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BUYING A CLONESeven mistakes to avoid in buying a clone.Our intrepid writer Roedy Green is back withsome sound advice on buying clones. He recom-mends that you take along some canaries whenyou buy.

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I feel a little strange writing my letter from theeditor, it is not 2 a.m. on the night before pressday, my usual hour for tapping out my openingletter. Things are getting more organized aroundhere with the addition of some helpful new staff.Wehope you will start to notice the changes in thecoming months. Of primary importance we hopewill be an increased emphasis on the graphic lookof the paper. Mostpeople tellus that they love theinfomtation content, but would like to see some-tlung ahttle easier on the eye. One of our goals mthe coming months is to try and achieve thateffect. Let us know what you think.

This month was fun for us as the issues andproducts of desktop publishing are near and dearto ourhearts, since we do much of our publicationwith desktop technology. We hope at least someof it will be of interest to you. In some ways any

document that comes outof your computers will likely be af'fected by the technologyof desktop publishing. A few years back when I went back to University, in the firstyear I was using an original IBM-PC with WordStar and Lotus 1-2-3 to put out myreports. About a quarter of my class mates had access to computers that year. Thefollowing year I had the use of an Apple Macintosh and would hand in my reportsproduced off a Laserwriter. By then more than half the class was using computers.It is my theory that I went up one grade point average simply by improving theslickness of the presentation. I don't believe that I worked any harder, it was just thateverything looked so much more polished.

The interesting thing that has occurred in the interim is that many people' sexpectations of what is presentation quality have gone up as the technology toproduce it has become readily available. Today you need not necessarily own a laserprinter to get these effects, with the advent of service bureau's offering reasonablypriced time rentals on laser printers and computers, if it has to look good, it can. Seeour report on the service bureau's available in the Lower Mainland for more details.

We are off to Victoria on Tuesday February 28th for the Victoria version of ThePacific Rim Computer and Communications Show. Tracon, the show's producersare putting a lot of effort into these shows to make them an important event in thecalendars of software and hardware vendors. We wish them lots of success in thisshow and the Vancouver show in November.If you arein the market for anew computer, please checkout Roedy Green's article

on Buying a Clone. It is jam packed with useful tips on what to look for in makingsure that you get a quality machine.

We get many phone calls that goes something like this: "Where can I pick up yourpaper regularly. I tried the library, I tried my local computer store, I tried theconvenience store, but they were all out." In response to these calls, we are planninga circulation increase in April to 50,000. We will also be adding a number of newdistribution outlets to make it more convenient for you to pick them up. Thanks forthe support, and please keep telling our advertisers "I saw your ad in The ComputerPaper".Watch for our next issue when we

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Who put this together.4 Letters To The Editor

Bedford responds.5 New Products:

BoxNet Upgrades, new QMS products,Omni College offers ACCPAC with atwist, and computer-friendly restaurants,

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Can Computers Help? ................... 25Macintosh vs. MS-DOS:

Which Is Best For Desktop Pubgshlng? .27A Guide to Desktop Publishing

Service Bureaus ........ . , .. . . . . ...... 28Index of Service Bureaus ...... . . .,..........29Ventura 2.0 .............. .......... . . . . .........30GEM Artline: A Review ...................... 32

Ready Made Art Comes Up To Speed .....35Presentation Graphics For The Mac ......39FreeHand vs. Illustrator SS .......................40Pagemaker vs. Quark Xpress .... ........42

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Commodore's choice in monitors has positionedthe Amiga well to take advantage of the boom inCamcorders and VCRs.

DOCTORS ONLINESetting Up To Telecommunicate..... ......44Now that many doctor's have modems to use withtheir Teleplan 2 system, here are the basics forusing it to telecommunicate with other users,BBS's and other online Medical databases.

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ConvertUnits UpdateThank you for reviewing our program Conver-

tUnits in the December issue of the ComputerPaper. I would like to point to a few items youmentioned in your write-up.

The HypetCard version of ConvertUnits hasthe categories database built mto the stack so younever have to find the CU Database folder — it' salways there.

The latest version 1.0.1 of the Desk accessorynow also has an "artificial mtelligence" routineadded to find or remember where the CU Data-bases folder is located whenever you want tochange from one category to another.

In your review you mentioned that you wouldhave liked to have seen a scrollable list of all theconversion factors. I smcerely doubt that anyonewould have the patience to scroll through morethan 1500 unitsl Rather than clutter up the pro-gram we have alphabetically listed all of the units,in their respective categories, in Part 6 of themanual. So, if the user isn't sure what category acertain conversion falls into, they can quickly findit in the manual. I would also like to mention thatthe manual contams many tips on the correct-usage of conversions and the history of measure-ment in addition to all the techniques on custom-izing ConvertUnits to the user's specific needs.

Although the HyperCard version of ConvertU-nits was only briefly mentions in the article, Iwould like to note that it contains some conver-sions, in addition to those available in the DeskAccessory version, such as user editable cunencyconversions. The user is asked to confirm that theexisting conversion factors is correct and if it isn' tis given the opportunity to update the existingexchange rates.

The Desk Accessory requires a minimum of a512kE Macintosh and the HyperCard versionrequires HyperCard vernon 1.2 (included with

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The Canadian price for either the Desk Acces-sory or the HypeiCard versions is $69.95or $84.95for both.Larry DeFehrGraphic ApplicationsBedford Accounting

We read with interest The Computer Paper'sJanuary, 1989 review of Bedford Accounting. Iam sure you won't be surprised to learn that wedon' t agree with some of the authors' conclusions.But, as a matter of policy, Bedford carefully re-views and appreciates all suggesfions that inaylead to improved products. We also applaud yournewspaper's ef'forts to inform computer users onthe important subject of accounting software forsmall businesses.

Please permitme a few observations that I thinkwill add somefurther perspective for your readers.

We find the author's analysis of Bedford's userinterface intriguing. Currently, there are morethan 70,000 people in Canada and the UnitedStates using Bedford Accounting. We continuallyreceive letters &om these users who are extremelypleased with the product. To quote one recentletter, "..J just wanted to mention how pleased Iam withyour program..J have instant access to mybusiness, the accounting is always up-to-date andwefind we are watching our business with atotallydifferent viewpoint now that we have the figuresinstantly..J have recommended your program toso many people and they are allpleased withit."-Alanna's Furs, Ottawa, Ontario.

The authors mentioned the article in PC Maga-zine(September, 1987) as acotnprehensivesourcefor researching what products are available forsmaller businesses' accounting systems. Itis inter-esting to note than in PC Magazine's review,which was conducted by Price Waterhouse,Bedford Accounting was awarded an "Editor' s

' Choice" designation for low-priced accountingpackages. To quote the summaty, 'This is truly asystem. Bedford's six modules...are easy to in-stall, easy to use, and so well mtegrated with oneanother thatitmakes accounting asnap — evenfornon-sccountants."Kristin Keyes Corporate CommunicationsCoordinator Bedford SoftwareEoedy Jlesponds

Since J J'. Witmshurst and l wrote a review ofthree tow cost accounting packages, people havecalled to give usfeedback

Accountant Donna Hassack called to point outthat Accpac Easy departmentscanbeusedtogreatadvantage for purposes other than departments.For example, they could be used ro track theincome and expenses of differ ent concert series.

She aho pointed out that the Comcheq servicebureau charges only $20 per month to handle twohatched of payroll cheques. At such low pricesitisrarely worthwhile doing payroll yoursetf.

Gord Doolan of Pacilic Polypipe pointed outthat Dac Easy sells two companion products thatcorrect the biggest problems with Dac Easy. Thefirst GraphMate is a graphing program that alsoallows you to export data to a spreadsheet and tolookup by name. The secondisa tutorial program.He pointed out these programs are oPen bundledPee with Dac Easy and that no onein their rightmind would use Dac Easy without the graphicsprogram. He said that since August Dac Easy hasprovided phone support.

The article was slightly inaccurate regardingpayroll. Accpac Easy hastheability to accumulatea few totals, though u cannot automatically calcu-late CPP, UIC, etc. Bedford carries more payrollinformation, but u too has no ability to calculate '

ZOO MITDear Roedy Green,

Your article on 'ZOOMIT" m the Februaryissue of The Computer Paper is the best piece oftechnical writing I' ve seen for a long time.When you fmish reading most technical articlesyou have difficulty in writing a summary of thecontent. They ramble, they leave out or carefullyhide the "meat," they throw in lots of irrelevantmaterial, there's no easily recognized structure or

Your piece was broken down into logical bite-when signing on.r4 .TheCom terPa ~ Mpu per arc h 1989

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EMJ Cut Prices on AcersGuelph, Ontario — EMJ Data Systems. The

exclusive Canadian distributor of the Acer lme ofcaxnputer products has recently axmounced aconsiderable pricereduction o the followmgsys-tems:]Model 710 (1MB) XT price at AT speed 4.77MHz/10MHz8088,eampactfaotprint, liglnweight,built-in graphics display — suggested retail$1,895.60. Model 900 - 12MHx AT, ixser se-lectable 8MHz mode 512Kh memory on mainboard — suggested retail $2,995.00. 2MB mem-oxy an main beard — suggested retail $3,795.00.Model 910B 10MHz AT small footprin 6MHz/10MHz, 512KB RAM expandable to 1MB anmam board — suggested xetail $2,295.00. Ahoavailable in standardfootprintat 12MHz/8MHxspeed — cost $2,895M.

Model 915 12h64NMHx cxnnpact footprint,512Kexpandableto 1MS anmainprocessorboard.Built in4in 1 graphics display that supports EGA,CGA, HGA, and MDA — suggested retail$2,845.00.Model 1030 0 wait state 9.6MHz/SMHx mode,compact footprint with 640K onmain boar, built-in graphics disphy that supports MCGA andHercules graphics, built-in PS/2campatxblemouseinterface — cost $1,995.00.

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According to Jim Estill, President of EMJ DataSystems, "This aggressive price cut will allowAcer to be evenmarecampe6tive with other namebrand computers." These price reductions were aresult of lower prices from Acer, impmved USexchange rates, lower duty charges and RAMprices. Jim Estill is confident EMJ Data Systemswill douhle its sales of Acer eaxnputers m the nextyear.

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The Loan CalculatorTo The RescueIn Hot Housing Marketware producer, is now marketing their latestprad-uct, The Loan Calcahtor." This software is use-ful to anyentexpriserelating to the loans andmort-gages industry, and will be a valuable supplementto a company's existing customer services.

The Loan Calculator will detennme principaland interest payments and all related functions. Itwill also produce amortization schedules ondemand. The pmgram is designed, specifically tabe easy to use and extremely efficient.

The Loan Calculator was developed and testedin conjunction with the North Share Credit Union(NSCU) of North Vancouver, S.C. Ron Davies,Chief Executive Officer of NSCU, says "...weweald recommend it to anyone."

The Loan Calculator is available on 5-1/4 or 3-1/2 inch diskettes and is for all IBM compatiblemachines. Orders are accepted tluough TerasoftWares, P.O.Box 4288, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 3Z7for $79.95. Far further information, a demonstra-tion or brochure, write to Terasoft Wares ar call(604) 985-2224.

BoxNet Gets Good Pressin PG Magazine

BoxNet is glowing in the praise of its low costLocal Axea Network, The February 14th issue ofPC MAGAZINE says " Among the availablepmducts, the one I recommend is BoxNet...SinceSoxNet uses your PC's serial port as the linkbetween computers, Ihe maximum speed it canachieveis 115hlobitsper seamd. The topology ofSaxNet is distributed peer to peer, which letsevery node an the network commumcate withevery other node...."

A New BoxNet — SoxNet IV is also now beingoffered to the public. BoxNet IV has added samevery tangible substance to law cost local areaconnectivity networks.

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Txue ta their word, Alpha Computers hasawarded a Zenith laptop to one of their lucky

Mr.I.M. Mackenxie of Marathon Realty won aZenith EaZy-PC computer package kom AlphaComputer Autamatian Ltd. mtheNew Year Luckydraw. The machme was given away to Ian by Mr.Tommy Taa, vice president of Chinese Benevo-lent Assaaation of Vancouver, witnessed byDuncan Finnigan of Zenith Data Systems on Jan.25, 1989.

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High Priced DRAMsDepress Apple Earnings27 (NB) — Apple Computer has amounced thatsecond quarterearnings,ending March 30, will beia the range of 35 cents to 45 cents per share,compend te 61 cents yer share for the samequarter last year. The fum blames the lower earn-mgs cm a mass purchase, at peak prices, of onemegabitdynamicrandcen accessmemcey [DRAM]chip Thepurchase was madechumg the worst ofthe DRAM shortage in 1988. Now, says ChairmanJohn Scuaey in a prepared statement, "We have aDRAM mventery at costs higher than ctarentmarket costs." Scuaey acknowledges that sales ofhigh~ad systems slowed right after Apple raisedprices, due to higher DRAM prices, late last year.Last week, to get the high-end systems movingagain, prices were lowered. The short-term effect,he says, is a depression of eanungs. On the plusside, ScuHey predicts aew marketing programswill stimulatedemand for Apple products, andthesecond half of the year will show improved fiscalperformance. 'We expect that Apple worldwiderevenues will increase for the full year in the rangeof 30 yncent or greater." (Wendy Woods/19880127/Contact: Barbara Krause, Apple, 408-9743719}

Mac H Power AvailableFor The Mac Plus And SCSANFRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA., 1989JAN 19 (NB) — CSA introduced its new Fas Trackaccelerator board for the Macintosh Plus and SE atMacWorld Expo. The board is designed for math-intensive applications which use a coprocessor.Fas Track is capable of using a relatively slow andinexpensive 12MHz 68020chip but is able to takeadvantage of a Motorola 68882 math coprocessarrunning up to 33 MHz In some cases, according toCSA, FasTrack is capable of yrevidiag the per-formance of a Mac Il. Installation of the boardrequires removal of a Mac's 68020 chip. How-ever, CSA offers free installation of a socket andFas Track to customers who buy a 20 or 25 MHz68882. The introductory price of $895 mcludestheboarcL secketinstaHaticm,a12MHx68020anda 20 MHz coymcessor.

New Book Lists BestPublic Domain Macintosh SoftwareSANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, U.SW, 1989FEB 4 (NB) — The Public Domain Excheage has

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ATARIFrontier Software ShipsST Hard Disk Utilities Package

— Frontier Software, the sole U.K. suyplier ofSupra's Atari ST products, has released the Suprahard disk utBities as a UKP49-95 package. Thepackage was previously only available whenbundled with Supra'shard disksystems for the ST.

Martin Walsh, Frontier's marketing manager,said modestly that the package was now beingmade available to aH Atari hard disk users, onaccount of it being the best on the market.

"We are make the Supra utiTities, which havebeen widely acclaimed as bemg the best, availableseparately. so that hard drive owners who don' town a Supradrive, can experience the benefits thissoftware offers," he said.

Database Releases Atari STVersion Of Mini office ProfessionaMACCLESFIELD, ENGLAND, 1989 FEB 18(NB) — Database Software has launched its MniOffice series ofbusiness software on the Atari ST.The product launch foHows the success of thepackage on several other machines, notably theBBC micm and PC.

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aaaounced publicatian of a new book The BestMac Deal, Edition K The hook describes morethan 5,000 programs in 15 categories such asproductivity, business, education, graphics, desk-top publishiug, and games, that are available &omthe Exchange's hbraty. The Public Domain Ex-chaage, a Macmtosh equivalent of PC Sig, alsooffers hints and nys on how to use specific soft-ware, as weH as provides an index te a product bysubject cr appHcauon ruune. The Best Mac DeaLEdition 11 is available from bookstores or throughthe Exchange for $9.95 plus $2 shipping at 2074CWelsh Avenue, Dept. 70, Santa Clara, CA 95050.Toll free phone is 800-331-8125, or in Californiaor outside the U.S. eall 408- 496-0624.

NewMacs Slated For Hanover FaireCUPERTIN, CAUFORNIA, U.SW, 1989 FEB10 (NB) — Apple wiH roH out several new prod-ucts including a new version of the Macmtosh II,so says MacWeek. The March 7 introduction willreyortecHy be for a machine called the MacintoshIlcx, a three-slot, entry-level color Macintosh IIwith one floppy drive and one megabyte of ran-dom access memcey in its basic configuration.

The paper also reporls Apple will introduce a21-inch mcmochrome monitor capable of display-ing 16 shades of gray with a contreHer card, a 15-inch fuH-page monochrome monitor, and a 160-megabyte hard disk drive for the Macintosh 11 sndlb. Apple Computer would not coaunent on thereport

Claris Drops SupportFor Apple-Labeled Products1989 FEB 1 (NB) — In afiuther demonstration efindependence from its Apple Computer parent,Claris Coryorationhas announced,itwiHno longerprovide ead-user support for Apple-labeled ver-sions of its pmducts. But Claris' Bob Gafford,customer suyynrt dimeter, says the end-users caabe taken back into the fold by buying Claris-laMed upgrades to such prochcts as Filenaker,MacDmw, MacPaint, MacWrite, MacProject, orAppleWorks. Upgrades that are not free [someare] range in price &om $25 to $169. For mareinformation, contact the Claris Disaibation Cen-ter at 800-544-8554 or 41S-9628946.

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The Communicafions package looks interest-ing, since itsupports viewdataand scrolling ASCIIformats, although it is restricted to ASCII, X-Modem and Kermit file transfers, as well as CETtelesoftware download on viewdata systems. Forthe money, however, the Communications mod-ule looks to offer good value for money.

