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CONTENTS
Christxnas time already, starting to wind
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The Compttfer latter 8.C. fdfffcsn • December NN
Databases This month we take a look at databaseL We start with a primer on databases, what
they are, why youseoul dwant oxie. We then asked four databasedevelopers why they chose the package they did to develop cus-
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who still used dBase. A humbled AshtonTate has subsequently releaseci a new improved and supposedly bugkree version 1.1 of dBase IV. Finally we close the database section with areviewof Superbase 4, a serious database for Windows 8.0, a look at Toolbook, an interesting but slow equivalent of HyperCard for the Windows 8.0 xnarket, and two Mac databases. Backdoing a Mr chunkof the writingon this feature is our old &iend Peter Lincoln, who did a feature on local area networks last year.
WIIIuiPeg Echelon We' ve been busy again, we are launching a new edition in Manitoba starting in January. We plau to do a distribution of 80,000 there, giving us a total circulation in Western Canada of 180,000 copies. We have editions that cover the major centres of
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Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, and in ganuaxy Wmnipeg. (Bear with me dear readers,I am boastmg here to impress potential advertisers, It is for th ee folks in the East who think that the Globe and Mail, or Torontekased computer publications are the only ways to reach Western customers. We are encouraging them to take a closer
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A 486 Inakes a decent platforxn to run UNIX when &eed &om an AT bus. By Mlkayn Barr.
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that neither he nor The Cmrrputer Paper"s readers miss this excellentsoftware series
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I Can't Get No Respect I wasqiute surprised when in your feature article on 5-D rendering and
animation, you referred to the Amiga as a "budget machine" in order to explain the low software prices in the Amiga market. Unfortunately, I have found that prices for Amiga hardware mn be exorbitantly high. I own an Amiga2000 with 9 MBof MM, a46MB hard drive,an A2088 Bridgeboard (for MS-DOS compatibihty), a nd a Raven PR-9104 (~) printer, for which I paid a total of $4,950: Amigs 20N (1 MS RAM 880K drive ....$2,000 SupraRem 20N 8MB board, w'dh 2MS 450 S eagste SCSI ST157N heal drive..... 9 5 0 A2088 Bridgeboard & 5.25" ffoppy ...... 700
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the Amiga line, one must go to the tog of-the%ac Amiga 8000, which, with a 68080 at 25 MHz, a 68882 match coprocessor at25MHz, a built~ 100MB hard drive, a built~ dosnterlacer, and a Commodore 1950 multisync monitor, costs $6,000, a price that is in Mac II territory, and which could buy a '486 IBM~ompatible. Again, I ask the ques. tion, which computer is the true budget machine? I would have to answer with either "Atari ST" or, even more likely; IBMwompa6bke." Despite the high cost of some Amiga hardware components Iam extremely satisfied with my Amiga 2000. As I axn writing this, DeluxeMusic is playing Bach'sFugue in G Mnor in the background. I c a n even use my word processor...Sculpt-Anixnate 4-D Jr...DeluxeMusic, etc., at the same time.
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Amiga2000hasa68000at7.16MHzf To rival the speed of the Mac LC, I would have to spend about $1,000 more for an antiquated A2620acceleratorto come to a final total of about $4,900 for an eqmvalent systemf I In addition, to solve the fiickermg problem in the Amiga's hi~ca modes, I would have tospendanadditional $1400: $400 for theA2MODisplaymnhancement Card, and$8M for the Commodore 1950 multisync monitor. Subtract the 1084S stereo monitor, and add the A2520/ 1950 multisync combination, and you get a total of$5,600for an Amiga system equalling the $8,'700 Mac LC system in terms of raw speed1 Which system is more "budget" now? 1? Interestingly enough, to get performance rivallmg the Ma'c II line among
The advantages of multitasking even in a single~ e n vironment are fairly clear I find it particularly odd the TheConxputer Paper hasonly one constantly running Amiga ad and vexy little Axniga coverage at a time when even PC heavyweights like Byreand Corrrpuferrecrldare beginnmg to treat the Amiga as a significant computer. Granted, the Amiga haa limitations and problems, but so do Macintoshes snd MS-DOS computers. I a m constantly amazed a t h o w t h e Macintosh could be touted as the "mul-
timedia" machine. Animation on the Macintosh is so unnatural andjittery that I fail to see how any good animafion could be made with anything less than a
Mac IIci with a 24-bit graphics board and special blitter hardware.
When Disney decided to release The Animation Studio, which computer version did they write first? The Amiga version. In fact, Disney used Amigas in the creation of "The Little Mermaid."
Axnigas have also been used in the making ofmanymovies, including "Die Hard" and "RoboCop II." Try more Amiga coverage,and you might fi nd more subscribers, more adverbsers, and a much
larger au+ence.
