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

only a few minutes. This puzzled me when I Srst installed DR-DOS, and I don't think there is anything about it in the GeoWorks manual (an oversight in a generally well-

designed program. Yours sincerely, Richard Banner

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

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

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

t'OA(2Uii( 232i] PUSLISRER I EDITOR IGrtan Slngh Khaba BEANAGING EOIIOR Graamo Bannott CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Graamo Bonnatr, Jim Clemente, Ron Grant, Kirtan Singh Khaba, JacquesSurveyor, Poaar Talbot, Gord TuBoch, Naor WaEach, Daniel Worgor, Goof Wheelwright Novrshytes CanadianEditor. Grant Buckler NATIONAL AD SALES John Oliver (416) 588-1580 Toronto COVER ART Windows World-ExcoEontl"by Graama Bannatt

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

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

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

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

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

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

smeged copyright infrmgement of the Mac interface in Mndows 5.0.

You can now bny a $1659 "easier to use Apple OneScsnner for DOS/Windows and the faster RISC-baaed $2649 Personal LaserWriter NTR for DOS/Windows from Apple. The new products are part of an overall plan by Apple to better support "mixed" computer environments of linked Macs and PCs. "This strategy is a direct result of the success of our market share efforts," said Apple Canada marketing vice-president Wayne J. Arcus last month. "Our research indicates that almost 50 percent of all Macintosh computers are being used in mixed environments. Wc".rc: supporting Macintosh owners operating in those situations by providing pedpherals that will work seamlessly on other systems."

The Macintosh LC II, based on the 16 megahertz Motorola 68030 microprocessor, performs twice as fast as the Macintosh Classic

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ATI drops video board, modem sound board prices

Mac usersneed not feel abandoned by

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

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

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

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

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In an attempt to encourage the use of CD-ROMs, Appfc has also launched a new, low-cost CD-ROM drive known as the

AppleCD 150. It offers an avcramc access thne of 5&0 milliseconds, inclutfes a 64K bufFer and sells for a suggested retail price of f/29. Contact Apple Canada at 4165155511 for details on all these productL

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New hi-res Lasers from Lexmark IBM's spunwff laser printer manu68cturfng arm — Lexmark Inter-national — has two new AppleTalkcompatfble laser printers

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

respectively. Prices are $2695 for the 6A and $5995 for the 10A. To getfurther information, call Lexmark International at &OMBM-4I468.

oettin9 the fax to cLtstomers fast A ncw Torontokased startmp has designed a system vrhich l i nk s PC-based fax technology with contact management software to allow telephone salespeople to respond to requests for more information almost instantly. A system with only two phone linescan handle more than 50,000 requests per month,' boasts Intrepid Communications of its new IntrepidFax software. If you are in the mood to put the company's claim to the test, calf Terry Moshenberg at (416) 8894550.

Now, increase the performance of your graphic environments with our new high-speed Local Bus Graphics Module. Q by Javell's new Local Bus graphics accelerator, designed exclusively for Q's StepUp™ modular systems, executes Windows™ graphics functions in hardware, thus accelerating your Windows™ environment.Overall, the .performauce increase is 10 to 20 times fasterthan conventional video systems, with the process of opening windows, resizing, pulling down menus and scrolling virtually instantaneous. Q's new Local Bus Graphics Modules take advantage of recent breakthroughs in video accelerator technology to offer the best speed/performance solution for today' s graphical applications. And remember, with Q's StepUp™ modules, you can upgrade to faster processors without replacing your whole system. See our entire family of modules: Intel 386DX, 486, 486SX or AMD 386 processors. Q Business Computers. Quality by Design. Awardwinning. FCC, UL and CSA approved. Novell® compatible. See us at our downtown showcase (Suite 304, 700 West Pender Street) or visit an authorized reseller today.

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INichelangelo virusbuster announced

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

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

We will dispense with the bad4awyer jokes, and get to the point here: at last someone has come up with a software package of standard legal documents for the Canadian context. This type of product has been around for a number of years in the U.S., b ut up ' ti l n ow, t o t h e b est of o u r knowledge, has not been commercially available in Canada. The package is called The Desktop Lawyer, and contains over 150 businesscontracts, agreements, forms and letters. It has been prepared by lawyers,

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

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

Contest: Canadian Foundation for World Development, (416) 445-4740. Intel inside io registered trade mark or intel corp.

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

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Newsbytes News Network is now shipping a CD-ROM which contains a complete text record of the history of the computer industry. The Macintoshwnly disc covers events from before the introduction of the Macintosh t h r o ug h t h e l an d m ar k IBM/Apple alliance. The dates of the 50,000 news stories span May 1985 through August 1991 as seen by the reporters and editors of N ewsbytes News Ne twork N (formerly Newsbytes News Service).

