmhlea

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comnnmicationdcviocsgrewhyßpflomtandunilsalesby 2A peroent for September-Novelrlber 1987. according In lMSAnmicaJheMSblafionalCompumRetailReponon saksmcompmermmilersshowsununelynpidgmflhin netwndtdevicesmpflpexoauindoflmandlfliperzanin unilsalcsnverthcsamepefiodin 1936.Modem S8165 imrgxasad l8 peroent in dollars and 36 percent in unils (modem puices really have becn Falling). Othcr dcviccs grew 15 perccnt in mostly micro-lo-mainframc gear dollars bm feIl 33 peroent in volmne, says IMS America.

NOVELL SYSTEMS, Orem, UT. is beginning mmgrcl ever getting inm thc business of selling hard disks. A morganization mmounced recently oould be die first stcp toward Solling the forma: Santa Clara Systems, says “Infoworld.”

CMQ OFFERS ELECTRONIC QUOTE SYSTEM

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FOR LANS TORONTO (NB) CMQ Communicafions Im. llas intraduced MarkelLANnasyswm maLaflowsPCsonalocal-area ncmork t0 sharc one connection lo CMQ’s AutoQuotc slock-maikct dal3 scrvioe. AutoQuow protvides dynamically updated quotations onmore than 7S.000 investmcnts onall major North Amcrican cxchangcs. BlarkeILAN will work wilh commeminl local-mn netwoxts, including Ethernet und IBMTokm Ring.

LAN Services Inc. of 11m systcm was dcvclopcd mm New York, a network Vander. It is to be available in June. according to CMQ. Live access In dann offemd by Teleme Inc.ofNew York, which owns CMQ, will beavailable inthe thircl quaner. CONTACT: Robert J. Bartololta. CMQ COMMUNICXITONS INC.. 5S ‘fange SL, Suite 1102, Toronto. 0m. MSE 114 (416) 365-7171

MACINTOSH NEWS APPLE LAPTOP SCREEN CHOSEN CUPERTINQCa. (NB)-Apple hassclecgedatocbnology callod "activc matxix” LCD for its coming Macintosh laptopnaooordingtoMACWEEKmagnzine. Appleissaidto bereadylaomder lflßflflofthescreenseachmonthfrom Osaka. Japan-hasst! Hooiderl Eloctronics. Starting in July.

Aclivc malrix tochnology. currenlly found in samt handheldlapmme tclevisionsemhmanntlsistorateachpbtelon screen nistead of the convmtionnl method nf connccting

compulcrcompmiymixluoduceitsownbland-nameCßROM dfiVGBIUVidGdÜlalAßti, mcfnrstfiimtooffernCDROM drivc. kecps its promise of shippixlg Ihn drive lhis montlLFelxuary. Noadvanccwordonwhalpmgrmnswill

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VIRUS ATTACKS MAC; l-IARMLESS "FDRNOW”

SAN FRANCISCO.Ca. (NB) —Betwoan February 6 and 8, 50111240 or so pcoplc downloaden a file from GEnie and

Compuserve descfibed as a discmsion of miannotmcad Apple products. W113! ihey gut was an unannoiuncod intrudcnntheirsystm für: andllxefirsihiown “virus” attack onaMacimosh whichmadehrmlincsmumdthcworld.

'I11eviruspiugram‚crcatcdbyMACMAG‚aCanadian

Macinmsh magazme, was clesigncd to hide in a Macintosh systomfilemitilMarch Zatwhichtimeitwouldemergeand

displayamemageofpeaoe. ‘Ihenitwouldelaseilself. But its appamnily benign purpose wasnotknown uniilaflermro days of invesügations by lbe CompuSenre user gmup stafi who feamd the program. titled NEWAPPSTK, would deSlmy System files and dem. Tbey now repon tho program is “harmless” but the powntial for dam destructiun was clear.

BRAZIL KILLSITS OWN MAC CLONE CUPERTINO. Ca. (NB) Apple Computer is celebranng avictotymirsbanletobeatbacktheolflyknmmcloneofflie Macintosh. The govemmetit of Bmzil has rcjectodan applimiim by Sao Paolo. Bmzil-based Unilron to rnarket a.

MacintoshSlzliclonein BmziLon thegrounds thalitisnot Original enough l0 reoeive govermnem approvaL 111e Sudden conocm lzy the Brazilian govcmmcnl for lhe issue of originality comcs in lighl cf lhc Reagan Administration new tariffs against Brazilian imports du: to die Bmzifs cavalier attimde toward intemalional copyright law.

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ASl-ITON-TATE BUYS ANN ARBOR SOFTWORKS TORRANCEßn. (NB) —In a surpfise rnove.Asiaten-Tau:

hosmovcdinmtheMacintoshntarkuinabigwaywifliüw purchase of Ann Arbor Softworks am! ils Macintosh softwm nicluding FullWrim Piofessional, a ward processor with buill-ixi desktop publishing fnamrcs. 8nd thc FullPainl. graphics package. Ashmn-Taw also tmveilcd two einer new productsbom oftheweddingßull Impact (S395), a spreadeachpixelvinwimstoatmnsisior. ‘mcendresuliis saidm sheex with Word rcpon gencraior. sind some be fasten ooolnr- Iunning, and highet in oonnnst man cm"- deslmop publishixlg featnres. lt will be avajlablc an July 31.