Franic Lui, Vancouver, B.C.
I xeould estimate fhaf you are annPrering the purchaseprice of your machirxeabout one yersr age to the suggeskd hsfPrice of a newly announced cxnnputer, the Mac I.C. This is appks to oranges, as lheIrricefomost cornpufers have conre douln substarxfia8y. The Amiga 500, xehich fofers lorAevel arxiniafion, is
defxrxifelyirx the h4xgueof xehatreeconsider budget nrachines, and xeesaxe that cmmPufer advertised this weekred a color monitorfor
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The Computer Paper I Dec '90
Faxo graphy Fremont Communications has begun shipping a US$99 software aden called Faxography~ LQ foritsFrecom Fax96 PC fax board. Faxography~ LQ lets users fax documents formatted with Epson h Q printer typogxaphic information. The program provides full emulation of 24pin graphics and hQ text, enabling any PC program that supports Epson printers and can "print to disk" to create a
Faxography file. When transmitted to another fax ma-
chine, itwill be prin ted at either 100x200 dpi or 200x200 dpi. Fax versions of all LQfonts (regular, bold and italic versions of two type styles in eight sizes plus five styles of proportional spaced type for each style) are includedwith the software.
The Faxographysoftware isalso available aspart of a new bundle &om Fremont, which includes their Fatt96 9600
bps Sm board and 2400/4800 bps MNP5 modem with software; 1-Limr, which enables incoming voice and fax calls to
be correctly and automatically answered using a single phone line; and FcmtQupP', newsoftware which couples astandalone fax machine tothe Fax96 board over standard telephone wires and allows bidirectional communications between fax
board and machine (including using a stand-alone fax machine's built-in scanner toprovide 200x200 scanned input into DTP programs,or allowing the fax board user to "print" to the faxmachine-
useful forpreviewing and keeping a hard copy of whatever is sent). Other software includes Fa&etchFazt,
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This year's Award of Excellence committee is chaired by Dr. Dave Chowdhury, Dean of Engineering Technology at BCIT. Other members of the committee are David Hughes, David Rebak, Peter
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MaxMerge runs from within The Maximizer. Called a "onewtep point-and+hoot operation" by Richmond Software, it does not require users to learn a script language, import or export files, or run a separate utility.
Voice FAX The acceptance of facsimile machines as a standard office requirement has led to over four million fax machines being used in North America; one million sold in 1990 alone. The VoiceFax Information Retrieval is an automated, unattended facsimile retrieval system for 9 8 6 -based PCs. VoiceFAX enables anyone with a touch-
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modore Amiga which offers desktop video effects like titling, production switching, and genlocking for $1+95. The boardreplaces a host ofdedicated machines costing$1$80,000, andean be used by both independent producers and cable1Vcompanies toproduce new' shows on the RISC standard used for broadcasting in the U.S. and Japan. Since the announcement of the Toaster, however, the Amiga platform has lost ground in the broadcasting market. This despite the fact that, unlike the Apple Macintosh or IBM PC, the Amigacan easily display broadcastsignals without the "antiMasing" problem en-
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Missouri Brings Computing to Journalimn COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, NOV 8 (NB) — ElliotJaspin has moved daily newspaper reporting into the computer age. The 1979 Pulitzer Prize winner is now teaching a technique called computer assistedreportingat the University of Missouri, one of the nation's top journalisin schools, which involves aualyzmg mamfraine tapes of public records on personal computers, then following up with interviews.
Jaspin, who never went to journalism schoolhimself, isnow executive director of the Missouri Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting. He daims he is not a computerjock, and only became interested in computing out of boredom. "I was in a bureau where I could do all my work in half a day. Then the company brought IBMPCsin. Iwasso bored l read the manual.Then I wrote a program which played "The Moonlight Sonata" on my PC while everyone ehe worked near deadhne.l decided thatifcomputers could do this, perhaps they could do real worg too. Jaspin soon got his chance when his newspaper, the PmvidmmJaunaaMtdk-
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to get hold of me," he said. IBMCanadarecentlylaunchedan effort to offer PS/2 based systems for small business,explained PhilScharf,personal pointwf~e project manager at IBM Canada in Markham, Ontario. IBM is offering hardware including a PS/2 Model30-286orModel55,acashdxawer, and a specialized retail printer. Rather
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Systempro Challengers W ashington, D.C, NOV 9 (N B) Advanced Logic Research has announced five new families of ALR Powerpro (Compaq Systempr~ompatible) computers at 30% lower prices than
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Moneloyce, A Speech Program Las Vegas. Nevada, U.S.A. 1990 NOV 16 (NB) — First Byte has announced a new version of Monologue, a program for the IBM PC which gives it the power of speech. It's a memoxyresident utility which can read back word processing documents so you can check spelling and grammar, readoffspreadsheets so you can find missing decimals and digits quickly, or sift through electronic mail in a background" mode, so you can be reading a newspaper and actually listen to your e-mail instead of having to stare at a screen to read it.