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

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

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

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

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

Examples for 1,2,4 and 8 bits per pixel: (up to 256 colors on screen) 6 40x480 220 H z 1024x768 1 0 0 Hz 1024x1024 7 6 Hz 1280x1024 6 4 Hz Examples for 24 or 82 bits per pixel: (up to 16.7 million colors on screen) 5 12x512 104 H z 6 40x480 92 H z 8 00x600 65 H z 1 024x512 6 0H z All resolutions are non4nterlaced. This is an incredibly fast video board. True, the TT with FastRAM helps, but the 2MB V RA M c a r d s t h emselves were

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

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

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

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

Jim Allen was also displaying his T20/25 upgrades, unquestionably the beat 68K accelerators available for Atari. He also had

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

a Leonardo True<olour video board from

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Lexicor for display. I waa not able to get a real good look at it, but thc colors on the TT were outstanding. The Leonardo is prhnaxily aimed at video production users, though itwould be a great add-on for a DTP artist, as well. Lexicor Software is

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

waa in the booth helping out and bore thc brunt of th e W ARP onslaught while

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

primarily a developer of SD design and

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

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

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APR 6 (NB) — A subdued industry, battered by recession, opened the Spring COMDEX show in Chicago. This year's show was expected to be smaller and less wemwttended than last year's show in Atlanta. But surprise, surprise, the Nm came out. Crowds at the McCormick Place convention center stunned analysts predicting a downturn. While there were fewer booths, and most products were preannounced, by noon Interfiice Group Chairman Sheldon Adelson was aheady calling this COMDEX a roushlg succesL The major announcements have been anticipated for months. M i c rosoft is

showing its MS-Windows 5.1. with

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

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

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

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

address to COMDEX Spring '92. Using taped clips of r eal users

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

you customers are unhappy, frustrated, not satisfied with the purchases they' ve made.

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

than grow the business. "Every company will talk about standards, but they can' t accept the consequences of making it

happen."

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

billion on computers in the 1980s, yet productivity rose just 1 percent a year during that time. He compared PCs to washing machines. "Both seem to save labor. But we just do more laundiy. It's the same with computers." After his videotaped users tried to define common industry buzzwords like OOPs and GUIs, Dell attacked them as techno-nonsense, saying the industry hasn't turned the buzzwords into real bench " I f companies spent half the time improving ease of use they spend on technology, customers would be better oif," he said. When it comesto value, however, one size doesn't fit all, Dell said. "Customers demand quality and value, but they have their own ways of defining it. That's a key oint. There really is no average user. We ave to address each user with the right mix of products and services, especially service L Dell, who for his shameless cost~tting and folksy size has been compared to the late Sam Walton, recognized these may all sound hke platitudes. "Every company in the industry has said these things. But have we done something? Just look at other industries in America where companies didn't listen to their customers. Asian competitors took the market away. We may

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

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

train about 90,000 endears during April, and more than125,000 by the end ofJune. Meanwhile, Dell Computer chairman Michael Dell said the computer industry has failed to deliver on its promise of

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

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

Fmally, the company cut the price of its

NetPort print servers up to $200, which will help for printer support of networks, and introduced a new line of hardware and soflware print spoolers, the NetPort 11 and

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

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Comdex: IBM Versus Microsoft

INicrosoft Intros New Windows S.1&ornpatible Applications

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

unison with its release of Windows 5.1, Microsoft announced that its full line of appRcations for Windows is immediately compatible with the new version, Bnd many speaficaRy exploit it, Featured was PowerPoint version 5.0, which skipped a v ersion 2 e n t i r ely. Microsoft executives joked that this was Srstly because the company does not get things right until that version and secondly because the new version of PowerPoint

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Microsoft Windows 5.1 was a little like

watching Jerry Brown dog Bill Clinton through New York. except of course that the user-voters were well aware these were Srst-tier candidates. The two companies

scheduled press briefings for the exact same hour, in hotels a mile apart and while

Microsoft moved their applications cInnouncement over an hour, it was with a Sontcunner's disdain.

Microsoft, of course, held the comingout for 5. 1 a s a k e ynote address by chairman BRl Gates at the Windows World show, which after two years is already nearly as large as the Spring Comdex exhibit itself, and threatens to upstage it in the future. Gates' overview of new functions, scheduled for 90 minutes, not only Slled the Arie Crowne theater, but was piped into three other Ml theaters upstairs. The speech also ran long, forcing plenaries for other Comdex sessions back an d l e a ving

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$.1 drew raves. Leading the cheers were thousands of beta testers, who were ghen their own party the night before the

During their presentation, Microsoft executives made numerous references to

shows somany hnprovements. An extended dc:mo of the program was offered the

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

media, and t t o f f er s a l o t . C h a nge something on a slide in one view, Bnd that

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attendees cooRng their heels in hallways. But, with its improved speed, ease of seto@ +d built-in multimedia support, Windows

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

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So there stood IBM Vice President Sc General Manager for Personal Systems, Cannavino, wearing a sweater and

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

vice president James Zucco, an OS/2

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GeorgeGrayson, President of Maolpa8t.

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

WordPetfect will take advantage of OS/2.' Philippe Kahn, chief executive of

Borland International, quipped "We' ve

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

pany,which has upgraded aR itsm ajor ••

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

company isactuaRy more onmp of Apple Macintosh System 7, when it comes to

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

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T HE COMPUTER PAPER MAY'92 chart showing SQL Server, Microsoft's ODSC product, and four empty boxes. 'The next time we see you we'5 5ll those other boxes, and be able to draw lines across the p r o duct l i n e t o d e l i ver solncthlng very powcr5llL Taking questions aher the presentation, Gates was asked about competitors' complahtts that his company's control of

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

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

they take that envhunment, he saicL 'They gave usmore of a lead on the Madntosht he Wi ndows environment i s m o r e coinpcnuvc»

INicrosoft Intros Windows For Pens At Comdex Microsoft launched the new system with CHICAGO. ILLINOIS, APR 7 (NS)-

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

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

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

a wrote% ROMchip.