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dBase Mac RunTune, S795. allows programmers to distribute dBße applicafions wimom buying the full pmgram.

Atmen-Taufe purchase of Ann Amor Softworlrs, in rhe maktng fot monrhs aecording m murecs. could have been worth anestimated S30 million dollars although n0 priee for the takeover was disclosed.

WORDPERFECT PROMISED BY MARCH 21 OREM. Ulah (NB) People who bought buggy beta versions of WordPHfect a1 the MacWorldExpoprobably wolftseetherealming mfil some timeinMarclnaecordjng mrhe company. WortlPerfect charged buyers S99 for a beta copy of the WordPerfect Word processoratthe failgthars one founh flmexpectcdretail price 011395. In facuhis isalso Ihn thinl MacWorld Expo in which the produet has been promised.

Same 1,500 have snapped up rhe 017er and arc panicipaling in thc clcbugging prooess.

Comments about bugs are being sem to WordPerfect via the phone and electmnic mniL Mcanwhilc, wordPcrfect is also planning l0 up its prieed l0 dealers five peroent by March 21, 111e date dealers say theywe been promised Lhe first shipments ofWoJdI-‘exfect APPLE KICKS OFF BUSINESS FORUMS '

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MAklfliAhLontmm-Applecanadameiswmmgcanaflimbusinesswimasuiesof

"husinessfomms” in five cilics lhismonlh. Apple says moretlnan loßoflpeopleareexpected toancndthesessiensmTorontmOuawmEchnontomMonuealand Vaneouver. ‘Ilnebusiness fmums will combine semhmsmproductesxpmandasofiware showcase fcauning third-pany business software for the Macintosh.

Reglsuation for alle fomms is free. Public sessions am in Torontdon Februnry 16, Ottawa Febnmry 19, Montreal Februar): 22 and 23. Edmonton February 25 und 26. and Vancouver Februnry 29 & Malen 1. CONTACI‘: APPLE. 1-800-387-9683. ext. 50 APPLE CANADA ING, Markham. Onn. is pleased that the Federal Coun of Canafla has found several oompanies and individuals in Vancouver guilly o1‘ contcmpt of court {er defying againstsellingApple 11clones. O.S. Micro Systems Inc..Comtex Micro Systemslnc. and individualsassociatedwith the twocomparüespleaded guiltytothechalges.

APPLE S E E 30% GROWTH IN ’88, POSSIBLE LAPTOP, NEW II IN ’89 CUPERTINO. Ca. (NB) Apple Computer Chairman John Sculley 101d shareholders um App1e’s revenues should grow 30%lhis year- up9%ovcr I987's growlh figures ——a1 the fimfs almnal shareholdus meeürlg. Seid Seulley, “We amon 0m‘way mbecoming the 5S billinn eompany thalwe hopc t0 bcby 1990.”111c unood was clearly upbealas shareholdels also appreved the appoinunmt of astronam Sally Ricle mApple's board o1‘ dixecmrs.

Sculley wld Ehe auwd 1988 will be the Wal‘ Ofoommmliwtions. “just a: 1987 can be clmrncterizexl am111e year of x11: CPUS.” Hesaid Apple will immducc a hosl o1’ eommunicaclonspwoducrstolinkMacmmsheswifll am oompulers, aprediction whichisalready mauifeswd wilh Applet inuoducfion of new ptogramnzing tools for Ivlaeintosh netwmt access (S66 nexl sinne).

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ofläcershmrdemudupflwambisuiwwmingabwa-mdMaeinmshnwülnmappear until 1989. T0 Sculley, “low end" means a complene Nhc II system for 56,000 insteacl et‘ 87.000 1o310,000.

Apple isxrmlkirxg aboumnnors ofalaptop thatcouldbemmdueed esearly esMarch.

SeveralsomeesatMacWaldExpompmseeingamoexywlapwpMacinwshmmhoks sjmilar m 112B Tosmbe 'I‘31OO and a high rcsolution. ncw lechnology sereen.

APPLE INTROS SOFTWARE T0 HELP MACS NETWORK Ca. (NB) New wols for progtmuners are aimed a1 blasling away any CUPERTINO. ' remmmn‘ghnmus‘ belweentheMamnmm" andIheIBMIl-orld. Applecempulerhmixxtroduced Macworkstafiotl. sofiware which allows Macintosh feanlres, auch a: pull-down menus, iconx and wrindows, t0 be a mxiveasal interface for allComputers ana network. Also intmduced was a producz called MacAPPC, mother m01 In connecl Mm with IBMs. Apple’s Sculley hascalled 1988‚“Iheyearofoommunica1i0ns."indicatingtbeseareonly the tipoftheicebergofpuodunm Applewillinn-oduceforeomznunicaflorls and networking this

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COMPAQ‚Houswn‚cIeditswtaildeaJerswlfl1getflngitovetmeSl.2biflion salesnlarhand armounced improvunenrs teils Salespaq dualer suppm wog-am. New perts und Yellow Pages adpxogratnsmemong tbebigenhaneeenenrs.

UNISYS CORP. ofBlue Bcll.Pa..cxpcc|s double-digit gmwm inprofits thisyear, aceouflmg t0 Chat-man W. Michael Blumenthal. Blumenthal told analysts hc cxpecls revenue of between S15 hüllen andSl7 billion by lbeearly 1990s.lastyeaxymeoompanyeanmds578 millien (53.13 per share) on59.7 billion in sales.

