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I would like to point out an annoying trend
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PC 'battle' fought an the pages o( computet

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tive to the computer industry, (c) How
many peopk havr actuauy been lnflurnced

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cover I think it was a bad choler to choose
iuch 4 dark cover photo, whh might

exp4ln why this problem occurmd. Dr an
thc other hand your printing procem may
be (4wed. Probably a combination o( these
two 4ctors caused this problem, I he only

solution, I found, was to rip of( the cover
page and throw it away. This probkm was
not localized to )ust the paper I pked up, I
noticed Ihis problem on three dlserent
cop(eh
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you run an ante)c on cxp4)ning and optinuang the system.ini and win.ini Ales to
gct the best performance out o( Windows
kl l h i s inlormahon would be ule(ul to 4
lot of your readers, includingm

yself.
Gordon Chang
v4 Mind Link'
Sditor's Comment: T/ranks /br )uur cam-
of the IOustrator 4 0 and the Winiiows envi.

nmment. I wish he'd review his ankle, and
in the process ask hinnei( If the intcgrtty of
the article would su((er by )raving out aU
rc(creates to the $4c(ntosh.
My suggestion to him I snd II you<
othrr Contributors) il lo review Ihe product
they want to, without rr(rrcnce to cross-
apr(m/z/nt W/rh/mn, nv /N(r 20 in this ilssd
p4t(ann products. If I own a Mac, the anicle would not make me go and buy
IX)5/Windows maihirw; or thc abscnCC of
celtaisl (catules In thc Mac's vcrslon would
conlpctlrlg with thc Mai 'I ilhlstraior

Thus, the battles' that some ol us want
ale simply a waste o( vahlable rctourors. If

only Thr <.apurer Paplr Can resiat this
temptation, I believe it will truly be an
authoritanve pubhcanon in the near future.

An thony Adesanya
University af Manitoba,
Winnipeg, MS
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ment that came o(f very eanly and Clnled

your hands aru( whatcvcf else tchhcd the
mrnt. H/r, (oa. err i/ /rcssrt/ by /Ar rnk qua/I/y
to sae in your paper Df at all neccssa/y) arc

those between competing products on 4
p4tform and not cross-p4tform The latter
40$ox 33 120 MsHantDmm, MS RAM, 2 su I ea smt. cd svGA. Ieteead. Is/fmd
this recent issue (Mm '93/ was tenibk, in

that the cover was printed wiih a black pig.
guest. It may be unintcnnonal. but the tone

of his artie suggests Ihe overall supenoticy
able (or the Mac lacks too many features, I

would simply turn to com
peting products
m thc Mac world. lbe PC's lgustratoris md
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Ulustrator 4 0 Ior Windows' by Nelson
as 4 Mac owner, I think the version wail-
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386DX.33 120/4 ~
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I have no t t o un d on e F a t h v e ndor I
approach says that such a program is not

avat4hk In Canada or the US. and I should
look lor one abroad. Is thh the truth? Ii
not, could you give mc some advice on

where to look7 My system ts a 36fi PC with
l)D5 5 and Windows 3 I.
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Second awonr
Seanix fechnology Inc.. of Richmond,
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Axon ot
Gronvde Book
recently announced that a .I.year lith)ted

warranty is now avaiiabie on its AS) 9000
personal computers. Seanix has branches in
Vancouver, Ca)gary, Edmonton, Toronto

and Montreal
I t designs and assembles
in its Richmond facility. I he

warunty applies io all ASI 9000 systems
com
puters
Compulit
celebrates tenth
year
M onk ( ) i t en , p r esident o f C o m p u l i t
f)tstributors, 4 S C -based computer book
dntiibutor, recently ga
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Thc lint sward went to Greg Harder of
Conti C< rmputer S y s tems i o r be i n g
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Computer Rookseliins Fact)knee.'
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ment team of Ntw Era Software in Vtnons
The compariy is the developer of IDIS Iot
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Service 4 Supplies for Laser Printers
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ment software package dcs)gncd for muninpalnlcs. Couvclicr has apparent)y had capo.
<)ence in this area, as he is also the former
mayor ol Saaru<h, as wca as having bctn

t he p r esiden l o f t he un i o n of SC
Munk)pa)tots
The package w)U run under Windows
and prumi ~ io curn)anc numbn ot func.
uons <unto()y done b) separate programs

mto one pockage. As an exampk, LOIS 2 0
is abk to target an indivkiuai p)est ol prop.
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name )I the registered owner, pull up the
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assessment, ron)ng and bmiding permit

inlormation and irxlude pholm, onginal
letters and other inlormmion. IDIS is <urrently in use m a variety of muninpalities
in SC. Ontano and Nova Scot)a.
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Iumonow. 4 symbcated newspaper colum-
PAYROLL
nist who's writings locus on commg tech-
aalp slalma ra NW 4aCaoodda treat soSI

A tamam a ~ m e ssy emrimo,
nulogicai and socul dunge, has boned with

Po4r 7 Enterprhes lo put more than 4SO of
his rtkies idatmg back to 19SS), onto a
Alter ten years at its 10th Ft Aims location,

whkh ihe ptoprietor describes el humbk ,
SUkonnections Computn Rooks has moved
up the street to 378S West lt)th Avc., in
Vaniouver Sili<onncctions is one of the
few stores dedicated a)most excluuvtly to
CO-ROM. The companv p4ns to produce

only 777 d)s<s and each wdi be s)gned and
<omputer books. IOwner Hank Wool stiU

stocks the odd historkal and business uue
can use royalty Iree lor newsletters undet

2.000 copies. Suggested reuil pnce h S2SO.
to fksh out the hnc) fhe new ~tore is much

urger end <an no ionger be chere<tert<Cd as
Cords<i Peter 7 naorpnaoo. (S04) f)444x)0t
humble. The bigger store has enough room
teel uloN aafetooae ael oaa

aod oapNweao hl ew coaly
lhippcil since January I, 1993
The Western i anada Computtr Iststnbutor

Society h a s r e centl y f o r me d i n t he
Van<ouvm area the goa)s of the gntu)r art
to rnts)uragt communication and buuneu
development between memben, exchange
<radii )nformat)or) lo rcdw t nedit nsk and
cnn<h tht lo<lal activmcs arnoilgst corllpiiter d)stnbutors in Western Cmsa<4. Membcn
roust be Western Canadian computer disiiibuturs.
Siliconnections
moves to new
location
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Seanix announces
3-year tnrarranty
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V %% Q m etta Q
numbered by ihe author they ihmk they
may have a worhrs lint a coaecuble CI>

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var)ety ol artkk s tlut ncwletter publishers
Swm A HELP
IQ taranmom mo
ferneoild am mm
~ t ray emr Sto
According to SCff, mort tlun half the cngH

neers and technoiogists in Canada are no
longer employtd in a technical capacity
within flat years of gladuat)on. Marly move
on to supervisory, nunagement and marketing positions Raids m which they
have no formal training. The khool's new
diploma course alms to RU the void. It Is
olfcnd part-time durmg the evenings so it
is accost)ble lo lhose who art airtady working The diploma and advanctd diploma
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Accr Canada recently announced the
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an k(SA bus and a 66 1>IHz 48( DX2. Pnccs
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8 C EDITION THE COhlPUTER PAPER A PRIL 'f(3
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v(Fhat's new
ra(raCedars
EIW gets Apple distribution, expands Vancouver Warehouse

IMJ l)ata Systems Ltd., was recently selected by Apple C:anada inc., to d istribute
Macintosh <omputers to the Value Added
R escllers (VARsi. A<cording t o H e n r i
Vehovec. pi<blent of Adam Peripherals, a
were also <oils(dered (or thc tasli, EMI was
branch. The (actlity has grown by 5,000
chosen. not (or its expertise m Macmiosh

new market fnr Apple.
FMJ a(so announced that it is expanding
sqiiare feet to total 0( 15,000 square lect

