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Your article titled "Are Computers Safe?"in your January, 1992 issue is inaccurateabout the Workers' Compensation Board.

Your reporter writes that the WCB is"reluctant to accept carpal tunnel syndrom'edisaMity claims." This is not true. Carpaltunnel syndrome ia well recognized by theW orkers' Compensation Board as acumulative trauma disorder or repetitivemotion disorder. Between 1986 and 1990,accepted wage loss claims for carpal tunnelsyndrome have been growing at more thanSO percent per year. In that same period,more than 7,800 wage loss claims wereaccepted for all types of repetitive motion

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Wanted — A Hard Drive Dealfor a Sanyo Computer

Like many others, I enjoy yourpublication whenever I can get it when I'm

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in town. I'm retired and living in Gibsonson a strict budget, however I do havecomputer and have fun with it. I do mybudgeting (old Quicken program), foolaround with the lotteries (programmed myown randomizer using BASIC A), andcompile genealogical data (excellentprogram trom LDS in Salt Lake City).

My computer, which I bought in 1987, isa Sanyo MBC 16+ series with two 5 1/4drives, 640K RAM, dual speed 8.0/4.77 MHz,DOS 5.2, also an ATI graphic video card.

For one thing, I'm compiling a sizableenealogical data base and am starting toe el a need for a hard drive. H a d a

borrowed computer with a hard drive for awhile and really appreciated its versatility, asyou can imagine. Alas, I had to return it.

Is there any way that you can advise me asto who might give me an honest fair deal toinstall say a 40 MB hard drive in mycomputer?

H. NaratedGibsons, BC

Is Vancouver Gettin9 a BetterDeal on CompuServe?

Could anyone online please tell mewhich of the international online services isthe best buy, dollar-wise? I am presentlytrying out CompuServe on a on~onth trialpackage they sent me. Contrary to whattheir promotional package says, I believe theservice is costing me $10.50 per hour; inaddition, I'm probably going to be charged

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the fl.95 per month as well. Can anyone at7%e Gyrnpu ter Paper tell me everything I wantto know about this subject?

Perhaps Vancouver gets a better deal onC/S than Victoria does, due to its size. Isthis the case? Do Vancouverites get theBasic Services for $7.95 US? Please forwardt his to one of your experts. I a m asubscriber to TheComputerPaper and amlooking forward to February's issue.

P.S.: In Victoria we have to go throughData PAC to get on C/S.

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Conversion Tip - Works toWord for Windows 2.0

I have just purchased and installed Wordfor Windows ver. 2.0. Great package, worthevery penny scraped out of my studentbudget. HOWEVER, I was disappointed tof ind one o f m y mo st n e eded t extconversions (Microsoft Works for DOS) wasnot included with the package. This isimportant to me because I used thisprogram for two years before purchasingWord for Windows ver. 1.1 and have severalhundreds of lab reports, etc. that Icontinuously cut and paste from. Ratherthan convert in Word for Windows ver. 1.1and then open the file as a Word forWindows ver. 1.1 Sle in Word for Windowsver. 2.0, I decided to see if the conversionSle i'rom Word for Windows ver. 1.1 wouldwork in Word for Windows 2.0. It doesill Ihave enclosed a short step by step on how todo it. This might not be news to you, but ifit is, please use it in your paper as a tip.

I frat printed out my WIN.INI Sle SremWindows and noted the name of the. filethat was doing the conversion for MicrosoftWorks for DOS (WWP.DLL) in Word forWindows ver. 1.1 under the [MicrosoftWord] heading in the WIN.INI . I t h enchecked the Word for Windows ver. 2.0

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Text Converters] section in the WIN3NI andit works great. I also did the only otherconversion which was not induded in Wortifor Windows ver. 2.0, Multimate, whichapparently does three conversions with oneSle. Please see enclosed Snished product. Ihave already tried several Works flea bttt

P.S.: What specific software conflicts wasGeorge Slade having with QEMM ver. 6.1and Windows in his review of January 1992?All the students here use IBM platforms,mostly 48lk%, and QEMM is loved. We fredno conflicts whatsoever, and believe gewhen I say we run every program out therefrom AutoCAD to Designer to Excel, etc.

Jack McCamyVictoria, BC

Great work around/ Toff bad Micromp ~this ghastly ofyereight — but they will inctudel aconryeaionfor Wfyrke in the nerrt rfersifyn of Wontfor Windows. Z7urnhefor a tip that shmdd do the

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MastheadNot Timely~ut ComelyShortly I will consider renewal of my

subscription to The Cornpsfer Paper (BC).For two years this publication has been mysource of useful-and, I hoped, timely-market information for B.C. I based my$8500 investment for a home system on yourarticles... and strangely enough... currentadvertised prices. For a neophyte computeruser, living in Williams Lake should be adistinct marketplace handicap. I used yourinformation to acquire a 386SX system, at atime when others were purchasing "soonco-beMted" 286 systems. I was even able tospend my dollars at competitive prices with a

I would like to say thank you for yourhelpful publication — like to, but cannot.Unfortunately, I feel slighted. And it seemsI feel that way for good reason.

When I first attempted to request asubscription to the then "free" paper, Icalled to request commencement, ask for aninvoice, and arrange payment after the factas is the custom in our governmentorganization. In polite but certain terms Iwas requested to pay up&ont. That cost youpossibly two other subscriptions to otherfolks. I nonetheless proceeded with apersonal subscription, fully believing in whatyou produce.

I was also becoming suspicious of latemailings to my residence. Despite being anup-front prepaid customer, I was starting tosee your paper in retail outlets around theprovince, well ahead of the date I wasreceiving my copy in the maiL The mostrecent indignation was receipt of yourJanuary 1992 edition. This contained thewonderful invitation to attend the Pac-RimComputer Show. Your paper was receivedon January 20, 1992, four days after the

I will say little more. T h e story isseemingly deserving of a rebuttal. Theservice is seemingly in need of a priorityadjustment. Canada Post cannot shoulderthe blame for all of society's woes.

Possibly I will meet you at GIS '92. Ihave many positive things to say about yourmagazine. I regret that timely mailing toprepaid customers has not been a 1991success for you.

Eric GundersonWilliams Lake, BC

Sony yon inieeed fhe chere. Ii ruse odverheetin the Jhrviiius rnonfh ar cseIL You ore right, nieore slow. It eeesre fo tahe ourmoilinghouse «p foo week fo gef things to Canada Post. ThenConads Post faker a reach fo most areas ouf of fheLeiacr Mainland. 7%rcse I» fheholy sc4duIearound New Year's and you rNeuhd hove reuiceifyour coPy tight anncad the 20/Jk We ore currentlyin diseussimu fo sPeet «P the time msr inoiTinghoiise !shee fo gef ihe PaPermoving.T/refolhs ofBusiness in Vancouver fell us they can getcoPier of their PaPcr fo Vancouver mukrs eifhin5 days (Prinfed Thursday, in readers handsJifoncfay). That is our goal ne reeR

ESDI the Way tO UO — NOTldrives, and in respect to ESDI drives hestates: "If you are building your ownmachine, this is the way to go if you canafford it." I would like to suggest that Mr.Green get with the program. This is verypoor advice Indeedl! ESDI drives are on theway out. Companies like Maxtor are noteven building ESDI drives right now and areinstead waiting to see what sort of ordervolume they receive, before doing any sortof manufacturing run. As a whole, theindustry did not really buy into ESDItechnology as anticipated. P r u dent,forward4ooking buyers should instead placetheir bets on S CSI-I I w i t h c achingcontrollers for thosehighlandapplications

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Segging to differI have just Snished reading Roedy Green'sartide (How to Build Your Own Computer)in your February edition. If Mr. Green'scolumn was intended as a personal opinioncolumn, it should have been labelled as

As president of Canadian h6nd Products,Mr. Green is an advertiser in 7%c ComputerPaper. Whether Mr. Green is paid for hiswork is, in my mind, irrelevant. In an anidethat spans six pages, readers are told whatproducts Mr. Green and, presumablyCanadian Mind Products, endorse. Readersare also left with a dear impression of whatproducts or components Mr. Green has

For example, Mr. Green says the CgeTchipset is the safest. There are, however,many professionals who would give Intelchipsets the edge over CgcT. Probably asmany as would give the nod to OptL

After going on at length about choosingcomponents, Mr. Green tells his readeis thatthey will need a workshop and tools; "theeasiest way to handle this is to use someoneelse's fully equipped workshop,' he adviseLThe article then goes on to suggest ak itchen table would b e a suitablearrangement for much of the work

I wonder what the staff and graduates ofsuch technical trades institutions as CDI,CompuCollege, BCIT, Kwantlen Collegesnd others must think when someone elsesays a computer can be mainly assembled ona kitchen table. Mr. Green offers no realinstructions on p u t t ing t ogether acomputer, aside Rom offering his opinionson various components.

To make cables, he cautions that you%Ineed a viSe, an Exacto knife and a right-angle triangle. After that, you' re on yourown. (Most cables can be bought for only afew dollars.)

He says ESDI hard drives are the easiestto instalL I will provide Mr. Green with thename;s of several experienced technicianswho would argue that point vigorously. Mr.Green leaves the impression that CSAapproval is a swift — almost assured-process. He fails to mention the charge ofmore than $155 per hour. (Admittedly-ifthe system is properly assembled it couldtake as little as SO minutes.)

In condusion, Mr. Green tells us he isholding a "free course on how to build acomputer. However, a $250 course — also, Iassume. chaired by Mr. Green — is availableto teach you even more. Mr. Green says he is"pretty exacting, but the advantage is that Ipersonally guarantee your workmanship fortwo years." Is he also prepared to guaranteethe workmanship of those naive enough tohave started such a project after reading hisFebruary ardde? My best advice is to leavethis type of work to the. professionals.

Vicnpresident, Versatile Computer

Vancouver, B.C.

Reedy Green responds — I was dismayed to PsdI how many readers interpreted my broad-brushI article on hose to busVd a computer as suppeserQyall you nerd to know. For asamplc, on the subjectof making ribbon cabka alone, I harrc written a

I 4,000 word essay — alaiest as long as thc cntini

Reich is hest: SC5'I ESDI, IDE, IMFM, RLLI Ihave recommended all of thea for some particularcase. ENVOI is simpkst to instaN, bccacssc it docsnot rcrtuinr device drirrcrs and is july standard.Nanhct CS/1 approoalfor a design is snub moracomplee than CSA inspection of a single machinaInspection costs only about $80.Doscns of well-hnown computer authors ansi

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capcrts on BIZ (thc Byte Information Eschangc)

Read again why I nrcommcndcd AM1 and CSV.It is not strictb//for tcchnical merit.Thc little $-day course I teach is clearly nosskrahstcfor a thrcoycar BC/T course Houevmin thc past, aN my students haec bscn ab/c to buildsolid machines — mind you, with mc coachingcocry step of thc way.

Tl sharpens its imageWe recently reviewed Thc Coinputcr Paper,January 199d and particularly noticed thycoverage of our TravelMate 2000 NotebookComputer. After reading several reporting

would like the opportunity to clearlycommunicate the product history andcap alities.

Our business relationship with Sharp hIcrproduced many leading edge products. TheThCOOO is a good example. This notebookemerged once Sharp's LCD technology srNdpackaging prowess was matched with TI'selectronics design and experience. The Snalproduct met FCC regulations and has beenrecognised as an award-winning, full-f unction computer. Th e T M 2 000 i smanufactured at T e xas Instruments'

manufacturing volumes helped reduce costsand competitively position our product inthis aggressive market.

Our Sharp relationship continued on theTMSOOO. In November 1990, we unveiledthe smallest and lightest 886SX notebookcomputer available at that time. Success inour laser printers is largely due to our

. Sharp/TI relationship. We used the Sh+engine and TI's unique electronics toproduce an affordable PostScript microLaserprinter — the smallest printer package

In summary, we continue to enjoy astrategic, healthy relationship with Shaxp. Byleveragmg our company strengths, we havereduced design times, reduced productioncosts, increased volumes and secured asigni6cant market share in both productcategories.

Michael G. GrifBnManager, Marketing CommunicationsTemple, Texas

Cantax ClarificationCaneax sells for $60 suggested list price andnot $49.95 as we stated in our article onpersonal tax software in the Februaryedition. The program is also the only one ofthe three personal tax software packagesreviewed which has the ality to print ~ rdupoicate printouts on an HP Laserjet 9 orcompatible which are virtually identical toRevenue Canada forms. Cantax can bereached at (405) 2554665. The program isalso the only one of the three personal taxsoftware packages reviewed which has theaMity to print laser duplicate printouts onan HP Laserjet II or compatible which'arevirtually identical to Revenue Canada forms.Cantax can be reached at (405) 2554665. 0

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AME Unk connects SDRC'sI-DEAS to AutoCADAutodesk Canada has announced AMELink, a new software package that letsAutoCAD customers transfer AutoCAD/AME solid-modeling information toStructural Dynamics Research Corp-oration's I-DEAS software. Autodesk daimsthat the benefits for mechanical engineersand designers of using the two companies'integrated set of industxy-leading productsare more efiiciency and more control overthe designkor~ u f actuxing process.

Autodesk's A dvanced M o d e l ingExtension (AME) — the solid-modelingmodule for AutoCAD — is used to developsolid models of component designs. AMELink transfers the geometry to I-DEAS-SVRC's flagship design product — where itcan be further developed, tested andanalyzed.

AME Link runs on 886- and 48MmsedPCs from IBM, Compaq or 100+-compatibles running DOS 8.8 or higher.The product also runs on HP/Apollo.SPARCstation and ULTRIX. AME Link,AutoCAD and the Advanced ModelingExtension are available in Canada througha select group of SOLID Alliance resellersand all authorized AutoCAD dealers. Thesuggested retail price of AME Link is$8,000.Call 1400445-5415 for the amrest dealer.

Sun and EMCON ofOttawa sign partnershipU.S. graphics workstation giant SunMlcrosystems and EMCON Ltd. of Ottawa(Emanation Control Lhnited) have signed amajor partnership agreement, under whichEMCON will manufacture TEMPESTSPARCstatlon 2 GX wotkstations for SunMicrosystems customers worldwide.EMCON claims to be the largest Canadianprivate sector source o f T E M PESTengineering.

The agreement is part of a Canadian"rationalization pr og r am at SunMicrosystems of Canada, under which Suncontinually evaluates suppliers as potential

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HP marks 20th anniversaryof its first handheld calculatorHewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd. recentlymarked the 20th anniversaxy of the HP 85,HP's first handheldwalculator product,which became known as "the electronicslide rule.

During the early 1970s, William R.Hewlett, HP's cofounder, was impressed byhandheld calculators. While working withHP engineers, Hewlett became convincedthat HP could expand the technology into ashirt-pocket-size calculator capable ofperfoxming trigonometric, logarithmic andexponential functions. The result was theintroduction of the 9 oz. HP 85 on Jan.4,1972. It sold for $895 (U.S. list) andexceeded all sales expectations — more than800,000 units in three yearL

Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd. wasestablished in 1961. The company nowemploys 1,886 people in 27 offices acrossCanada. The company develops andmanufactures products for the worldmarket in three facilities in Canada.Panacom Automation Division, in Waterloo,Ontario, makes X-stations and dataacquisition terminals and control systems.IDACOM Telecommunications Division inEdmonton, Alberta, produces specialized

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The company also introduced two keynotebook PC options: a new advanceddesktop expansion base and an enhanced9600-bps internal data modem

Now, increase the performance of your graphic environments with our new high-speedLocal Bus Graphics Module. Q by Javell's new Local Bus graphics accelerator,designed exclusively for Q's StepUp™ modular systems, executes Windows™ graphicsfunctions in hardware, thus accelerating your Windows™ environment. Overall, theperformance increase is 10 to 20 times faster than conventional video systems, withthe process of opening windows, resizing, pulling down menus and scrolling virtually

Q's new Local Bus Graphics Modules take advantage of recent breakthroughs invideo accelerator technology to offer the best speed/performance solution for today' sgraphical applications. And remember, with Q's StepUp™ modules, you can upgrade to

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The systents — based on Intel's 2S and 20Mhz 886SL microprocessors respectively-claim to achieve three to four and a halfhours of battery life by incorporatingCompaq-designed power managementfeatures. These features include a leadingedge "smart" battery pack with a built-inmicroprocessor that continuously monitorspower use, and a patented backlightingsystem that is supposed to improve screenquality and save up to 50 percent morepower than earlier display designs.

The Compaq LTE Lite/25, equippedwith 16K of high-speed cache memory,provides up to a 25 percent performanceincrease over noncached 25 MHz notebookPCs. Targeted at the most demandingnotebook customers using advancedproductivity business and Windowsapplications, including financial analysis,software development and graphics, theCompaq LTE Lite/2S has four megabytes ofsystem memory and oiFers a sizable 120 MB

Meanwhile, the LTE Lite/20 is targetedat mainstream notebook PC users runningbasic spreadsheet, windowed and e-mailapplications. Equipped with the new Intel20-MHz 586SL chipset and the same powermanagement features as the Compaq LTELite/25, the Compaq LTE Lite/20 has twomegabytes of RAM and is available with upto 84 MB of hard disk space.

The new "full-function" desktopexpansion base, also compatible with theCompaq LTE 866s/20, ofFers two drive bays,integrated fixed disk drive support andmultilevel security features.

The Compaq LTE Lite/20, CompaqLTE Li te /25 an d t h e n e w d esktopexpansion base are now shipping toCompaq marketing partners worldwide.The enhanced 9600-bps modem, which is

machines — both the TravelMate 8000 and

TravellNate 3000 WinSXTexas Instruments announced last

month that it was dropping prices on bothits 886SX-based TravelMate 8000 andTravelMate 8000 WinSX notebookcomputers. The company also annoutrlcedtwo newhighland versions ofthe notebookthe WinSX are now available with a 120 Mbdrive.

Prices on the TravelMate 8000 with 20Mb hard disk start at $2199 (down from$2599), while you can now get a Trave~te8000 WinSX system with 60 Mb hard diskfor $8199 (down from $8499).

available only in North America, and theCompaq LTE Lite/20 Model 120 will beshipping in the first quarter of 1992. BothEngIish an d French - Canad)anconfigurations of the Compaq LTE Lite/20and Compaq LTE Lite/25 are available inCanada today. Canadian Suggested ResalePrices start at $8499 for the basic CompaqLTE Lite/20 Model 40 (with 40 Mb harddisk) and $4899 for the entry-level CompaqLTE Lite/25 Model 60.

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Also announced for the TravelMate8000 series machines were a TravelMate8000 BIOS/Battery Pro and MS-DOS 5.0upgrade kit. It is supposed to improvebattery life — and add the advantages ofDOS 5 to the TravelMate.Call 1400-5E7<500 for the neareet dealer,

llford effers selfwontainedcolor print processorI lford Photo ( Canada) L i mited hasintroduced the Ilford Omnipro System, anew processor that processes direct positivecolour print and overhead material,continuous tone biack~dmhite prints andgraphic arts materials in a single, self-con gained unit, without changing chemistry.

In addition to full-spectrum colourcapabilities, the Omnipro System alsoclaims t o be the wor l d ' s f a stestphotographic colour print processor,providing a wet processing time of underthree minutes for colour pants.

The new system teams a statewfWe~computerized roller transport processorwith advanced new chemicals that canprocess a wide range of colour and black

The Ilford P4 chemical process is basedon Ilford SDB, or si lver dye bleachtechnology. The processor integrates aunique bleach bridge which enables theOmnipro System to switch at the touch of abutton between p rocessing colour,continuous tone black and white, andgraphic arts materials. Users can talreadvantage of a single system and onechemical inventory — instead of multiplemachines, chemistries and technicians;

Available in 20", 26", Sl", 42n and 52"widths, the Ilford Omnipro System isscheduled for availability in mid-l992.

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Sharp introduces pioneeringSCSI-2 color scannerSharp Electronics of Canada is chiming tohave introduced the computer industry'sfirst color scanner that is fully compliant

The JX420, a bighguality color scannerfor business applications such as reportsand proposals, is also the Srst in its dass ofbusiness scanners to offer a transparencyo ption which t r ansforms i t i n t o aprofessional-level scanner capable of bothtransparent and refiectpre scanning modes.With a scanning area of 8 1/2 x ll", it canhandle anything from 85mm slides to glossyphotographs, perfect f o r bu s inesspresentations and production houses.

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Scanning at a true 800 dots-per-inch(dpi). resolution can be increased throughinterpolation up to 600 dpi. The JX-820'smodular interface slot lets the unit connectas a GPIB or SCSI 2 scanner. Also availableis a direct~rint option which, when used inconjunction with the JX-780 or JX-785printers, transforms the JX-820 into a low-cost color copier.

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FOSS is a Vancouver4ased open systemsSystems Integrator specializing in Novell,UNIX and XENIX networking platforms.The company claims to provide all theservices necessary to get these systems upand running smoothly, from initial require-ments analysis, installation, training andongoing Mspport, preventative maintenanceand troubleshooting.

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This new halftone dot will compensatefor dot degradation caused by the threadsof the silkscreen interfering with proper dotreproduction. It is designed to complementIsis Imaging's existing FountainViewsoftware~ ea dy used by SM to produceautomotive graphics, including the 1992Toyota truck line. Isis hnaging Corporationis the developer of the Cirlipse halftohe dotstructure which gives desktop publisherssuperior photographic reproductioncapaMity.

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Program to help softwaredevelopers launch productThe Information Technology Assodation ofCanada (ITAC) — through its regionalbranch ITAC BC (formerly Software BC)and with assistance 6I'om Western EconomicDiversification~s sponsoring the return ofits seminar/consulting program fo rsoftware developers. It's called MarketingYour Somme: A HanCkOn Tour Through

The sponsors claims their program isunique because over the course of it,developers can actually launch their ownproduct.Cosponsor ITAC is the nationalassociation representing the informationtechnology industry including softwaredevelopers a n d publ i shers. T heseminar/consulting programme is one ofthe ways 1TAC BC says it is addressing theneed to upgrade marketing skills withinBC's software community.

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software industry specialists. Each session isthen followed by a personal one~n~neconsulting session.

Some of the topics planned for theprogram include: Budgeting, Publicity,Lead Generation, Product and CorporateIdentification, Production of PromotionalM aterials, Di s t r ibution Chan n e lManagement,'Direct Mail and Advertising.

