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There's nothing quite like Comdex (now officially known as ZD Comdex), the largest trade show in North America, to further enliven the already lively streets of LasVegas.

omdex is as big and gaudy as the towering marquees throughout the city that make the many landmarks appear much closer than one's tired feet later discover. Indeed, if you attended every Comdex

vendor's booth at the many venues throughout the city during the week of the show,

you'd have only about 30 seconds tospend at ' each booth. Taxi lineups consist of hundreds of people around the Hilton, Sands, and Las Vegas Convention Center that constitute the - â&#x20AC;˘ show's main venues. Restaurants can have one-and-a-half-hour waits. As one of our

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show in Toronto. (Okay, we' re exaggerating on that last point.) Nevertheless, when you see the vast amounts of money being made in the computer industry, it is clearly the ulti-

mate revenge of the nerds. As over 200,000 Comdex attendeesswarm the streets of Sin City, the cabbies and casino

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gamut from the reason why Las Vegas is the perfect town to host a show about computers

("both were built from chips and silicon" ), to references to certain unpleasant side effectsof attending the Micrografx Chili Cookoff, but it was a tough, crowd. Hecklers began chanting "B.B...B.B....B.B" until, mercifully, the 72yearold master bluesman took the stage and ' rowd with wowed the standing-roomily c an energetic performance. (The show wasalso "cybercast" across the Internet in RealVideo d igital v i deo

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Indeed, the cost to put on a lavish spread can be so great that some companies, such as Netscape and Apple, didn't have a presence on the showfloor at aH. (Netscape's Jim Sarksdale

Maj. Jim Cummisky, who entertained the crowd by tossing his ruggedized portable (an

audience approvaL All in aH, the event, co- off-the-shelf Panasonic CF-51 with a plastic sponsored by Canada's MGI, AST, Iomega, keyboard overlay) to the ground and stompRealNetworks, and Gibson guitars, was one of ing on it. Then Gates, in best dog-and-ponythe highlights of the show for this reviewer. This year's show was unique in that it was

show fashion, trotted out none other than Kareem Abdul Jabber (at more than 7 ft. taH,

the first time a keynote speech was held on the Sunday night before the show. The keynote, featuring Mr. Megabucks himself, BiH Gates, was both entertaining and informative as Gates poked fun at himself (ul'm the only one who can get an NT error message when I try and flip on the light switch, so it gives me a lot of motivation to make things simpler," he quipped) and made several humorous jabs at the U.S. Department of Justice in his "top 10 list of reasons he loves his PC." In his David Letterman-style Hst, Gates noted the irony of using his Windows PC and an integrated Web browser to send a 48-page brief to the DOJ, addressing the very issue of whether such integration should be allowed.

Jabar required a foot-high mouse pad to use the computer on the onstage desk) te show off the basketball great's personal Web pages.

change the world of broadcast television is finally shipping from Play Inc. Trinity is a US$4,995 box that does digital video effects

Intentionally or not, Kareem, who described

himself as a computer novice, proved to be remarkably inept at clicking the links on his Web page.Thus, the demo ended up being a good example of how, as Gates conceded at its condusion, Microsoft stiH has some work to do to make computers easier to use. Gates also showed a hilarious video featuring Microsoft vice-president Steve BaHmer appearing as a sleazy home shopping channel TV pitchman, hawking copies of Microsoft Bob for $1.99 ("Act now and you' ll also receive 30 more copies of Bob absolutely free!"). The keynote address the next by Compaq chief executive officer, Eckhard Pfeiffer, also featured a very funny video for a product many of us wish reaHy existed. The Compaq BuzzPro, touted as an automatic buzzword translator, could, by simply holding it up to the telephone, take a tedmical support person's statement like, "your CRT display is malfunctioning because you need to attach the 15~n D-sub VGA connector to the port on the card found on the back of your

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computer's CPU chassis" and translate it into oyeu need to connect your menitor.u If only!

Elsewhere, Berland, which has fallen on some hard times during the last few years, showed that it is still in fighting form with a

Star Wars parody called SoftwareW arsthatpitted the intrepid crew of the tiny Borland ship against the might Deathstar of you-knowwho. Borland's chief executive officer was decked out as Obi Wan Kenobi and the company's vice-presidents and executives were camping it up as Han Solo, Luke Sywalker, C3PO and the other figures from the famous Lucasfilms trilogy. And, in a climactic scene during the showdown with Darth Vader, a well-aimed light-saber thrusts off his head, which reveals a Sill Gates lookalike behind the Vader mask Of course, aH the glitzy demos and overhyped presentations are there to draw attention to the real stars of Comdex: the many products and services that companies spend hundreds of thousands — sometimes even milHons — ef dollars to trot out at th e show.

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Cooks storm Las V+as Continued from page24

in a town like Las Vegas, too. Of course, the long history of Comdex is proceeded to create a VRML "mask" of the sub- rife with examples of cool technologies that ject in semnds. You literally couldn't tell which never make it in the marketplace. An imporone was the original photo and which one was tant aspect of Comdex for many companies is the 3D model — cool! At US$27,900, the compa- the floating of such trial balloons to see what ny says it expects this product to be a hit with flies and what doesn' t. (Indeed, the airspace game developers, museums and those involved above Comdex is well-stocked with many real with manufacturing and medical imaging balloons, too. We saw dirigibles and airship applications. We can imagine a few other uses. examples of big budgets from Corel, Sanyo,

operator of the system assured a volunteer from the audience that the laser was indeed safe and

buy version 1.0 of anything was Microsoft's

Windows CE 2.0, which adds networking, spelling checking, and color display support to Microsoft's version of Windows designed

for handheld PCs and other consumer electronics (CE) devices. A demo of CE 2.0 and some hands' time in several booths of vendors like Hewlett-Packard, LG Electronics,

Fuji, Viewsonic, and numerous others. And where else can you flnd an Energizer Bunny the size of an apartment building?) In an upcoming article (also available on our Web site at http Jtwww.tcp.ca), I' ll detail the pros and cons of the many competing varieties of recordable DVD drives as yet another

example of why you should never buy version 1.0 of anything. Until then, here's to comfortable footwear! 0

Sharp, Casio or NEC already shipping CE 2.0 devices convinced us that the market for these inexpensive miniature PCs could grow significantly as sales forces and other mobile users

grow to appredate the long battery' life (our Casio Cassiopeia gets about 25 hours from a charge) and compatibility with documents

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a division of defence giant Lockheed Martin. The company teamed up with MetaCreations (also at the show with its many graphics soft-

ware titles) to produce RealScan 3D, a system that includes an amazing camera that can capture, in a half second, a 3D model (with automatically placed full~lor texture maps) of almost any subject. In the demo we saw, the

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Reflecting on Comdex past and present SV JEFF EVAN S his year's Fall Comdex in Las Vegaswas,

like everything else in Vegas these days, "bigger and better than ever." Taking place in ever expanding exhibit facilities, in a city that sprouts new concrete casino mountains overnight, showcasing technology that seems to change by the minute, the Fall Comdex has come to symbolize a digital world moving at breakneck speed. This year, Comdex was characterized by several trends that should be of interest to

another pursuer of the American Dream, Gates set a theme of "Why I love My PC." One of the reasons he loves his PC is that

business practices. "Using Internet tools to

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he can use the internet to collaborate with a moting the Microsoft party line, showing a group of lawyers to fight the U.S. justice Departinent's efforts to modify Microsoft's

sequence of video clips where he repeated his mantras of scalability and other Microsoft

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As SeniorEditor at The Computer Paper, I saw a lot of technologies cross my desk In the dosing months of 19W that hold great Isromlse for 199L Here aresome of the technologicaltrends to watch for In the Canadaan marhetlsiace.

to be in demand by those looking for a lowcost storage solution for desktop and portable models, but their 100 MB capacity will start to

look like a disadvantage compared to competing products in 1998. Isortables Ironically, the ubiquity of CD-ROMs as a method for distributing software came at the same tune as the second wave of notebooks without CD-ROM drives. This„of co urse, spells success for external CD-ROM drives and

