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obviously take a period of adjustment as people who.know me and my trademark look get usedto the change. Think of this as Version 2.0 of Kirtan

Ihave changed my name back to my former

name Douglas Alder. It may not be quite as catchy, but that is what it was before.

The Morel of the Story what I have learnedabout the prejudices facedby "visible minorities" on a daily basis. Everyone

who is black or yellow or brown, or who wears a turban or long hair or rides a wheelchair or anything that is slightly different, in this predominantly white society, will know what I am talking

about. It is tough to be relaxed and enjoy the world to its maximum when everywhere you go, you are struck with a constantawarenessof your

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The Prtce of the Story If I can ask anything from my story of you, dear reader, it is that you treat people well. Being a dif-

ferent color or religion is only marginally more important than having brown eyes or blue eyes.

People are people.

Now, back to the world of computers. I would like to make a request to people who send us press releases. In an effort to cut down on a massive paper trail through our office, we are trying to go increasingly electronic. Paper is a useful but static medium. We often want to refer back to things but pieces of paper are much harder to trace than digital documents. Please send us your press release files via modem wherever possible.

We are well connected, via accounts on CompuServe, GEnie, America Online, the Internet and locally in Vancouver on Mind Link, all of

which we check regularly (see the masthead for details). We can translate and read a wide variety

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CANADIAN EDITOR Grant Buckler PRODUCTION ART DIRECTOR Carolyn Hawse

PRODUCTION MANAGER Kit Griffin PRODUCTION STAFF Jana Kolar

Ernest Stelzer Ron Braunagel COVER PHOTO Comstock/M. Stuckey

courtesy of Comstock, 49 Bathurst 51., Toronto. ON MSV 2P2 Tel: (416) 601-9177

PROOFREADER Neall Calvert ACCOUNTING &ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTING MANAGER Dharm Kaur Khalsa

CONTROLLER Chris McPhie Singh Khalsa — new package and name, new operating system...samebasic person inside.

ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT JoanneCampbell

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only a brief mention was given to the industry-leading graphics package, Harvard Graphics for Windows. This, despite author Geof Wheelwright's statement that the article cove~s "all the major graphics presentations packages"for Windows.

there are others that position a micro-marble sized ball up under the screen, a most inconvenient and thoroughly tiresome location. Then there is that device that IBM would have us use, an upsideMown pencil eraser that should be given the award for the dumbest and most impossible-to-use

Re: presentation Craphics, June '93 It was with interest that I read the feature

Contrary to what Mr. Wheelwright says,

Harvard Graphics for Windows is leading the presentation graphics category, continually redefining it with innovative features

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pointing device of all time. I tried it out at

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Why is it, I ask myself, that no PC's

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lacking in this department and why did this article not addressthis problem?

The end result of my research was to

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Then, just as Lanier's vision seemed to. be moving into the mainstream, a disaster occurred. One of VPL's investors, a Frenchgovernment supported conglomerate called Thomson-CSF, called an overdue loan, booted Lanier from his company, and took it

over, grabbing the key patents to his VR tech-

nology in the process.

So, there was curiosity when word went out that Jaron was coming to town. What would the fallen prophet be like?

Bitter? D espondent?

Lost? As it turned out, none of the above. At a

press conference on May 27th, I talked to him.

Lanier was obviously still

recovering psychically from the wounds

ture article on software a decade ago, Lanier was astounded by the wave of intense interest that was aroused by his musings about visually based methods of interacting with

inflicted by his ouster at the hands of the Thomson-CSF bean counters.

He was philosophic about his own situation, buttery op timistic about the possible future for mankind. "We have a love mad-

computers.

He began a company in 1984

ness for technology," he said. "There is real-

called VPL (the initials came from his con-

ly no choice but to use this technology we' re so in love with, preferably in ways that will let us communicate with each other, and learn how to get along."

Lanier made the point that "America would seem to rather build more prisons than better schools," and he offered the

cept, Visual Programming Language), which explored the possibilities of creating computer-generated interactive visual and tactile worlds that would allow people to

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systems in new ways. He devised a "data glove" that would sense the movement of the wearer's hand, and allow the user to pilot his disembodied form through "cyber- . space" (a computer-generated environment), and actually pick up and manipulate musical instruments and other objects that existed only as computer information. A

to meet over vast distances and enjoy much more involving kinds of research, learning and creativity at a low cost. I asked him who would own and control, censor„and profit from, this technology.

"I don't think anyone will be able to control it too closely," he said. "It' ll be a

"head mounted display" helmet (HMD)

market will ultimately decide."

At a lecture at the U. of T. that evening,

would sense the movement of the user's head, and allow the helmet's computer display to change to make it seem that the user was looking around a real, 3-D space.

In addition to coining the term "Virtual Reality" to describe this new way of creat-

ing and inhabiting artificial worlds, Lanier also secured patents for his inventions,

market, and the users who make up the Lanier and some compatriots (including Toronto-based VR pioneer Vincent John Vincent of the Vivid Group, and David Traube, multimedia director in the film "Lawnmower Man") discussed the potential of VR with an interested, mostly youthful audience. This lecture was titled "The

which were one of the principal assets of Electronic Cafe" by Jaron's hosts, the VPL Research, Inc. His customers for his VR Virtual Entertainment Group and IMDA, systems included NASAand major universithe International Multimedia Developers' ties, corporations and governmeat agencies Association. around the world. An entire new Virtual When the inevitable "cybersex" quesReality industry, with dozens of small, wild- tion came up (one audience member asked ly innovative firms sprang up to extend the

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Jaron if he had been talking to Plnyboy' s Christie Hefner or Penthousemagazine's Bob Guccione about erotic VR products), Lanier paused for a minute, and then said a

with great feeling about the two sides to his life, music and science. He caressed a tiny Laotian pipe organ of ancient design, and commented that some of the most elegant

plugged himself in to a Silicon Graphics Reality Engine, a mini-supercomputer that SGl Canada had loaned for the event.

Travelling through cyberspace, with his

bit sadly, " 1 had one very weird phone call

technology in humanity's history was

journey projected for the audience on a

from a porno producer who was killed by his brother and business partner about a week after I talked to him." He paused.

embodied in musical instruments, which had a power to communicate emotions and dreams that was was really unparallelled.

He claimed that much of his mathemati-

huge video screen, Lanier improvised a concert with intangible VR musical instruments. Then he closed by improvising a

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cal and technical invention was inspired by music, and he proceeded to play a beautiful

Overall, it was a beautiful fusion of past

"These are miserable people." He later remarked, "Sex is a mystical experience between people, not a product, and although there will be attempts to involve

piece of his own composition on the little

technology, 1 don't know how useful they

pipe instrument. Then, Lanier put on a data glove anda head mounted display,and

will be." Lanier's advice to those who are a bit too fixated on technology as a substitute for the difficulties of the real world was that they should "perhaps go away for a while and think deeply about why they want to transfer their brains to a hard drive, and try to understand what's behind that desire."

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and future. Wherever Jaron Lanier goes in the future (he is currently signed to the Polygram record label, and is collaborating with noted composer Philip Glass), he

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useful they will be."

From Silicon Chips and Bamboo Pipes: The Music of the Ages On Saturday night, Lanier and Vincent John Vincent reappeared at the Virtual Reality Concert, in the CBC's Glenn Gould T heatre across the street f rom t h e Multimedia '93 trade show. The concert opened with humorous remarks from master of ceremonies Paul Chatto (of The Frantics, a CBC comedy troupe of the 1980's), who presided over a stage crowded with an eclectic jumble of computers, traditional musical instruments, and potentially lethal wiring.

A striking guitarist/vocalist named Anhai gave an almost primal, aboriginally influenced song recital that made no use of computers. Then, Vincent John Vincent and his accompanying band, Twentieth Century Kid, went to give a digital multimedia performance with the aid of the "Mandala" VR system. At this point, someone backstage unplugged the power, and the computers were knocked out.

This, the moment of "Techno-Panic" is always one of the most revealing aspects of cyber-art performances. How dependent is the artist on the new toys? Fortunately, everyone stayed cool. While Vincent resurrected his slain computers, Twentieth C entury Kid saved the day with a n

impromptu, very tight jam session. Once the Mandala was back up and running, Vincent and his cohorts gave a stunning

performance that seamlessly mixed dance, video, VR and live music.