The increase wiU allow more stock in the
west, to better supply western o istomen
conlacr EMJ Data systems Ud. (51si toy-
Macintosh.speci(t< peripheral supplier, who
its warehouse operations in its Vancouver
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taraaart Pmr V
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Windovvs NT
Preview
Microsoft has recently announced its plans

lor the release of Windows NT (New
Technology) Aimed primarily at cunent
h igh-en d
t eh n i c a l
Window users, Windows
NT will feel and look like
regular Windows, but it

wiU be the h i g h octane
v ersion
of
W i nd o w s
a ccordin g t o Il w a y n r
Walker, (ttre<tor (or Windows F(T
Windows IC( will be able to addreu several gigabytes of RAM. and terabytes of
memory storage It wiU also offer portabdi.
ty across both intel and RISC; computing
piativrm.
Microsoft that nearly 3,000 dcvelopcrs
ie Planning tn launc h Windows NT appS.
cations within the next war. took for m<ue
NT coverage in t h e M a y i s sue of T h e
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SIERRA
Font Directory for

Windows
geaver Pond Fnteipnses ts
offerintt a refer-
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( fr)iii irlany ir i t h e
he bestlling FC software
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v'
suspicious suicide A chilling

curse. A malevolent power.
And a wicked dark secrek This
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mansiorswhere against your better
furl grrlral t, you' re des wtl irlto a world
of shadows and eviL
most papular pack ges ol sotnvare fonts,

including those (rom
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11 hours from new

Panasonic notebook
nd you thought F-15 II was

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Pssrof Drstfiny brings virtual

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into intense battle between
good and evil in which only you can
save the world! See if you have the
right stuff to accomphsh the most
dangerous mission of the war!
panasontc has mtrodu<ed a notebook <omputer ttut otters up to 11 boun ol battery

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he okl RepubiS< isgone. The Jedi
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APRON. '93 THE COMPUTER

PAPER 8 C EDITION
g V Ce h A g Rg g I g N N % T T
ehre Nearly ag of the software Mac umis
coeur fpubliskmg ts nose a soon will

be avaitabk on thc FC Itardware is, in
most tares, cheaper and more plentihsl,
and m on So what's nat to like'
FCs are nat as stmpk to use, with or

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

Thankfully, imce yern aee actseally in a
program and uslrlg et bc it Pageklahcr
Eacek any mw af doaens af other muhL
pladonn ntks. the FC vx Mac debate laces
steam. With lew exceptions, thc petformancc and runrtians add up to a campanble expcrknte on either platform And the
pan Ihat teally nsstten the output tram
a pnntcr or imagcscttcr is vinuaily indisttnguishabk and can be itutte spectacular.
We' ll look t output a httlc later Right
now, I'L dhcuss a kw other buses af rekvance to FC oerncn Mac usen can skip
head t o
t h e section t i t le d ' P r i n ter
Car mtksaseans.
It goes without saying that the capabilities of desktop

publishing programs have grown since the release of
the first incarnation of PageMaker in the mid-'SOs.
Indeed, traditional desktop publishing programs like
PageMaker and Ventura Publisher now face considerable pressure from Windows-based word processors,
whose graphical abilities encompass many of the features required in DTP applications.
catures aten't everything when yme are
looking ta ih r right DTI' applianan,
bile then arc several kcv an'as Li con.
sider.
(hooohe9 Ccrrsspsrfor
Itecse are campethng reasans to use a PC,
rust m tteeec are grewr ruasaen so um a Mac.
Amies. Unix eeorkstanan evhat-have.vaer
Long-tune readcn will recognise my famd.

iar retram.' choose your software tint.
These devs, most DTP and graphics programs are available on both the FC and
Mac. Either al these pktfarms represents
good choice for DTP appbrathms Despite
Appie's resent tsphasss on loca~ M a ts.
igM compatdtks me assd villi pmbably
remain the kast expenvc hardware
K Ituues
It
you
are
I rc ad y
usi n g
Windows/GEM/Gcoworks, ctc., look t a

DTP applrcatum that works in yaur chosen
envtmrunent. For one thang, you'U save

considerable amount of disk space by not
having to duplicate fonts, printer dnvers
and thc athci accoutremcnts at two sepa-
rate graphtcat shcftx I exampk, venean

3.0 ol Ventura Publisher lor Windows
cosnes im nro disks se af winch cash
Cma unslung but CumnpkL The GEM vem
ncm, on thc achcr hand respres mare thab
a dassm thsks.
As welk of coune. yauTI have less tb

learn, as most applications far Windows
(etc.) have amiler Ioak and feet. A secondary reason to stick wnh one graphical
envuonment is that tt causes less probknn.
Dunng thc caune ot researchingthis arti

ck. I spoke ta several users who had memory-related difficulties when ttying to use
both CEM- and Windows~ted appli

thms im the same FC. DOS achhitess
enough Incmay cslramts as b b wttti wi
8 C EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER A PRIL '93
Multi-function Software for DTP

L OPS)Create
)nd udaa Indudea Isameaaardksu($()S

ckpArt F on s
i sot aphpr P a a m
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Tant Faoe croup(ex (Faphke
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Core(ORAW 3.0
WordPerfecl
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company wtf) eventually supply these cppa-
complicating thc Issue

One advantage Mac uscis have long
nioycd is 'Mn((terr)ona) printer commun).
cations.' (his means that 3 Mac user can
see an on-screen dialog hox with a message
bilities to Windows and network users.
Pyfottec cocsfrkcatfona
I( you are on ti g ht budget, you might
wish to consider an ink-lt pr i n ter. The
detailing the print iob's status, number o(

pages to pnnt, etc. If the system is sharing a
er, but the crnt is a lot lower. Canon'1 nw
printer with other uters on s network (all

Macs have th)1 printer-sharing network
capability built in), the user cin see who
and what is pouting
Networked PC users have no corpparable ability, i(though dng)e users mn purchase M)cvosoft'5 Windows Prtnong Syuem,
whi~h pass)des improved per(ormince and
bi< (tact)one( communications between
computer and printer, when used with
Lasriet i l . a n d I I I -sries printers H P '1
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(3OS. The printer can report paper lams,
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p anel, f o r c o n f i gurin g t h e pr i n t e r.
According to a smpany Ipstkcspcrusn, the
StyleWntcr ll.)
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mx) Ih n is nor douhie thc rtsotunan nt

a Hxxdpi urut it'< iituigy r<iurun>rs
the number nr dnh.
2) Enhanced gmy scales for brrrer pont<>uts
o( scanned photos IIP's Iisrrlrt IV has
this feature I Yes. I iikr this pnnter'I,
Apple'I nr w niodels have it, X antc"s
Ac<el-a-Wnter models have it. as da
those from IasrfMastrr Any pnntcr that
docin't have ber(ed up gra) scales is
gotng to look hke vld news pretty 4st
)) pose><r>pt or it iemt the opikm to add n
I have been quite adamant in thr past
haut i n s istin g u n ' true' A d o b e
I'c>IIS<rtpt. Re<cat tests, hvweirr, hi ve

ic(t nir satishcd with thc pc'tformance
arid compatibility of I rue(mage Jnd
I'hi>c nixPagr PosIScript <lones fram
Iksrr<stkstrr, Xantt and other vendors
11>e lksrf Mkster units o( i Itw ) ears agv
had ivnie fairly malar compatibility
problems. Today, they Jfr i l liailngly
gvixl thc liserMast<r Unity 1200XL'I
IIUclrIlkgc Ihttrlrrctcr I tcstcii paved Jll
my toughest PostScnpt rmulauvn Iesti
with tiymg ivlafs iit rstn passed a (ew
Irus that QMs printers with real Advbi'
Infcrpfctcfs 4 iicd). Thcrc 1$ always i
dartger, hbivtvrr. that a P<IS< ript done

inll hive p
>th a program that
expects a genuine Adobe PosIS<npt inter.
roblem
A<eel-a-Writer B I 0 0 p r i n te r a f r ee
upgrade to PhrsrnixPage I.cvel 2, its