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

floppy or hard disks. None of the pen computers presently available have Soppy disk drive@ A Microsoft spokesperson told Ncwsbytes that perhaps someday you couM go into your local software dealer and buy Pen for Windows on disk, but said that is some time down the road."

A number of OEM (OIigmai equipment

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

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

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T HE COMPUTER PAPER MAY '92 Gates gave Pradeep Slngh, group

product manager for Windows for Pens, credit for evangelizing such companies as

Momenta, now hc:aded by former Apple executive Del Yocam, to ship the Mcicrosoft system with their products. Singh also

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

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

any type of input, including shorthand, could be handled on a pen system through

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

OSI2 2.0Gets Lotus Backing, IBM Claims Brisk Sales CHICAGO, ILL I N O IS, APR V (NB)Having both launched new versions of their operating environments in the past week, IBM and Microsoft are now engaged in a battle of words and developer support. IBM's first salvo during the spring Comdex show included a claim that its phones are ringing off the wall, accompanied by Lotus s announcement that it plans five OS/2 applications by the end of this

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

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

SmartPics for Windows sells for $195, with node licenses at $49 each. Your Recharge Specialists Borland showed versions of its tooh and applications under DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Unix. Wage suggested that if CP/M were still around, Borland would have a version f o r th a t , t o o . I t s major announcement was dBase IV version 1.5 for MS-DOS, its first move in this area since Microsoft bought Fox Software. Borland promised that product, which features - thoroughdisassembly of Laser Iprlnter mouse support, faster "query by example" - all componentsare removed, support, and an open architecture, will ship inspectedandcleaned next month. The company also introduced - movingpartslubricated Quattro Pro 4.0, a new version of its - main boardinspected spreacbheet program. On the Wysdows side it introduced er i R eports for Windows, a . - much, much more reporter writer for ObjectVision 2.0, and a dded t h a t i t s O b j e c tVision SQL Connection now allows users to access DB2, •

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The theoretical limit to the number boxrowed from Windows S.l to make the of DOS applications which NT could rcm at whole thing more robust and easy to use. once would be S2,000 on 200 "virtual Windows NT, for example, uses the machines." same file manager as Windows S.l — which During our demonstration of Windows apparently required a rewrite of the file NT, no DOS applications were shown maxiager code Rom assembler to C so that running — other than the DOS prompt in a it could be made portable enough for use window. Microsoft offers assurances, in NT. PortaMity is very important for the however, that DOS applications wiR bc: able NT development team~ s i t is "parallelto run without problems under Windows tracking" development of the Intel and NT — even when the base hardware is the MIPS RISC implementations at the same MIPS RISC processor. time. Every week, the team cxosscompiles What was interesting to see was a the two versions of the code to make sure healthy mix of S2-bit and 164it Windows that no inconsistencies are creeping in. applications running at the same time One significant difference between under NT. In the scrc:en shot opposite, for Windows S.l and Windows NT, however, example, you caa see a SNrit Bezier curve will be in the way fonts are handled. generator, a I&bit version of Microsoft's A lthough b o t h wi l l in c l u d e the Minesweeper" game (part of the Mcrosoft Apple/Microsoft c~ e veloped TrueType Entertaiameat Pack sold in the U.S.), a font system, Windows S.l will also offer specially written S2+it implementation of Adobe's Type Manager. Microsoft saysif Microsoft Excel S.O, the standard 16-bit Adobe watxts to develop a thirdyarty, SMit version of Microsoft Word for Wmdows 2.0, Type Manager for Windows NT, it will be a S2-bit version of the Windows S.l file up to users to buy it if they need it. manager and a "performance meter" application (which shows the load on the Up axxcl Runninl processor, how many pages of memory are Wmdows NT comes with all the same small available, etc.). applications (or "applets," as Mcrosoft likes Any group which needs to work with to call them) which Windows S.O has large,- graphically oriented applications become Ssmous for. The major difference, should be cheered at the sight of the Bexier however, is that all the applets in Windows curve generator — Windows NT builds in NT are full S2-bit implementations and support for both these and full Fourier come with support for object linking and transforms — making Windows a much embedding (OLE) and DDE (Dynamic more credible platform for CAD/CAM Data Exchange) built into them. work. Microsoft used the development effort And because Windows NT is truly prein moving these small applications to native emptive, there's a lot less waiting around. S2+it operation as a way of demonstrating For example, we saw NT loading up an to thirdyarty Wmdows product developers i mage in t he stan d a r d 16-bit how easy it will be to move their products to implementation of CorelDraw 2.0 — a NT. Mcrosoft says that for the Windows S.l shipping Wmdows S.O product — and while file manager — the applet which required the "hourglass" was onscreen showing that the most n u m be r o f c h a n ges — the CorelDRAW was still opening the graphics development team had it compiling as a document in question, we could move to Windows S2Wt application in a day. And another application in NT and start work within a week, the file manager — which with it. contains something like 20,000 lines of cade — could be used to execute aad display Intomatloxxal Standarch directory listings (and remember, the While we looked at an early copy of NT security system prevents any direct calls to running i n R e d m ond, W a shington, the hardware to do this). As mentioned Microsoft has definitely set its sights earlier, the chaages within that week internationally for development of the included recoding several assembler product. For that reason, Microsoft has routines in C so that the sources could be adopted use of the new international c ompiled fo r b o t h I n t e l a n d R I S C Unicode character set. processors. Unicode is a I&bit character set — each N ot surprisingly, i t w i l l b e D O S individual character is 16 bits. These are applications — not existing Windows S.x often called "wide characters." All the programs — which could face the most modern characters of the world can be fit difficulty in running under Windows NT. within this range of 65/S6 characters. Only The reason for this is that Wmdows NT will displayable strings need be Unicode — those not allow applications to use CONFIG.Q5 that the user is going to see or edit on the and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to set up your screen. Strings which represent internal PC so that it will run properly with the identiTiers for programmers — such as application. That would represent a object names, window dass names, resource violation of the security of Windows NT. names, etc., do not need Unicode Instead, Windows NT will employ what equivaleatL Microsoft calls a "registration database" of Windows NT allows S2+it apphcations the things that need to be loaded with each to be either Unicode or standard ANSI application to make it work properly. Thus (American National Standards Institute) software houses whose installation routines ASCII applicafions, or even mixed Uaicode currently cal l f o r m o d i f ications to and ANSI ASCII caPs. Microsoft says that a AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.KS will strict Unicode or ANSI ASCII "mode" have to change them if they want their approach was not taken because of the products to work under Windows NT. problexxN this approach implies. 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which win replace 5.0) and Mndows NT — bundle (Mndows) on a sigmScant number designed for two different markets. The former is designed primarily for use with 586SX; 586- and 486-based systems by desktop computer users — and it wil l continue to be a partner to DOS. Th e latter — Mndows NT — is supposed to be an advanced operating system in its own right,. designed particularly for those writing 'mission~ t i cal a pplications, setting up high-performance servers, advanced graphics workstations, c l i ent-server computing systems or downsizing their