Frontier Cuts Price Of30MB Atari ST Supradrive— Frontier Software has cut the price of its mostpopular Atari ST hard disk, the Supradrive 30Mbunit, fiem UKP 595-95 to UKP 495-95 including15 per cent value added tax [VAT]. The drive wasreleased m October last year to replace Supra'sexisting 20Mb unit

Why the price cut7 According to Martin Walsh,Frontier's marketing manager, the company hasbeen able to renegotiate its contracts with SupraCorporation in the US. Since Frontier has theexclusive UK distribution rights, the company hasbeen able to purchase in volume.

"We' re happy to be able to pass on the benefitsof our renegotiation in pricing with Supra I'msure that the new retail price of UKP 499-95 willmake the 30Mb drives accessible to even moreAtari ST users," he said.

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B.C. BYTESCanadian Industry VeteranTo Head InstituteVANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CAN-ADA, 1989 FEB 6 (NB) — Michael Volker,founder of one of Canada's first computer finns, isthenew executive director of the British ColumbiaAdvanced Systems Institute. The three-year-oldinstitute, set up by the federal and provincialgovernments,promotesresearchanddevelopmentm mfotmation technology, computer science,microelectronics, robotics and artificial intelli-gence. Volker was a founder of Volker-Craig Inc.,a Waterloo, Ont., manufacturer of computer ter-minals, in the early 1970s.Four professors at Vancouver's Simon Fraser

University were elected fellows of the institute.Dr. Pavol Hell of the School of Computing Sci-ence was elected a senior fellow. Dr. Fred Birchand Dr. Slawomir Pilarski of the School of Com-puting Science and Dr. John Bird of the Engineer-ing Science department were elected fellows.

Laptops Stolen FromNorth Vancouver Retailer(I'CP) Three Bondwell Laptop Computers; eachwith 1 x 3-1/2" FD and 1 x 20mb HD, have beenstolen fium Strachan Computers off the show-room floor, during normal working hours. In eachcase, the thief left behind the power supply andcomputer manuals.

Strachan is offering a reward to anyone able toprovide information to the RCMP that would leadto the apprehension and conviction of the thief.

The dates of the thefts were July 1988 — from1334 Main St., North Vancouver, December 7,1988 — fiom 1445 Main St., North Vancouver;Serial g1598 RCMP File «8844265. January 18,1989 — from 1445 Main St.N. Vancouver, Serialg4733 RCMP File ¹89-2220.

Sincethe thefts, Slrachanhas improvedsecurityto prevent a repetition of these thefts. After theDecember 7 theft, the lap-top computers wereattached to the table with alightchain andpadlockOn January 18, however, the thief cut the chainwith wire cutters before removing the computer.Strachan plans further steps to secure the comput-ers. If you have any information regarding theselaptops, please contact: Richard Strachan of Stra-chan Computers, 9&4-8500.$3,795

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BUSINESSComputerland FranchiseesWin LawsuitSANFRANCISCO, CAUFORNIA, U.S.A„1989JAN 23 (NB) — ComputerLand Corporation has

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sees by givmg thein cash and lenmg them keepmore of what they make. The dispute wae startedin 1984 by Michael Belling and Kenneth Klein,the former operators of the Marin County Com-puterLand stores, who alleged that their giantparent was failing to honor contracts, ship prod-ucts, and offer them discounts, leading to at leastone business failure for a franchisee. After fiveyears in litigation, ComputerLand Corporationhas decided to award the plaintiffs a permanentcontractual reducfion in &anchisee royalty ratesRom eight to five percent. $5.2 million in debtswill be forgiven for the class action suit members,and a $720,000 fund will be distributed as well.The entire settlement is valued at over $30 million.

Dell Keeps GrowingWhile Executives Keep Walking

Dell Computer founder Michael Dell, who startedhis business while a University of Texas student,is fast gaining a reputation as a tough boss. An-other five top executives have left in the lest fewweeks, clearing out a division built by GrahamBeachum. Dell had hired Beachum from Tandy asvice president of marketing and sales after decid-ing tu turn his small mail-order outfit into a brandname. Dell replaced the five by promoting I'romwithin. Beachum, now at Wang Labs, had hiredaway two of the five, while a third went back toTandy and Mark Yamagata, yet another one-timeDell manager. Aside ftom the problems of suitswho won't listen to the boss, Dell is doing welL OnJanuary 23 Dell signed leases for six buildingswith 500,000 square feet of space in NorthwestAustin. He' ll replace a123,000 square-foot facil-ity and expand his present 55,000 square footoffices at a Trammell Crow development calledBraker Center. Moving will take Dell employeesmost of the year, but they should then stay put,because Dell has options on land adjacent to thenew digs. Included inthenew offices will be anewcafeteria, volleyball courts, softball fields and anexercise room. Dell still calls its computers "IBMcompatible," not Compaq-compatible, and is li-censed to make PSI2 clones.

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Strong Export GrowthBoosts IBM Canada RevenueMARKHAM, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1989 JAN20 (NB) — IBM Canada Ltd. had revenues ofC$3.693billionin1988,up19 percent &om1987'sfigureof C$3.104biQion. The company's exports,which rose 36 percent to C$1352 billion in 1988,helped to boost revenues. Net income for 1988was C$260 million, up about 12 percent from1987's C$231 million. At the end of 1988, IBMCanada had 12,605 employees, including 4,147working in manufacturing and development.

IBM Reports 8 Percent IncreaseIn Revenues In Fiscal 1988POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1989JAN 20 (NB) — IBM has reported that its reve-nues for fiscal 1988, which ended in December,1988, reached $59.7 billion - an increase of morethan eight percent over 1987. Although sales in-creased by'eight percent,-profits slilmped a little,

Worldwide High-Tech RepairBusiness Now Worth $65 Billion

(NB) — The business of repairing equipmentcontaining micro chips grows memly on. It was a$65 billion business last year, with a 10 percentannual growth rate. Th e people who manage therepairmen, who prefer tobe called teclmicians, aiemembers of the Association of Field ServiceManagers. Executive Vice President George Kellertold Newsbytes the word "field service" is a mis-nomer, and his 6,000 members manage 350,000people who fix everything from airline terminalsto the main&ames those terminals feed. Newsby-tes readers are welcome to take a crack at a newname, he added. Keller also said that the $65billion figure came Rom the Boston consulungfirm of Ledgeway h, Associates, which got figurefrom the Top 100companies in the field, like IBMand ATILT, Siemens, Philips and Eastman Kodak,then extrapolated, figuring the big boys repre-sented 85percentof total volume.'Ihe U.S., Kelleradds, has 60 percent of the total high-tech servicemarket

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, the company earned $4.1 billion on sales of $34.4billion - an increase of 155 percent.

Half Of Cellular Phone Manufac-turer Sold To Provincial CarrierCALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA, 1989 JAN25 (NB) — Alberta Govexmnent Telephones, aprovincially owned telephone utility, will acquire50 percent of Novatel Commumcations Ltd„ theonly Canadian cellular telephone manufacueer.

' Nova Coxp., apipelines and petmchemicals corn-pany, announced the sale of its stake in Novatel aspatt of an asset-trimming program. Nova will getC$60 millicm for its half of the six-year<Id com-pany. Novatel hadsales of C$150million lastyearall has 12 to 15 percent of the celMsr telephonemarket m the United States. Alberta GovernmentTelephones buys most of its cellular equipment&om Novatel.

xums for pmductsale and demonstration, as wellas applications consulting and customer uuin-ing. Our product offering will be increased toprovide desktop work stations and servers, plusfield support equipment such as cellular tele-phones and facsimile machines." Other benefitscited by Wiegand include additional support forhptopcustomers and significantly increasedsalesinto "large corporations and major governmen-tal agencies."

Comments made by Radio Shack PresidentBernard S. Appel at a press conference mdicatedthat Radio Shack would be abandoning its ef-foxts to sell into major national accounts in favorof smaller businesses snd home offices. Parrot-ing the words of Chairman Roach, Appel alsdused the tean "sharpening the focus" to describethe pullback of Radio Shack efforts. With RadioShack to concentrate ongeneral business, home-office, professional and education markets, the

two Tandy organizations expect channel conflictsto be eliminated.

Leading Edge Faces Further Woes;Possible BankruptcyCANTON, MASSACHUSEITS, U.S.A., 1989FEB 14 (NB) — The well- publicized problems ofLeading Edge Hardware Products continue as thecompany faces yet another lawsuit surroundingthe proposed sale of assets. A number of LeadingEdge dealers have asked that the company beplaced in involuntary bankruptcy, under Chapter11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Last week aformer programmer sued the company for royal-ties he said were due him from Leading Edge.

The action seems to make it increasingly diff-icult fo Michael Shsne, the Leading Edge founderand chairman, to complete the sale of assets to PCSystems of Riviera Beach, FlL Though a spokes-

man for PC Systems said that the petition won' taffect their abiTitytosellcomputers fiom Daewoo,the Koxean fern that manufactures the LeadingEdge brand PC, the situation was still unclear atpress time. The dealers are claiming that millionsm funds are due, m part because Leading Edgemakes dealers pay for product one month prior todelivery.

The only thing that does seem clear for now, isthat the last chapter in this stick situation is farfrom being written.

CANADIAN NEWSIBM Canada PresidentAdds Chairman's TitleMARKHAM, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1989 JAN30 (NB) — John M. Thompson, president of IBMCanada Ltd., has been elected chairman of thecompany as well. He replaces Lorne K. Lodge,

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One Megabit DRAMPrice Stabilizingsome indicaticm that prices for dynamic randomaccess memo'ry fDRAMj chips are starting tostabiTize for the first time in a year and a half. Onemegabit DRAMs axe going for 2,000 yen or $15 inquantity, andhaverecently bemoffered with a10-percent discount by some vendors. Meanwhile,DRAMS are still going for around 5,000 yen or$38 in the spotmarkut, such as Akihabara„Tokyo,the famous district for electronics goods.

Compaq Sales: 2.1Gigabucks, Sets Records— Compaq Compute Coxpoxaticm tNTSE:CPQ]announced record-seaing sales and income fig-ares for the year ended December 31, 1988. Salesof $2.1 billion produced nel income of $255 mil-lion, increases of 69 percxmt and 87 percent, re-spectively,over theprevious year. Thecompanyisthe fxtst ever to exceed $2 billion within six yearsof its foandmg accoatutg to president and CEORod Canion.

Durin 1988 the company launched severalnew computers including the SLT/286 laptopcomputer — a machine small enough to fit on air-line tray. The tray proved to be a convenientlocationfor somecritics who subsequentlyhad theunit for lunch.

Dbase IV Walks OverRest Of MarketSYDNEY, AUSIRALIA, 1989 FEB 8 (NB)-Ashton-Tate's flagship dBase IV has suffered alltypes of criticism lately — except from the mar-ketplace. Its market share in Australia m Decem-ber was more than 44 percent, mahng it a clearwinner. WhencombinedwithstablemateIH+with19.6 percent, Ashton-Tate had a cxushing 63.9percent of the PC database software market, ac-cording to the Micro Store Board report &omCompass.

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DALLAS, TEXAS, U.S.A„1989 FEB 14(NB)-In what Chairman John V. Roach termed a "rea-ligtanent of marketing resources," that will,"sharpen the focus of each organization and willeliminate channel conflicts within," Tandy Cor-poration announced that its GRiD Systems Corp.subsidiary will now operate 61 of its sales, show-xuom, support and service centers in 53 marketsnationwide. Radio Shack will continue to operate300 Computer Centers. The announcement fol-lowedspeculationaweekearlier thatTandy wouldshift many suugglmg outlets to its recently ac-quired subsidiary in oxder to enhance its sales tolarge corporations and govecmnent units.

Samuel J. Wiegand, GRiD president and CEO,said that the establishment of GRiD System Cen-ters indicates a substantially increased commit-ment to major coxporate accounts and federal andstate governments."We willbuildourbaseof fieMautomation systems customers, provide an ex-panded product line and expanded service andsupport capabiTity to those customers and thebasins' market in general," said Wiegand. "Ihe61 new GRiD Systems Centcn will pravide fo-.

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Control Data ChoppingDevelopment In Canada

MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1989FEB 1 (NB) — Control Data Canada is cutting itsdevelopment facihhes in Canada, reducmg staEI'rom just over 150 to about 20. The company saidit is cansolidahng development achvities in itsComputer Products Division and will move mostdevelopment to Mxmesota Some staff members&ma Mississauga will beoffered jobs there, whileothers will be transferred to Canhol Data's Com-puting Devices division in Ottawa The Missis-saugateammostrecentlydeveloped ConholData'sCyber 930 departmental computer. Those whoremain will do continuation engmeernig and sup-part far the Cyber 93X product hne, which willcontinue to be manufactured in Canada

MARKHAM, ONI'ARIO, CANADA, 1989 FEB6 (NB) — Samsung Infaxmahon Systems Amer-ica, of San Jose, Calif.,has signed Compuserve, ofMaxkham, Ontario, to dishribute its entixe line ofmicmcomputer aud local-area netwarking hard-ware pmducts. Terms of the agreement were notdisclosed.

Compuserve has eight distribution locationsacross Canada and distributes computer productsto retailers such as ComputerLand, CrowntekBusiness Centres and MicmAge. Compuservepreviously canied some Samsung products underthe Novell name. Canara Technologies Inc„ofMississauga, Ont„will also xemain a Samsungdishibutor.Samsung develaps, manufactures and markets

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CD-ROMMicrosoft SaysCD-ROM Conference Sold OutREDMOND, WASHINGTON, U.SA., 1989

Real%orld Canada HostsDealer EventTORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1989 FEB15 (NB) — RealWorld Canada Inc., of Dieppe,New Bnmswick, invited exishng and prospec-tive dealers from across Canada to a softwareshowcase February 15-17. The newly estab-lished master value added distributo for Real-Warld Carp. recently obtained exclusive rightsto distribute and lirxmse RealWoxld's 41n-1Basic Accounting for MS-DOS and a lme ofhighs accounting packages for MS-DOS,Unix, Xenix and Digital Equipment Corp.'sVAX systems.

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FEB 9 (NB) — If yau want to exhilitat the FourthIntexnahonal ConferenceanCD-ROM,you'xeoutof tuck. Microsoft cheerily reports that all theexhibitspace at the Anaheim Hiltonand Towers inAnaheim, California, isbookedsohd for theMaxch28-30 event. Microsoft says the 120 booths repre-sent an increase of 50 percent over last year andattendance is up 30 percent. The space require-ments are so critical that the company is alsolimiting the number of journalists who want to

Some 50 speakers are on the xoster for the eventand conference sessions will cover such topics asintellectual property rights, standaxxls, visualiza-tion of data, and multimedia pmduction tech-niques. Registrahon for the event is $950. Thoseinterested in attending should contact ShameEastman, conference planner, at 206-882-8080for more information.

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Modeling the Future of ArchitectureSECAUCUS, NEW JERSEY, U.SA., 1989 FEB6 (NB) — Panasonic is expected to intxoduced the6rstCD-ROM [compact disk, read-onlymemoxy]drive to bepricedunder $500at the Microsoft CD-ROMconferencemMsrch. Mostcuxxentpmductsrange &am $900 and up.

The dxive will compromise on performance.with a slower access time than the mast currentlymarketed products. Besides the CD-ROM capa-bility, theplayer willhave an audio outputthat w Jlallow it to play compact discs.

Sourcedisc Has InfoFor CD-ROM UsersWATERLOO. ONTARIO, CANADA, 1989 JAN23 (NB) — Trillium Computer Resources Inc.'sCD-ROM Sourcedisc is a catalogue of commer-cially available CD-ROM titles. For eachengr itcantains an outline of the disc's contents, and inmany cases there are demonstratioxLv as well. Thedisc also contains two reference databases. Onelists acmnyms commonly used m the CD-ROMindushy. The other is a glossary of more than 500CD-ROM-related terms. TheCD-ROMSouxcediscsells far C$1 19.

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Burocare Launches Bernoulli BoxFor Commodore AmigaHARROW, ENGLAND, 1989 FEB 10(NB)-Bmocare Graphics Design has launched aversionofIomega'sBexnoulliBoxdatastaxagesystem forthe Commodore Amigo The removable disk csr-hidge system supportsboth Amiga-DOS andMS-DOS formats — tlxe latter when the Amiga is 6ttedwith the XT bridgeboard.The drive units came in three con6gurahans-

single external at UKP1,295 and dual external atUKP1,895 for an Amigas, and a single internalunit for the Amiga 2000 series at UKP1,065. Allunits takessendaxd20Mbytediskcartridges whichcost UKP65 each.The Bexnoulli Box system supplied by Burocarecomes with a SCSI mterface with autocan6gura-tion software far all Amiga-DOS coxxunands. Thesystem fits the 6rst expansionslot on the Amiga2000, or onto the Direct Memory Access [DMA)port on the Amiga 500 and 1000 series.

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GRAPHICSProduct, Ships IllustratorFor The PCMOUNTAIN VIEW, CAUFORNIA, U.S.A.,"1989 JAN 26 (NB) — Shipments of theWlndows . -

version of Adobe Ilhtstrator have started. Thepmduct offers such features as auto trace, haziercuxves, DFX conversian, pen tool, fxeehanddraw-mg, and zoom, among others, and comes bundledwith Adobe Collectar's Edihan: Symbols, Bor-ders and Letterfoxms. The $695 package runsan aPC with at least 640KB Pdlobytes] of randomaccess memory, 256KB of expanded memory, ahard disk, a floppy drive, snd an EGA, VGA orIIexcuIep P$anochmme,interface ~'display.

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Adobe Streamline, slated for shipment at the endof February, is anew product whichautomaticallytraces bit-mapped images and quickly convertsthem to Adobe llhslrator flies. The product isgeared towardbusinesses with largelibraries of arand want to use Streamline to archive them. Theproductrequires a Macintosh SE, liar HX and willcost $395.

