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of the IOustrator 4 0 and the Winiiows envi. nmment. I wish he'd review his ankle, and in the process ask hinnei( If the intcgrtty of the article would su((er by )raving out aU rc(creates to the $4c(ntosh. My suggestion to him I snd • II you< othrr Contributors) il lo review Ihe product they want to, without rr(rrcnce to cross-

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ale simply a waste o( vahlable rctourors. If only Thr <.a«purer Paplr Can resiat this temptation, I believe it will truly be an

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approach says that such a program is not avat4hk In Canada or the US. and I should look lor one abroad. Is thh the truth? Ii

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FCs are nat as stmpk to use, with or without Windows Especially tncky are cxsendsd and expended necmor yannggrsra. tion problems. which the Mac doesn' t have A FC is much trickier to sct up and matntam. Software imteiieuon and iespc rialtyi un.inimgation an dremeiieahy ea»er on the M» Next issue, ln aui Ieaiurc stofv I'i<king Ihr Right Opcraang System. well exanune some af the tradeotfs that the easeai-use nccemrtatn, bst one lect remains: the M»

n ideally tuned for pubitshueg Thankfully, imce yern aee actseally in a program and uslrlg et bc it Pageklahcr Eacek «any mw af doaens af other muhL pladonn ntks. the FC vx Mac debate laces steam. With lew exceptions, thc petformancc and runrtians add up to a campanble expcrknte on either platform And the pan Ihat teally nsstten — the output tram a pnntcr or imagcscttcr — is vinuaily indisttnguishabk and can be itutte spectacular. We' ll look • t output a httlc later Right

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It goes without saying that the capabilities of desktop publishing programs have grown since the release of the first incarnation of PageMaker in the mid-'SOs. Indeed, traditional desktop publishing programs like PageMaker and Ventura Publisher now face considerable pressure from Windows-based word processors, whose graphical abilities encompass many of the features required in DTP applications. catures aten't everything when yme are looking ta ih r right DTI' applianan, bile then arc several kcv an'as Li con.

sider. (hooohe9 • Ccrrsspsrfor Itecse are campethng reasans to use a PC, rust m tteeec are grewr ruasaen so um a Mac. Amies. Unix eeorkstanan «evhat-have.vaer

Long-tune readcn will recognise my famd. iar retram.' choose your software tint. These devs, most DTP and graphics programs are available on both the FC and Mac. Either al these pktfarms represents • good choice for DTP appbrathms Despite Appie's resent tsphasss on loca~ M a ts. igM compatdtks me — assd villi pmbably remain — the kast expen»vc hardware

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rate graphtcat shcftx I« exampk, venean 3.0 ol Ventura Publisher lor Windows cosnes im nro disks — «se af winch cash Cma unslung but CumnpkL The GEM vem ncm, on thc achcr hand resp»res mare thab a dassm thsks.

As welk of coune. yauTI have less tb learn, as most applications far Windows • (etc.) have a»miler Ioak and feet. A secondary reason to stick wnh one graphical envuonment is that tt causes less probknn.

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bilities to Windows and network users.

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printer with other uters on s network (all Macs have th)1 printer-sharing network capability built in), the user cin see who and what is pouting Networked PC users have no corpparable ability, i(though dng)e users mn purchase M)cvosoft'5 Windows Prtnong Syuem, whi~h pass)des improved per(ormince and bi< (tact)one( communications between computer and printer, when used with Las«riet i l . a n d I I I -s«ries printers H P '1 lascriet IV comes standard with bidirectinni( ci>ntmunlcationl c apih i l itles lor (3OS. The printer can report paper lams, paper out, low toner, etc. In addition the bundled So(tware provides a remote front p anel, f o r c o n f i gurin g t h e pr i n t e r. According to a «smpany Ipstkcspcrusn, the

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option 'i t) II yau work in an officr envircnment where bath PCs xnd Mais will be Using thc printer, look for onc that has simul. IincoU'ily active port'i Jrid JUIamkti< port switch!rig. Si look fvr a pnntcr with ft<T<4blc toner ianndges Hewlett. Packard printers and most Apple models use Cinon printer engines, which hai<t toner canridges that aiiy be rxuly ICBII<sf ind ICO<kd vi lkir in min<I that, unlike ink-itt printcn, laser pnntcrs must have enough RAM to

'genuine' Adobe models, like Applr's liserWritef ills I Thest printers ncnl to have their ROMI upgradtd Io be able to use these ncw Iontsk The 4tcu generation vl POIIS<ntu ts known ai PouScrlpt Ltvtl 2. I( pnsuble, gtt a pnnter with

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hold an cntin graphscs page in niemory Somr laset prtntcrs come stan<4rd with

only S12K ol RAM. You will have to expand thc RAM o( thrse units to Usr them fnr dcsktvp publishing.

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that 10 or IS pe(sent canrcaUy count. 2$6-based computers only run in Stands fit M(xk. • Add more RAM. I( you'vc got two megabytes nf RAM, yuu dellni tcty need nmre Consider espiiuling your comfsuter's menrniy Io $M$. You'U bc

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B C. EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER APRIL '93 :)E, examples as a starting point, (you c a n rd l r CO N FIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.HAT or uny nf Windows' .INI flk s with thr editor lnchcdrd nirh DOS. Iii Jnud A(fTC)FAFC. SAT into rhr

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allows applications to dynamically • )locate STACKS as needed, saving sotne conventions) memory. St Sp tfytng LAm)RNF E (e«. dep nd. ing on your hard drive configuration)

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each page. the more of a hassk it bc<ames

JU) ont a( those txpcf>s>vc dcs>gn aft>In

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mas. Any applicat>on that pnnts should hi>c ihit laatu>c. Aklus finally implement-