Seminars are scheduled to commence atThe BC Club on Tuesday, March 24th andwill be held every second Tuesday untilJune 2, 1992. 1TAC BC members get a 75%

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QMS announces 17 ppm,$00 dpi multi-network printer

Known as the+MS-PS 1700, this new laserprinter connects directly to either Ethernetor Token Ring (802.5) networks when theseoptional interface cards are installed.Ethernet supports either DECnet, TCP/IP,NetWare, or EtherTalk protocols.

The Token Ring intedace card supportsNetWare also. Up to four simultaneously

252C, Centronics, parallel, and LocalTalk-plus the optional inted'ace.

The +MS-PS 1700 uses what thecompany calls "Multi-Res technology-which allows user selection of 600 x 600 dpior 500 x 500 dpi output. It is powered by anIntel 80960 CA/25 M h z R l SC-basedprocessor. A not inconsiderable 8 Mb ofRAM is standard and is expandable to 16MB via user~staiable SIMBA

The @MS-PS 1700 also includes anemulation sensing processor (called whatelse but ESP?), designed to automaticallyselect the appropriate printer language onany intedace. Resident selectable lamguagesinclude Adobe's PostScript software, HPPCL 1V, and HP+L 7550 languageL

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techmcians.For mors details, contact QMS Canada Inc., 6660Tnsns4anad'a Hwy., St4aurent (Quebec) H4S NI ortelephone 140046143$2 or 141448$-6640.

IIM Canada to sponsorScience Centre ExhibitIBM Canada announced last monthcorporate sponsorship of a new exhibit atthe Ontario Sdence Centre that combinesSpace exploration with learning.

IBM has sponsored the ChallengerLearning Centre, a new permanent exhibithall which opens in March. IBM has beeninvolved with the NASA space programsince the early 1960s, providing computerhardware and software systems on theground and in spacecraft for every U.S.manned space4ight program since Gemini.

In Toronto, IBM Canada's SoftwareDevelopment Laboratory has worldwide

The17 ppm Canon NX engine features1000aheet input capacity and a 50,000 pageper month duty cycle. It supports up tolegal-size paper, as well as envelopes,transparencies, and label stock An optionalduplexing (two-side) unit and powerenvelope feeder are also available.

The Canadian suggested list price forthe QMSfPS 1700 is $9,495. Options andsupplies include the following: NovellEthernet; Ether Talk Ethernet; TCP/IPEthernet; DECnet Ethernet; duplexer;powered envelope feeder; 4 MB SIMM; 1MB SIMM; microfine toner cartridge;additional paper trays.

The printer is distributed in Canadathrough @MS Canada Inc. direct sales. Theprinter carries a tw~ear warranty and issupported in Canada by @MS Canada Inc.National Service, which offers a variety ofonce depot, and returnco&ctory serviceplans backed by factory~ e d QMS service

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GDT announces new printerpackage for MacBurn aby-based GDT S o f tworks haslaunched PowerPrint, a new QuickDrawprinter driver package for the AppleMacintosh. PowerPrint is a collection ofsoftware printer drivers along with a cablewhich enable hhuintoshes to print to morethan 850 printers.PowerPrint is an upgraded merge of G&T'spopular printer driver packages, JetLinkExpress and PrintLink Collection. I tindudes drivers for Canon BubbleJets andLaserBeams. Epson FX and LQ series,Hewlett-Packard DeskJets, LaserJets'andThinkJets, NEC Pinwriters, and Toshiba Pseries pflnterL

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• • • •Canadian phone companiesform new hoidin9 firms andrevise mandateCanada's major telephone companies lastmonth announced the creation of twojointly held companies — Stentor ResourceCentre Inc. and Stentor Telecom Policy Inc.In addition, they announced a revisedmandate for Telecom Canada, which willnow be known as Stentor Canadian NetnrorkManagement.

The CEOs of the n ine te lephonecompanies unveiled their plans at an

to Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver,Stentor Resource Centre will consolidatethe shareholder companies. marketing andengineering development activities at thenational and international levels. StentorResource Centre will develop and delivernational telecommunications products andservices, will develop national technologystandards, will conduct or sutw:ontractresearch and development projects for thetelephone companies, and will establishi nternational a l l iances with ot h e rtelecommunications organizations. It mayalso become i n volved i n sy stemsdevelopment w i t h the tel e p honecompanies.

Stentor Resource Centre will ofncially bein operation as of January I, 1995. It isexpected to have approximately 2,500employees drawn from the m embertelephone companies. It will be centred inOttawa, but will also have operations inother parts of the country. Brian Hewat,currently Executive Vice:-President-M arketing for Bel l C anada, wil l beappointed President and Chief ExecutiveOfncer of Stentor Resource Centre.

Stentor Telecom Policy will be inoperation on Feb. 5, 1992. The coxnpanywill act as a governmentcelations advisoryand advocacy arm for the shareholdercompanies. Stentor Telecom Policy willfocus on national issues and policy.JocelyneCote-O' Hara, previously vice-presidentgovernment retaixms for B.C. Tel, has beenappointed President and Chief Executive.Ofhcer of Stentor Telecom Policy, whichwill also be headetuartered in Ottawa. 0

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The exclusive-use rule means, forexample, that the family TV room cannoi bethe off ice dur ing the day. This is theconcept of "dedicated space." A separateroom used only as an office best satisfies thisrule.

These rules parallel those for self-employed taxpayers claiming home o ceexpenses.

If you can't meet these rules, you' reprobably out of luck. You won't get a pennyoff your income tax. The cost of havhIg a

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Count the CostIf you do manage to satisfy the rules, oumay deduct the costs of your oifice. e seare usually calculated as a percentage of thetotal cost of the home. The most common

or by the number of rooms.Calculate the square footage or count

the rooms of the "dedicated space" of )tourhome office. Divide this by the total squarefootage of the normal living apace of yourhome, producing your percentage.

Total costs can include fuel, electxijcity,deaning, minor repairs, etc. If you rent yourhome you may use all the monthly reptaLBut if you own your home, you may notindude mortgage interest, property tapres,house insurance and d e preciation.Similarly, you may not include an imp) tedrent on your home.

The new rules say that the home onceexpenses cannot c:xceed your income pornemployment for the year. If they do, theexcess can be carried forward indefinitely,applying against future emplo ent

Out of Ludc AgainAs a regular employee you can't deduct adime of the cost of your computer or cItheroffice equipment, whether owned, ra ted

computers drops drastically — this is a,costyou and you alone must bear.

Commissioned sales employees get onebreak — they can deduct equipment leasing

Don't Call This a Loophole,But...If you can scrounge up some selfwmployedwork using your home office, you may beable to deduct a wider range of costst It' sprobably too late for the 1991 tax year, butit might be a plan for the future.

It is also possible to hammer out a dealwith your employer to do the work at homeon a contract basis. You could furtherconsider depreciating your equipmentI anddeducting home expenses from yourl self-employed income. This might produce anet loss. It's normal for people starting theirown business to carry a net loss for the firstcouple of years.

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n the late 1960's, before he made it bigin the movies, comedian Woody Allenwas busy working the night clubs and

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In this sketch Allen, frustrated attechnology and its reluctance to cooperate,calls all his appliances into the living roomfor a staK meeting. He calls in his toaster,his television, his radio, etc., and proceedsto lecture them on the consequences oftheir actions should they continue tobehave this way. They do. Allen, sensing aconspiracy, makes an example out of histelevision set by attacking it. Technologyretaliates: six months later it gets even bylochng him in an elevator and adling himnames through the ceiling speaker. Thenthings get really ugly.

this if you' re purchasing New and ImprovedDessert Topping or a Ginsu Knife, but itbecomes a costly experiment if you happento be buying a new watch, VCR, or personalcomputer.

In the mid-19'70s, for example, the LED(Light Emitting Diode) digital watch arrivedon the scene with its glowing red numbers.marketed as "the timepiece of the future"these watches were amazingly accurate andcould display, in some cases, time inthousandths of a second. Without one, wewere told, that important meeting orappointment might be missed. Yeah, right.

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This guide contains the c r ucialDeclaration of Conditions of Employment(T2200) and the Statement of EmploymentExpenses (T777). These forms must befilled in to deduct your home oaice. Theguide has information on other possibledeductions — car expenses, for example-and tells you what records you must keep.

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In fact, an American study conducted in1989 shows that most people, whenconfronted with a digital time display, mustlook at it for five times as long — and thenimagine what the watch hands would looklike — before it makes any sense. In otherwords, 09:24:15:25 means Mickey's littlehand is on the 9 while his big hand is on....

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The use of icons is one example here.Macintosh, and more recently IBM (viaWindows), utihze Graphical User Interfaces(GUIs) that replace those impossible-to-

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seconds it takes to determine which icon on

remember commands with physical picturesor icons. What goes on behind the sceneshasn't changed that much, it's just that thecomputer now an imates the actualcommands for us, making it unnecessary tomemorize them. By comparison to thecodemriented world we once had to dealwith, the icon system is great. At least this isthe case when it comes to computers.

Unfortunately, an icon~ed real worldhas its drawbacks. In many instances, iconsonly make sense after they have beenexplained to us for the first time.Just watch

building's elevators attempt to hold thedoors open for a fiend. In the couple of

the control panel means "Open Door," thedoors have shut Oops...sorry about that.

Or step into a new car and try to figure

out of ten I selected "Air Conditioning" inthe middle of winter. Sorry about that. Orworst yet, try to remember if the male orfemale symbol on the restroom door appliesto you. Really sorry about that..ma'aml

Symbols Aren't Enou9hClearly we are being confronted more and

technology is involved. Partly this is due torelaxed trade laws in the global market, andthe attempt to get around language barrierswith icons and international symbols. Insome cases it works. My favorite icon of all

appears on your Mac when it experiences aserious system failure. This is yourcomputer's way of saying "I' ve fallen andcan't get up." No matter what language youspeak, the picture of a weeping computeron your terminal is bound to get your

But let's take this a step further. Ifcomputer manufacturers are really intenton making PCs interact with people moreeffectively, why not incorporate the sameapproach child psychologists employ withyoungsters? Use the punishment andreward system they advocate in the daycareand home environments. In fact, somesoftware developers already use thepunishment approach to some extent; thatannoying "beep" you hear from your PCwhenever you do something wrong is your

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boards and software such a s CIarisHyperCard allow you to customize yourcomputer's audio responses to your ownpreference. Why not reward yourself ~withsomething you can relate to, rather tblan acold "beep" or idle screen? The possibilitiesare endless here. How about using RayCharles's voice from the Di e 't P~epsicommercials? Every time you do somethingcorrectly, or choose the r ight POScommand, Ray's voice would scream fromyour computer. "You got the right one baby,

On second thought, this could get

But It Still Burns My Toast 'Even if we do invent the perfect toaster orPC, it's doubtful that the technology usIed tocreate it will live up to our demandinghuman standards. Despite quality control,ergonomics and artificial intelligence,machines are as susceptible to failures f'romoutside forces as we mortals are.

No wonder there are skeptics out there.Just when you think you' ve got your PCmastered, you come across a warning likethis (from the Norton Uti l ities' UserManual): "A relativistic proton from deepwithin the radio galaxy M87 (a 'cosmic ray,'if you will) can, by extremely ill luck, gocrashing through your disk."

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In some cases the words and phrasessimply f'ade away as the technology becomesantiquated; but in other cases, such as theword "language" (as in FORTRAN, COBOL,etc.) the effect is se profound that the termflnds its way into our daycechsy speech, and


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from these ISO subcommittees, in an efFortto convince us that they really are ahead oftheir time. Senxetixnes it works, and five orten years later that Dick Tracy gadget (with afunny name) we once saw in a movie issuddcnty a reahty.

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Unfortunately there's an element oftruth to this. This is an industry that haselevated change and improvement to an artform. But in the process many of us havebeen alienated by the speed and «iso by theterminology of the movement.

By the time the PC or mainfr<unc you' reusing today has made: it through theresearch, development and marketing stagesand arrived in the workplace for you toboast about, a faster and more e&cientmodel is already making it look like anantique. If computers, like perishable fooditems, were required te carry expirationdates, many would be inedible by the timethey reached the breakfast table.

And like the hardware, the l ingoassociated with it evolves at a frighteningpace. According te the Universal and WorldAlmanacs, there are now more than three-quarters of a million words in the Englishlanguage. Approximately BOO,OOO of theseare technical terms, and the list is growing atan accelerated rate every day.

lt's All 6eorge Lucas's FaultWell, not really. But commerdally successfulbooks, television and movies do have anenormous impact on society's attitudetowards technology and terminology. As themedia's tc:chnical vocabulary increases, sotoo does our own, and even people withlimited computer background begin togurgle their first technical terms.

Sociologists (and parents) have knownfor years that it's when we first learn to talkand ask questions about what's going onaround us that our vocabulary grows thefastest; only when we become settled inte aroutine does this processslow down.

This is why hds are so quick to pick upon technical terms (and also why many ofthe best prelpaxxuners and deverest hackersare in their teens). They' re simply morereceptive to learning. In other words, it's thelearning process itself — not what you' relearning — that a l lows th e yo u ngergeneration to add those highwech texms totheir vocabulary so effortlessly.

Just Who lnvents These YerNns,Anywayscomputer tcxminology, on both a natienaland international leveL The CCIIT SixthPlenaxy Assembly Orange Book-Terms andDefinitions, is a document published by theInternational Telecommunications Union.Geneva, 1978. While not exactly an excitingread, the book does contain both terms antiworking documents on terminology nowconsidered "public domain."

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JargonJargon is really a subset of specificvocabulary. A carpenter speaks of "six-pennynails"; a nurse speaks of "ventricularexpansion"; and a programmer speaks of"read protection." All are jargon and allreside within a person's vocabulary waiting

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adopted by the c onstruction trade,carpenters still refer to nails a's "six penny"

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There are two types of acronyms: trueand displaced. A true acronym's letters are,ideally, made up of the first letters f'rom itsdefinition, and the acronym itself forms apronounceable word. One example wouldbe SCUBA (Self Contained UnderwaterBreather Apparatus). True acronyms arealmost always language-specific, meaningthat the same word rarely occurs in, say,English and Spanish, at the same time.

A displaced acronym, on the otherhand, is often an international mishmash ofa definition's letters that only occasionallyforms a word. Because this happen sorarely, people have become wonderfullycreative: an acronym such as SCSI (SmailComputer System Interface) becomes"scuzzie" to the technically inclined.

Acronyms, unlike jargon, tend tooriginate from specific, often patentedinventions. DTP (Desk Top Publishing) was

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Portmanteau TermsThe computer industry — and scientists ingeneral — are very fond of portmanteauterms. These are hybrid words made up ofthe sounds and meaning of other words(usually only two). A well-known example isSMOG (Smoke + Fog). Closer to home,electrical engineers who design computersspeak of electronic circuits such as NORgates (Not+ Or) and NAND gates (Not+And). Many exotic-sounding technicalterms can be broken down in a similarfashion.

Hijadced TermsFrom Other SciencesComputer professionals are famous forhijachng terminology f'rom other sciences,modifying it, and using it for their ownpurposes. Actually, every profession doesthis, but the computer industry right nowhas an insatiable appetite for terminology.Consider phrases such as "host computer"and "feedback loop," whose roots lie in thebiological sciences.

Addinonally, the medical profession hasplayed a significant role in the design of ourtechnical vocabulary. Terms such as "virus"and "worm" are the most memorableexamples. In fact, the analogy of acomputer virus works so well that when thephrase was first introduced, genuineconcern was expressed by some consumersover the health risks associated withinfected computers.

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power all the time, this is the option foryou. UPSes are a common part of largemain&arne computer systems. If power Sails,these big systems have to shut downgracefully without losing data.

The growing size and complexity ofmicrocomputer systems is making UPSesmore common. Like most computertechnology, UPSes are getting cheaper all

UPSes combine two functions: powerconditioning and battery-power back-up.Different models and designs do this indijFerent ways.

Power ConditioningPower conditioning goes on constantly in aUPS. Robust circuitry cushions thecomputer against power transients. Itensures the power getting to the computeris the smooth, steady AC they are meant to

They protect against spikes, surges andsage by buffering the incoming power.Some protect against brownout by suckingmore current when voltage drops, thenusing the extra power to boost the voltagegoing to the computer.

Battery-power BackupUPSes contain rechargeable batteries.When power fails, these batteries power thecomputer system. The batteries produce DC

into two classes. In an online UPS the

power, while computers are built to use AC.The battery DC must be converted to ACbefore being sent to the computer.

Online and Off-lineThe different types of UPSes divide roughly

batteries power the computer system all thetime. The rest of the UPS serves to keep thebatteries charged using incoming AC power.In an one U PS the batteries only cut in ifthe regular supply fails. There is a lag, a"transfer time," when this switch takes place.Errors can be caused by this switchingprocess. Some experts think oiF-line UPSesdon't deserve the name "uninterruptible."They prefer to hear them called StandbyPower Supplies (SPSes).

UPS StrategiesMost users don t want a UPS that continuesto operate when power failL For them a UPSis for shutting down the system withoutlosing data, time and efFort — the model ofgrace under pressure. The size of a UPSshould be matched with th e p owerrequirements of a system and the timeneeded for emergency back-up andshutdown.

Peripheral devices like printers may notneed UPS backup. It depends how vital thefunction is. For example, a printer may bepxinting a run of cheques. If the job shutdown when the power went out, and thenrestarted, duplicate cheques would beproduced. A big~ough UPS would see thejob through.

on the line if the LAN crashes.

Continuing operation is possible ifneeded. Hospitals and other vital serviceskeep banks of batteries big enough to runfor hours. Stand-by generators can keepcomputers running, but power output i'rommost generators is crude and rough. It mustbe passed through a go o d p o w erconditioner before going to a coxnputer orthis cure can be worse than the disease.

LAN's Best FriendThe LAN (Local Area Network) has a levelof system complexity sufficient to requirebackup with a UPS. Most LANs are used bysmall- to medium~d businesses. Money is

Because of their complexity LANs aremore vulnerable than single compute:rs topower and noise problems. Even a simpleLAN can form ground loops with its ownwiring. This transmits electrical noise among

The BoomerangThere is an option cheaper than a UPS andbetter than no power backup at all: theBoomerang, by Micro Sync. This DChardware device that fits inside a computercase will bail you out when power Sails.

The value of the data lost in a crash canbe more than the cost of the LAN systemhardware. The time spent recovering Rom acrash caused by power failure costs evenmore in lost production. In the interest ofspeed, LAN file-server directories may bestored in volatile RAM memory. If this goesit's a real disaster.

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The Boomerang cuts in as power fails.From its built-in DC battexies it powers thecomputer for SO seconds-long enough toshut down without loss of data It writes allthe data in conventional, expanded andextended RAM to the hard disk, It does thisbailwut backup automaticaHy — it needs nohuman operator.

When p ower c o mes b a ck , theBoomerang automatically reboots and readsthe data back from hard disk to RAM. Thishopefully leaves the computer where itstarted before power failed. The Boomerangcan pull ofF this stunt about three times aday. After that the batteries run down.

Choosing a UPSIf you decide you need a UPS there is aprocess to choosing one. You have to workout your computer system's power demands,then decide how long you want it to keeprunning if the power Ms. This will give youan estimate of the size of UPS you need.

The quality of your power will tell youhow important power conditioning is to you.In Third World countries power is not asclean as in Canada, for example.

Battery life is important when choosing aUPS. How long before the batteries thatcome with the unit wear out and must bereplaced? Batteries can account for 80% ofthe unit's price, so the ongoing expense ofbattery replacement is important.

The Laptop AdvantagePortable laptop computers combine arechargeable battery power supply with ACplug-in capadty and come with their ownUPS. Benefits are limited by battery life andrecharge time. If you know your computer isgoing to operate in a chancy powerenvironment, consider buying a portable

Laptop battexies can be recharged fromless-than-perfect power sources like carcigarette l ighters or small p or tablegenerators. The stored charge can thenproduce dean, steady power for computeroperation. A system of spare batteriescharging up in a separate charger canensure continuous operation.

Suiit-in UisSesUPSes built right into a computer arebecoming more popular. Mounting theminside the standard case cuts the cost oftheir having a case of their own. As morecomputers are made with the role of LANserver in mind, this trend will grow. Thebatteries are heavy, though, and add tenpounds or more to the weight of the

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. PC Wdok magazine reviewed UPSes in itsril 22, 1991 issue. Byte Magosiao reviewed

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A good basic test when shopping is tolook inside the surge protector. In general,the more stufF in there, the better.

Sackup, Sackup, Sackup!A regular, systematic practice of backup isone of the best defenses against powerproblems. The more recent the last badrup,the less new information will need to besalvaged during shutdown. The gapsbetween backups are the amount ofinforxnation you will lose when the system

It's a good habit to back up to your harddrive as you enter new data into RAI IL Acommon~ense appredation of the value ofyour own time and effort will tell you this.

If you' ve spent hours slaving over a word-processing or spreadsheet file withoutbacking up, you' re walking a tightrqpe.Power~upply failure will knock all that Workout of precarious RAM. What you didn' tstore on the hard drive you can't recoverwhen the power comes back on.

Electrical EcologyBe aware of your computer's electricalenvironment. Loads on other parts of thepower supply system can cause problemswith your computer.

Loads with electric engines, like vacuumcleaners, floor polishers, rug-cleaningmachines, refrigerators, washing machinesor fans cause transient power problems.When electric motors first start they suck allthe power on a circuit, causing a sag. Ifcarpenters are remodeling using pIywertools, sags can corrupt the office powersupply all day.

Electric motors rectify AC power to DC,on which they run. This process causespower demand for a motor to follow ajagged form. Echoes of this pattern canmake it into other power supplies, induding

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ome basic steps will go a long waytoward protecting your computersystem from power problems. The~e

can be used along with an UninterruptiblePower Supply.

Cheap, Cheap, CheapA cheap plug-in surge protector can beworse than no protection at all. If youbought a cheap surge protector of a powerbar design from a hardware or drugstoremore than a year ago it may be useless by

Cheap surge protectors can contain aslittle as $1 worth of surge-protecti4nelectronics. These cheap electronics burnout when the first big power surge hitsthem. After that all you have is a simplepower bar mislabeled as a surge protector.The only thing it's doing for you is lulhIng

The Right WaySurge protectors should be replaced everyyear or so. Spending sixty dollars or more toprotect thousands of dollars in delicatecomponents is cheap insurance. You cancontinue to use the old one as a sim~le

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Computers are delicate compared tolight bulbs, heaters and oven burners.Standards that served these simple deviceswell years ago will deliver power thatdestroys computers and other electronicequipment.