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of t h eir models." Gates also stresses that with the advent o fW i ndows NT, the prodttct will no longer shn ply be an interface wbich sits on top of DOS .' Wmdows is an operating system; you w r i t e t h e application to it, so it is an o p e r ating system," he adds. I f you go f ur t her out (into next year), then we have Windows NT — which is a c o m p l e te op e r a t in g system — in mid-1992. And som e w here in 1 995, we have DOS 6, Win d ows 4.0 and Windows 4 on NT. We will continue to sell DOS 5, although we wi l l offer DOS 6byitseK But look at where all th e new applications innovation is being do n e . The world is a very Wmdows world during 1992." •

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REDMOND, WASHINGTON, MAR 18 (NB) — Perhaps txying to steal a march on IBM, krkkcrosoR shipped at least one mkllion copies of Wmdows 5.1 to stores and directly to customers by April 6, when the product ekkkcialky went on sale. What'a the attraction? Well besides a daimed 1,000 enhancements, Windows S.l will incorporate drivers for sound and, compact disc read-only memory (CDR OM), ne c essary i n g r edients f o r multhnedia aud the reason the product is sometimes referred to as the multimedia version ef WmdewL In order to meet demand for the new product, the company says it opened nine manufacturing sites around the world, operating areundeheckock shifts to meet initial demand; procured and precessed 8 million compute disks; constructed a new par'khlg lot at Mlci'osoft's mauufacturhlg facility at C a nyon P ark i n B e t h ell, W ashington te a cc o m m o dat e th e additional employees and shifts; and accumulated the equivalent of 10'y semkttacter trailer truckloads of Windows S.I for the U.S. madtet.

Just locadng enough Soppy disks was a chore. A Microsoft spokesperson told Newsbytes that Microsoft had just about

cornered the market on floppy disks in order to have the nine mkkkkon floppies requhed to produce copies of Wmdowa S.l. The upgrade costs US$49.99„which Gates said is the price the upgrade version is expected te cest in r e tail outlets. "Anybody that ks actively ushig Windows will eventuamyupgrade," said GateL For PC users who do not already have Windows, 5.1 will sell for about $100, said MicrosaL Contest tttsrty Tauctw, iemaatt,00tt.N04000.

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enough. All componentsand assembly mustmeet CSA sltpxuvaL CPU, Chipset and memoxy all can comstxme alot of walage and easily heat up. Impxuper wixing and cabling inside a computer can causecombustion and fire. Gmsumexs must insist ou a fully CSA attpxovtxl unit Do not let some semi-pxo's or Axe ' s emi-tech's fool you. If u wl I back o u e An sppxoved CSA computer unit has a CSA label on the back of the systxmcase

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

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

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

be changed tomeet your needs) may be

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

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accounting, which includes all Snancial W hi l e o p tional in most cases, payroll aspects of the software. Most medium to so f t ware allows a company to manage large systems,how»ver, are broken up as employee information and produce described below. paychecks accurately and resolve problems easily. Fadlities for collecting information Financial IIlodulee on source deductions, T4 printing, and The Snancial modules of a manufacturing e m p l oyee history are also present. It is system are for the most part identical to wo r t h whil e t o n ote t hat m ost stand&one accounting systems. In fact, ma n u facturing systems are developed in many software manutactmers whose main t h eU nited States, rendering their payroll claim to f a m e a r e systems useless in accounting systenls Canada. offer manufacturing However, s onte modules that integrate vendors offer and cogn$«ment theh' Cr accountmg modules. If payroll packages for their systems. If the you are currently using

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

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

manufacturing process. A/P modules provide the functions required to track vendor bills and pay them in the most

dfective manner. For example, a good A/P module will not only tell you when Mls are

due, but also when Mls should be paid to take advantageof early payment discounts offered by vendors. Also, detailed cashrequirement forecasts allow managers to manage cash Sow accurately while keeping

the vendor happy and shipping product.