I'ortScfipt.compatible intttpreter, Ihhcr
preter Adobr's Malt!pit Master fonts, for
iendors may have similar upgrade
exampk, cause some errors on iome

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

liserWritef ills I Thest printers ncnl to
have their ROMI upgradtd Io be able to
use these ncw Iontsk The 4tcu generation vl POIIS<ntu ts known ai PouScrlpt
Ltvtl 2. I( pnsuble, gtt a pnnter with
PmrS<ript level 2 ai an opt>n

Xintc now offers early purchasers nf its
hold an cntin graphscs page in niemory

Somr laset prtntcrs come stan<4rd with
only S12K ol RAM. You will have to

expand thc RAM o( thrse units to Usr
them fnr dcsktvp publishing.
Other Herdwete
No a>atter whi~h type of cornputrr yvu rnd
up using lor DTP. there are a frw other
hardwate components it shiiuld have
Ii I( you regu4riv work on full pages, a full.
page display n a good investment. large
gray-scale monitor~ afe not that I xpen-
2) A color or gra) -teak scanner is in<std>bly

useful I ' ve bern very pleased with
I irwlei t .l'a<Lard'I Scan(et l l c . I h e
Microtck ScanMakcr II and tlmax UCJ> tv
models kfc popUIJI. Ioo Ofic caveat. Ihc
Mantvi h versi<in ot the Scanklakrr
svftwifc has k bug tliki < JUsrs it to Irrrlc
up occasionally when scanning large
areas in bl k and white, A M u r vtck
tcchninkn venficd the exntencc nf thii
hug, but said Ih cvinpiny doesn'I p4n
vn ruung it until "next )vaf ( i a ligure.
As I meurivned in my August Iv<)2
irti<k Scanning for Scanners, I dn nvt
recommend a hand-held scanner, nv
matte~ how tight your budget ii k eep
xi vill g
Si Right after you gct a color scanner, )x>u'll
be very interested in J large, 4st hard
dfiic. I'vc hkd father a kit v( bkd el<Pen.
cncts with SyQuest removable dnveu I
iin'I iecornrnc nd them. II y<w need ieli.
able rc <novable mms-storage, look iniv
t ape b a ckup. m a g neto-vpti<al o r
Brrnvulli dnves. In an upcornmg issue.
I' ll bc cvaluanng ihe new 21MB Aopn-
SATURDAY, MAY 22"o

10:00 am - 4:00 pm
cal tc< hnvfvgy, too Stay tuned

t) II you usc a scanner, you' ll find nptual
character rr<agniirvn IO( ki so(r c a
rtai boon. I here e wir ral piikigri vut
there, l>ut my 4vvnte is one al the least
expensive: <)mnrpage Dircusy iob
with reading 4 xr i l u d o t hat, yuu'll
nceil onc of the IUII-(ratured OCR appli<Jhons avaf4bk.
Anothrr useful hardware cessor) rs
a modem With a modem, yvu <an wnd
hks to your kxal service bureau, abta>n
fonts, cbp art and prvgrmn updates Itiun

your favorite SB'I or inforniitinn service,
g<q answers to tcchnical suppvn <lars.
tsans and more.
M acPhe rson C o n v e n t ion C e n t re

7 32 5 M c P h e r s o n A v e . , B u r n a b y , B . C .
t) An alternative to a scanner is to get i

CL) IK)M drive and a Irw discs of clip irt
of scanned imagery. I recommend i

drive that is compatibk wnh mulincs.
Information Call 671-9114
uon Photo CD discs. Read my March 'v I
article I'hoto CI) (or deuih,

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Performance
from
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$1,115 Trison 386SX-33

I Meg RAM
L3 I 2 andi 44 Roppy Dnve
J 2 Senal I Paragel, I Game Port
B Y GRA EM E B EN N ET T
J 101 Keys Enhanced Keyboard L 2 Su per VGA Monaor

1024x788 28
IJ 52 MB Had Drhe.17msec
t3 Desktop cvlower case with
J Tndent super VGA ctrd with I MB
200 W CSA approved power supply
The Computer Paper

ran an article detailing
the steps to optimize a
PC running Windows,
but that was backin Oct.
$1,18 5
T rtson 386DX-33
J I Mug RAM
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I J Su p er VGA Monitor 1024x7(EI .28
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3.1.
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IJ 101 Keys Enhanced Keyboard

IJ 52 MB Hard Dnve-17msec
J 2 Serial. 1 Parallel, I Game Port
1991. Since the release of

Windows 3.1, a few of
t he s e t tings ha v e
changed. Here, then, is
aff updated list of things
you do to get better performance from Windows
0 Super VGA Monitor 1024x788 28

fJ Desktop or tower case wsh
IJ Tn d enl super VGA card with 1MB
200W CSA approved power supply
Enhanced Mode or Standard

Mode? If you run a lot of non.
Windows applications w hile I n
Windows, you' ll get better perfor-
mance and some additional capabili-
ties I( you run In 3 $6 Enhanced

Mode In this mock; DOS applications
wtg multitask and can nui In a win.

dow (as opposed to ful l -screeni.
Enhanced-mode Windows can use
disk space as virtual memory, too. The
co ( or these advantages is speed
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1 M egRAM
1 2 andi 44 Roppy Onve
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200W CSA approved power supply
IS percent faster if you start Windcnn

in Standard blade with the command
WtN /S. ( t n sluwer 3$6SX systems,
that 10 or IS pe(sent canrcaUy count.

2$6-based computers only run in
Stands fit M(xk.
Add more RAM. I( you'vc got
two megabytes nf RAM, yuu dellni tcty
need nmre Consider espiiuling your
comfsuter's menrniy Io $M$. You'U bc
surprised at the per(cumance gain. Sy

the way, what was said above ii Mut
your hard drive acting as virtual

memory does not apply here. You
needreal RAM to gct real speed.
Increasing Perfosttance with
SaaAITDrive
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Serving Vancouver Since '87
SMARTDrive is a disk caching program that sets aside an area uf IVOt tn

use as ternfivrary storage fui frequent
ly accessed pieces ol information
<letting this informauun Irom RAM is
muih f ster than retrieving It from
thc hard disk every Umc you need it,
Uric arc tullic suggesduil'i (or sfrccifis
machine conf
igurations;use these
B C. EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER APRIL '93

:)E,
examples as a starting point,
(you c a n rd l r CO N FIG.SYS,
AUTOEXEC.HAT or uny nf Windows'
.INI flk s with thr editor lnchcdrd nirh
DOS. Iii Jnud A(fTC)FAFC. SAT into rhr
editor, for crumple,)ctu'd rypr FDIT

At)TI)FEE('. SAT ac rhr cs pn npr.c
I ) 28 6 w i t h I M B R A M , A l t h o u g h
windows J.l won't run on th is

machine. Windows 3.0 will in
Real Mode (a mode not Induded in
Windows 3. I) Standard Mode pco
vides better performance and
m emory m anagement, bu t l l
requires 2MB of RAM
allows applications to dynamically

)locate STACKS as needed, saving
sotne conventions) memory.
St Sp tfytng LAm)RNF E (e. dep nd.
ing on your hard drive configuration)
rary swap Se degradespcrf

disk opttm)cation utility Such a
Symantec's Norton Speed Disk or
MemMakec.
C entral Poin t Software's PC Tool s i

Optlrlliae ls a or t h whlk nve stmcnt
nyway. Defragmenred disks are a

faster than ones where data and
gram ftksare scattered acccssa
permanent swap ble. Theoretically, il
surface
you used an optimtaahon utility on a
6) Usc a memory manager program.