RICHARDSON, TEXAS, U.S.A., 1989 JAN 30Designer 2.6 Announced

(NB) — Micrografx has armounced an upgrade ofits $695 Designer "professional- illus(ration" tool.Designer 2.0 adds compatiibihty with the OS/2Presentation Manager, automatic gradient fills,autotrace, Bezier- curve editing, a new freehandtool, spot-color and process-color separations,import and e)qiort filters for PCX, TIF, CGM andDXF file formats, context-sensitive help and othernew features. The program supports over 150graphics cards and prmters including laser prmt-ers, plotteis, and dot matrix printers. Support forMicrografx Color Postscript and Matrix and Vide-oshow film recorders are also included.Uygradesof Designer 2.0 are free to M icrografx

Extended Teclmical Support Service subscrtlmsaud to users who purchased Designer after Febru-ary 1, 1989.Other LLMts will be able to upgrade for$99.

Separate version of Designer 2.0 will be pro-vided for DOS and OS/2. Designer 2.0 PM willmake use of OS/2's multitasking, extended mem-ory, and pmtected mode operation. The PM ver-sion will be provided free of charge to registeredDesigner 2.0 users. However, Micrografx willrequire proof of an OS/2 purdum.

Seybold Speakers Scheduled(NB) — Tlte nnuh annual Seybold Seminars willbe held March 13 - 17 at the Hyatt RegencyEmbarcadero Hotel in San Francisco, California.The conference'0 opening reception will be heldon Sunday, March 12 in the Hyatt Regency PalmCourt.

The publishing seymnars hosted by JohnathanSeybold are scheduled to mctude key-executivesyeakers representing many of the mdustry'slead-ing vendors. Among those listed to appear in apreliminruy program are Adobe's John Wamock,Aldus's Paul Brainerd, Apple's Jean-Louis Gas-see, Bits(ream's Rob Friedmau, Interleat"s DaveBoucher, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, Sun Mi-crosystem's Scott MCNealy and Sill Joy, andVentlm Software's John Meyer.

Instant ColorPublishing Center OpensWEST LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.,1989 JAN 23 (NB) — Imageland opened herebillmg itself as -the world's firs instant colorpublishing center." Customers can use the facil-ity's computer design system to create and prmtlimited edition color calendars, greeting cards,brochures, textile haugmgs, tee shirts, ceramics,and other color reyrcductions.

The store is operated neat' UCLA by ColorLaser Corporation. Company President MiDmruKataokais also an associate professor anddirectorof UCLA's Visual Design Research Group. Ac-cordmg to Kataoka, 'high~ c olor d esignand reproduction formerly tookdaysor weeks andrequired a team of speciahsts — mcluding graphicdesigners and specialty print shops — and expen-sive color seyararions."

AtImageland,ayhotograyhor other colorimagecan be mstantly uuned into a cus~ pr in t edpiece using an Unda 250V Color Design andProduction System. The system provides many ofthe fimctions of the large systems used to prmtiiatloiial magazmes, Output is produced oli colot'laser yrin3ar.Designing and prmting twentycopiesof a typical six-page color piece costs approxi-mately$rr00at thecenter as compared to$2000 forthe same production by tmhtional methods.

Uppercase Brings AdobeStreamline To Canadian MarketMARKHAM, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1989 FEB16 (NB) — Adobe Streamline, a (racing programfor art production I'rom Adobe Systems,Inc. ofMountain View, Calif is now available in Can-ada. Uppercase Technology Inc., Adobe's exclu-sive matufacturer's mptesentative here, is now

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sellmg the software for C$525. The programc(mverts bit-mapped files mto Adobe Illustrator orencapsu1%ed PostScript format.

EDUCATIONAnd Employment Training(NB) — IBM will be involved in a new program tohelp fight adult ilhteracy andkeep students inhighschool. Initially, the company will assist variouscommunity-based organizations, including loan-ing PS/2 computers and educational software.

In addition, the 76 IBM-supported job trainingcenters mvolved in the program will be using anIBM software product called Principle of theAlphabet Literacy System, [PALS], developed bythe noted educator, Dr. John Henry Martin. Thevalue of IBM's participation m equipment andsoftwareto eachcenteris approximately $133,000.

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Executives Nix NeXT, Back EISA

SAN JOSE, CAUFORNIA, U.S.A„1989 FEB 7(NB) — The news was good and bad for Intel.After nearly five years in comt and millions ofdolhus m cotut costs, Intel won its battle to provemicrocodeispmtectedby the same copyright lawswhich protect software. Now the bad news. Intellost its battle to copyright the 8086 and 8088microprocessors, about which the copyrightbattle.origmatetL

The dispute arose when Intel accused NEC ofcopying (he microcodein its 8086 and 808&micro-processors. However, the court determined thatNEC's V-senes micioprocessors did not infringeon the 8086 and &Q88, their microcode, "whenconsidered as a whole, is not substantially similarto the Intel microcode." The Judge also deter-mined that Intel forfeited its copyright on the &Q&6and 8088 by allowuig second-source producers ofthe chips to manufacmre them without a copyrightnotice. However, the hmdmark piece of the rulingby U.S. District Court Judge William Gray is thatmicrocode, the mstructions embedded withinmicroplocessors, is piotected by U.S. copyright

'IIterulmgmeans that those whowishto "clone"a microprocessor may do so as long as they do notmake exact copies. For Intel, it means millions ofdollars in potential prmalties it might have wonagainst NEC, the world's largest and richestsemiconductor manufacturer, have gone up insmoke.

GENERALIn Technologic Survey(NB) — A survey of more than 500 industryexecutives and investorspolled at the TechnologicParmets PC conference m December showed mostnever think NeXT Computer Systems will reporta $500 million year. The thumbsMwn amtudealso extended to Apple Computer's "look andfeel" copyright lawsuit against Microsoft andHewlett Packed, 67 percent of respondents say-ing that they felt Apple would lose. Among othersurprises of the stuvey was that most expect Busi-ness Week magazine will pronounce that theshortageof dynamic random access memory chipsover m June, 1989; IBM's OS/2 operating systemwill finally become the dominant operating sys-tem in 1992, they said. 1& percent, interestmglyenough, responded to the question of when OS/2would achieve dominance with "never."Most [80percent] expect the anti-OS/2 group EISA to suc-ceed,meanwhile. Finally, when asked whichtech-nology will be the more commercially importantin five years, CD-ROM, Compact Disk Interac-tive, orDigitnlVideoInteractive [DVI], amajoritychose DVI [39 yercent] while CD-ROM got sec-ond place with 37 percent; CDI got 24 percent ofthe votes. The Teclmologic newsletter ComputerLener is a weekly mlelligence report on the com-puter ~ pric ed at $495 a year in the U.S. and

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New Europe 1992 TechnologyNewsletter LaunchedAMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, 1989FEB 17 (NB) — Sale Commumcations, the spe-cialist Dutch computer and techmcal pubhsher,will launch a new newsletter to clarify the Eum-pean Community's gC's] 1992 Internal Marketplan azd its impact upon worklwide technologyproducers.

The newsletter, titled EUR/1992, and which isdesigned to make the EC's related publicationsxeadable, is designed to beamedium for those thatneed to understand the EC's plans for 1992. Itoutlines recent anti-dmnping cases and, with thehelp of sources plead well within the orgamsa-tiou, offers information on fortltcontmg eventsthat could affect businesses on a worldwide basis.

EUR/1992is edited in Brussels and Amsterdamaud ispublishedonamonthlybasis. Subscriptionsto the newsletter cost $495 a year, including air-mail postage to any worldwide destinatiozL

Snsinessland CanadaOpens For Business13 fNB) — Businesshmd Canada has oRciallyopened its doors here, and plans to spread acrossthe country within a couple of years. RobertHenderson • vice-president and general managerof the Canadian operation, said there will eventu-

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Microsoft LaunchesAnti-Lotus Campaign25 (NB) — Micmsoft will offer &ee evaluationcopies of Excel for Wmdows and nauonwideExcel summers in an effort to nip a Lotus 1-2-3pmmotion in the bud. The spreadsheet war willaho see Microsoft double its sales force audmarketing group devoted to Microsoft ExceL Toaddress any zemaining bamezs to change, Micro-soft will also offer a price promotion and addi-tional incentives for resellers and distributors.Microsoft Excel has garnered12 percent of themarket for spzeadsheets on the '286 and '386microprocessor platform sxd the company is outfor more. As of Februaxy 1, Microsoft will sendout ademo version of Excel which is copyable aidhas all theproduct features, but with the sixeof theworksbeet restricted to 16 rows by 64 columns.US. cusunnexs can get acopy by calling 800-541-1261. Current Lotus 1-2-3 users who switch toExcel for Windows will be rewarded with a $75rebate or a &ee copy of W indows/286 or Win-dows/386. The 6nal incentive is Micmsoft'sguar-antee, which states that anyone unhappy with theptuduct can xeceive a fuU refimd through January31, 1990. The guarantee is designed to give cus-tomers ample time to evaluate the coming updateof Lotus 1-2-3.

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PC Version OfMathematica ReleasedCHAMPAIGN, ILUNOIS, U.SA„1989 JAN27(NB) — Wol&am Research has released a PCversionof its Mathematicapzogram. Mathematics,which doesnumezic, symbolic algebra, andgraphiccalculations, is available only for 80386-basedcomputers with one megabyte of extended mem-ory nuuung MS-DOS. It comes in separate ver-sions for machines with 80x87 and Weilnkcoprocessors, aud is also distributed by IBM forAIX/RT systems and by Sun Miczosystems forSun-3 and Sun' workstations. The PC version islimited in that it does not support the notebookinterface used on the Macintosh or Next comput-ers. Mathematics, which first came out for iheMacintosh m June, 1988, was created by StephenWol&am, a professor at the Univezsity of Illinoiswho was the youngest doctorate recipient in Cal-tech history, getting the degree at age 20.

Q.%. Page Announces NewViewsDiscount For Public AccountantsORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA„1989 JAN 23(NB) — Q.W. Page Associates Inc. will knock 28percent off the price of its NewViews accountiug,software for public accounting of6ces.Q.W. Pagehas also armouuced a Pzofessional AccountingPartner program for those who provide aczxxunt-ing services with NewViews. "As the nmnber ofNew Views usexs grows, more and moxu of ourcustomers want an acooimtaut who is familiarwith the program they use," said Cathy Mallove,director of marketing. NewViews, for personalcomputers nnming the MS-DOS apexatmg sys-tem, lists for $995 in the United States, C$1,295 inCanada

Final Betails OfEISA Bus DeterminedLOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A„1989JAN 16 g%) — Local computer vendors ASTResearch and Epson America have joined with

other members of an mtemational consortium toazmounce a Gnal speci6cason for the EISA [ex-tended mdustxy standard architecture) bus. EISAmcludes full 32-bit address snd data-bus exten-sions, 32- bit direct-memory access, and 32-bitbus-master support. The standard also providespmgrammable board setup far autozzmtic con6gu-rationof EISA boards and software aided configu-ration of existing switch-programmable boardsand future EISA boards.

The standard is being offered as an open 32-bitbus altemauve to IBM's MCA |Micro ChannelAzz Jzitectuze]. EISA-standard boards offer manu-facturers more board space than MCA boards andthe consortium also claims that EISA will alsopmvide faster data transfer rates and more avail-able electrical power.

Another feature that the EISA group promotesas an advantage is its compatibility with earlyadaptexs for the PC. However, there does not seemto be very much evidence, based an present up-grade pattezzm, that users will actually use thisfeature. Rick Khan, owner of Micro Trends Inter-national, a 5300 square-foot store&out computershowzoominPzsadenaCalifornia, sellsbothIBM'sMCA systems and Compaq and other ATwom-patible machines. Khan tells Newsbytes that mostof his customers don't use their old boards in thenew '386 systems they buy even though theycould. Instead they "want io use the most ad-vanced boards available." Most of his computersare sold as cotnplete systems even when they aresold to replace old eqtnpment.

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EISA Doesn't Live Here Anymore12 (NB) — Will ESA drive out MCA as propo-nents hope? Accoxdixtg to one expert, it may noteven survive in the face of a foxtlxcontmg on-slaught &om IBM. And he should know, CarlWarren is cha'mg AT-bus architecnue standards: the IEEEIndustry Study Group on Extensions to the ATbus. It's a group to which Compaq hasn't evenbothered to respond although an invitation wasmade according to Carl In xeply to chums madein the recent atmouncement by the EISA groupCarl Waxnm said succinctly "I doubt it."

'%ere are some obvious merits la his argument.For ane thing, EISA's campatiMity with the ATis touted by the youp as malt ttauimg contmuityfor users. But if old cards are ported to ELSAmachines, they obviously cat not participate inthe bus's advanced capabiTities. Won't the ma-chinebecome just another AT? Thatmeans EISAis really more of a choice between advancedaxchitectme «nd compatibility than a combina-tion ofboth. And, the EISA claims don't take intoaccount IBM's plans far the MCA. They referonly to the currently implemented level of sup-port, not what MCA's capable of doing.

Carlclaims thatmmarchangesintheMCAwillbe able to suppoxt spcieds far in excess of theinherent limits of EISA. The next version will bewhat the technical aud user commumties want toseehesays. MCAis the superior technology — byalong shot. Expect to see95 MHz. bus speeds andsome other suxprises that no one's expectmg headds — all upwardly compatible with the existingMCA. Fmthexmare, Carl even sniffs at the open-ness of EISAwhenjust scopy of the speci6cationcosts $2500.

The special 4-month IEEE group that Carl

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IBM Begins Big PushFor OS/2 And PS/2 LineMONTVALE,NEW JERSEY, U.S.A 1989 FEB5 (NB) — IBM is attempting to speedup the ~tance process far the PS/2 line of computers andthe OS/2operating system with anumber of recentmarket moves.

The company will be offering rebates on thepurchase of OS/2 software tied to various hard-ware purchases. In additian, IBM plans to releasea number of upgrades to OS/2 that aie designed toincrease the compatibility of OS/2 PresentationManager with output device drivers.

Enhancements to both the MicroChannel archi-tecture PNCAj and new PS/2 offerings are alsoplanned. IBM is expected to release a PS/2 com-puter using the as yetunreleased33Hhz version ofthe Intel 80386 microprocessor.

The IBM moves came at a propitious time forthe company. Acceptance of the PS/2 line at lastseems to be gaining ground and most major soft-ware developers feel the switch to OS/2 is inevi-table amang their customers. IBM also seems tobegaining momentum against the proposed EISAstandard. EISA is «n alternative devised by TheGeng of ¹ne, spearhesdedby Compaq. Stalled intheir development effort, public opinion seems tobe shifting toward the IBM's MCA as the nextgeneranon axchitectme for corporate users.

SuperCalc5 Ships(NB) — Computer Associates, the nation's sec-ond-largest software producer next to Microsoft,is shipping SupexCalc5, a spreadsheet which fea-

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FEB 6 (NB) — Computer Associates Canada Ltd.is now shipping SupexCaic 5, the latest release ofits spreadsheet for MS-DOS. The Canadian retailprice is C$599. Upgrades Ixom earlier versionscost C$120, except for registered owners whobought SupexCalc 4 after May 23, 1988 — theywill pay only C$25.

Low-Cost PC SCSI ComingU.S.A., 1989 FEB 1(NB) — Rancho Technologywill ship slow~st SCSI [small computer systeminterfacej adapter for the IBM PC and oompariblecomputers next month. Available in four models,selling for as Ettleas $50eachin quantity, RT1000host adapters allow the PC to use standard SCSIdevices such as hard disks, tape backup systems,and WORM drives. Aocaxding to an announce-ment, the devices use two ping-pong buf'fers andstring I'/0 [input/output] memory moves to pm-vide very high data-transfer rates at prices whichaxe as little as one-third of comparable SCSI adapt-

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Theproductretails for $495. Registeredownersof previous versions can upgrade for $100. In theU.S. for information call 1-800-531-5236 exten-sion 60 or 408M2-1727.

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Xerox Chops PricesOn Kurzweil Systems

1989 FEB 9 (NB) — Xerox Imaging Systems haslopped a whopping 59 percent off the price of itstext-mcognition scanning systems for IBM PC,XT or ATs and compatibles. The new pricmgaffects the Kurzweil Discover product line, con-sisting of scanner, 68020 co-processor card, soft-ware and doctnnentation. Conversion software formost woni processing and publishing systems isincluded. The prices range fram the high-endModel 30, previously $13,950 and now $6,995, tothe low-end Model 10, now $3,995 or 46 percentcheaper.

Why are they doing it'? Xerox believes themarket far these products is exploding and, asRolando Esteverena, president and chief execu-tive of Xerox Imaging Systems states, "We arerepricing our systems to allow a full xtmgeof usersinto ihe market."

Kuxzweilchsracterrecogtutionteclmologyusesarriacial intelligence to automatically "loan" arrecognize print styles and document formats. Thesystems can read thousands of type styles andsizes, according to the 6rm.

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Handycalc Provides SpecializedCalculators Under WindowsDORION, QUEBEC, CANADA, 1989 FEB 10(NB) — Dexotek Canada Corp. has announcedHandyCalc, a set of specialized calculators to nmunder Micmsoft Wmdows. The C$249.99 pack-age also includes a calculatar editor, so users candesign their own specialized calculators. Thesupplied calculators are designed for scientiSc,

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OS/2 Presentation ManagerVersion Of WordperfectScheduled

(NB) — Wardperfect Corporatianhss announcedit is working on an OS/2 Presentation Managerversion of Word Perfect 5.0, its best-selling wordpfocessnlg pmgralll.