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tbe <omputci check the speWng Rrst, ostpk above is not preceded by an ap then real It over and look up any sus. rophee Ranernba that if a wind endpret words in a good paperdictionary. Ing with an I i equrles an apostrophe be especially careful with names, it Is concct to put the apostroph whkh won'I bc in Ihc dictionary. e after the s (cg., Mr lones'cari. Aho, "it's ha contracuonof it u Remember, desktop publishing is zll or li has — It's not the plural of It, about communiiation, An error in your nor docs it bekmg to it. gmmrnar or spelling vnll sabotage all the use hypheru and dashes correcey. effort you put into design and layout. A hyphen ls correctly used lo hyphen- Conect grammiu is of paramount imporate. It is aho connnonly used in tek-

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This issue's cover was created using a 35rnrn camera, Adobe Photoshop 2.5, Fractal Painter 2.0 and Aldus FreeHand 3.11. Here'show. fhe ongmal photo ithat's Trtr r.umpurcr Paper s eivn production manager lait Oriffin, hard at work i wes scanned on onc of our Miirvvtek cxslor scanners, yielding a 24-bit color TIFF, which was then loaded

into Phetoshop, where the image was cropped and its hnghtness, saturatten and contrast adlustcd. Uung Photoshop's selection and feathering tools, pieces of the wall,

I%siting print on water in a shallow tray. In Fractal Painter's simulation. it behaves exactlv hkc the real thing — it's lust less messy te work w i th , So convincing is Painter's simulation, in fact, that I Iliad aU thc traditional techniques iust as they av« dcscnbcd in craft books. One such book is

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GS Standard r>eneral Mll)l guaran<en that yuu will hear a reasonable 4<simUe of the or<hn. >ration the <ompo>cr or mranger intended, ln other word>, General MID( ensures

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stored on ROM > hips) <hat can <reste more sp(»ahng muuisl tonn >i>an thme prov>dcd by xmple ESI synthnis. Thnr i ards or modul«s with sampkd sounds in ItOM are g ent rail) r • fr ried >o ss havin g P C M sound The Multisound was rcvicwcd m the Auguit '92 issue o( '(hr c;i>r>rpurrr paprr. A< that tune, I named the Mulusound, with its Proteus <hipiet, ss the b e st sounding Roland Sound Canvas. I thmk I <an >a(c(y say <he Roland sounds even be<trr. And br<su» n supp >rrs thr GS so und to<mat. >t >s supported by vittuauy cvcry srquenirr avmkble It is wonh noting that W>ndows

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or on a disk they csn read All these brands of computers can read 1 5 D(35format disks, although h<ac snd Am<ga <omputers need to run >pe<>al programs to do so. Your draler<an supply 1'ou with detaih. W>ndows 3.1, incidentally, d<reclly supports itandard hf(DI Ales. You can p4y hack MIDI >ones with any Windovn-sup. poned audio boanl.

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the public don>s in. Th>s fact 1>as not escaped <ompsn>es l>ke(IRS that own the r(ghts to old p4yer. piano rolh. Thry arenow busy <onverung the ><(ups to General MIDI format. Music

software publtshers too, are f>nding the market for the music al equivalent tu idp an a viabk one. Pa~sport Des>gnsrr<ently released Us lint <untcnt titln in C»nrral h(IDI forms> Other pubgshrrs sr< sure to follow.

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input and output hoto paogmtn Io program v>a a patch bav desk ccessoorv. Thc MIDI Ar u gtr softwa>t comes bundled anth mr(>in>ugly kw MII)I appikat>ons. I' ve locked Ior it many times cnier the la>t icw years

and nc>vr once seen a copy in any of >he iin-line areas m w»>ch Apple typ>>a(ly dh. inbutts i» system so(>ware upda>rs. Many > tac Mini applxatiom I have seen rc(er to s(ll)l )>tanager It> their docuo>cn>ation, and one tra(« t k y M l ~ unn h t h ai M I D I

>tanager does do>m the coupuser a lot. I r>naey h>und MIDI Manager on Passport's rras >ask and the rumon west true MIDI Manager cfkcttvcty reduces thc pet(or>next of a Macintotfs yio wonder the wags <ail >t MIDI Mangler fo r tunately. you do not need to nsn MIDI Managtr to run a >snr>e MIDI application You tl want to usc a (nt Mac (with a 6803() proces>or o( bc(ter)

ii you have >o run Sllul Manager Mac MIDI In>cr(aces aii ionncct to one i I Ihc compo>cr> two scr>ai ports (one on the company's Ituo modch) This can kad

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()>her common dcs>cts the me these ports include m odems, g raphics t ablets, Apph fall network otssnwcs>us and p>tnttrs

pcecia(iy uos>bkx>um u the uct that t>xoe of thcsc dcvxcs >grapbks tablets. Ior cxamplcl have tha r own softwa>e dnvers that con(bcs w(th Ml l)i. TI>cte must be d>sat>(cd >nd d>xonnccted bckue y»o can we MIDL I>sets o( ll(x and Quadra computers

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Atarl 84IOI Atan Sl and TC computer have built-In hrfDI pans. One oi the advantages of having built-in M ID I ports is thar there are frwcr mtrrfacrh cabks and power suppbes to fuss with and canscqucnuy, less that can go wrong (hr dawns>dr is tlut Atari computen only tu>r a single IN and OUI' port

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Olt(ororst Versions ihe Mac and IE. rckascs 4re not yct ul1 tu thc irvel ol the Aian version 2.0, and lack other features found In Ihc Aiarl version. such asthe In tcraisivc Phrase Synthes>fcr and real-time MIDI input transformauuns Perhaps because of t tus, the Ataci version

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features <fun mmt users could ever hope lo usc. I'he main compla)nt I Jnd many other Flats<or users have with the program is that As A>rmidsbk featurr set is nurrrd by a user interface tlut is regrettably complex and

accs<ionaay clumsy. It is fitting tiirn, that thc authors of F<(Astor, Gctiurd tangling and Chris Adam have (rr J<(vf s next-grnrr stion scquencer with notation snd a kilkf <a<fifa(c. Fin<star Lot(is (5675) is currently availsbk (ar the Marin<<»h. P(: and A<so vers)arb are due to be rcleaml be(ore summer. i)cspite s few quirks, logic for thc Mac Is <table and powerful. Its best feature is its uwr intcris<e, whkh docs an admirable Iob

of simpli(ying and conceptualizing the enormous amount of dsu that » MIDI.