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Microsoft Sbrd K 5.5 Redmond, Washington, NOV 7 (NB) — Microsoft has issued a new version of Microsoft Word. Version 5.5 for DOS systernsfeaturesagxaphicaluserinterface and compatibility with other members of the Microsoft Word family, the company saysi
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the U8. information systems industry, slowing ta a7 % grewth rate atter several years of growth at up te 20%, will climb back in midMecacfe if vendors solve connectivity problems, indigestion (improper assimilation of existing
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Now it was possible for several people to look at the same Sle at the same time without crowding around. In database terms, this is called simultaneous access. Then all the viewers independentlyof each other could change the contents of the espy of the document they were
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In the traditional paper file world, when you take a flle out of the filing cabinet, security and multiuser access is built in — nobody else can get the file. If you want more than one person to see a
Where to put the documentwas Surly easyinthisworld.B came alterAand you just pushed all the other files aside and
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paper recordkeeping was the photocopier. You could very easily have multiple copies of a document. (Can any body really remember the world before photocopiers? Howdid theygetanything done? Was stufF really retyped?)
A Sense Of Order shoved your document in. In database tial storage the records are stored se-
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really organized, you wauld have the R's broken down toa, and you would quickly spot the label you were looking for. Your eaess technique on the sequential file was not sequential — yau didn' t
fiip through every folder to find out where the R'swere — youused an msfemarf lookup. Your desk, by contrast, would pile up in a different manner. After you 6nished working with a falder, youmight throw it ta one'side, and then do the same with subsequent ones.
Random order Here you were storing the folders in rsrrrrfem arder and if you had to get ane, it might not be as smooth an anair ta find it.So maybe yau color-coded your 6les
— all your topsecret documents were in blue files. Thus, if you had been working a little while earlier with a memo, you would look at the pile of folders on your desk, spot the blue one and pull it out. In elect,you were using an index but one that might not be apparent to anyone else — "where does it say that am the blue folders are memos?" With an apology ta database purists,you were usinga special type af index — hashish. In hashing, you give a record a unique code, and then you canSnd thatrecard very quickly, in what ostensibly looks like a mesa (Gf course, this depends on there heing only one blue file, so to keep on thinking along the lines of this analogy yau will have to think in terms of superMuper VGA — I zillion colors &om a palate of ane jillion colors. Thus each folder is uniquelycolorwoded and, you, having perfect polychromatic ~ mem o r y, can look at the big heap and find the one you are laoking far.)
Slips The computer's "electronic paper" mode changes the wayrecords are stored and accessed. Your document is a series of magnetic blips surraunded by other magnetic blipson your harddrive. People looking at the recards never see the blips — they only see copies of the bfiipa If you store the blips in physical se-
shoving, and one big push and all the cards come dawn. For this reason, most recardetarage techniquesput the record in the next free apace an the disk re-
gardless of whether it's in the right place "logically" and then use irrsfsawd lookups
Secret hagredieats Record~rage, indexmg and hashing techniques are some of the secret ingredients that separate one database &om another aa that even though twa languages such as dLLse and Foxbase
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Besides eancernirig themselves with how informatian is stored, databases concern themselves with retrieval and marupulation — this is the programming
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Relational Databases The paper world's corresponding t echnique m i gh t b e te r m e d a "procedure"; e.g., "If you want to figme out an employee'ssalary, go to the green Sling cabinet in the back offiee, pun out the drawer marked Payroll,fi nd the employee's time card in the section xnarked Time Cards and then ga to the secfion marked Personnel anrl pull out the employee's file. The rate that the emplayee is receiving is marked on that carrL Multiply that rate with the number
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types of choices must be considered in the context of the learning curve.
Yes, anything can be done, but how easy is it to do it, how long will it take? How easy is it to make the classic "little" change once you' ve dome things one
way? The above concept might be considered aspeed type ofvariable— the speed ofdevelopment time. Earlier wediscussed the access methods and the part they
play in speed of access. A third consideration ofspeed is how fastthe program
make lt easier to write programs.