BCE INC.‚ Montreal-lauer: patent of Bell Canada, Northem Teleeom and semal ome: oompanies, has acqxired nearly 600.000 shares of Memotec Data Inc., also of Montreal, giving itßfilpueemofhleulotec inall. klemmen in tumowns Teleglobecmladawvltich pmvldes ovmeas satellile eommnmicatimxs.

LINEAR TECHNOLOGY ING,an innegaraled cireuit manufacuner based in Burlington, OnL, madeaprufitofßl? millionin theyearendedDec. 31, upfiomCSlJ million in Ihe previms yean’. Revcnues lose. too- {mm 0812.4 million wC8112 million.

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MEMOTEC DATA INC.‚ Montreal, ltas got nearly all Ihr: eornmon shares and more than half ihe prefetred shares of Torontobased servioe bureau Polyoom SystemsLld. tmder its purchase offer. Polycom will beootne a Mcmotcc suhsidiary.

LOTUS posrs RECORD PROFITS, ENHANCES M Ä N U S C R I P T CAMBRIIDGE, Mass. (NB) Bouyed by continuing streng salcs o! its l-2—3 spreadsheet. Lotus Development Corp. has reponed record sales ancl camings for the fourtlt quarter and forthe 1987. Sales in thc quanerjmnped4l poroentloS l 15.6million to 581.8 million in 1986. Profils 5' oompared for the quntter wcre S229 million (50 oents ; per share). compared to 515.6 rnillion (35 oems per share) last ycar. For tlte year ended Deoember 31, Lotus posted net income of S72 million (31.58 per share) on sales of 5395.6 million,comparcd to 1986 figuresof 348.3 million in carnings (51.03 per share) onsales of 5282.9 million. Lolus said 1-2-3 fies sei successive rocords in each of tlte last tltnee quarters of 1987. Analysis laclieve 10m5sold a million copies oftbe venerable 2 and endumble spreadsbeet during 1937.

Lolus has also upgmded Manuscript, its ltiglt-end ward processing pmgram. to the pcint that the progmm ftmctions as a mid-level deslrtop publishing program.

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Compaq bcgan ship. ping ils veision of Microsoffs 08H for its 80286 attd 80386-bascd machines. at a flashy New York press confemnce. The folks from die ranch said their Version is fttlly contpaliblc vritlt IBM’s 08/2, wltich First shipped last October. As usual when comparing itstel! t0 IBM.Compatfs people said tltecir stufi’ is fester. “As expected. MS 08/2 delivers better performance on Compaq 80236 and 80386-based personal computers tltan similarly oonftgured IBM PS/2 products running IBM 08/2 becausc ol’ the higher system performance of our personal Computers.” seid Compaq president Rod Canion. Canion added the ncxt vcrsion of MS05/2 will include a Version oftltePtuentation 01213881. still tmreleawd by IBM, andCompaqOS/Zusaswfllbeableto upgmde to it fora small foc.

CONTACT: Joff Stives, COMPAQ (713)370-0670

03l: DEVELOPMENT ADVANCES WITHOUT PRESENTATTON MANAGER MARIETTA, GA (NB) ZSoft last week attdVersaCadLPCPairttbruslLandTIElias launched meOS/Z Version nf itsPublishcrsfl weil as the several graphic files version 1.0 Painthiuslt produot. Resident Matt Zoohhandled. The new versiert of mattustrript niann admits Ehe new product is not, by also includes macros, downloadable foms, itselr‘, a reason to move to 08/2, but hopcs mathfunctions, enden integmtcd thcsatirus. Cfller products will malte the switch look Available in Manch. Manuscript Will be like a good move by Comdex this spring.

S495. Users of 1.0 cnn upgmde for S75. "Within l2 months there will be a lot of Contact l-SOO-‘IRADEUP. applicatiorts,” he ptedlcwd t0 NEWSBYCOMMODORE RINGS UP STRONG 't'ES. “Actually, it was quite zasy.” ltt-‚added aboui tlte eonversion process. “It's nol QUARTER, SHOWS UP1NBUSINBS

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OS/2 MICROSOFT RELEASES 08/2 PRODUCTS REDMOND, Wa. (NB) ‘Ihexe are now five new languages, dubbed tltc "fust generation," for IBM’s OSIZ, and two new development ldts fmm Ivlimmoft. In (in's major update. Italienisch says the Iangttagcs and utilities released will allow programmers towrite forbotlt the new genemtionof lBMs sind MS-DOS applications. The products include the C Optimizing Compiler Version 5.1, BASIC Compiler 6.0, Macro Assembler Version 5.1, FORTRAN Optiniizing Compiler 4.1. Pascal Compiler 4.0, 05/2 Progtamrnefis Toolkit and Windows

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CONTACT: Mark Zachntann, 2.90171‘.

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IBM lioeused. Costs of aclmowledging thc patent, firstgiven in 1973, are 8300.000 to starr anrl 52.50 per megabyte for all boards sold.

OSIZ F Ü R NEC PC8801

TOKYO(N'B)—NEChasstartedsei1iJtgan applicatitm program developmcntkit inOS! 2 frx NEC's hast-setting personal computer tbe PC9801. Insidcrs say more tltan 100

sets were solrl to software bouses. The price of Iltis kit is 99,000 yert or S762. NEC is

platmingtoreleasc tltcenduservasionof 05:2 for thePC-9801 in June. The prioc is expected tobearound60,000yenorS462.