Chips and boards Now that AMD has announced its intent to

produce a- single-edge connector (SEC) P entium I I -type C PU, a n d In t e l h a s announced its plans to expand the Pentium II line with lower-priced models, the Pentium H wave will gain momentum, at least until the next-generation 64-bit 1-64 (Merced) rnicro-

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lug around to conferences and other travelhng situations. More than any other factor, the fear of los-

future to hedge their bets with the option to

add more than one CPU. Faster bus speeds will provide a mid-year boost and Moore's Law will presumably hold true throughout the simply doesn't compare with that of their year, taking performance past the 1 GHz (giga- PowerBook G3 cousins.

its intent to expand the Pentium 11 line to

Despite the merits of their products, I

speculate that neither Motorola nor Apple will have an especially good year. The uncertainty of the Mac market in 1997 and the market-

share losses suffered by Apple, are likely to

continue, even if Apple hm announced a include lower cost models is likely to put even strategic alliance or merger with Oracle (as I

greater pressure on its competitors. AMD has fully expect they soon will) by the time you already suffered a string of disappointing financial results recently and the resignation

of Vinod Dham, group vice-president of AMD's computation product group, is only the latest symptom of deep problems there.

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become standard fare on brand-name PCs

Conversely, the performance boost of the latest G3 series of chips — and.IBM's expected delivery of 480 MHz and 500 MHz PowerPCs in the coming months — will keep Mac users and other PowerPC advocates happier in 1998

than many were in the aftermath of the Mac clone wars of 1997. Depending on how soon

the 1 GHz level is attained (IBM is presenting a white paper on its 1 GHz PowerPC at a con-

ference in February), the Alpha, PowerPC or Merced could be the power users' processor of choice in 1999 and beyond'with I ntel's offerings likely to matter most to PC users, of course. For 1998, though, the price/performance advantages of the PowerPC G3 chips are notable, particularly in the portable arena, where the raw performance of PC portables

m anag em ent,

SDRAM, USB and the other buzzwords associated with " L X "-class inotherboards and Windows 98. I suspect SCSli will enjoy a resurgence in popularity in 1998 as users start to look for ways to beat the "out of IRQs" trap that IDE systems lead to. With today's systems often equipped with multiple hard disks, Zip and ]az drives (etc.), and CD-ROM or CD-R drives, scanners and other peripherals now

ing a notebook and its valuable data is what motivates usto want to carry it with us everywhere. And, for those situations where size

from Compaq, NEC and other big-name vendors throughout the. year. By sheer force of matters less than performance, there's Apple's at 3.46 kg (7.7 lb.), it's twice will, we are destined to see a lot of DVD mar- PowerBook G3 — as fast as the company's previous 3400C keting this year. However, the infighting that has, at this writing, prevented agreement'on a standard

model — already the fastest notebook on the

market.

for DVD audio and the threat of obsolescence

By the way, the emergence of affordable

that the (technically more sophisticated) Divx standard presents are only part of the problem faced by the DVD consortium. DVD consumers may be too confused and afraid of get-

active-matrix LCD panels as desktop monitors isn't likely to take the market by storm,

Storage ting burned by a replay of the Betamax sceFor new PC buyers, Ultra ATA is hkely to be on nario to invest wholeheartedly in DVD techthe shopping list for 1998 systems, along with nology during 1998. For what it's worth, I also Despite Cyrix's pursuit of the US$500 PC AGP, "OnNow" ACPI power predict you' ll read plenty of ad campaign

market, I expect the MediaGX chip's laggardly FPU performance to conspire against its success in 1998 as processor-hungry applications like voice recognition and digital signal procasing reach the mainstream, when digitalimage processing, 3D and digital video already are. After all, games are some of the biggest CPU hogs out there, and the games of '98 promise to be more grandiose and cinematic than ever.

Subnotebook PCs like Toshiba's Libretto 70CT and tiny offerings from Mitsubishi, Matsushita's Panasomc division and Hitachi cater to the growing awareness that informafingertips. The weight of today's multimediaintensive notebooks makes them too heavy to

with an eye on switching to NT in the near

How will C y rix and AMD fare? Presumably, the low price of systems based on Cyrix MediaGX chips will assure their place in the market, although lnteVs announcement of

PCMCIA adapters for desktop PCs to enjoy a sales spurl too,

tion is power only when you have it at your

Pentium Il motherboards that allow those

hertz) level by 1999.

tems like the BackPack. In fact, as portables continue to be the leading growth segment of the corporate PC marketplace, I'd expect

materials designed to allay these fears, usually pointing out some cooked statistic that DVD is the most popular product category ever introduced in thiswr-that market. Until DVD-RAM reaches a comparable

despite the fact that Windows 98 will support multiple graphics cards and CPUs, From what

I' ve seen, almost no Mac users — who've had this capability since il987 — use multiple monitors. However, as 15-inch LCD monitors

approach the under-$1,000 sweet spot, as I expect them to later this year, they will quickly reach viability as an alternative to the CRT.

.Oiseratlng systems Java isn't dead, but it sure isn't looking too

price-point, the emergence of Iow~ost CD healthy, No matter which side of the "100 perRead/Write (CDRW) systems and the burgeon- centpurevs.M icrosoft-enhanced" Java fence

ing interest in backing up CDs makes it a safe you sit on, the smart money isn't betting on bet to predict healthy sales of CDR and CDRW Java to show up in any products the average firmly in the general-user category, the aver- systems — another reason to "think SCSI." user is going to care about in 1998-and not age user is running perilously dose to running And, if CDR systems continue to ship with justbecause java's.performance is so underout of It s on his or her PC, troublesome software like GEAR, then soft- whelming, Sun's failure to provide a Java 1.1 SDK that Selling them on the idea of using SCSI as a ware upgrades to Adaptec's line of software solution to this is a good plan and usually (including Easy CD Pro for Windows 95 and runs on anything other than its own operatresults in a happy customer, too. Presumably Toast for the Mac), or Ahead's excellent and ing system and Windows makes claims of Adaptec will keeps its dominant position in bargain-priced (US$69) Nero 3.0 for Windows "platform independence" a bit of a joke. I'd the market, although motherboards with "100 will enjoy good sales, too. also expect Netscape to lose even more inarPercent Adaptec 2940"compa Now thatSony and Fujihave announced ketshare as people start to notice that IE4 realtiblecontrogers onboard stand a chance, if the price for the yet another ultra-density replacement for the ly is good enough. I' ve read enough reports predicting the SCSI option isn"t as outlandish as it wasdur- floppy, the future looks dim (again) for the ing most of 1997. lower capacity LS-120 (and the Toray certain failure of Windows 98 to guess that it I have serious reservations about the PhaseWriter and just about anything from will succeed beyond most people's expectaprospects for l?VD in 1998. On one hand, a S yguest). Nevertheless, th e L S 120 o r tions. NT 5.0 wtil take longer to catch onDVD drive makes sense as aCD-ROM replace- Sony/Fuji drives' compatibility with legacy many businesses will adopt NT in a server ment on PCs and Macs„and DVD does demo floppy disk data makes these drives a viable capacity during 1998 and begin rolling it out well. Plus, the movies on disc are reasonably replacement for the far-past-its-prime floppy as a desktop OS after the inevitable bugs in NT priced. These factors will help DVD drives disk as an upgrade — if not a standard itemContinued on page$$

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nate spellings showed up, which listeddiet us" as number two. We said "select two" followed by "clic k OK" and thechange was made. You can say "click File...Save" to save files, as you can command the system to click virtuaUy any button or menu item in almost any program. It worked remarkably weU, even when "let us." speaking in a normal voice at regular converTo correct a word in NaturafiySpeaking, we sational speeds. No...longer...do...you... simply said, "correct lettuce." A list of alter-

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• EMERC INC' TECHNOLOCIES Technologies that nearly made lt Continuedfrom page 46 Compaq, the TeleCompaq was spun off as a separate entity based in Dallas and it died quietly — and alone — within a year or too after a much-publicized launch.