Windows i n stalls a fi l e ca l l e d
HIMEM SYS in your CONF)(LSYS file.
onc In mast cases, f)raugRV.
for 3S6 and 486 machines, third-pany

cneniury managers (QEMM, 386MAX,
Memory Commander) can frre up
additional RAhl, as can htS-DOS 6.0's
7) ln W i n d ows' 386 Enhanced mode
Conuol Panel is an option foc setting
saves a scllall amoutlc of conventional

aleatory.
regular basis, a temporary swap flic

would be Iurt as fast as a permanent
Oct J one cllegabyte systeco, vau
won't have enough RAM to run

ShIARTDrtve.
I n st e a d,
sct
SUFFE15 32. This does essentially

the same thing as SMARTDrtve,
albeit less efficiently. It probably
goes without sa) tog that a 286 is
not an ideal machme on whic h to
run Windows. Walk, maybe. 2S6

users shouLd conrtder a less pawcrbungry graphical environment
(Geoworks, for ctamplet, cn stick
to character-based DOS applica.
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up SMAKEDrtve like thist C:SWINDOWSKSMAKTI)RV EXE 256 128
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3 S61)X w i t h 4 M S K A M . R u n
Windows In Standard M ode or
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Enhanced mode. depending on

your needs. Sct up ShtARTDrlve
like this. C.SWINDOWSSSMARTDRV )XI. 1024 S12
, ~wiwl
4) 386DX or 486SX wnh 4MS RAM

Either Standard M<nk or Furhanced
mode will work here, you won'I
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running Enlunccd mode if you' ve

got the RAM anil CPU speed to
pull it off. Sct up ShtARTDrive
wit h
It
C t K W I N D O W S KSMARE.
if tn.
t~
l)RV FAE 2048 1024

Ciurturatl Optlmfzattlors Tigrs
i)It )ou are rtcli unng Windows 30
lor, heaven forbid, an earlim ivrsion), upgrade to Windows .I I. It
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waste conventional mcmorv.
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reduce the number of SUE)ERA in
CONE)C.SYS to 10.
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into the editor by typing EDIT
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What's wrong with thfs f)(eh>ra?
Publish like a Ppo

> ar>r>rwrl/ (rara />utr I(>
A wtll-equipped DTP so(tware toolkit
should in<la>k one af each of the follow-
ing J word processor. drawing prograra,

publishing application, plu> a selection of
fonts and clip art. Many so(twarc titles
On Ihr other hand, some people use a

dmw>ng Jpplkatian (CordDRAW i> popuIv <hai<t) as a page.layout p>agram I( your
da<umrnt has morc Ihan one page, a draw.
>ng progtam is usuafly r>at good ( hokt', as
most cannot handle mul>iple.page documents. CorclDRAW Is better for gtneral

D'fP talks than many of Its <ompetitors
(Aldus Fref(and, tor exampk, doesn't even
u>pport tabs In tcxti, but aU of them suffer
I ngly slaw Io work wn h W a r >r, afl I he

fancy rffe<ts I>xlay'I graphics program am
>s built in>o both the PC and Ma<. To use

I ype I PostScript (ants on non-POIIS<ftpt
graphks are a powerful <ammunkator

tlsc <hans, pflotogn>phs and/ar >ppmpfv
capable o( make >t extremely easy to as>cm.

ble a pagf that amply won' pnnt. For aU of
i>s mentx CorclDRAW h onr of the wars>
o>frndcrs.
That sa>d, Ihere is dr(in>tc ly a place lor a
drawing program >n your DTP arsenal
Cafe(DRAW i.0 comes wi>h such an anay
printers, both systrms require a program

called Adobe Type Manager (ATM). 1h>s
utility comes bundled w>th some appfl<J-
Ir <IIP Jrt Io keep )'ouf feadcfl ul>ertst-
<>h>r<ts are d>splayed on the s<fccn. A s<rcrn
Icvel Df V pragramsi, In add>tion to Its

obligatory word processing functionality.
Add to t h i s t h r s e le<t>on o ( s<alable
Irucfype font> u><luded with Wind>xvs I I
(1ne p>oblrm w>th trying to usc a word

processor as a page.la)t>u> program is that it
is rc(J>ivrly tough to set up hcadlmm, mul-
tiple <olumns,>nd gmphi<s on a page and

mave thtm amund as yau refine your layout. PagrMaker and o>her kad>ng f)TP ales
have what >s known as a 'pasteboard
metap
hor Ih Jt makes It easy to drag >tems
o( <bp vt Jnd fonts that >t ts a nearly ine-
s>stable bargain When yau look closely,

though. Corri()RAW's fonts are pfetty bad.
Ihc owner ni local >rfvkc bureau I >poke to
said, R ule nun>ber one: no ComlDRAW
fonts.
venerable tc<hn>quc of Barrawing From
example). Ma< owners can call Adobt

Systems (415-962-2100) Jnd get a copy of
ATM Ior L)SS .SO as a result of a special dml
Apple made w>th Adobe.
A point, infndentally, is I/72nd of an
Inch (J Pos>Script pomt, that is There are
72.27 ' trad>tional p o i nts per inch.)
The fkst (A.K.A. Copping Creat layouts

Fram Famous Des>gncfs). Snefly, it wa
kke th>s: yau sce same>hing you like th
look of 14 a magax>ne, book or Ibex> af
wfl II to your <lief>ts. They lave >t Is II
dais Per inch, the more WYSIWYG (What

you see...) yaur system is.
TogsDTP Tips
I) Ou>put is tverything. Print out a docu-
yaur own style w>U start to take form,
Windows 3 I brought I'rue fype fonts io the

PC, as System 7 brought them to thc Mac.
protestor as a page-layout program unkss
TrucType Is ihe most popular font format
ment on your laser, ink.)et or dot-ma>AS
your dmumcn> mform> ta Iypkal lrt>er
(or publishing under W i n dows, while

PostS<rlpt type I ( onts are the dominant
printer and then have it printed aut at

2i50 dots per >nch Jt your local service
to do It wnh a word processor.
(onts In Trucyype, PostS<npt or both forInats On r>ther type al <ofr>puttf. Mast scf
v><e bureaus (<ompan>es where you can
als. You make a page that looks vety sastilar, but uses your v>x>rds and Images. You
entirely ethical. I d o ubt >t. I.egal.
Probably. Common? Absolutely. If noth-,
ing cise, you will learn hat makes a '
great layout. And before you know it,
ately see tht value In this way of doing

thing> I don'I rc<ornrncnd us>ng a ward
each page. the more of a hassk it bc<ames
JU) ont a( those txpcf>s>vc dcs>gn aft>In
There(ore, the <loser your screen is to 72
What makes WYSIWYG?
standard on the Ma<>ntosh. You can use
S) What( You'fe not J dcs>gncrs Try
tions (PageMakrr and WordPtrfen SQ, for
onto and off of a page, Any designer who

has done paste-up )ob by hand will immcda
or book format The morc graph><s, headlines Jnd other fancy extras you put on
sans scr>f font (Hdvetka $(ack, far example) makes a good head)inc font. whde a
sent Ion t (Times, rt<. I makes a better font
for body lext.
3) Keep hevflmn shaft stx words or less.
full ol (iflcd.and-stroked graphks is punish.
>though easily surpassed by most cntry-
Word Processing afsd DTP
As J grnrf Jl n>ic, J black of extra bold
feren<e between the pnnt qua)i>y of J