Meattwltile, Fujitsu will also ship its own versiert ofOS/Z for its computers Iltis summer. Tbe-cOmpmyllßextendedOS/Zinils own way, making it oompatible with various levels o! Fujitsu’s oomputers, fmm msinfrnrtm to PCs. CONTACT:NEC.1—4-28Nfita‚hfinao-ku‚

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tation eatecufives briefed several hundred employees onplans to introduce aPS/l chip set und VGA Chip which amfuily compnt-

ible will] IBM’s ncw products retxrttly, acThe oording to PC V0355; weeltly says Intel will announce tlte cltip scls in the second Quartal‘ attd pmbably will not begin manufactming lhem unül late 1988orearly 1989. Intel is in apartieulsrly oozy Situation with IBM as it alrcady suppiies a majority o1’ thc microprocemors and telated parts used in IBM machines. Until reoently, IBM also owncd 20% of thc

company's Stock. 'I‘lte micro industry with PS/Z cloncs in the wings ltas beert oowering from IBM’s legal muscle» should thcy introduce PS/‘Z-compatible products. IBM ltas publicly declared its intcnliort to pttrsue all who dato to man across its Micro Channcl Architecttne. But Intels ‘entry into tlte arena may provide the clonc-malcers with new confidence since IBM. dependent oo lntel’s Chips, is unlikcly to suo its partner.

An Intel spokeswoman woulcl not oonfirm ordeny the report but industry insiders teil NEWSBYTES the story is most lilcely true.

MICROSOFT PREDICTS 0812 ‘WILL TAKE 3 YEARS T0 BLOOM, CI-IARTS MICRO SALES REDMOND‚Wa. (Mm-Wim would bein abetterpositionmtrackmicrosalesthmttltc firm which has a monopoly on their operating Systems. ltaving soldone to virtually all PC manufacturers? ‘Iltafsright, Microsoft.

And the company im finally broken its silencc er. thc subject b)’ saying that PC sales grew 30% last year und will grow anotber 26% this ycar l0 8.2 million units wmldvtide.

As for ils 05B opaating System, Microsoft predicts 55% of all lBMs or compatibles sold in 198S will be modcls capable of ntnning 05H applicatiotts. Bul.it willbe 1990 or 1991 before tlte majoriry of users are actuztlly ntnning OSIZ applications.

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OLD FRIEND GETS FACELIFT: DBASE IV TORRANCE, Ca. (NB)—Aahton-Tatei138 introtltieeti3 Version of its dBASE Software whioh hasrtnew "lookartd feel” along will: sonne tnaior Organ transplants. dBASE IV

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predecessor, can be used in a network, antl can run on both MS-DOS machines tlte 0S] 2 operating System. Ashton-Tatc mys it’s put all Ihr. bclls and whistles into Iltis new Version —butatleastone ofthem blcw the lid o0‘ the ptesentatiott The program re portedly crasited during the press confercnco. But Aslnon-Tate promises all die

bugswill beeradicatndbyllmtitnedBASE IV goeson sale-thislttly.

Tito product will carry’ a whopping S795 pfice lag. S100 more than dBASE III Plus. Butcnrrent ownms ofa dBASE product canupgradeatasubstantial discount.

IBM MAKES PROMISES 1N BOCA BOCA ROTAN. FL (NB) IBM executives offered sotne glasnost. (openness) in a Boca Roten pmss hriefing on tlte PSI2 line last weelt, two weelts after unvciling tlteir version of peresuoilca (restrucntring).

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Desktop Publishing (DTP) is thc natura! evolution beyond word-processing. You rnight call it an emerging standardinthehighqualityprepamtion ofthewritten ward anacomputcr. The advanoed softwaue progzams that allows this mptesenis thc merging of severat disciplines: typography, page layout dcsign, copy t-diting and publishing slcills (when the documcnt is to be reproduoed by a traditional typesctter).

'I‘he trends in typesetting. printing and publishing demonsnate thepowcrof anideminthiscauetheuseof low coet micms in busittesses to pmduce as much of their own publicafions in-house. thereby bypassing die traditional consultants and servicc bureaus. At thc same time, this approach has created new entn-‚prenemial Not only are thc skills needed to use DTPopportunities. successfiilly complex, Ihey detive from different disciplines. The}: demand both creative and technical proficiency.

Many businesses am tuming to smaIl DTP servicc companics tocutcosts inpublications Wilhfllllhaving rnaster DTPin-house.

Toponicipate suocessfitlly in this emerging profession,

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Thc two camps in lasst printer are those with pagc dcscription lunguagcs and those wilhout. As the only page descripüon Ianguage that is prevalent a1 present is PostScript, the camps can be differcntiated asPostScript lasers and nun-Postscript laser printers. The differences amdramaticandthe oostofhaving thePosLsci-ipt languagc canalso be dramaiic.

Postscript Lasers are tlie Standard in DTP. The rcason why this is so is quite obvious whcn you compare tlteir capabilitiesto thc fixod fontLasersliki-‚thel-lPLaserjotPlus.