MSZ Although you won't hear Bill Gates, talk about it this way, Microsoft did have a failure in the early 1980s with a home computer operating system/hardware specification that i t p r oduced in conjunction with a consortium of Japanese computer manufacturers. It led to the release in 1994 and 1995 of a number of home computers from Japan that conformed to the MSX "standard", but faltered due to lack of software support. Gates still deems this deal a success because Microsoft did not lose any money on it. Digital Research GEM Windows was not always the only choice for a graphical user interface on Intel-based desktop PCs. When it was originally introduced in the mid-1980s, GEMlooked like it had a good chance of beating Windows to market supremacy. To start with, it looked a lot more graphical than Windows and ran on a greater range of hardware (a version of it came built into the Atari ST home computer of the mid-late-1980s). GEM also came from a company that, at the time, still competed with Microsoft in the operating system business (with its various versions of the CP/M operating system and then various DOS clones). When Apple complained that GEM (which stood for Graphical

Environment Manager) looked too much like the Mac, Digital Research obliged by tweaking it a little to look slightly different. Throughout the last half of the 1980s, GEM enjoyed considerable success but fell behind when Windows added the capability to "task switch" between one active application and another. The arrival of Windows 3.0 in 1990 put the final nail in GEM's coNn. Digital Research itself was eventually soid to Novell, Inc.— which in turn eventually sold off the company's operating system to former Novell CEO Ray Noorda's Caldera software company.

(Personal System 2) computers on April 1, 1987, MCA was from the very beginning a bit of a joke in the computer industry. It was IBM's last great attempt to make proprietary desktop computers that aimed to "lock out" competitors. IBM introduced MCA — a new standard for adding expansion cards to PCs — for two reasons, The first was simply that it wanted a way of keeping competitive advantage over the world's PC clone makers (and particularly Compaq). IBM also wanted to be able to improve the performance of expansion cards • that used the MCA technology. MCA was an Early editions ef OS/2 expansion card design that was completely If early versions of Microsoft Windows faced a incompatible with expansion cards produced challenge from GEM, early versions of OS/2 for use with the IBM PC, IBM XT and IBM AT faced a challenge just being credible. They models that were popular at the time. were late, buggy, demanding on hardware and MCA did include some smart ideas, such RAM (at a time when RAM was still very as the ides that having MCA could eliminate expensive) and suffered compatibility prob- hardware conflicts between expansion cards lems with DOS applications. Despite early by automatically detecting installation inforefforts by Microsoft to port versions of popu- mation about the expansion card when it was lar Windows products (such as Excel) to OS/2 installed. This was via a "reference disk" that Presentation Manager, the joint effort by IBM users would insert when adding new hardand Microsoft to promote OS/2 as the corpo- ware. The reference disk would contain a rate, "high end" alternative came to a crashing unique reference number for the cardhalt with the launch of Windows 3.0. As a assigned to MCA expansion card manufacturresult, th e f a m ous "divorce" between ers by IBM — that would ensure the card did Microsoft and IBM took place with IBM not conflict with the hardware. launching various versions of OS/2 on its own The idea was good, but the politics were throughout the 1990s in a vain attempt to halt awful. Expansion card manufacturers did not the onward march of Microsoft and Windows. want to have to have IBM's seal of approval before designing new cards — and PC makers MCA also balked at the idea of paying license fees to Known as Micro Channel Architecture and IBM for the right to have MCA in their comintroduced with the new line of IBM PS/2 puters. Many major PC makers — including

Compaq — never bothered with MCA. This meant that the market for expansion cards never really took off — and that users with an MCA system were at an automatic disadvantage over anyone with standard PC/XT/AT card slots, IBM had aimed all its guns at its competitors — and ended up shooting itself in the head instead. The Sinclair Spectrum, Sinclair QL, BBC Micro and any other British computer sold ln North America Unlike the British sense of humor, North Americans just didn't get it. Why would I want an inexpensive "cheap and cheerful" computer like the Spectrum (which was only sold in limited numbers in North America as a special jointly-manu'factured product with

Timex) when I could buy a Commodore 64 or an Apple I? Why would I buy a computer designed in conjunction with a TV broadcasting company for an educational series about using computers (the BBC Micro)? And just what the heck is an Apricot computer? Those were the questions asked by North Americans as, one after another, British computer makers brought their hottest-selling PCs across the pond and were vigorously ignored. North American users did not care, for example, that the Sinclair QL used innovative tape loop technology (known as the Microdrive) as an alternative to floppy disks in order to make this early Motorola 68000-based based home computer much cheaper than an Apple Macintosh, Price was not the issue — good looks, great software and reliability were. Cqntinued on page68

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gadgets. Actually entering anything more than a few lines is tedious and sometimes frustrating. REX asvd Pilot I put this idea to the test by replacing my Palm Computing Pilot with the REX for a week. The Pilot is the first PDA 1' ve ever

enjoyed using, and we' ve been inseparable for over a year — longer than 1' ve ever managed to stick with an actual agenda notebook. So it was with some trepidation that I went cold turkey and used the ILEX for seven days. Much to my surprise, the world didn' t

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almost, dare I say it, Vyeblike. Four of the buttons are used for navigation. The ur and ooww buttons move between a screen's different options and szLscr activates a highlighted option. The surprisingly misnamed HoMz key acts mucb like the sacx button on a Web browser, bringing you to the previous screen in the hierarchy untH you get to the main

("home") screen. The fifth button, vmw, switches between different views in order to provide more information on a given screen. There is no on/off switch; pressing any button brings the REX. to life, and it switches off after a user-definable period of inactivity (one to five minutes), Using these five buttons, it takes a few seconds longer to get at information than on a Pilot, but for the most part it's quite easy to zip through the on-screen calendar or Rolodex. The lack of a search function that covers all of the databases is a little frustrating, but being able to sort contact information by first name, last name, or company simplifies things somewhat. As much as I like the REX (it has replaced my Pilot, after all), I can't reconunend it for everyone. Some people do need to enter information on the fly. Others need to use the custom software that the Pilot and other PDAs have to offer. But if getting to your information quickly and easily is your main

concern, you can't go wrong with REX. 0 EfIIAI Townsend(emru@cam.org) is really quite

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sume up to A percent less power than the previous generation of mobile processors, and are equipped with Intel's MMX technology. Thanks to the new 0.25 micron process technology, the core voltage of the CPU has been reduced to an astonishing 1.8 volts, while consumption is only 3.4 watts for the 200 MHz model and 3.9 watts for the 233 MHz variety. These new low power consumption rates translate into longer battery life for the user, awhile providing an opportunity for manufacturers to introduce other peripherals into the machines that would otherwise not be feasible. When it comes to choosing a processor, the bottom line is always a matter of how much number crunching are you really going to do? If you use a notebook mainly for word processing or data entry when you' re away from your main desktop computer, you don' t need the computers featured in this Lab Test. Why spend several thousand dollars on a machine equipped with all the latest bells and whistles when you' re not going to exploit even a fraction of the machine's potential? On the other hand, if your mobile computing needs are very CPU intensive, such as complete multimedia presentations, CAD orgasp —games, then it would be in your best interest to look more towards a high-speed processor, Currently you have quite a few choices: mobile processor speeds are available in 166, 200 and 233 MHz, The latter two use