When programsare actuefiyrunnimg, however, they have to be translated into pure computerese — on~dwff mag-netic patterns = for the computer to understand them. This is the work of eesPiVera Databases can be compared by whether they are intterpreted on the fiy, which means every English/algebraic sentence is translated into an appropribmps before the ate series of next bit of work xs done, or whether the programs axe compiled ahead of time so
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somebodyelse's data with your program? Or you wanted to do the same thing as thatprogxam did withyour program and youdidn'twamtto buy thatother program because youjust forked over for yours and it does a good many things that the other one doesn't? Ah," the database consultant drools,
"You' ll need a conversion module. I just happen to have...". Data convertibility or portability is a real problem in the world — how do you get am your customer files on the PC in AccPac over toyour Mac's version of Word soyou can do a fancy mail merge? Well, there'ssomethingcalledASCII and a lot of progxams can pmduce an ASCH file or read an ASCII file. Also, because Lotus and dSase are so popular, a lot of progxams canread/create filesbased on these standardL Still, it's all very haphazard — alittlemessy. Solution: database
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SQL is the language with which you talk to the database server. All your pmgrams will, someday soon, have an SQL component thatwill allow them to talk to the da~ se r ver as the database server will only respond to SQL talk S'IL is a more English~ l a nguage than most audwill, in theory, allowyou to download your accounting datafrom your SQL server into your spreadsheet or yourda-
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Active Data Dictionary Unhke traditional data dictionaries, an AREV dictianary does nat define the physical structure af a file. Instead, the is a view that is apphed to data as it is accessed. The dictionary allows the developer to define a field, set up
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Variable Length Records AREV recordscan holdup to 64Kwith any number af variablelength SeldL The record only takes up as much sFice as the actual data
Multi Value FieMs AREV allows repeating data in a Geld.
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Text FieMs Text is handled like any ether Seid with a 64K limit You can edit, index ar search an text just like any ather Seld.
Database Con't from PaNe 32 tabaseaf customer namesinta your word
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of them — over 40, sen6vegetarian, latent pseud~tellectual — and then dick to retrieve — and here it is naw — half the population af KitL Sounds tao good ta be true) It's herel
The only thing missing is — say, how good are yau at entering, with unerring accuracy,endless pages of last names, 6rst names, middle names, social insurancenumbers,addresses,zip codes,Axes, phone numbers, heights, sexes.... Boy, have wegat ajob foryoul
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programming libraries, as well as a parttirae college lecturer and programining instructor. He works with dBase, Chpper, Turbo, Pascal, and Modula II. He is
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Pascal and preparing a college seminar/ course on Relational Database Theory
and SQL using dQUERY. Dave works in the dBase or xBase
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applicationsin dBase II, III, and ID Plus before concentrating on Clipper at his ciurent job where he has written the
folio~ a p p lications: Library Catalog System LibraryJournal Tracking System Records Management System Computer Time Billing System Print Shop, PhotoCopy and Misc. Services Billing System
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ber of professional applications libraries available. Additionally, Clipper's UDF's (userAefined functions), read cocle, use of Intel OBJ file format, and general industry standard dBase file format make it hard to beat Dave's petpeeves with Clipper are its high pricefor what amounts to a bare-
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Why Paradoxt Most of my users have little money for software development and yet may still need a relationai database system that can offer them extensive features.
Paradox is as programmable as dBase but also can be driven interactively ("in manual transmission mode") by any reasonably interested staff member because the interface is as intuitive asLotus
with the same hnd of basic menu structure and far &iendlier. The basic overhead of index control and initial input and output formats are done automatically so that users can obtain results without having togo through a confusing setup procedure. This means that if money is short, the client can either specify the initial structure and
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combo. Running the demos a second time produced a barely perceptible increase in speed and response. If the intended user group happened to be highpriced executives, the life span of a Toolbook book would be rather short. Again, from a user perspective, ToolBook offers a very attractive envi-
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Product File Force Yersion 1.0.1. Publisher: ACiUS, 10351 Bubb Road, Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 252-4444. System Rettulrsments:File Force 1.0
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Fik Force is aneuytousc rekstional database that inherits nsuch foits design and capabilities pens thc company's jlagshipproduct,4thDimension2,0. Targeted at thesamc market as Chris's neyeFikMehcr Pro, FikForce can create jiling a system using up to 10 fiks and relate them autrrrnats aly. 4th Dimension'sisconsideredbymany to be the best of the relational databases
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Documentation File Force has extensive documentation. It includes four coil-backed manuals and three thinner stapled beoklets.
File Force has fewer commands available than daes 4th Dimension, which is good news and bad news The good news is that it makes things simpler for new users. The bad news is that it limits the power af the database tools available. The designexs ofFile Force seem to have chosen a good middle ground for the needs af users.To really tweak the maximum perfonnance ef a relational database, userswill probably want to go up te its more expensive sister product, 4th Dimension.