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LANSSpeed-Breaking IsolinkEthernet PC CardsHEMEL HEMPSTEAD, ENGLAND, 1989 JAN27 (NB) — BICC Data Networks has announcedtwo Ethernet cards for the IBM PC-AT and PS/2-MCA and compatible PCs that break the onemegabyte per second speed bsmer. The IsolinkAT andMCAcards, whichretail [respectively] forUKP395 snd UKP475, support a 16-bit architec-ture. According to BICC, the cards support asingle station thmughput of 527Kb/secand and aSle server throughout of 1060Kb/second under

NovellNetware softsrare. Ian Scott, BICC'sprod-uct marketing manager, reckons that the cards arethe fastest on the market today.'"Ihey repteseit amajor step feral far the pmfessional worksta-tion user, re- afSanimg our commitment to OSIstandards," he said.

Novell BundlesDesqview With NetwareSALTLAKE CITY, UTAH,U.S.A., 1989FEB 10(NB).— Novell has begun to bundle See copies ofthe highly-acclaimel Des@view multitaskmgpackage with eachcopyof its Netwarenetworkingmterccnmectivity software package sold.

Deulview, which supports multitasking func-tions similar to Micmsoft Windows, has beendigging into Micmsoft's turf. James Bills, Nov-ell's Executive Vice President is keen on thepackage."Deuqviewis expectedto Slliheneeds ofour users. Weoffermultiuserenvimnments, whilstDesclview offers multitasking," he said.

Biggest ConnectivityDemonstration SlatedSANTA CLARA, CAUFORMA, U.S.A., 1989FEB 4 (NB) — 'Ihe world's largest demonstrationof applied networkmg among disparate systems isslated to tahe place at Connecauhon '89, a round-theclock connectivity marathon that tests inter-operability among various itnplemetitations of theOpen Network Computer/Network File System,NeWS and X11. NeWS and Xll are windowingtechnologies Rom Sun Microsystems and theMassadmsens Institute of Technology.

Connectathon '89, scheduled for February 13-17 at the Santa Clara Techmart, will feature IBM,DEC, Hewlett-Packard, Sun, Apple, and Cray slltrying to achievecomplete mteroperabiTity amongall vendors. Well inexcess of 2,000connections isschechded to occur.The keynote address, by Mark Stahlman, senior

research analyst with investment research StmSanford C. Bernstein k, Co„will discuss networkcomputing on February 14 at 11 am. The event isopen to exhibitors, customers, press, and industryanalysts.

Wireless LAN May Be InNear FuturePRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, U.S.A., 1989 FEB9 (NB) — The Hillier Gmup, of Princeton, NL,has pmtotypes available of a wireless transceiverthat could eventually eliminate cables from localarea networks [LANs].

The Snn has anew teclmology, calM Spredex.that sends signals across a wider band than typicalremote contmls, and the coinpany claims its inno-vation makes the product resistant to interference.

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LAPTOP S'386 Laptop Computer(NB) — Toshiba America now of'fere MicrosoftOS/2 version 1.0 for its T5100 PC-compatiblelaptopcomputer. The$325 multitasking operatingsystem allows the T5100 to run more than oneapplication pmgram simulumeously.

The 14.6-pound portable computer in shippedwith 2 MB and a copy of MS DOS 33. Practicaloperation of multiple programs written for theoperating system maymcguirefour or more mega-bytes in typical applications. OS/2 supports up tosixteen MB [megabytes] of linear user memory.

Hitachi Beats The Competition;Releases Colour Laptop(NB) — Hitachi is expected to leap-&ng ahead ofthe competition widt the release of the HC400, an80286 micmprocessor-based laptop with a colourliquid cnystal display [LCD] screen.

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Portable Computer ShowAnnounced For MayFRAMNGHAM, MASSACHUSEITS, U.SA1989 FEB 16 (NB) — Portable Computing '89,the only show focused on portable and laptopcomputers, willbeheldMay31-June1 at the SantaClara Maniott, according to the IDG ConferenceManagement Group.

The show will be sponsored by Portable Com-puter Review, Travehng Sofiware Inc., and HajarAssociates. An additional East Coast show isscheduled for September 27-28 at the New YorkMsaion Marquis.

New Input DeviceCould Replace MouseFEB 17 (NB) — Help may be on the way for allthose naysayers who never felt comfortable withthe mouse. A new product from MicroTouchSystems, called Touche, duplicates the functionsof the mouse while eliminating separate cablesand the need for extra desktop space. The productis a one-inch by two-inch rectangle that can belocated on a keyboard. The cursor is positioned bymoving a fmger along the touch- sensitive glasssurface, and then. pressing on the product to dupli-cate the functions of the mouse button.

According to the company, the product willbegin shipping in June or July, and will be incor-porated m at least one laptop computer in the nearfuture.

Newsbytes watched the transp@ sccste on a tele-vision and found diat the machine was not able totranshte ambiguous Japanese sentences into Eng-lish, such as Atama Ga Warui, which literallymeans "my head is bad" in Japanese, but whichmust be tnmslated mto "I am stupid, dumb, dull,"etc. Regarding untranslatable sentences, the ma-chineresponded with "Pardon?" on the screen andthrough the speaker. Matsushitaboasts thataport-able trauslationmachine couldbe available in fouror five years.

Visual Computer ToAppear In Five Years?TOKYO, JAPAN, 1989 JAN 24 (NB) — JapanSystem has launched a project to realize a visualdata processing computer in ccoperatinn with agmup at the University of Tokyo represented byprofessor Toshiynki Kunii. According to the re-port conveyed by Nikkei newspaper, the so~alled

Visual Computer could easily input, process, andoutputvisual information in amanner thatmimicshuman eyes. For instance, the computer wouldvisualize three~ensional space or objects, syn-thesize the design or images based on the visualdata, and then output picture information. Theresearchers expect to apply the technology m thefields of robotics, medicine, and education. Tlmproject is scheduled tobe complete by 1994 and aproduct could possibly be on the market by 1999.

Cebus On A ChipFrom Canadian Company1989 JAN 27 (NB) — AISI Research Corp. is thefirst to put the proposed CEBus home automationstandard on a chip. The company has introducedSpirit, a single-chip implementationof the Con-sumer Electronics Bus standard it helped to de-

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Power Glove ReplacesJoystick For Computer Games

JAN (NB) — Mattel has adopted the teclmologyfrom a sophisticated $9,000 input device and in-uodnced an mexpensive version for playing com-puter games. The Power Glove is similar to theDataGlove used in robotics, simulation and CAD/CAN applications and should become available,for under $100, in two sizes, this fall.

Power Glove will be sold for use with all Nin-tendo joysticMirected games. The glove plugsinto the ¹mtendo Entertainment System and re-places the joystick For example the action of aWOBURN, MASSACHUSETI'S, U5.A., 1989

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IBM Expected To AnnounceLaptop At Hanover Next Month

01 (NB) — IBM is said to be readying a high-endlaptop for release at the Hanover CeBit Pair nextmonth. Sources suggest th:-' machine- dubbed thePS/2 Model 90- will include. i 803&6 micropro-cmsor nmning at 20MHz and feature a 170Mbhard disk.

Unusually for a laptop, the Model 90 will fea-uire Micro Channel Architecture SCCA] and aVGA-compatible screen. The technology used inthe screen has not been revealed, but Newsbytes'sources suggest that a colour screen is a strongpossibility.

Recent discussions by Newsbytes with severalJapanese companies have revealed that full-sizecolour LCD screen technology could be availableto IBM by ihe third or fourth quarter of this year.Pmduction quantities of such screens are, how-ever, at least one year off, said one source.

Thesame source- who wishes toremain anony-mous- suggested thatIBM mayrelease the Model90'laptop with a monochrome VGA option atHanover, with a colour version following on nextyear. Another option, although less likely, is thatIBM may opt for flat-screen video technology.Either way, the colour screen option is likely toprove highly expensive.

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clenched glove is used to direct blows in MikeTyson's Punch Out. In Rad Racer the glove trans-lates hand motion into steering-wheel movementin the program. Brahng is initiated by pushmgforward with an open hand.

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Disk drive yroducts using Floytlcal technologyblend Insite's ptoprieuuy optical and magneticrecordmg teclmologies to provide 25 megabytes|20.8 megabytes formattadi of removable diskstorage in a standard 3.5-inch micmhskette. Theunit uses existing Soppy disk drive technologyand hardware to maintains the low cost of Soppytechnology. Insite is worhng to nuke the samedrive work with standard 35-inch microdiskettesat 720Kbyte and 1A4 megabyte densities.

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4$6 Chip Launch In April- Earlier Than Many ExpectedSYDNEY, AUPIAUA, 1989 FEB 17 (NB)-The 80486 chip is to be released in April, accord-ing to sources close toIntel who toldNewsbytes to'keep the date See'. Previously not expected tillhte this year, the chip is aheady being Seld testedin various prototype PCs &om companies such asCompaq and IBM. Analysts told Newsbytes thatthe 486 can be thought of as a 386 with a numberof the associated chips taken on-board to dramati-cally reduce the oompcnent count and size ofmother board in PCs using the new processor.

The chips will be used as the next generation of'power' machines. 'Ihe maximum dock speed ofthe 486 is likely to be higher thmproduction 386s- partly due to the higher degree of integration.In the meantime, 33MHz 386 machines are

expected &om Compaq and IBM within the nextfew weeks. Both of these machines have busimprovements which wiii further boost effectiveperformance. Bill Gates' prediction that PCs willmcrease in speed by ten times over the next fewyears (due to software as well as hardware im-provements) seems a safe bet

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Color Fax Machine DebutsCAMPBELL, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1989 JAN30(NB) — The world's Srstcolor fax machinehasbeen introduced by a small start-up Srm StarSig-nal, Inc. The Colorfax system, aimed at desktoppublishers, graphic artists, and anyone else whoneeds to see documents instantly in 256,000colorcombinations, will ship in March at a cost of$20,000 per unit. But, Michael Wi~ ass is-tant marketing manager told Newsbytes, that's abargain. Considering the unit consists of a colorscanner, color printer, and color copier, "its near-est competitor, a color copier made by Canon,costs three times mare — $75,000!" As well aspricey, however, the color facsimile unit is big-about the size of a washing machine. The color faxntachine transmits a color copy at 19,200 bits persecond, scans up to 300 dots per inch [dpi] butprints out at240 dpi, and transmits apicture in fourto Sve minutes. Widergren says his fnm has noplan to license the technology, there is no compe-titian on the market at this ume, aud that thecompany is working to integrate various types ofprinters to work with the Colorfax system.

Chevron Corporation and Lockheed are amongthe Srm's Srst customers, expecting deliveryshortly.

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Los Gatos, California, U.SW, 1989 Feb 3 (Nb)— People who want to create their own CD-ROMdisks can now do so cn a desktop workstationattached to a PC. Optical Media International hasunveiled the TOPiX Spectnun, a $150,000 CD-ROM factory consistmg of a PC/AT- cnmpahblecomputer, a 1.52 gigabyte hard drive, a nine-tracktape drive, pmprietaty CD encoding board. a digi-tal audio interface, system software, and theYamaha PDS compact disk recorder, which canrecord data to blark CDs m either in CD-Audio,CD-ROM or CD-I format. 'We' re the only onesthatcandeliver acompletesystem,"OptlcalMediaChief ExecuriveOf6cer AllenAdkinstoMNewsby-

Normally, a CD-ROM publisher had to preparean intermediate master taye and then send it ro aCD factory for s~ pressing. 7he pressingprocess is expensive, costing as much as $1,000for factory set-up and lowyamtity disk replica-tictL With the TOPIX system, "a user can easilyprepare their CD and then record CDs immedi-ately, right on the desktop, in a mauer of minutesat a cost less than $100," says Adkins.

The TOPiX system is slated to ship m March.Eachdisk itcreates cannmon any microcomputere4yripped with a CD-ROM drive, and will store530 megabytes of data Optical Media expects tohave a European distributor soon.

Fax Card Prices Falling Fast(NB) — With Quadram droptring the price of itsinternal JT Fax card to $295, and companies inU.S. and the Fsr East rolling out fax switches at$150-200, it seems computer users will be able toget full fax service for $5-600per PC by the end ofthe year. The JT-Fax 4800modein is just as fast asthose in dedicated machines selling for well over$1,000, and with an automatic fax switch, pm-grammed to tuxn the computer an when needed,you no longer need to miss a fax when you' reasleep or out. With the internal card, you' ll alsohave all the software tricks Japanese fax machinem akers force you to pay extra for= l ike bmad-casting, automatic re- dial, and the abiTity to logand preview calls. As junk fax pmliferates this willaho keep PC fax users Rom wasting papar-preview the incoming messages and dump thegarbage before it sees the light of day.

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1$uymg a "compatible" machine that is notcompatible.

2$uying poar quality haxdware.3$uymg hardware first then finding out the

software needed will not work with the hardware.4$uymg fmm a retailer who knows almost

nothing about coxnpiiters.5.Buyingbardwaxemoreexpensivethanneeded.6$orgettmg to include the "optional" extras.7.Attempting to set up the machine without

expert help.1. Compatible Machines That Aren' tIBM once sold two camputexs models, the XT andAT. Thousands of manufacturers cloned theirown versions. Tbeclonescouldnotbe too exact orIBM might sue. The larger companies like Wang,Tandy, AThT, Xerox, Zenith, Ohvetti, Compaqand Leading Edge designed in sufficient differ-ences between their machmes and IBM's to keepthe txnpoxate lawyers happy.

We have a seeming paradox. The larger andmore respectablethemamxfacturer tbemare likelyyou are to have trouble with their machines be-cause of incompatibilities with IBM.

However,eventhe TaiwaneseandKareancloneshave compadbiTity pmblems tco.What's So Bad About Incompatibility?

Pmgrammers design far the IBM XT and AT.Pmgrams work poorly or not at all on incompat-ible machines. Granted, there are pmgrams thatwill run even on the most incompatible machines.

I could list the clones I have found compatibleand incompatible, but I will not. Besides offend-ing nearly every advertiser, such a list would beinaccunite. Manufacturers are constantly mahngxmas changes lo their models without tellimNanyone. %base innocent chmges often affect thedegree of compatibiTity both positively and nega-tivelyy.

For example, a chent once bought twelve iden-tical AT clones with matching printers all on oneday, yet they had slightly different componentsand ROMs. You have to test the compatibility ofthe precise machine you plan to buy.

How'do you tell if a machine is compatible? Inthe old days, you took a canary down into a mineto detect lethal gas. What you need is a set ofcomputerized "canaries" to detect mcompatibiTi-

Canaries are dehcate programs, often so fussyyau might not want to use them for daily work.Here are tbe canaries I use to rapidly flush out themcompatibiTities:IBM Advanced Diagnostics

This program will complain about any clonethat does not have the letters "IBM" illegallyburnedinto the BIOS,butit will also performotheruseful tests.

Most impoxtantis the video test. Run iton a trueIBM AT first to see how the test results should'look. This test fingers incompatible monochromegraphics adaptcss (Hercules clone cards).

Alternatively, if you axe fond of puns, you canuse MicmsoiYs Flight Simulator as your videofestmg canary.FastBack as a Ornery

Use the older FastBack 5.14, not the newer,more mbustFastBack Plus. Backup one directoryto a virgin (unfoxxnatted) diskette, then use theFastback Restore to read it back to hard disk. Badclones will freeze up. This will reveal incompat-iblediskettecontmllexs andbadDMAchips. Somemodels of Cbinendiskettedrives will fail this testSphtRlte as a Canary

Use Gibson SpinRite 1.2B to m-interleave theall partitions of the hard disk. There is no need tolet it run a long time. SpinRite will simply com-plain wbenyaunmit an an incompatible clone. It

u in oneEsc key. If your screen tens to snow you havecollared an incompatible monochrome graphicsadapter hoed. Be especially thorough tesbngmono-chrome adapter boards bearing the letters "MGP".

Test a program such as the public domain Abun-dance maiTing datalme which supports Ctrl-Break.With Superkey, some incompatible AT BIOSes willgenerate a spray of random keystmkes when you hitCtrl-Bre alt

Test a text editor such as Norton NE that changesthe shape of the cursor. Make sure the cursor changesshape m the expected way. Some medals of Compaqand Olivettihave troubleshere. Fancy schizophrenicvideo cards that pretend to be various other types ofvideo card ofbm have trouble passing this test.Diskette Compatibility Tests

Take along a few yellow diskettes. Format themand copy a few files back and forth tobe disk. This

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Install Borland Superkey L16a Hold downAlt-Lemhift, and tap out 1 3 0 on the numerickeypad. You should see an g (e acute accent) onyaur acean. 'Ibis test will expose incompatiblekeyboard BIOSes. Hold down Alt-/ then tap the

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will blow the whistle on diskette dxjtves thatbecuase they use optical sensoxs, do not workwith semi-translucent media This compatibil-ity is important because software is often dis-tributed on coloureddiskettes. Some models ofToshiba drives will fail this test.

Open the computer case and repeat the testwith black diskettes in a well lighted room.Some models of CDC drives will fail this test.If you buy an AT, make sure it can exchange

diskettes reliably with XT computers. To test,format an XT style 36QKB diskette on the ATwith: Q)0%Farmat a J4

Then capy at least 360 thousand bytes of ATfiles to the floppy, and see if you can read themon an XT. It is amazing how many drives willfail this test I have best success with Teac andPanasonic brand driveL

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ate rehable, it is safest to avoid RLL, ARLL orERLLdiskcantmHeis. MFMtxmtmHers are triedand true and are less likely to give onnpatibiTitypmblems.

Run CHKDSK on each diskpartition C: D: etc.Total up the space to ensure you can access aH thehard disk you paid for.