Dedicated CircuitIf possible, put your computer on adedicated circuit. A dedicated circuit is apower line back to the drcuit breaker in thefuse box that you use for nothing but thecomputer system. If you can't set up adedicated drcuit, at least keep sources ofproblem transients — photocopiers, motorsand so on — on different drcuits than yourcomputer.

Warning SignsWatch for signs of AC power problems.Fuses may blow out periodically, or thelights may flicker when a load comes on thesystem. An example is a re6rigerator motorturning on automatically. If these happen,you suffer from a seriously substandardpower supply.

Poor computer perfonnance can pointto power supply problems. Keyboard lock-up, computers that reboot without beingordered, lost or damaged data and flakyprogram behavior are all symptoms.

If perfonnance problems pop up duringweekdays and disappear at mght or on theweekend, the power supply can be theculprit. If computers perform perfectly inthe repair shop, only to behave badly onceback in the office then the office AC may be

Pull the PlugLeaving the computer power unplugged isthe best way to protect the system f'rompower surgeL It saves the surge protector's

capadty to absorb shocks. It am't be erodedaway gradually by the undesirable but notuncommon surges that come down the hnefrom the power company.

If a computer isn't going to be used for awhile, say if you' re going on vacation,unplug it.

Lightning StormsD on't u s e a com p u ter du r in g athunderstorm. A lightning strike on a powerpole anywhere near you will send a spikedown the line so strong you' ll be roastingmarshmallows over your motherboard.

U nplug th e p o wer a a d mo d e mconnections during a storm. A lightningstrike on a phoae pole can send a surge intothe modem that can damage your machine'sinnards. Surge protectors for modems areavailable for $50 or less.

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The unit of electric current.

Alternating Current (AC)Electric current that periodically reversesdirection. (see Current)

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Ampere

Ampere-hour (Amp.-Hr.)A unit for battery capadty, deterxnined bymultiplying the time in hours that a currentSows times the current in amperes.

Amperage

Apparent PowerThe KVA of an alternating current sourceor the volt~perage consumpSon of analtexnatfng current drcuit/load. Apparentpower is usually greater than actual or realpower. A UPS must be sized according tothe total volt-amperes drawn by theproposed load.Automatic lh'ansfer SwitchA switch that automatically transfers electxicloads to alternate or emergencymtandbypower sources.Slack-outAn interruption or total loss of commerdalelectrical power.

Brown-outAn abnormal low-voltage condition oncommerdal power lines. Brownout may beintentionally produced by the powercompany during periods of near overloaddemand, or may be produced by conditionslike storms, Sres or acddents.

Capacitorcharge.Common INode NoiseA noise that happens on all power lines ofan electric circuit shnultaneously,

Critical LoadEquipment that needs uninterrupted powerto prevent damage, loss or injury.

CurrentThe flow of electricity in a circuit; thevolume or intensity of electric Sow. Currentmay be either altexnatilng or direct.

An AC drcuit element that stores electric

for itself.

direction.

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takes soxnc thnc.

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DistributionGetting electric power from the power plantto the point of use.

Electromagnetic Interference(Ell)Noise and transients on power l inesinduced by electromagnetism.

FilterAn electronic device that opposes passageof a frequency or frequency group (band),while allowing passage of other f'rcquendcsor grouys (bands). Filters remove noise,

Local Area Network (LAN)A system of texminah connecting with onepowerful computer which runs them alLLANs are popular in small- to mediuxxssixcdbusinesses because they are a cost~ectiveway for several workers to share a computer.Unintexxuptible power supphes are popularon LAWs because the results of a systemcrash with no protection can be disastrous.Data can be destroyed, work lost, andproductivity thne trampled. The UPS givesthe LAN operator time to shut the systemdown in an orderly fashion, redudng risk oftotal disasters. Salvaging a LAN from justone power failure would make a UPS pay

NoiseSporadic, irregular or multi-frequencyelectrical signals superimposed on thedesired signal. With electric power, noiseconsists of garlxtge signals superimposed onthe power wavcfoxxn.

Off-lineWhen the UPS inverter is off or "cold." Thecomputer is not relying on the UPS battexypower. Switching the UPS online usually

OnlineThe inverter is on and the UPS batteries arebearing load. The time the batteries canpower the computer is being used up.

SagAn undcrmoltage condition, Ã% or morc,

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caused by adding large loads to the powerline in a building. An elevator starting, acopier or coffee pot being tuxned on, or alarge motor on a factory Soor starting cancause sagL

A sharp but brief increase in voltage.commonly caused by turning off heavy loadslike photocopiers, air condirioners, powertools, coffc» machines or other appliances.These devices draw large amounts of powerand, when they are shut off, there is amomentary excess of power on the line thatcan enter computers and cause problems.

SurgeSimilar to a spike, a surge is a longerincrease in voltage. Surges last from 15milliseconds to a half second or more.Surges are commonly caused by the removalof heavy loads (equipment shutdown) orutility power network switching. Surgesseriously damage computers.

%ansformerA device that transforms the voltage of anAC circuit. Transformers may isolate an ACdrcuit from its distribution. Transformersare AC devices only.

Until fairly recently, it was the miiitaxyand its related industries that mass-produced acronyms and portmanteauwords (largely for security, intelligence, orconvenience purposes) . But computerprofessionah have, in the space of a fewdecades, probably doubled that Sgure. Thereason for this is quite simple: the personalcomputing revolution, perhaps more sothan any other phenomenon, has broughtalmost everyone into contact with a rapidlychanging technology.

We may not qpreciate heaxing that "theABMs are done, or fully understand thetechnical glitch that caused it, but we allknow that it translates into no cash f'rom theautomated banking machine on a Fridaynight when we' re late for a movie or adinner reservation. Once technology beginsto affect us on a personal level, we startpicking up its terminology.

Why Not A Simple Approach'ante Rankly, this is unlikely. As is the casewith legal documents, people tend tomuddle through somehow, leaving thereally complicated texms to the csperm. It' sinteresting to speculate, however, on whatthe industry would be like if computerterminology, like some of the hardware,were more user-friendly — perhaps even

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Uninterruptible Power Supply(UPS)A power system that protects against short-term power outages. UPSes typically rectifythe incoming AC line voltage to DC. TheDC voltage charges storage batteries. Aninveftcx', driven by thc DC power, suppltcsAC voltage for vital equipment. How longthc UPS lasts depends on the load it mustsupport and the capadty of the batteries.

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1NattThe unit of power.

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The power supply Rom your wall outletis rated at 110 to IK volti AC (altemathTgcurrent). This rating is the RMS (root-mean~ e) v o ltage, a kind of average that

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CBNtifcaed ONPngd 2SMajor power supply problems likeblackouts and brownouts can cause

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SurgesVoltage surges can cause data loss,erroneous readings in monitoring systems,and hardware damage. These transients canalso cause parity errors and generalprotection interrupts.

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A Language With Character:Chinese Word Processing

T To identify the hurdles and make a fairassessment of the computerization of theChinese language, first we consider some ofthe differences between the Chinesecharacter-writing system and alphabeticlanguages, around which the first computer

programs were developed.Whereas 52 alphabeticsymbols (26 in lower caseand 26 in upper case), afew punctuation marks and

of fundamental Englishword processing, Chinesehas about 8,500 charactersin use today, and althoughthe Kangxi D i ctionarycatalogues nearly 50,000different characters, 95%of al l commonly usedwords are represented byabout 2,000 characters, andmastery of about 8,000characters makes a personessentially literate.

What complicates theissue is the bewilderingvariety of character inputand retrieval methods thatare available. Imagine for amoment that the English

language were written not with 26 letters,but with several thousand. In designing aChinese wordyrocessor, users must be ableto choose, for example, the letter on the

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he Chinese language is spoken andwritten by about 22.5% of humanity.In China, science and technology

have been designated as one of the "FourModernizations" t o en j o y pr i o r i tydevelopment from now into the 21stCenuuy.

One of the moreimportant challenges of the

of using the most powerfulsymbol of science andt ec h n o l o g y — t h ecomputer — to pro cesswords in t h e C h i neselanguage. Unfortunately,

l anguage has beencomplicated by a numberof factors. The m ajorobstacles are the nature ofthe written language, thediversity of its dialects andthe divisiveness of modernChinese politics.

In this artiCI, we offeran o verview of thechallenges, the difficulries

in the effort to computerizethe Chinese language. This is a quest formodernizing things Chinese. In the process,we will also give a brief critique of the majorChinese-language software productsavailable today.

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keyboard that is designated to represent aparticular radical (semantic field), stroke(vertical, horizonta, downward to the left,downward to the right, dot, etc.) or strokesequence.

Assuming that you already know how towrite a few thousand characters in thecorrect stroke sequence, you then have tomemoriz the arbitrary assignment of all thekeys on a Western alphabet keyboard to apen stroke or stroke sequence. The majorbenefit of this method is that you mayretrieve then a character no matter howyour native dialect pronounces it.

On the other hand, if efficiency andsimplicity are what you seek through thecomputer, then you must admit that aphonetic approach has apparent advantages

of sounds in the Chinese language, eachrepresenting several different characterspronounced the same way. Psychologically,the writer first conjures a word phonetiatlly,

not lexicographically, when preparing to putword to paper.

In this respect, the radical/strokemethod is not as "natural" as pinyin (i.e.,input by phonetic code). The universality ofpinyin, unfortunately, is in turn hamperedby the diversity of dialects that prevail inChina — which means that a speaker ofShanghsinese or Cantonese, for example,will pronounce a character quite differentlythan a speaker of M a ndarin, whosepronundation detemtines the entire pinyinsystem.

One More VariableThe existence of dialects and their influenceon pronunciation of Mandarin by nonnativespeakers of Mandarin has also become oneof the monumental obstacles in thedevelopment of voice input for characterretrievaL By the same token, the calligraphicidiosyncrasies of different writers hinder thehit rate of input through handwriting

the Chinese l exicon i n creases the

character strokes on a computer note pad.Once again, the high percentage of

homonyms (several different characterspronounced the same way) embedded in

complexity of input by pinyin even if allusers (different dialect speakers) were topronounce the characters the same way. Forexample, let us say that we wish to reuievethe character for "horse." If we used thepinyin romanization system for retrievingsingle characters, we would type an "m," an"a," and a number 5 to indicate that we wantthe character pronounced "ma" in the"third tone," which is low and riiing.

Having typed in the proper syllableplus-tone, a number of characters, probably six,will appear in a window at the bottom of ourscreen, all pronounced "ma in the thirdtone. Only one of them will be "horse," soafter scanning the window, we must enterthe number (one through six) of thecharacter for "horse," which will then be

Codes relate to each other as MS-DOS and

entered into our text on the screen.On the technical level, those working to

automate the Chinese language are tombetween the "Big 5 Code" (commonly usedin Taiwan) and GB Code (Guojia Biaozhun,adopted by most users in the People' sRepublic of China). Big 5 and GB are twototally different sets of national standardsapproved by two governments. Big 5 and GB

UNIX relate to each other — as totallydiiFerent operating systems that may run onthe same IBMwompatible machine.

The two different encoding systems,adopted by two ideologically incompatiblepolitical systems, also favor two differentforms of phonetic code for retrievingChinese characters — "Bo-po-mo-fo" orZhuyin Fuhao, for Taiwan, and Hanyupinyin, for Mainland China and Singapore.Largely, these two modes of phoneticencoding also support two different forms ofwriting Chinese characters — traditional

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methods have surfaced in the market. This

(complex) characters (fantizi) used byChinese from Taiwan, Hong Kong andoverseas, and simplified characters (jiantiri)used by Mainland Chinese and abo adoptedas the official Chinese writing system bySingapore.

Automation of the Chinese languagetook off in 1980 when research conductedby Zhu Bangscame to fruition with theinvention of Gang Jie Character InputMethod (Cang Jie is the name of themythological inventor of the Chinesewritten language). Between 1980 and today,over 400 types of character retrieval

proliferation of methods, unfortunately, hasproduced great breadth but not as muchdepth in C h i nese-language softwareprograms as we have seen in Westernlanguage programs. Since Chinese hmguagecomputing is a relatively young branch ofscience, even researchers in China have nothad as much time to devote to the task ofperfecting and standardiring it. The majorobstacles, however, relate to the strtscture ofthe language as identified above.

Let us now move on to examine theproducts available in the market and assesstheir role an d p o tential fo r f u turedevelopment. To classify them by theirfimctions may be of the greatest interest toend-users — whom we identify broadly asteachers, translators, publishers, scholarsand business people. They all look fordifFerent features in software that will caterto their particular needs. Hopefully, thefollowing listing may help some of them tomake an informed decision should the needarise.

We start with word processing packages,since they are part of desktop publishingand translation systems. For users not wellversed with any particular phonetic code-be it Hanyu pinyin, bo-po-mo-fo orCantonese — input by pure stroke sequenceis an option, assutning that one can writeChinese and knows the strokes and strokeorder welL It is relatively easy to learn, anasset for those who cannot or do not want togo through a time-consuming training

The price we pay for using this system isretrieving characters one at a thne, which inturn affects the speed of c haracterprocessing. A good example of suchproducts is EasyWord, a software productmanufactured in Australia It requires theuser to input no more than eight strokes ona numeric keypad and choose among the listof single ~ ers d isplayed in a window. Italso offers some word-processing features,but its real strength is its use of the numerickeypad to mimic the actual penning of

p aper. T h e met ho d i s a simp l e ,straightforward "translation" of pen strokesto keypad strokes.

One rung higher up the ladder ofabstraction, the user may be required toinput a combination of radicals (semanticfields), strokes and stroke sequenceL Jn thiscategory, ior example, we have Mr. Qan'sSystem. At the highest level of abstractiondevised to date, input involves a radical(semantic element) key, pinyin and tone ofthe word. For example, to retrieve the

er for she,' we need to input "n for"nu5, the "female semantic element, "ta"for the pronunciation, and 1" to indicatethe "first tone. Such an input methodeBmimates ambiguity on the one hand, buton the other, it requires a lot of work(mental andkeyboard) to produce a single

The Weiwu ( M aterialist) ChineseSofiaatre System is another product that usesradicals and stroke sequences, but to masterit a user must be prepared to spend alengthy dme in training.

The most popular input methods amongworkers in Chinese prindng houses are theWubi (Five Stroke) and Standard

character.

character strokes that one would write on

sounds that link to the adnese characters. It structure

known outside China. The Standard t r aditions

to memorize several thousand fourwumeral character

Telegraphic Codes. The Five Stroke method may wantnow being promoted for use among students allow retnin schools throughout China is not yet well context s

Telegraphic Code is perceived as beyond the charactersreach of average users such as scholars, and Xiahbarbusiness people and translators — who wants words, but

sequences, such as 2055for I or me (wo5)?

Having settled on onedesirable input method,

consider such matters asspeed o f cha r acterretrieval, ease of use,output quality, price,after-sale support andpotential for up g.A full-featured word-processing so f tware

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$500 to $aoo.input methods involvinga' lot of rote leatmng, we

accepting input by pinyinor phonetic spelling.Most products availablein this category willaddress Mandarin or Cantonese speakers. SexihilityisShorter training time makes this method T he gattractive, since the trainee must only learn in d ividualto manipulate 26 litters to produce the o f f ers (a

can also be argued that this method is shortcominnatural, since we speak and think through are moreconcepts that have spoken sounds. Since all only manipschool chfidren in Mainland China and most L oc a l usery oung students in H o n g K ong a n d business seSingapore and in local Mandarin classes of p ackalearn the Hanyu pinyin romanization system, database,users of the second generation will require CAD progrvery Btde training to master input using this America, thmethocL computer

Xialibaren (XLBR for short), a powerful small. Shoyet modes tl y pri ced word mus t evaluaprocessing/desktop publishing software the qualityprogram, accepts pinyin input. Its amazing an apparcapaMity for "phonetic conversion of blocks effectivelyof pinyin input" allows a fluent user to Somecontinue typing English letters without r e l uctancinterruption while the program converts package f'rstring of syllables into Chinese characters, be Chinese vthey@'anti (simplified) or Snti (traditional). 2 . 0 and H

For example, when you key in "women the gap foyiding yao4jianshe4yige fanrongfuqiangde WYSIWYGzhongguo, the display on the Xialibaren G et") featurscreen will be the Chinese characters for d e sktop pWe must build a prosperous, rich and A d obe Typ

strong China." This is indeed a far cty &om m akes itpackages that require users to enter text Srst postscriptby monosyllabic pinyin and then choose one exist in runmncharacter Rom a long list of homonyms. If a T he 1mistake is made or a wrong word is provided comparabf or a particular context, it also offers the i n Eng l ifiexibihty of going back in the sentence to improvempick a more desirable character or character spellwheckmstring without retyping the pinyin spelling. On t h e mar

With the Read Another File function, the ( l i t tle Secreuser can actually do mail merge in annese. pubhsher.As its name (which literally means "Country For MBumphn") suggests, it is a recommendable Version 5,product for non~ecialist teachers, small fonts andprinters, writers, business people, and p r inters, iscultural institutions, induding those who with Macneed to send Chinese texts over their c h o ice ofmodems (for which, by the way, a Chinese advantagCCDOS version of Kermit, the famous d i f ferenttelecommunications shareware program, is ( M icrosoftnow available). same Chin

For other sophisticated telecommu- I ncidenication needs, such as sending- a fax r u d imentmessage in Chinese, XinTianMa may supply system, tha bc:tter, if more expensive, answer. Texts of higher pri

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to look at other packages that'eval by compound words or byensitivity as compared to the1 method of retrieval by single. Programs such as Weiwu pinyin

en offer retrieval by compoundin different ways. To retrieve thes for "Beijing," for example,

Xialibareg will deliverthe right characters inresponse to the entry"bei5jing," and Weiwupinyin may deliver the

response to bj."The Stone (Sitong)

Computer So f twareprogram i s c o n textsensitive (lianxiang),which means that whenyou type b e i5" and

etc. Ease in use and

rouping and association ofcharacters in compound words

nd reflects) insights into theof the Chinese language. Oneg of these products is that they

memory hungry than those that

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ges integrating spreadsheet,text editing, graphics and evenams together. Here in Northe need to do one's accounts or

mded design in Chinese is veryuld such need arise, the buyerte the readality of manuals andof local support, without which

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users do h ave a ge n u inee to learn how to use a newom scratch. Recently marketed

ersions of PageMaker, Windowsarvard Graphics may help to fillr this group. Text preview and(" What-You-See-Is-What-You-es make the job much easier for

ublishers. The availability ofe-1 compatible Chinese fonts

possible to print Chinese onprinters. However, problems still

' g such fonts on PageMaker.ack of t ext-editing featuresle in sophistication to Hypertext

ent. Automatic indexing andg are not yet widely available.

ket recently, we have Xiaomishutary), which is a small desktop

acintosh users MacChinesewhich provides a good choice ofhigh-quality output on laserthe most hkely choice. Coupled

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Wubi (5 Stroke Input Method), Babi (8Stroke Input Method), Cangjie and ' ' g(Pen Stroke Input Method). HDCCDGS(Hua Da Chinese Character Disk OperatipgSystem) 2.12, on the other hand, accepts l5different input methods. The manufactur~start off in good faith recognizing thediversified backgrounds of users and endIipconfusing some novices. For regular users,pinyin is a good and safe start.

Another improvement evident in manycurrent products is automatic conversion&om Jtanti (simplified characters) to Fanti(traditional characters) and vice versa.+the computerization of th e C h ineselanguage takes on a more global scale, tjnsSexiMity is a welcome achievement. SPDOS,XLBR, XinTianMa, etc., all have suchcapaMity.

No technology can thrive withcIutreceiving returns on Snancial investment inthe process of development. In the past andto this day, progress in the developmen( ofsome important software products isseriously hampered by virtual disrespect forcopyright. Piracy results in money drippingdown into the pockets of those who have notcontributed to a product's developmenttechnically or Snancially.

Education of the public as well asvigorous exercise of copyright laws bothj inthe PRC and Hong Kong will graduallyrectify this situation. Meanwhile, somemanufacturers such as XLBR prefer toappeal to the scruples of individual resemersand users, while authors of other products,such as Brushwriter, resort to devices sue) assecurity locks in printing and saving iles toprevent unregistered use of their product

Perhaps when users are more preparedto pay the very reasonable price required formost shareware programs (averaging $15 to$75) and observe their legal and moralobhgations to these products, progranmlxerscan concentrate on upgrading softwareinstead of spending their time trying tosafeguard their copyright. ASer all, users canalways look up products in the publicdomain if they are not ready to pay. A newpiece of legislation on the protectionofcomputer software products took effect inthe PRC on October 1, 1991. This isectlywhere we should start.

have gone into the development of Chinesecomputer software. Future growth will belinked very closely with solutions to theproblems outlined above. An overwhelzInngobstade only lately bemg addressed is that ofcreating compatibility between the GB andBig 5 Codes. XinTianMa and a few othersoftware programs now use a conversion

rogram. Interfacing of this kind, oneopes, will eventually lead to meaningful

cooperation in the years to come.

begun to cover the Seld of Chinese languagecomput'mg. Please direct questions to theauthors,Jan Walls at Simon FraserUnityHarbour Centre, or Eleanor Ng, Director ofAlpha Computer Automation Ltd. ($04)

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and "shadow RAM" should be disabled

running under OS/2 2.0, but if an OS/2 2.0driver is available a DOS or Windows devicedriver is unnecessaty.

5) If I buy IBM OSI2 1.$ now,how much will it cost to get

Nothing. Upgrades to 2.0 have been sentfree of charge to customers who purchasedor upgraded to OS/2 1.2 on or after April17, 1991 and before March 51, 1992. OtherVersion 1.5 licensees will bc assessed anominal media charge (once per site).Version 1.5 EK licensees will receive the full2.0 ES upgrade. IBM reseives the right to

6) What hardware do I need torun IBM 05f2 1.3 SE?You need a PC, PC compatible, or PS/2 withat least an 80286 CPU, 2 MB or more ofRAM (configured as 640K base plus theremainder as extended memory), a 20 MBor larger hard disk, a supported videoadapter (CGA, EGA, VGA, MCGA, 8514/A,XGA, or thirdyarty driver) with appropriatcdisplay, and a highAensity 5.5- or 5.254achfloppy drive for installation. A mouse is

PM wil l n o t op e r ate w i t h theMonochrome Display Adapter or theHercules Monochrome Graphics Adapter.U sually PM w i l l f a i l t o w o r k w i t hmonochrome EGA. However, some EGAadapters (e.g., Paradise Monochrome EGACard, ATI EGA Wonder) will emulate allcolor EGA modes on TTL monochromemonitors and thus will work with PM.Autoswitching on non-IBM EGA adapters

(usually with a DIP switch or jumpersetdng).