The documentation goes a long way to explaining things, including the nature
File Force has built in multiuser capabilities. Unfortunately, unlike Filemakcr Pra,you are forced to huymultiplc copies
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to gain additional serial numbers ta access this feature. (Filemaker Pro also says that you sheuld purchase additianal
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copies, but you do not in fact need thc additional copies to access the database.) Switching between modes is simple but notveryintuitive. Itrectuires thatyou hold dawn the mouse butten when you start up File Force. It would have made more sense te indude the multiuser made as a menu option. As itis, you have
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common uses for databases, so there is a good chance thatmere than half af your
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program prevents two users from changing the same record at the same instant but still lets the secend user view the record.
Clip Art File Farce includes a bonus set ef art offerings ta help polish your database. HypnCard, you get several pages af useful clip art, including stylishly designed buttons and headers faryour database
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you really need them, but if they are optional, they slew dawn both speed ef development and inthiscase,speed ef actual use.
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OMer And 8etter A lot of work has been done in the area of layouts.They can new be named nnd navigated to through apopoep menu. There are more formatting options available to display fields, with the most notable work done with custom~te formats. Fields can now be individually manipulated as to how they slide and in what taborder they're placed. On»screen visual aids like arrows and numbers help to edit their designationsa
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more options. The Find and Sort commands cannow pause for input, thereby enabling for interactive scripts. You can choose which named layouts to navigate to and can print with or without the print
dialog. Some impressivework has been done with the security access to the database.
Group layering as welt as password protection is now supported. The system is tightly integrated throughout the program and surfaces in field and layout design. The end resultis an intricate and comprehensive security system with lots
of flexibility. The preview mode now shares the same functionality as the other modes with active menus, etc. Overall performance has also been enhanced and
things move along a little zippier than they used to. The Import and Export commands now support Ctaris'sXTEND
technology, therebyincludingFileMaker in their product integration scheme.
SuCCeSSM FaCelift It's a wonder what medical science can do these days. A tuck here, a lift there
and Yoitaf a new program. FileMaker Pro is a thing of beauty and has stood the
test of time. I just wondex what her children will look like.
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best gift you can give to computer users is one you don't have to buy. What every computer user dreams of is having a positive, supportive environment to free them to work and play without guilt.
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using the advanced sound synthesizer of the XMAS90, When a name is selected with the Not-Even-A-Mouse,Santa'svoice instructs the elf with either "Ho-Ho," which prompts a pe~p menu te display a het4nk &om the gift table, or "No-No," which xneans there is ne more work to be done for that name. The XMAS90 is much mere accurate
printer{made by Reindeer Technologies, a close cousin ef the lasergrinter) prints out the gift label and the package is processed by the Gik Bundler, that sorts by postal code and packs the gifts into red velvet bags. XhGWIist keeps an accurate count ef the gi&s, se girls and boys can be assured that there will be no Nintendo
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Twice" system. The computer can be relied upon by Santa for those very lastminute updates, hke when a "nice" child tiu ns inta a "naughty" child or vice versa,
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whe would love to break into Santa's system to: 6nd out what they' re getting
alongside the nose, then a color Comet-
ahead eftime, change "Ne-Nos" te "He-
Hos," or to tamper with their gift data. On Christmas Eve, navigation of Santa's sleigh will be handled by an onsled computer linked by satellite te the XMAS90. As mentioned above, the computer can advise Santa of a status change &om "naughty"to "nice" even
Eve. Santawarehasgreatlyimprevedthe laborious, theugh always-merrily~pproached task, butwill never replace the jelly one. In an interview with The Computer Papsr, Santa said that "Applicatiens for Elf softwarepmgrammers and hardware
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pare Santaware for next year. For in-
for exror. Has Santa lost the spirit ef gift~vmg te an impersonal computer? Does holly really mix with high<ech? Don't worry, Santa will still xnake that important personal visit to each home en Christmas
stance, in your country alone we have to upgrade for the GST. As well, we pmject many New Year's babies, so we-will improve eur Mistletel chip fer increased memory demands. Twelve Days of Christmas' by heart, and be willing to relocate to the North Pele. Look for the XMAS91 te be ready for next Christmas.
New, have yeu all been good little beys and girls this year? Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas."