Make sure aHhanldiskpartitions @reformattedia the standard way with DOS 33. 'Iltey shouldnotneed special drivers in CONFIG.SYS to makethem work Disk testing and defragmenting soft-ware may havecompatiMitypmblems otherwise.Clock Battery Trouble

Clockbauery trouble, suictly speahng, is not acampatibiTity issue, butitis somethmg you shouldtest while you are chechng compatiMity. Turnthe AT power off for a half hour, then turn it backon. Check if DOS has forgotten the date and time.This is a dif6cult pmblem to test for, since yousometimes have to leave the machine off far 72hours or more far the problem to show up. This isthe number one hardware problem with Vancou-ver's AT cianes.

Perform the same tests on an XT. If it fails,usuaHy the problem is theretailer has suppliedyouwiththe wrang clocksoftwam. IhavecoHected36dif'ferent clock setung programs. Some peoplecollect antique clocks, I coHect clock software.CompatlbiHty Summary

AH clones soM are ''IBM ccrupatible" to someextent. For aH practical purposes the phrase ismcanmglcss. Do not take the salesman's ward farit, test the campatibiTity yourself on the verymaclima you w81 be buying. Itmskcs no sense totest the oompaiibTity of a camputer in the shopthen take home another ane that's slightly differ-ent. As long as you donotwaste IherctaHer's time,usually he will aHow you to test to your heart' scontent as long as you want. Besides the canarie,make arne you also test aH Ihe other software youphm to use: e.g. MS Woad, VP Planner Plus,Procoinm, QDOS and Zoomit.2. Poor Quality Hardware

There is an old saying "You get what you pay

for." If you shop solely on priceyou wiH be sorry.Poor quality hardware wiH &usuate you no endwith flaky operation. By Mmphy's law, it wHIwork perfectly only when you take it back to theshop for servicing. You wiH pull your hair out infiustration trying resolve problems with erratichardware.Recognizing Good Quality

How can you recognize good quality7 First,have a look at areal IBM AT oMnputer. Feel thekeyboard, the sensuous resistance. IBM makesthe Stradivarius of keyboards.

Look at the chips inside a well-made brand-name computer such as the Compaq or NEC. 'Ibcchips are small and low pm61e with many 6newires attachmg them the smface. The mono-chrome graphics adapter is only four inches longwith only a few chips. The solder traces arebeautifully clean and even.

The ROM BIOS chip is prornuient with anopulent hologram sticker on it letting you know itis a legitimate Phoenix or Award BIOS.

Appreciate the sturdy, weH milled mountingbrackets. Shiny big hexagonal mounting screwshold the boards securely in place. Wiggle thecomponents — hard drive,6oppy etc. to lcamhowsecuiely they are supposed to be mounted.

Inside you will see famous brand names on aHtheboards and components — Adaptec, Chips andTechnologies, Intel, NEC,Omu, Panasonic, Quad-ram, Teac, Texas Insuuments, Toshiba, WesternDigital, etc.

Make sure the power is of'f and pull out a cardand examine its metallic fmgers that 6t into themotherboard. They ate shiny with a generouscoating of gold plating.Recognizing Poor Quality

How can you recognize poor quality7 Find thetinniestloohng computer in the mostdisreputableshop you can 6nd.

Black plastic chips (bearing no brand names)populate the boards. These are seconds the chipmanufacturer is too ashamed to imprint with hislogo.

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power supplydoesnotstateits size, e.g. 150watts.The monochrome graphics adapter is a fidl size

card covered with thick black chips with thicklegs. The solder traces look fitzzy, wavy andgeueraHy sloppy. 'Ihere might be liule jumperwires criss-crossmg the boards. The eagineer whodesigned the boards made ermrs and had to patchthem up afterward with the wires.

The spare mounting brackets are flimsy withburrs. Wood screws(tinyccnicalmounungscrews)hold the boards and components in place ratherthan pmper nuts and bolts.

Thekeyboard feels dead and thekeysrattle. Bywiggling the keyboard cord a bit, you could easilybreakoff the keyboard conncelor, because it is sopoorly mounted.

PuH out acard and examine its metallic 6ngers.They will be dull, lightly pitted and dirty looking.

Evenmachines thatlook 6ne can give yougrief:for example, early IBM ATs had hard disk troub-

Quality SummaryInsiston looking "underthe hood." Even if you

know nothing about elecuonics, you can success-fully judge quality. Look for at least a one-yearguarantee — parts and labour, backed by a weHknown company. Long guarantees show themanufacturer has con6dence in his pmduct. Jointhe Vancouver PC Users Society and ask othermembers how they like the quality of the clonesthey bought.3. Knot". Buying Hardware First

Fools buy a computer 6rst, then decide whatthey want to do withit, then go out lobuy software.

Sages decide what they want to do with thecomputer 6tst, thenbuy the software, Ihenbuy the

This advice applies most poignantly to wordpmcessors and printers.Why Should You Buy Software First'fI wish I had a dollar for every phone caH I

mceived that went somethiing like this:"I bought the X wonl processor, and it won' t

work with my Y printer. When I bought theprinter, the num said my printer was Epsan com-patible and thus it wauld worir with any software,

w'oiks.

including custom pmgrams. What do I do now7"I tell the clienu"I would charge you $250 to write you an MS-

Word printer driver and I might also charge an-other $250 to write you a driver for an Abundancedatabase program. Your printer wouM then warkpmperly with those two psognnns, but nothingelse. Or you could just experiment with differentpre-wriuen drivers till you 6nd one that almost

Sometimes I have to tell him his printer willnever fully strut its stuff the way it did during thecomputer store demo because there are no soft-ware hooks to exploit his printer's cleverness. Heusually feels beuayed and angry. After aH, theprinter only cost $400i Why should he spendanother $500 to make it work7Why So Many Printers and Word Processorsare Incompatible

Why is this7 Epson makes atleast30 models ofprinter, aH differen. The models have somecommonality intheir coinrnands. Any printer thatuses some of the common set of commands callsitself "Epson compatible". This minor degree ofcompatibiTily is worthless when itcomes to some-thing as complex as a Microsoft Word printerdriver.

There am only ahandful of decent wosdpmces-sors, and hundreds of decent printers. Each wordpmcessar works properly on only a few' dozenprinters. 11ierefare you must buy your wordprocessor 6rst, then test drive the printer with it.Don't just print a page of plain text. Print a testdocurnetit such as the public damain CASTLKKtoo ensure you can aaess aH the font sixes andtype styles your printer claims to support.Make Sure Your Hardware is Fast Enough

Pmgrams like Aldus PageMaker and MicmsoftWmdows wiH nm on almost any hardware.However, they nm so slowly an most camputersthey are ahnost unusable. If yau buy such pack-ages,youmust testdrivethemonyour hardware toensure they will nm at ar~ le s peeL Don' tjust do a few cursory keysuckes; do some real hfe

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a crude way to onnpare the speeds of two ma-chines.Summary: Buy Your Software erst

.Buy software 6rst, then hardware. This rulealso applies to graphics packages, accountingsoftwaxu and desktop publishing programs. Be-sides prinaus, video displays will aoly wark withsome programs. You must choose your softwarebefore you choose MDA, CGA, Hercules, Hexcu-les Plus, EGA, VGA, PGAor any of thenew highperformance video cards.

Before you buy hardware, test the software youwill be using on that hardware. Please note theword "test" in the previous sentence. Do not justask the salesman. Do not just read the box thesoftware comes m. Test the software an thehardware before you buy. It is easy to substitutehardware, but very dif6cult to 6nd altexnativesoflwarK

I hope I alii sfatulg fhe obvious, but it ls alsoquite ok to choose your software, then test thehardwate and software together, then buy thehardware andsoftwareall at the sam@time. BuyingIhe sofhvaxe6xstsimplymakes iteasierto performall the tests.4. Ignorant Ratafiaxu

There are retailers in this city who know next tonothmg about cxnxyutucK These people lie to yauso convincingly because they do not even lmowthey are lying. Ixortunately, the most incompetentretailers go out of ~ wi thm a couple afyeaxa However, that may leave their cusuunersholdmg worthlesu warranties.

How can you tell if your retailer knows what heis domg2 Fest, he will have no reticence abouttaking the covers off the computer to show you itsinnards. Ask him to show you the CPU chip, thedisk contmller card, the video contxuller and theserial port UART chips. Look in the back of theshop to see ifhe has an oscilloscope and well-usedtools for testing and repairixig computers.

Competextt retailers insist on givmg you docu-mentation an how to set every smgle dip switchand jumper in your machine. Incompetent onesassmu you that

"Technicians set alltheswitchescasxectlyat the- factmy; -There is na possiMity they could bemcaxrectljj set. 'Ihexe will never be any need tochange them. You don't need auy docuxncsxta-

I would estimate that about only ane m fivexutailexs takes the time io setup a oomputer prop-erly. Check with members of gmups like theVancouver PC Users Society to 6nd the goodretallex. Takeheart, buyingacomputexis notlikebuying a used car. Vancouver has a moxa thanadequate supply of ethical, ccmxpetent xetailexs.5. Buying Moxu Than You Need

I write custom software for charitiea. Unfortu-nately, charities usually anne to see me afterbuying the hardware. I am hoxri6ed when I 6ndout they spent twice what they needed to.

They buy expensive VGA colour wfxen Hercu-les moxtacluame is perfectly adequate for wordprocessing. They buy Rolls Royce brands hkeCompaq, Hayes and IBM when they could havebought equivalent high quality hanhvare far halfthe cost. They buy 80 MB disks to handle a textprocessing task that even an old 10MB disk couldhavehaudled with ease. They buy $3000mag tapebackupumts whexe aslower $450unit wouldhave

- been just as effective.Becaoseofrapidobsalescenceandfallingpxices

itdoesnotpay topmchase mare computingpowerthan you plan to use in the next six months.Postpone purchases as long as possible because, ina few months, the equipment will bebetter and theprices will be lower.

Retailers naturally try to sell you a system moreexpensive than you really neecL The best way toavoid spending too much is to be clear on what thecomputer will be used for, then get disinterestedexpert advice on what sort of hardware you will

iL ''optlanaP' ExtrasW henyou buy a computer, make a typewritte

hstof all theequipment that is tobeinctudecL Thiswill avoid misundexstandimgs with the retailer andgetting dinged for "optional extras" later. It willalso probably save you a trip back to the shop lopick up a missing printer or power cable.

You would be amazed what some xetailersconsider optional extras. Various retailers havetoM me the following were aptional extras: - the

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Lateriwilldiscasshardware andsoftwaresetup.Partialhardwaxe setupis often included atno extracharge. However, you will ahnost ceeeQy haveto pay extra for fullsetup. Be clear onexactly whatservices axe included.AT Hardware Checldfst

Here isatypical checklistof all the componentsyou need for an AT clone. You may not needeverything on the list. The brands shown are forillustration only and are NOI'intendedasendorse-ments In your own list, be sure to specify allbrands. This way the retailer cannot switch inlower priced or incompatible coxnixuients.

Make sure you have your checklist with youwhen: au negotiate prices, otherwise you may bestuc'jr later for hundreds of dollars inextracharges.

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Durmg initial negotiations, vendors are nearlyalways willing to throw m all cables, DOS, etc.free. If you don't make that clear during initialnegotiations, you may end up paying extra7. Error: Do It Yourself Setup

Most retailers don't even open the boxes. Youare completely responsible for instaHing and set-ting up your hardware andsoftware. Mostpeopleare tmder the delusion that buying a computer ishke buying a toaster. Yes, you can take it homeand justphigit in, and it will appear to work Yes,you can follow the simple instructions to installeach software package, and they will often appear

Innocents just startusing the computer withoutevendoing the setupwark. They wander whythemouse andmodem won' t work; why the disk is soslow, why other machines cannot exchange flop-pies successfully, why the machine reboots itselfsporadically, why the printer freezes up evexy

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once in a while, why cMcsfsk takes 10 minutes, andwhy the hsxd disk crashes frequently.

They know nothmg of disk ~ and t husgradually dig pits in their hard ~ ev entuallylosing the entire disk. They know nothing ofbackups so when this crash comes, they lose theentire year's work

Nomatterhow many timesI warnnovices of theimportance of backups they adanumtly refuse sodo them properly. It takes a catastrophic lossbefore my words can smk m. It's hke eying toexplain to teenagers why they shauldn't drink and

Novices suffer the ravages of TSR wars andegotistical installation programs that meddle withAUTOEXECSAT andCONHG.SYS withautanyconsideratian for the other mstalled programs.

Innocents sometimes attempt to do the set upwork without6rstbeing trainedhow to do it. Thenthey wonder why theyhaveahuostas muchtxouble

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as those who made no attempt at aH to set thecomputer up properly.Hardware Setup

What is involved in setting up a machine prop-erly? This may sound shit overwhehning. First,you must ensure aH DIP switches and jumpezs areset correctly. You should optimize the hard diskinterleaving and redo the low level formatting(usmg apzogramlHte SpinRite) to ensure itis donewith the correct stepping pulse rate, write pze-comp, reduced wzite cylinder andiuterleave. Thenyou perform the FDISK and high level DOSFORMAT. Then you install DOS and customizeCONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXECBAT.

If you want to avoid trouble later, you shouldscour the disk with a program like HDTest tosearch for tiny flaws that do not show up withordinary testing. You should use a program likethe Dysan Interrogator to ensure the floppy diskdrives are properly aligned and adjusted.

You should label aH cables and counectozsmside and out to reduce the danger of unshHedpeople hoohng up the cables incorrectly. You

them with Cramolin Red, an antioxidizing lubri-cant that cleans metal surfaces and forms a protec-tive layer while maintaining electrical conductiv-ity.

That completes yourhardware installation. 'I?zeonly difficult part of this work is learninghow toset DIP switches. Every machine and printer isdifferent, so you firstneed anunderstanding of theprinciples of I/O ports, interrupts and mterfaces.

Then you need to design a subdirectozy struc-ture for your hard dislz; install your software; andset up BAT files to access the programs and asimple menu system that continually parks thedisk heads. You need to configure presets for thehard disk backup software you have purchased.You may also install a suite of useful SharewareutiTities.

If you want to do a very thorough job you azuldexercise the machines for a week to allow time formost infant mortality problems to show up. Thenyou could use adefragger like Norton SD to move

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aH your directories close to the FAT (hard diskfile allocation table) and defragment your filesfor optimum disk speed.

To do software setup, you need skill with DOScommands and a text editor. Youcanleazn this atnight school comses ar from books on DOS ba-

Parting AdviceBefore youbuy, make smeyou thoroughly test

the machine for compatiMity. Make sure youlook under the hood to judge the quality of thewort tmanship. Buy (or select) your software firstthen test it on the exact hardware you plan to buy.Buy frazn a competent retailer. Find the mostknowledgeable unbiased person you know toadvise you. Do not buy equipznent any fancierthan you need to do the job. Make a checklist ofevery component to avoid paymg later for "op-tional" extras. If you don'tknow how to properlysetup the hardware or software, recruit someonewho does.Grata of Salt

After reading this article, you might get theimpression buying a done is ~ s l i ghtly lessdaunting than tendering a Space Shuttle. Manypeople buy cloues every day without doing anytests at aH. They simply live with the incompati-biTities and quirks. Some users run only oneprognun. As long as that one program works,who cares if the machine has incompatiMitiesthat affect other programs?

You need not follow all my advice to succeedin buying a clone, but if you remember only onesentence from this article, let it be this one: BUYTHE SOFTWARE FIRST!

Roedy Green is the president of CanadianMind Products, ¹1 62-1020 Mainland Street,Vancouver BC, V6B 2T4, (604) 684-6529.He and his company writs custom softwarefor charities and small businesses. Theyhave also assisted inbuying computer hard-ware from a number of different retailers.

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Withm the next Sve years, accordmg to someestimates,70% of the nation's yublished ~- everything from mass market magazines to of-6ce newsleuexs - will be pablished with desktoppublishmg (DTP) technology.

Desktop systems are becoming increasinglypopular with corporate clients who 6nd that itsaves time and money to design, illustrate andprint their own in-house material. An outlay of$12PS can buy a high quality DTP system,whereas muxventional typesetxmg equipment sellsfor over $100,000.

Until fairly recently, serious desktop work wasthe province of the Macintosh, usually oyeratingwith Aldus's sophisricated PageMaker page-lay-out software and Apple's LaserWriter printer.

I)alit around its famous grapbics cbiyt, the Macs'xmply outclassedMS-DOS intbe variety ofhigh-quality software available and the esse of linhngup with a laser yrinter.

Today, however, the Macintosh no longer has aclear edge over competing MS-DOS yroducts.Certainly, a Gxst4me DFP user should no longerfeel obliged to buy aMacmtoshoneplace existingMS-IXI eqmymeat with the Apple computer.One way of m aking an informed deciskm about

choosing between Maciiunsh or MS-DOS cspa-bilitiesfor electronicpubhshing is to take acaxefullook at the user's eristic shlls snd the level ofgraphicsophisticiitionneededin the 6nal product.

3huadly speaking, we are dealmg with threebanc desktop publishing applications.

Object Oriented GraphicsFirst, we have "object-oriented desktop pub-

lishing" where the eud product is the computer-assisted Illustration of a physical object. In thisinstance, elecuxuric publishing demands asiNsi6-cant amount of cmatlve graphics imagery: a logo,cartoon, ilhstrationor I'reehand drawimg.

I'n essence, object-oriented IyFP calls for astrung conceptual ability to translate ideas mtoyictxxrial reyresaatations.

A high level of aesthetic shll and uaining isindislaasable for this type of work, and it isgeaerany conceded that Macintosh systems arebest suited for such high-tech, highmeativityassiyunents. When it comes to freehand drawing,illustration and color sepiuation, the Macintoshsoftware is superior. The gap is closing in this areahowever vrith the release or piaxmed release of anumber of PC drawing packages such as Designer2.0, GEM Artline, Arts k L euexs Editor,Core)Draw and Adobe's mustrator for the PC.