A Postscript laserptintcr will print any fontsize ofthethirty five resident in thc laser printefs memory because the font isactually scaled from mafliematical coordinates. The fixed font loser printers require a specific bit mappcd image of a font wbedownloaden toprint it. Mth tbeir severe memory limitalions only so many fixcd fonts can beresident ut orte time. So for oomplete flexibility PostScript lasers am the premium choioe und cxpetise.

Wthatcvcr your printer you will be requircd tomaintain

a workingknowlodgeofyom laserprinterrogetme mostout ofi t Operating expenses can vary widely a5 wen. Some of rhe low cost printers arc notorious fm their expense in them.

nmning What about Monitors? [argescreenmonitcrs have also bccome essential t0 thc serious DTPuser.Theabilitytoviow thc wholepageora two page spread has beoome increasingly imponant for productivity and speed. ‘melaserviewandmsüeniusarecousid-

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D’I‘P is also mising thc standanis for business commuIt i3mpiclly becoming the expectod minimutn in all manncr of publications. Newslencrs. price liste,reports. which wen: once acceptable in type-written fonnatare now expectedtohave theaddedünap” ofthatDl? providcs lilce: proportionately spaced letters, near quality typc and aneasy integration of graphias and typeset logos.

What ukills are needed?

‘The. user should havc basic Computer skills. Word pmoessing isstillusuclfor textpreparation, but noformaning isdonein thc wordpmcessor. Ifone hadabasic word processor under their belt thcy would havc a good start on DTP. Graphics/Page layout skills will be The levcl of this skill will vary according to die rcquired. Ventura program.

Publishcr has style shectsin thc softwarc soas t0 malte pagc layout easier.

Being familiar with tenninology in the ptinting indusu-y wiu also hclp. When somoone asks about kerning pnirs und loading, you won't be too distrcssed.

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The key ingrodients in DTP is thc publishing software. thc microcmnputer hardware to mn Ihis software und thc printers used as various output devices. ‘lhernajorcampshavebeendivided into thc Macintosh hardwarcfsofiware and thc IBM (and cotnpanblcs) harclware/soflware. Businesses will tend t0 migrate towards thc.

IBM approach due to the familiarity and available equipmcnt. Services ccmres have boen using both hardwam environments soes to bettcr servicc thcir ctienrs nccds.

Whetherone chooses to operate on"thc Mac orthe IBM Systems, laser printersarefliekey aspectinDTP. These vor)’ widcly as t0 their capability and price.

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Scanners vary widely in print: and perfomiance. One thing is certain. Continuous-tone images such as photo graphsatc notpublicationqualitym300X 300dots. Lineart. such a5 Cartoon drawings, arc acceptable through. I recommend to my Clients that they consider several important scanning vsoftware aspects: File eonverxiun capabilities bctween the diffcrcnt graphic formal; and file compression techniques. The pmlifcration of graphic Software has creamd multiple file formats. Eachmfcouroe. ible with each othcr. D'I'P is thc great being inoompata5 it ties man: all together through it's import integraler options. But it is useful to be able to conven in thc scanning Software asweil. You also wanttocomprcss someoftbesc filesastheycangetvery bis in sizc.

Why is DTP revolutionizlng the typesettitig industry?

Typesetting has becn a weil guardcd technology; not through secret incantations but through ootuse and complex techniqm. A ty-pesetter rcquirod yeors o1’ apprenticeship to faihom tne ftner Operation and mastety ol‘ a particular typesctter. Because nach company hada monetary incentive to maintain (heit- equipment as an isolated system every typesetter wasadifferentltettlc of fislt. Now that Postscript is evolving as a Standard in D'I‘P, wc foresee that this pressure fmm below, as it wer-e, will begin to malte this industry a little morc coherenL Why i5PostScript socritical?

Postscript. a page description language. is a means by which whatcomes outofttie laserprintoris exactly thc same aswhatcnmes outof thc typcsettertjexccpt for the quality of rcoolution of coursc). In etTcct it i5 aprogram that is dcvice indcpendent. ‘fhc program allows both a lasst printerand a tniesettcr to intetpret thc signals from the Computer in exactly tbesamemanner. ‘Ihisisthekeytoflfhasitaflmvs everythiug but thc final. typesctting to temain in-house,

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The Quick Print companies are moving into D'I‘P asa mcans ofadding glamour to their rcproduction Services by providing a complete design Lauge corpmxtions are gctting heavily into DTP for forms, in-hotise puhlications, technical docuntentation and

Wehavehadintercst freut financial institurions, oonsultants aiui fit-ms. Recently onc of our salesmen spoite atacnounting thc CGA oonvetiüon on DTP applications.

Where are thc jobs kein:created?

All over. Wethinlc DTP will bea Standard resumeitem in thc fumre. Night courses are geuing very popular.

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It isaccopted that thc DTP solution is than thc traditional unlcss you are doing only casualcheapei‘ wotk. Evcn i1‘ this wereihecasc. DTPshouldbc thc DTP Service bureaus. Tbey are takenadvantageofvia very cost-etfectivc.

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however some validity in continued pursuit of which is Ihr: bcst page layout application to purchase, as thc industry of desktop prnductions rnultipües exponentiell): cvery ycar.