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you spray snowflake patterns onto with canned snow. Meme — A mouse is a good present,
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on the Night before Christmas." So that the mouse of the house won't suffer harm from spilled eggnog and cookie crumbs, throw in a textured snouse pad. Beoke and Sulsecripsione — On Boxing Day, the computer bookstores Gll with people searching for books and snagazines to help them enjoy the new software and/or hardware they got &osn
a generous gift er. Computer bookstoresissue giftcertiflcates; they' re a onesize-fltsell, low-risk gift that is sure to be a surprise. A computer bookstore is also a good place to look for magazines that you might want to give subscriptions to;
popular ausgazines with computer users include, Byte, PCMagcszissr„Horns OjjScs
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Intel, and says he will be using it to contact all those "bad" little boys and girls with fax machines to warn them that it' s not too late to change their ways. Monitors — Monochrome m o nitors aad the Herculesgraphics cards are inex-
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spelling. A very use&el tool for writers, students, and business managers. • Microsoft Power Point for Windows — Presentation software to create stunning slideshowa • Microsoft Word for Windows — A
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ward-processing program that is sure to keep those letters to Santa coming. • Microsoft Game Pack — A selection
you could get started for about $500. Printers — Not everyone can afford to give away something like the Cometprinter, but there is a very good selection of dot matrix printers available. Don't forget to give some computer paper with this one, or you' ll have to wait for Boxing Day to try it out. new Windows applications available that would be appropriate for a Windows enthusiast. Here is a list of what will be
popular with Windows users, and a brief description: • Gramenatik for Windows — Does for
of game software for the PC user; these toys don't need batteries or assembly. • Microsoft Excel — A spreadsheet
program that will be upgraded in the New Year, so itcould be a good dealright now.
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Computers — MacIntosh and IBM have come out with more reasonably priced versions of their products: the Mac Classic at under $1500 and the PS/ 1 atjust over $2000 make good presents Yet, with a little work and many hints &om a potential computer user, Santa says that you could put together a PCcompatible giftbox &om only $1000. Still, many users would want a 886 machine under the tree. NeXT Computess have also lowered the price of theirdistinctiveblackgiftbox. You would have to be very, very, very, very good as well as very lucky to get one of these$5000+ machines. Notebook Computers-~o d things still come in small packages. Notebooks start in the $1500 range, and with a copy of Microsoft Works on board, they could help generate New Year's resolutions. CD-ROM — This is a CD player for the computer." a device thatreads CDs filled with. electronic encyclopedias, dictio-
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days and his first business success with
the computer game, Evolution. Now, as the chairman of B.C.'s largest computer game development company, hepreseatly devotes 60 to 70 hours a week to games and entertainment software, his
growing business that yielded $8.2 million revenue in 1989.
Nautical But Nice His 4th~orey view oflice, decorated with a large Metal Art fish sculpture and a spectacular wall-to-wall tropical fish tank, is reminiscent of a captain's quart ers in a luxury yacht It is a Nem~ u e haven apartfrom the madcap oKces of his Rand D group where creative license is apparent with high<ech toys, MIDI equipment,arcade games, and graffi ti on the "playroom" walls. Mattrick speaks modestly of his successes which have inJanuary 1990allowed him to takeover theentire14,000orquarefoot fourth floor of his building — one step toward even greaterfuture expan-
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One Problem Solved The main problem is the AT bus. The "industrystandard" AT bus is 16 bits wide
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Bridge. It's clear that the AT bus was originally designed to work with computers no faster than the original 164it
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A '486 Unix Workstations
tion. For most of the tests, we used the mon~ a p hics mode at a resolution of 640x480 (a limitation forced upon us due to lack of device: drivers in the Unix software we used). We had a 16kit Ultrastor ESDI controller for the disks. In my opinion, this is a great conlroller because it makes setting up a hard disk trivial. The setup utilityis both comprc,hensive and easy to use. There was a 1.2 MB floppydisk drive and a Fujitsu 880 MB (16 ms) hard disk installed in the system. As longaswe stuck to character~d applications,system performance was outstanding. When we fired up the GUI, performance was both &ustratingly slow and comicaL Screen re&eshes were choppy, background tasks took forever,
datapath. The EISA bus actually gives you the
PCs at a reasonable price. At a suggested retail of $6500 for a basic machine with a
Ihave always been skepticalofbenchmarks. The only real way to compare machines is to do real work with them, not run a few sterile, tightly coded prograins against the system clock. Nevertheless, I found the Data Perfect '486 came in at 15.05 Dhrystone MIPS and 0.96MFLOPS (DP Linpack), on average. Intel rounds the numbers off at 15 MIPS and 1 MFLOP. The standard AT bus is 16 bits wide and has a peak throughput rateof 8 megabits/second. It averages at around 6. On the other hand, the EISA bus has a peak performance of 88 megabits/ second with an average speed of 15. The EISA bus is also 82 bits wide. In general, with database or graphics applications, you can see an increase in throughput by a factor of 8 with an EISA machine. And the difference is noticeable. • • Data Perfect builds a good machine, and I hate giving it back Their DataPro line comes with a + ear parts and labor warranty, and that's well worth the few extra bucks. Any complaints I have about
install X-windows, a window manager, and the visual desktop metaphor &om Visix (a product called Looking Glass). Regardless of what the vendors say, Xwindows is a pig and you need to squeeze everylast MIP out of your machinel With the additional load of awindowmanager and a GUI, you will want 8 MB of RAM.