Although die Macintosh is likely to remain tbexxnnpixterof choice among graphicspmfessionals,itis increeingly clear thatlBM (MS-DOS) anvi-xxmnumts willhandlesomeof the mme demandingpplicatioas, yartlcularly those xmtuiriu the mxe-

gxation and use of existhtg dataA wide vsriety of lyFP software hss been writ-

ten fur the Macintosh, less for MS-DOS. Thewidely used PageMalm pxogram, originally hm-ited to the Mac, hss been available for the MS-DOS envhxxnment for a over a year. Uentuxa

Publisher from Xerox, exists only m an MS-DOSversion, though there are persistent rumours of aMac version in the works.Text Based Publishing

The second bioadrsnge of DFP mquirements is"text~anted" withoulyoccsmonalneedforobjectdesign

In the coqorate context, these are docmnentswhich axe consistent in format but are repeatedlygenerated with minor changes in content. Ex-axnples includereports, price lists, yroposals, cata-logues and manuals.

In extracting text or data from suchpackages asLotus snd Autocsd. MS-DOS can easilv accom-plish whatis often acomplex snd time-consummgtask for the Macintosh system.

Once thestylesheetof thedocumentis designedaud the "warm links" (path io content data) havebeen develops «package like Uentura automati-cally reproduces an updated version of a docu-meat. This reduces etror caused by rekeying„notto mention the bene6ts derived from being able topmvide clients and sales staff with current pricelists and catalogues.

The Middle GrxxundText-related desktoppublisbingoperates equally

weII with either system, but the duxd kind of DFPrequirement, a shadowy arne which encompassesboth text and object oxiented graphics, makes itharder to choose between Macmtosh and MS-DOS. This is the field of the true desktop pub-lisher. Every job is a new rute, versatility is thekey. The subject mauer may be busmess forms,bxocheres, business cmds,posters, advertisementsand the list goes on.

The ~ skil l qush6cation in tbe last cate-goxy is an understandmg of page layout, typogra-phy aud the creative choices avaiiaMe in pagecmnyosition software. In addidon, collections of"clip srt", yre-drawn graphics for the non-artist,axe available for such application as businem.forestry andmedical sciences. Thesepackages areequally common for both ~ sh an d MS-MI enviromnents although in many cases theymay have been originally drawn on the Mac.

Which to Chouae1'Gone are the days when the PC had minim@

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These service bureau's will convert your word processed floppymto money-saving'highquality copy, comylete with compHmen-tary graphics andlor photos all on the screea at once to add details orxe-design.For the umnitiated, this article should provide a guide aad glossary.Selecting the right centre that has apympriate cast-effective equip-ment for your job can only be accomplished by geuing acquaintedwith the kmd of equipmeat that's available,Laser Printers vs. Imagesetters

Laser pzintes are fme far the interwffice fliezs, letters andmakeshift throw-aways, but imagesetters turn perishable pages intoyublishable pmducts. %hereaslaser printers typicallyproduce copyat 300 dots per inch (dyi), imageaetters range between 1200 andf2400 dpi.

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Pages produced on the Llnotmnic 1QQ, at a top resolution, are1270 lines per inch/pi);the L200 at 1693 lpi; the L300 at 2540 aadLSQQ at 1693 lpi.

Rates en the Linruxaxuc for gd X 11 inchyage cost tram $7 to$13.Printing projects having gobs of graphic and typeface changes arepriced on an hourly rate, $40 ta $$0. The competition in this area isbegfnrring to heat up with the entrance of Cempuftraphic into thehigh end Postsczipt imagesetter market. Vfatch for these prices tofail as more machmes become installed.Verity per

Currently, Lineteoaic's closest contender in the service bureaumarket is AM Varityper's VT-600 feels Tegrtr. This is a high-quality bond paper laser imager which uses extremely 6ne toner,producing a 600 dpi product.

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Scanners are those "yhatodigitizing" devices that "read" photosand graphics onto a floppy disc. Although new frmpmved scaxmmgsystems seem to smface quite xegularlyaa the~ tlN quality ofhalfmaes — photographs screened for prmtiag — produced by desk-, top publishing budget scaanezs leave much to be desixed.

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Xerox Ventura Publisher is one of the most popular desktoppublishing programs for MS-DOS on the market today. Most userswill agree that ttus popularity is not due to its ease of use, but ratherto the mcredible power of the program. Xerox recently released anew version of Ventura WhBe many users expected major changes,Vetsion 2.0 still looks and operates in basically die same way. Mostof the changes relate to ease of use and program interaction.

Experienced users of Ventura 1.1 will be pleased to see that mostof Ventura menus remain basically the same. Some menu nameshave changed and Ventura programmers have added 304 HelpScreens which will prompt your memory whenever you require it.M enu Re-organization

Instead of offering its former massive selection of choices,Ventura dialogue boxes now list only the current selections. If youwant to see more choices, simply click on the selection and a menuof choices will pop-up. This greatly simplifie selection. Identifyingdialogue box mformation is much easier and faster since less read-mg is involved.

Ventura 2 0 is just as fast as ever, even on an IBM XT. It can nowmake use of expanded memory tn hold the program while operatingand if your computer has up to 2 megabytes of RAM, it will alsoplace your document in memory. This makes it easier to manageextremely long documents. After trying out complex documents(100pages including graphics) on a computer with2megs. of RAM,I found that Ventura managed it quite nicely. Many users hadpreviously been frustrated by creating long documents in Venturaonly to find that the pmgram could not manages such complexdocuments (Remember the message "IMs document is too complexto completely format" after which Ventura would hang, losing anychanges which you hadn't saved.) It also operates quite adequatelywith only 640 K of RAM.

One of Ventura's most interesting chmges is tLst the programnow comes in three versions: Ventura Publisher, the ProfessionalExtension, and Ventura Publisher Network Version. The originalprogram now includes 19 diskettes, five of which are provided byBitslream Corporation. These inchde 9 font outlines allowing HPLaserlet use@a to scale these feats fmm4 to 120 points in size. BothIhe Network version ml the Ptofessional Extension are two 'additions which allow use of Ventura on up to three networkedcomputers for the former, and give Vennm additional features forthe latter. Each of the extensions cost about $$00. The originalpiugramcostsabout$1300.— prices will vary byupto $400depend-ing on where you purchase it

Packaging and support materials are greatly improved. Venturanow boasts a Reference Manual, Bitstream Font Manual and OrderForm, Quick Refeiunce Guide, Training Guide, and a Guide toCreating Layouts with Ventura Publisher. Manual design is morepmfessional and easier to follow. Unfortunately, Ventura's 21 Ex-ample Files have not changed since the originals — these leave a lotlnbedesiredsincethey wemoriginallycreated toworkondotmatrixpdnfers.New Features

Ventura is not an easypmgram to lean. Mostusers feel that sinceit uses a graphic interface, mouse and menus, it should be a snap topick up, but that is not quite the case. Such a complex programrequires the understandmg of some basic concepts before operationcan become effective. Once thee concepts areunderstood, programoperation becomes very efficient. This new version has several im-ptovements which make operation much simpler than before. You

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Ventura now boasts a feature which automatically links text files1'rom different word processors: Load Text at cursor. This makes iteasier to join several text files into one. It supports TIFF and greyscale images, can display EPS files if a TIF or Metafile image isincluded within it — Adobe Illustrator files are displayed whileHarvard Graphics files are not. These will also printon HP Laser Jetsif such is the picture information is included in the EPS foanat.

Interactive fontscag isnow available as is interactive kerning.The 'Show Loose Linis' features which was mostly annoying inversion 1.1 is now quite usehl in version 2.0 since individual linescan be tightened. With interactive font scaling — in one point mcre-ments if they are supported — less Paragraph Styles need to becreated. And each dialogue box can be recalled with a quickkeyboard command making tabs settmgs and image scaling mucheasier and faster. Frames can now be anchored directly to text linesletting you include logos in text with the added benefit of real timereflow with text.

Text can be rotated in 90 degree mcrements mahng Ventura theonly page layout program with this capabiTity. Fonts can be greyscaled even on HP Laser Jetprintas. And anew Vertical Alignnientfeature allows you to align textat the top,middle orbottom of apage,fi arne or box. Ventura also supports CMYK — Cyan, Magenta, Yel-low andBlack — for automatic four colouror spotcolour separationsof up to eight colours.

The Chapter Menu inchdes typography settings for entire docu-ments, Frames can hokl their own typography seuings and eachparagraph style can have settings which override any. defaults. Allcounters are much easier to use. The best feature here is 'PreviousNumber + 1' making complex documents even easier to update.

Graphicscanbeplacedanywhereonapage andfioatuntiedto anyframe. And when worhng in Graphics Mode, the Addition Buttonlets you add new frames if you want to create text flow around foryour graphics.Program 4 Style Sheet Control

A new program feature allows users to set the menus to operateeither as drop down — the normal way for Ventura — or pull dowrtMany past users of Ventura will fmd this new feature extremelyhandy since menus will now come out only if requested.

Style sheets can be ~ to d isk to be output through VenturaThese printouts include font, leading, tab settmg and alignmentinformanon. Style sheets can also be updated more quickly througha new style management dialogue box.

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Disappointmentsand choose 'Abandon' if they don't like their last changes. Screenviews still don't move with you while you type text and while thezoom feature lets you expand the screen around the posinon of themouse, you must move the screen 'nteractively if you want to seeother parts of it.

Vuyter creation is simpler than it was before, but Ventura stilllacks a chapter deletion feature. Users must still place each part oftheir document in one directory and use DOS to remove these com-ponents from their hard drive after archiving for future use. Sincechapters are still as complex as they were before — remember withVentura, Chapter files only include routisg information — filemanagement practices must still be practised.

Despite these failings, Ventura Publisher 2.0 is an absolute must,especiaHy if youratreadyhaveversion 1.1. Iheupgradecostis $150.for most users. This fee is small in comparison to the improvementsin the program. And if you' re new to publishing, but want to createcomplex documents on less powerful computer systems, VenturaPublisher is definitely the one to choose.Nelson Rueet is desktop publishing consultant withONCOURSE LearningCentres He can be reached ut 840-7201 for further information.

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The Professional Extension also makes more extensive use ofextended memory. It includes a massive hyphenation dictionarywhich requires expanded memory to nm. This dictionary is wordbased rather thanrulebased andthus operates muchmoreeffecfivelybut just as fast. If you create long documents injustified formats, theProfessional Extension will giveyou features unavailable anywhereelse.

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Artliue has some good time- saving features. Forone, the screen refresh time is much faster than thatof apiogramoperating mW'itufr7tes,especiallyif the"hide fill" option is on. There are several keyboardshortcuts. Copying an object is a cinch, requiringonly a press of the shift key when the object isselected and dragging the image to anywhere onlhescreen. %hen you release, the copied object ap-

Attline also allows you to printright to your Post-Scriptoulputdevice. It'snotnecessary to print to anEPS 6le and then download this. You can specifyyour halftone screen in lines per inch, allowing forshuper resoluticns. The program supports a widevariety of printers, from dot matrix and inkjet toPostScript devices.

Program Suffers Frmn InexactnessThe most disappointing feature is the lack of

abiTity to ensure the exact sizes of any of your lmes.In the tool box you Qnd a line width scale that willchange the thichiess of the line you have selected.But this scale has no measurements on it. Only byrunning itoff onyour laserprinter canyou getanap-proximate readhtg and this often isn't an accuratepicture of the line thickness that may come out onthe Linotronic output.

Digital Research's Nigel Hearne con6nned thatcustom widths are not available but would be con-sidered in an upgrade.

This lackof mathematical exactness is also feItinthe scaling feature. Although you can scale m per-

ccmtages, you cannot ask fcr a custom size.

WhatkboutCohurfArrliue will give you 16 colours, each of which

can be mcreased in 1% increments. It says it doesboth 4 colour separations and spot colour but notwithout problems. Professional quality, fourcolour-process separations are not possible. Itdoes them but does not allow for over printing forexact registration. To date none of the popularpage layout programs have this exactness either.In the Mac world only FreeHand and Illustratoroffer this professional quality. So, full colourdesktop publishing isnothereyet. Theotherdraw-back in using the colour options in Arrline is thelack of automatic regisaation or crop marks. Reg-istrationmarks are found in the symbol librtuy andcan be applied to your drawing. Henna said thatthis was a deliberate move by Digital Research asthey kit graphic artists would want the freedom toplace these marks wherever they would like. Acompromise might have been to have these fea-tures automtned but with the ability to move them.This would save one from having to access thesymbol library for the registration marks whencustom placing was not needed.

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The second option is to simply print ont theinfoxmahon and have it reset by a conventionaltypeseuer. This also has several drawbacks.'IItteinfarmationmustbepioofed bcforedeliveryto thetypesetter, itmustberekeyedin its entirety, and itmust be rcpmofed once typeset.

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Desktop video does to video whatpublishersdoIo paper. It puts the fmishmg touches onpresenla-uons. Thetis. adding utles, ediung, mixing sound(music and/or voicemver narration) and specialeffects (such as between scenes ammatiaa) cetowhat is known in the trade as "raw footage".Cost Savingsters, titling machines and other print trade tools,Amiga replaces instruments running anywhereirom fifty thousand to a million doilara

The Amiga is the only personal rxunputer that,without costly add cn boards, has a semi~-oned system that allows it to work directly withvideo's speci@ features. Amiga's system wasmadato match the 30 frames-per-seccnd characteristicof video.nus,coupled withanoptional "genlock"unit — the process of superimposing — allowsAmiga users to edit disc programmmg onto video

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One such artist, Jorge Calvo, is using theAmiga to bell thelife story of SamuelBeckeu. theworld-acclauned playwright and Nobel Prize-wmniag novelist, for Ihe PBS network.

AH existing pictures of Samuel Beckett (in-cluding a 17-second Sm clip were) "photodig-itized" ento a floppy disc thea animated ontovideotqm, using a digitizer and gcnlock. Calvotaughthimself to synchronize the video outputofthecemputcrto mixstiH shots and drlvings withthe videotaped materiaL "I was able to get asclose as possible te broadcast graphics withoutthe involved circuiuy," Calvo says. "Whereas ebreadcast~uality machine can cost almosthalf amillion dollars, the Amiga can come very, veryclose — at a &action of the price."

With his digitizer plugged mto the Amiga,Calve connected his Sony Video 8 camera andexperimented with various teclmique to achievethe effects he was lookmg for. By moving thecamera more quickly across the photos than 20-25 seconds a digitizer requires te "read" them,Calve found that he could create a mysteriou,"otherworldly" effect for the stiH shots.Amiga in The Schools

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Yet it's Amiga's TV-type monitor that cea-vinccd,chmnel 10Prograra Dircctor Martin Truaxte buy 6 Amigas this faH fer three of his commu-nity broadcast stations in the Lower MamlancL

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wehsd asystemcaHedthe Kyroa which cost threetimes as much as the Aaugahavingno where nearthe Amiga's performance capabHltics.

"It wouM prink cepheus at the bottom of thescreen," he explamed, "that was it. Not only is theAmiga advaacerL but it's friendly. Aud that' simportant fer us because we work with a lot ofvolunteers."

'Ibc major diffcrcttcc pri-wise is that Amigasrange ftem about flfbceahaadred te Svc thousanddoHars, incbnhaghigh-rcs,monitor, keyboarddiscdriv, amuse, and rnanuaLFenr Amiga Models

There arc now fern Amigas models: The 1000was thc 51CL It was considered over price aaddidn't get the tqyropriate consumer response. SoCommodorecamceutwithAmiga500, thesmaHcrmodel manber presumably reflectmgpncereduc-tion. Thcacame the Amiga 2000. The latestoffcr-ing is the Amiga 2500.

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desktop video appeaL In fact Coauaodere'spte-motioaai push is in the area of education. At themeant (Dcc. '88) World of Cemmedom inTenmte, educators werc handed video camerassad assigned to make a movie. Back in theconference area, they learned Hrsthand hew toadd Amiga graphics to their work

Shcttters mtcrcstedinusing the Amigain theclamreem sheuM contact Reg Nordmau, Com-modore's regional education manager, at 1200West 73rd Ave„suite 900, Van. (261-2854).

One such educational eatcrpriw„The Studioat 1110 Seymour Street (687-7907), was co-founded by David (" head honcho") Cooper-stone. a McGH1 graduate mvelved in teaching,aad pmducing Sms and videos since 1970, and. Andrea Zeitz, a Concordia University graduate,holding degrees m Art Education aud MediaTechnology. Today they are part of an equaHyquali6cd staff ef 10.

Several of their amrses, offered at UBC Cen.PAL, VCC Lsngara, Buraaby Cen. Sec. Sch„andseveral ether accredited locations have work-shops at The Studio. Here, the fundamentals ofpmducingprofessionalvideopresentations,usingthe Amiga and pcripltcrab, are taught and mar-

'The Video Entrepreneur," for instance, is acomm designed for the individual who is in-volved, of wishes to bc involved, in video pro-duction for pre6t.

According to the comse outline this is a prac-tical h~ n course. "Students have theoppor-tanily to pteducc a video for a chent." Courseslast fer eight to ten sessiens. lhe total cost isanywhere from $30 (seniors only) te $130.

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Fxem amauufactmer's point of view, this is thekey cylsticm. %care told that everyday thousandsof business people samy eff to do coxlrmute battlein pxeseatatious small and large. These nem pm-grams wxll make the visuals ccmtyelling, persua-sive, and a positive jey te create. Right, and theFeds will bahmce the budget tool

For the pexlmmhe has to make sales or internalpresentations these pmgrams have the capalityto make creation of the preset ttauen much moreefGcient and effective. However, yeu must havethenecsssaryhardware,softw are,graIthicsknowl-edge aud yes, ume to produce work to rival thatothe pms.