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copy of LapLink. For all their shortcomings, floppies are much more convenient than this type of transfer mechanism, for the simple fact that, in most cases, floppy drives are mounted at the front of computers.

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One of the strongest rivals to the Intelbased system i s D i g i t a l E q u i p ment Corporation's Alpha chip. Out since 1992, it has been used primarily in Unix-based workstations. Windows NT has opened it up to a new potential market. The Alpha chip has been incorporated into Darius' new Central

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The first manufacturer to actively exploit this feature is Sequent, which has come out with a series of high-end Intel-based servers, Their toff- the-line WinServer 5000 model uses sixteen Pentium-ready Intel-486 microprocessors operating at 50 MHz. Contact SequentComputerSystems 1-800-2436768 Intergraph'sDesktop Workstations Windows NT requires a fairly high-end system to operate with, and as a result, you can expect the defining line between workstations and desktop computers to blur. It was typical at many of the booths to have a computer running several graphics-intensive applications simultaneously. This type of showing off demonstrated the power of the machines Windows NT was running on, rather than any practical use for Windows NT itself. But Windows NT has encouraged many Unix CAD software firms to port their

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refers to documents printing exactly as they appear on the computer screen.

The company's goal is to create a workplace in which users — wherever they need to work — have full and easy access to all information, regardless of its origin or format, and to provide users with a way to manage their communications across a wide range of office devices that are incompatible today.

Called "Microsoft At Work," the new architecture is designed to smooth the path of information between formerly incompatible devices such as fax machines, telephones, copiers, and personal computers in the office or in the field.

Some of the concepts presented include telephones with graphical point-and-touch screens to replace the lengthy button-pushing sequences of today's phones, that can transfer calls or check for voice mail messages; documents composed on a personal computer that are sent via electronic mail to a fax machine and held until it ran be sent during off hours when phone rates are lowest; and documents created on a PC that can be sent to a copier that prints as many copies as the user needs. Other ideas being worked on include mobile computers that not only perform traditional computing tasks but also can receive data via cellular technology.

"Software technology is the key to making the features of office products easy to use, and to getting information to the user when, where, and how the user needs it," according to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.

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WYPIWYFIWYCIWY$7 Continued frompage 15 devices and PCs. lt will support the secure transmission of original digital documents, and is compatible with the Windows Messaging API and the Windows Telephony API of th e W i n dows Open Services Architecture (WOSA).

Microsoft At Work rendering will make the transmission of digital documents, with formatting and fonts intact, very fast and cost effective, and will ensure that a document sent to any of the devices will produce high-quality output, according to Microsoft.

The Microsoft At Work graphical user interface is designed to make all devices very easy to use and will make sophisticated features accessible and provide useful feedback to the user. Microsoft says it will leverage the Windows user interface to provide simple graphical user interfaces for MAWbased products.

The Microsoft At Work desktop software for Windows-based PCs component is supposed to provide Windows-based PC applications the ability to control, access and exchange information with any product based on MAW. Karen Hargrove, general manager of the digital office systems group at Microsoft, says the big benefit of MAW for customers will be ease of use, improved efficiency, and reduced costs. Hargrove believes most users don't use many of the features of modern office products such as voice mail because they are too difficult to learn and remember. "By putting software into those office products, we can make technology adapt to people's needs instead of the other way around."

Microsoft says that in all product scenarios involving MAW, every feature related to an action appears on the screen only when appropriate. For example, during a

information between workplaces, making what it calls "anywhere-to-anywhere" messaging possible. For example, you would no longer have to be on the same network to receive a secure, formatted document from another user. Documents could be created and distributed from a copier by touching the appropriate names in an electronic address book and tapping the "send" icon.

All recipients would receive digital copies of the formatted document, which could then be viewed on-screen or printed.

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graphical environment resembled the Macintosh more than it did Windows. But, importantly, version 2.0 dramatically improved upon OS/2's abilities to run DOS programs, too.

Soon, reviewers were starting to admit that IBM's claims were true, after all. It really was a better DOS than DOS. It improved upon DOS' memory management, added true multitasking (allowing a virtually unlimited number of DOS sessions) and, in a move that must have sent a chill down the halls at Microsoft, allowed OS/2 users to run Windows programs without buying Microsoft Windows.

At first, Microsoft officials responded by saying things to the effect, "We don't mind;

Microchannel Architecture.

For a variety of reasons, mostly related to the expense and proprietary nature of the new bus, it never really caught on and Microchannel machines are almost as much of a curiosity today as they were in the late '80s — perhaps even more so, now that IBM has once again started producing machines that use the venerable AT (ISA) bus.

Perhaps Big Blue learned something important as it analyzed the market's rejection of its innovation. People don't necessarily want the best technology. They go for a balance between performance and value.

People won't even consider switching unless a product is vastly superior — and even if it is, they' ll usually follow the market anyway. People want compatibility. Just look at what happened in the Beta vs. VHS wars, or the PC vs. Mac debate.

OS/2 was clearly superior to DOS, even in its early incarnations. But other than

OS/2 anyway." But soon, things turned ugly. Microsoft released Windows 3.1. Not surprisingly, it contained code that OS/2 2.0 couldn't run.

IBM responded by developing code that added Windows 3.1 support to OS/2 2.0.

Several beta versions made the rounds,

large organizations that ran it on network servers and developers who exploited its multitasking capabilities as a development environment, it seemed that almost nobody

finally culminating in late May with the official release of OS/2 2.1.

In a move that many saw as the final divorce decree, Microsoft announced that

used OS/2 1.x — certainly it did enjoy the mass acceptance that Bill Gates had envi-

as of September, 1993, IBM would lose its license to the Windows code. In a particu-

sioned before Microsoft, too turned its back

larly melodramatic move, the final hour

on it.

was named as "midnight on Sept. 18th." No doubt a chill ran down the other's halls,

With OS/2 2.0, IBM became the sole heir of its fledgling operating system.

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ONTARIO EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER AUGUST '93 work on a 386SX or greater with as little as 4MB of RAM and ZOMB of free disk space, but most users would agree that it is more realistic to double these figures. Those familiar with the requirements of Windows 3.1 will not find OS/2's RAM and disk-space requirements too much of a shock — especially since you do not need to install DOS or Windows.

As part of the bargain, OS/2 provides a

considerable moxie to smile and say something that amounted to, "That's okay.

We' re committed to providing ongoing support for the Windows environment.

We' ll just write our own Windows engine."

As one industry observer commented, "Excuse me, did you say you' ll be writing a complete Windows subsystem? I' ll look for that in the near future — not!"

In the latest episode of this increasingly melodramatic tale, Microsoft has created Win32s, a 32-bit specification that promises to allow 32-bit software to run on Windows 3.1 as well as its upcoming Windows NT operating system. And guess what? If a program is written to the Win32s spec, it won' t run under OS/2. Ouch.

Although they must have been pretty darned chil ly , I B M o f f i c i als q u i c kly responded by vowing to support Win32s if users demand it. IBM staffers now say. it will take about six months to complete the code and that they can even distribute the fix electronically before the next version of OS/2 is released, if they have to.

Once you get beyond all the FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) that clouds the issue, though, and actually use the product, it's hard not to agree: OS/2 2.1 is indeed a better DOS than DOS, and a pretty decent Windows, all wrapped up in a very nice graphical environment — one that's supported by a multithreaded, multitasking operating system that's much more robust and powerful than, say, the Mac's System 7.

Or Windows.

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small programs and utilities that perform a specific function. There is a charting program, terminal emulator (for use

with a modem), a couple of text editors, several games (including a net-

work-aware chess game),

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CD-ROM ts the cure If you have a CD-ROM drive, this is definitely the way to install OS/2. The 3.5" floppy disk-based package contains no less than 25 high-density disks! 5.25" drive owners will suffer the symptoms of "diskswap elbow" even more.

The CD-ROM installer, on the other hand, requires only two

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floppy disks (both 3.5"

that Apple supplies with many of its con-

sumer-model computers.

The similarity to Mac goes deeper than that, though. OS/2 eschews the Program Manager/File Manager duality of Windows for an integrated "desktop" environment.

Like the Mac, OS/2 allows folders (subdirec-

tories) to be placed inside other folders, and supports drag-and-drop file launching.