And with this bursting of business comes the obvious nccd for cnhancentcnts tools. if you will through which those just enteting the compentive fray can attempt to gajr lhal ncocssary edge. Owncrs of the oode. which eakes fmm the mortal cirtuiny of their underlings. clasp Iheir palrns logeflter.rubbing luslily at the profits they will malte. “But‚" you ask. “D0 wereally needall tbme feannes?l”0fcoursc

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Slated for telease sometime Iltis quarter PagcMaket’ 3.0 offen; automatic pouring of texl ovcr multiple pages ancllor colnmns, automatic .3 wrapping ol‘ tcxt around graphics, stylc shcet “ formatfing (ocr importing fmm Word 3.0l), spot colour overlays and an impmved, morc convcnient user interfaoe. (Finally. an alphabetically arrange, pullnown fnntmenu!) And iflhafs nolenoughjtoffers magic resizing senings for mamhjng bit-ntap and TTFF imagcs to different Output device resolutlons, the ability to export text files to mrd trrocessing programmes. Bolh lhc MS-DOS and Mac versions come with 20 page tetnplates and can adjust the gr-ay scale images stand in 'I'IFF images allowing limited image editing vaithout flteneedforayetanoflterprogrmnnte.

In addition t0 its already inlmertt ability l0 import and

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Although Aldus has added many new features. theprogamma still does not conrain all rhe fcamres found in currcnl. oompeting programmes. but then Aldus does not claim t0 be a gmphics editing m01, ora word proccssor. but more ana m1 for assetnbling all the necessary elentenrs of the finished page Before rushing out and buying PageMaker over in; rivals.considerthatyou willalsoneeda ward proccssor(for lang «iocument lcxt input), a: least Weigh the cost am useful features of these two programmcs against the other offerings.

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PMS, 0L‘ PANATONE MATCHING (For theSYSTEM is a slandard. colour chart/rrumbering system widely used in the pfinfingfpubüshing indusuy.)

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Shaxcwan: and User-Suppou-ted softwarc may oontain copywfited programs.These aulhorsareutilizülgadiffemnl approach 1o marketing thoir softwaxe. To eliminate cosfly mmketing, pmmotion am! packaging, you prumlnse Lhc software direcuy fmm tbe amhor, at a Emotion ofLho cost of commcrcial software. putüng the savings in your packe-t.

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111e Shareware and Uscr-Supporled conceprs grew from a nccd 1o provide heller, low-cost softwarc l0 the public. User-Supponed soflware orten povidos the public will) innovaüvc. creativc. and unique soflwnre max would otherwise not be availablc on thc coanmercial market.

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PC-Wfiue comes cocnplen: wixh 45 help screons for the beginne: mward prooessing. 001er features inclodc instant 50,000 word spell checker, mmparagraph reformat, docirnal Iabs, foonnotes. endnooes. headexs, auto pagc numboring. soarch and replme (with wildcards). block move-copydelemautomatic indcx and tableofconrcnls, left-right poge Layouts.mail merge. DOS 511611, aod macros. PC-Wrilc also comains split-screen capabilitics mcdit two filos and screen

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‘An S0286-basod P312 model in the 51300-2300 prict: rang: within the year. By the 0nd of 1989, the entlre Psfi linc will bc built around the Intel 80386 processor.

‘PC-DOS 3.4 shippmg during the firstltalf ot‘ this m 324m Version of 05/2 shipping nexl year. ycar.

Nlainly. the annourwements confirm details of repom in last weclrs NEWSBYTES EUROPE. Same of Peter Vckinis‘ exclusives arc still cxclusive. however, most notably thc now PS/‘Z portable which Will compete with tbc Tosltiba 3100. CONTACI‘: Pam Evans.IBM (400238-3643

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O'I'I‘AWA (N13) Cognos Inc. has announced a significant deal in imoriginal Software mmketand a move into a new orte.

Cognos announoed availability ofPowerhouseJts application deveiopmcnt tnol. forlhe IBM Personal Computer AT and oompafible micros. The move, which '12 d been promised some months ago. puts Cognos in the PC software business focr the first time. ‘Jersions of Powerhouse already exist for minicomputcrs from Hcwlelt- Packard Co.‚ DigitalEquipment Corp.

3nd Data General Corp.

Cognos also amounced a two-ycar agrocmcnt giving Hewlett- Packard an internal Iioense for tltc useofPowerhouse. 'I-'hatmeansl-IP—forwltose hardwarePuwcrhousc was originaliy developod will b_e able t0 use tbe developmcnl tool internally in an}? of its divisions. The agreemem also oovexs related Cognos software products: PowerPlaxt, Graphics, Architect and The Expert. Cognos will also provide technical Support to IIP, which already nses

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Cognos producls. CONTACI‘: Pierre Viau. COGNOS ING, 3755 Rtverside Dr., Ottawa, 0m. KIG 324, (613) 738-1440 LIVING VIDEOTEXT. Mountain View. Ca.‚ is expected to introduce a oompetjtor to Lotus‘ Agentin for tlte PC nexl monlh.aocording l0 a publislled report. The product called GrandView is said to have feannes not found in Agenda and will sei] for S100 Iess S299.

SHAREWARE GOES UPMARKETWITHITS OWN MAGAZINEAMD A CD-ROM SUNNYVALELCA (NB)—'I11ePC-SIG Libmry in Sunnyvalc hasoneofthe worlcfslargest collectimts ot‘ Shareware. programs you can use now ancl pay for lnter. PC-WRITE, thc pmgrarn used anNEWSBYTES SOUTH. is ancxample of Shareware. I can malte copies for friends easily and lcgally. Ifthey likc it they send in money for the manual nnd Support. Now shareware users (wlto own IBM PCs orcompatiblcs) havc a regular plane to(um.asPC-SIG has begun publishing "Shareware Magazine.” The magazine feann-es capsulc rcvicws. columnsandbrearhless feantrcs abouthow neat shateware is.NEWSBYIESSOUII-I nalked reoently w(Ziluck Botsford of PC-SIG, who mtes that the group is mainly a distrlbution servioe. Chuck ispublishillgthe gnoup’s wbole libmry ona slngle CD-ROM, for about. S300.