On ISA bus machines, OS/2 supports 16-bit hard drive adapters which conform tothe Western Digital chipset interfacestandard (i.e., nearly all MFM, RLL, IDE,and ESDI adapters). An adapter capable ofsector remapping should be used (andenabled) with hard drives larger than 1024cylinders. (The 1024 cylinder limit is a BIOSconstraint.)

IBM OS/2 1.5 is directly compatible withIBM's Microchannel SCSI adapters andattached devices. Question 15 discussesthird-party SCSI compatibility, includingCD-ROM issues. Irwin (tel. 8004484242)manufactures OS/2 compatible tape backupsystems.

Supported printers iadude the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet family; IBM ExecJets,Proprinters, Quickwriters, Quietwriters,Pageprinters, and Laserpiinters; Epson dotmatrix printers; Postscript devices; andother printers compatible with thesefiuniTies. A variety of IBM and HP plotters isa lso supported. I f dif f i culties a reencountered in printing, make sure theprinter port generates interrupts aad doesnot confiict with other installed devices. Alsomake sure that a high~uality, fully wiredcable is used. IBM PS/2 Models 90 and 95must have their parallel printer ports set tocompatibility mode using the setup disk.

IBM OS/2 1.5 runs on a wide array ofclones with a wide variety of hardware.However, compatibility cannot be assuredwith every non-IBM device. Often problemscan be fixed with a BIOS upgrade or anOS/2 corrective service diskette; forexample, CSD 05016 for IBM OS/2 1.5 fixesa problem involving the loss of CMOS setupinformation on certain PGeompatibles.

Version 2.0 will, however, be officiallytested and supported on a wide variety ofnon-IBM equipment, including machinesmanufactured by Compaq, Tandy/Grid,Olivetti, Siemens, AST, CompuAdd, NCR,Aeer, ALR, Apricot, ATaT, Club Amcrican,CSS Labs, DEC, Dell, Epson, Everex, NEC,Netframe, Northgate„Parrallan, Reply,Tandon, Tricord, Toshiba, aad Wysc. Thenumber of supported peripherals and

still rare.

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displays will also increase substantially.

7) What applications are avail-able for OS/2 1.x?It numbers in the low thousands at presentand indudes applicatioas from almost everycategory imagiaable. Some are character-based applications; some are Phased.

DOS ap p l ications wi t h OS/ 2counterparts include Lotus 1-2-5 (bothcharacter and PM), Freelance, MicrosoftWord (both character and PM), Excel,Multiplan, Aldus PageMaker, VenturaPublisher, C orelDraw, W ordPerfect,DisplayWrite, AutoCAD, Orade, RBase, PCSAS, SPSS, HyperAccess/5, DynaComm, Pro-YAM, Borland Sidekick, Paradox, Wingz,Brief, QEdit, and many others.

In some cases DOS and OS/2 versionsship together (e.g., Microsoft Word 5.5,Lotus 1-2-5 5.0, Wingz). Utilities indudePKZIP/UNZIP, SEA's ARC, LHA, Zoo 2.1,GNU tools, tens of differcat file finders,desktop clocks, calculators, aad many more.Prograaaning lan es include Assembler,C++, COBOL, Pascal, C, Fortran, BASIC,REXX, Smalltalk, Modula-2, aad still more.

The IBM NSC BBS (tel. 4044554600)provides an online product database ofhardware and software compatible withOS/2.

8) Where can I obtain OQ2freeware and shareware?Many BBSes hold large OS/2 libraries.Fernwood (tel. 20MSM548) has over 50MB worth. The OS/2 Shareware BBS (tel.705-585-0951) and the Windows Ss OS/2Magazine BBS (tcl. 8054844589, fee req.)carry still more. The IBM NSC BBS has someshareware/freeware as weL', along with CSDsand the PS/2 Assistant (an invaluableresource for locating almost any sort ofinformation on OS/ 2 ) . T he U s e netconference comp. binaries.os2 carries OS/2software. Several sites are available viaanonymous file transfer programs. (No ftp?Send a singlckine message with the wordHELP to bitftpepucc.bitnet to learn aboutPrinceton's ftp mail server.) They includeInternet node number and subdirectories:MTSG.UBC.CA 157.82.27.1 OS2iLUGALATROBE,EDUAU151.172.2.2PUB/OS2FUNIC FUNETSl 12S '214.6.100PUB/OS2MSDOSARCHIVE.UMICH %DU141411.164.165 MSDOS/082N OVELL.COM 15087.4.1 OS 2

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Other sources include CompuServe("GO IBMOS2 ) and the Bitnet/EARN siteBLEKULll(Smd a single4ne message

LISISERV@BLEIKJLlllhlTNErfor more information).

9) Is there a driver availablefor my SCSI adapter?SCSI support has improved dramatically inthe past few months. Users should makesure, however, that driver support extends tomultiple SCSI devices, includiag CD-ROM,tape backup, and both primary (bootable)and secondary (non-bootable) hard diskdrives i n both FAT and H PFSconfigurations. Such extensive support is

Columbia Data Products (tel. 407-869-6700, BBS teL 407%624724) supplies orplaas to supply OS/2 1.5 device drivers fornumerous third-party SCSI adapters,induding some of the products mentionedbelow. Support may be limited to a choice ofone priinary SCSI hard disk drive, or one ormore secondary SCSI hard disk drives.

Adaptec (tel. 40S445-2550, BBS tel. 408-945-7727) provides OS/2 l.x support for

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Bustek (teL 408-25982$7) has OS/2 Lxand 2.0 (beta) drivers for both FAT andHPFS hard disk drives attached to its BT-742A EISA SCSI adapter. CE Infosys {teL7054558800) has OS/2 1.x support largelyiu place for its Microchannel and ISA SCSIadapters and is committed to futureenhancements. DTC/Qume (teL 408-262-7700, BBS teL 4080424197) supports OS/2lw on its 5280 ISA SCSI adapters. WesternDigital (tel. 711486$8102, BNS teL 714-755-1254) overs OS/2 1.$ driver support with its7000 FASS1' ISA SCSI adapter for both FATand HPFS hard disk drives. Seagate (BBSteL 4084588771) has chosen not to supplyan OS/2 driver for its STOl/02 ISA SCSIadapters.

Corel Systems (publisher of CorelDraw,teL 615-7288200) supplies OS/2~mpatibleC94LOM (and rewxiteable) systems.

IBM 08/2 2.0 should include directsupport for many thhbparty SCSI adapters

10) How about a high-resdriver for my video adapter?

In many cases an upto4ate OS/2 driveris available. If not, a driver for an olderversion of OS/2 may work. If all else fails,standard VGA must sunice.

Drivers are available directly f'rom themanufacturer of the video adapter or, inmany cases, thx'ough the shareware/frccwmc sources listed above. Orchid (bamdon Tseng Labs chips) and Txident (amongothers) have released highwesoludon dxiversfor OS/2 1.$; ATI has not. Most 08/2 2.0features will bc available using an OS/2 1.$display drive. DOS and Windows programsrunning under OS/2 2.0 will work with theirown deice driver as well as with any OS/2-supported device.

11) How about a driver for myprinter?

If your printer is not compatible withone of thc drivers supplied with OS/2,check with the printer manufacturer Srst,then with the IBM NSC BBS. For example, aHewlett-Packard LaserJct IlI dxivcr for IBMOS/2 1.5 is now available on the NSC BBS.If you own an IBM printer, check with theLexmark BBS (tel. 6064524655).

Non-PM applications may supply theirown prhxter drivers, and textwnly output isahxays an optioxL

12) How do I access HPPS par-titions on my hard drive with-out booting from the harddrlve7 I' ve done somethinl(like changing CQNFIISYSjthat doesn't let me boot OSI2With IBM's OS/2, insert the InstallationDiskette in Ihive A and reboot. When thelogo appears on screen, press ESX. You willbc given an OS/2 command line prompt

Make sure you back up CONFIG.SYSbefore mahng any changes so that you cancadly revcxt to the old version should thingsgo wrong.

Incidentally, you may use this method torun CHKDSK on your OS/2 boot pardon.After obtaining the OS/2 command lineprompt, remove the Installation Disketteand insert Dhtette 1. Type CHKDSK C: /Fto repair damage to the boot partition.

1$) I can't install OSI2 fromDrive B. What'swronglBM QS/2 can only be installed from DriveA. If you have the wrong disk size, go back toyour dealer and obtain the coxrect media.Otherwise you could go inside your machine

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and swap Soppy drive cable connectors, sueyour system's setup utility to set the newCMOS parameters, and then install OS/2I'rom thc: new Drive A. Sometimes the Soppy

If so you can use the DOS programFDFORMAT (available via anonymous ftpfrom wsmrwimtel2.0.army.mil, directorypdLcmsdos.dskutl>) to create 1.44 MB (80~ 18 s ectors per track) 5.25 inch dists.As before, reset your CMOS parameters tofool your machine into thinking the 5.25-inch drive is actually a high4ensity 5.54nchdrive, DISKCOPYthe diskettes, and instalL

IBM is working to make the installprocess iriendlier in future releases of OS/2.

14) Sometimes PresentationManager will freeze when Irun an application, and I haveto reboot. What's wrongT

Often the problem can be traced to theDOS box. If at all posable, upgrade to trueOS/2 applications. OS/2 1.x provides farmore protecdon in nauve mode.

PM has some protection of its own. It cantrap appBcations that do not respond toinput, but you have to give it a chance. PressCTItLkÃC (to attempt to bring up the TastManager), then walt up to a full minutebefore rebooting (without moving themouse or pressing any other keys); a dialogbox may appear with further instrucuons.

15) Why should I use HPPSVWhat does it offer me7 Does itwork wi& DOS?

HPFS of'fers long file names (greatlyexceeding the "8 dot 5" limit in FAT/DOSfile systems) and speedier disk operation,particularly on large hard disks. HPFS is notcaseeensiuve, although it does prescxve case

However, HPFS i s n o t c u r rentlysupported on removable media, althoughsome programs (e.g., BACKUP) preservelong fil names on such FAT disks. Also,

partition. However, the DOS compatibiTitybox 'sees" ail Iles that conform to the '8 dot5 naming conventions, even if they are

IS) l'm a UNIX wizard. How doI make OSI2 resemble UNIX?A great number of GNU and other standardUNIX utilities have been ported to OS/2native mode and are available from theshareware/freeware sources listed above. Auupc package, UUPC/Extended, is availablevia anonymous ftp fr omsun.soc:.darkson.edu, directory pub/uupc;netmail helpekcw.corn with questions.

In addition, the Hamilton C Shell isavailable from Hamilton Labs, teL 508-558-5715 or netmail 589052221©mchnaiLcom.The Thompson Toolkit, a Bourne4ke shell,is published by Thompson Automation, teL206424-16$9). Thompson overs a version ofawk as welL MES (teL 519484 2251 ornetmail patemkacom) publishes a numberof standard UNIX utiiides for OS/2. TCP/IPsupport is available from IBM {and nolonger requires EE) or ITP Software (sendnetmail to infoeftp.corn).

HPFS offers iong file names (gxeatiyexceeding the "I dot 3 limit in DOS

file systems} and speedier diskoperation, particularly on large

hard disks. HPFS is not case-sensitive, although it does

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facilities. Related software will enable

19) Doesn't OSQ have appletslike Windows? I miss Solitaire.All the Windows applets have been portedto OS/2. The package is called WindowsLibraries for OS/2 (WLO) Version 1.0.They should be ~ l c Born Comp~and from some of the shareware/freewaresites listed above. IBM 08/2 2.0 will shipwith severalapples20) How do l redirect printeroutput to a fileTThe Postscript pinter driver has a builtinoption for prxnting to a file. Navigatethrough the PM Pr int M anagercon6guration options to access this feature.

For all other drivers, Srst hold (pause)the Print Manager queue, then print fromthe application. The output file will belocated below the SPOOL subdirectory.COPY this Sle e1sewhere then cancel the jobirom the Print Manager.

(These mc:thods assume the IBM PrintManager (spooler) is installed and active.)

21) Can I use COhN and COIN4in OSISIBM OS/2 1.x ships with a driver thatsupports COM$ on Microchannel PS/2sonly. However, the Fernwood BBS (andperhaps other sites) caxries a replacementdriver which supports COM 5 and/or

also supports speeds greater than 19,200 bitsper second. Ports must not share intemxptson ISA bus machines, however. Fexnwoodalso carries files that describe patches to the

17) I would like to set up anOSI2 ISS. What is available'Many packages are available fromshareware/frceware somces listed above.OS/2 is an excellc:nt environment for BBSoperation, including large multiline

F idoNet c a pabilities, g a teways t oUsenet/UUCP, n ode-list processing,additional Slecransfer protocols, and more.

Three popular OS/2 BBSes are Maxiuuxs(available from shareware/freewaresources), Omega Point/2 (BBS teL 404564-1961), and Multi-Net (teL 50588$8099, BBStel. 5058858197).

1$) The printed and onlinemanuals do not documentREXX in any detail. Where canI obtain more information'IBM publishes two separate manualrc "IBMOperating System/2 Procedures Language2/REXX User's Guide, Part No. 01F0272,Document No. 801F-0272; and "IBM

crating System/2 Procedures Language2 REXX Reference," Part No. 01F0271,Document No. 801F427L

An alternative is 'Thc: REXX Language:A Practical Guide to Programming (2ndEd.)" by Mike Cowlishaw, Prentice Hall,ISBN 0.1$-7806514.

In addition, there are at least twod ifferent versions of R EX X o n l i nereferences available from one or more ofthe shareware/freeware sources listedabove.

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endorsement.

EcQw's Nefsx At this xsnting, IBM Gxnsds issslliag beta vsrsions of OS/2 2.0 for,C$$2asckufing shipping. AH yes heus xo do Xo quahjjis pxssxiss Xs buy Xhs xsfssxc vxxsioa ehsa it comeout. Thc cmspeay advises that this ~i sa sspxegrass is pnssarily intsackd Xo hslp soPwaxsdssdopcxs and thsx sackaew may bs bsxtsr og tuxssiXfor ths jinni rekass vcxsioa. Csatact IBhf

Smart" (coprocessor-controlled)multiport comxuunication adapters shouldbe used when installing more than fourports. Such an adapter wxil work with OS/2

appropriate driver. Examples indude IBM'sown ARTIC products.

22) On my 1024x788 high-res-olution display I get obnox-iously large icons (84x64).How do I make them smallerTPatch the display driver Sle, DISPLAY,DLL,using a program like DOS's DEBUG. Search ~for the byte sequence 40 00 40 00 20 00 20

23) How do I start a back-ground process from the OSt2command linetLook up t h e S T ART a n d D E T ACH

24) How do I start a DOS appli-cation from a PIN iconsIn IBM OS/2 1.5 DOS applications can bestarted Rom a PM program group icon justlike native: OS/2 and PM programs(assuming the OS/2 CONFIG.SYS iile

PROTKCTONLY=NO) .From the PM desktop go to a pro@mn

group and select New'. Enter the DOSprogram's title (e.g., "Lotus 1-2-5"), the pathto the program (to an EXE, COM, or BATfile, e.g., CM.otus&otus.Exe"), and anyoptional parameters like command lineoptions and/or the DOS application'sworkmg dlrcctoxy (c.g.p Cetus )o Selectthe Add button, and PM will create a DOSicon with that application's name in, theprogram group. These parameters may bealtered by highlighting the icon pnd

applicadon's icon will cause OS/2 to switchto the DOS compatibiTity box and start theapplication.

25) What are CSDs, how do Itell which I have, and wheredo I get them?bug Sxes, periodically issued by IBM. TheOS/2 CSD level number may be obtaInedusing the command SVSLEVEL from theOS/2 comxnand line prompt. CSDs arecumulative, Le., only the most recent CSD isrequired to bring a systenx up from anyprevious CSD level. However, CSDs onlyapply withm a major version number. Forexample, a Ml upgrade, not a CSD, wouldbring OS/2 Version 1.2 up to Version~ 1.5.

CSDs may be ordered by anyone wip snIBM customer number (usually large sites)directly irom IBM (teL &004576511). PS/2an authorized IBM dealer to order the QD.Many dealers do not know about thisprogram, so be persistent. CSDs may Qo bedownloaded from the IBM NSC BBS orCompuSexvc ("GO IBMOS2').

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Even within these animated sequences,the designers of Works for Windows havebuilt further controls. These are standardVCR-like controls — so that you can fastforward, rewind, pause and playback anysequences you want to see again. Microsoftsays this is all part of "showing people how touse PCs in a non~a t oning way."

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computerized awing machine Ihut hus asmall dlgltlzer tablet for designingsSchea However, with so many homessporting PCs these days, Pfaff haspmvkted an apthnal sofhem hterfoce,PC-Designer Software. PC-Designergives tho homo sewer the opportunity todraff their own embroidery designselectmnlcally, to be stitched out on thosowing muchho.

between sewing with a primitive treadle,where you have to have the coomhnation of achurch arganist, and an electrically poweredsewing machine.

Computer technology began to marrywith domestic sewing machiines as early as1980. Computerized sewing machines aremuch like any computer; they have amotherboard, RAM chips (internal memory),and are programmable. Computerizedsewing machines should be treated carefumylike any other computer, for instance, theyshould be plugged into a good surgesuppressor, and should not be exposed toniagnetL

Computerized sewing machines have fewmoving parts, thus incur less wear~d~ar.Routine stitching tasks like buttonholes arepre-programmed, making completion ofgarments much quicker than conventionalmachines. Maintenance on my owncomputerized sewing machine (a five yeaneldBrother Compal Opus), is merely a drop ofoil in the bobbin case every few months.

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Esfperspppepstatiops — We could add a node ata thne to see if the system could handle up

performance. You can't lose with thisproduct; if you have under 25 machines tonetwork and find that it doesn't meet yourneeds, you can upgrade to the server4asedNetWare, and still have your peerco-peernetwork running on top of the system.

Feasfdres — NetWare Lite would be able toconnect the PCs to share printers and files,and there's e-mail included — limited toabout SO characters but good enough tostart with. Also, it would be a step towardsregular backing up of files, as there had

to the maximum of 25 with no decrease in

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and audit trail in NetWare Lite that would

was none before.

been no back i ng-up pr o c eduresimplemented in this office at all Bachng upfiles was up to each user, and most userswere not familiar with the concept of savmgfiles to diskette or tape. There are also somesecurity features, like password protection

give this office a bit of security where there

Si888pficisy — NetWare Lite comes with oneslim manual compared to the pounds andpounds of documentation other networkscome with. I t was my hope that the

network manager to keep things running.Fkxibility — The flexibility to have each

computer designated as a server, a client, oras a server/dient was appealing to network before.

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novices, as we could see what worked bestfor us in the present and in the future.

Installation of Ne5Nare LiteIf you have some network savry and want totry installing NetWare Lite yourself, go for it.I did the next best thing, or perhaps, thebest thing: I found a network consultantwho had installed the system in his ownoKce. Multiuser Computer Solutions, Inc.,of Vancouver, did an excellent job ofinstalling the NetWare Lite. software andEthernet cards, even in ' the o lder,questionably configured 586SX computers.Unlike its we114nown parent, NetWare Liteis still new to most consultants, so ask themspecifically if they have installed the software

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don't feel this is the best use of the sofiware,especially when it comes to memory-~ gWindows applications. I feel the op~urnuse of NetWare Lite is to share data files,e.gea word processing or spreadsheet files,not the programs themselves. With theswapping of programs, the speed ofNetWare Lite is compromised, and that' s

liaining LimitedOne problem that I didn't think through

no NetWare Lite training available for t Isers.Unless you can persuade the consultant whoinstalled your NetWare Lite network tb doit, you may have to train yourself. TheNetWare Lite manual is not going to be ofmuch use to you, as it is has taken a r88therbizarre approach, l i kening n e tworkfunctions to a railroad, complete Pithdrawings of trains, train tracks, conductors,and switches. The manual that, I tho'ughtwould be all I needed to understantI thesystem fell short of giving instructiomls on

applicationL However, I'm sure it won't belong before computer instruction schoolswill catch up with .this new package,' andthere will then be some formal trahtingoptions for new users.

Lite Lived Up to Promisesfunctions, plus it saved the company puchin the initial start-up of a network system.Sharing files over the network was asIluickas saving them to your hard drive. The laserprinters had slowed down a bit, because theywere queuing print jobs, but that is normal

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configured with DOS versions S.l ~ough5.0, and numerous other anomalies, itwould take a full-time network manager toget things cleaned'up, tested, ruyningsmoothly, and regularly backed up.

' Novell's intent is that NetWare Lite be ababy step towards a full NetWare syste+ butI feel that for small networks, NetWare Lite'se xcellent per formance i s a s m u c hnetworking power as would ever be needed.

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ver the past couple of years, Compaqseems to have been suffering whatmight be called "IBM syndrome"-

addeddvalue favorite of corporate customersand then suddenly ibund itself competing ina pric~ sYiive commodity market.

In an effort to win back market share,Compaq has slashed its prices (or ratherdropped the whole idea of recommended

whole new range of extensible PCL Compaqcalls this design mtelhgent modularfty" andit goes beyond what most manufacturersmean when they say their PCs can beupgraded.

By either swapping the completemotherboard — or at least the processor andmemory components — Compaq will let youupgrade its latest range of desktopmachines (the Deskpro M series) from 25MHz S86 systems to full+lown SS MHz 486s.

To ensure the g r eatest possibleflexibiTity in terms of expansion, aU of thesemachines use the EISA 52Wt expansion busthat Compaq helped to develop. AndCompaq has equipped all of them with 240watt power supplies and made most of thenon-performance-related parts f u l lyinterchangeable between one model and

The "top of the line" variation on theDeskpro theme is the Compaq Deskpro486/SSM — which comes with a 486processor running at SS MHz, 4 MB ofmemory, at least a 120 MB hard disk(although you can add far more capacity),VGA display adapter, paralleI and serialports and four EISA expansion slots.