64 MB of RAM performs on par with a desktop system with a 166 MHz MMX processor with 16 MB of RAM. But don't be alarmed, this is quite normal, Despite the fact that notebooks now have processors equai in speed to those of the fastest desktop. processors, the overall system speed is considerably different from desktop machines because of several other factors that determine performance. These factors include the video subsystem, hard drive performance and system input/output rates, which still lag way behind desktop counterparts. F or example, don't g o l o o king f o r Millennium II chips inside your notebook PC because you just won't find them. Likewise, don't expect th e h ard d r ives i n t h ese machines to have the same technical specs as hard drives for desktop machines. For the most part, the graphical capabilities of any notebook computer should be adequate for most needs, but they are far from speedy. Basically, with your notebook you shouldn' t

expect to be doing any photographic touchups in Photoshop. Sure it's possible, but why would you want to? Hard drive size in notebook computers has come a long way in a very short time, Today it's quite common to find 3.1 GB drives in high-end notebooks, with the option of installing a second drive to double that capacity, But once again, the hard drives in these machines may offer you a t r emendous

but d o n' t e x pect high transfer rates

or super-low a cc e s s times, because the technology in hard drives designed for notebooks is considerably different from that ' found in desktop drives, This is not to say you' ll spend hours waiting to retrieve your most recently used documents, but bear in mind that it will definitely be slower than what's inside the PC on your desk. A few manufacturers are already beginning to offer DVD-ROM drives in their latest notebook models. This is quite surprising, especially when you.consider that DVD drives are very slowly beginning to gain acceptance with the home market, and sales of the drives are still quite limited. This is mostly due to the current costs involved, and you can expect the same for the DVD option in your notebook. Sure, it's a great feature to have, but you can expect to find it as a standard option only on really high-end units, such as those we review this month, or as an optional accessoAnother type of storage device being introduced in the new line of notebooks is the LS-120 drive. These 120 MB drives read and write data to the traditional 720KB and 1.4 MB floppies as well as the new 120 MB media. NEC is using the LS-120 drive as the standard floppy device. While certainly more expensive than a typical $35 floppy drive, they aren' t

much more than $150 for internal versions. All things considered, it makes sense to switch to these drives because not only are you getting a floppy drive with 83 times the capacity of a regular drive, but it's also backwards compatible and considerably faster than its predecessor. In the world of data communications, some notebooks are available with modems built into the unit, thereby saving a PC card slot. It's also much cheaper to have the modem built-in, as oppose to buying it sepa-

rately later on. While 33.6Kbps models are still the norm when it comes to notebooks, the 56Kbps variety is certainly available, and has been for a n umber of months now. Although the final standards on the S6Kbps modems has not been finalized, you' ll defiContinued on page 53

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nitely want to check with your Internet service provider (ISP) to determine which modems would be compatible with their setup, and make your purchase accordingly. Perhaps the most exciting news to hit the airwaves about notebooks computers is the advances made in screen size. Just one year

with this conflguration, nearly matching the

performance of some of the 200 MHz models in the survey. The Armada 7350 has asuggested retail price of $5,400 and comes with a two-year parts and labor warranty. The latest in the

Daewoo line of notebooks is the 160MMT, which f eatures a 1 6 6 "... MHz P e n t i um with M MX

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and a 12.1-inch TFr display. It wasn't that long ago that Daewoo first

ing 14.2 inches diagonally. Thic is really quite got involved in the notebook business under extraordinary when you consider that on average, the viewable area of a 15-inch desk-

top monitor measures 13.8 inches! Although the internal resolution is still 1,024x768, the extra screen real estate makes it all that much easier on the eyes.

Our tests We asked manufacturers to send us what they consider their top-of-the-line machines. Our minimum requirements were a 166 MHz MMX processor and 32 MB of RAM. What we got was nothing short of notebook bliss. We saw machines configured with the latest 233 MHz MMX processor, hard drives up to 5.1 GB in size, RAM totaling 96 MB and screen sizes up to an amazing 14.2 inches. All machines were benchmarked with

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ago we were in complete awe when we saw 'the first units equipped with 12.1-inch screens. Running those machines at 800x600 was a real pleasure. And six months after our January Test Lab in 1997, we saw the first units to feature 13.3-inch screens capable of an astounding resolution of 1,024x768. Well, another six months have passed, and as we all know, nobody in this industry sits by and watches things happen. A small number of the new machines we reviewed this month have even larger screens, measur-

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MMX processor, scored quite well on the benchmark tests, achieving a final score of 140. This particular model is also equipped with 2 MB of video RAM, a 16-bit sound system, and a 10x CD-ROM drive, which is interchangeable with the unit's floppy drive. As an added bonus, you get a spare battery and carrying case with the system, which is priced at $3,990 and comes with a three-year parts and labor warranty.

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and a 2.1 GB hard drive for storage, although a CD-ROM is optional, either gx or 20x models. Like other Compaq models we' ve experi-

enced, the 16-bit sound was incredibly clear. As an added bonus, this machine comes with

with more than adequate storage space.

Both the 16x CD-ROM and floppy drive are built into the unit, saving yet from hav-

Ing to swap them back and forth. As far as performance goes, this machine did quite well, flnishing with a score of 148 overall. The 7200T as tested is priced at $4,395 with a oneyear parts and labor warranty. This model is also available with a 14.1 inch TFT screen for an additional $500.

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OPL3 chipset is a great choice for excellent sound reproduction. Also included with this system are a number of popular software titles from Microsoft, including the popular Encarta 97 encyclopedia, Microsoft Works and Money 97. With an overall score of 151, this machine

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handle resolutions up to 1,024x768 in 16-bit color. A 2.1 GB hard drive should provide adequate storage when you' re on the go. A 16-bit sound system using the L'SS 1878 chipset and a 16x CD-ROM drive will make your multimedia applications all th e more enjoyable. Included with t his system is a copy of Microsoft Office Small Business Edition, perfect for both home or office use. Priced at $4,900, this system is backed by a two-year parts and labor warranty.

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TCP's guide to goal setting programs BY CH UC K

Ceal setting and success t's often said that just three percent of the population sets goals. It is this three percent that are the big achievers, the dream catchers. The rest of us are like rudderless ships drifting in the sea of life. Our destination? Who knows? We arrive wherever the currents and tides take

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TORONTO (NB) — StorageTek Canada, a division of Storage Technology Corp., has developed a remote backup service for PC users with VA'ndows. Initially Continued on page 72

watch our hypothetical subject, Joey, working through a goal setting

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Join a Toastmasters' club., Write comedy routines, Participate in amateur comedy night at ciubs. Joey's chief concern now is career, Audition as a stand-up comic. or lack of one. So, Joey decides to • Take modeling courses. • Become a model, Us. startwith a careergoal. Currently, Joey waits tables, • Ge t an agent. Why don't more of u s take • Take acting classes. charge of our destination? Although but dreams of succeeding in the • Work asa movie extra. there may be many reasons, I entertauunent business, so Joey believe the main explanation is that sets a career goal of entertainer! • Work in TV commercials. Join relevant assodations for no one taught us how to do so. Goal Granted, the goal does appear a bit networldng. settingprograms can teach you how vague, but at least it's a starting to set goals and manage them. To point. It can always be edited and • Build a portfolio. understand how they work, let' s reflned later, Continued on page79 '

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Joey's new program suggests that Joey set goals in all areas of life: fam- • ily, business, financial, spiritual, • health and more. Being young,

Managing those contacts New releases add sychronization and Internet functions B Y ROD L A M I R A N D

t would be nice if there were clear and solid l i nes around which we could categorize software programs, The reality is that, as companies try to continually add functionality to their products, in

Internet email, Web pages and

group scheduling. Secondly, they haveincreased support forexternal word processors and other programs. Originally, CM programs contained their own text editors, However, they could not compete on features with full-fledged pro-

There is no fair way for us to select one of these programs over the others for this artide. Thousands of people

use each for a number of different rea- Beaxlmizar 97le

sons. Each has strengths that make it appropriate for some businesses but not others. Then there is the fact that even the simplestCM program takes a hopes of broadening their market grams like Microsoft Word, Lotus real commitment in time and effort appeal, the lines blur. The category Word Pro or Corel WordPerfect. to master. These are highly functional known as contact managers is a Rather than trying to compete, most and complex programs with many cross between personal information contact managers now link to exter- features. If your staff have skill with one it managers (PIMs) and sales force nal programs, automation (SFA). Another area where this catego- is likely they will want to stay with that line of products. Fortunately, Contact management (CM) soft- ry of software has improved is in ware is business-centric and runs as a paging and remote synchronization there is little compelling reason to

standalone program or as one of a abilities. If you own a pager or a lap- jump ship. number of computers connectedbut not as a server application. In theory, contact management programs can have hundreds of users accessing thousands of contacts, However, when a company needs that level of

top you may find your new contact manager will work better with those devices than ever before. A third area of innovation is in the use of the Internet for things other than Web surfing. Certainly, access, control and power they are they all have a field to enter a comreally looking to an SFA solution. CM pany or person's Web page, But software is best suited to a smaller often you can share files or pubhsh

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For the company information systems manager or small and home office user who must choose a program, there is considerable homework to do, In fact, it can be so difficult that there are companies spedalizing in Identifying your needs

A long time favorite is Canadianowned Maximizer. The most recent version of the product is called Maximizer 97is. The "is" stands for

to your Web site from the program, and helping you decide on a solu- Internet savvy. The program is a save hypertext markup language tion (an example is Serex Services, at very flexible, list-based contact rex), manager that uses the well-known (HTML) pages in a contact's data http: //www.seetoronto.corn/se To help get you started, and to Btrieve database engine. The core these programs have increased abili- area and/or use Internet email as a

number of users,sayunder SO.