rhe program lets you foam in <o sce >kts<l or room out, showing camponrnt> of ihe A>Usic to be viewed Jnd msn>palsied as graphical kans ur chunks o( data. This abilAy <o go fram m<crodrts>l ta overview is a valuable onr thu I expect to see more o( in ihe future. trad>ng MIDI programs often have s bewildebng array al (<stures. A

stn>ng user U><eris>e is eucntsal to harness ihJ< power Other MID I applications. like Vision snd (.Ut>asc oA tlie Msc Jlxl Cubssr art tile

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do<lblr turs st the md of a score and that the s lurs feature announced that i t wss not yet impkmenred when I <IU.Led on its kr>n in the menu bar Other notatiorui per(ectmn. isis wiU undoubtedly find their own reamns to complun, It's safe ro say that printing is nai ix>g<c's strongest >mt. Cubast on thc Atari, by rampart<(m. is much better, as is Fxxore on the Mar. but I n<wf rrslize that uutulity is s

more impo»ant valve <l>sn a dcvc<yth)ng set of fcstureS Perhaps a better plan is to crank out the basic notation with Logic, FJ<corc, Cubase or wlutcvrr snd then msn-

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GS Star<dard Several <ofnpsn<es iincludtng Roland,

which helped define the standard) now t out their M I D I gear ss being G S ' o r ( ienersl MIDI c o mpstibk. A suabk ( a llecrion ot S.S DOS.<orrnst d»ks with MIDI performances co n f u r m in g to t he GSN>cr>rial MIDI standard arc svadabk. It at ah passibk, get s musical instrument ar mund card that prom»rs GS or Genera) MIDI <ompstibthty. Although Kcyb(urd caJgaziric fecelitly u i i JA editorial qlles. tioning whether th e l o w est common

denomirutor appma(h to sound selection

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is a wo»hwhile goal GS and General MIDI clearly offet advantages to <he computer

include an algorithmic compos<<<an tool iiLc Cubssc's Interactive Phrase Svnthrsiarr,

nor does it luve the dim<.«schsk audio <ecarding cspsb<U<ies of Dqptal Performer, Stu<bo V<shu> Or (.ubsse Aud>a on the Mac. Iagx msy not be ss feature-rxb, but «hat' s

<hen» gene<shy weh-implement»i, Pcfforrrurxc b good, tou. MIDI tiiput b <ranxribed as natation almosi instantly

snd when yuu d<sg s note around on s staff, you can rmmedis<ely hear the eiirct. I hc only bogus lrsture in ihc version I <estfd was a (ont menu that dsd not xroh. I <.e, ordy ihr Iirst twenty <ants ar m ue visible ()I course, who needs more tlu n twenty iont> in s pirce o( muuc, Jn)svays) Already, an update (1.2) ts svshsbk that addresses

<rune bugs in the Initial release. LMAG IC hosts its own MIDI Raundtable Jres all ('F»k ( tyPe M I D I J t an y ( Fnie

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user. In a nutsheu, General MIDI g<urantees that you wul hear a rrma<uble fs(simile ui the orchestration the composer ar arranger intended. In other wonh. Genera< ) <IDI rf<mres that mund • I v»U be a psano. no mattn w N ( h brand the instrument or audio card may be. in the lower munlsnd, Cannon Musx ( 604-27(>-v~l) has a Isrgr selntian W n h t itles like 'Sounds of the Seventies a n d

abc flit) of Dav>d laster, the content is predkfabfy Muzak-ish, but tlut apparently hasn't hurt u tes. A« a i d ing to ( sr<non's Tlm Tucker, the titles are es<irmeiy popu4<. ()warts af the lstnt genrratu>n of elec. trank pianos can transform their purchase

inta the 'u()s equivsknt of s plsyr< prana ( ompuier-music enthusiasts, too, often And the o>mn<c<(tsl affefings n>u(h better than MIDI matedal available (rain the pub-

Ik domun. This ls(1 has not esca(cd (f>A>psn<n I<Lr QRS that own the rights <o ak) pts)rr-prana rolls, fhey • rr now busy converting the scorn to General MIDI far«ut M ust> so(twarr pubfbhcfs <oo, are finding the market

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slots, three Vl / I 'iA slots ind a couple of

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How INicrosoft's Mogul Reinvented an Indusltry — and IVIade Himself the Richest Man in America. In this tshaustiscly rcscarcbcd book. • uthon Manes and Andrews tnwtvrewed ihli Gates. many of Ius assoaatts and hai access ro the Mkrosnit archive%. Tllis Is iloi an authorized biography however, and ciurri offer • a critical look at the way Mktosoft was buik. Iht story of Mscmsoft

Wlrile fnafly large cofnputer compafries are cutting back

just to keep in business, I

Mi cro soft is thriving with

record profits. This is the stuff that business bi ographies are built ofr, and Gutes

is no different. In fact Gates follows hurd on the heels of lust year's Bill Gate's biographv Hurd Drive.

n aho the story of the pasonai computing Computerurterme smce INs 'tccns, 4U Gaan and tdkcmsob ssfoundn Pasd Ales Wnet a vesrcrm Ol tbe BASIC PrOSiuaaauing language for the bnt popular personal cno. putts. Iht Altar. back Iri 197S. By this tittle

4B Gases had ahealy staned hu Birn informatkrn-tered company TISIW Data. wbkh male machines ihst could automaticaiiy

count how many cats passed by a road over a given amount of litic . T o gt t thc soft. ware right for their httlc car-counting

bcaes, Gsan and msoctams made a psogmm im a targrr PDp-10 compuser dsat nutmciud ics ursctsom. The Acct wm bmcd on a stmda peocesaru and when Gases and ams.