But OS/2 is more than a slavish clone of

Apple's operating environment. OS/2 departs from Windows and the Mac most widely in its innovative pop-up menus.

Unlike Windows, in which every window

a nd 5 . 25 " d i s k s a r e included in the box with

has its own space-consuming menu bar, the

the manuals and CD-

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ROM). The new release of OS/2 has substantially

functions and requirements of the active

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improved support for

application. OS/2 goes one better, by allowing each object to have its own menu.

many of the exotic pieces

Document files therefore have a pop-up list

and many m o re. I' ve heard complaints that these applets are so crippled as to be nearly useless, but I don't agree. They are simple, but will help OS/2 users perform a useful variety of basic functions without purchasing extra software. As part of the Windows emulation, you also get the games, cardfile, paint and word processing apps that come with Windows 3.1, as well.

As I suspect will be the case with many PC users considering the switch to OS/2, I already had a fair number of Windows

of periphery that PC

of file-related options (delete, copy, etc.),

users love to attach to their machines. OS/2 2.1 supports a wide variety of CD-ROMs, including popular models from Sony, NEC, Hitachi, Toshiba and of course IBM. Basic SCSI support is built into the install program, allowing the OS/2 installer to start the CD-ROM drive without any third-party software. Unfortunately, our older NEC CDR-77 drive did not support this feature

while an icon for a pr i nter wil l show options like page setup, and so on. It's a good system, especially for users who are frustrated by the vast amount of screen real-estate that Windows' many menus take Up. I have to give IBM full marks for support. The OS/2 support line is toll-free, I got

applications set up on one partition of my

T130 SCSI host adapter).

hard drive. OS/2 is available on floppy disks or CD-ROM. I prepared the other partition to be an OS/2 HPFS (high performance file system) partition and chose the OS/2 installation

After the installation is complete, OS/2 starts up and gives you the option. of taking a tutorial tour of the program. I could not help thinking how similar this tutorial was to the "Tour of the Macintosh" tutorials

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problem wherein the Windows Copy Disk function doesn't work properly. According

video cards. There are also updated versions of some drivers that are already supported

to the README file, it doesn't prompt you

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Intel Corporation's introduction of the Pentium chip prompts some historical musings and raises questions on where chip development is leading the industry and consumers.

Consider: in 1965 the Oxford Illustrated Dictionary had no entry for the word "transistor." By 1971, Intel was marketing the first microprocessor chip, the Intel 4004 with 23,000 transistors. The first modern Intel series chip, the 8088 introduced in 1978, boasted 29 000 transistors; the current 80486 chip model has 1.2 million.

Intel Corporation co-founder Gordon Moore's Law of Chips — "The number of transistors that can be fitted on a microchip w ill double about every 18 months" seems to be holding.

But there are signs that

cascading increases in speed and computing power will soon not be enough to pro-

pel chip technology and a ssure marketing d o m i nance. (See sidebar stories.)

Nevertheless, into this changing world, Californiab ased I n t e l C o r p . h a s birthed the next generation in the 386-486 chip series, the Pentium chip. The chip is superscalar, contains three million transistors, is twice as fast as the best 486DX2-66 (112 MIPS vs. 54) and has a five-fold increase in floating point capability. All this so Intel can keep the little circled "Intel inside" logo in the full-color PC ads

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Hewlett-Packard Co. an d C o mpaq Computer Corporation, two inajor players in the PC market, have announced firm plans to use the Pentium chip in new PC models and in Compaq's server systems.

Other firms are expected to follow suit.

Intel also announced an agreement with a California electronics firm to manufacture the chip. Network servers and workstation units with the new chip will be available later this year and probably retail between $5,000 and $10,000 US. According to Intel, the new chip, at 112 MIPS, will greatly sharpen the quality of PC graphics and video images, be more difficult

steps ahead of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD). AMD earlier won the right to market a 386 clone and thought it had broken Intel's near monopoly, but a California appeals court overruled this.

If one reads the popular press and only

glances in casual puzzlement at the computer trade magazines, the Pentium chip might seem to be a kind of "deathchip," sweeping all technology before it and annihilating the competition.

At least one computer expert thinks otherwise.

"The Pentium chip has a lot of direct competition. The Pentium chip is not something that will change computing," says Dave Burgoyne from his perspective of 15 yeats' experience in the industry.

Burgoyne i s a S y stems Analyst in the Calgary, Alta. office of Tecknica Petroleum S ervices, a c o m pany t h a t designs and produces software and teaches software development to a worldwide clientele from China to the Middle East to North America.

Intel must also solve other concerns,

Burgoyne adds.

"They have to get the confidence of the computer manufacturers that the Pentium chip will help them compete with and outperform the clones," he says. Intel will also have to demonstrate that the leap in performance standards embodied in the Pentium Chip can be used in a p r actical way.

Otherwise, the Pentium chip risks being seen merely as a way to prevent further cloning and maintain market advantage and its technological advances will be wast-

ed, says Burgoyne.

Other trends in the fast-moving PC world of the nin eties also bear on the impact of the Pentium Chip.

Alternative systems have been developed, says Burgoyne. Many companies have

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Instruction Set Computers — that supposedly process the more simple instructions faster). However, RISC-CPU Windows units will beat the first Pentium systems to market.

The Pentium chip also puts Intel several

an example of this approach and it has won

the market for Apple Corporation technology — a major competitor for the IntelMicrosoft-IBM group. Their Macintosh line runs on the Motorola 68000 series chip which has kept pace with Intel's advances

ONTARIO EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER AUGUST '93 in speed. The Motorola chip, will soon be able to run Intel applications so there will b e no r eal a d vantage, according t o Burgoyne.

send Unix into decline.

As Burgoyne observes, Windows NT is independent of underlying hardware.

Operating systems are independent of chips

Beyond the tussles of the chip galaxy

and there needs to be good reason why one

there are other forces swirling in the computer universe that may affect the fate of the Pentium chip. Burgoyne especially highlights the need for standardization, the changing nature of software development,

chip would continue to be selected over another.

The advantage for the Pentium chip no longer rests on its increase in speed and power. Intel cannot continue to count on the caution and inertia of companies to stick with the known. A key to retaining the dominance of the Pentium chip would be to ensure that it remains a flexible standard technology for diverse systems and uses,

and the struggle for dominance among competing operating systems, Lack of standardization impacts on the chip world and continues to haunt operating systems.

"Manufacturers are slowly recognizing that things need to be standardized," says Burgoyne.

Imagine, he says, if standard parts for your television depended on which system you had purchased or if your VCR had to be matched to a particular TV brand.

There have been attempts to pursue standardization, the major one being the Open Software Foundation (OSF-organized

by IBM, DEC, and others. Yet this initiative has made slow headway. Firms are still trying to garner the lion's share of the market, says Burgoyne. There Is "reluctance to adopt OSF standards," he says.

A second area is software development, where past emphasis has been on marketing ever faster programs.

But hardware is now so fast. says Burgoyne, "By the time faster software is marketed, there is no longer any need for the difference."

Members of the general public even

vaguely familiar with computers recognize the acronym MS-DOS; but fewer will have heard of OS/2 2.0 and fewer still of Unix, the granddaddy of operating systems developed first in 1969.

But as Burgoyne says, "DOS is only alive because so many are familiar with it."

It is clear that a battle is on to become the operating system of choice; one has only to scan recent issues of computer trade magazines. Compute Oct./92 features a cover story, "To OS/2 or not to OS/2?" in which writer Mark Minasi says OS/2 is a "real" operating system and Microsoft Windows is not. And Byte's Sept. 1992 cover screams "ls Unix dead?" and suggests that Windows NT New Technology) may

Burgoyne believes.

And Intel cannot rely much longer on the unfamiliarity of the average consumer, for whom the world of computers "is a big monster" in the words of Dave Burgoyne, Intel will have to be careful to promote the new technology of its Pentium chip to power advances in user applications that include the general public and not just computer freaks. And in PC-land, the "general public" now includes company CEOs as well as small businessmen and home users.

The biggest trend here, says Burgoyne, is development of an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI). This is the area of hardware and software development concerned with simplifying user access to the power and versatility of the computer, making it easier to load, execute and manipu-

late common software programs for word processing, accounting, spreadsheets, sophisticated video games.

Perhaps one day we will not need to be aware of such things as operating systems and Pentium chips, observes Burgoyne.