Overall, the Compaq Deskpro 486/SSMis a well-built, cleverly designed, high-performance PC. Its biggest problem,however, is still going to be price. At a timewhen SS MHz 486 systems with hard disksand displays can be had for around $5000

manufacturers, it will be diKcult for manycorporate users to justify paying more thantwice that amount for the Compaq nameand some intriguing design work,

PFFAF cont. Peas Page +5would be an excellent choice for your home-sewing work station. You ctm get some niceeffects hke mirror image and you can plancarefully to get mutti~olor patterns,although you will stilt have to rethread your

If you don't have a PC and don't plan toinvest in one, then compare Pfaff'scomputerized sewing machines to otherbrands to see which best meets your needs.While Pfaff is a very trusted Germanmanufacturer — in fact, my first electricmachine was a Pfaff~ther computerhedmachines have better ways to select stitchnumbers and more impressive embroidery,hke the JapanesebuiltJanome Memory Craft8000. The Memory Craft can sew designs up

colors to individual stitches on the LEDpaneL Dealers are expecting a new versionof theJanome out this summer that will have

scan in color pictures and have themduplicated in threacL

Another brand worth comparing isHusqvarna; their machines have a previewfeature, and display which presser foots andstitch numbers to select for different sewing

Commercial EmbroideryThose sewers that want to start a professionalmonogramming business shouMlmve a lookat high-speed production monogram

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Everex Tempo C 386Compaq is not the only manufacturer ofd esktop PCs who i s m a k ing t h emupgradable these days. Fellow Americanmanufacturer Everex also makes systemswhich are upgradable f'rom a moderatelypowerful 25 MHz S86DX spedfication to abtisteringly fast SS MHz 486DX.

All these systems are based on a small-footpxint desktop computer chassis which isonly S.9 inches high, 15.2 inches wide and15.5 inches deep, powered by a hefty 200watt power supply and weighing only 22pounds. The version we looked at was theentry-level 25 MHz S86 model (there are286 and 586SX systems which use the samechassis, but a different motherboard).

It comes standard with 1 MB of memoty,128K of extexnal RAM cache, connectionsfor an IDE hard disk and up to two standardfloppy disks, VGA display adapter, two serialand one parallel ports and three 16-bitexpansion slots. Memory expansion isrovided using standard SIMMs (single in-' c memory modules) — with up to S2 MB

of RAM able to be i nstalled on themachine's motherboard.

The most interesting aspect of thisotherwise respectable — if a little boring-pint~e PC is the upgradabiTity. Using theEverex Tempo upgrade modules, you canchange a 25 MHz S86 system into a 25 MHz486, while anyone starting with a SS MHzS86 can use this upgrade to easily changetheir machine into a SS MHz 486.

F inally, l ike m ost m i d-range PCmanufacturers, Everex is induding MS-DOS5.0, Windows S.O and a M i c rosoft-compatible mouse with the package-making it instantly "Wmdowsready" to runthe latest and greatest PC applications.

If you need a lovPprofile, upgradable PCat a reasonable cost, you could do far worsethan the Everex Tempo C series of PCs.They are stylish, flexible and appear to offerat least some small measure of "future-proofmg." 0

machines like those by Barudan orMeistergram that have computers onboard.Computerhed monogram machines start at$25,000 and go up to $150,000; theirsofia' starts at $12,000, their speed cm beup to 1800 stitches/minute. Monogramsystems weigh up to a ton, have multipleneedles to run half a dozen colors at once,and several stitching heads can be mountedto sew on several projects simultaneously.The Meistergram can create special effectslike text arching and design scaling.

The satinwtitched, complex crests of aprofessional computerized monogrammachine are stunning. If I had one of thesepower embroidery machindds, I would putaway my tapestry needles for good, but thee mbroidery results I s e e o n h o m ecomputexized sewing machines still keeps mesharpening those needles on emery,beeswaxing my floss, stretching my canvasand Aida doth over frames, and squinting atthose complex designs on gtaphs.

I do like computerized sewing machinesfor everyday sewing, however, and it is nice tosee that Pfaff is beginning to offer homesewers some of the technological advancesborrowed from commerdal sewing. The costof Pfaff's new system seems to me to bebeyond what a typiatl home sewer is willing toinvest, especially for those who sew to save ondothing costs for a growing famiy. 0Co@ssIyas tubonh$$ttsiS is dt VattdoMtrdp fstsdtfpssrdtttde Meirdz spsdfdslidttg il high rccjtrdofogyNadf aeiPtsrdptddtatsdf toPisa

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lectronic mail has always been atroublesome application toimplement on IBMwompadblePCs. It was rarely consistent,often difficult to use and was

M iceuso M a i lThere were many good reasons for this,

not the least of which were the multitude ofPC network operadng system offerings incirculadon. Most of these were incompatiblewith one another — making it impossible toestablish workable enterprise-wxde e-mailsystems.

And even when the network marketstarted to shake out — with Novell leftholding by far the biggest chunk of it — usersfound that they not only wanted to be ableto communicate with other people in theircompany that used PCs, but also with those

terminals.

LAN Manner) ~ well as provide "gatevrays

5.0 for PC networks. Mail 5.0 is easier to use

that still operated mini and mainframe

All of which brings us to 1992. Anyoneserious about electronic mail these daysneeds to offer suppoxt for all major networkoperating systems standards (notably allversions of Novell NetWare and Microsoft

into min xcomputer and m a i n frameelectronic mail systems.

It was with these needs in mind thatMicrosoft went about designing its ownlatest electronic mail system — Microsoft Mail

and far more compatible than any previousversions of Microsoft Mail — particularlywhere hflcrosoft Windows 5.0 is concerned.

PC network sector.

comes in two parts: the server and theworkstation software. The server softwaIre-wbich sells at an SRP of $485 — control) themovement of all electronic mail around the

a central storage point for all messagingdata and is the connecdon point fort any"gateways" which may be established intomini and mam&:une networks.

that Microsoft has made its most signHjcantimprovements to Microsoft Mail. To startwith, Microsoft Mail 5.0 provides what itcalh "global directory synchronization."' Thisis designed to l ink directories on allMicrosoft Mail servers within a network insuch a way that when users are addrtd ordeleted from the electronic mail direptoxyon one server, that change canautomaticallyreflect throughout the email system.

This directory syncbronizatioxx feanIre iseven powerful enough to allow you to makesure that email addresses in the electpuaic" ersonal address books" of users, andirectories held on l inked ove/seas

Microsoft Mail servers aho get updatedimmediately.

An adjunct to this'synchronizati0n ofdirectories is the gexxeradon of an electromc .

:; ..";global address book designed. tooffer„' users SLst. and easy access to the namg and' e-mail ad'dresses of everyone on~ the.". network. It is heM as a single "flat flle "list

of 500,000 user names or more (it isI onlylimited by how much hard disk spacrr. youhave) and thus permits easy keyword

The other major change to theoperation of the server is in how it treats"gateways" to mini and mainframe mailsystems. Under Microsoft Mail 2.1, accessingdifferent mini and mainframe gatrIwaysmeant having a dedicated PC running thatgateway and a copy of the server softwIrrewhich ties up several PCs solely running-server and gateway applications.

Scheduling TasksMali 5.0 corrects this problem through theuse of a "task scheduler" that allows you torun gateways to several different mailsystems hem a single PC-and uses thlc taskscheduler to make sure that the system

at once. Although this would not work in asituation where access to a number ofdifferent gateways was required all the, dme,it does offer network administrators@eaterflexihility in setting up their emafl systems.

But the changes to the server softwareare only half the story. For most users,. the

Microsoft Mail 5.0 and all previous DOSversions of the p r oduct l ies 16 t h e"workstation" software — which novI runsunder Windows SA~ ng it much 'easier

For example, Mail 5.0 indudes the samekind of Toolbar controls that are now aregular feature of other Microsoft Witxdowsapplications (such as Excel and Word forWindows 2.0). You can also view severalmessages on<creen at once using.reVizableWindows, and "drag and drop" messagesand flles frpm one place to another.

If you work in an office where largevolumes of messages are arriving od your

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quality of CPS-1760 will increase your productivity and relieve eye-strainfrom every day use — especially in those applications requiring higherresolutions. A horizontal scan hequency of 30 to 65 KHz with up to .026mm dot pitch provide a non-interlaced resolution of up to 1280 x 1024

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It is a logical companion to the exis)ingApple Macintosh and OS/2 versions ofMicrosoft Mail offered by the company.

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Underneath our rugged cases you' llfind a lot of familiar names. Wesource components from theindustry's leading manufacturersincluding Fujitsu, Microsoft,Toshiba, Philips, and of courseIntel.

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are also loaded with features like error

uying and using a modem used to berelatively easy. Not so long ago, almostall modems were 1200 or 2400 bps

units 'and they were all compatible with theHayes Smartmodems (although some weremore Hayemompatible than others). Howtime has changed.

Today, modems not only run faster, they

control and data compression. Suddenly,you are confronted with all the buzzwords:V.S2, V.S2bis, V.42, V.42bis, MNP4, LAP-M,etc. What do they mean? And what do theymean to yourr

To make the most of a high-speedmodem, you need to understand threedifferent kinds of protocols and therelationships among them. They are themodulation protocols, error controlprotocols and data compression protocols.

Nlodulation ProtocolsModem st a nd s for M Odul a tor/DEModulator. A modem converts digitalsignals generated by the computer intoanalog signals which can be transmitted overa telephone hne and transforms incominganalog signals into their digital equivalentL

The specific techniques used to encodethe digital bits into anafog signals are calledmodulation p r o tocols. Th e v a r iousmodulation protocols de6ne the exactmethods of encoding and the data transferspeed. In fact, you cannot have a modemwithout modulation protocols. A modemtypically supports m or e th a n onemodulation protocol.

The raw speed (the speed without datacompression) of a modem is determined bythe modulation protocols. High-speedmodems are m o d ems t ha t f e a turemodulation protocols at 9600 bps or higher.A 2400 bps modem with data compressionthat can theoretically yield a 9600 bpsthroughput is not a high~peed modem.

"CCITT" is a French acronym for theInternational Telegraph and TelephoneConsultative Committee. CCIIT, a UnitedNations agency, is a n i n t ernational

range of s u bjects concerning data.

2400 bps INodemsA 2400 bps Hayes-compatible modemtypically supports the following modulationprotocols:Bell 103 (300 bpa U.S. Ssndsrd)Bell 212A (1200 bpe U.S. Ssndsrd)CCllT V.22 (1200 bpe rnandard used outside the U.S.)CCITT V.22bia (2400 bpa Intemsdonrd Ssndard)Some 2400 bpa modems also support thefollowing protocols:CCIlT V.21 {300 bpe raendsrd used oubrlde the U.S.)CCITT V.23(1200/75 end 75/1200 bpa, used in Europe)In the past, most 2400 bps modems did notsupport any error correction or data-compression protocols. Recently, however,many modem m anufacturers haveintroduced 2400 bps modems with extrafeatures like data compression, errorcorrection and fax capability.

High-speed Modemsprotocols for high~eed modems: V.S2 andV.Mbis. Both are standards established by

What You ileed Vo Know About Modemsto cost more than modems using proprietarymodulation protocols (Hayes introducedthe Smartmodem 9600, a V.S2 modem, in1988 with a $1999 price tag). But it is nolonger true. At present, street prices formost V.S2 modem are below US$500. Everymodem manufacturer is making V.S2modems now. Packet-switching networkslike Sprintnet (Telenet) and CompuServeare also starting to support V.S2 modems.Companies that make modems withproprietary modulation protocols aremahng modems with "dual standard." U.S.Robotics, T«lebit, Hayes and CompuCom all

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V.S2bisV.S2bis, established in early 1991, is theCATT standard for 14400 bps modems. AV.S2bis modem also can fall back to 12000,9600, '1200 and 4800 bps. V.S2bis isdownwardly compatible with V.S2.

Unlike 2400 bps modems where a singlemodulation protocol (V.22bis) is supportedby all modem makers, there are severalproprietary modulation protocols used by

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Two modems can establish a connectiononly when they share a commonmodulation protocol. To connect at highspeed, two modems have to support thesame high-speed modulation protocol.Therefore, a modem with a proprietarymodulation protocol can only establish ahigh-speed connection with another

U.S. Robotics HST modem can onlyestablish a high~peed connection (at 9600or 14400 bps) with another HST or a USR

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There are two standard modulation

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VB2This is the standard for 9600 (and 4800) bpsmodems. CCITT V.S2 was adopted by theCCITT in 1984. But the market has nottaken off until recently. V.S2 modems used

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On the other hand, two V.S2 modemscan talk to each other at 9600 bps. They donot have to be Som the same manufacturer.Taro V.S2bis modems can talk to each otherat 14400 bps. A V.S2 modem can talk to aV.S2bis modem at 9600 bps.

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ISDNIn a couple of years we may not needmodems at all. Integrated Services DigitalNetwork (ISDN) has been coming for years.When will ISDN really become available forthe rest of usP It depends on your localtelephone company. It is estimated that bythe end of 1994 about half the telephone

With ISDN, you won't need a modem sinceno modulation or demodulation will benecessary. You will need an ISDN adapter

An ISDN l ine carries three digitalchannels: two "B" channels that carry variouskinds of data at 64,000 bps and a 'D 'channel at 16,000 bps that can aury control

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Err' control ProtocolsBesides highwpeed modulation protocols,all current models of high~peed modemsalso support errorwontrol and data-campression protocols.

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V.42 and MNP4

protocols: MNP 4 and V.42. The MicroqomNetworking Protocol, MNP, was develoPpedby Microcom. MNP 2 to 4 are error-correction protocols. MNP-5 is a datacompression protocol.

V.42 was established by CCITT. V.42actually incorporates two error-con)rolschemes. V.42 uses LAP-M (Link AccessProcedure for Modems) as the pr aryscheme and indudes MNP4 as the alte atescheme. Therefore, a V.42 modem ' beable to establish an error-controlledconnection with a modem that only supportsMNP 4. A modem that uses a propriqtarymodulation protocol may also use a non-standard error~ontrol protocol.

For ex a mple , H ay es ' V-s er iesSmartmodem 9600 supports an ers'or-control pr o t ocol cal l e d LAt ' - &.CompuCom's SpeedModem Champ 'alsouses a nonstandard errorwontrol protocol.V.42 & MNPA can provide error-iree

Modems without errorwontrol proto~cols,such as most 2400 bps Haye~ompatiblemodems, cannot provide .error-f'ree datacommunications. The noise and o )herphone line anomalies are beyond thecapabilities of any standard modest todeliver errors data V.42 (and MNP 24)copes with the phone line impainnen/s by

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filename, file size, etc. This is handled itythe

Some file-transfer protocols, Lost

Sltering out the line noise and automaucallyretransmitting corrupted data

If you have used a standard Hayes-compatible modem, you probablynoticedsome garbled ch aracters (like"@Sd mw [ce") show up on your sheenfrom time to time. When two mo demsestablish an errorwon trolled connect.on,they are said to have a reliable link an) arecapable of Sltering out those garbledcharacters caused by the line noise. Nfticethat the line noise is still there, it just doesnot show up on your screen or the screen onthe remote system.

The Sltering process used by V.42 (andMNP 24) is simile to the error corregtionscheme used by Sle4ransfer protocols(suchas Xmodem). The two modems use asophisticated algorithm to make sure thatthe data received match the data sept. Ifthere is a discrepancy, the data is raeen4

What is the difference between eIvor-transfer protocols (such as Xmodem)f Forone thing, Sle-transfer protocols provideerror detection and correction only dtuingfile transferi.'Sfile~sfer protocols do notprovide any error control when yot It arereading emaQ messages or chatting withother people online. In other wordls, anerrorwontrol protocol is "on" all the timeduring your online session and Sl~sferprotocoh are "on" only some of the time,namely when you are sending or receivingSles. Even though an etror~ntrol prejtocoli s 'on" all the thne, we still need Sl~ sfe rprotocols when two modems estabgsh areliable Hnk

and tones. It does not understand what' a fileis. When you download or upload 4 Sle,your communications software needs to takecare of the details related to the Slc: the

Sleeansfer protocol which does more thanerror checMng.

notably Ymodem-g and Imodem, weredeveloped to handle Sle transfer withoutperfaamng any error checkmg. The idea ofusing a protocol like Ymodemg is toeliminate the redundancy, thus improvingthe transfer speed. Ymodemg and Impdemshould only be used with modems thatprovide builtks errorwontrol protocolsI

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Imodem depend on the modems to provideassurance for the integrity of data beingtransferral However, you should know thata reliable link between two modems doesnot absolute guarantee data integrity dudng

When you call a remote computer, thereare really three links involved in theprocess. Besides the link between the twomodems, there is sdll one link between yourcomputer and your modem and another

remote computer. When two modems makea reHable connection using V.42 or MNP 4.only the data integrity between the twomodems is ensured. It is still possible forerrors to occur at either end between theseal port and the modem (in the cable) orin the computer itself. (Fortunately, sucherrors are rare.)

For exlxa protection, you may still wantto use a filecransfer protocol such asZmodem, which also performs errorchecking even if you have a reliable lb'with the remote system.

The other benefit of V.42 (or MNP 4) isthat it can improve throughput. Beforesending the data to a remote system, amodem with V.42 (or MNP 4) assembles thedata into packets and during that process itis able to reduce the size of the data bystxipping out the start and stop bitL

A character typically takes up 1 start bit,8 data bits and 1 stop bit for a total of 10bits. When two modems estaMsh a reliablelink using V.42 or MNP 4, the sendingmodem strips the start and stop bits (whichsubtracts 20% of the data) and sends thedata to the other end. The receivingmodem then reinserts the start and stop bitsand passes the data to t h e r e motecomputer.

Therefore, even without compressingthe data you can expect to see as much as1160 characters per second on a 9600 bpsconnection. ( A l though th e m o d emsubtracts 20% of the data, the speedincrease is less than 20% due to theoverhead incurred by the errorwontrolprotocol.)

Are MNP4 and V.42 uicfuPAbsolutely. Anyone who has ever used astandard modem can appredate the benefit

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Data-compression ProtocolsBesides errorwontrol protocols, all cuxrenthigh-speed modems also support data-compression protocols. That means thesending modem will compress the data on-the-fly and the receiving modem willdecompress the data to its original foxm.

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eoWorks Ensemble i s agraphical user interfitce (GUIIconsisting of a collection ofapplications and a DOS shelLWhile i t s erves a s imilar

function to Windows, you do not have tothrow major computing horsepower at it. Itis is fast — and far outperforms Windows.

GeoWorks' speed allows it to nm oneven an XT . T h ough i ts speed andefiicicncy makes it a peifect graphical userinterface for those large number of usc:rswho have XTs, ATs, and $86SXs, its powershould also appeal to owners of 886DXs and

spaces: Appliances, Professional, and DOSPrograms. Any of these workspaces can bcsct as the def'ault opening workspace. TheAppliances workspace holds a day planner,calculator, address book, note pad, 'bannerm aker, and a s o l i taire game. T h eProfessional workspace holds the GeoWorksa pplications: Geo C om , GeoD e x ,GeoPlanner, Ge o D raw, Geo W rite,GeoManager, Pr e f e rences se t u p ,Scrapbook, calculator, notepad, solitaire,and Tetris. The DOS Program workspaceholds user-installed DOS applications.There is also an Extras folder containingsoine miscellaneous programs that do notdo much. Improvements over the previous

compatibihty, Postscript printer support,and more appliances and games.

InstallationInstalling GeoWorks is fitirly simple and weildocumented — you just run the setupprogram and answer the questions. If youhave problems installing GeoWorks, itcomes with a program called GeoHelp anda well-written troubleshooting manual.GeoHelp is an installation help andtroubleshooting program that is of someu se, though no t a s u s eful a s t h etroubleshoodng manual.

Berkeley Softworks' technical supportpeople are of mixed quality, ranging frompoor to excellent. An unusual feature ofGeoWorks is that it comes with a 6IMaymoney-back guarantee — I hope othersoftware publishers follow suit. Theinstallation program gives the user the threeinstallation options requiring 2.'yMB,S.BMB, and 4.7MB of disk space

GeoWorks is divided into three work

user to access it as such.

file and program manager.

window's border. CD ROM users be

Geoworks to run under DR DOS 6.

DocumentationGeoWorks' documentation is welt-writ)eand ahncd at the beginner. The manatalsconsist of a user guide, a version 1.2a ddendum, a q u ick s tar t g u ide, aTroubleshooting manual, and a custoinersupport handbook, The cmFine help ispoor in that it is only available in a pewplaces, with none available for themajorapplications.

Look ancl FeelGeoworks' graphical user interi'ace is basedon the Motif standard and is both v' eryfunctional and attractive. uke most GUJa itmakes extensive use ef windows, icons,Pull-down menus, and dialog boxes. /hewindows are far easier to shc than those inMS Windowa It aho posseaccs the trash '~of Mac and Amiga fame. GeoWqrkscombines applications management and fllemanagement in the same workspace, a ficrmore sensible organhation than that of MSWindows with its seImrate program managerand file manager.

aaolwanalerGeoManager perforins the appFications handfile management functions in GcoWokks.GeoManager is accessed by entering theProfessional workspace. Icons represenbngthe various GeoWorks applications aredisplayed inside the window, and varioucontrol and disk icons are displayed on the

happy to know that GeoWerks rcc s aCD ROM drive as a disk drive and amowrt the

Moving around your subdirectories isqmte easy. At the tep of the window there isa n icon that tales the user up one ~ l i nthe subdirectory tree. Subdirectories aredisplayed as folders, which can be entcIredby doubleMcking on the folder. Doubleclicking on the world icon, which isdisplayed on the window border, takes theuser back to the &ofessional workspace'sopcilhlg screen.

File management and programexecution is also quite easy. GeoManpgerp erforms the u sual f i l e a n d di s kmanagement hmctions required in o-day computing. To execute a DOS pror GeoWorks application the user double-clicks on the icon. While the user candoubleMck on a GeoWerks appliccttiondata file to launch that applicatioti, itcannot be deme with a DOS program datafile. Still, am in all GeoManaler is a ccqIauc

respectively. A note of warning: neigermyself nor a colleague were able to get

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nine font families of scalable screen and

6eoWriteGeoWxite is the W%IWVG word processingprogram induded in GeoWorks. It indudes

printer fonts. While printed output issuperior to that of MS Windows, the screenfonts are a bit jagged, a trait also shared byMS Windows. GeoWrite has ASCII textimport and export capability, and canimport GeoDraw graphics from the systemdipboard. Documents can be viewed in sizesranging from 25% to 200%. Added in thisversion of GeoWxite is a spell checker.