HP 95LX Palmtop PC

States eatimd this, they stt about huikbng a program to its function@ With that ie

hand, Ihty created a BASIC that could run o n n, and got Altair to sell it. T h u s microsoft was born, thanks to some smart programming on a borrowed computer.

best reading In the book. I t aho looks n the increasingly strained rel • IIonshic between Miaosoft and IBM that stttt«het to brtaking point over the dtvelopmcm

stages of Windows and Ihc I )Sf2.0 Thc book offtn a real insight into hou

f rom thi • point on i n

Mrcsosoh operates. and

che biography Bgl Gaea • nd 46aosoft aaencsagy

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btcrmie the casse thing. One o i ' t h t mo rc interesting secttons ol the b o o k lo o k s a t

Microsoft's long and

4ing hours — in othn w ords, l us t l i k e S i l l GJII5. Tht down side o'I this b th ma n y cases or

often stormy relationship with IBM. h begins with Microsoft coming

up with cn operating synem lec tbe lainch of the IBM PC back in

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potential oi selling an operating system to IBM. BIII Gaws bought out stattk computer's c2Dos c I2ukk and

okf Biii Gates. Then again, after reading

Dirty Operating Synt m ) , m ade some minor changes to its code. and then sold Bccnsbtg rtghn lor the nevr lflaosoft DOS

muse of his compcctton> that these Is nmhing phrn about Bii)Gates. In short. wiulr

co IBM. The oear.legenday story in the computer indusny u wimdnfufty Ootraycd by the audson. and makes for serac of the

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Apple's Color PowerBook, New Products At Macworld (I>Kyth JAPAN (NB) — Apple Computer i avl I i h a s i h i p pr d i t i 1 0 millionth

A new Maontvsh I.C, thr IC I II, is an In>proved model o( the popular Macintosh

Maiintvsh c iimputir . At ih e enormous Macworld Exposition held this week m

(okyv, Ihe comp>ny also Introduced eight

LC II, whlih Apple says was iis bestw Ikr in 1992. fhe Ill, priced at CS(,695 has a 25 MHr Motorola 680 U) m«vvpracrssor. a )2-

tems — thc Macintosh Centa l 6 10 and

nevi pllvdui ls, Inc)uifing th» long awated

bit bus architecture and comes standard

Macintosh Crntris 650 — both equipped

color Powerbook notebook computer, five ncw desktop systems and two new laser

w>th 4 megabytes (Mb) af dyrumic undom access memory (DRAM) — expandabk to 36 MS; as opposed tv the IC II whkh was o n I y expandable

with Ihe Motorola 68040. The Ccntris 6)0 ts reuU pr)ccd at C52,560 while the Centns

pl(ntclt

to 10 MB An 80 Mb or 160

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for thr LC III and an LC processor direct slot IPDS) is

included

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Apple says thn is Ihe tint time it has uunchcd new pmducts rwtskk thr United Slates and over 100,000 visitors are on hand in Toykv attrmiing the Mal world shaw. Thn Is also the 10th annwersary of

the company's Japanese sobs>dary, Apple

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Now Up-To-Date ( vnr>nuc>ff ram P> ttr 72 yvu are modi(ying rrpraring I vents, a dial og bvl a PPcais asking it yv u w an t t v change One, All or Future occurrences in ihe iepcatmg srr>cs. You can nvw m >vr an event (a missed appointment, for example). hvm oni day or time tv a>Other simp)y by dragging n there. Another great ncw fratures is the addluon of I a D o items and a list vkw vl ab calendar and To Do items. In the lint ver-

sion ol the program, ea'h item hal a date avu>cured w>th It 1hn meant that anything nvt vvmpktrd vn a )urt«alar day hal to be

manually dragged forward. Now the pro gram allows, through the use o( a check bvx, a ( o D o I tem Iv be carved (vrward auto>naticatly as Ihe date changes. II Is fx>saibk to create Up to IO categories to clasufy ncms. Thc dc(ault settings are High, Medium and Li>w Yvu might add Urgent, (vr yi>ur really pressing commit.

as Ethernet networking. Appk Ile emulation and )TTSC vi~ t and video iaptuir, On. board sound input and output is also ir>eluded. as is a small

f he new M acintosh (".entris line i s

drscr>bcd ai midunge computers geared loward raainstream business and profesuonal users. The Centrls Une oVen two sys.

650 carries ac5 3.690 pnce ug Thc Quadra 800, a new add>i>an to the company's top o( Ihe line computers, Is the

most a) fordabk Quadra, wllh • retab prkr of C56,310. The 800 has a mini tower design and offers a 30 percenl Increase in performance over the current entry. level Quadra system, At last, Apple has Introduced the promised color Pawerbvak. the PowerSook 165c. with a pasuve matnx dnplay. Apple says it has the all-in-one design of thc Powerbook )45, 160 and 180, and h retail pnced at 54,790. Apple has added two new configurations Io Its Powerbvok Duo System. Thc Poweiaoak Duo 230 offers 4MB of RAM, a 120MS hard disk drive, and camas with an

hlc >t lvr some reason, installed into the system faldcr where Irw userswill think to look ior >t. There are a hast o( other Mac>ntoshbasrd calendar applicativns. including Alarming Fvrnts, I>aicbaok Da)Maker, Easy Alarms, 1)rst Things first and LapTuck b fimcslips III Now Up-to-Date can import

You' ve heard about the new LaserWnter Pro 610 and 630. arid the ktrst news Is that Appk will ship the 610 w>th BMB af RAM a ll the ttnie, wh i i h a llows t h c 6 1 0 t o A W pririt a i 60 0 dp i Check this before yvu

buy one, though, )ust in case. The t>)0 and 630 expand Apple's printer offerings on the high end; Apple's new LaserWriter Select 300 and the lawiWr)ter Select 110 fit

into Ihe lvw end of Apple's printer offerihg'S.