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Srnallt Business C omputing Eight paths to success

program may be a psychologist, scientist,

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motivator, businessperson, or computer pro- From: Access Able Systems Pty. Ltd. Contirnred f'ro>n page77 Next, the program directs Joey to break grammer, which also explains why the pro- Platform: Win 3.1/95 Registration price: US$99 down each of the above sub-goals into tasks grams take different approaches. Rather than delve into each program at Most helpful: GoalMaker, from Australian and show the dates that they will be performed. Joey thought the first sub-goal, "join great length, I will concentrate on their differ- developer Acces Able Systems, is packed with Toastmasters," would be a good idea to devel- ences. Fortunately, six of the eight programs are more help than any of the other programs. If op speaking skills and gain experience speak- available on the Internet as 30-day trial versions you' re interested in goal setting and wish to ing before groups. Joey then divided this sub- (shareware), so you can try them out before learn as much as possible about the topic, this may be the program for you. Look at what it deciding which is the best program for you. goal into the following tasks: • Ch e ck my c ommunity newspaper for Toastmaster meetings in my area. • Visit three clubs as a guest. • Choose one club to join. • Jo in in the training program. • Jo in in speech contests. • Become a member ofthe executive committee. After scheduling the above tasks, Joey continues by adding and scheduling tasks for each of the remaining 11 sub-goals (write comedy routines, participate in amateur comedy night at clubs, etc.). Joey will have the chance to further refine and embellish the goals when reviewing them each day. As goals are completed, new ones will be regularly be added, always advancing toward the ultimate career goal. In only a matter of days, Joey realizes life Hewlett Packard Lexmark Nanufacturor now has direction! Even the table waiting job Color Laser Jet 5 SC1 2 75 Maglcolor 2 CX Norfel has meaning — part of the salary can be used to pay Toastmaster club dues. Today Joey is movLaser Laser Laser Technology ing toward a dream — and succeeding.

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daily, weekly, project, and communication planners. The d i f f erences b etween Robbins' and Ziglar's programs go well beyond the $96 higher price tag for the O.P.A. Life Planner. Ziglar straightforwardly calls his program a success planner with goals management. You immediately know what he s t alkrng about, The program itself is intuitive and loaded with help. It's obvious that it was designed for the average sales or goal driven person. Compare th e a bove w it h R o bbins' approach. Right from the start, you' re confused. What is an O.P.A. Life Planner, you wonder? Well; O.P.A. stands for Outcomefocused, Purpose-driven, Action Plan. Since Robbins calls goals "outcomes," "outcomefocused" simply means goal-oriented. As soon as you start working in the program, you realize that it is not intuitive, but will need some getting used to. Ziglar designed his program for the average person while Robbins may have designed his for himself. As the leader of a vast empire, Robbins is used to developing mammoth plans and projects that need sophisticated tools, and his O.PA. Life Planner has the capacity to deliver. So, if you are a power user, not alarmed by siightly steeper learning curves, this could be the program for you. Who knows, you could become the next Tony Robbins! Our rating: Recommended

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Most convenient: Most sales managers and sales reps have heard of Zig Ziglar, the goaloriented individual who rocketed to the top and became the multimillionaire success guru he is today. Many have read and still cherish Ziglar's book, See You at the Top.Now, , they' ll probably want to use Ziglar's Success Planner with Goals Management, and with good reason. Until recently, personal information managers (PIMs) were weak in goal setting and, , conversely, goal setting programs were weak in personal information management. Ideally, we would be able to combine both areas into a single program and remove the need for entering some of the same data into two separate programs. That's what Ziglar's program strives to do, and it is successful. It may not have the power of some of the standalone PIMs, but it is a complete contact manager, appointment scheduler, and goal setter. The program interface is intuitive and a pleasure to work with. Success Planner comes on a CD which is jam-packed with over six

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Conclusion Do you know what today is? It could be the most important day of your life! After all, today you have learned about goal setting programs and where.to get them. In a few days, like Joey, you could be embarking on an exciting journey. Good luck!

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no IT [Information technology] skills, configure the Backoffice Server in a small business environment. TCP: Tlzat's a rather provocative statement — no IT skills. SW:The important thing in our analysis is that certainly in Jbusinesses with) under five PCs, there's no formal technical skills on-site. The owner/manager may be very technically competent, and in that sense I'm not trying to underplay the benefit of having technical skills. But the important thing is that we' re assuming that the value-added provider can deliver that. And certainly, the ongoing administration and user management does not require IT s kills at all. We' ve taken a l o t o f t h e Intellisense technology, and if you look at the Wizard and how few questions its actually asking you, it's a very, very intelligent way to customize the server environment for a small business scenario.

also be supported within Windows98? SW: There' ll be some different hardware reference designs that only NT 5 will take advantage of. And that actually does come down to the choice. One of the things we' re trying to achieve with Windows is choice, whether it's costbased users or device types, and there will be some specifications unique to NT 5 in that regard, certainly around t h e W i n dows " Terminal for example. TCP:So what are some of the criteria that people will use to make the choice between Windows98 and NT 5. Is it a matter of power,is it a matter of manageability or is it a matter of legacy 16-bit

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applicatl«ns?