While GeoWrite supports headers,footers, and page numbers, it does notsupport footnotes and endnotes. A moreglamxg omission is the lack of a search~d-replace function. There is also no thesaurusprovided. Despite the lack of the abovefeatures, GeoWrite is more than adequatefor simple word processing. A collection oftemplates is provided for anything frombusiness cards to form lettera

GeoDrawGeoDraw is the object-oriented drawingprogram. What that means is that eachsection of text, circle, polygon, and line is aseparate object that can be manipulated.Background and foreground objects can beswitched, and objects can be fused orunfused with another object. GeoDraw canimport both PCX and TIFF images, whichmeans that it can utiTize the vast hbraries ofdip art available in those foxxnatL GeoDrawalso indudes a small collection of dip art.

The drawing itself can be viewed inscales ranging from 12.5% to 400%.Disasivaxxtages of GeoDraw indude the lackof a freehand drawing tool, no means tomanipulate individual pixels, and no exportcap alities.

modem. L ike m ost communications

Mind Linkl menus. Therefore GeoComm's

6eoComGeoComm i s the com m unicationsapplication. While it is better than nothing,it certainly can't compare to a dedicatedcommunications package like Procomm orCrossTalk It suppoxts only one file transferprotocol, and requires a Haye~ompatible

programs it is able to capture the session todisk file. While it has seven terminale mulators I only tested the VT 1 0 0emulation. Using this emulation with SimonFraser University's computer I found thatthe normal VT100 backspace key didn' twork and the screen didn't clear during thelogin process, though the screen dearednormally during the session.

Using this emulation on Mind Linkl wasmore huitful, though it couldn't display thegraphic linedraw characters surrounding the

VT100 emulation is not 100%. Anotherirritant is that GeoComm's window sizescannot be changed, though the manualdaims they can.

6eoDexGeoDex is the address book application. Ithas the ability to dial a stored phonenumber if the user has a Hayemompatiblemodem. An entry can be searched for, evenif the user only remembers a partial name,or the user can browse the address bookusing the previous/next buttons. Entries can

or to other applications. GeoDex can alsolook up en tr ies in G eoPlanner, theappointment book Besides fields for hoxne,ofiice, car, and hx numbers, there are alsothree uscr4efxnablc fields which, forexample, can be used for e-mail addresses.Overall, it is a well thought out and usefuladdress book application.

be copiedPor cut and pasted to other cards

name.

or all twelve months. GeoPlanner is also a

more streamlined method to run DOS

and batch files. It also has an editor for

6eoPlannerGeoPlanner is both an appointment bookand a calendar. It enables you to scheduleboth single events and repeating events.Scheduled events may be viewed or printedin day, range of days, week, or month at aglance. There is also an event alarm. Thecalendar can display either a single month

well thought out and useful application.

DOS Program WorkspaceThe DOS Program workspace provides a

programs than the GeoManager. The usercan create buttons for launching programs

writing batch flles. As well as launching aprogram, the button can prompt for a file

Beyond EnsembleBerkeley Softworks has come out with a newGeoworks application and has made bothGeoManager and GeoWrite available asseparate packages. What is even moreinteresting is that Borland has made aGeoworks-compatible version of theirspreadsheet program Quattro Pro.

In ConclusionWhile several of the applications needimprovement, Geoworks' program and filemanagement features are fast, easy to use,and ficxible. GeoWorks is very simple toinstall and requires no optimization. MSWindows, on the other hand, can require afair degree of knowledge to optimize for agiven machine. Furthermore, MS Windowsrequires a fast machine with lots of memoryto really run well. So unless you need to runa Windows-based application, you are farbetter off buying GeoWorks. 0

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Don't be fooled by the claim. It is extremelyrare, if ever, that you will be able to transferiles at 58400 bps. In fact, V.42bis and MNP-5 are not very useful when you aredownloading iles from online services.Why? How well the modem compressionworks depends on what kind of files arebeing transferred. In general, you will beable to achieve twice the speed fortransferring a standard text file (like theone you are reading right now). Decreasingby 50% means that you can double thethroughput on the line so that a 9600 bpsmodem can effectively transmit 19200 bps.

compress a Sle which is already compressedby software. In the case of MNPS, it willeven try to compress a precompressed Sleand actuaRy expand it, thus slow down the

If you have ever downloaded iles from aBBS or online service, you know that ahnostall flles are in a compressed format.Therefore, you should onIy expect to see anactual throughput between 950 to 1100 cpseven if your V.52/V .42bis modem issupposed to ofFer throughput "up to 88400bps. Most PC iles are in the ZIP format..

Macintosh iles are typically in the .SIT(Stuffit) or .CPT (Compact Pro) format.Amiga iles are usually in the ZOO, ARC or

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C ompression by Software va. M N P-5/V.42blaThere are several reasons why compressionsoRware programs (such as PKZIP or Stuffit)are superior to MNPS or V.42bic1. Compressed iles save dirk storage space.2. Compression software programs are more

versatile. Most of them allow you togroup several iles in a compressed file

get transferred at the same time.S. Software compression is more efficient

than once~ m o dem compression. Inthe case of a smaR Sle, this may not makemuch difFerence. But the difference ambe signifiamt when you are transferringlarge iles.

On-thewymodem compression does haveone advantage. It is more convenient. Youcan send a file without compressing it firstand the recipient does not need todecompress the Sle.

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Local Flow Control and Data BufferingTo get the most from a modem with datacompression, you'R want to send data fromyour PC to the modem as quicmy as possible.If the modem is idle and waiting for thecomputer to send data, you are not gettingthe maximum performance from the

For example, you have a V.S2/V.42bismodem and you want to send a text Sle to aremote system which also has a V.52/V.42bismodem. Let's assume the modem is able tosend the Sle at 20000 bps using V.42bis. Ifyour computer is sending data to yourmodem at 9600 bps, your modem wfil haveto stop and wait to receive data from yourcomputer. T o get the maxi m umperfomtance, you want to set the computerto send data to the modem at 58400 bps (themaximum a V.52/V.42bis modem canachieve). Since the modem can only sendthe Sle to the other modem at 20000 bps, it

However, there is a new problem. Sinceyour computer is sending data faster thanthe modem can handle, there needs to besome ways for the modem to ask thecomputer to stop sending data. Otherwise,data loss is sure to occur. This is where localS ow control comes into play. A high~ e dmodem typically supports two hnds of local

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Once the local modem has emptied itsbuffer by transmitting data to the remotemodem, it will enable CTS again. RTS iaused by the cemputer on the receiYing endof a transmission. When the computercannot accept data at the rate at which themodem is passing data, it will disable RTS.The computer enables RTS again when it isready to resume receiving data from the

Software flow contrel (or softwarehandshaking) ia achieved by embeddingcontrol character in the data stream. XONand XOFF are the most commonly usedcontrel characters. XON is aho known asContre~ or DC$ (ASCII 19) while XOFF isknown as Contro14 or DC1 (ASCII 1I). Theuse of XON and XOlF during data transfercan create problem when a binary filecontain the ControlW ("S) character as alegitimate part of the data. Do not use thismethod if "S and *Q are part of thetfansxnlttcd data.

Madntesh and Higlasfxced ModemsIf you use a Macintosh with a highwpeedmodem, you will need a special modemcable that is wired correctly to supporthardware handshahng. You can order thecable from most mail~der coxnpanies thatsell high~peed modems. I got mine fromMaya Computer (80(h541-2$18) for $10(plus $2.50 for shipping Se handling).

PC and UART (8250, 16450, 16550)Your PC'a serial port haa a UART (UniversalAsynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) chipto control the input/output. The XT usuallyhas an 8250 UART, the AT usually has a

If you are running Windows, Desqmew,

OS/2 or any oth e r mult i taskingenvironment, you should upgrade yourUART with the 16550 (if your PC does notalready have one). The 16550 is standard inmost IBM PS/'2 and many $86-basedcomputers. The 16550 UART has a 16 bytesHFO (first in, first out) buffer that helps toprevent degradation when several programsare running at the same time. If you use anexternal modem, the UART is in yourcomputer (either on the motherboard or onan I/O card that has the aerial pert).

If you use an internal modem, the UARTis on the medexn. (Both internal modemsf'rom Practical Pcxipheraia and Zoom uae the16550 UART. The Twincem 96/42 uses a16450. The CompuCom SpeedModemChamp, due to its unique design, does netuse a standard UART.)

Even if you have a 16550 UART, thecoxnmunication software that yeu use willneed to support it. Fortunately, the mostrecent versions of popular communicationsprograms are all designed to support the16550 UART.

Hayes ESF (Enhanced Sexi al Fort)Hayes makes an adapter called EnhancedSerial Port (ESP) that has two serial portscomplete with an outboard coprocessor. TheESP can save your PC's CPU from having tomanage the work load. If a 16550 UART isnot good enough for you, the ESP may bethe only answer.

Iuying a High-speed ModemV.M and V.I b is modems are clearly thestandards of high+peed modems today. Youshould buy a V.$2 or a V.$2bia medemunless:l. Your application requires a high-speed

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2. You cannot afford a V.$2 modem. In thiscase, your only choice for a high-speedmodem is the CompuCom SpeedModemChamp. Should you pay the extra for aV.$2bia modem) A V.$2bis modem isfaster than a V.$2 modem but it also costs

Should you pay more for the speed

That depends on two factors: what's theprice difference, and how do you want toreach the remote system. If the pricedifference is $50, I would buy the V.$2bismedem. But what if the price difference is$200? Assuxning the remote system supportsV.$2bia, a V.$2bis modem will pay for itselfrather quickly if you are placing long-distance calls to the r emote system.However, it may be more cost~ffectivc foryou to use some packet~tching networksto reach the remote aystexn by calling a localnumber. A V.$2bis modem will be wastedsince none of the packet~tchhxg networkscurrently support V.$2bis. In fact, they arejust starting to offer 9600 bpa access service.

Should yeu buy a modem with a prepxfctaxymodulation pretecel?With the exception of the CompuComSpeedModem Champ, it is generally not agood idea to purchase a modem which onlysupports a proprietary modulation protocoLIf you have to connect to a modem that usesa proprietary modulation protocol, youshould consider getting a modem thatsupports dual modulation protocols (USRCourier Dual Standard, Telebit 2500 er$000, Hayes Ultra).

Should yeu buy the SpecdModem Champ?It certainly costs much )esa than even thelcastwxpensivc generic V.$2 modem in themarket today.

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As a result, you will only be able toconnect at 2400 bps with the packet-switching networks. You would be forced toplace a long distance call if yeu want toconnect at 9600 bpa.

Should yeu buy a 2400 bps modem withV.42bfs?If you are thinking of purchasing a 2400 bpsmodem with V.42bis data compression,think again. We have xnentioned earlier thatV.42bis and M N P-5 ar e u seless fordownloading compressed files. There is enemore reason why a 2400 bpa with V.42bis isgenerally not useful when you are calling

services and BBSes usually have separatephene numbers for 2400 bps and high-speed modems. Most of them do notsupport V.42bia on their 2400 bps lines.Therefore, yeu won't be able to xnake aconnection with V.42bis if you call their2400 bps modem lines.

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EdgingIhe Inilalizalioa siringIf the initialhation string provided by yoursoftware does not work (or if your softwaredoes not support your modem at all), you%ineed to edit the initiahzation string in yourcommunications program. The modeminitialization string consists of a series ofcommands (called the AT commands). Youwill find desaiptions of these commands inyour modem's manual.

Match Software Scttlnga To the ModemSe~Besides using the tight initialization string,you also need to make sure that the settingsin your communications program match

Speed aatthaglf you have a modem that supports datacompression, you want to make sure that thespeed setting for the entries in your dialingdirectory is the maximum throughput. Hereare the general rules of thumb: For aV.52bis/V.42bis modem, set speed to 58400or 57600 bps (check your modem manual).For a V.52/V.42bis modem, set speed to58400 bps. For a V.52/MNP4 modem, setspeed to 19200 bps. For a V.22bis/V.42bismodem, set speed to 9600 bps. For aV.22bis/MNP4 modem, set speed to 4800bpLNote: Your computer may not be fastenough to work rehably at 58400 or 57600bps. Also, the communications programsyou use may not suiiIxet speed higher than19200 bpL

Note that you will need to configure yoursoftware to use hardware handshahng if the

Comm PortFor your computer to talk to your modem,you need to ten the software where to findthe modem. If you use a PC with an externalmodem, you need to specify which serialport the modem is connected to. If you havean internal modem, you.need to configurethe modem and tell the software whichCOM port the modem is configured for. Ifyou use a Macintosh, specify whether yourmodem is connected to the modem port orthe printer port.

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ASCIIThis is designed to work with ASCII text filesonly. Notice that you do not have to use thisprotocol when transferring text files. TheASCII protocol is useful for uploading a textfile when you are composing e~ online.

Xmodem is one of the most widely used filetransfer protocols. The original Xmodemprotocol uses 128-byte packets and a simple

sends a message to the sending system andrequests the retransmission. This process isautomatic. When errors occur during filetransfer, the communication program shows

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portable phone and t h e 6 . 5 -poundUltraLite 286V or 6.&pound 286F notebookcomputer from NEC Technologies.

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the need fer a bartered connection.Under a five-year contract, the data unit

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Apple Canada Launches 7-Week PowerBook PromotionMARKHAM, ONTARIO, FEB 7 (NB) — Nowthat Apple finally has a contender in thenotebook computer market, it wants tomake up for lost time. So Apple Canada issetting out to get the attention of portablecomputer buyers with an aggressive pricepromotion of the PowerBook 100, the low-

From February 10 to March Sl, AppleCanada is offering the PowerBook 100 at asuggested retail price of C$1,799. That ist4900 less than the regular retail price ofC$2,699. The special price also indudes theSystem 7.0 Tune-Up (an update to theM acintosh o p erating system) a n dAutoDoubler disk management software

In addition, company spokeswomanFranca Miraglia told Newsbytes, AppleCanada has arranged for a number of othersoftware vendors to make their productsavailable at special discount prices whenpurchased along with a PowerBook 100.Apple dealers will be able to offer customersassoxted software discounts depending ontheir needs, she said.

Apple said it shipped more than 100,000PowerBooks worldwide during its Srst Sscaluarter, which ended December 27. Noata is available on Canadian PowerBook

shipments, Miraglia said.The PowerBook 100 uses a i&megahertz

Motorola 68000 processor and comes withtwo megabytes of random access memoryand a 20snegabyte internal hard disk drive.An external diskette drive is aho provided.The PowerBook 100 weighs 5.1 pounds. Asealed leaded battexy provides two to fourhours of use before recharging, Apple said.

Salient's AutoDoubler software packsmore data into a given amount of hard diskspace by compressing iles.

Contact: Franca Mlra9lla, Apple Canada, 416413-5511; John Elias or Julle Rusctotelll, Nathnal PublhRelallons for Apple, 4164I604160, fax 4164I60-1094.

Apple Intros Beefed-upVersions Of Powerhook 100CUPERTINO, CMJFORNIA, FEB 5 (NB)-In a flurry of price reductions and newmarketing strategies, Apple has announcedtwo new versions of its popular MacintoshPowerbook 100 model notebook computers.

The two new configuration are to offermore power and Sexility to users. The newmodels come standard with four megabytes(MB) of RAM and a 40 MB internal hard

The difference between the two newPowerbook 100 models is that one comeswithout an external Soppy disk drive for aretail price of USf2,599, and the other hasan external floppy for a retail price ofUS$200 more.

Apple says the new Powerbook 100configurations are in response to customerswho have asked for more options in thislightest and least expensive Powerbook

A hard disk upgrade program is already

owners. Apple said it expects to be able tooffer the upgrades beginning in April of thisyear for customers who want to exchangethe 20 MB hard disk dxive that comes withthe Powerbook for a 40 MB hard disk Applesays it expects to announce the details of theupgrade program soon.

Apple in offering price reductions alsoannounced a reduced price on the currentPowerbook 100s with two MB of RAM and 20MB hard disks. Both versions of thePowerbook were lowered in suggested retaiilprice by US$500, to US$1,999 for thePowerbook without an external floppy diskdrive and US$2,199 for the Powerbook withan external floppy.

Interestingly enough, Apple says thereduction in suggested retail prices may notreduce pxices consumers are paying. This isbecause Apple says it already reduced pxicesto its dealers in a special program last falL

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MARKHAM, ONTARIO, FEB 10 (NB)-Apple Canada has announced cuts insuggested Canadian retail prices on manymodels of its Macintosh computers.

Price cuts are between nine and S7percent, with the highest cuts in the low-end Macintoshes — the Classic II, MadntoshLC, and Classic lines. No price cuts wereannounced for the Macintosh IIci andMacintosh IIsi, which the company sayswere "reduced significantly" in October oflast year.Contact: Franca Mlra9lla, Apple Canada, 416-513-5511; John Elias or Julia Rusclolelll, National PubicRehtions for Apple, 41M604160, fax 416460-1094.

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA,JAN 9 (NB) — ApplePresident John Sculley, in his keynotespeech at the Winter Consumer ElectronicsShow in Las Vegas, said that Apple plans tointroduce consumer-specific computers byChristmas, 1992.

The new computers, which Apple iscalling Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs),theoretically wouldn't require any user shlland would focus on specific functions.Apple lists some examples as electronicbooks, electronic organizers, multimediaplayers, electronic note takers, displaytelephones, and personal communicators.

Sculley said: The transformation f'romanalog to digital technologies opens thepossibility for a wide range of potentiallyvery innovative and useful devices...."

Apple has specifically mentioned plansfor its compact discreadilymemory (CD-ROM) desktop Macintosh systems in twoversions, one for the consumer channelsand one for the traditional personalcomputer market. Both products would useApple's QuickTime multimedia technology,an extension to the recent introduction of

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The new pxices are as follows:

Maontosh Classic, 2MB 40HD $1, 449 $1,729Macintosh Classic II, 2MB 40HD 1, N9 2 ,499Macintosh Classic II,4MB60HD 1,9 9 9 ,1 99Macsttosh LC, 2MB 40HD IKvbd ind.),050 2,399Macsxtosh LC, 4MB 90HD (wlo Kybd) 2,N9 3,020

In the U.S., Apple computer announcedadditional price cuts, including reductionsin the IIsi, IIci and the lowed Powerbook100, which was cut between 12 and 1Spercent. The U.S. price of the Stylewriterprinter was cut SS percent, a $200 decreaseto just under $400.

the new System 7 operating system, whichallows the indusion of video, animation andaudio.

These computers were announced byApple to be available to consumers topurchase for Christmas 1992.

"There is a long history of entry-levelMacintosh owners trading up over time tomore sophisticated Macintosh systems, soreaching out to more new users should havea strong, positive effect," he said.

Some consumerwriented devices mayuse the already-available television as adisplay terminal. Commodore is alreadyseHing CD-1V, and Infruurrorfd reported Tandyis planning a CD-ROM4med system that will

Infearerfd reported Apple's CD-ROM PDAis being developed in conjunction with Sonyand will use a television set as well.However, Apple, when contacted, said it isnot releasing specific details about the PDAdevices or its alliances in developing PDAs,but only that it is intending to pursue the

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SYDNEY, AUSTIIALIA, FEB 5 (NB) — AppleC omputer h a s re l eased t h e fir s tenhancements for its System 7 operatingsystem. The System 7 Tune-up improvesseveral aspects of operation for users ofSystem 7.0 and 7.0.1.

The most notable (and called for)enhancement involves the way Macintoshesaccess memory and r e port me moryproblems to the user under System 7. If auser does not have enough memory to xunan application, and there is an applicationnot in use (no documents opened), theunused application will be terminated tofree up memoxy.

The system wiH also suggest quittingfrom used applications to free up memoxy.In systems with lo w m e mory ( t womegabytes, the minimum requirement withSystem 7), memoxy handling is improved, to

constraints. If there is less memory thanrequired for an apphcation, but more thanthe minimum, the program will openwithout an alert with the Tune-Up installed.

Apple has also updated the drivers forseveral of its pxinters, mahng prinung fasterin certain situations and less "troublesome."For example, True Type fonts are convertedto Type 1 postscript, then downloaded tothe LaserWriter and LaserWriter Plusprinters. This means that TrueType fontsand software do not need to be downloadedand the print job can be completed usingthe pxinter's "native language.

For those printers with the fonts andsoftware loaded into ROM (read only

New For IVIac: Apple System 7.0 8 7.0.1 Tune-Upmemory), these are also not downloaded.TrueType fonts use of system memory has-also been rationalized, cutting downprocessmg thne.

Several aspects and consequences of theuse of the "Chooser" are handled by theTune-Up. If AppleTalk is turned off fromthe Chooser, up to 100 kilobytes (KB) ofmemory is freed — especially useful onstand&one Macs. Chooser performance hasbeen improved up to 52 percent for deviceselection and 61 percent for zone selection.Users can now use keyboard shortcuts toselect devices within the Chooser, furtherspeeding usage.

Several bug-fixes were incorporated inthe Tune-Up, induding the elimination of"Sle sharing" errors resulting in the risk of

files; "PrintMonitor" usage is now muchmore reliable; elimination of an occasionalbug when aliases were put in the f rash";improved SCSI (Small Computer SystemInterface) bus operation; and keyboards arenow continually scanned at start-up toensure they are recognized by the system.

The System 7 Tune-Up is available fromall authoxized Apple dealers, user groups,and bulletin boards. From dealers, it isavailable as an 800 KB disk,

Apple has recommended that there beno fee for the Tune-Up. System 7.0.1 waso nly released for t h e Quadra andPowerBook computers, and offers no realenhancements to users of other systems.

Contact: Franca Mtra9lla, Apple Canada, 416-513-

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. JAN 16(NB) — Better late than never for Apple, asthe company has announced it will begindevelopment of tools to allow users of othercomputers to integrate dynamic data suchas sound, video, and animation (a formatcalled "Movie" ) into applications on othercomputer platforms. The Movie format is todesaibe the capality of the newly released@6ckTime, an extension to Apple's System7.0 operating system.