mcnted in an addendum at the bak of thr

1hn serial)y4x>nncctcd 300 dpi LaserWnter

other programs the abilny to ras>ly switch

inks can be draggrd and dropped into

tv (lp to Bale. And w>th vers>vn 2.0, It s a

nrw locatk>r>s, sv the things that are impor. rant to you are tn>nt and center. Using this

woithwhilc endeavor This program may not be as sophist)rated as a dedicated organircr like DayMaker, but because of Its

tahnique, yvu can create a vanrty ol v>cws Ot yOur I o Do and Calendar items,

Hat Help The p«>gram has many shortcut key-commands. luckily, yau don'I need to memorlre them. When yvu place the pointer aver eah o( the available vpbans, a feature the crunpany calh Hot Help indicates Ihr kry-

~trong orientat>on to shanng the infarma. tian over a network with other members of

your wart tram, it Is weU worth looking at. Nvw Up.lo.(NIC Is the tnost usable cakndal

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play<(5 is becoming a worry, Pi; World kfaturinc Editor.in Chiel Phil I emmons i„id a conference. In panicular, (rmmons uid ln the Industry Keyneue address in the PC Woild(Network World Canada, that

However, he said, it probably will not happen because each vendor would want a second one of its own produos in the bun. die — lotus would irant to include lhe Ami

Pto word processor, instead of Wordrerfe<L fur imtance.

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proceuors to ensure the survival of a vuble Intel compentor.

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He also calkd for cooperatkm between systems professimals. Ef(ective use of tedt. nology can neither come spontaneously from below, nor be unposed autocratically (runs above, he warned.

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I emmons suggested some moves otikrs in the i n dustry could m ake to reduce Mie'rusoft's and Intel's power. though he admnted he i nnsidirs them unlikely tu

tupikn. ISM should consider renaming itsOS/2 operating system "ISM Windows, he said. A ment court ruling that Micmso(t cannot <opyiight the Windows name, while still

open to appeal, makes that appear possible. I think it would clunge the psychology of the industry, Ir m mims sa(d. upeople who ask lur Pcs with Windows must specify whkh one, he said, choices will be nude more on themerits of the soltware. Another possibility is t hat Ap p l e Cumpuki could port its Macintosh operat. ing system io the PC ardutecture If Appk dkl so, Irrnmons said, il would gain significant market slure within a year because the Macintosh's user interface ls still superi. or to Windows or anything else avauabk oil tlk PC.

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puters I transfn the work, I shut the one with high emission down. In addition I

tns o( apology (mm major «cualpUtcf chains

always shut down Ihe video when nm in

then nothingl So the idea went on hold

ge: Radiation Risk, February 1993

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Since then I have struggled through acquiring two systems (or my business

I do not agree with the artklc puhlnlwd in thr Icbniary lsuse. In 198ri I got hold of a Roentgen meter and tested the emisdon o( two monographic and onc <:GA Iype roloui

monitor. Ihc cmissions ol the monographic monUors werc tnsrgnifkant — no reading S inches from the snccn. However the mctn readings on Ihc CGA monitor extended 3 I/2 lect in front o( the screen. The avr rage dtstanic from thc screen to thc operator's

(ace is about 2 I/2 (cet. Many of these older monitors are probably 'handed' down to school children and should be tested. As I lmt the records and am no expert in Ihis Beld, I do not know if the radianon is significant or not. AU I wish to point out is that there are detectable X-ray cmnslons ar»und some normaUy working Vlyl"s At the moment I a m using a 3ito/CO with a I C S V G A monitor. My emission

truing equipmcnt is rather primitive. using I <heap battny operated radio Placed a fool

Horst Ruthcr Vancouver. 8. ('

138IV33) about two vcan ago. I again had to do aU thc lvcuk of putting the Individual

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parts into a paikage systnn (Yes. the dealer

fkr riuirss mudr is that satiric — rfuisu tkaa wr' frit wrrr borh dubiuur usd piuauruiivv. Tlane cur SUSWrrso uifrrr Staabn I(rut diapurr usd rrurbudr'it ikr srvrsrsgfy om</Us/sv find.

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sparing

isgs fvnrsrrrf is rirur issue,Srvrnai of ibnc riiagn wercmini'used is us urtfcir iw akr sub

none I ended up phoning 3,000 miles to Ihc inanU(acIUres fep. Io gcl JUrrl per SctUp data — incredible.

VDTs,but ul nxr did, und dseartrsf su X-nrys. As rkv dfsrkaknrr ut tka kmd af asu urltrfr uutrd, we wvkiwu sudrrs' vinn m d m rusrrra venial sabfaf. — Rb.

Frustrated and Angry

conditions (standard programs with no

the computer industry U the prrxtucts were

graphical interface) there are no detectable nnissions. It took me some time Io recon. ltruit the conditions under « hlch amis. Uom start. Apparently the video tube has to br hot (at least two hours in Usei and the

not so Powerful and Useful, I would have long ago fonaken it in disgust.

up Io live feet in (mnt of thc screen. Again I

drive I got thc unit In a bag — with no documentation. Further the dealer saki hc had

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are two to three detectable (rcqucncy bands of emhuons. thc cmiwions • re detectable

put tiw hardware trrgeiher.).

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trom the screen, I!ndcr normal operating

program uses a g r aphic i n terface i&pending on thc program used — there

Ior IotaUy ignoring my inquirin. but even

My Ust ol Uutdcnis is too long to dna' bui I will provide an outUne. Six ycun ago I

was mtrigucd by the idea of drung low.run fullwolor printing and copying using a computer. I even had a printer identt0cd that wm, lor its tink, cxsvpttonaL Over the

lollowing two yean I searched Iur any vcn. dor who would put together a packaged

don t know 1( thc col lsuoru are ilafillhll iu

scanner, punter, software and computer

not — but they cxbt. As I have Iwu com-

systcirl. None would. I cacti have a fcw Icl-

1 uili have thc idea for low-run color printing floating around and have now scen • new printer thai Is a dream come true. I will be doing a system Ibis (aU to Iruplemcnt thb. come hcU or IUgh water! II appears. with some shining exccpUons, that thc attitudes of six yean ago an stiil these. I get no, I mean absolutely no

mppon on puning a package together. At luaat 90 prr cent of the compames I call for information am m incapable of even dealmg anth brochure mquests that I would not buy their product To date I have called at