SW: I don't think it will be associated with

legacy applications or device support any

more. In that sense, it's a true superset. There won't be degradation of function associated with NTS versus Windows 98. You' ve got to look at the upsides and say TCP: Can weju>np ahead to NT5 and Windows 98. What strategy would you advise to businesses "is that something I need for my enterprise forselecting Windows 98 orNT 5 W orkstation as or my small business?" And those upsides a business desktop operating system? are definitely associated with manageability. SW: I think the first point to make now is that We will deliver the lowest cost scenario with both operating systems are some ways off. an NT client versus a Windows 98 client. Part of the slippage of Windows 98 is defi- That cost is also associated with user mannitely around the feedback we' ve had that agement as weil as software management in Windows 16-bit users need to have a smooth terms of the directory support at the client level. Also in security terms, we will be migration to get there. We' ve previously committed and are fol- putting in NT 5 the ability to have a single lowing through on the fact it w il l b e as security model across the enterprise for large straightforward to move from NT 4 as it will customers. be from Windows 9x to NT 5. So the most We will charge a premium price for NT for important point is don't delay going to 32-bit these reasons. So it' s "do I want the benefits assoWindows today. ciated with NT 5 vs. what will I lose." No one If we go forward a year and you' re a 32-bit need to stay with Windows 98 is the key point. Windows user, I think it will be a lot simpler a year from now. NT 5 will be a complete super- TCP: Would tlzere be any advantages for «zz enduser, say in a home, adopting NT 5 versus set of Windows 98. Period, So, in that senseapplication support, things like Plug and Play, Windows98 the ability to use either OS in a mobile envi- SW: Yeah, there could be. Certainly power ronment — it is a genuine statement to say usage. Many of the features we' re talking that NT 5 is a superset of Windows 98. about within Windows 98, like the broadcast So, it' ll all come down to do you want some PC architecture, being able to support the rich of the advantages that will be associated with NT Internet integration aspects — all of that is 5 that will come with a hardware cost, or in going to be in NT 5, so it's the same question. some sense, for some users, at a complexity cost? There are no reasons why they wouldn' t, And what I would point to there with NT 5 is the there might be reasons why they would. fact that all of what we talk about, having the option to configure a client and not visit it again TCP: I read a review recentlyof a beta of in terms of having zero administration at a client Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, and tlze reviewer said that this was a really great product. level, will be achieved through NT 5 only. There's only so much we can do with Microsoft recently invested some money in Apple Windows 98 — in the large, managed corpo- as well. Sowhat is going on with your strategy rate environment, we would be recommend- with the Macintosh platform? ing NT 5 on the desktop if that is appropriate SW: People don't quite realize that we actualin hardware terms. ly make, on average, more dollars per Mac than we do from a PC. We enjoy a very high TCP: Microsoft has been talking about Siznply market share of applications on the Mac. So InteractivePC and manageability issues fur more two of the reasons behind that investment tlzazz a year zzow. Is that to say thar those will were to ensure we' ve committed not just this fizzally be realized in NT 5 a>ul not Windows98? release of Office but future releases of Office SW: No, that's not a true statement. In fact, the. through to the next millennium Simply Interactive PC and AIOraysOn were But it's also important for us, if y ou talked about i n t h e P D C ( P rofessional understand Office 97, is the integration of Developer's Conference) in November '95. We the Web. It's the same philosophy. to bring see already that people are taking the further the best of the Web and the best of the PC. definitions. There's a lot you can do with hard- Having IE 4 integrated to the Mac desktop is ware, in terms of getting the cost down as well. an important aspect of Office users being So no, many aspects — certainly Always able to get true value out of Office on the On, certainly the ability to remote boot and Mac.

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a spot for you to type in why you called. You can type up a letter, email or fax and tell the computer to insert each person from a list of contacts info the letter. Thus, your annual family up-date would be personalized for each person without your having to retype each name and address at the top of the message. Add to these basic features (which all the PIMs reviewed here offer) the many calendar, appointment, planning and tracking abilities also present and it takes but a minute to see that the computer is your best bet for organizing your personal records. Even though it takes but a minute to see the benefit of a PIM, it takes much longer to master one. For that reason, the ease of use of each program is important. Unfortunately, IMs don't just keep records of phone like chess and checkers, things easy to master numbers and addresses, they incorporate are often less substantial. So it is a bit of a trade-off between getting what you want done a calendar, to-do lists and email. With PIMs you can put contact informa- easily and not buying a product with too tion onto the computer, then save it to a disk many limitations. Another consideration is a PIM's ability to to ensure it won't be lost. You can give that information to another person, print the data import information you may already have on in any number of ways to fit a notebook, jour- your computer. There are two ways you can nal or Rolodex. Or you can search that infor- move data into a new PIM. One is using a specially written translator that has been written mation instantly if, for example, you only remember a contact's street address or middle by the PIM's creator for a particular file type. name. You can have that person's address This is the easiest but, often no such applet automatically inserted in the top of your word (mini-application) has been written for your processor document, fax, or email message. Or specific data. The second method is by exporting from have the computer dial the person's phone one program to a common file type and then number, time the length of the call and open

importing into another. This is the most common way to proceed but also can be difficult as vou must "map" the individual database fields from the old program into the new one. Invariably there are different fields in. each program and usually there are some difficulties in achieving a perfect translation. On the upside, the PIM market is moving to greater and easier connectivity. Some of the PIMs no longer force you to enter difficult to find information, such as the Outgoing Mail Server name. These programs search for an existing email setup and use it. Also, all the programs automatically start up your browser and jump to a link when selected. Internet connectivity is becoming systemic with Web Page fields, program up-dating options, product Web site buttons and some adherence to new information sharing protocols. The movement to a standard calendar and business card format would mean you could simply drag a person's business card from a Web page and all their data would be correctly entered in your contact database — no more typing in name, address, phone number, etc. The same is true for the new calendering protocol. If we had Net-wide adherence you would be able to grab any calendar file on the Net and have it automatically work in your PIM or contact manager. If, for example, you wanted to have your company's calendar of events combined with your own personal PIM calendar, a simple Add

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face. Pay-Ttmer Organizer 98 From: Day-TImer Technologies Suggested retail price: $69.95 Free trial from Web page Day-Timer Organizer 98 is a powerful, flexible, easy-to-use personal information manager that can be tightly integrated with the company's desktop, paper-based organizers. The program is available for W i n dows and Macintosh, and manages schedules, to-do lists, addresses, phone calls, notes, and

expenses. MS Outlook vs. CoretCentraf Continued f'ropnpage 9S. unlikely that you-would need to. Both programs allow you to group address book entries but only Corel allows you to search by any field at all. Corel's product adheres to the vCalendar protocol so importing calendar information from other programs is easier. There are also import options for address books from Netscape, previous versions of Word Perfect, and Sidekick as well as the usual ASCII text file ability. Central's to-do list is top notch with easy categorization of items. This is one area where Corel's program is superior to the Microsoft offering. Again, one of the most useful abilities is that the user need not open a task to edit it. This saves clicks. Also, the to-do interface is less cluttered and easy to navigate. For all email and related functions, such as browsing, Central uses Netscape's newest communications suite, Communicator. Thus Corel's suite offers the latest and most advanced features in this area. The integration of the program is seamless and systemic. This means that purchasing Suite 8 Professional is

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Here"s a listing and description of some of them:

-C Forces multi-column display of the directory listing. -I Displays the directory listing in a longformat. -I Sort the display by thetime it was last modified. -T Displays complete time information for each file listed, including the month, day, hour, minute,

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Both "cp" and "mv" take a wildcard function, which means you can move a bunch of

"rm" command is very powerful and must be

files at once. To copy all files beginning with

woe by people who accidentally erased more files than they intended to by using this com-

used carefully — there are far too many tales of

mand. For example, if you type in rm * from

the root (top-most) directory on your Web server, you are telling the command to remove all files from the system. On some systems this can also remove any directories and the files they contain that lie under the root

directory. Try to only use this command for specific files, as in the following cases: rm ugly.html or

overwrite it. -i If there is an existing file with the same

rm u*.html

Don't forget when you are done to type name in the target directory, this switch "exit" from within your telnet session to log instructs the copy or move command to off your Web server. CI prompt the user whether or not the target file should be overwritten first. Next time: More Unix commands and setting permissions. Creating and removing directories To keep better track of all of the files on your Keith Schengili-Roberts welcomesanycomments, Web server, it is best to arrange files into direc- suggestions or HTML tips andtricks you mayhave. tory structures. For example, many Web mas- You canemail Keith at: kschengi©interlog.corn. His ters keep such things as images, Java applets, book onHTML, TheAdvanced HT/I//L Companion cascading style sheet pages, html files and (ISBN: 0-12423540-8) is available in bookstores. related information in separate directories. Previous articles in the series can be found atThe This arrangement keeps things neat and tidy Computer Paper Website at: http//tcp.ca/. on your Web server, and you will always be

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ly like theJavamantra, you're right. But there are important differences, which I will discusslater when covedng Rhapsody'sJavaimplementation.

final release are either missing or not fully implemented. Most noticeable is the lack of both a full-fledged Mac OS looked-feel and the compatibility environment known as Blue Box (more about this later). However, this release is