A second major area is the field of per-

sonalized communication by people with their computer system. Burgoyne envisages a future where people could run their computer by voice or handwritten instructions, perhaps use it to phone a friend and see the friend's image on their terminal as they talked.

Microsoft Corporation is already exploring versions of these ideas. Microsoft and Compaq Computer Corporation formed a "Frontline Partnership" to simplify PC use with enhanced audio capability. Recently Microsoft unveiled a software project using Modular Windows in concert with 60 major

firms. It aims at making phones, printers, copiers, faxes and PCs compatible.

To exploit this the Pentium chip wil l need to drop from its initial $900 US price and adapt its powerful advances to fixedpoint data used by many PC-based applications.

Ul t i mat e l y , I n t e l h a d b e t ter h eed

Burgoyne's final message to the consumer abo u t the Pentium chip: "The Pentium chip is just one choice of ma n y , You' re not really restricted to Intel."

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Noorda looks just like a man enjoying what many others his age aspire to: a relaxing and fulfilling retirement. But nothing could be farther from the truth. While Noorda enjoys his time on the links, it is the electronic variety he is more concerned with — and has been since he acquired the struggling Novell Data Systems 12 years ago

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access to the man who runs the company and, perhaps most intriguing of all„no huge difference between the salary Noorda

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O NTARIO EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER AUGUST'93 his office, which is just a modest room on the ground floor of Novell's headquarters building and prefers instead to have clients meet with the company at hotels, while internal company meetings take place in meeting rooms and other people's offices.

So for Novell employees, it is rare that they sit sweaty-palmed in the waiting room of the mega-boss before a meeting — Noorda comes to them.

None of this is to say, however, that Noorda is any kind of a pushover when he does get to a meeting. He is well-known for standing firm to protect and enhance. the company's interests, and takes a no-nonsense approach to them.

You see evidence of this common-sense approach everywhere you go at Novell. In the corridors of Novell's headquarters in

Provo, Utah, for example, there are pictures hanging on the wall featuring the work of popular U.S. artist Norman Rockwell, with small corporate homilies printed beneath.

These go something like: "Good ideas don' t come along very often — they are worth protecting".

This marks a sharp contrast to the headquarters of arch-rival Microsoft, where the halls are covered with original paintings by upcoming artists from all over the country and staff are encouraged to vote on which ones the company should buy for its corporate collection. There are no such trappings at Novell, a fact which breeds a quite different attitude amongst employees and creates what Americans like to call a different "corporate culture" at Novell than elsewhere.

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S ince that t i m e , t h e PostScript l a nguage has thrived and evolved. Several ' other vendors now market their own "non-Adobe" versions of PostScript, and PostScript printers can be used with virtually every

brand of computer. Adobe and dozens of other developers sell PostScript fonts and PostScriptcompatible drawing programs and clip art.

But PostScript printers typically cost about twice as much as non-PostScript units.

What's the deal?

Although Windows and/or DOS-based PCs, Macintoshes, Amigas and other computers all have their own programs that are "piatform specific" (i.e., the software only runs on one type of computer), their printer driverscan allcreate PostScript files that will print on any PostScript output device.

Thus, any of the major operating systems can produce a file that can be printed on any other operating system, as long as it, or the printer i t i s c o n nected to, has a PostScript interpreter. Well, in theory, at least. It is not difficult to produce a file that will choke even the best PostScript interpreter. Programs which automatically trace b itmaps t o p ro d u c e " outlin e a r t " (CorelTrace, Adobe Streamline, etc.) are notorious in this regard.

If you open a PostScript file with a word

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The PostScript language itself is said to be similar to that of the Forth programming l anguage: procedural a n d stack-based. People refer to this kind of language as "RPN," for R everse Polish N o t a t i o n .

Pocket calculators sometimes use RPN, too; typically, those with advanced functions.

Part of the PostScript language specifically applies to fonts, while other parts are

more generalized, and can be used to create a variety of graphical effects. The two main

font formats are known as Type 1 and Type 3. The former used to be a jealously guarded

secret by Adobe, but the company responded to theannouncement of TrueType by Apple and Microsoft by publishing the Type 1 specification — presumably in an effort to legitimize the PostScript Type 1 "standard."

Type 3 fonts have largely faded from public view since the release of the Type 1

spec, although Type 3 fonts are capable of certain graphic effects (including tints and stroked lines) that Type 1 fonts are not.

Today, the Type 1 font format is most

commonly used in professional publishing applications. True Type has taken 'its place as a consumer standard, popular on Windows PCs and Macs running System 7. Still, however, most service bureaus will only accept PC files containing TrueType fonts if they have been printed to disk as a ".PRN" file.

At the high end, at least, PostScript still

text — in computer parlance, an ASCII file.

A PostScript file could therefore be written with any word processor, but typically you would let a drawing or desktop publishing program do the work of creating a complex page description and then let the printer driver for your computer output the file as PostScript.

When you select a PostScript printer driver to print from your program, the driver does the job of converting the objects and characters on the screen to the language that PostScript understands.

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The printer driver can send this info directly to the printer, although in many

This device independence is one of the most often touted benefits of the Display

cases, the operating system can be set up to intercept the print-out command and "spools" the file in the background, so that you can continue to work as pages print.

One of the most valuable features of PostScript — and, indeed, the main reason it was developed — is its device independence. This means that a PostScript file output by any Postscript-compatible device at

any resolution will resemble as closely as possible that of any other PostScript device.

This means that although your 300 dot-perinch printer may not be able to print details as fine as those from a 2540-dpi imagesetter, PostScript ensures that the letter- and word-spacing will be consistent.

PostScript system of the NeXTstep operat-

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Alternatively, you may choose to print PostScript to disk — again, usually via an option in the Print dialog box. You can

don't have the same fonts as you. As DTP pioneers can tell you, this promise was

often unfulfilled in reality. New innovations such as PageMaker 5.0's Panose font substitution system and SuperATM go a

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There are quite a few such products for the PC. Some of the most popular are GoScript from LaserGo (selected as the "Readers' Choice" by WordPerfect maga-

zine), Freedom of the Press by Color Age, PMW's UltraScript (also marketed in

Canada by Roland DG as RavenScript), and the public-domain Ghostscript. Originally developed for Unix machines, GhostScript

is available from many BBSes and other PD sources.

Freedom of the Press, UltraScript and the PD GhostScript are also available for the

PostScript interpreter (especially a free one) is its low cost, compared to the $1000 or so a PostScript option usually adds to the cost of a laser printer. The disadvantage of "doing it in software" is speed — or lack of it. PostScript is no speed demon at the best of times, and a software PostScript interpreter can tax the patience of even the most budget-conscious user.

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This is becoming such a popular alternative that a recent U.S. survey by BIS Strategic Decisions for the International Computer Facsimile Association (ICFA) estimated more than 5 billion pages were sent by computer-based faxing in the U.S. last year, and that figure will grow ten-fold to 50 billion by1996.

Now a California company — AdobeSystems — is trying to hurry this revolution along. Adobeis the creator of the PostScript page description language, which provided awayfor personal computers to "talk" to laser printers accurately enough to carry out professional publishing work onthem.

Adobe is now pioneering the use of its new Adobe PostScript fax protocol as a way of t the humble laser printer into the state-of-the-art fax machine of the late 1990s. According to Eric Rogge, Adobe's marketing manager for PostScript Fax, laser printers with fax capabilities are more than the sum oftheir parts.

He says they offer manyadvantages over both traditional fax machines and personal computers equipped with "fax modem" expansion cards.

Unlike fax modems, multi-function printers with fax capabilities will automatically print received faxes, do not require one of a company's personal computers to stay switched-on andlinked to atelephone (andtherefore invite a possible security risk) and can beshared over a computer network, thereby making it easier to amortize the cost of the equipment.

The really interesting potential of the laser printer/fax combination, however, lies in the quality of the output. Due tothefact that this system relies on sending PostScript information — not just an Image — over the phone line from the laser printer, you get almost the same high-quality output from your faxes that you would normally have from a PostScript-generated document printed on your laser printer.

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tern is also a laser printer/fax, then the quality of the output will be identical to that of a high-quality laser printer. Rogge calls this function "remote printing" and says it is a big boon to manycorporate users frustrated with the limitations of fax machines.