(or compattbtbty? I may be unaU pomton to thnc companies, but wdl I always be? Can they afford to actively of(end potential cuslomcrs so casuaUy? John Humphrey, Owner John's Books Trrul, S,C. galkoc'a Ruagaoaaao: Osv rruum iusw pmpb cxpirtrscc pmMCUU wftfr thor uuwfsuaar is I/Uu they skup far lowest pdrn. Tfrfs by aaraaauy, feuds Ifarm m puss ovrr the sacuifrd fin( tfrr usd 'm a nd tier aesdun — isrcisuriusuf ur sut(usaf rorspusws csauwwnrd far tiarfi srrvkc usd wpport — is furor of third-Ucr rcgiusuf

rufur bwmd ur ur /brut(ac(rv kuuf sraramw' nrppf/crs, As tkc ufd raying Rises, iuu usuuiiy gaf whua lcw puy far. CuvaadEmptur. Osc wuy to upprourfr rhc iinwstiou is tu dcul wdb u spcriuiilf is yosrr rbusn /i cfd. TIrcsc sprcru(Isis, ruiird VARs (vulur-uddrd

rcsrffcrsf cuir uascrsb(c usd Insruii u ruaapfdr sys(rm Arr Iasa TIsry I?pilaf/y ssgridy tkr lasses wert, so/hvurr usd vuur(US ymrT( puy Baru ruisptrtc sufrukm und tfrur's wkut u Baud VAR will drfiwr. Musy laarsrdrusts ura VA(b; kuk rfrruught tbc smuffci uris ur the bruk uf Tlar

least 80 companies, on my money, as the

Cumpuarr Puprr fbr spcrfufists is DTP usaMar

$00 numbers do not wotk in Canada for

the pr(siirtg vudr. Sursr oowputcr rmwpurdn

moat of them At least <S of thne compsnin I will never speak to again, much less actually buy from.

(IBM, /br rsarl iruvr busrrwsspurmcr ekaffaa>

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software and haniware deslgnen ls m poorly served by tbe peofde who purport to sell their products. Why is it so hard (or someruw io actually r8scuta syuem rcquunnents I

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attcmpbng \» w i he (4.

Oae patch. tbe Autodesk/Phar Lsp Extender patch, C)S2PCH.ZIP. enables AutoCAD to bc nsn as a DOS app(ication

under og/2 in thc IRM Dos • atecsed Made inkdacc IDPMn and h muatbk ku dmm load vu modem an Compuserve in the hutaCAD («turn IOO A(AI>> library 9.

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irwoiccs, invitations, (lien, certificates. p>cture> snd newsletters, the company said ScanO(tice users can siso employ OCR i>S»ical character >tant(nitlon) to replace or

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enhanced thr«ugh software to ach >rvr a res. «lath>n of I20>>aI KOdp> and is upgradabk to cob>r. Scanofficc supports the tub range of personal computers including Ibki PC/AT and PS/2 The ScanOttue package m sugxritcd iv crd i', L'5

ltw two ompan>ucs ii>intly developed the new chip in hopes it

»>b rrp4ce Inst( s ab6 i>Id Pent>um chips as an imhrstry uandard.

IRM and Apple src reportedly ahead ol schedule on t hr (lilxrvlt opctallng sys. tern lor thc nrw chtp.

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As xpccsccL Appk un>reed its 4tgest new prodwt tnttaducttan 4» month This timeframe wus chosen io nutk the month the 10 mtlbanth Maaxntosh computer wus sold. Thc arw raodels

Apple unveiled its largest new product introduction last month. This timeframe was chosen to mark the Tnonth the 10 m i l-

lionth Macintosh computer was sold.

tern will incorporate the best features «I Ihe Mii >«tosh ind OS/2 sy>trn>L If I hi> is uur,

the new chip ind operaung system may be ihr hnt to run sb Msnntosh and Windows

applications an a stngk p4tlorm Il ab of «iii huncttaru sveU in a powerful ccunputrv si • compel>tive pncc. Intel and kbcaasaft

w>b be 4ccd wtth substantul catnpenuan. Whde the home cx>mpukr market has never hved up to the expects»ons of the u>du>try. It wus • malar canbtbutor Io thr success of the Macintosh LC ll 4st year During 1992, mote Msantosh LC II's werc sold thin any other single model «( c»m-

puier. According Io hppie, mnie tfun half af these systi tnt were purchs>rd for home uw. Irwet thin i>ne.Oft h wem used in busi-

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UBC offers course in Operating a Successful Software Business lfttrcPfeneufs, eie<uiivCS uui nunagerS Or surt-up or high-growth software or other high tc<hnoiogy <fvfrpanics are o(ten overwhelmed hy the <omplcxlty o( Ihe proh-

iems faring them. They become stymkd by laiL of expertise in pani<ukfr missionmitt-

<ai areas. A new wminar heing offered by USC hopes Io address thts challenge. The <nurse, Operating a Su«essful So(tware Susiness, is scheduled lor May 2$-29 at USC. Thc <oursc Is aimed at individuals (rom both iei h ni<al and business back. grounds who are thinking o( startmg their own 5oftware <oropany I t will also be of

ielcvan<e to managers and researchers in cstabhshcd high-lech companies sccking a

more mtraprencurial approach. Cunent and

Novelt Netware 4.0 Arrives WASHINGTON, D.C INSI — Novell has

<35(2 will be available asan aden p roduct ihortiy afier the release of NctWarc 4 0

try, or government employees involved in

made its long-awaited announcement o( NNWafc 4 0, which will ship Marih 3 l. A

the high-lech senor isn all benefit from the

beta tester tells lfewsbytes that users ot

that autonuie thc trans(cf o( in(ormanon from older NetWare bindcrifs to the new

pofcnnfi Insvsfofs of hanLers for the indus.

older versions o( the produii

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The <nunc begins with the strunurc of the software industry and marketplace.

prepared for an adwnture

5tudents will Ihen be taught how to search systcmati<afly (or innovative oplxfffunftics

work operating System in the Lastfcw years,

A r af t of th i r d party c o mpany announcements arc expc<tcdIn the wake of

almost as scruff in its niche as MS-DOS,

Novell'I itatcment that it is working <loscly

with in(onnation technology and how to

and Novell has sought to extend its operat.

with dcwfopcrs on what it <aUs NetWare

evaluate them as entrcprcnnrnai ventures.

ing systim reach by purchasing ATFr T'5 Unix Systems Labs and Digital Resear<h's

Izudabk Modules, or NIJV(s. Some will start

Other femures of the <nunc are Innovanon nurfagemcnt, finan«ng methods, software

R(SD, stratcgk allian<es and bftnt ventures, Cmt is 5495 per person, ru 5445 for two or more pcopk from the sane ofgaruzanorx contncf Usc FJfofxftxra progfmrxnoa, Famfff

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Net W are4.0 directory.