The Apple announcement comes a yearafter Microsoft released beta versions of itsMultimedia Development Kit (MDK) toindependent software developers (ISDs),i ncluding those developing on t h eMadntosh. The MDK, offldally released inAugust of 1990, includes a Movie Converterdisk for moving QuickTime Movies toMicrosoft Wi nd ow s mul ti m ediaapplications.

M icrosoft r ep r esentative, RayBerardinelli, said Apple ISDs want to beable to leverage the investment they havemade in Apple QuickTime~vvy productsby bringing them over to the MicrosoftWindows Multimedia Personal Computer(MPC) platfoxxn.

Apple's planned QuickTime MovieExchange Toolkit for developers willsupport a wider range of p latformsincluding MS-DOS, Gray, Silicon Graphics,Sun, DEC, and IBM computers. The kit willcontain utilities to allow a developer onanother platform to convert the multimediaapplication, such as an animation toQuckTxme. The completed conversion canthen be distributed over a network or on afloppy disk

documents.

Contact Patty Tulloch, Apple, tel 40B4744449, fax40IHI7~ ; Ray Benudlnelll, Wa99ener Edstrom forNcrceck, tel 503-24$0605, fax 506-244-7261.

Thc. QuickTime Movie ExchangeToolkit will retail for $79, Apple said.Further Information is available from APDAat 800-282-2752 in the US and at 806457-0029 in Canada International locations areencouraged to call 4085624910.

Apple says it is also working with CorelSystems Corporation, makers of the popularCorelDrawl graphics and animationprogram that runs in Microsoft Windows.The plan is to develop Corel file formattranslators to be shipped as a part of aMadntosh utility in the QackTIme StarterKit. The Corel translators will allow for theconversion of the MS-DOS and Windowsformat presentation, graphics, andanimation files to the Apple QuickTimeMovie file.

Apple says the software developmentcommunity has expressed interest inplayback functionality for QuickTime onother platfoxms such as Microsoft Windows.Apple demonstrated a prototype of aQuickTime player for Windows at theMacWorld show and says it is exploring thepossibility of releasing the player forWindows and other possible partners.

As a final note, Apple said its latestversion of Unix, A/UX S.O scheduled toship early in this year, will integrateQuickTime into the Macintosh running theUnix operating system. Apple says A/UXS.O will be one of the first Unix-basedsystems in the computer industry thatintegrates dynamic data movies" into

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NlecNorld: Adobe PremiereHit Of ShowSAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, JAN 14(NB) — Adobe's Premiere and Apple'aQuickTime shared the spotlight at thisyear's San Francisco MacWorld Expo.Adobe's newest product, which aflows you tocreate digital "movies on the desktop, isshipping now and Adobe says demand isoverwhehning.

The software holds the promise ofreplacing complex and expensive onlinevideo editing systems now in videoproduction houses, but the elements toallow Premiere and its progeny to do thishave not all been put in place, according toAdobe. The main problem is a lack of

video tape machines or laserdisks yet toperform actual thnecode video editing. Itcan be used, however, to perform off@neediting, or the determination of where cutsin videotape, and where music, should be

Adobe says, however, that the release ofApple's QrickTime is a step forward, as nowall audiovisual inputs am conform to onestandard in order to be integratetL

Premiere is an enhanced version ofSupermac's ReelTime, a digital video-editing software product developed lastyear. Adobe acquired rights to the productin August, 1991 and has worked withSupermac in its continuing development.Recently, Randy Ubillos, who developedReelTime, has been hired by Adobe.

The ReelTime software waa developed tomake use of the Video Spigots, SuperMac'sdigital-video capture hardware boards,which were another hit of the show.

WordPerfect showed off its new versionof WordPerfect for Macintosh with a digitalvideo clip prepared with Premier. Otherclips prepared with the product were in

interchanged. Premiere as CD-ROMwquipped

evidence nearly everywhere multimedia +ear l + Peeleii+t+ ~ebetepresentations were being made. 'Apple'S F4tllre

Premiere costs US$495 when purchased SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, JAN 14alone. At a better price, however, is the (NB) — A lively group of distinguishedbundled Supermac/Adobe deal. For a pa n elists tried to second~ess Big Red'slimited time, Premiere comes free when u nannounced plans at a keynote session ofpurchased with the Video Spigot for the LC M acWorld in San Frandsco.or SI ($499) or the Video Spigot for Nubus On t he f irm ' s rec e nt lyMadntoshes ($599). announced plans to enter the

Premiere aUows users to combine video consumer electronic business,footage, audio recordings, animation, still Denise Caruso, editor of Digitalimages and graphics to create digital movies Medi a , reflected general opinion thaton the Macintosh. The Apple has its work cut out forproduct i s b u i l t o n it when she observed:QuickTime, Apple's "Apple is up against anewly releas ed Ale NIOC whole w orld that doesn' textension to System tOcjpy jS Walere underatanddigitaltechnology."7.0. QxickTime allows Apple Computer's CEO Johnusers to combine and S culley announced at t h edistribute sound, video WSS llVllell ale Consumer Electronics Showand animation on the MQCjlltOSll WSS thatApplewouldbeoffemigMacintosh platform as jg t rOcjgCeCj jul "PDAs" or p ersonaleasfly as text fllea can be 19&4 digital assistants, aa well

displays tracks in fllmstrip' ~a et t AkoP versions of Macintoshes instyle, allowing the user to see die consumer market in 1998-different strips for different 94. All of the new devices are tovideo sources, spedal effects, superimposed center around the new digital, rather thantitles, and sound tracks. analog technologies.

Adobe lists the minimum hardware T im Ba j a r in, analyst with Creativerequirement for Adobe Premiere software as Strategies, suggested that if Apple were toa Macintosh I I c o mputer with f ou r go a lone into consumer electronics, as itmegabytes (MB) of random access memory stands now as a company, "it would M." He(RAM) and a hard disk drive. Adobe is added, however, that Apple needs tobundling QfickTime version 1.0 extensions establish a spedal division to work with Sonywith Premiere — extensions which have only to build PDAs." He suggested thatJapaneserecently been released by Apple. Premiere fl rms already have consumer electronicsalso requires 524it QxicMrm version 1.2 or expertise.later aa well and Adobe says a QaickTime- Car u so agreed that Apple and the rest ofcompatible, digital video capture board ia th e US electronics industry should stoprecommended. wasting time recreating technologies that

already exist, and should form moreContest: TedChedboume. Adobe,tel415461~. alliances with overseas countries, namely

Japan. Citing Lee Iacocca of Chrysler as an

68040based machine.Apple's recently announced liaison with

IBM, just approved by the government,

example of a poor approach tointernational cooperation, she said ffIacocca was working in the computerbusiness, 'he'd be history."

The future of the Macintosh, althougIithe centerpiece of this show and Appleright now, appears in doubt to StewartAlsop, editor in chief of Inforoorhf andpublisher of PC Lottor. 'The Mac today iswhere the Apple 11 was when the Madntoqhwas introduced in 1984." That was the staktof the dedine of the machine, an eight/itcomputer which featured Apple's firstoperating system. Showing how far we'$ecome since then, Alsop joked, There areprobably people in the audience sayiilgwhat's an Apple 9?"

upgrade the Mac line much more as Appld'sfuture lies in newer technologies, a newoperating system, and a hybrid machiLebeing created with IBIVL Dan Farber, editprof Macweek, said he thinks Apple still seesthe Madntosh aa a machine "with legs," andthat the Macintosh III will probably reacht he market, but only when the base ~ t ,replacing today's Macintosh Classic, i~ a

drew the hveliest debate. "If they can pulf itoff (the alliance) we may have a paradigm

espedally those of us who like to type, apdDan Farber, in a comment which drew a Nowlaughs. Bajarin provided the motivatipnbehind the alliance, explaining that Appleand IBM got together to check theMicrosoft march toward dominance in Peindustry with its endows inaerf'ace.

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New For INac: AnatomistTeaches With HyperCardGRANTHAM'S LANDING, BC,JAN '7(NB) — Folkstone Design has announcedAnatomist, a human anatomy teaching andreference tool buil t around Apple'sHyperCard doftware.

Anatomist incorporates illustrations,speech, reference text, and personalannotation in a hypermedia framework, thedevelopers claim. It is based on materialtrom The Anatomy Coloring Book, by WynnKapit and Lawrence M. Elson, Ph.D., and isdesigned to complement the process ofstudy the book provides.

Luinda Bleackley, one of the twoprincipals in Folkstone Design, toldNewsbytes her company sees three mainmarkets for the software: the nrst is medicaleducation, including first-year universityanatoiny courses; the second is public schoolsystems; and the third is the generalenterest

Commenting on the package's appeal tochildren, Bleackley said Folkstone gave thesoftware to a number of doctors for betatesting. "They had to kick their pre-schoolers otf the machine to sit down anduse it, she said.

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Bleackley said Folkstone plans to marketthe software worldwide, and has hadexpressions of interest I'rom North America,Europe, Australia, and Japan.

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Apple Tops In lWo CanadianSurveysMARKHAM, ONTARIO,JAN 22 (NB)-Apple Canada is crowing over the results oftwo recent reports that gave its products topspot in both unit shipments and customer

The latest Nielsen Computer ProductsIndex, in which Nielsen Marketmg Researchmeasures personal computer shipmentsthrough resellers, said Apple was number

period, ending October Sl, 1991. Nielsennamed the Macintosh Chlsic the topeellingpersonal computer in Canada for the 12-inonth period since it was launched in 1990.The Macintosh LC placed third.

Earlier in January, J.D. Power aAssociates published the results of its OverallBusiness Personal Computer End UserS atisfaction Study. Out o f s ome 5 5computer, printer, and soft@me brands,J.D.Power gave Apple the h ighest user-satisfaction rating based on a survey ofnearly 6,000 business PC users at more than4,000 sites across Canada.

J.D. Power's study rated products on anumber of attributes related to usersatisfaction, giving Apple highest marks oneasemfmse, support, capability, reliability,and software triendliness, as well as m overallsatishction.

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Sell-Ardis To Provide CanadianWireless NetMONTIIEAL, QUEBEC, FEB 5 (NB) — BCEand Motorola Canada have renamed theirwireless data communications network jointventure and expanded its coverage bybuying IBM Canada's private network. IBMCanada will be the largest customer of thenewly named Bell-Ardis, formerly called

In the United States, IBM and Motorolaare partners in the na6onwide Ardis wirelessdata network. In Canada, IBM will not be ashareholder in Bell-Ardis, but will have ajoint marketing arrangement with thecompany. BCE's subsidiary BCE Mobile is toown 60 percent of Bell-Ardis and MotorolaCanada the other 40 percent.

BCE is the parent company of BellCanada, Canada's largest regional telephonecompany, and Northern Telecom.

Alain Fontaine, president and chiefexecutive of Bell-Ardis, told a Montreal pressconference that the acquisition of IBM'sprivate network would allow his company toextend its service from the central provincesof Ontario and Quebec to all of Canada

The Bell-Ardis network is now able toreach about l4 million Canadians, Fontainesaid. Portable computers and terminals canexchange data among themselves and withstationary systems using the network TheBellMdis network in Canada is linked to theArdis network in the United States, whichhas nodes in some 8,000 cities and towns,Fontalne added.

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Multimedia is the combination of data,text, audio, graphics, and/or video. Itf'requently relies on CD-ROM as a storagemedium because of the large capacities

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marketing agreement with Bell-Ardis alsoallows IBM Canada to offer the service to itsown customers, Etherington added.

Complementing that announcement,IBM Canada also announced the availablhtyin Canada of the PCradio, its notebookcomputer wi th built - i n r adiocommunications. Under an agreement withBell-Ardis, IBM will sell the PCradio withindustry-specKc wireless apphcations andintegration services, along with access to

Bel14rdis will charge for the use of itsnetvrork at the rate of eight cents perpacket, regardless of the distance over whichmessages are transmitted. Fontaine said atypical user's usage charges will probably bein the C$IOLC$150 range each month.

Along with IBM Canada, BellMdis hassigned up Otis Elevator and Ontario Hydro,a provincially owned electrical utility, asinitial mstomers for the network.

Bell-Ardis also announced strategicpartnerships with 12 companies that will sellproducts able to work with its network.Besides IM Canada, they include CarrierLogistics, Digitech, IIS Technologies (a BellCanada a8iliate), Itron, Lec~ Mobil eComputing, Poqet Computer, Servic~Systems Internatxonal, Simware, TelxonCanada, and Toshiba

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CES: Show overview-Computers as "Appliances'LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, JAN 14 (NB)-Consumers will be using computers and noteven know it, if the plans and productsannounced at the W inter ConsumerElectronics Shaw take root.

Several companies announced productsthat are computers with modems forconununication, but that look like slightlydifferent versions of ordinary house/olditems, such as telephones and televisions.ATILT's Videophone is a good example, as isthe Scanphone, and the Fox Home Theater.

Apple President John Sculley announcedthe company's intentions to create PDA(personal digital assistant) devices for theconsumer market which will be disguisedMadntoaMxmd xnultimedia computers.

However, other issues were tahng re atthe show. A new piece of compromiselegislation between the recording industryand the Electronic Industries Association(EIA) was being promoted in a grass rootscatnpaign by the Home Recording RiIIhts

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The biii is aimed at digital recordingsonly, (not analog) and could have an effecton the computer industxy as well, paving theway for consumers to be able to copysoftware for private, noncommercial use.

In the way of games, Nintendo and Segawere competing, with Nintendo in very highprofile. Nintendo dominated the South Halland had a tent outside which wasilikeentexmg another world. ¹ntendo productsSom thirdyarty developers abounded andplayers intensely concentrating on videogames were evexywhex'e.

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CES: Defender Of The Crown IIDebuts For CD7VLAS VEGAS, NEVADA, JAN 15 (NB)-Commodore's CDTV, a compact disc playerfor home entertainment that hooks up to atelevision, looks like a video cassetterecorder and competes directly with Philips'CD-I product, had some impressive titles ondisplay here at the Consumer ElectronicsShow. One was "Defender of the C'rown II"by software author/publisherrim Sachs.

The quality of the appearance ofcompact disc titles seems to have a gooddeal to do with how the title is developedand not the CD player itself. Defender ofthe Crown II" seemed to show oif what theCommodore CDTV is capable of.

Sachs, a retired mihtary pilot, is a heroweB known in the Commodore industrywhen it comes to developing games withsuperior graphics and music. Sachs not onlydevelops games and music to go with themfor the Commodore Axniga «nd CDTV, butteaches courses in how to do so.

Sachs told Newsbytes that Defender ofthe Crown II is a takeoff I'rom the originalDefender package, erst developed for theAmiga

"I was able to take all the stuff that endedup on the cutting room floor from the SrstDefender of the Crown and use it here,"Sachs said. But the second version doesn' tlook like a stopped together version of theBrst game.

The graphics are fascinating and thegame is intriguing and complex. Set in theyear 1192 in Europe, the object of the gameis to earn 20,900 pounds sterling to get

Leopold of Austria. The game is very deepand indudes strategy, adventure and arcadeplay.

The game appears to be wellylannedand the animation is fun and engaging.Intriguing graphic e8ects, hke a shadow of a

consumers at the show to write to their

Coalition. Congressmen were being escaped

knight on a horse running across the screenare actually transitions to give the software.time to load another segment of the game.

When asked how long it takes to win thegame, Sachs said johngly, "I only write thesethings, I don't play them." Actually, thegame isn't complete, though it was not dasyto tell by playing it.

Available in five languages,' German;French, English, Italian, and Spanish,Defender of the Crown II is expected to beavailable this Spring and retail for $59395.The CDTV player retails for $799, but isexpected to drop in price thickly, Newsbytes

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from the movie "Spaceballs."Of courseJapanese 6rms were at the

attention after the publicity U.S. PresidentBush got from his recent trade talks withJapan. While Japanese products seem todominate many of the consumer electronicsindustries, it seems they do not have afoothold in the stereo speaker industry, orin the computer software industry.

Audio speakers, it seems, are the realmof the US, as rock and roll requires aspeaker with a dynamic range, heavier baseresponse, and more efficiency to playlouder, says Steven Frankel, a consumerelectronics analyst quoted by the Associated

Computer software is another realm UScompanies have almost exdusively, and thatwas quite evident at CES.

Further, while the economy is stillsufFering, the consumer electronics industryis holding its own compared to other sectorsof the economy, said Frank Myers, chairntanof EIA and speaker at the opening session of

The last major topic at the show wasfrom Sculley and others who stronglyechoed the theme already espoused by themajor computer retail stores like CompUSAand ComputerLand. Everyone seems to bepredicting further growth in the awakening

the future.

HAL Celebrates BirthdayURBANA, ILLINOIS, JAN 1S (NB) — Theoccasion of the arrival of January 12, 1992brought commentaty throughout the mediaconcerning the "birthday of HAL, thecomputer from 2001."

Clarke's book 2001: A Space Odyssey, HALsays "I am a HAL 9000 computer. I becameoperational at the H~ . l abs in Urbana, Ill.on the 12th of Januaty, 1992." (The voice ofHal in the Stanley Kubrick film was actuallythat of Canadian actor Douglas Rain.).

The arrival of January 12th caused UaitefPms Isstessatioaal and the ¹w Fmh Tidal todevote feature stories about 2001 and itsrelation to both the present state ofcomputer technology and what may come in

Both pieces quote authorities stadng thatwe are a long way f'rom developing the typeof independent decision~aking computersystem that the fictional computer was. TheUPI quoted Clarke as saying, however, thatHAI like computers are inevitable becauseman is just "an intermediate stage in thedevelopment of real intelligence."

In the Susday Tissss piece, writer JohnMarkoff also refers to the longstanding stoiythat the term HAL was a "lightly veiledreference to IBM" (because each letter inHAL proceeds those in IBM by 1). Markoffquotes Chrke as saying: I' ve been trying toput that myth to rest for the past SO years."Clarke insisted that HAL stands only forwhat was originally stated — "heuristicallyprogrammed algorithmic computer."— BarburNE McMslkn O'JohaF. McMulsa

Supra Intros New V.S2Data/Fax ModemsALBANY, OREGON, FEB 7 (NB) — SupraCorporation has introduced two newcompact V.S2 modems with data/ faxcapabiTities and other new features.

The SupraFAXModem V.S2bis cantransmit computer data or faxes at speeds upto 14,400 bps, while the SupraFAXModemV.S2 can handle data and fax transfers up to9600 bps.

The V.Mbis carries a suggested retailrice of $S99.95, while the V.S2 sells for299.95.

Both machines, which are housed incompact cases measuring 1 X 4.5 X 6.5i nches, recognize Class 1 and 2 f a xcommands, are compatible with Group S faxmachines, and have the ability to send andreceive faxes directly from the computer.Both modems support data compression anderror correction protocols, induding V.42bisfour~ n e compression at throughput ratesup to 57,600 bps for the V.S2bis, and S8,400bps for the V.S2.

An interesdng feature is the LCD statusdisplay, which resembles a digital clock face.The display can show up to 25 differentstatus messages, replacing the indicatorlights found on many modems.

Other features of the two modemsindude support of voice and caller ID. Thevoice feature, which will be available in mid-1992 when the user-installable softwarecomes to market, allows the modems to sendand receive digitized voice, as well ascompress and uncompress voice data

Supra says the voice feature will alsogenerate and recognize touch tones andselect the best transmission rate, dependingon the quality level desired. The voicefeature is designed to support voice mail,answering m a chines, a nd digi t a l

If your phone service providerimplements caller ID, both these Supramodems will display the number from whichthe incoming call was dialed, on the user'sscreen. Supra says the caller ID feature isideal for secure communications, automaticidentification of incoming calls, and

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Kapor Praises ISDNAs Key To FutureSAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, JAN 80(NB) — Mitch Kapor, founder of LotusDevelopment and the Electronic ProntierFoundation (KFF), used the keynote addressat the Winter '92 Usenix technicalconference to hammer home the EFF'svision of a civilized network world, withnetworhng for am.

Kapor feels that ISDN — a technologyconsidered by many to be obsolete evenbefore it has become widely available — is infact the key to universal access to thenetwork world. ISDN provides digital serviceusing the same basic equipment used byvoice technology. An ISDN connectionprovides 2 c hannels of d a ta a t 64

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modems attain little more than 9600 or

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14400 bits per second by contrast.In theory, ISDN should cost no more

than voice phone calls, because many phonecompanies already transmit most of theirvoice by digitizing it and sending it over the

Because ISDN uses the copper wires thatare already in place throughout the networkworld, it requires no additional physicalequipment — unlike plans for fiber opticmulti~egabit data connections. ISDN is alsosufficiently fa s t for good -qualityvideotelephony.

Kapor suggested, and the audienceagreed, that almost every member of theaudience would buy such ISDN service if itwere available under the terms he describes.Such could be the start of a network worldfor everybody in the USA.

K apor a l s o pus hed f or morecommerdalization of the TCP/IP "Internet"that already hooks together tens ofthousands of computer systems in researchlabs and educational institutions around theworld. Kapor offered some free businessideas to the audience, suggesting thatpeople work to start network service bureausto allow the exchange of money, and even anetwork bank that accepted checks signedwith digital signatures.

The EFF has recently opened an ofiice inWashington, DC to assist with its publicpolicy lobbying efforts. In addition topromoting universal network availability, the

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ISA Panel Discusses Future OfInteractive ServicesNEW YORK, NEW YORK, JAN Sl (NB) — Apanel of professional observers of theinteractive services industry told anaudience of service provlders that it must domore in the way of promotion and marketeducation if it wishes to attract the popularmarketplace it desires.

Speaking on January 80th before theNew York chapter of the Interactive ServicesAssociation, Denman M aroney, vicepresident of the advertising firm' D'ArcyMasius Benton 8c Bowles, concentrated onthe differences between mass media andwhat he called "class media," saying thatcurrent advertising methods will bedramatically affected by any movementtoward interactive services.

Maroney said: "Advertising in a massmedia world is passive. People watchtelevision and ads come and go. When wedeal with interactive television and radio,faxes and computer systems, advertisingtakes on a much narrower focus and, as weprogress, the recipient will have a hand inselecting and tailoring the advertising he or

Maroney used soap operas as an exampleof mass media, saying "people watch thedramas and then are hit by the soap ads,"and "dialw-porn" as an example of classmedia, adding that "We shouldn't dismissthe impact of porn — it was triple-X moviesand not the betamax that jumpetarted the

Newsday technology reporter JoshQdttner admitted to the audience that thetechnical nature of o f ferings by the

industry often causes its news not to reachthe public. Quittner, a former crimereporter, said that it was much more likely

telecommunications and interactive services

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for a crime story to wind up in the dajlypaper than a story reporting a new on ' eoffeflIlg.