I/M modules also typically offer feanues that enable inventory to be shipped to customers, moved between warehouses (or to and from the manufacturing floor as

mentioned) andreceived 6 om vendors. Finally, inventory modules manage the details regarding th e costs paid for products, to permit accurate costing of product so that pridng can be set such that

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

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

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

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product's manufacture. BOMs are typically not used directly, but aa a basis for work orders which are given to the shop to bufid.

On completion of production, the work order is used aa a key. to assign the costs to the particular job and compare how the anticipated values compare with actual expenditures.

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

P/S modules typically allow production

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

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By examining a schedule and detertnining what materials will be required (through the Bill of Materials for the scheduled work

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

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WordPerfect Works has a suggested list Canada. You need a hard dhk and at least

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after DOS and any terminate-and-stay reskdent programs are loaded). WordPexfect Corporation maintains a tolNree number (8004514151) to answer quesrkonsabout ktsproducts.

mouse with the user moving to the Hke's CUPERTINO , C A L I PORNIA, A P R 7 "icon," holding down the mouse button (NB)~ xx antec has introduced three new aud, by moving the mouse, dragging the uriTiryproducts designed for the purpose of icon on screen to a deuinaikon foler, then helping users protect their data and to kettinq go of the mouse button which provide a gxaphicsk user iuteriace, even iu drops the icon. The keyboard can be used the DOS envhoument. The new products t o accomplish t h e "drag-and-drop" are Norton Desktop for DOS, Norton functions as weH, Symantec said. Desktop for Windows version 2.0, and The new DOS product also adds Sle Norton UtkHtkes for Madntosh verskon 2.0. compression compatible with the ZIP Hke The D e s k to p p r o d u cts — Norton format, Sut PCce4'C Hle transfer over aerial Desktop for DOS 1.0 and Norton Desktop a nd parallel c o n nections an d o v er for Windows 2.0 — oHer similar functkonaHty Networks, automated MCI MaH support, for IBM and compatible computers, and a c a l e n dar , S y mantec a d d ed. Symantec said.The company released Automated backup, virus scanning, and Norton Deslr top for Windows 1.0 last year data recovery technology are sH features and says the DOS version offers the same integrated into the DOS product as well. features and keystrokes as its upgraded The Norton Desktop for DO S 1.0 Windows counterpart. requires an IBM or compatible PC, XT, AT, Symantec says the DOSyroduct is the PS/2, DOS $.1 or higher (with special Srst to offer "drsg~dM o p c a pabHity for support for DOS 5.0), is compatible with fHe management to DOS users. Moving or Windows $.0 and $.1, and requires 512

The new Macintosh version combines the technology from SUM II and the previous version of the Norton UiHitkes for t he M a c intosh a n d a d d s $ 0 new enhancements b e s i des, S y m a ntec maintains. Users can now pre-schedule

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The new version incorporates the Norton Encrypt, Norton Partition, and Wipe Info productsfof security goes 'to greater lengths to Snd lost or damaged data with th e e n h anced File Saver, Symantec adds. The enhanced File Saver also protects disk directory structures, deleted Hles, and csn restore System 7 Get Info comments, Symantec sakd. The Cenxiased en pegs f 6

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Contacts Canis Carter, WordPorkaet Ctsporalon, 601-2P&50$4, Fax 601-226-6077.

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

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

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

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

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Delrlna TecImology

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

APP!e Canada

Apple Canada uied a decent size booth to showing off its new LC II computer, CDROM and laser printer. In addition, Apple reps were emphasi)ung some of the new QdckTime capabihties of System '7. They had a display of teleconferencing over telephone lines, combining TV telephones with shared computer screens. 'l g"

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Lava Computer Manuf'acturing Inc. had one af the best promo brochures for their 24bit True Color video boards. The cover was great,a mockup of what on fi rstghmce looked like a National Geographic. Only on doser inspection did it reveal itself as an advertisement for 'their boards. The insides were not so spectacular, but gave an interesting overview of the video-board m arket, m c l u ding a l is t of t h eir conlped'tors. ContactsLava Computer Manufacturing Inc., (41 6) 674-5942.