NetWNc has become the sundard nf t.

under NetWare 3. I I Nl&s and be <ornpati.

DR-DOS in recent year< The ncw version Is a huge upgrade in <apabilitics and will requite hours o( wruk for system administrators, a« or d in g to Newsbyscs sources, wlio afc experkn<ed NetWarc users and have been beta-iesung the produck Sut the ef(on

customers to upgrade and usc the new <apabilities, said it will have

will bc worth it, they say,

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beiause o( a host of ncw featurn, which arc imple-

Instructors,

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be designed around ncw 4,0 <apabiili les like NetWare Di r ectory Scrvkes. Novell, aware o( how much work ft will be (of

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Fast, easy, Canadian postal code lookup forju st $89. *

ment. The new software I • so large and <ffmplex that Nowll has begun distributing ft to beta festers on a CD. ROM disc. life most Important fun<sion of the ncw NetWare, however, is its integratton fnth

three-day update fof experien<ed network administrm ors, • twoday wi>rkshop on <on-

• Simple to install, Uses 3Mb on disk, 7K RAM. • Pop-up windowswith complete on-line help. o InCludeS eVery pOStal COde in Canada.

Unix, which Novell says tnakcs it a <om.

• Look-up any code in seconds, even on an XT, • Copies the code back to the application. • Network version $159 per file server. • Monthly updates available. 30 Oay AfOFFey-baCk Guarantee: If you are not satisfied with PoCo for any reason, return the disks for a fulI refund. Call uS F:OIleetf 0-418-83f-4227 SeCtOr PubliCatiOnS InC,Box 738. St(I C, TOrOntO, ON. M6J 3$1 ' frkrutax, Nxf ss ssH, Intrfxfucsory paon ovanalxo tern tutus 30, 1990. MsL' 550.

pkte enterprise solutxm lor its <ustomen.

Nrweg says this means the product can now provide network sefvl<cs rcgafdkss of time, disun<e, location and network diversity, combining multi. server, multi plm(orm, multi. lingual networks into a angle secure

(iguring a Net Ware4.0 «rwr and a fourday network administrator course. fran<if,

Italian, Gernun and Spanish versionswill bc available shonly after thc nuin produ<f ships, and a Japanese version should be announ<ed Imcr this year Prices start at

U551,395 for ftw usen and rise to 547,995 fof the I 000 user<on(iguration Novell also introduced its NFS Gateway,

a scrvet based system to extend th e NctWafc cnvuonment into the Unix worM.

A key new <apahiiity is <alkd NctWare Directory Services, or NDS. This provides • single view o( the network, fedudng administrative coN$, Thcfc arc ncw i<runty arid

This means users <an a«css Network File System servers on remote Unix systems as ofsdy as Ihey now a«ess NetWare icrvcn,

Novell utd. All o( this u done using tooh

auditing <apabibnes usuig pubb< key <fyp. tug<aphy, Improvements in Ihe usc o( band-

pfovufcd Ily the ii5cr 5 ilativc operating sits tern, even Mt<rot<fit Windows and MS-DOS.

• fidth Io fcflu<c Illc <ONS 0( WMC area nct.

The gateway also allows for centralized administration, and security is handled

working, ncw nurugcmcnt <afubtlities and sup(urn fof muiupk <umputcr languages. Niwcll is iisirig thi5 vcfiion o( NclWare

to get its arms around every other operanng syucm, and ncw target service agents in this rekase allow <ustomers to backup DOS, Windows and OS/2 clients, as well as NctWme .I. I I and NeIWare 4.0 servers. Nct Ware 4 0 can aho run in • no n ~ i< a red mode under OS(2 2.0, NCIWafe 4.0 fof

through NetWare. Iffe gateway <onsifts of

':ctWarc Loadable Modules, or NLMs, written (or NeIWare v3.I I. A version (or Net Ware 4.0 is under development. Prices range from 5I,500 for five uscn to 5 I2,495 lor 250 users. and it becomes avaiiabk April 5. Comnrx ftovus, Nf I/42s.t5009

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Carel, IVlotion Works In INarketino pact VANCOUVIR. SRITISH COI.UMblA INS)Mouon Works, • develoPcr of multimedia tools and Cl)-ROM rrrln. liar • Ilnaullced a marketing agreement with Ottawa software

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as one compact disc read-only memory ICDROMI title. the Paine Time CD. Motion Works will focus on developing ncw productx particularly further CD-ROM trtkn, he sard building a marketing channel lur small

«amparucs is one ot the biggest chaUenges after development,' M<Cabum saul. by piggybacking on Corel's established presence, hc hopes Motion Works will bc able to ~void same of thc problems smaU compamcs often face m bnnyng products io mvkei. M<K<on Works had revenues of about C51 million in 1992, McCaUum said.