You can also get aprinted index and arty individualtnogmnts frum the iibraw onfloppydisks or fluough dealers. CONTACI‘: Chucl: Botsford, PC-SIG, (409730-9291 MAPINFO DEBUTS PC MAPPING PROGRAM ‘IROY, N.Y. (NR) Maplnfo, a new progmm fmm Maplnfo Corp.‚_ will analyzc informatiou in existing darabases and visually display the results in a vafiety ofmap formam. Tim S750prog1am allows userstoloadindarafrom tncloeyboardordirocfly fmm dBaseIII ftles.

Ilteprogrmnwilltlten localeadatapointatany streetaddtessonthemapmcarch forpoints wimhspecifiodbmnfiarieawindowflmdaumfltemwuauddetflmmefilehfimflem longimdcofanypoimonmemapfilhesoftwarenm onPCsandclatesandreqtfires 640 KofRAMandahardrfisk. Itwillrunwith HaculesmunocluomonaphimcrEGAeolm gntphics. Digitized rnaps are sold sepamely from belwocn S95 and S2000. CONTACT: Maplnfo Corp.. 200 Bmadway, Tmy N.Y., 12180. l-SOO-FAST-MÄP (In N.Y., Call 518274-8673).

OGIVAR 1NJOINT VENTURE WITH JAPANESE FIRM MONTREAL (NB) Ogivar Tcchnologies has signed a joint-venmre agreement with AI Elecuunics Corp. of Japan for the producrion ofa line of laptop computers. A] Eloctronics, which was alrcady supplying plasma scroen technology for Ogivafs System IV laptop, gcts the right t0 build the System IV for thc Asian marlcet. Jaime Benchilnol.president of Ogivar. sairlme two companics plan mintroducethroe more laptop models over the next tluceorftmr years. AI Electronics will sell thcsc in Asia whilc Ogivar sells tbcm in therest of the world, hc said.

Ogivar introdttcod Ihr: System W a! the Comdex Show in Las Vegas in November und is ctn-rently slupping i1. AI Elecnronics is now setting up its plant to manufacttre the laptop for the Asien markeL Bcnchimol said. CONTAC1‘: Ogivar Technologies, 7200 Transcanadiennc, Montreal. Que. H4T 1A3‚ (514) 737-3340 MAJOR RESTRUCTURING NEW YORK (NB) —_— Facing Wall Street pressure to show results Erom his leadcrship, lntenxational Businws Machines Corp. Chainnan John Akcrs has tmveiicd a major managemennslutffling. Akers’ intent is to decenualize decision-making authotity in IBM, which man)’ analysrs feel has been suffcring from business arteries clogged by bureaucracy.

Alters’ move came a week after Big Blue announoed that, but for wme spocial iterns, IBM’s 1987eamings would have doclinc for lhe third straight year. Akers seid the changcs an: “as signi ficant asany we've ever had"and the most imporlanl since Tom Waisen Jr. succeeded hislatefatberasIBM ctiicrin 1956.

‘Phi: restructuriatg establisttes five “highly indcpcndcnt systcms and technology busincsscs," accra-ding toIBM, along withanew organimtion, IBMUniIcdStatcsxesponsible fornllus. busittess. Tlte new businesses and IBMU.S.will have full day-to- day operational authority.

IBM Senior Vice President Teny Lautenbach is the new geilem managt: of IBM U.S. Ammg lhose five independent "businesses" is IBM Personal Systems, responsible for personal Systems, displays, most printcrs, typewriters, totales, deskrop publishing, consumamSystems. and related opemfing sysaems.

NEW IBM KEYPAD TALKS T0 THE BLIND NEW YORK (NB) IBM has develupeda kcypad that that allows blind users to bear text onm:PS}!personal Computer. ltis the firsrentry in IBM's lndcpendence Sones of products designed to handicappcd oompuler user's. The IBM P512 Screen Readcr packagß, a:S600, consxsts of anadaptive keypad, softwarc, documentation, and suppon and worlcs on single compute: or in nctworks. A tcxt-to-voice Synthesizer is also nccessaw for Screen Render to l

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IBM says ittested theprogmm withmorethatflovisually impairecl IBM emplnyees across the country.

BULL SELLS JAPANESE LAPTOP COMPUTER TDKYO (NB) Yokohama-besaß personal Computer makerSortecltassimedanOEM-supply conttaet for laptop oomputcrswimBullinFmee. IntheagrwnenLSortecwill supply Bull with im IBM Pc/Armmpanple Iaptop computer. tbeStIap. Then. Bull will marketthe oomputerunder the brand namc ofLauachc in Europa. 10.000 units. which amountstoadealworthslsfl million. areexpectedtobe sold the lirst ycar.

Currently, the Snap is sold in the U.S. marltet by Atlantabased DataView, recciving thc OEM supply ot‘ the procluct from Sorten. The Snap hasan NEC's V20 micmprocessing unil.and a FDD rr a HDD.