It means, for example, that if you have two laser printer/fsx systems st different sites — both equipped to handle thelarge, out-sized paper used by architects or draughtsmen — thenyou canfax full-size drawings from one site to the other without losing out on either the size of the drawing or the quality of the final output.

In the future, Adobeeven plans to help producers of color printers put the fax protocol on their systems — so that "faxes" can be sent in color without having to wait for the world facsimile standards body to agree on atechnology for doing so.

Using the PostScript Faxprotocol, you would even be able to sendcolor images fromyour screen to a color printer/fex machine via a monochromelaser printer/fax — as all it is really sending is a PostScript file with colour, rather than monochrome, printing instructions.

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CG documents may optionally contain a "Miniviewer" that turns them into a standalone view-and-print utility. A freely distributable "Miniviewer" for other CG documents is due shortly, according to Hands Off Software. It is currently a product for the Mac, but a Windows version is due later in the year.

Overall, I'm very impressed with the product, which consists of a "Chooser" device (printer driver), a viewer application, and a System 7 utility that allows you to drag-and-drop documents onto an icon to create digital documents without opening the host application and going through the whole printing process. It's extremely small (the Mac version ships on a single DD disk), and performs well.

Basically, it lets you create a document that contains a pixel-for-pixel exact representation of your fonts, graphics, etc., that you can electronically distribute or print on another computer, even if it does not have the fonts or application that created the file.

The fact that you can search for words and copy text, PICTs, and bitmaps out of CG documents for use in other applications is all the more remarkable when you note that such a CG document can be smaller than the word processing file (etc.) that createsit.

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For example, we tried outputting an issue of The Computer Paperas a CG document.

Although the original XPress file-size was "only" 2 megabytes, the CG output file was over 16MB in size! We also noticed that TIFF images were very slow 'to display.

Perhaps a future version of Common G round will i n clude an option l i ke PageMaker, FreeHand, and QuarkXPress do, that allows the viewing of lower-resolution versions of graphics when display speed is more important than image fidelity.

Ironically, other images do not display or print as well as you might expect. EPS files created in Adobe Illustrator, Aldus FreeHand, or other PostScript drawing programs do not print well, due to the fact that the CG printer driver emulated a QuickDraw printer, not a PostScript device.

The CG manual mentions that you can work around this problem by substituting a 300-dpi bitmap for the illustrator artwork, but neglect to tell you how to create such a file. For the record, Adobe Photoshop 2.0 (or newer) or TeleTypesetting's T-Script can rasterize EPS files and create hi-res bitmaps.

Files created using CG's "include high resolution information for printing" option exhibited a strange anomaly. When viewed at IOP/0 (i.e., 72-point text is actual size on

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bizarre spacing problems occur on-screen.

Certain letters ("r" for example) are kerned

option was not selected when the original document was created.

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1.0 release, which was probably rushed to market to get the jump on Adobe's forthcoming electronic document interchange technology, dubbed Acrobat.

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File's created on a color Mac screen cannot be opened on a Mac without Color QuickDraw — even if the file itself contains no color. I discovered this when I created a test document using QuarkXPress on a Mac II. Although the document contained only black-and-white text, I set the monitor to 8bit color. Attempting to open this file on a monochrome Mac (as found in the Mac Plus, SE, Classic, Portable, PowerBook 100, and most Mac emulators) resulted in an error message. The solution is to set the color Mac's display to "Black R White."

This allows the documents to be opened and printed.

Some popular applications behave in ways you might not expect. PageMaker files containing rotated text are unusually large.

Borders created in Quark XPress do not print in shades of gray to Common Ground, but come out solid black, regardless of their tint setting. (This also happens on any other non-PostScript printer, inci-

Although the program allows you to add sound annotations to a file, it cannot do so unless your Mac has audio recording

incorrectly, and bold-faced or italicized text

exhibits severe spacing problems. I suppose it doesn't matter, if it prints correctly and displays correctly at actual size, but it seems weird.

I spoke to someone in technical support at Hands Off Software (the name of the per-

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been the company president, Tony Stayner, for all I know.) He explained that these a nomalies are not really th e f a ult o f Common Ground, but that Hands Off was committed to improving the product and would. submit my comments and suggestions to the programmers.

It will be interesting to see how Adobe's Acrobat compares to No Hands' offering.

Because it is committed to offering a document interchange technology that is resolution-independent, the way PostScript is, Adobe is practically obligated to do the rendering of the graphics and/or letterforms at the time the document is opened. This sounds to me as though CG will enjoy advantages both in performance and codesize required. Adobe's offering, on the other hand, is almost certain to offer better support of PostScript graphics. I personally hope both standards succeed. No Hands has created a compact and affordable program that delivers on the promise of electronic document distribution and, by reducing the need to keep a copy of an application on your hard drive just to be able to view its documents, eliminates a major cause of software piracy. And that sounds like it might be a winner. •

BELMONT, CALIFORNIA (NB) — Common Ground is smaller and faster than Adobe Acrobat, asserts Common Ground president Tony Stayner.

The mini-viewer takes up only 62K of hard disk space, the full viewer 300K, and the maker 100K. Further, Common Ground ships on a single floppy disk. In contrast, the beta version of Adobe's Acrobat reportedly consumes about 7 MB of hard disk space and is embodied on several floppies, he said.

Common Ground is also faster than Acrobat, Stayner claimed in a Newsbytes interview. "We rasterize the document at the time of creation. In Acrobat, though, font substitution into PostScript and rasterization are both done in the fly on the viewer," he elaborated.

Acrobat's initial release includes annotation capabilities and hypertext links. John Warnock, chairman and CEO of Adobe, has told Newsbytes that Acrobat will later be enhanced with two add-ons.

One add-on, slated for shipment in the fourth quarter, will bring unstructured fulltext search. The other, due in the first quarter of next year, wili deliver full SGML

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Stayner told Newsbytes that Acrobat is the only SGML-based package that No Hands regards as a competitor. The other SGML products address different markets, he explained.

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vides the ability to view and print a greater variety of fonts than Acrobat, which is limited to PostScript fonts. "If you have some unusual kind of Type 1 font, for instance, I don't think you' re going to get anything close to it in Acrobat," he asserted.

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Face it. Macs have never had prices that belonged on this planet; applications on one platform are no easier than on any other becausewhat we are demanding of

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Windows — usually in an enhanced form.

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page 15, Switching from page to page is done either by scrolling (very slowly, even in its faster mode), or by a "j command. It is so much easier to just click on the tiny page icon at the bottom of the

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ONTARIO EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER AUGUST '93 31 a one-time basis or as an ongoing alternate.

The standard for typographic confrol these days seems to cluster somewhere on the molecular level of accuracy. For those of

QuarkXPress allows modification of any Master Page item. I love it! There is the option to delete, move or edit any Master Page item in the document. PMS does not allow this. The downside of being able to edit Master Page items shows up when extra pages are inserted. There is an option to save or delete Master Page changes, but it

us who are not former typesetters, there are

nice things like drop caps, which can be standardized as part of a paragraph style in QuarkXPress, in PMS. PageMaker carries on with auto' ~~'::;~j FMq~A:::»«~«." '~~ ~i~' ~ i ' ' ": ""r' '. -" y:e« '" "~'%~'.» ' «hAw ' " ': ~''"h e "i. 'i'itic !~4l IJlililii:s Lay«««!yhe ile! ri««wiieuw I!elj ' matiC table Of COntents generation built in to its style sheets. Something similar is available for QuarkXPress, b ut only as a n teeI««e extension. «lkeA I Cehee «hh«A J iholh 5 W Visually, the two programs do W l><ete«h<ie . not have much to distinguish them. !bJ>eeeeer«l ' 1II ih rem i + ' Aside from a few r 'l2 - Ne!h h «« Q ih fundamental dif«e ferences, it would 'r not take long for someone proficient in one to quickly master the other. can easily turn into a dog's breakfast of Both offer floating palettes, including the overlapping items. QuarkXPress handles automatic drop caps with much more new (to PMS) measurements palette which allows major tweaking of everything from finesse and makes them easier to undo, as text to graphics. weil.