What makes this programming panacea possible? The magic bullet is code-named Yellow Box, a feature-rich, objectwriented programming interface that is often generically referred to as an API (application programming

mahue enough for developers tobegin familiarizing themselveswith patt of Rhapsody's envi-

deploy~tywhere," rapid application development environment If you think this sounds exact-

interface). In essence, Yellow Box has been designed to sit on top of any operating system, ronment, called Yellow Box, and to begin the thereby making it multi-platform. process ofwriting new applications (or convetThee is a widespread misconception that ing their existing Mac OS applications). The Yellow Box equals what was formerly called developerrelease will be followed by the pre- OpmQep. In fact, Yellow Box is asupeset of the miere releasescheduled (optimistically) for early OpenStep APL It is a fourth generation set of 1998 (for early adopters)„and the unified release object-basedlibraries that will also include access in mid 1998 (for the mainsheammarket). to deny advanced Apple technologiessuch as Rhapsody isnot a replacement f'or the tradi- the Quckthne Media Layer (Quicktime, tional Mac OS 8 and beyond. Instead, develop- Ctuicktime VR, QuickDtaw 3D), Applescript, ment of these technologies will continue on a Cohrsync, GX Typographyandmany othes. As parallel track, therebygiving uses the option to part of Openstep, the formerNext brought to the migrate when they feel it is n~ . H o wever,table enha'need versions of the Display Postxript Rhapsody for PowePC uses will not have to scmn imaging model, aswell as WebObjects and leave their Mac OSapplications behind because the KOF.(Enteprise Object Framework), both of of the Blue Boxcompatibility engine. which areadvanceddeveloper toolsfor theworld Unfortunately, there are sNI many enors of network distnbutedcomputing. and misconceptions in reportsabout iRhapsody. A question often raised by developers is, What I'd like to do in this artide is to explain "Why should I go to the tmtble of learning a what Rhapsodyis, and what it holds in store for Continued onpage 190

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Rhapsody slnys siren sony Continued from page12$ completely new API (Yellow Box) if the one I am already familiar with (Mac OS, Win 95/NT, etc.) already suits my business targets?" Here are some arguments that Rhapsody proponents will use to try and convince you: • The high-level, object-oriented libraries

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Rhapsody plan will be the capability to deploy applications to Windows 95/Nf platforms. This is called Yellow Box for Windows. The important difference that distinguishes

Yellow Box for Windows horn Rhapsody for Intel is that the core OSremains as Windows technol-

inside Yellow Box are years ahead of the capabilities of conventional, procedural program-

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Apple has also stated its intention to replace the traditional Mac OS API's with Yellow Box to

for the short-term pain a new API. • Yellow Box is largely a proven API whose object libraries are time-tested. The object approach to programming meansyou' ll spend less time debugging your mainstream and ver-

ease development efforts, but this seems to be a low priority. Therefore„no definitive timetable has been set for this to happen.

Windows looked-feel Apple has stated that ming tools, Object libraries leverageyour pro- developers won't have to pay licensing feeswhen gramming productivity by at least one order bundling Yellow Box with their applications.

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data over a network The Rhapsody user experi- Rhapsody operating system, which is based on ence — with its advanced Mac look~d4eel and BSD 4.4 UNIX. It includes the Mach 2.5 kernel, dynamic plugged-play — is intended to make I/O services, file systems and the networking computer technology a more reliable, cost~ffl- protocol stacks. The Mach kernel will provide cient and productive experience than it is today. Continued on page1M

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Virtual PC or Real PC'? Connectix and Insignia duke it out in the PC emulator arena Requirements: PowerMacwith 180 MHz 603e or any 604/604eprocessor,32 MB RAM, 256 MB hard-disk ac OS or Windows? Windows or Mac space for Windows 95 OS? How about both — at the same Retail price: $199 time, on the same machine? Pros: inexpensive, easy installation, Windows 95 Actually, this concept is not new to the included. Macintosh. For years Apple and other manufac- Cons: Requires fastest Macs to get reasonable level per-

Explorer running under Windows 95 running on aMac. Theconnection speed didn'tseem to suffer much from port emulation, but again, video drawing to the screen lagged noticeably. Anyway, I successfully downloaded the

indication that something was happening, but to no avaiL I was forced to do a hard reboot so this game is definitely unplayable for some reason.

demo and unstuffed it, In Tomb Raider I had to modify the port, IRQ and DMA settings dialog

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turers have offered PC emulation on hardware formance,usesconsiderable harddisk andRAM expansion cards containing Intel processors. resources. However, these cards weren't as full-featured as Connectix claims Virtual PC offers playable pera standalone PC and tended to be expensive formance for popular PC games and entertainsolutions, ment titles on your Macintosh. The software Since 1988, Insignia Solutions has been ships with both a program installation CDoffering Mac users an alternative to the PC card ROM and a Windows 95 CD-ROM aspart of its hardware option. Products like Soft PC and licensing agreement. However, you only require SoftWindows 95 emulate a PC by translating the Virtual PC disc to install Windows 95. On

box to enable Sound Blaster emulation. At this Function: Pentium MMXemulator for DOS

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and PowerPC instructions. Although this is an inexpensive way to to run PCwnly applications, performance has never been bearable on anything but the fastest Macs. A recent development that is good news for Mac users is the entrance of Connectix Corp. (makers of RAMDoubler and SpeedDoubler) as a competitor in the PC emulator market. The competition with Insignia bodes well for future advancements in PC emulation technology. I'm going to give you my general impressions of these two products with emphasis on the PowerMac gamer who wants to run PC-only game titles on their machine. I' ll look specifically at the issues of setup, installation and, of

course most importantly, performance. Keep in mind that I am running these programs on a mid-range Power Macintosh 6500 running a

reproduce the PC hardware environment —so don't expect to be shielded from the arcane esoterica of PC setup procedures. I have to admit I was disappointed with the performance of Tomb Raider. Even in low resolution, frame skipping is very noticeable, espethe 6500/300 it took only two minutes to cially when the heroine Lara is engaged by install both Virtual PC (with a 250 MB parti- many enemies. In this situation the game is virtion) and Windows 95! This is amazing when tually unplayable. you consider most PCs take anywhere from 20 Test ¹2 — Havoc: This is a Mac/Windows minutes to an hour to perform the same instal- cross-platform 3D arcade-style game that takes lation. advantage of built-in hardware acceleration. Launching Windows 95 took about 45 sec- This game really shines performance-wise on onds, but if you save the state of the program the 6500, so I had a good reference point for when you quit Windows 95, it launches in a comparison in a Windows environment. mere eight seconds. On the Windows 95 deskInstallation from CD-ROM went without a top the video responsiveness of popup menus hitch, but when I launched Havoc I couldn' t and closing vvindows was excellent, however, seem to control my all-terrain vehicle from the opening windows has a discernible delay when keyboard. In the meantime, enemy vehides drawing to the screen. For best video perfor- were circling and taking potshots at me. Finally, mance it is recommended that your video after about two minutes of frantically tapping m ode be setat640x480 and 256 colors.You can on keys my vehide suddenly started moving. set the preferences in Virtual PC to automati- There is obviously a problem related to input cally do this. under certain circumstances. Virtual PC doesn' t Test ¹1 — Tomb Raider: My first task was to

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The 5.25-inch, 1.2 MB floppy is virtually forgotten, and also forgotten are its predecessors such as the 720KB, 360KB, 160KB 5.25-inch floppies, and even farther back in the mists of time, tape cartridges, and punched cards. O ne sobering problem wi t h

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Things get complicated, howevFor example, let's say you happen to er, if the PC user gets interested in have a particularly precious letter that you once wrote to your Aunt Martha, stored on a really ancient 180KB diskette. 1his diskette was compatible with your old Z88 CPM computer (we' re talking state of the art, circa 1983), you might find it impossible to determine if the data is still present on the disk, much less retrieve it onto your current PC. Changes in mass storage technology can create huge problems of backward compatibility, even as they offer new opportunities for bigger, faster and cheaper devices.