Frame Technology Frame Technology demonstrated its Wmdows version of PrameMaker 5.0. This highwnd desktop-publishing package is ideal for longAocument publishing. The company was also showing FrameReader, a companion product that provides an inexpensive way to distribute and print onhne hypertext4ased documents. Frame has recently opened two new offices, one in Ottawa and one in Vancouver. Contact: Frame Technology, (416) 477-2409. Corsrirsssssl 4)7sI)4rgc 71

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Grnrinccatprwa pap J9 Floppierhas been improved and can be conSgured to copy entire disks or only diik space that is occupied. D irectory Assistance i n 2 . 0 ha s custpmizable menus, drive selection, and meaW for Sworite Sles and folders as well

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

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Norton Desktop for Windows version 2.0 is retail priced at $149, but users with the

previous version can upgrade for $49, Symantec said. The Norton Utilities for Madntosh product retails for $149, but customers with earlier versions of SUM or Norton UtiTities Sxr Madntosh can upgrade.

for $39 and $8 shipping/handling. Symantec bought Peter N o rton Computing of Santa Monica last year. Peter Norton Compudng was known for its utility products for the IBM PC offered and was led by indusuy guru Peter Norton, who i s still i nvolved at Symantec in t h e development of utilities for personal computers. Contact: Ana Shannon, Symantec, tel 310-4534600, fax 310-4584636.

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

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copy of Windows.

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

fontsare from Monotype Typography and

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In our workout, the importing process was performed with ease. A test fil was imported I'rom a dBASE III+ .dbf If' with 2281 records and 15 flelds per record. It was a breeze as we followed directions. The new Paradox table is lovely. It has to be seen to be appredated. Memo flelds, actually.the corresponding .dbt Iles for dBASE ID+, do not import into Paradox. In f'act, as Ssr as I can teil there is n o accomxnodation for m e mos. T h e coluxnns, Paradox' word for flelds, can be a xnaximum length of R55 characters long however. Assigning a column a sufflcient number of characters to embrace a description or note accomphshes the goal of the memo fleId in xnany databases. This is done without d emanding massive aniounts of storage space. Forget having an extra presentation

Structured Query Language, server to be searched using Paradox's QBE, Query By Exaxuple, process. Another a d d-on, Multipack, is the saxne as a LAN pack with a l~ r "c o unt" for a price of $295. Borland can provide more information related to the aden process and its wLrious features. Although the manuals exhibit the features clearly I h i ghly recoxnmend pichng up a few of the after~ k e t books. Qne, Same, IDG, Brady, and Wxndcrest atl have after-market tides which address varying levels of expertise.

database information. Paradox offers an interactive graphics generator. Somethnes it is easier to make sense Som a graph than numbers. Paradox 8.5 will look at a crosstabulated sluexy, then present the graphic depiction of your choice.

flnd in the after-market books. Sams' Thc F&stBooisaf Panakx 3.S by Jonathan Kamin and Windcrest's Paradox 3.S for IAaprograrxxssrs by Patricia Hartman are recommended as'begixmer"how to books. Both Windcrest's Pxnscbx Pmgraraxssssg by

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Hartman, Prague, and Hammitt, and Brady's UadsssraasSag ad Ussrsg Pansskx 3.S by Rob Krumm, are recommended for intermediate use. For the intexmediate to . advanced user, Que has in its Speciait Edition series Using Pssrsxkx 3.$ by Bruce and Kramer, and IDG Books hasPC WwQ Panakx 3.S Pouer PmgraxsxsiagTarysaifxss by Salcedo and Ruby with anaccompanying disk Manipulating data can be more than just work; it can be entertaining. Paradox is one program which makes that a reality.

B orland's Reflex and o ther fla t fl l e databases are generally more practical for individual use. MANUAL: (4} Six manuals are provided and to fully utilize the program they are needed. They are titled IalrarIrssxios Users Oxxk, Pcrsarsal PmgrrsxsmersCx@r, Prsxssstirsg

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Selling Futures Chicago is the city where futures trading really got started and that's what Microsoft was selling. Knowing that on key factors of features, price, and stability, Windows S.l could not stand up to OS 2.0 2.0 (af'ter ail, Microsoft wrote a substantial portion of the code for OS/2),the marketing mavens of Microsoft chose to sell Windows $.1 plus futures. The first was Pen-Windows — i.e., extensions to Wmdows S.l which allow pen operations similar to — but not identically t he same as — those offered by G O , Mom enta and Slate.There was a huge booth devoted tohardware and software vendors demonstratmg their Pen-Wmdows wares. T he e ss e n t ia l wo rd is demonstrating. Wi t h a few k ey exceptions, most items in the Pen-Windows booth were 2-8 months away from delivery-i.e., futures. The second option was Windows NT. Agaht, there was a large booth (about the sixe of Borland's) devoted to 51 ISVa

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

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NfpntPerfect For Wincfows 5.1 Users Angry Over Product LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MAR I'7 (NB) — WordPexfect Corporation, known for cheering crowds of loyal users, may be in for a tough time. WordPerfect for Windows users said they are angry to WordPexfect Vice President of Marketing, Andre Peterscm, at a recent demonstration of the product by Peterson given at a meeting of the Los Angeles Computer

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WordPerfect users are well-known for their layslty to the product. However, aber the demonstration of the WordPexfect for Windows product at the LACS, during whiCh Peterson kept aommendng that the audience was a 'tough crowd" several WoxdPerfect users who had purchased the W indows product stood u p a n d complained loudly and bitterly about serious problems. P a r d Pe r f e c t users are txained to