Both text and graphics can be rotated In PageMaker, the Master Page is the with absurd accuracy, Skewing and rotating Master Page and that's that, No multiple of text and graphics is offered in PMS, Master Pages, take it all or leave it all. Also, while QuarkXPress offers skewing of graphAldus has somehow overlooked GROUP and ics only, plus rotation of both text and LOCK commands except as an extraordinary conversion of objects to EPS objects graphics. PMS offers text and graphic mirroring, which QuarkXPress does not. A within the document. It is reversible, but zoom tool in QuarkXPress enlarges to 4000k still represents a fairly unbelievable overwhile PMS offers a keyboard-mouse combisight at this stage of the game. nation which will close in to 8000k.

QuarkXPress's system of handling and Both offer startling clarity for color TIFF cropping graphics seems somehow more graphics on the page. EPS headers still look intuitive and creative than PMS, although pretty strange, at least out of CorelDRAW, that may be just me. PMS, on the other but are a considerable improvement over hand, alleges to print quicker because it what was visible in PM4. Then again, why processes only the cropped area while not PostScript screens (a la NeXT) for QuarkXPress processes the entire image. I'd Windows? QuarkXPress and PageMaker have to say, though, that there are few comboth offer details of graphics' filenames plaints about QuarkXPress's printing speed.

In the PostScript area, while using type, status and page number.

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upgrade shortly. Both offer scanner support — PMS directly using TWAIN standard, QuarkXPress through PhotoShop plug-ins.

Why would anyone want to scan directly

turn off the Substitution table. (Advanced Printing Options.) Selecting Bitmap Type 3 (which works with most other applications) will cause QuarkXPress to intermittently make font calls to the lino's hard drive. In one case, QuarkXPress successfully downloaded all TrueType fonts, except for a half dozen words in the middle of one paragraph. QuarkXPress especially despises CorelDRAW (3) fonts. No problems have been reported with Bitstream fonts as yet.

Q uarkXPress h a s pr o b l ems w i t h CorelDRAW EPS imports, as well. Colortrapping information is not retained. The earlier bugs with CorelDRAW 4 EPS headers were tracked down to Corel, and a fix is available on CompuServe or by contacting Corel.

The PostScript printing options offered

PhotoShop is the best by far, but very

pricey, Both offer seamless translation across platforms. Service bureaus working exclusively on the Mac will be relieved to hear that PMS automatically converts from PICT to Metafile and back again. Previously these formats produced only empty boxes when transferred.

Transparent lines are a new feature

offered by PageMaker. Any line of any weight or color can be set to transparent so that any other object or text behind it will always show through. It's one of those things that, even though I can't think of a use for it right now, Pm sure I will.

One annoying and surprising thing

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P MS has t h e to convert a is noticeably ability CMYK o r PM S to grayscale speedier than image within a document. original colour PM4 in every- The is easily restored. problem here thing it does, The is that there is no change on especially text visible the screen. I'm not why someone editing in sure would want to cona colour graphlayout view. vert ic to grayscale from

QuarkXPress is close behind, promising an

into a page-layout program, anyway?

some getting used to, but with perseverance and a generous budget, both should eventually save some money on stripping. These are not glamorous or speedy alternatives, and do require some caution when using.

PageMaker users can print pages from a document in any order or combination desired by simply typing the page numbers

by both are impressive — even overwhelming! Both programs have gone well beyond the Pantone-CMYK options into other

about QuarkXPress is that column guides

colour environments such as TOYO, TRV-

are unmovable, making it impossible to specify uneven columns within the same text block. I am sure that QuarkXPress aficionados will write in describing all kinds of work-arounds, but it's still a real pain.

MATCH, Focol tone, and Dai Nippon-DIC.

QuarkXPressoffers a very effective automatic trapping option as a standard feature, while PMS offers some work-arounds and

There are a couple of things about

an expensive upgrade for automatic trapping. In-position printing is offered by both

QuarkXPress that are particularly handy.

through extensions/additions. These take

within PageMaker, but I can sure see somebody making the change and then forgetting about it until they get to the service bureau to pick up the film. Ouch! PMS users can edit imported EPS spot colors to process, which would certainly be handy for the growing number of publications receiving EPS files as camera-

ready art.

Multiple documents can beopened from

ing of system resources, so don't take too literally any claims about how many documents can be opened at one time, unless you' ve got a whopper of a system. Neither likes to share resources with other programs, but would rather take over completely. Given that a page-layout program is meant to integrate multiple elements from a variety of other programs, this is unfortunate. Both support OLE fully in Windows, but if you' re planning to switch back and forth between applications, stock up on

RAM and have your swapfile ready!

At the moment, the balance is this:

PageMaker 5 is probably the better program overall; definitely superior for long documents. The margin we are talking about is a narrow one, with QuarkXPress never too far

behind. QuarkXPresswould probably be my preference on some single-page or brochure jobs, especially where trapping isrequired.

The Windows publisher now has all the tools needed at his or her fingertips. Either one of these programs will do considerably

more than most of us are capable of asking of them.

One more thing: invest in a large moni-

tor. All these floating palettes will bury your document. • Jeff K. Swanson is co-ordinator of the Desktop Publishing Program at Pitman 8usiness School in Vancouver as well as a free-lance designer and publishing consultant. Should you wish to give him grief over this article, his Compuserve mailbox is 72242,515.

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It is, therefore, unfortunate that the two

leading sequencer programs — Notator and Cubase — both have problems running on the Falcon. First, the semi-good news: Cubase 3.02 (at press time, the latest shipping version) runs, but not under the MultiTOS environment. Even under the "standard" single-tasking TOS operating system (selectable by holding the left Shift key at startup time), Cubase only runs in monochrome modes, and cannot use its "switcher" utility at all.

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models used an unused pin on the 5-pin DIN connector to provide a non-standard

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Since their introduction in 1985, Atari ST computers have been popular with musicians. This is, no doubt, due to the canny decisionby the computer's designers to include musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) ports standard on every ST. Since then, MIDI ports have been standard equipment as the Atari line evolved from the 520and 1040 ST, on through the Mega and Mega STe series of machines, right up to the business-oriented TT. Now, Atari has released its latest model, the Falcon030, and it should surprise no one that MIDI is part of the package. (As a matter of fact, the Falcon is the first Atari model to feature MIDI ports that conform with the "correct" MIDI spec. Previous

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Cons: Ear l y releases shipped without audio-support software; Falcon's MultiTOS environment is incompatible with some software, including the majority of game titles

company is gambling that the inclusion of a D SP chip will do for the Falcon what th e o r i g i nai ST's MIDI ports did: interest developers in creating a new generation of software t o sup p o r t i t s advanced capabilities.

Some industry watchers maintain that it is do-orMie time for Atari (others are some-

scalable fonts, a true pre-emptive multitasking operating system, microphone and headphone jacks, and, for musicians, the clincher — the promise of CD-quality sound and direct-to-disk recording capabilities built right in.

What's That Buzz?

The Falcon's DSP (digital signal processor) audio capabilities have generated consider-

But, even with these caveats, Cubase is miles ahead of Notator, which doesn't run at all. I am told that E-Magic does not plan on updating Notator for Falcon compatibility, preferring instead to devote its energies (reviewed in our April '93 issue) instead.

This is unfortunate, for although Logic is designed as a successor, Notator currently

has a considerably larger set of features, superior notation, and so on.

While these two sequencers command the bulk of the pro MIDI market, another major title fares somewhat better in the compatibility game. SMPTETrack Platinum, handled by its developer, Barefoot Software (818-727-7143). SMPTETrack and its lowend sibling EditTrack have been upgraded to full Falcon compatibility, according to Barefoot.

Another sequencer that TCP readers may remember reading about (April '92) is Oktal's Multi. An upgraded version of Multi dubbed MULTItude was reportedly near completion; unfortunately, no one is answering the phones at Oktal. Also languishing is the company's support area of

GEnie, where registered users were previ-

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In short, things don't look good for Oktal. Expected to sell for US$395, the new Oktal release would have joined Notator and Cubase in offering MIDI machine control (MMC), a new extension to the MIDI specification that permits your sequencer c omplete control o ver c ertain M I D I -

equipped tape decks, including models from Tascam and Fostex. Even without Oktal's new offering, Atari users are ahead of the curve with this MMC support. I could not locate any Windows or Mac sequencers with this feature.

including computers and peripherals, lacking CSA approval may cause fire insurance claims to be invalidated, if the device was found to be the cause of fire. Cross-border shoppers, beware!