Tlsanks to the Caret drat, the company hopes io meet or exceed revenue pro. Icctfons of C54.S million to C55.7 mU. lian in 199.1, he addesk

0 Ii s a mvnage of twa comfsarrics»iih indivi<luai strengths, said Sob Eundc, a

spakeunan (or st»non works. Randaii McCaUum, chwf execu<we ot Motion Works, said thai Corel will use its iirong marketing organization to seU hii c ompany's e x isting p r oducts, w h i c h include animation software lor the Apple

Motion Works had carber licensed animaaan saftwve and other multimedia technology (about which the corn. pany wtb n<K release details) to Corel. we' re solidifying our relarionsh<p wKh

Carel more and more,' McCabum sard. Whtk the deal euentiaUy remaves Manan Works from the day-today sebmg of iis products, M<Cabum sard it wUI noi mean any oi the company's present marketing staff lose their prbs. Wnh a view ro lust such a deal. he said. Minion Works has been careful to hire marketing

people who could step into a market research cole in a development-oncnted company The deal yves Cocci the right ol first refusal an ail tuiure Motion Works products.

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zonsio include mid-sized corporate buyers as well as thc home and small buuncss our. Lcr. FxperComp has launched the Ambra Izrwrprtsc and Enterpnse Max lines ot perional computers, which have hardware specifications ssmdar to those of its exssnng models but ve aimed at corporate buvette Fz pe<Comp has aho <chosen a different div tribution approach lor thc new modeh rather than ielUng through deals as it does with its Hurdla and Spnnia desktops and

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before they buy, said Andre Turgcon, chief operating oflicer of lzpcrComp, corporate buyers usually know luii what they want What they'rc looMng for n a convenient

way to acquire tire product Turgean said that while the new models cover about the same range of processors as other Ambra madel<, they tend to have mare features than the machmes vmcd at home and small. business buyers. Ior instance, he said, the f n t erprise and I.nterprise Max Pt:s have full PS/2 keyboard~ and are generally shipped with larger hard di~ks and mare memory as standard equipment.

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The gateway will be of interest rnaetfr to 4rget organizations with extensive mail

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Canada Product Launch Update II)R<)N(O, ON1ARIO (NS) — This regular feature det~ils Canadian launihe< by tn<ernational comtun<es. (his month brought new database and work>i • tron products <rom ISM ( anada and Micr<Holt Ofhce on (.ILROM. I he followmg provideS detaih fru

include hvo new nehrork interlaces and an eight milhmcter tape library announced in ihe US. ISM Canada also mnounicd i)atabase2 OS/2, a vers<on of iis relational database

the ( anadian market to supplement other

system, a nd D is t r i buted Da t a base Connectio n Se r v i i e s/ 2 Ye t <io n 2

New<bytes coverage ol ttie<e annourueilicni< ISM Canada an nounced 4 range oi work<rat<or< pro<lucis on tile ianie day as it<

parent company (Ncwsbytek February 2).

I he new Sl'I parallel procesung system is the (itsi product (tom I S M ' s Highly

on local-area networks and <n un<vent<res. Prrces start at CSS,27S and ava<iab<hty is set (or late March. IBM also launched ihe Xstation ISO, an X icrin<rul meant for use on Iocul area networks. It is priced at C53,9SS and is due to

ship m late March. Several new servers also loined <he R S/6000 li nc I he I'o w e r N e t w o r k ltuta<erver supports thc Network Fife 'ierver (NFS) standard and ISM said <t will support a< many as 200 c l i ents. Prices start at C$171,)<l I arid shipment is planned for the

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borland Canada Software said Paradox for Windows (Newsbytes, January 281 is avu4bk i in Csnsds. The intro ductory pr«e in (.snsda is C5167 95 until April lb. 1)avid McC4ughtin, president of bor4nd Canada, said the bst price «10 risc to a bout C 5 5 7 5 a f te r t h at , a l t hough

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borland Canada shn announced a 90day pnce prom<>iion on ns (2uattro Pro

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IVlicresaft Oenied a Trademark on Windows Name WASHINDIDN, 0(. (NS) — A preliminary

different types of creative properties and

decision by the U.S. Patent snd Trade Office hss dealt 4 setback io Microsoft. by

offers differen In«ters>on. Patents must be granted by 4 govern-

denying the company'1 spplicmion to make Windows a protected trademark name. Although thc decision is urdikely to put

ment sgen>y, sr d to bc approved they must either contain new ideas or processes, or incorporate • msior improvement on

much of a dent m Mkrrnoft'1 massive share of Ihe marLet, hsd it gone the other way, it

not only from dupUating a patent«d ptod-

spreadsheet software, which will be avail.

could hsw been signifksnt lor other pub.

sbk lor C5124.9S unul Apnl 30.

li\Iiers. Windows '

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Of all software spplkations, thc top five >endor(. Mi cron>lt, Ix>tus, Wordperfect, Sc>r4nd and Symsntec controlled 74 pcr. cent of thc market in 1992 I )stsquest ntn mates Ihst Mi>r>mdt's revenue for software a pplication s n e a rl v do u b l ed , t r o m US51.1'>93,200,00 0 in 19 9 1 to

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Windows Software Hot In 'I992,

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mnt granting Mkrosoft any t»demark protection, which would have silo>red Ihe company to bkuk other soltwsre publishers from adveniung any

modity, and I)atsquest says pnce wan wne

p roduct with the word ' wind(un ' i n I t s

permanent foun — whether the author ii writing 4 book or (scat>ng a word processor

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program Software can be patented, copynghtcd, sndlor protcctcd by trademark Microsoft Windows is already copyrighted so ii can-

Kesselnng says the top vendon ktep

stsncd by ihe herse competition between I bc Iop vendon. Cantucx. Ouumusm 400->L77 SS12

w hich are designed to operate in t h e Mktosoft Windows cnnronment.

She dexssion does not sifcci Microsoft's ownenhlp or copyright protection of Its Windows program in sny way, and II temsins highly illegal lo copy snd scil Mkrosoft's programx What the decision docsaffect is thc wsy Micxosnft utiilnes and spplkstions program> Csn comPcte with

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not bc copse(L but ihe wonl 'Windows' is

not protenrd Minusolt, which had been up sharply before Ihe announccmcnt of the ic»Dion of the company's nademark application, wss only down slightly scx>n attn opening the next dsy, mdicating that tl» news hul

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