The Machine So we could have astandard for comparison, we first installed Unix on an AT
clone. It was a 25 MHZ 80486 AT with 8 MB of 82+it RAM. We had the cache on the '486 enabled for the whole test.
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For the review,we decided to run Unix. The idea was to see if a '486 EISA box would make areasonable workstation. We used INTERACTIVE Unix 2.2 which is based on Unix System V. 8.2. Once Unixwasup and running (that' s a topic for another articlei), things became... interesting. To make the system
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Buying a '486, installing Unix, and
Using an EISA Western Digital disk controller did wonders aswelL We could actually make use of the 15 MIPS and 1 MFLOP the CPU is capable of.
American suppliers to offer '486 EISA
I' ve always had my reservations about running Unix on a PC. Until the advent of the EISA bus, I had been justified on the grounds that a PC didn't have: the throughput that was needecL The idea of using a PC for a workstation brought up even more skepticism. However, after seeing what an EISA '486 was capable of, I think that a PC running Unix can work well. If you need
administration tasks easy and documentation is well written.
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tion &om one of the big vendors.
A'486 would make a good Unix workstation, but only when a few caveats are kept in mind. Unix is a big operating system. On a well~aintained and supported system, a person can get around handful of commands. Installing and maintaining a Unix system is a completely different matter, and it's not a job for novices. A novice would be able to get a barebones system up and running, but it wouldn't do much. There is a good reason whyvendors charge afair pile of moneyfor their Unixworkstations. There is a high degree ofvalu~ded programming that is done to make system
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A wide variety of charts can be automatically created simply by importing spreadsheet data. Modify the data, and the graph refiects the changes. For those who don't draw, Illustrator can automatically trace and incorporate scanned photos or other bitmapped source materials. The new Type tools allow the importation of text in several formats, multi-
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In fact, in the booklet galled "Beyond the Basics" which comes as part of the excellent documentation that accompa-
nies the Illustrator 8.0 program, the description of an efFect called Transparent Type confidesthat "the dFect of overprmting is not visible during preview or composite printing. The file must be color separated to show the dFect" Good griefl And thisis&om the people that put Display PostScript on theNeXT computer?
A Stroke Of Genius The four Illustrator 8.0 disks come in
a compressed form, meaning that you must use the supplied installer program
to install them onto your hard disk. In total, the program, related templates and sample documents occupy 8.8 MB of s pace, although by removing non~ n tial files, you may reduce that by about half. When the application is first started up, you are required to personalize your
copy by entering your name (and optionally, your company's name). As with recentversions,the 8,0 version requires 2 MS of RAM, and starts up with no onscreen tools visible. Sy selectingNew, I noticed the first in aseriesof small delights. Previouslypesky annoyances like the need (in earlier versions) to always choose a tracing template or dick None can now be by-
passed by holding down the Option key. The None buttonitselfnowhasalabelled Command-Nshortcut, hence CommandN-N quickly opens a new documentwin-
dow. (Illustr ator88alsosportedthislittle-
known, unlabeled shortcut.) Once a window is opened, the program's considerably~nhanced tool palette appears at the left side of the screen (see Figure I). In a stroke of pure genius, the program's designers have created a description panel iri the lower leftcorner of the main documentwindow that describes the function or mode of the currentlyeelected tool. Sy pressing the various operator keys (Command, Shift, Option and Control) or selecting
various tools &om the palette, the description panel describes the function that will be performed. I would like to see all Macintosh programs adopt this obvious, butrarely seen feature. (Calamus, a desktop publishing program forthe Atari ST, uses a panel like this to goodeffect).
Curve Ball My Least Favorite Feature is the fact that Illustrator still can'tworkin preview mode (FreeHand users love this feature, even though itslows down thatprogram's operation tremendously). However, at least you can now preview part of an Illustrator image with the new Preview Selection command. Another boo-hoo is the inability to create simple gradient fills for objects. Illustrator's Blend tool can certainly
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Lurking amid the wealth of new f~turesin version 8.0isanastybug. Custom colors, which worked great in '88, no longer work when files are exported to other applications. A properly defined spot color, when placed in XPress 8.0, for example,no longer separates properly as a spot color. It ends up either on the blackplate orprocesaseparated, even when no process has been specified. An Adobe technical rep admitted they had been flooded with calls, about this defect. She would sayonly that "we' re worhng on it." She suggested saving an '8&compafiblefi le and defining/applying the custom color there until a bug-fix is available. If you choose this route, remember thatyou can'tuse compounds to create "doughnut holes." It's back to the old splice and overlap. (Thanks to Steve St. Laurent of Imagineers for reporting this bug.)