The machine came with a small selection of programs of a mostly trivial nature.

These included a couple of games (Breakout and Landmines), an appointment calendar, a talking clock, a programmable calculator, a QIX-like line-drawing demo, and a handful of others. The appointment calendar is the star of the bunch, although it is a fairly

ordinary scheduler compared to some of the leading PC and Mac offerings. But hey, it' s free.

Atari says that early purchasers will be eligible to receive several other applications by returning a coupon included in the box.

The company promises to deliver Falcon owners a free copy of AtariWorks (an integrated application in the vein of Microsoft Works), Audio Fun Machine, System Audio Manager andD2D. Presumably, the compa-' ny has fallen behind on its software development, as all of these were originally sup-

posed to ship with the machine.

As I haven't seen them, I really can' t comment on their features or quality. I' ve heard D2D is a demo version of a US$299 direct-to-disk digital audio recording program called D2D Edit by a company called

— surprise! — DZD Systems. The company also manufactures pro-quality audio input boards, I/O bus cards, and other pro audio tools. (All are distributed in North America

by Digital IO, 310-398-3993.)

DSP Magic For those who don't know, DSP chips are the magic behind everything from musical instruments like Peavey's DPM-3 and SP sampler to the latest generation of software-

upgradeable high-speed modems (e.g., Zyxel's U1496-E). The Falcon includes a Motorola 56001 DSP — the same chip, incidentally, that gave the ill-fated NeXT computers their stellar audio capabilities.

I was more than a little surprised at the high noise levels in the Falcon's audio circuitry (plug a set of headphones into the unit and boost the volume and gain settings in the Control Panel to see what I mean).

Recording from a microphone is similarly noisy. Of course, as Craig Anderton writes in the Jan./Feb. '93 issue of Atari Explorer magazine, is it any wonder that Atari did not put $1000 D/A converters in a US$799 computer? According to Anderton, you' ll need an external A/D converter like the US$1295 A/D64X Audio I n t e rface by Singular Solutions (818-792-9567) if you want pro-quality audio output from the Falcon.

Atari has apparently scrapped plans to equip the Falcon with a "bass boost" circuit, much like you find on home stereos. These circuits are primarily used to improve the audio on "walkman" speakers and/or headphones that have a less-than-excellent low

frequency response. Pre-release versions boosted the output 6db at 100hz and leveled off at Odb at 1000Hz. The bass boost circuit made the Falcon sound good on small speakers, but professional users would have had to correct this with studio equipment. Anyway, for better or worse, the bass boost is gone.

The audio specs currently look like this: Signal to noise ratio 84dB Frequency response 20-ZOK Crosstalk -60dB The Falcon's audio jacks are unbalanced while those found in most studios are balanced. Without an impedance transformer, you might hear some buzz. (This is quite normal for a lot of other equipment, too.)

The mike and headphone connectors are mini-jacks, exactly the same as walkman-like products, The signal that feeds of the Falcon030's audio input is "microphone level" not "line level," so you will need to compensate for incoming signals from line-level devices (CDs, tape decks, synthesizers, etc.). For home use this can be done by adding a 220KOhm resistive network in series with the left and right channel but for studio use there are better-quality ways to do it.

The Falcon I examined was not CSA approved, although the Canadian distributor assured me that the units would have approval by the time customer shipments

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Although the Falcon is equipped with a 16 MHz 68030, I found its screen display speeds unimpressive. This is in part due to the Falcon's incompatibility with all of the display acceleration programs I t r i ed, including Turbo ST, QuickST and Warp 9.

Reportedly, an updated version of Warp 9 is in the works.

I tested a lot of software on the Falcon.

Almost all standard GEM programs and well-behaved TOS programs worked as expected. 1st Word Plus, a popular word processor, worked well and took advantage

of the larger display, although I found that

from a floppy in drive "A" at startup time.

scrolling in 16- and 256-color modes pro-

Previous Atari models were able to do this, but the Falcon's slim manual skirts around the issue, saying only that it is pos-

duced a very weird and distracting "color shift" as if the letters had a yellow layer that wasn't moving as quickly as the rest of the scrolling display. Switching to a two-color display mode solved the problem.

Programs that changed resolutions on the fly, attempted their own multitasking, wrote directly to the hardware (copy-protected games are notorious for this) tended not to work. Interestingly, I was completely unsuccessful in getting any program to boot

sible to boot from a floppy if your machine is not equipped with a hard drive. My test unit had a hard drive; I suspect most Falcons will. Although initial dealer units were shipped with 65MB drives, customer units will include 80MB units, according to Graham Norton of Falcon Systems, a New Westminster, B.C. dealer.

Another of the Falcon's touted strengths is its multimedia prowess. Already, at least one company has a video overlay device fot the unit. JRI (510-458-9577) has a Falcon genlock. Although the JRI genlock is still in the prototype stage, the company reportedly has units to sell.

Some programs suffer from subtle incompatibilities. CyberPaint, from the now-defunct Antic software, for example, works until you try to play an animation.

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I was also unsuccessful in emulating other popular computers. Neither the Spectre GCR Macintosh emulator nor PC Ditto 3.0 IBM emulator worked on the Falcon, although both work well on earlier ST models. (a Falcon-compatible version oi Spectre is in development, according to Littleton, CO-based Gadgets by Small.)

Interestingly, although the box claimed the Falcon was a "U.S. version," PC Ditto failed with a message that it could not run on non-U.S. models. Atari says it will soon offer a 486sx-based PC emulator card that will plug into the Falcon's internal slot. While Atari is infamous for promising products that never ship, another PC emulator called Falcon Speed is being readied by COMPO Software (415-355%862).

The Falcon ships with a c o u ple oi demos â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both of which did not work on the VGA monitor I tested the unit with.

According to Norton, these demos require a special "overscan" mode available only on the Atari SC1224 and similar monitors. The

Falcon supports several different types oi monitors: ST monochrome and color, VGA, multisync, and TV. Each requires a unique adapter, which sells for $49.

MIIItiTOS MultiTOS is based on a freeware program called MiNT. It is an optionally loadable multitasking version of the Atari "TOS" operating system which gives any Atari the same 3-D windows and dialog boxes that the Falcon has. Atari owners with older 520, 1040 and Mega STs get an additional bonus. The new operating system includes the vastly improved "NewDesk" GEM desktop that was introduced with TOS version 2.

This improved desktop sports customizable hot-keys for all menu items, custom icons and a host of other improvements.

The MultiTOS environment also introduces Atari users to several of the user-interface conventions that have become com-

monplace on other computers. Falcon users can now enjoy the drag-and-drop file EDrrOrN' CHOICE

launching, hierarchical menus, scalable outline fonts and other interface niceties that have long been available on other platforms.

I tested version 1.01 and was impressed with its performance and stability, despite

finding a few programs (Calamus and Cubase, for example) it proved incompatible with. Eric Smith, the author of MiNT, says that MiNT 1.04 is currently shipping.

Basically, MultiTOS looks and behaves almost exactly like MultiFinder running on a Macintosh does. The main difference is that MultiTOS is a true pre-emptive multi-

tasker, whereas the Mac's MultiFinder is pri-

ONTARIO EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER A UCUST '93 3 7 marily a task switcher and offers only limited "time-slice" multitasking. (I discovered a neat trick: pressing Control-Alt-Tab allows you to switch applications while running MultiTOS.) I found MultiTOS somewhat less stable on the Falcon than on a Mega ST. I experienced occasional crashes while running the Falcon under MultiTOS, but had no problems when r u n n in g t h e d i s k-loaded MultiTOS on a stock 4MB Mega ST with "plain ol' TOS" 1.4. According to Atari, the currently shipping version of the Falcon's ROM-based operating system is 4.04. I tested version 4.02, so hopefully these problems are fixed in the current release.

As you might expect, the operating system has more to do while multitasking than when "single-tasking," and, as a result, the Falcon appears to run more slowly while running MultiTOS than it does when running under the ROM-based TOS. I found that turning memory protection off via the MultiTOS control panel

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although this made the system more vulnerable to badly behaved programs.

In benchmark tests, the 16MHz 68030 in the Falcon030 easily outpowers older 8and 16MHz 68000-based ST/STe models in CPU power by a factor of two to eight. The 32MHz TT030, of course, outpowers all of them without even breaking into a sweat.