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give commands to Windows such as Alt-F4, w hich i s t h e c o m mand t o e x i t a n application without saving and WordPexfect cannot do anything about it. Another such command is CtrhF4, which in WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS allows the user to move, delete, or copy text, but in the Windows CUA keyboard, doses down the active document in an application. Keystrokes w er e n o t t he on ly complaints, however. Another woman wanted to know why printing was so slow in WordPexfect for Windows. She said: I give the print command and I could knit a sweater before the document ~ print s ." O ther use r s complained about the slowness of the graphically-based WordPerfect for vvindows. Peterson ~d he personally handles nnat problem by creating the document in the DOS version, then s tarting Windows and d oing al l h i s formatting there. One interesting note, WordPexfect had an interesting promotional item it gave out to members of the LACS. WordPexfect for Windows has a feature called the 'button

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h t t ext to move it. She said Ingredients.' I n side the chocolate was she. suddenly found herself out of impressed with example 'button" icons WordPerfect with no warning and no f rom a sample button bar, and a toll~ e opportunity to do a save. She said she was number, 800-284M'/2, provided on the so angry, she didn't even bother to call package for WordPerfect questions. customer support Peterson blamed Windows saying Canlaclx Anxke Petexlsn, WonlPaxfect, hd 801certain keystrokes in the CUA keyboarii 2254NO, fax 801-22dsM77.

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

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Development has an of'fer designed to make switching a bit less of a battle. Lotus is offering registered users of its Ami Pro word processing software a free on-line training tool aimed at foxmer WordPexfect The Ami Pro SwitchKit olers two levels o f keystroke help a n d t r a i n ing f o r WordPerfect users. In level 1, if the user enters a WordPerfect command, the. SwitchKit displays instructions for doing the same thing in Am i P ro , u sing short

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processors, but Lotus will probably be worhng on anything that makes sense. Reghtered Ami Pro users can order the SwitchKit, comprised of a diskette and

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alsobeenacceded, according

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

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

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

own Windows applications, 1-2-5 for Windows, and Ami Pro, the company also

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

application itself," the spokesman sand.

The clip art library indudes images in categories such as business, medical, sports, education, and thematic cartoons. It also

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

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MAR 20 (NB) — WordPerfect has released WordPerfect 2.1 for M a cintosh. The company says it's System 7 savvy and takes advantage of Apple's new QuickTime technology. Using QuickTime, users can build dynamic documents which include video

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

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

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

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Apple — it is manufacturing one of the versions of the Powerbook Apple notebook computer — Apple said in Januaxy it was not at that thne releasing details about the PDA devices or its alliances in developing PDAs. Shaxp says both companies have foxmed project teams and have begun aggressive product development efforts. Targeted product delivery date for the PDA is 1995, Sharp added.

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David Rose, president of Ex Machina

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Ainateur Computer CXub (NYACC), said that nevsevent diiven operating systems, such as Macintosh System'y, have 'opened t he d o o r to type s of c o m puter conmmnicaiions previously methought of Rose discussed his Srm's-product, "Notify. which allows another Madntosh program to signal Notify to initiate the sending of a message to a remote pager.

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jn a nocseveat~ven operating system. Csnlast:David Rose, Ex Machina,718 8850808.

Rasterops Offers Videospigot Users $$50 Rebate On New 245lV SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, MAR SD NTSC, PAL or SECAM device, RascecOps ( NB) — Rasterops is t rying t o g e t said, and near re"64iiae kame capture kom

Videospigot users to switch by offering a $550 credit to Supennac Viideoipigot users on the purchase of its new Raster ops

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

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Rasterops says its 24SFV is priced at $999. Videosyigot users am get their 4550 credit by calhug 8004AYWOLOR or by conmcting a Rasterops authorized dealer, the company said. The offer expires June SD, 1982 and is only audlshle so users who purchased Videospigot boards prior to March Sl, 1992.

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Quarterdeck Ships Desqview/X-Windows

ID6 Intros CD-ROM-Based Enterprise Computing Database

WASHINGTON, DC, MAR 51 (NB)-

W ASHINGTON, DC, MAR 50 ( N B ) CD-Answer 5.0, Dataware's hyperlink International Data Group, or IDG, has retrieval system, will be standard for all announced that it is producing a new line these IDG database publications, according of CD-ROM databases for the information to Earl, bringing one important new aspect technology executive who needs access to to the CD-ROM publication field — the information found in IDG periodiads. The ability to hyperlink between different newly formed Emerging Technology artides and publications on a single disc. A pplications ( E TA ) o p e r ating u n i t Another major new feature which ETA developed the databases in conjunction will be offerhig, according to Paul Earl, will with CD-ROM e x p erts a t D a t aware be custom CD-ROM databases designed for Technologies. customers and published with just the sort Paul Earl of ETA told Newsbytes that of data they need. Such databases, which IDG is pladng fullcext and useful graphics, Earl says will be priced as low as $10,000, "not photographs, but useful charts and could and probably will include a way for data," from two and a half years of Nctcoorh companies to s e arch ou t p o t ential Workf, CocapstcrWorkf,and Infoworld, on a customers using various criteria, but the CD-ROM which will be updated monthly. names and addresses will probably not be Research data f rom ID C R c scarchon the customer disc. Databaseand Link are also included on the Instead, Earl told Newsbytes, people will disc, which has a first year subscxiption rate have a way toquickly send the company of $695 for 12 issues. their search criteria. The company will then Other publications will be a dded print up a set of labels that matches the regularly. For instance, CrOwiti be added in criteria they have already refined through July and the company will continue to add their own searcheL other appropriate IDG publications. Contact: PaulEarl• ETA, 508-8794006.