1rur fype font and a Type I vers>on of the
same tvprfa<e.
As mentioned abovt, TrueType mpport
from onr pmary drawback. They are

pain(ully slow when more Ihan a (ew
a rcasonalrlv <ornplrte DTP solo>k>n.
'frurl'ypr and PostScript Type I f o n ts

are both s<alable autbnr fonts that allow
you to display and print text at any point
$>ar w>thou> )Jgg>ex' There arr sub>lr d>lkrrn<cs, but most users won'I notice a dd-
experienced designers can break rul

and stlU ksok good, try to slid> la J maxk
mum af fata different typeface per page.
4> it's AU Abou> Cammunkat>on. If your

hrw'Ihne (anl >I so fancy or your layout
sa flu>>r>rd >hat yaur pagt is hard to
wad, yau'vr iailrd in ya>a ps>ma>y goaL
S>mpk, powerful dcs>gns are better than
busy, fussy one>. Remember, too, tha>
>norparatr two or more of these areas.

Mkrosoft Word for Windows 2.0, lor example, indudes a dmwing module and reasonably sophisticated layout < Jp abilities
(o> W>ndaws for Workgraups) and you have
take files <reatcd with DTP programs to

have pages printed out on h>gh-quality
nagrsc>ters) use fypc I fonts, thc>ctorc I
rr<ammrnd that yau purchase fonts in tins
fain>ai if you sre senous about dr>L>oppubhsh>ng.
and afl that bornnving w>U start to seem

like what >s really is: a class with
Mastm.
bureau. Compare the two. Now guess

wh><h one your d>ent w>U pay more for.
2) Less is more. If four fonts on a page is
goad, will lorty be better.' Ho. Although
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A P RIL '93 THE COMPUTER

PAPER B C EDITIOPI
P roduc t
Pa e
Pre view
New
PagelVlaker
Features
a er
F RO M T I D I T S
Pethaps
t he
mo s t
>w ssi> uuu>is> (
imp(essive upgrade I
saw st M a ( w o rld w as
Aldus PageMakc( S O.
On
th e
w ho le ,
PsgcMakct's enhancements tail in thc >i>ego.
K ry of l l 'i about time,
but It's no( wnnh compiiimng now ths( they'(e hr(e I ' m >uir
snmr people will w rite to t ell me t h a t
Quark hP(css hi> hid su(h.and-such (ca>air fo(nigh on >9 ycii> and why ts it a big
deil >hit I'igckfikc> has f>nally caught up
ihe umpk sn>wes that as fa( as I know,
I'igekfskri >s sus the most lx>pul r drsk>op
publnhmg program around
I'm nat gn>ng to gn through their ncw
kmu(cs in any o(dci, snd umda>ty, I'm not
g(xn(( (o (ilk sbuu ( ihc standatd things that
haven'( changi I'i grMskcr has too many
feitu(m to do that, and some would >sy
that i'igrl uke( hss too many (esto(cs perl
Horizontal and vertical
reflection of objects
s v t r uss (>su>sa> m>xssw

u>s (sit
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Enhanced Control Palette
Numerically exact posltlon-
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thts >n more applicat>ons.

pageMakei 4.2 added the ability to
rotate tcx( in 90 deg>ee u>(>cmcnts, but this
teaturc was gcnctasy gtcc(cd arith dcrisinn
9(l degree (oti t ion ls unimp(essive.
PageMskcr $.0 should silence those oiti.
cisms with >ts free (ati t ion o( text and
g(aph>cs in .OI dcg>cc >nc>cments You can
skew text snd graphics with stm>la> p>e(>.
un>c Oh, and by the way. you can cd>t text
<w g>aph>cs after t>snsfo(ming it, something
that wasn't easy even with 9.2's Umitcd
>utahan. Ihn news w>ll be welcome to ai y-
onr who does angle.page layout of pastcts

ind (he Ukc
I app>re(sic I'sg(Maker's ncw cspsbihtv
of printing non-contiguous pages. If you

wi>h to print pages I, 5, g and 2I of a pufx
lxs(ion. you lust type the page numbcis

into thc page >ange box. >cpa(i>cd by con>-
mas. Any applicat>on that pnnts should

hi>c ihit laatu>c. Aklus finally implement-
ed g(aup>ng, sn (xt>emely common corn.

mind tn gisphK5 p(ag(smx though only as
sn Addi(x>n. TI>nsc were by fat the most
(mp(ess>ve featu>cs I no(cd, but Aldus has a
lis( of more I' ll reproduce some of it
here
I don't wi'>h io in>ply thi> Aldus (ised
everything ihat might be construed is a
problem I n PsgeMske>. fo r i n stance.
although Ah(us completely (c(ksigncd thc
wkwa(d modal print (Ualogs for the better.
I lound PageMake( still ext>cn>cty modal,
cspecisxy in defining s text ruk In a paragraph style. Ibis processcan tcqu>te a Iud>.
c(ous I(scene a( as many as fa(u n>ada ld>s-
bc n>adsl except (o( des>gnlaac>s.

My other problem with PsgeMiie( ts
that even sile( high.end word ptocesso(s
l>ke N>sus, low-end word pronssors hke

WnteNow, ind integimed programs like
Wo(df'eifect Works ithc ex-SesgleWo(ksi
') K 7 O P
D IA
have implemented character styles,

PageMaker lig> behind I'm >u>r it' pahly
(cia>cd lo Pagrui kcr's close (clationship
w>th Muiosatt Won(, anothc'i notable lsg-
gsn(, but surely the (unct>anal>ty of character styles is cksr whcnevc( yau warn to
ec
>s>gn spec ili( style to one o( m>ue wnid>,
but not sn entc paragraph, you can do so
scA(>IF(ING>
CC
un consistent umple level (x >ns(dc> thc

words yau might want to do thts with. pro.
G RAPIII(.b l l f f , F I > .
Halftime (k ('>xy 'i(ik ' (<en>sts
( R m nsi (ont> vupportcd
graphics
Croppingof rotated graph>cs
Text mode of the palette vlsIble in layout or story editor
views
Numeric kemlng
Processwolor separations
log boxes. We have the K(een spice these

days tfu(e'I no reason these dialog> must
Dk
Incrementally rotated inline
Baseline shift
Od.
Ihc mi > n ncw festu>es I noticed >n

f'sgchiikc( S (l are its capafxl>ties in moving
o biects between documents snd roti n g
i>xl skew>ng lext and g>sphks. PsgeMake>
I ii isn hnslly nprn n>un>pie documents at
the same >>mr (welcome to th e I 9 >((>s,
Aldu>! l, tiut nm content >n catch up to pso.
g(sms finm thc last decade, AMus %&d s
trito>r I' ve only seen >n s fcw othe( programs . thr capitnhty to diag an obirct
f(om unc document to i n o (he> w>thout
copying an d p astin g I h e c n p y - pi >tc
metsph> i works hest in th e Un>F>nde(
mrtipho> of the Mi ( I ' lusr>s, in lodiv's
world ol multiple megabyte mach>nn, ls(gr
snd m u l t i pl e w >rens. i n d c o n stant
Mult>F>nde(, there's nn >caw>n why we
shouldn't be ablr tu d>ig dsts between d(Ku>urn>>. >f not ipplkat>nn>, i 4 hkr tn >cc
Ing and rotabon of any object,