On the text-based tests, however, the Falcon is less successful. Although the Falcon030 generally matches or betters the text, string, and scroll tests of older Atari m achines ( i n c l u d in g t he TT0 3 0 ) , graphics/text performance does not seem to match the CPU/memory gains over the older systems.

It is worth noting that none of Atari's computers, not even the Tl'030, can hold a candle to the CPU performance of a 33Mhz 486 clone. The TT030 is only able match 30-3596 of the clone's performance...and the Falcon is about half the speed of a 1T030.

MultiTOS will soon be offered separately as a retail product for all Atari models (TOS 1.4 or higher), according to the company, It is slated to sell for US$59.95.

Easy CDOS It The Falcon ships with SpeedoGDOS, a radically enhanced version of GEM's GDOS (graphic device output system) font manager. SpeedoGDOS is a scalable font manager much like the abortive fsmGDOS that never reached the public (but was discussed in the April '92 B.C. edition of The Computer Paper). I t ested Passport's Encore, a sheet music program, and

Migraph's Easy Draw, a graphics application with SpeedoGDOS, and had mixed results.

Easy Draw required an additional line to be added to the ASSIGN.SYS file that

ware perspective. The trouble is, most of the hardware's strengths are poorly supported by the software. On the PC and (especially) the Mac, quite the opposite is true.

The Falcon's true-color graphics on a VGA monitor are impressive, but it's not encouraging that all three of the graphics demos on our test unit only worked on the older — and less capable — Atari RGB monitor.

The unit's LAN port, like the one on the 11, remains largely useless without software support.

Similarly, the Falcon's touted multimedia capabilities are fine and dandy, but without character-generation, animation and video-editing software, the unit's genlock compatibility — with or without JRI's prototype genlock — is not a significantly useful feature.

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At this time, there are three AGA machines available. At the high end is the Amiga 4000/040. The A4000/040 uses the blaziagly fast Motorola 68040 processor aad comes standard with 6Mb RAM which can be expanded to 18Mb on the motherboard.

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Using remote-access, screen-refreshing will become almost instantaneous — even in a graphical environment.

Video conferencing can also be done with ISDN; although one 64kbps channel is still too slow for full-motion video, you can do it with the Megalink service and the right multiplexing hardware.

Northern Teiecorn has a package called VISIT that allows you to share screens and video images with another user remotely.It comes with a small CCD video camera as well, but only scans images at around 12 frames per second, instead of the normal 30 frames.

The person at the other end isn be displayed on your screen in a window, alongside your work, but with the slow scan rate they end up looking like Max Headroom or pictures on the Canadian Home Shopping Channel.

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The monthly charge for ISDN is not that much — where I am in Ontario (Bell Canada territory), ISDN Microlink costs $111.50 a month, plus $17/month if you rent a terminal adapter. Remember, that gets you one voice line plus the ability for high-speed data, A good deal if data transmission is part of your business.

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order the compact disc (CD), and the CD

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This reduces inventory and shelf space, The CD on-demand technologycame Carberry said. A rock group called "Snow out of an agreement with Soundsational, a Contact: Fireworks Partners, tel 914-766-3300.

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will be produced on demand for pickup by the customer on the way out of the store.

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Fireworks did an informal survey at the trade show COMDEX, asking, "What is multimedia?" While most people didn' t have an answer, one of the most telling descriptions came from a gentleman who said, "I picture a bunch of video monitors flashing, and people thinking they' re learning something."

"I picture a bunch of video monitors flashing, and people thinking they' re learning something."

The first example was NBC desktop news, an interactive, customizable news service that is expected to cost consumers

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Carberry said airlines like the idea because, while fliers only pay three dollars to use the system, studies show they eat less

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Carberry also showed a virtual mall application of multimedia. But in this case the animated character is a teenager who

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In addition, the demonstrator said not all Newtbns will come with all featuresfor example, not all the Newtons will have modems. But no further details were offered as to how the Newtons would be configured or what options would be available.

Five Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) cards for applications for the Newton have been announced. They are the Fodor's 94 Travel Manager, which offers interactive maps for directions, dining and lodging tips and prices, places to go, and things to do; the Fortune 500 Guide to American Business, with information on chief executive officers, sales, and profits of the top 500 businesses, and business forms with twelve templates ranging from personal finance to sales; Word Games, such as crossword puzzles, cryptograms, and find-a-word games; and Mystery Games, with graphical rendering of the interactive crime scene with clues so you can figure out who committed the crime.

Up Close Anal Personal — A Sneak Peek At Newton BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA (NB) — The Apple Computer booth was crowded at the

several times and once locked up complete-

getting the unit to recognize his handwriting. But the Newton can be customized to printing or cursive handwriting and was

ly so it had to be turned over and the battery compartment opened so it could be reset. The handwriting recognition was also slow enough that long pauses were required between words for the Newton to recognize the handwriting.

However, the unit was smart enough to translate "lunch Bob Tuesday" to text and then place an appointment with the only Bob in the Rolodex on the calendar for next Tuesday at noon. In addition, when the demonstrator scribbled out a word or phrase, the Newton offered a visual animation that made it look like the text or hand-

pressure and speed sensitive as well.

The Newton displayed error messages

writing went up in smoke, like a magician making an object disappear. The size of the

Seybold show, but if you otsutd fight your way through the crowd, it was possible to get in and see a demonstration of a live, working Newton personal digital assistant

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puffs of smoke displayed varied in size and location, so it wasn't the same each time.

Also, a document that is deleted is wadded up and tossed in a trash can that appears on screen and that animation varies so it is not exactly the same each time either.

The Fodor's '94 Travel Manager was loaded on the Newton with just the city of Boston available. The demonstrator zoomed in on anarea of the map, made an aX" and arrow pointing to the. aX" and said that

portion of the map or the whole map could be faxed to someone with your aX" and arrow appearing. It was important to delete markings made in various portions of the Newton, because if those markings weren' t deleted, they were still there the next time you went into that application. In fact, the Newton still had several drawings that had been made, even when it was turned over and reset.

It appeared at times that the demonstrator's own hand got in the way of his work with the screen of the Newton, since it was so small. But that was explained as partially because it was on a flat surface so it could be displayed to the crowd. In addition, the demonstrator said the unit can be customized for the best display at the angle at which the user likes to hold it.

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BEVERLy HILLS, CALIFORNIA (NB)Apple Computer Chairman John Sculley has demonstrated publicly for the first time Apple's interface for interactive television, EZ TV. While the interface had a stylish, c risp look and f e el, A pple ha d n o announcements as to how television providers might actually use the interface.

Like Modular Windows from Microsoft, EZ TV offers larger icons that can be seen from a distance on a television screen and is controlled via a remote control. For users who like to view several channels at once, the interface allowed 12 channels to be displayed with the main viewing channel in the center and the other channels running in real time in boxes spaced around the outside. For pay-per-view movies, the interface had icons for a preview, information about the movie, and an icon of a ticket. A click on the ticket icon starts an animation in which the ticket tears in half and the user is informed as to how long it will be until the movie starts.

Sculley said Apple has expanded its concept of the virtual educational environment demonstrated last year to include virtual mails and virtual shopping. In the virtual mall, users can "move" from place to place by simply moving the arrow in the window in the direction that they want to move.

demonstration. Sculley went into the virtual store, over to a new Duo Docking Macintosh with the new split keyboard and started up a video in which the features of the unit were demonstrated. He'purchased the unit, which was retail priced at over $4,300.Sculley commented on how expensive it was.

When asked why no public announcements of deals with interactive television providers have been made along with the EZ TV announcement,Sculley did an aboutface. Historically, Apple has talked about new products and services a year or more before they' re announced and has been criticized for going for "mind share," but this time Sculley said Apple wants to focus on products instead of making long-term announcements.

Rumors are rampant t ha t A p ple Computer is in talks with American Telephone R Telegraph (ATRT), possibly for the purchase of Apple. However, Sculley would neither confirm nor deny the rumors, but he did hint at an inclination toward partnerships with telephone companies. When asked if he favored cable delivered systems for EZ TV, Sculley said tele-

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Sculley took users into a hat shop, clicked on a hat on the wall, and the hat was displayed. The hat could also be rotated to different viewing angles. In the case of a bill fold, a click on the remote started a video explanation of the features by a store clerk.

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