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Then@ Picks UP 1 V egas, Nevada„WOV 16 (Wa) Companies with new, smaller modems, some of which work on cellular radio I'requencies,were a major presence at both the new Sands Convention Center and the Riviera Hotel. At the Riviera, Xecom of Milpitas, CA =
showed the LspPort 2400 modem family, a set of internal laptop modems and fax/modemswhichcan beupgradedwith new firmware. "We can send the new code on a floppy disk and you upload it," Cheng Eng of Xecom told Newsbytes. "Mth other laptop modems, you cannot change the firmware ifnew standards emerge, like V.82bis or MNP 10. Gur modem will never be obsolete." Versions of the 2,400 bit/second LapPort for the CompaqSLT and LTE retail at$849, while versions for the NEC ProSpeed, Toshiba 1600, Z e nith SuperSport, HP Vectra.LS/12 and Macintosh Portable cost$299. Fax/data modems, which can move 4fax pages
per minute, cost $549499. Also at the Riviera was Fremont Communicafions of Fremont, CA, makers of the Frecom line of' lowgriced laptop modemsandfax/modemL For thisshow, Fremont announced the Frecorm Fax96
CommCenter, which combines a 4 page per minute fax board with a 2,400 bit/ second modem, a "Wiaer"which lets the laptop fi rx/modem share a phone line with a phone answering rnachine; FaxCupl, which lets the fax~ard scan and print to a fax machine, using Fremont's Faxography LQ printer emulation software, and other software to
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troduced a V.82 laptop modem, the WorldPort 9,600 V.82. It's compatible with major communications packages like Smartcomm and Pr oconun Plus, offersMWP 4 error correction, and weighs just 8 ounces„or .2kg. The product will retail at $899. Jack Cohen of T o uchbase told Newsbytes the companywill in the future add MNP5 to the line, but has no plans to follow V.82bis, a new data compression standard which should become an integral part of most 9,600 bit/second modems over the nextyear, given thatmarket
leaders like Hayes and U.S. Robotics have endorsed it and engineered itinto future prodllcts.
Also at the Sands was the Faxpak, an internal laptop fax/modem costing just $250 which comes bundled with the Mirror communications software. It' s from Advanced Microcomputer Systems of Fort Lauderdale, FL In ternational
C omp uters'Communicationsdisplayed the IC~ ax, a fax card which plugs into the optional I/Oslotofa Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer„ turning it into a plainpaper fax machine.
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pocket, not just for computing, but for communication, doubling as phones. These were two of the many forecasts at a panel discussion among distinguished experts. At COMDEX's "State of the Art Tech-
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Robert Carr of Go Corporation, a comcomputing system software which IBM has already hcensed,outlined thefour majorchanges we' ll see in computing products in middecade, all of which point to the product he's developing. Fu3t, he says, the physrcal form factor will change. As a 486 computer is finally reduced to a single chip, the size of the unit will get smaller too. "One vision is already on the floor," he said, referring to the presence of the i~ mud Poqet computer atCOMDEX. Sutcorrventional computers are hmited by the presence of a keyboard. 'You can't shrink the keyboard," he said, suggesting that a penbased input system will be the best idea for the smaller~ uni t s. He said that 1995's computers will feature variable screens from standard page to notepad sized screen and input surfaces. Secondly, "computers need a social form factor," Carr stated. "Today's diskbased keyboards are not used in social
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Thirdly, we' ll see digital computers working with more analog information. By 1995, he says, a wide variety of analog information will be used: digitized voice, images, and video, all of which are dif6cult to mix today. Costs will come down and operating systems will be able to support this variety of inputs. The seamless integration of multimedia, he suggested, would usher in a new way of using comp~ers. "Desktop computers are productivity devices today," he said. "When they' recarried around all day long they' ll become communication devices." The emergence ofcomputers as comm unication d e vices will m ea n t h a t "electronic mail will bhtr into voice mail. There will be a single interface to manage all of them." This theme was echoed by HewlettPackard's William Crow, manager ofNew Wave Systems Technology, who showed off the New Wave operating environment as the architecture which will make possible the changes to which Carr referr'ed. He said that "objects and agents" will work together, objects being the iconbased technologyof graphical interfaces, and agents being methods by which users can link diverse analog and digital input sources. He showed a videotape similar to
Apple's "Navigator" video, which portrayed a neatly dressed executive of the future conducting a telephone conversation, viewing a real-time video picture of his associate on a window of his laptop.
In another window is a spreadsheet, and during the course of conversation they are jointly working on the file, transmitting new screen shots to each other, each
in separate windows on the PC. Agents, for example, will enable full~ation video to be included in a w ord p rocessing document and will open desktop calendars and automatically insert dates, he sard. Pat Geisinger of Intel's Platform Architecture Group reflected on the change
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