from its center or any handle
M f
gram names, book titles, cominsnds in s

manual and the Ust goes on, I' ll hap off my
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mat to PCX for impornng into FP and combining with intended text.
Beyond the basicsexpected, XP offers
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scalable fonts and graphics, teat curving
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below. toolbox icons deal with such ncms
as text input and wrapping, framing, draw.
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Documents created in a number of word
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sample page layouts. One font, Cairo, n a

coUcction of tiny graphk images that can
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serve as a point highlighting bullet.
The user gukic mcludcs a qu uk-start section with another segment prawidmg morc
Boning-started dctaU. insraaation is better
described and prompted than manY I' ve
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base of the screen, a message line provides
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lnfo[mahon about whit'i Ill Piorticss.
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Being able to try the program before paying
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@Common
Grammatical
Errors
" PHOlOGRAPHIC QU A l l T 'y ' COLOR OUTPUT
Y (SRAK M f a f M M f TT
Whfte you are shapfng up your DTP stylings, be sure to

avoid the most cornrnon gyamrnatical enors.
+ GRAPHlc DESIGN
+ B / I / C O LOR SCANS
+ Co l o R Ssl%RATIoNs
Us e . S
end ' I .
Wider stilt is the 'em dash." li is
cor rectly
fbe former b correctly used in place of
the words "lor example; the lauer
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hkc the onc at the beginning of ihii
means In other wordx In both cases,

be sure to follow the second period
with a comms
sentence( than a dash or an asteriskto

ti(ustrate a point. Windows has a loni
calld WingD(ngs that contains,
numerous interesting bullet shapes
The Mac has a similar tont called yapt
Dlngbatx Most fonts have at least oncj
bulkt haracter. ion the Mac, opnon8 produces the chamueristii bulks'
Protser use of punctuation. Singk

quotes ar oiien used where double
quotes should be. Always use doubk

quotes, un(en you are uung quotes.
w(thtrm(votes, as you might if you are
quoting someone who is, In turn,
quoting a third party. In general.
ahrays put pasods, commas, question
ural for in sentence crr>pt>xsls

It Is beetsc to Use e bWie't (a doi
doi i
It a licsere protssrly used lo high-
light publ
ication
nlaiks aild cx( )ania
tron poinb mside quotauon markx %e only

except(on to this rule
is if the word or phrase
in quotes contains its
owil pul>ctuaboil.
CADi ANIMATION
'
'like these.' ll you are

not sure how to create
than. check your word

processor 'I nlanual.
Use typographer's
quotes 'like t h ese
inuead of plain quotes
An error in your
grammar or spelling
will sabotage all the
effort you put into
design and layout.
Correct grammar is
of paramount
importance.
W indows a n d t he
Maamosh have Kcy (ops acceuories

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It you rise a program (tlat autollMII.
cally types 'smart quotes, be aware

that In caseslike 'Remember the '7th,'
the singk quote be(me the seven will
be fac(ng the wtong way. The conect
orientation b an apostrophe. as shown
above. The also applies to worch like
o'ck>ck and 'til.
Apostrophe-S denotes ownership.
Ann(ha mistake nuny people make is
to pui apostrophes (ter pluralized
words. (' We sell lbM's' is wrong.)
or book names,)
t,
c d(tort I co m ments, fore>gn lan-g

guage quotationsi
or
occ asional
words o( emphasis.
You should Isousc italics when a
product name is
>ried in a headline
(e.g.,
W ill
t he
n cw version o i
<lr>>mrna>L(i r cr
workf I.
Dort I sue eu>o spaces aft>ar e perte&

Onc wgi do. M'rwr use underlines.
C spttalhaUon. All caps lsonly appro >
prlatc for acronymi (e.g., SCil, ISM,
DOSI. Do not use all caps (or emphasis. Use Ital(rs Instead. Do noi capital
Ize wonb unless they are proper nouns
(r>antes, Utlm, businessnames, etc.
even when spc(bng out acmnyms.
A nd the number one grmnmatkal
nucy Speltb>g m(stakes. Even one
-
typogra(>hkal erri in dh>tun>cnt ls

onc Ioo many Relllcflibcf. your wold
pionssor's q>c(bng checker cannot tell

it ihe word >x>w M mipellcd nor. Lct '
lcvte that the 's i n the "7 0s' exam.
tbe <omputci check the speWng Rrst,

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

word pairs in which the first word
ends with l y ' ( e g, highly-tox is
wrong. I
An 'cn dash* (so calkd because it is
tbe width of the ktter 'n j ls slightly
wider than a hyphen An en dash Is
correctly used between two numben,
dateL or t(mcx
These grammatical conventions are

only the tip ol the Iceberg. There arc
doans hundzcdsl of other common
grammatical errors. Sfrunk br Wliirr's
Elrmrnri nf Sryk. 77>cCh>rr>go Lf>>nun( r>f
Sfyk and fowfcr's Lfo>fern gnglbb Umgr nrr
good books on the sublecl. It is worth
picking up onc if you arc tnterested in
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T EC H N I Q U E 5
Ahollt th e Cover
9 Y 6 R A E M E 1 E fe Ie E T T
SOVa CamOILIV e LIma mnrral,
This issue's cover was created using a 35rnrn camera, Adobe

Photoshop 2.5, Fractal Painter 2.0 and Aldus FreeHand 3.11.
Here'show.
fhe ongmal photo ithat's Trtr r.umpurcr
Paper s eivn production manager lait
Oriffin, hard at work i wes scanned on onc
of our Miirvvtek cxslor scanners, yielding a
24-bit color TIFF, which was then loaded
into Phetoshop, where the image was

cropped and its hnghtness, saturatten and
contrast adlustcd. Uung Photoshop's selection and feathering tools, pieces of the wall,
I%siting print on water in a shallow tray. In

Fractal Painter's simulation. it behaves
exactlv hkc the real thing it's lust less
messy te work w i th , So convincing is
Painter's simulation, in fact, that I Iliad aU
thc traditional techniques iust as they av
dcscnbcd in craft books. One such book is
called Murluing Step by Step. You can find n,
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and others hke it, in cteh stores.
Another source of mar.

is
bling i n f o rmation c o m es
frv>m the makers of Liquitex
a crylic p a i n ts. B i r ney I Smith Inc. publnhes 4 free
brochure called Tccbnvvtur
sheer. Mavbhng rvlrrr Lktuirrx

Arrytk Paints. You can get it
by calling the company at
2 I S-2S3-6271.
Although t h e P a i n t er
manual contains very little
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Info on marbling, I had a

look at a pierckasc copy of a
booklet wntten by one ot the
authors ol Painter, called
I'uvnicr 2.0 Companion 1'hc
booklet, wh ich w il l come
with a disk of macios recorde d u s in g P a i n t er' s n e w
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Free Oeluvery wutun Lower aeeuuend
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wttings you need to generate
f irst-rate n orvtvaretls, g e t
pasted to extend their dimensiem, to better
gels, peacocks. bouquets

and other quau-psyihedehc
Images.
The booklet and disk wih
ship to ah rctpstercd .0 customers as soon
as it's reedy. I heartily recommend Painter
u t t h e p age. T hi s ne w v ersion o t
2,0 to W indows and Mac users with an
Photoshop, incidentally, is great much

faster than versions that preceded it, with a
bevy ot slick new teaturcs Although the
version IVe bccn usmg is a beta release, it is
anistic fkstr. The company is offering thc

program tor )usi US5299 iupgrades are
windowshade and desk were copied and
rock-sohd, Upgrades are US$129 IUS$199

for a Lli-ROM version with extra geedicsl. I
have a fcchng I' ll be writing more about it

m commg issues
I he Lrl'P sign was created in iractal
Pannier 2.0 using that program's great ncw
"liquid ~ i ts' and text handling leatures.
US5791 until April 30.