ROM format gives way to the new DVD-ROM format, which has storabout 14.7 GB. The logical mass storage device for the DVD age is the rewritable DVD drive, which will allow users to create their own DVD disks that will be readable on compatible DVD-ROM drives. T he b i g gest c a v eat wi t h rewritable DVD drives is that they don't yet exist as widely available, standardized products. According to manufacturers like Creative, DVDRW (Digital Video Disk-Read/Write) disks may no t b e r e adable on today's current DVD drives. They may need minor changes in the hardware of the next generation of DVD drives to ensure compatibility. M oreover DVD-RW i s b u t o n e

those storage intensive appfications such as video, audio and pro-level graphics. Especially in the case of video, VHS-quality' or better fullis old motion video can take up several computer megabytes of space per second of industry video. Very quickly, even the largest joke was never hard drive can be filled up. so true as it is today, especially If the data on the PC is mission in the PC mass critical â&#x20AC;&#x201D; business files, or e v en rewritable DVD format being prostorage field. school assignments â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it should be posed. Pioneer has a different forW hen I BM backed up.Again, for many home m at c a l le d DV D / RW, wh i l e or school purposes, floppies may do Matsushita and others are evangeoriginally invented its first, broom-closet-sized the trick. However, if large amounts lizing the DVD-RAM format. 10 MB "hard file" (" hard drive" to of files have to be saved, they non-lBMers}, it really wasn't clear should be backed up on some other flip-flopping on floppy who, if anyone, would ever need 10 What to do? mass storage medium than the hard Even the lowly floppy drive is being whole megabytes of digital storage. We live in the present, and we have drive, for safety's sake. assailed by competing and incomThis year, one of the most out- p atible s u ccessors. Son y h a s All that data! The 'equivalent of' to use today's tools, with the knowl4,000 typewritten pages! Wow! As it edge that they too will pass out of standing trends at Comdex was a announced a new 200 MB Hightumed out, just about every PC user u se surprisingly quickly. At t h i s host of new mass storage devices. Capacity Floppy Disk (HiFD) syswould eventually find a need for a year's Comdex, a whole new gener- The hard drive makers rolled out tem. This will compete with the ISmuch larger capacity digital filing ation of seductive new data storage Enhanced IDE and SCSI hard drives 120 drive, which i s c ompatible cabinet on every PC. technologies presented themselves, with capacities up to 47 GB per with a r e gular 3.5-inch f l oppy offering new horizons in mass stor- drive, and storage arrays, mainly d iskette as well a s a 1 0 0 M B age, and new headaches in compat- for the server market, that offer loolring back diskette, is an attractive option, unl i m i te d cap a c ity. since it does double duty as a flopThe standard storage technology for ibility. We' ll look at some of the new almost today"s average PC user is still a hard options, and speculate about their Ironically, bigger is sometimes bet- py drive an d a m a s s s t orage drive and a 3.5-inch floppy drive, a appeal. The first thing I'd recom- ter in terms of moving critical data recorder. However, there is always combination that has been virtually mend, though, is to carefully ana- over to a new storage technology. A the question how long a mere 100 lyze why we need more storage (if professionally managed, networked MB per disk will attract customers. universal on Windows PCs and Apple Macs since 1990 or even ear- we do) and only then consider how mass storage system can often shift the LS-120 could fall by the waylier. However, even those old stand- to get it. files over the network quickly and side fairly quickly. bys have seen rapid change. easily. The average PC hard drive has Why do we need more mass For an individual PC user, how- New and olti media ever, a personal cartridge drive is A new storage technology, magnejumped in capacity from about 40 storage? MB in 1990, to over 1.2 GB today. To put it simply, even an ordinary increasingly cheap as well as afford- toresistive, or MR, is the basis for The speed of t h e d r i ves also PC user needs more than a hard able. Iomega's jaz drive, which orig- the new Castlewood ORB 2.16 GB increased by at least a factor of three drive can offer if he or she is con- inally came in a I GB format, has drive. The ORB seemed especially over those eight years. The current cerned about digital video, audio, been supplemented by a 2 GB verinterface standard for hard drives, graphics, games and backup The sion, which is backwards compatiEnhanced IDE, didn't even exist problem is seldom a lack of capacity ble to the ol d I G B c artridges. back then. for mainstream applications. lomega is so widely used that it is The 3.5-inch floppy (originally Even today's bloated operating p robably th e b est b e t a t th e double density, 713KB on the PC) systems, office suites, and graphics moment for a mass storage format s oftware, t h ough m u c h m o r e that will be supported for some time drive still had to compete with the 52S-inch floppy format back in the demanding of storage space, only to come. early '90s, and for a couple of years, occupy a fraction of a current multiRecordable CD drives or CD-R, impressive, with a high 12.2 MB/sec most PCs came with dual 3,5-inch gigabyte hard drive. If a PC or Mac have become popular, but face obso- data transfer rate, and an astounduser has an older, smaller drive, and lescence as the original 650 MB CD- ingly low price (US$199) for the and 5.25-inch floppy drives. drive, and $30 for the cartridges. A contender to watch with interest, to Nt YHSMEW"t%'ARI C5L'V5, PO CNKiSfP see if the performance lives up to R$54NF 'fV' QlT LSD uxKAr V/IREE'CiCL04T? 0 C the advance billing. 05K5; ~ N ssoA R C VMS'r HV From Danmere, a U.K b ased dEASfdHA.LV RnHT PN6QR5 ik e company, comes the Backer 32 PC Wdl%LY; HNP RUhl v4RS @45%L Y cRef6FP. tape backup system. This technoloI&hi ) gy offers as much as 4 GB of data %45T storage for as little as a couple of dollars! It uses regular video tapes to AltHM%5 store data, employing either an external tape drive kit (US$89) or an internal card (US$69) which con-

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may well be worth a try. Other options For the mobile or handheld computing market, other super-compact mass storage devices are being developed, such as the REX PC Companion, a PCMCIA card that stores database information and allows the user to access it through a little LCD touch screen. It weighs next to nothing and can be tucked into a wallet or pocket, and used without need for a palmtop or notebook PC. It can be synchronized with a PC database simply by inserting it into a PC Card slot.

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migrating off the device.In general, this tends to favor established brand names, which may be more likely to provide "sunset' support to their old products. Ideally, even when a mass storage device reaches the end of the trail, the data that it has faith-

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On Board Ultra SCSI ATX I/O Shield

Expansion

• 2 x Serial Ports (16650 Fast UART Compatible) • IrDA TX/RX Header

• 2x USB Ports

• 1 x Parallel Port

• 1 x PS/2 KeyBoard Port • 2 x Serial Ports

• 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port

1M-bit Flash EEPROM, Award AGP BIOS 2M-bit Rash EEpROM, Award AGp BIOS with ACpl, DMI, Green, plug and play with ACPI, DMI, Green, Plu and Play Features Plus Adaptec SCSI BIOS Features plus Symblos SCk BIOS

BIOS Other Features

ACPI Ready, Soft-off Support, USB Connectors on I/O Shield.

Board Size (ATX Form Factor)

21.2cm x 30.5cm (8.3" x 12" )

24.4cm x 30.5cm (9.6" x 12" )

ASUS AGP Graphics Controller Specifications AGP-V3000ST (30exPlorer 3000)

AGP-V2646T3

• SGS-THOMSON RIVA 128 128-bit 2D/3D graphics & advanced video engine • Full function 3D engine with triangle setup up to 1.2Million/sec. • 4MB 126-bit 100MHz SGRAM frame buffer supports up to 1.6GB/sec. ultra-high memory bandwidth • AGP 1.0 interface • Integrated 206MHz RAMDAC supports up to 120Hz refresh flicker-free display • X and Y up and down video scaling • Drivers support for Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 • Acceleration for Windows NT/95 APls, including Direct3D, DirectDraw and OpenGL

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• ATI 3D Rage PRO 64-bit 2D/3D graphics & video accelerator • Enhanced 3D function with triangle setup • Integrated 24-bit 220MHz RAMDAC support refresh rate up to 200Hz • Display memory: 2MB 100MHz SGRAM built-in (up to 4MB Max.) • AGP 1.0 interface • Multi-language user interface 8 drivers support • Driver & Utility installation CD-ROM supports MS-DOS, Windows3.X, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, Microstation, AutoCAD & ATI Video Player • Software driver supports for Direct3D, DiectDraw & OpenGL interface. • High quality TV-out supports NTSC or PAL system through RCA/S-Video jacks in PC97 Spec. • H/W MPEG-2 motion compensation

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