Luchly a cmyof programs have hit the dealeNshelves recently that premise to answer sexue ofthe needs the business pxesenua has. So lets havesleek But befcue we do, allow me te put forth theone point that I'm convmced of.

For the people who use the overhead pmjecter,these pmgrams are heaven seat, but for the peoplewho mant teuse the slide pmjecteras their preseu-tahontool,yeumuststiH wait for tetalsausfacuen.Attention Software Publishers: You aren't goingto shipbigumts of thisstuffunul we have asimyle,cheap, bozo proof output device, aud it isn' t hereyeL

In the meanwle, there are some softwarepmgxams that bear loohng at for preducmg yourpresentation materials. At the forefmat, we haveAldus aud Micmsoft in what I win xefer te as theThe Battle of Seattle:Persuasion vL PowerPoint X01 a

These two companies have a history ef doun-nating theseftwarecategexies thatthey paxhciystem, so it will be interesting te see which one mxllwm the market share in what should be a reason-able size categeqr. In this article, I wtll not coverPowerPoint, because I want to wait muil I receivethe driver software fexhighxesohtionslidesontheGenigraphics system. Hopefully, we will have around two in which PomerPoint miH take on the

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But even with all the advances made by thepresentauon packages, I mould expect that thelion's share of overheads sud slides will be madeby PageMakar. Peoyle use mhat they knew beforediving inta something new. So Aldus's biggestcompetitiea could be Aldus.Page Layout Wars on the Screen

FertheDesktoppubhsher.theyhsvehad tedealwith comyeting pmgrauN that had different phi-losophies. Your choice became moxa thm justfeatures and benefits, but rather how best te ap-proach your assiguxnent, and did it feel naumkThere mere several quesuens to answex; SwissAxmy Knife vs. Specializaticm, Pasteboard vs.Grid setup. Now for these pmjects we add a newcluesuentocousidsr,outlme~ eutedvs. Object-Oriented Apymach.First Impressions

To give each pmgram a workout, I read thedocmnentatiou after doing the tutceial, and theatried using it to do asmmlatedclisutpresentation.I feel that any Mac user could be creating apresentation witheitherof theseprograms inunder

Standout~ by Letraset®It was fust known as Readysethw, a name I

thought made all kind of sensa A changing ofname is tough for any pmduct to pmsyex after, butthis seems te be one of Leuaset's methods ofoperahon. The pmgram is based on the grid phi-losoyhy, so if yeu use ReadySetGo nom, you willbe at home here.

They add a hot featuxe in SuJle sheets, becausem shdes it is nunc important te have a consistentlook than m page layom. More imyonant becauseslides show very cyuckly if you don't have thetitles in the ssmeplaceon each one, otherwise theyjmnp amund en the screen. On toy of that dIey addthe Slide Design System. I must confess I net sureif here's a new concept, ox merely a new' nameyWhatever they cail them, users will call themtemplates.

The documentation that cemes with the pro-gram is comprehensive. A Design Guide is wel-come reference for the user, because the axt efcreating good, simple visuals is an sccpixed one.The tutorial is a separate vohme which will im-

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PfogclWI, II Ihsf It will bo sllalso-ran in this softwaresweepstakes. It offers spellchechng, good type con-trol, a high degree of objectconuol, a Freuchdictionaryif you need it, aud built-inchartmg. However, so does the competition inmany cases, so these don't wow us quite the waythey used to.So what did I like about Stundout?

It hasapoweiful FinderReplacecommand, butin using this while doing my tutorial I experiencheavy bombing at this point. Slightly sticky align-ment guides are a nice featmu.

It is very versatile in the fomiat of what it willreceive, including Paint, PICI', PICF 2, EPSF,TIFF and RIFF. So you can use it with ahnostevery image you have on hand. It saves in PICTformat, important if you want to use Ihe Man-tage™ Film Recorder, which is possibly your bestslide altnna6ve until Postscriptui fihn recarderscome along. For most users, the Glossary featureallow s full ward pmcessing treatment with goodgraphic power.

This is much mere of an object oriented pm-gram snd comes complete with object specifica-tion boxes far manipulation, as well as a fuHcomplement of aH the drawing tools of an enuylevel drew pmgram. Between the wcml processor,pagelayout, charting anddrawingpackagesroHedinto StandOut,you do get sohdvalue, but someofus already havemostof thosecapabiTities in exist-hig plogl'a!usWhat dldn't I care for ln the proyum?How do I import or create a presentation fram anoutline? Many preseuters think that way, andMicrosoft, Aldus, aud Symantec agree, but notLetraset. StandOut's Tabs ruler is a scary thing,unlike any other I' ve seen. And why would aLetraset pmduct not support Pentane Colours,

„'„„even if getung them out of a film recorder isdifficult? For charting, spreadsheets are pmvidedin the pmgram, butif youuse another spreadsheet,like Excelyoucan'tdirectly impart.buthaveto go@rough the clipbosnL This is slow and somewhathmilmg. Anyway you get the picture.Overall verd!cu Nice concepts, poar execution.Aldus® Persuasion~

Even befoxe you open up your Stat icon this isa very impressive package. These people spendfor packaging and it shows! Included with thetraditionally good Aldus manual are some specialmaterials for this pmgram. Sample slides forcolours are included because what shows up anyour MaclI monitor is not necessarily going to bewhat comes back on the shde. Matter of fact italmostnever wiHba, They also mclude apamphletcalled 'Seven secrets to success' in which theycover the simple yet important points about pres-entations you don't want to have to learn bymistake. I know this is motherhood stuff, but itbears repeating. The Desktop Refnence Hip bookmightbe aH some usns ever need to produce their

Installation is typically Aldus, meaning goodand automated, but you better get your hard diskcleaned up, as you wiH need 3.2megs! Included inthe instaH is an On-line help package which willbenefit aH users. The reason I say that is becauseyou usually don'tdo presentations evny day, so itis easier to get rusty than with a page layout

This program is based on the Outline andTemplate system, if yon'veusedPageMaker you'Hfeel at home. In addition, these are templates thatyou would be glad to use, with a good selectionofblack 8r, white and colour templates, along withtips for each template whenyou'rein ahutry. Andisn't that the whole idea behind these packages?Speed and Ease of Use. When you do the tutorial,(and of course, we aH do the tutorials, don't we?)you will be surprised at the lack of steps betweencanoept and hml copy. The tutorial is well out-lined and covers a variety o features and methods.So what did I IHte about Persuasion?

Aside &om what I' ve ahesdy mentioned theinclusion ai clip art that is well drawn, simply.makes aH kinds of sense, asmostpresenters aren' t

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MS-DOS presentation market. Slide Builds aresupported, as they are heavily used in BusinessPresenta6ons. A creative use of pop-up menus atthe bouom saves you time for frequently usedchoices. Duplicating, Gmupmg and Ungroupingadds layout power beyond PageMaker. For ex-ample, for whatever object is selected, Duplicaternnembns a sequence, and allows you to build aseries of objects quickly with few keystrokes.

Most of the features in this program are usefulones, not merely there to fiH up some tech sheetcomparison with other pmgrams.What dldn't I care for ht the program?

Whne do I go to get my slides produced2Because when you phone Aldus, they aren't sureeither, although they were courteous and helpful.I' ve houd abaut the Mirus FihnPrinter and Alduseven includes some samples with the program towhet my appetite. Can I use a Mrus yet? Not inthis city! Another teaser is the card that says theyare developing a Chooser Level Driver. MareVapourWnul AtleastPowerPoint's driver isship-ping, stay tuned for the results.

Another program and yet another way to spec-ify colour, this time with what is called a colourgrid. Please have us leam one method to specifycoloursl Between Freehand, Illustrator, Page-Maker, Quark, et al we have too many! Again onstandanhzing, the magnifying glass is too coarse.Why can't they standardize on an Illustrator typewith its space bar commands.

I would like it if we had ruler guides ala Page-Maker. Showing ruler lines is helpful, but a littleless useful than ruler guides, especially when inclose an something. You can tell when you like apiece of software, when you are reduced to talkingabout samething the pmgram does but you want itto do it differently, because it isn't what you areused to.Overall verdict: If you ne using PageMaker toproduce your overheads, this is a major improve-ment. Persuasion is a solid chmce for mahngtransparencies, the slide pmductian is stiH un-pmven at this time.Steps in Using Persuasion

First decide what your presentation needs are,slides, overheads or paper handouts.Don't skip that first step!: You must know thisbefore opening up your new Glel

Decide whether to use an AutoTemplate oraeate your own format. Then enter the outline,and modify the outline. Here is where you changelevels, order, level of detail, etc. Now you areready to assign Master Slides, by using existingmasters or bymodifymg existing masters to createnew versions.

Fromhereonyou are incontiolof thelookof thepresentation by usmg layering to achieve effects,suchas simulated animation with abuild sequencein the slide show mode. Now aho is the time to addgraphic effects by creating text b!ocks that don' tHow back to the outline, or placmg existing paint,

If this sounds simple, you have the right ideabecause Aldus has produced a tool thatrecognizesthat you dou't have time to be a graphics pro aswell as being in aH those business meetings.Summary

It was hard to admit to myself, but the Ludditehad amajorpoint Theseprograms pmbably won' tsell in the quantities that they should. With onecaveat, until the LaserWriter of slide pmducers ismade, including full PostScriptsupport, thenstandback and watch the slides f!yl But if you needoverheads, you have to uy Persuasion to believejust how easily a presentation can be produced.

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That has changed drama6calty in the last sev-eral years with, first, the introduction of Page-maker 2, then withQuark'sXPress program, whichinchded many feamres Pagemaker lackIL Aldusthen put Pagemaker 3.0 on the market, and nowQuark has mphed with QuarkXPrass 2.0. Thequestion is: Which is beuer2 Which should youspead your money on2

Before I get into the differences between thetwo programs, let me first point out tbe simihui-ties, of whichtherearemany. Firstly, like any Vfpprogrammustbe, theyarebothWYSIWYG(WhatYou See Is What You Get), meaning that the ar-rangement of text, lines, drawings, shading, etc.that isonyour screenwillbe whatyou get on paperwhen you seed the file to the laser printer.

Both programs startoutbyshowingyou abtank"piece of paper" on the screen onto which youplace your text, lines, etc. You may enter text ontothe page either from the keyboard or by "placing"text which was at some earlier mme typed into awordprocessingprogramsuchas Micmsoft Word,Fullwrite Pzefessicnal, or Word Perfect.The text can be placed anywhere on the page

andcanbemoved to anew location cnthatorotherpages at any time. The length of the lines of textcan be altered and the text itself canbechangedbyediting, increasing or decreasing the type size,chmging the typeface (or 'Tant" ), boldfacing,italicizing, or changing various other formats.

The programs allow multiple page documentsand text may be continued from one page toanother.

In addition to text, various graphic elementsmay be created within each program includinglines (vertical, horizontal, or at any angle), andboxes(square, rectangular, oval,orcircular) whichmay be given gray or coloured shading. Like text,

FeaturesMaximum page size .Type size range fernType size incrementsHorizontal character sealingSearch itd replaceSuperior mode(half-size supeiscrlpt)Leader characterUnespaclng incrementsTypesetting leading (baseline to baseline)Box tNtdeiu availableUne widthsLine patternsBox Ill shadesColor support: Box and borderIrregular text wrapAutomatic toifrom page numbersItem placementPasteboard for temp storage of itemsArea fill patternsMaster guide changesreflected throughout documentText startsLeading (line spacing)Select multiple graphic elements

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Other types of graphics — simple line draw-ings, complex, full colour, fatly shaded artwork,and even photographs — that have been createdwith other programscanalsoberead inandplacedon the pages. The graphics can then be re-sizedand/or cropped.

Whenitcomes time toprint thadoctmtent, bothprograms allow outputonto allpostscriptdevices.You may print in portrait (smaller width thmheight) or landscape (greater width than height)format, and both allow you to print "thtunhtaits",which are tinyrepresentations of thepages~onto as few sheets of paper as possible. For pagesizes which are larger than the size of sheet that isbeing printed upon, "tiTing" is possible, givingseveral sections or "tiles" of thepage which, whenpieced together, form the entire page.

The differences between XPress and Page-maker are numemus, but with the exception of afew major concepmal clashes, most are in thereabn of fine tuning.

The most obvious difference between the twois one that creates a strong polarization betwemtusers of the two programs, but which, on closeexamination. is really quite superficiat. In Page-maker, text is held in "text blocks" which are thesame width as the line length of the text, and arecompletely filled with text; it is like an envelopethat clings tightly to the text. The block can bealtered in width, which changes the line length ofthe text, and in height, displaying either more orless of the text depending on where the bottom of

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box is the ease with whichthe column widths andlengths of large Cress of text can be changed. If,for example, you havcdecidcd to run an article intwo columns acmss a space that is normallydivided into three columns, only one changemust be made — the number of columns withinthe text box. Using Pagemaker, on the otherhand, it is a multi-step process involving widthaud location changes to several text blocks.

Similarly, if it is decided that an three colunmarticle should endone inchhigher than smginaHyplaced, only one text box need be changed inXPress, whBC each of the three Pagemaker col-umns must be changed individually.

Another major difference between the pro-grams is Pagemaker's "pasteboard". Surround-ing Pagemaker's on-screen page is blank space.This space can be used to hold text blocks, lines,

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, temporarily store elements that are not currentlyneeded but may be wanted in the future onanother page, for instance, or on the current pagea8er a particularly tricky bit of design work hasbeen completed.

There is nothing similar in XPress; evcty ele-meat — text boxes, hnes, etc. = must be on apage. You can move elements around on a page,but you cannot take them off the page, and theonly way to move an element, trom one page toanother is to use cut and paste. But you mustlmow'whichpage itis going to before you canusethis method.

Colour is becoming more and more importantin the desktop pubhshing world, and XPress al-lows you more flexibiTity in the de5mtion andoutput of coleu;

XPress also allows umr-defined f'rames fortext boxes. This is a powerful feature that putsXpress far aheadof Pagemaker for use in anews-paptaenvironment where advertisements are tra-ditionaHy bordered with a wide variety of stylessnd border widths. Using a separate programsupplied with Xpress, it is possible to create aualmost in6nite variety of simple or complex bor-

ders which canbe used at any width to border textor graphics. Pagcntaker has nothing to compare.The rest of the differences between XPress and

Pagemaker arc more fme uming thm anythingclssc XPress gives you more choices and thereforeniorc control over how tllc vafioiis clciiiciits ori thepage are supposed to look and where they are tobeplacecL

For instance, when an irregularly-shaped illus-tration is placed on a page and the text is supposedto flow or "'wrap" around it, XPress will do itautomaticaHy. Usmg Pagemaker, on the otherhand, you must manually draw the irregular bor-der around the iHustration — it is possible, but it isa time~ ummg and error-prone procedure.

When placing elements on a page, it is impor-tant to be able to grab the element and place itwhere it "looks good". Both programs wiH allowyou to do this. But XPress gives you the addedQcxibiTity of being able to say that you want aparticular text box or 1me or illustration to startcmcrly 1375" below the top of the page andcractly 2.013" in &om the left hand margin of thepage. With Pagemaker, you must rely on theaccuracy of your eyes. XPress also gives you meretypographical control.

Other controls over the look of text are alsomore sophisticated in XPress. Pagemaker, formstance, wiH not aaow text to be "scaled" (hori-zontaHy expanded or contracted). XPress, how-ever, will allow charactess to be contracted to 259oof er expanded to 4009o of their origmal width.

XPress also contains more text editing capabili-ties, inchding a powerM searchandreplacefunc-tion that allows you to search not only for specificcharacters or groups of characters, but also for textsNributcs such as typeface, size, boldfacing, etc.

My conchsion is that Pagemaker 3.0 andQuarkXPress 2.0 are very sinular andeither can beused in place of the other in most circumstances.XPrcss, however, does give considerably moredesign and typographical conlrol for those whoneed or want it.Cameron $mith owns Goncinnital commu-nication Services, a computer-aided publish-ing, training and systems design company.(98S-2249)

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PS Regent is a well established companywith the support and serv>ce program tomeet the needs of the medical office inthe electronic age. We are approved bythe B.C. Medical Association computercommittee, and ready. to meet your re-quirements.PS Regent has one of the widest rangesof services and products for medicalpractitioners in B.C. providing viablebilling alternatives for all types ofmedical practices ranging from a semi-retired practitioner to hospitals and in-stitutes.

PS Regent Service Bureau is designed toserve the practictioner who prefers not tohave a computer in his/her office, or whohas a low volume of claims per day, butmust meet MSP guidelines for electronicbilling.

PS Regent Service Bureau serves thepractitioner in the computer age. PSRegent Service Bureau allows the practi-tioner to submit the billing informationto us on paper. We' ll computerize it, andprint out the reports needed by thedoctor and MSP. You get the financialand practice reporting with no capitaloutlay for hardware.

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doing billmg on-line approaches for medicaldoctors in the provmce of B.C., we thought itwouhl be appropriate fo r¹n this article on usinga BBS or Bulletin Board System. Anyone wih acomputer, u modem and u telecommunicationssoftware package con access these ropidly grow-ing comm¹nu~ionsfor¹rrN.- ed.by Mel Patrick

Ihavebeen running aBBS ofone description oranother since 1981 which was dedicated to theRadio Shack TRS-80 totnputer systems. In 1984I wrote anew BBS which could support 16 sepa-rate topics (sections; or think of them as folders)each with their own message and files sections.Since I wrote the BBS before I even owned aMacintosh it should be obvious that it's not evenrmmmg on a Macmtosbh It's actually runnmg onaRadio ShackTRS-80Mode14.%ithonly 128K,aud a 20 meg hard drive it runs 24 hours a day, 7days a week snd allo~a 300, 1200 or 2400 baud

The focus of this article is on how to use a BBS.SpeciTically mine. I have one section set up forMacmtosh owners exclusively and I will be cov-ering themenus and their related functions. Pleasenote that the same prmciples will apply whetheryou are using a Mscmtosh or MS-DOS compat-

ible computer. My own particular HHS supportsonly TEST's and Macintosh computers, so thefiles on it may not be of much mterest to peoplewith IBM type computers, but the concepts can beapplied to a large number of other BBS's. (For afeirly comprehensive list of BBS's in the LowerMainland see our February issue;ed.)What is a BBS'?