f he lent used lor the letteis LYTP i s
called Tcknik lt ' 1 from Lctrasct's Fentek
scnes. Faces trom the Future family were

used for the rest of the hcadhncsand other
cover text.
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at 12rv0 dots per inch.
Ihe technique used to achieve t he
ctlccts used lot the border and belund the

letters Li flu is ceUcd marbling. It has been
around since thc 12th century.
fradituinally, marbhng is ihe process of
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Frusuatcd wch trw nrw lads ot Dtp' Tiadxsonal shopscail I answer tour
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dipsal cahnsr pnaene m PwvaMaschcafaur praoh

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just yet.
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S-DOS is now in its twelfth

gtalous ytu a rid has Inure
than I O O m i l l ioa u sers
addwide. Since ns rekasc

in leefr, the computer indastry has
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now that Windows has become such an

unportant PC industry itandanL
More than half of al l new PCs are
shipped wnh Windovn and ihr number is
graving the Windows application mat-
Linc of ttic mata < i ltll ftms ailtlrd at MSDOS aver thi yean has bccn that it wss ron
hard to usc. For that neson, Microsoft hai
goilc to consuttrablc kngths to addrtss fh Ji
from the outlet wuh MS-DOS 6.
auitdhtg an tht pourtvt tccrhtk ham

the MS-DOS S upgrade inssal4tion pco.
gtem, Masoratt has made Ihe Ooccrhrst in
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MS.DOS 6 even cestcc nad sakr. Fa ~

pic. llS-DOS 6 includes a great deal of
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MS.DOS long Into the future, tvr example
many u t c omtvrtabk with MS.III)S and
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whik its dynamic EMS/XMS allocation system will allocate EMS and XMS memorv
mars<a is often an issue where compression

applications Me <on<cfood. Microsoft has
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and frfe space on a hard disk so that data
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be installed as part of the MS.DOS 6
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hhcrosoft did fncludc J number of new
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memory management features In MS DOS
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leaiurr Thoroughly Modem MIDI, Windows

3.1 has added a kvel of MfDI suppon tu thr
PC's aperaung systs m ilut's nothing shaft
ol mprrb Uecausr the detaU< were spelled
uut in that issue, I wan't repeat ihem aU
here, but briefly, Wmdows adds <y<trm.
level support rar sanspled sound, MIDI

mapping and MIDI puyback lhasa features
mrpass thrne found in any mher operating
svstem. making Windows the best environment ava<lable for <omputer music rnthusi.
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Although, as we'U xr a hnk 4 ter tn this
artick, PC MIDI software st<U lag) behmd

some of the othsr platlorms in certain
areas, thrre is morr MIDI software cunenily
in drvelapment lor the PC ihan for any

other platform
Because a Wmdows PC qui pped with a
sound canl can p4y MIDI files, Windows is
the <Jeal n<ssmnmrnt for thux who want
to mahr musi< with their <omputer and
nan-muss<un< who lusf want to enfay l<s.

tening to mussC.
lt you do dedde to hook up a keyboard

or other ex<etnal gest to a PC, Ma< or
Amiga, you' ll nenl a hfU)l intrrface I hrre
are numerous models on the marLct. For
the PC, we' ve heard that ihe Mus<2urs<

hill)l intrrfaces have the bcsl Windows dri-
vers that penmt proper multnasking and

pott shasmg Musk <2urst MU)l <nterfa<es
are ava<4bk in basic models, or wnh tape
and SMPTE <<he Suety ot Musion Picture
and Tekvision Fxig<nerrs< syn<hranifabon
op hans
Many audio canis and MPC add-un kits
a<su include a Mli) I mterfaceoption.
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or lunchbox' <omputn wne investmrnt.
Ue sure slut II Ius one or m<ue ssandasd PC
slots capable of
su p po rt in g
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Amiga models Itrfx<edly, Ciinimodor

nixed a recent attnnpt by a third panv
repackage Amiga matherhaards in
portable pacLage.
PC Sound optbns
U<M comiuhbfe< us<sally require an add-a
canl to produce decent sound output, whi
Ma<, Amiga and Atari computers hsv
in<diam <Irirlltv aixhu r apalxhties built in
AU these platforms have high-quaht
sound options available. For ihe PC, I
games software nurLrt has played a mala
role in defining the feature xts and <om
pshbilny i>t add-on audio cards I he cur
rent standard n the Soundblaiter, whi<
offe<s fairly low quality g bit digitif
sound input and output and a simpk Fh

s) nthes<xer. Most I'C sound < ids ai
ndb4<trr compatible, although same
such as hucrosuft's Sound System, afe noi

An r srher audio <ard called thr Adl ib i
n<wr cansidrred obsolete, although som
games st<U support it
Setter sudiu cari<i are said to be ' 16
1st." When a manufacturer dahns that <t
canl is 16-bit, or C D -quality, i t usiulh'
means that tiir card plays back audio with
l e i <svevl
M 1Dl interface.
S a y s o n
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sells thr mo s t
impreuive MIDI
p ortable I ' ve
seen. It weighs
brief 20 p<xmds,
but b o y , i s
packed
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goodies.
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was loaded with
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nels,
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Multlsound <ard,
a Roland Sound
( an vs s <a f d
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and a bevy of
musk appfat<an<. ft's almost I<Le having
an orchestra in a lxu.
Ma<in<ash lans~
'CofrlPllt p 232it
built-in MIDI ports,

Thete r<, at this time, no portsbl
greater fidelity tlun an 8-bit <ard <scapablr
ol Sume 16-bit cards, su<h as Advanced

t h e-go have a wick
Crafts' U<tiaSaund card, came with th
<hae ol Powerbook and Dua models to

<T<oox fr<en AU require sn est<mal MIDI
ability to play back 16-bit audio, but
<lite<face.
I recently stoppsd Into a computer

store, where a couple uf salesmrn were
sirugghng to conAgure an UltraSuund card.
Atari users may be ablr to find one uf

the dnconnnufd STa<y portabln around at
a good price. I>ke aU Atan ST mixkls, it has
requiresnap<ionto record 16-bii xxiiuI.
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GS Standard
r>eneral Mll)l guaran<en that yuu will
hear a reasonable 4<simUe of the or<hn.
>ration the <ompo>cr or mranger intended, ln other word>, General MID( ensures
to sce thc filn in <he standard (tie >circ.

t>on (balog o( thetr favorite mux< apph<a-
may be.
uon. If the previous nten<e sounded Uke

Greek to you, don't pan><! Thnr are ubUties svailabk un G(me, CompuServe and
elsewhere that help amply this pro(cdure
Your dealer might be able to supply you
with one.
song filn without any prr>blam, provided,

o( <ourse, that the data mmes via modem
s>>isss>ea
ml <><>0>e
<o>siss> >
<sans. (hc <ompany also >Hh a sohwan pru
oaf apestandardMllll files?
a><
aa<ama
sa<casa<a>
> ' c - a>c a i i s<(aa((<tars<<
Nl
non-45 instrurnrnt to conform to the GS

( or any o t h er ) standard S o m e h i l l ) l
sequence<> (Cubasc for the Atan, for one)
ian dO thiu uu>
Note that Roland also makn audio <ards
and s<andwlnne rnoduln that use * LA synthrus Ih n e dun't sound as gaud as ihr.
e><saa)>ss
vumwu
vsw>wu
vu>u>
de<t-todisk recordings on a PC and is sL>

ed to re<aU (m abou> SS,UU(< an ini
bk >slue, In Vancouver, it n available ho
Anne( Hi-te<h (6(<-ANNI.)(>
I )ig>drugn's Macintosh ol fr rings urrenr-
IBM <ompatible, Atari and Am<ga

computers do not have this problem.
They can read each other's film and Ms<
au r)sais
hss recently annourxrd s PC product<sl