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

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PCANinCIOWS ShOW .p >.. 4 Exctra Sytras Extra Bytes, a Toronto reseller, displayed an impressive array of speedup boards for the older Mac Plus, SE and Classics. The same wire~ e gr a p hic was shown being rotated byan 8 MHz Plus, a 40 MHz and a 50 MHz accelerited Mac Plus. The first unit on the top was being whipped round at a great rate. The company was also showing off the new Turtle Beach MPC audio carcL

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rates are user selectable from 8:1 up to 150:l. B ecause the compression ratio i s selcctable through firmware quantization and Huffman tables, the JPEG option can accept video/audio input from a variety of sources, induding NTSC, PAL, and CCIR 601, Dolch added. Dolch is also offering a DVI video controller option that the company says csn handle signals from industry standard DVI sources and convert them to digital RGB in the VGA format. The controller is capable of driving 256 colors to T$T (thin film

Dolch is also offering compression for video built into its PA.C. computers. A hardware m odule, t h e s y mmetrical

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Comdex: NCR Rolls Out New Computers, Notebook CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APR 8 (NB)-

megahertz Intel 80486SX processor. The

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

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Dell Shuns Pen Computing For New Graphics PC

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AUSTIN, TEXAS, APR 8 (NB) — Dell Computer will shun pen+used computing

data modem, DOS 5.0, Borland Sidekick 2.0 and Prodigy software. It has a 25 megahertz (MHz) microprocessor, weighs 7.S pounds, includes a 60 megabyte (MB)

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

for now, but has introduced a new dPesktop

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existing super VGA displays.

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

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D ell says its new 450DE/ 2 D G X , powered by the recently announced Intel 486DX2 50 megahertz chip, can deliver high r e solution, w o rkstation-quality graphics by directly coupling a graphics subsystem to the microprocessor. The new design efiminates the need for a specialized graphics coprocessor to obtain video perfomtance better than super VGA.

jumping in right now. The pen market is probably six to nine months from starting to take off."

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

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

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Overview Lotus' Freelance Graphics for Wmdows is a good news/bad news story. The good news is plentiful: superb use of W i n dows technology with the combination of SmartIcons, SmartMaster templates, an

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

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

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

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

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

4 P r esentation packages should strive to offer as many and as-easy-aspossible links to all the major software products and/or file formats.

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

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

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

The Slips

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

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

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

printer setup and changes, performance tuning, etc. A good reference manual

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

organization and likewise export to equamy

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

supported), there was no discernible fallof in image quality. When these same files were imported in Lotus' Ami Pro, there was, a small d e c lin e i n im a g e q u a l ity. Unfortunately, for aU three file types, the imported images with Freelance Graphics for Windows were unacceptable. Calls to technical support at Lotus did not bring a resolution of the problem. I'd give up org charting capabiTities anytime, any day, any minute for rock<olid imports and exports of images and graphics. If you can't import the images, let's try t o get the data in using the DDE and : Windows clipboard. More bad news in the . case of images and objects, good news in the case of numbers and character strings. Importing Lotus 1-2-5 graphs as objects either through the clipboard or through the DDE l i nks almost inevitably left something behind or scrambled. The legend or titling might be lost, the colors might be switched, the gridlines might disappear. In contrast, if you moved the data over as numbers and strings then produced the graph in Freelance Graphics for Windows, everything appeared to work The problem is that many charts from a vast library of 1-24 charts/plots have to be redone fo r F r e elance G r aphics for Wmdowa .

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

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

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Silicon Graphics Had To "Buy NIPS, Says Dataquest

Steve Jobs Hires Nevv 'Partner' For NeXT

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

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Autodesk i'i Windows Extensions & New Autodesk BD Studio SAN I 13 (NB~

NCI S CO, CALIFORNIA, MAR AutoCAD customer trying Windows and uto d esk has announced it has t aking a d v antage o f it s ben e f i t s

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design (CAD) market and will release a new release of its 3D Studio product. The AutoCAD Release ll Extension Sar Wmdows is a transitional product available

for $99 to allow Autodesk 11 users to work i n b o t h t he DO S and Win d o w s environments. Further, Autodesk says this is just a Brst step. Autodesk believes Microsoft Windows wIII be the standard PGCA9 operating environment of the mid-1990s,' said Ruth Connolly. general manager of the A utoCAD D i vision. W e d o n ' t w a n t a nything to stand i n t h e wa y o f a n

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computers is $3,500. More informationis available 415/331O356 or type GO ADESK on CompuServe. Autodesk's Multimedia Division also announced Autodesk SD Studio Release 2 for graphics professionals ushtg 386 or 486-

based IBM and compatible personal computers (PCs).

The company says over 100 changes, including increases in speed of between 200 and 600 percent and a broadcastquality set of 24-bit rendering tools that is one of the fastest available. 3D architectural walk-throughs and

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

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

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Autodesk 3D Studio Release 2 software win be availaMe this quarter at a suffgested

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

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THE COMPUTER PAPER MAY '92

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