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SUN NIICROSYSTENIS alsojilted Apple within tltelastsix months, according to the SAN FRANCISCO EXAMmER. ‘lhepaperquotesmiablesouroesassayingthatAppleCED John Sculley offenedtobuy Sun using somcofAppleH;S500 Buttheofferwasrefnsemsaysttte

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I-IEWIEPI‘ PACKARD CLAIMS HIGHESI‘ PERFORBIING WORKSTATION PALO ALTU.Ca. (N8) ——HewlettPackard has introdttoed

anadd-omcirmfitboardwhichmabesml-IPKDOMOM 825SRX Workstation the higbest petfortning in themmiwl. according t0 the oompany. The CPU upgrade triples the speed ofthe Workstation to 2.0 MZFLOPS fmm 1.0 million floatingpnirttoperaflonspersecond. ‘Iltatspeedissaidtobe 759l: fasten‘ man oompcting wtxkstatiorts from Sun and SiliconGmplIics. HPsaystheMIPS (mlllionsofinmuctions per second) rating for its upgraded Systems has inereasedftotneriglttm 14 (or 14titnestltepetformanceof the Digital VAX 11/780.)

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IBM BOARDS THE UNIX EXPRESS RYE BROOK. N.Y. (N3) International Business Ma-

chinesCorpJsmakingapitchfortheUNlXoperating a growing bandwagon that now includes system.

Apple Computer, Microsoft. and Sun Nlicrosystents. WilliamLowe.IBNPspersonal oomputerchief. told reportersat the UniFonnUNIX conferenoe inDallas that “IBM pledges tn achieve a lcackrsltip role in the high-performance UNIX Workstation world." Tlle vehicle for IBNPs venunrc into UNIXistlteIBMPCRTJltereduoedinsmtcüotuetPCtltat

announeemettts fmm the low cm1, including. perhaps, a

oouple of models filling in the holes in the PS1? line am! maybe someupgradesof80286 machinesto theS0386 pmcessor.

X WINDOWS WINS BACIUNG CAL/IBRIDGE. Mass. (N3) A deren major Computer oornpanies an: ponying up 8150.000 each 1oSupport development of Massachusetts Institute cf Technologrs X Windows es a standard for multiple displays on Computer screens. MIT hast been developing X Windows forthrnc ycars. A Standard will malte it easierto write Software that will nm on a variety of machlnes, X Windnws dcveloper Robert Scheifler says. Joining the x Windows consorfimn an: IBM. Digital Equipment Corp., AT&T‚ Hewlett-Packard. Apple. Sony. Apollo. Calcomp. Sequent Computer Systems, Sun Microsystems. Tektrmix. and Xerox.

SUN INTRODUCES DESKTOP SUPERCOMPIITER MOUBITAINVIEW. Ca. (NB)—Atapacked news eonfierence. Sun llrlicrosystems has unveiled what i1Calls the first Supercomputer to fit ona desklop. the Sun 4/1l0 Workstation. Based onSun's SPARC reduced instruction set architocture. the 518.900 workstation delivers seven timcs the speedof a DEC Vax ‘lU780orsevcn milliontaloulations per seconcL lt uses Sun’s own operating systems. C. FOR‘IRAN. and Pascal but will also malte use of the coming version of Unix being designed by Sun und ATSLT. The workstation has 8 megabytes ofmain memory and a monochrome monitnr.

While Showing this prioelperformanoe breakthrough. Sun alsoannounoeditismisingtttepriceofoneofits workstalions.The Sun-SIÖO Workstation is up 31.000 to 38.900 clue man inereaseincompmientcosmmtd specificallynninCreme in the cost of orte megnbit oomputer memoty Chips.

Cmtmenfing an the SIJIUÄT&T alliame which has raised hackles througbout the Unix world, Sun executive EdZander defended the project. saying. "Wc bclicvc wecan offen’ analternative t0 the closed. txnprietary Systems ofDEC und IBM." l-Iecalledfnrhisdetractmstomllyatoundinsttpport of the joint clevelopment effott.

SUN MICROSYSTEMS T0 INTRODUCEDESKTOP SUPERCOMPUPER MOUNIAIN VIEW. Ca. (N3) Sun Microsysmms is expected to uuveilalow-oost supetcomputerthis weck. capable ofprooessing information a t a n i l c of4 to 7 million inslructions per seeond. The deslttop marltine. expected to be priced betwcen 310.000 and 815.000. is based onSun's SPARC, or reduoed insnncfion chip set.

TOSHIBA UNVEILS UNIX PORTABLECOMPUTER TOKYO (N13) A Tnsltiba spokesntan says the company has developed a Unix-based desktop portable Computer the ‘P8200. lt has an 80386 MPU. a 4M memory (IZM at maximum), a 100b’! I-IDD (PDOM at maxirnum) and a 3.5inch FDD. ‘Tlte T8200 will be shown at the Uniforum conference inDallasfirex.onFebrunry 8. Itwillbereleased in August. Thepricehasnotbeenannounoedyet.

Meanwhile. Tosltibn ltas tkveloped a Unix program for its Tslüolaptopuomputer. Iheprogarnsupponsamultiuser featnre connecting upm4 lerminals. The pmgram will also beshownattlteUnifomm nextweek. Itsreleasedate willbe

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