BBS or Bulletin Hoard System as the namesuggests was pmnarily intended for interactivecommunicauons, i.e. messages from one personto another. The files section was actually just afreebee since most operators (called SYSOPS;SYStem OPerators) had some free disk spacethey allowed files to be sent (uploaded) to theirsystems, or you could receive (down1osd) a filefrom their system.

The BBS program itself is usually written bysomeone other than the person who is using it,except in my case, and a version of one form oranother exists for just about every computer evermade. From the Timex 1000 to the Macintoshthere are BHS programs available. The nice thingsabout these BBS programs is that they have beenaround for so long theta sort of standard has beenestablished. Most are menu driven so calhng anew' BBS isn't always like starting over.

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Mere Than Just a Pretty Face)What'3 In Store After The Apri/Deadline? TAA

As the deadline for electronic claimssubmission draws' closer many (ofyou) are still beset with various doubtsand some conf'usion in making a deci-sion that is going to have considerableimpact on important aspects of yourpractice.

%hiie complying with M.S.P.'s re-quirernents to have your payinentsprocessed, you want to ensure thatthis area is handled as efficiently andaccurately as possible.

Other considerations include justhow well your staff can f i i . a newsystem of billing into their daily workroutine. You may also be thinking ofthe additional tasks that can be hand-led by having an in house computersystem.

Then there are other billing options- time sharing or service bureau,where your involvement is limited.

Add io all this the dilemma of buy-ing or leasing and wondering if you' remaking an investment that will lastfor the long term.

To help you along this difficultpath there's a minefield of advice be-ing prof'erred, some qualitied, somefrom people who have very limitedexperience within a medical office.There are surveys and reports fromvarious consultants with varying opi-n ions and p a ckages in t h emarketplace.

New vendors have mushroomed totake advantage of the opportunity.They' re competing with the vendorswho managed to survive and prosperbefore practitioners were volunteeredfor automation. It has been estimatedthat only I55ro of the current vendorswill be around in 1990 - so much forthc long term. Just as with people,computers and sol'tware need a tenderloving hand to nurture them, and helpthem grow to meet new demands.

Bargain basement, furniture storesales tactics abound ... Discounts,free financing, special freebies, freesupport, color and graphic dependentsoftware, "group" purchases and bigshowy advertising. Have they locateda supply of free labou~ and officespace? That solves a lot of problemswhen you' re trying to stay in business.Caveat Premptor'I

There is a privately owned com-pany located in Vancouver for 4 yearswhich has been quietly working away.More than 450 practitioners have suc-cessfully had installed a software pro-gram called "The Doctors System".This system is a product of a com-

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Their philosophy is to provide thekind of solution that will benefit theirclients in several ways and balancequality with cost-effectiveness.

The software was developed bypeople who thoroughly understandthe different demands of variouspractice types - many options areavailable within the program to tailorit to the individual office. Dialog feelsthat the program should allow the of-fice staff to carry out their work in asimilar way to what they are used to.

ln addition to being very flexible inthis way, the program runs bothunder DOS for single user systems asweil as XENIX, an operating systemthat works in a multi user, multi task-ing environment. This expansionfeature offers to users the option tohave their system grow to meet futureneeds and/or take advantage ofpotentially possible feats of wizardrysuch as linking up with hospitals,labs, pharmacies and other healthcare providers.

To ensure that their clients will getthe best measure of value from theirsystem, Dialog has developed a com-prehensive and effective support pro-gram. It starts with documentationand a training program that sets nolimits. Easy to access "Hotline" sup-port is provided by technical staffright in the office and is available forextended hours. A system of "remotediagnostics" was developed to reducedowntime.

The support program also includesongoing software development andtesting. Enhancements and programchanges are provided on a regularbasis to clients and the programmingstaff welcome suggestions from their

Dialog recently acquired the rightsto software which expands their clientsites to include 60 retail and hospitalpharmacies and 200 dental offices.

Over the past few months there hasbeen a lot of movement within the in-dustry, Dialog has maintained thesepreset mandates reflecting their com-mittment and stability. If their evergrowing client base is any indication,they would seem most successful.

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Why BBS's Look So DullThose of you who have called a BBS probably

never received any fancy" graphics or anything.You probably never even Sought about it. Thesimple reason for this is that if graphics were sent,what happens if a different computer withoutlhose graphic capabiTities calls? Graphics wouldshow up as a string of incomprehensible charac-ters on the screen of a different type of computer.So BBS systems tend to be very general in naturefor the most part. IBM systems tend to moveslightly away from the normal and make use oftheir ANSI graphics and cursor positioning. If youhave VT100 emulation available on your terminalsoftware select it if you plan on caHmg an IBM.board. While it won'the letter perfect it will worka lot better than without it.

As you can see, what the BBS is running on isreally munaterial. For the most part the hostcomputer (the one you are calling) is transparentand something that shouldn't concern you at aH.Don't imagine for a second that the largest BBSsystems (networks) like Compuserve or GEnieuse the same type ofcomputer as you are whenyoucall in. Most of these big services run on mam-&ames in order to deal with the volume of caHs.What You Neet to Go OnHneTo access a BBS you need a modem and if you

haven't bought one yet, it would probably be agood idea to purchase a 2400 baud modeL A ruleof thumb for through-put is the baud rate dividedby 10. Therefore a 300 baud modem can.effec-tively send/receive 30 characters per second. Onthe other hand a 2400 baud modem can transfer240 characters per second. Note that this is just arule of thumb and will depend quite heavily onwhat tetminalprogram you areusing and the speedcapahiTity of the host, or the BBS in this case.While it may not matter to you at what speed thehost nms at, consider for a moment two majornetworks, Compuserve and GEnie. At 1200baudCompuserve works around the 63-80 charactersper seumd, GEnie at the same baudrate works outto about 103. Since cost is about the same on eithernetwork at 1200 which one are you going to getyour monies worth out of? The whole point of thematter changes when you are being charged for

calling, you want to go with the best software, atthe highest baud rate with the fastest host.

So first you need a modem. Preferably a 2400baud. You don't have to buy a modem from anyparticular dealer since just about any modemmadewill work just fine on your computer (with theproper cable). As well, you should get a modelwhich is 100% Hayes compatible (in the eventyoucan't af'ford a real Hayes). Many modems purportto bell o Hayes, but they aren't really. A Hayesmodem doesn'thave dip switch settings (these arelittle switches usuaHy inarow of 8 or 10whichyouuse a baHpoint pen to set default power up condi-tions). USRobotics 2400 falls into this category.It's close butno cigar. You can generally expect topay around $2004250 range far 2400, $99-$180for 1200baud.'nie low 300baudmodemshouldn'tevenbe considered inmostcases. The speed is justtoo slow to be usefuL

You also need a cable. Your local computerdealer should be able to supply you with one ofthese andyou can expeotprices to vary agreatdealsophone aroundbeforeyouplunkdown the bucks.

If you got a modem with DIP switches and justcan't figure it out, ask your dealer. The manualsare not really meant to be confusing but I haven' tseen one yet that outlines it in terms that theaverage person can understand.Telecommunications Software

What's left? The software. This is the part thatallows the Macintosh to communicate with themodem which in turn "talks" over the phone linesto the host. There are more than enough selectionsfor getting aterminalprogram. There are anumberof shareware options available to get started inthisareL Once you see if you are going to become a"power-user" you can sprmg for the bigger bucksand get a more feature laden program. To startthough I usually recommend a simple sharewareprogram.One note of concern would be if you have B.C.

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trying to receive (download) a75K file. Atpresentwe have no way to disable the "feature" as some ofthe U.S. phone services do (they can use «70 as aprefix and it will be disabled for the one call) soyou should be aware of it.Software Setup

So now you have all the materials and as the oldsaying goes, "whatdo I do now?". Well, hopefullyyou haven't tried to digest too much of your newmodems manual or you' ll have probably given uplong beforenow. I am going to use Free Terminmyarticle since it is basically very simple and unlessyou need the more powerful features of the highclass commercial software it should work for youvery nicely. The principles are the earns for mostpfogf ams.

Make sure the modem is powered up and mn-nected to the phone line. tuad your communica-tions program and we' ll get started.

The first thing to do is select your terminaloptions. We will enable some of themostcommonparameters in use with abnost any BBS. Even ifyou don'thave FreeTerm these parameters shouldbe available on your teaninal program.

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The window you will get is shown above. Thisis pretty much a standard communications win-dow and, as mentioned, almost all the terminalsoftware has these options.

I' ll briefly explain the selections. Speed is Ihenot the speed of your modem, but rather the speedof the host/BBS/network you are planning oncalling to the maximum limit of your modem. Forexample to call my BBS if you had a 1200 baudmodem, you would select 1200. If you had a 300baud modem you would select 300 and die samefor 2400. However if you were going to call asystem which only supported 300 or 1200 youwould have select 1200 (or 300 but you normallyalways select the highest baud rate possible).

Data bits are almost all set at 8 to ensure thatbinary type files (another name for the Gles wegenerate or applications we use every day) can beuploaded (sent) and/or downloaded (received). Ifyou were only worhng with text, such as with auniversity computer system, you could use 7 bits(the whole computer alphabet is attainable in 7bits).

Stop bits, unless you' re really mto heavy com-munications this should be set at l.

Psrfty is normally NONE. At least in99.9% ofthe cases. Compuserve can be used with a seuingof 7 Data Bits, 2 Stop bits and Parity Even. How-ever you won't be able to download (receive) anyfiles from them.

Duplex isn'treally duplex. It's a misnomer thathas managed to hang around long enough so thatevery one got colnfortable with the label andmisuse of it. What it really means is ECHO.Normal commtuucations works like this. In FULLDuplex (ECHO OFF) you call a remote BBS (oryour friend with another modem) and establish aconnection. When you press a key on your key-board it goes out to the remote, which in tumshould echo it back to you. Whenyou receive yourcharacter back it is displayed on your screen. Sortof like proof reading while you are typing. If thecharacter displayed wasn't what you typed youknow there is an enor. Visual feedback. HalfDuplex (or ECHO ON) waits 'til you press 0 keyand then sends it out the modem to dte remoteAND at the same time displays it on your screen.Guess what happens if the mmote system sendsback your character as well? If you said you gotdouble lieetteenss (hke that)you're100% correct

Port is pretty much up to you. Considering theamount of add-ons I have hanging off the back ofmy MacintoshI need about 5 or 6ports. I usuallyuse the modem port for the modem (anovel idea).On an IBM or compatible this would refer to your ".

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(figum 5) is my BBS number (and has been for 9years). Type in the number you want to call andselect OK (or make default if its the mam systemyou call). WhQe other pmgrams will allow morethan one number this one is fairly simple andalmost everyone should understand it. The lastitem you have to select is what hnd of phone lineyou have. If you' re not sure, you csn never gowrong with Pulse. Remember too, if you'recallinglong distance to get a BBS make sure you prefixthe number with a 1. In our example here thatwould be 15947398.

Some pfugrams will require you to type in thepmfix ATDT or ATDP. This is standard Hayesmodem talk. It tells the modem "Hey wake upsleepy modem, here comes a phone number and itis for a gone or Pulse line."

That's it. Well, at least from the terminal stand-point. Considering the amount of infozmationwhich I' ve given here is only the barest, and usinga simple pmgram to pmvide illustratiofts, you canimagine what you would have faced had you goneout and bought one of the commercial programs.I have a friend with VersaTefm Pro and afteralmost a year he is still uying to figure out whatsome of the flmctions do. At this point he doeswhat most of us in that position would do. Hedoesn't use them.

Comm 1 or Comm 2.XON/XOFF. These are just about indusuy

standards now. What they really mean in plainEnglishis that whenyou are downloading (receiv-ing) an ASCII (text) file, your computer can in-form the remote that itsmemory storage area is fullby sending an XOFF (uansfer off), after which itwill write the memory contents to disk and send anXON (transfer on) to inform the host it is ready toaccept more information. The two computers willinteract like this just fine without your interven-tion. In computerese vre call this "handshaking".

LF after CR. Ah ha, more abbreviations. LF isline feed and CR is carriag return. So what's thedifference? A carriage retm will home the cursorto the first position on the current line. A hne feedwill cause the cursor to advance to the next line.MostBBS systems canhandle either so setting thisis not important. If you find you get informationbeing printed all on the same line when you aretyping it in, try chechng this box.

CRC Xmodem. This is only used whenyou aregoing to upload (send) or download (receive) afile, It provides automatic re-transmission of anyblocks (a file is always split into blocks for trans-fers) in which there are errors detected. nus en-sures that you will get what was sent.

Fast-Track Xmodem. ntis is not a designatedpmtocol but a variation on xmodem. In effect itsays that you are going to uy to go as fast aspossible and worry about errors later. Usually ifyou elect to use this type of transfer any error at allwill abort the transfer and you' ll have to do it allagain. Hence you might as well have done withoutit in the fust place.

Once you have 0H the items set as shown, useMake Defaultor save theoptions endyoushouldn'thave to set them again.

About now you' re either completely confusedor just asleep. Don' t worry about those settings toomuch. Once they are made you probably won' thave to ever look at them again.Dialing the Ruddy Thing

Good griefl There's more? Yes,onemoreminorlittle item. Since you hopefully bought an autoanswer «uto dial modem wouldn'tit be nice if youget the computer to dial the number for you? Inyour modem manual them is enough informationthat you could dial it the hard way, but heck, isn' tthat what you got a computer for'/

Select the Temued Menu again only this thneuse the Dial Setup option as shown below'.

The phone number shown in the dialog box

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Newsbytes Continued from Page 19Sun Dominates Japanese %orkstation MarketTOKYO, JAPAN, 1989 JAN 23 (NB) — Seiko Instruments hasbegun marketing two series and four models of engineering work-stations, receiving its OEM, or original equipment manufacturing,supply Rom U.S.-based Sun Microsystems. Sun's workstationshave been sold through its general agent in Japan, C Jtoh TechnoScience Co., and a total of seven companies are receiving an OEMsupply from Sun. including Toshiba, Fujitsu, Nippon Steel and FujiXerox. Seiko Instruments has been receiving a supply of SUN 3-60,3-260, 4-110 and 4-260, to resell these under the name of SN-3060,SN-3260, SN-4110 and SN4260 with additional value, such as thegraphic display GR series and graphic devices, software, and so on.The price range of these products will be from 1,348,000 yen or$10,370 to 7,199,000 yen or $55,3775. Meanwhile, Seiko Instru-ments is developing a graphic workstation and a high-end networkserver, using Sun's SPARC chip technology. (Naoyuki Yazawa/1989124/Contact: Seiko Instruments Inc. 03-682-1111)Unix International Releases Operating PlansNEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.SA,, 1989 JAN 31 (NB) — UnixInternational has released mfonnation on its organization and rela-tionship with ATILT. Donald J. Herman, the organizing chairman,explained that the chaner and purse of the organization is to ensurethe integrity o Unix System V andhelp plots its future development.

Unix International is expected to manger the definitionproces ofUnix System V, while ATILT will actually develop the product andstrike hcense agreements with the Unix community. Member firmsinclude Amdahl, ATILT, Concurrent, Control Data, NEC, PhoenixTechnologies, Prime Computer, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instru-ments, Toshiba, and Umsys.OSF To Open Research Center In JapanTOKYO, JAPAN, 1989 JAN 27 (NB) — The vice president of theOpen Software Foundation [OSF], Donald O' Shea, visited JapanJanuary 26 and announced that the OSF will establish a researchcenter in Japan. OSF has a resench center in France and providesfunds for cotporateresearch. O'Sheadiscussedtheproposal with topuniversity professors, but details of the discussions are not expecteduntil the end of the summer.

Xerox Joins Two Industry GroupsSTAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, U.S.A., 1989 FEB 8 (NB)-Xerox announced that it will become a member of Unix Interna-tional and the Open Software Foundation [OSFj. The two industrygroups were created last year in an effort to promote a unified,compatible Unix operating environment.

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Lowe believes that supporting these Unix industry standards willhelp the company compete effectively against Unix mainstays likeSun Microsystems and AThT, and ultimately offer benefits toXerox customers.

Multiuser DOS Server Offered By CoconetCORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, U.S.A 1989 FEB 6 (NB) — Co-coNet has announced the first true DOS/Unix server that allows truemultiuser and multitasking in a MS-DOS environment.

The product is a plug and play system that is completely transpar-ent to the DOS user, and is NetBIOS compatible. According to thecompany, this is the fistnme that DOS users can have truemultiuser,multitasking so that several users can access a smgle file via a singleapplication at the same time. The Unix shell that runs the systemprovides all data security for Ihe DOS users, the company explained.Unix International And X/Open To CooperateTOKYO, JAPAN, 1989 FEB 8 (NB) — Unix International has wonthe support of X/Open in its fight against the Open SoftwareFoundation to standardize the Unix operating system.

According to Unix International Chairman Donald J. Herman inTokyo, Unix International will closely cooperate with X/Open andhas agreed to develop an operating system which is fully- compat-ible with both X/Open's Common Apphcation Environment andATgtT's Unix System Version 4.0.

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