Quittner said: 'Everyone understandscrime and can jump right into the stop.When I write about new information servi+,service,' 'modem,' 'on-line,' 'operatidgs ystem,' e tc. , f o r t he s t ory t o Qeunderstandable to the general public. By thetime I do that, there is no room left in a Sewhundred words for the story. I'm sick of theterm 'chicken and the egg' but that's whalt itis — the general public has to understandmore about technology before it will relateto an in-depth article about some newd evelopment; i t w i l l , h o wever, p o tunderstand the pieces unless I explain geterminology and the explanations reducethe readability of the article."

John McMullen, Newsbytes NY BureauChief, agreed with Quittner's analysis as itapplies to Newsday but said that it wasItotparticularly relevant at Newsbytes, whichconcentrates solely on technology. He ssrid:"Our readers are, by and large, verytechnically aware and do not requireconstant explanation of terminology."

McMullen added: 'The use until nod ofthe term 'videotex' was a liabiTity. The termcauses many to think of a medium whosetime has never come. I'm glad that tIhisorganization changed its title from )he

name is much less threatening.and printsa much dearer image of the medium."

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sneak up on us rapidly, saying: "Thetechnology is in place. What is needed nowis for the industry to convince the public ofthe value of such services."

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Windows & OSI2 Show:James Burke KeynotesSAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, JAN 29 (NB)-Multimedia expert and keynote speakerJames Burke briefly talked exclusively toNewsbytes'after his opening address at theWindows & OS/2 conference here in SanJose. In reply to a question as to whether hethought the computer industry wasdominated by vested interests such asMicrosoft and IBM, he replied, "not formuch longer.

The "vested interestsquestion came as a resultof Burke's interestingkeynote speech which had

theme of "1 plus 1 makes3," in which he arguedthat, historically, twoseemingly unr e latedtechnologies have often

third. In it, Burke had alsoargued that "institutions"and "institutionalizedthinking" had historicallyconstrained the development of innovativethinhng.

Newsbytes also asked Burke if hc did notthink that the computer industry itself wasjust another institution, to which herefilledthat "the computer industry is different.

In his speech, Burke said he seesmultimedia technology as a continuation ofthe uend away from large scale. Also, hesaid that individuals want more choice, andmultimedia is a way to give it to them. Newtechnology, he said, will allow everyone tohave their say.

Speciflcally, he said, multimedia is a way"to rapidly educate the electorate. One ofthe major potentials for multimedia, he said,was in educauon. Interactive programs,"said Burke, 'are already revolutionizing

Said Burke in his speech: In general,perhaps the most important aspect (of thisnew technology) might be.. . to foster theacceptance that education does not flnish inschool. Knowledge, he said, is a keycommodity for the individual." "Withu nrestricted access t o a com m o ninformation source, people will use thetechnology for everything in life," he said."If you g ive p eople unlimited anduncontested access to knowledge, to eachother, and to the software that will teachthem to use the system in their ownidiosyncratic way, and through the network,remove from them the constraints of placeand time, then the institutions that haveheld us back for centuries will lose theirimportance. And with them will go thc

Concluding his talk with Newsbytes,Burke said that he was "very optimistic"about the future of the industry.

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Windows & OSQ Show:What's Hot And What's NotSAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, JAN 50 (NB)-One of the more entertaining seminars atthe Windows & OS/2 Expo in SanJose wasthe " What's Hot and What's Not i nWindows" session. The panel featuredindustry experts Carole Patton,rim Cann'mg,Randy Dugger, Michael Miller, and BrianMoura, each giving their own top "hots" and

Ncwsbytes got to thesession just in time to hearhalf the participants onthe platform fawning over

Windows 2 .0 wor dprocessing so f tware,a lthough th e ex p or tf'acihty was criticized.

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Other 'hot" mentions included:Micr ografx Inc.'s Windows Draw graphicssoftware; Alien Computing's FAXIt forWindows, which allows faxing from withinany document; Ocean Isle Software's ReachOut, the Thnbuktu equivalent for Windows;and mouse pads with command trees drawnon, as a sort of cheat sheet for specificapplications.

Two "nots" that spring to mind were theWingz Windows spreadsheet, and Thinx.Wingz got the thumbs down because,according to the panelist, the companybrought out the product for inultipleplatforms at the same time and did not tuneit from the Macintosh version to Windowsproperly.

Thinx also got a dishonorable mention.The panelist seemed to think the productwas a cross between a drawing program, aspreadsheet, and a database. Evidently, thepanelist called Thinx an 'interesting mentalexercise," although he was "not sure whowould use the product.

Newsbytes went to the Thinx and spoketo Bill McGrath, who said that the productwas aimed at 'spreadsheet users who wantto visually represent their data.

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Well certainly, plenty of people havebeen crowding the Microsoft booth to sce ademonstration of the product, along withother such luminaries as the dangerouslyvaporous Windows NT, Uisual Basic,Miicrosoft Pubhsher, and Miicrosoft Word.

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SCOTTS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, JAN Sl(NB) — In a fiercely competitive market, themajor software companies producings preadsheets — Lotus, Borland, a n dMicrosoft wontinue to battle it out, but nowin the Windows environment. In the latestround, held at the Demo '92 show in Indio,California, Borland said itsQuattro Pro Forendows product, still in prerelease testing,

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A macro is a series of keystrokes whichcan be stored and played back at will. Forexample, a'macro could be created thatwould save the current spreadsheet, thenprint it, simply by pressing two keys.Complex macros can be created whichpause for input by the user, display graphs,format portions of the spreadsheet, andnearly any other function which can beperformed m a nually. P ower u s ersfrequently have numerous complex macros,which they might be reluctant to re~catein a new prograxL

Microsoft is actively seeking Lotus I 2Nmacros to test with the new version of Excel,now in pre-release testing. Microsoft Excelfor Windows with Lotus macro capabiTity isexpected to ship in the first half of this year.

for testing should send them to: MacroMailbox, Microsoft Corporation, OneMicrosoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052. Thosewho include their name and address insubmitting a qualifying macro will receive acopy of Microsoft's Entertainment Pack forWindows, Microsoft said.

Borland has announced its Quattro Profor Windows product will ship in the firsthalf of this year as well.

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Streamline as new image-processing tools,more color support, a more interactive userinterface, intc.roperability with AdobeIllustrator for Windows, and the ability toexport graphics to popular file formats.

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Adobe added that postprocessing colorsmay be selected with an on-screen colorpicker within the paint styles dialogue box,by choosing percentage of process color, orby selecdng a color from the original bitmapusing the eyedropper tool.

A line-recognition feature allows theproduction of personal computer-basedforms. Thc, software is also smart enough tocorrect a form scanned slightly off tostraight, perpendicular, vertical andhorizontal l ines. Adobe says text i sautomatically removed during this process.

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In studying the computer virus problem,Dataquest said that o f t h e 6 0 0 ,000computers in the survey, 65 percent werereported to have experienced a virusencounter, with nine percent havingexperienced a virus "disaster" (disasterdefined as a virus affecting 25 or more PCsor diskettes).

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Leading Edge isn't the only companythat has had a virus problem. ComputerSales Professional, a Somerset, NewJersey-based mail brder hardware distributor hadan outbreak of the same virus, around thesame time last year. In that case, VirtualReality Laboratories Distant Suns softwareproduct was infected and distributed withthe virus, because VRL bought a computerfor development work from the New Jersey

Novell has had similar problems with theStoned S virus, distributed on its computernetworking software. John McAfee ofMcAfee Associates, a company thatdistributes anti~ s o f tware told Newsbytesthe story told here is a common one.McAfee says he gets at least five calls a weekfrom hardware or software vendors whohave distributed a mus to users.

In the case of Leading Edge andC omputer S a les P r o fessional, t h eMichelangelo virus infected the newcomputers in the preparation of the harddisks for "plug and play" so users would nothave to do formatting and installation of thecolnplltei' s operatmg system.

Microsoft, which supplies the operatingsystem DOS and the environment Windowsto computer manufacturers, says it hasbegun licensing DOS and Windows to OEMs(original equipment manufacturers) in sucha way that the companies do not need togive the users disks, but can install theoperating system on the hard disk and

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A program dassified as a Trojan Horse is processing program or accounting files,a programWsguised as a useful one4ntent because those files do not have'direct accesson destroying data. Often poinography or to the CPU.other graphics files are the medium used to The Mi chelangelo virus is believed totransmit a Trojan Horse. A Trojan Horse have originated in Europe in the Spring ofdestroys data sometime immediately after 1 9 91, says the Computer Virus Industrythe program is started but the user is A ssociation (CVIA). It infects IBM personalunaware because the program loads into the computers (PCs) and compatibles, andvideo memoxy and while the user's hard disk particularly the hard disk drive partitiondata is being destroyed, distracts with t able and the boot sector on the Soppy diskdisplays of moving graphics on the computer drive.Inonltoi' • The virus is spread by booting from

A computer virus is more specifically unknown or shared fioppy disks, the CVIAdefined as "programs that modify other says. The CVIA says once booted the virusprograms to include an executable and i n stalls in the computer's random accesspossibly altered copy of themselves. Easy to memory (RAM) and transfers itself to othercreate and difilcult to detect, viruses pollute fi les each time DOS commands are used orsystems by inserting copies of themselves executable programs are started.i nto, appending viral clones onto, or T he vir u s i s a ctivated when t h ecreating shells around ordinary executable computer's system date is the artist' sfiles,' says Richard Levin in his book The bi rthday, March 6. Upon activation it causes

ter Vines Handbook. loss of all information stored on the hardvirus needs access to the computer's disk. The loss is nonrecoverable, the CVIA

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What can be done? For the Michelangelovirus, the CVIA says to start or boot thesystem only from the hard disk, not from afloppy disk. Of course, if the hard disk isalready infected, that won't do much good.If a user is using only fioppy disks, the bootdisks should be .write-protected. Neverreboot a system from an unknown floppyand write-protect all bootable disks, the

To get rid of the Michelangelo virus onan infected system, a low-level then high-level format of the hard disk drive isrequired. The CVlA recommends backup ofall the user data on the hard disk If the diskwas partitioned, it will have to be re-partitioned. An alternate method is to use avirus detection and disinfection package,

Viruses should not be left unchecked,but if the Michelangelo virus is suspected, atemporary flx is to change the system date toa date before or after March 6 using theDOS DATE command, and change the date

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Several virus detection and preventionprograms are commercially available. MostCan detect a virus~ected system, and someadd preventative measures like loading intoRAM and "watching" for viruskke activity.

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NeXT Heralds 400+ Percent Growth, New ProductsSAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. JAN 24 Third party applications for the(NB) — NeXT announced it is experiendng NeXT are increasing in numbersan unheardwf growth spurt, repgmting a 448 as well from.68 to 247 duringpercent increase compared to its <~i 1991. NeXTusergroups went

reported $127 million in 260 group~ m 28 countries,

user version of NeXTstep requires 120 MBof free hard disk space for use and is ofFeredat a retail price of $995. The developerversion, which requires a 400 MB of harddisk space, is being offered for $2,495.

NeXT has also announced faster, colorversions of the NeXTstation which thecompany says are also less expensive. Thesemturbo" versions of the NeXTstation,NeXTstation Color and NeXTcube are builtaround the Motorola 68040 processorrunning at 88 megahertz (MHz).

Previous versions of these new "turbo"NeXT computers were based on theMotorola 68040 chip, but only at 25 MHz,NeXT said. The turbo computers have beenrated at 25 miihon instructions per second(MPS), compared to 18 MPS for the 25MHz versions.

NeXT said it has also reduced prices onits other computer configurations by anaverage of 10 percent.' Other announcements by the company

included the debut of a 860 dots-per-inch(dpi), four-color printer; an externalcompact disc readaonly memory (CD-ROM)drive; a NeXT Database Kit (DBKit) Adaptorfor the Teradata DBC/1012 Data BaseComputer, and a joint marketing deal withTeradata Corporation. The joint marketingagreement provides for the exchange oftechnical information, prospect refers,training, and joint sales cooperation, NeXT

More information about NeXT productsis available toll-free at 800879%898 (800-T RYST ) .Contact: Allison Thomas, Allison Thomas Assodatesfor NeXT Comfaasr, tel 818481-1520.

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Francisco on Wednesday.Jobs said NeXT has to be significantly

better to get the advantage over entrenchedsystems like Sun. "NeXTstep has beenheralded as being significantly better thanSun's and evesyone else's system software, inpart because it allows customers to createcustom applications up to 10 times faster,"Jobs said.

NeXT said the increase in revenues isdue in part to the company's change inmarketing focus from higher education in1990 to business and government customersin 1991. NeXT also said 48 percent of itsrevenue was from its European and Pacificoperations. The company is project'mg halfits revenues will come from outside the USin 1992.

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keynote speech, appropriately, Xs iiXXh and built by NeXT Computer. Theat the NeXTWorld show in San ' NeXTstep 486 allows NeXT and 486-based

computers to interoperate seamlessly witheach other, as well as with Apple Madntosh,Unix and IBM or compatible computers.

Rumors were f l y ing p r i o r t o t heannouncement that Compaq would beamong those licensing the new Intelprocessor version of the NeXTstep software,but a definitive agreement from the twofitms failed to materialize on schedule.

Current NeXTstep applications can beported to the NeXTstep 486 easily, NeXTsaid. Lotus, WordPerfect, Adobe andWoHram Research, have created versions oftheir NeXT a pplications running inNeXTstep 486.

The NeXTstep 486 requires 4 to 16megabytes (MB) of random access memory(RAM) and a mouse or pointing device. The

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QuarterDeck Of'fice Systems startedadvertising DESQview/X late in 199$ inhopes of having it on the market early in1991. Now they are talhng in terms of 'thefirst quarter of 1992. Bill Crawley, viyhoidentified himself as a "QuarterDpckmemory Demigod, said that hopefullytranslates to a March delivery.

While at the booth we talked to anumber of network managers hke RichardJohnson, staff engineer for FreddickEngineering. He said many networkmanagers want to use X-Windows as a userinterface, and t h ey' re excited thatDESQview/X will make their entrance jatothe PC software world simpler. That' sbecause, for a DOScompatible machink, X-Windows offers a graphical user mterftace,or GUI, like that offered by MicropoftWindows. With it, a developer can ~payattention to the product instead of hangto make it look like its environment.

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New Product Runs INac SoftwSAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, FEB 8 (NB)-X celerated Systems, Inc. ( X SI ) h a sannounced it is shipping Liken, a product itsays allows Sun SPARCstation users to use"shrink wrapped" software designed forApple Madntosh computers.

Liken w i l l wo r k on any Su nSPARCstation running Openwindowswithout any additional hardware, XSI said.Users install Liken like they would any otherUnix application, then Apple System Toolsversion 6.0.7 must also be installedaccording to instructions in the Liken usermanual. (Apple System Tools are notincluded with Liken.) XSI says once theinstallation of the Apple System Tools iscomplete, the Su n O p e n W i n dows

both Macintosh applications and existing

David A. McMillen, president of XSI,claims Unix systems would sell better if

. there were more U ni x o f f - the-shelfapplication software products available.McMllen says Liken not only allows Unixusers a choice of the wide variety ofMacintosh applications, bu t a l l ows

growing Unix market without the expenseand delay of adapting to a new

XSI says it does not support Appletern 7.0. However, McMillen said some of

e benefits of System 7, such as a beuerFinder and fewer system crashes due to avirtual environment, are already available toMacintosh software users with Likenbecause they' ve been implemented in theUnix workstation world already.

As for performance, XSI says theM acintosh applications o n a SunSPARCstation showed higher performanceratings than the same apphcations running

on a Madntosh,Classic when installed on alowered Sun SPARCstation. Perforcedepends on the workstation configur~onand the apphcation software's parameters.XSI said increased performance cad beobtained with more memory, local gjjisks,more powerful central processing units(CPUs), and graphics accelerator optio6s.

Liken allows data exchange as well, butin much the same way as compatible yord-processing programs on other platformsamow data exchange. Madntosh formatj dataon 1.44MB floppy disks or on e theworkstation's hard disk can be exchangedbetween Madntosh and Unix programs,aslong as the data is in a format the programscan use. For example, XSI says Mi osoftExcel spreadsheets, Claris Fiiemakey Pro

can be exchanged between the Madntoshand Unix versions.

L iken can b e t h o ught o f a s a ninterpreter, McMillen said. The productinterprets the Motorola-based Mac~toshinstructions to something the Unix-basedCPU can understand and act on, and ii doesit in real time. The processing speed qf theworkstation is in part what makes thy real-time conversion possible, McMillen said.

Versions of Liken for other Unixgasedworkstations are planned in the cpmingmonths and Unix system vendors areinterested, XSI said. Tim Bailey, manager ofmarket development for Hewlett-Packard'sworkstation business said: "We sell a lot ofworkstations into accounts that haveMacintosh computers, and this provides agreat compatiMity story."

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New SCO Products AnnouncedAt UniformSAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, JAN 22(NB) — The Santa Crux Operation (SCO)has announced new Unix4ased products atthe Uniform show held in San Francisco.

SCO says its SCO Unix Operating System(OS) in version 4.0 is now shipping. Thenew version offers greater system capaeit,more network and device support, snd hasbeen optimixed for the benefit of softwaredc;velopers, SCO said. SCO reported over

verified their products work with the new

SCO also announced the SCO OpenDesktop 1.1 for Intel-based 80386 and 486systems. SCO Open Desktop offers 82-bit,multitasking of Unix with a graphics. userinterface (OUI), transparent networking,and the abiTity to run MS-DOS applications,the company added.

An Extended Feature Supplement (EFS)for SCO Open Desktop 1.1 was alsoannounced. EFS indudes new graphics andnetworking as well as offc:ring improvedinteroperabili ty with other workstations,

Thc newly announced SCO OpenDesktop Server System incorporates theSCO Open Desktop single-user operatingsystem and SCO Open Desktop Sc;rverU pgrade package. SCO c l a ims t h ecombination of these products in a singlesystem simplifies ordering server-baaedplatforms because users no longer have topurchase separate operating systems andupgrade productL

Contest: Zee Zsbslke, Santa Crux OperaSon, tel 408-425-7222, fax 4~27444L

Corel Ships Unix Update,Otfers Competitive UpgradeOTI'AWA, ONTARIO,JAN 22 (NB) — CorelSystems has announced first shipments ofCorelDrsw version 2.002 for Unix, a newversion of its popular graphics soflwsre. Thecompany also announced a competitiveupgrade offer for users who want to trade incompentive graphics products on DOS PCsfor the CorelDraw CD-ROM BlockbusterBundle, which packages the DOS version ofthe software with more than 10,000 chpsrtimages.

CorelDraw for Unix 2.002 adds supportfor DECstation 5000, Santa Crux OperationODT, and HP Apollo Sc:ries 400 platforms.Like the first release, it also supports OpenSoftware Foundation OSF/Motif on IBMRISC System/6000, Data General Aviion,and Sun Sparcststions.

Also new in this release are live links tothe FrameMaker desktop publishingsoftware from Frame Technologies. WhenCorelDraw images are incorporated inFrameMsker documents, users can click onan image to reactivate CorelDraw.

The suggested list price for CorelDraw2.002 for Unix is $895 in the United States,or C41060 in Canada. Additional licensesare $745 or C$880.Contact: Fiona Rochester, Coral, tel 61 3-72845I00 ext.1172, fax 61$-72S-6790.

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Ymodem is essentially Xmodem lK thatallows multiple batch Sle transfer. On somesystems it is hated as Ymodem Batch.

Ymodemg is a variant of. Ymodem. It isdesigned to be used with modems thatsupport error control. This protocol doesnot provide software error correction orrecovery, but expects the modem to providethe service. It is a streaming protocol thatsends and receives 1K packets in acontinuous stream until instructed to stop.I t do e s not wai t for posi t iveacknowledgement after each block is sent,but rather sends blocks in rapid succession.If any block is unsuccessfully transferred,

Zmodem is generally the best protocol touse if the electronic service you are callingsupports it. Zmodem has two signiScantfeatures: it is extremely efficient and itprovides crash recovery. Like Ymodemg,Zmodem does not wait fo r p ositiveacknowledgement after each block is sent,but rather sends blocks in rapid succession.

interrupted for any reason, the transfer canbe resurrected later and the previously

Kermit was developed at C o lumbiaUniversity. It was designed to Stcilitate theexchange of data among very different typesof computers (mainly minicomputers andmainframes). You probably will not need touse Kermit unless you are calling am inicomputer or m a i nframe a t a neducational institution.

' Sealink is a variant of Xmodem. It wasdeveloped to overcome the transmissiondelays caused by satellite relays or packet-switching networks.Which Sli er pro tocol ahould you uae?In general, I recommend-Zmodem. IfZmodein is not supported by the system youare calling, use Ymodemg. (I f you arec onnecting to a U N I X s ystem in auniversity, you may have to use Kermit orXmodem to transfer Sles.)

Going OnlineGoing online has become a way of hfe formany computer users. It is undeniablyfascmating, fulSlling and fun. But there isalso a down side to it: the cost can beprohibitive. I have yet to meet an avidmodem user who didn't wish that he couldafford to be online longer.

To get the most mileage from youronline dollars, you need to know theanswers to the following three questions:1. What is the right modem to use?

how do they compare?S. What is the most costwffective way to

reach those services?These are not isolated questions. The

answers to these questions will help youdecide what online systems are right foryou. People live in different cities, usedifferent kinds of computers and dodifferent things online. It should come asno surprise that there isn't a single onlinesystem that is right for everyone. 0

About "The Joy of TetesnsnrPutftsg'The Joy of Telecomputfng' le a 204pege (andgrawlng), threapa/t repot conslsgng of the followingargcles Whet you need to know about modems,"Ufebeyond Compugetve and 'fe ATBT the right choloef Aglossary and an Index are also Orwvfded.

The crtscussktne in 'The Joy of Tefecomputfng aredevoted to the following online aolh/irlee: file transfer(downloading ehareware, exchanging ffkte withcolleagues or friends), elect/onh mall, conferences(forums, newsgroups, SIGe), ohtaring. You won't finddiecuselone on stock quotee, shopping mails, onnnedatrtbasm, etc.

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