Session B I< prom>ses to allow B.trar
ly >n(ludr thr $<595 Aud>omedia II, a (:I >

quahty audio board tarsi ting n>rporatr an <
multimed>a users, ai well as Sr>und Iooii
and Pro Tools, aimed si prfns>onal mu>
3.1 users ian easily use <he operaung system's hlu)1 Mapprr fun>on tu rmap any
T HE G R E A T
Mann<>ish based aud>o <s<d> anil softwa>r
stored on ROM > hips) <hat can <reste more

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

<tiat markets a r a nge o f h i gh-en
card, pronde sampled sounds (prrrnanrn<ly
sound card we' ve heard. <4v>ng <nted tl
Thc it>sadvantage of I'('5< >niululrs is i

they may rrui I sbk lo <reste spok>n vo
es iu oiher custom sound rile> ii that a
pots>btc > i<h game-or>en<cd <aids like <h
5>sundelastn I'ro o< trltrssuund.
or on a disk they csn read All these

brands of computers can read 1 5 D(35format disks, although h<ac snd Am<ga
<omputers need to run >pe<>al programs
to do so. Your draler<an supply 1'ou with
detaih.
W>ndows 3.1, incidentally, d<reclly
supports itandard hf(DI Ales. You can p4y
hack MIDI >ones with any Windovn-sup.
poned audio boanl.
IN C
6<<cAL(pea<>so <one<(((LO I w( ave 1(t i(<a> 78>sail fla ia<6> f<1

5+I>4
that sound el will be a piano, no matter

whkh brand the irntrumr nt or audio iard
Several <ompanin <including Roland.

wh><h helped define the standard> now
tout their MIDI gear as being C>S or
'General MIDI' mmpatlble. A suable <u(.
lection of 3.5 DOS-format disks with
h((DI per(orn>an<es <onformlng tu the
GS(General MIDI stan<4<d are ava<4bk
Owners o( the latest generation u( elec.
troni< pianos can tran>(urrn their purchase into the '90s equlvaknt of s p4ye<
piano. Computer.muii< enthusiasts, too,
often f(nd the <ommer<lal oherlngs much r
brttrr than MIDI material avmlable from
the public don>s in.

Th>s fact 1>as not escaped <ompsn>es
l>ke(IRS that own the r(ghts to old p4yer.
piano rolh. Thry arenow busy <onverung
the ><(ups to General MIDI format. Music
software publtshers too, are f>nding the

market for the music al equivalent tu idp
an a viabk one. Pa~sport Des>gnsrr<ently
released Us lint <untcnt titln in Cnrral
h(IDI forms> Other pubgshrrs sr< sure to
follow.
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8 C EDITION THE CC>MPUTE(>PAPEII

Moc MIDI
Appic has sct oi system-kvei ut>i>tits hu
ihc ciaon>oih known a> Min ( Manager.
nds soewa>t aaows the Mac to nsn uminp lc MIDI progmr>i\ and route the M I D I
input and output hoto paogmtn Io program

v>a a patch bav desk ccessoorv. Thc MIDI
Ar u gtr softwa>t comes bundled anth mr(>in>ugly kw MII)I appikat>ons. I' ve locked
Ior it many times cnier the la>t icw years
and nc>vr once seen a copy in any of >he

iin-line areas m w>ch Apple typ>>a(ly dh.
inbutts i system so(>ware upda>rs. Many
> tac Mini applxatiom I have seen rc(er to
s(ll)l )>tanager It> their docuo>cn>ation, and
one tra( t k y M l ~
unn h t h ai M I D I
>tanager does do>m the coupuser a lot. I

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

Mac MIDI In>cr(aces aii ionncct to one
i I Ihc compo>cr> two scr>ai ports (one on
the company's Ituo modch) This can kad
to a probkm i( you have other dcvxcs connected to these ports on a regular basis.
()>her common dcs>cts the me these ports

include m odems, g raphics t ablets,
Apph fall network otssnwcs>us and p>tnttrs
pcecia(iy uos>bkx>um u the uct that t>xoe

of thcsc dcvxcs >grapbks tablets. Ior cxamplcl have tha r own softwa>e dnvers that
con(bcs w(th Ml l)i. TI>cte must be d>sat>(cd
>nd d>xonnccted bckue yo can we MIDL
I>sets o( ll(x and Quadra computers
have an a>>d>t>nal problem. I he>r senal

pons have two mo>ks ol operion >aster
I~
>bk - G uess whxh onc dover
work with MIDI
I s.
You stay luce heard >cpons o( Mliil

Ittchcs wbcs> running Iuuuc apphcat>or>>
oo Mac >astable or poeraook compo>c>s

These psobkms esut, but luduly. >hc>t a>e
a variety of solunons. Some pn)grams, such
as EMAG(C's Logk cqucncer, spec(fkally
add>ess these probkns in thc>r documcncslion and work amund them with programming tricks: ()Pcode avoided Ihe problem
by replacing the MIDI M ana>(cr routines
w ith >ts own superior set called () M S
i'assport uses a similar method to gct
around th e M I D I M a n ager slowdown.
Appk has acimowkdgcd the probksn and

has uphedcd a Il>> to Its Appktink on-bnc
scrvke Reportedly, only tbe yowcrik~t
Mal tamxt use the patch
Mac maemal a>uao uspport u asmtcd i
~
sa mpbng and pkybock (gxscrnal I>
bit audio cards, such as D>glDesign'>
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MAcdU, ase avadable. but art not sup.
(
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have be>tcr audio (>de(>ty than others
Oidcr Macs had monophonic sound

Around l987, Appk began producing mod.
eb with drat>at>cai(y improved audio r>dchty. Mac II. Ilx, llcx, I k i , i (i s and SE/3()
modeh haw thc best stereo mund ch>ps
Since ns tecent cmphas>s on low~ >

Man, Appk has begun mcmpomt>ng less-
we also cany other toners, developers a drum units.
es are testecfand completely d'sassembied when recharged

we aLsorecharge canridges for.
bt)locep(eta
I mpressive sound c i tcuitry. Even t h c
Ca>an Prsso>cscophs> L(eet pig>test
Ig) L(Ref Je( I, I. N>. e.
Param fRQO
Caen tbt)eter gaf

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sh(apZona Cour
Quadm usodeh um a cheeper sound ihi(

than P>cvious gtncsm>on Marx
Aud>o performance varies somcw hr
Tbe LC >s>odcb> ior cxampk. msu the n>o
sksco (hassock a>to a >sumo stgs>al Tbe ilu
5'. g). Ra Apple

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u general(y ag>md to ha>t the wont sound
of rtctnt owdels. accent llvx, I>owcraooi

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

al OUT ports arwl a 'I HRU connector as we(L
focal dealers tepott tlsat sale\ al Ate>i hard
werc and Mll)l software have fallen off
slurply. It's too had; the Ate>i mach>ncsarc

simple to operate and very inexpensive
yiiu >un buy an cadre Atari computer setuP
(or about the same price you'd pay for a
gaod Mac Mini intertace alone, Recent
Auri modeb tuve tmprrsuve mtemal audio
iapabilnks, bui these are nat well suppon.
cd by appbcat>rmssoftware.
music dr>v!oper> continue to update and

support their prnduits. Blur Ribbon
5aundWorks' Bars and P>prs Pro(ess>anal is
a leading Amiga MIDI Utle. Srvnsl nunubcturers have rnultimcdu appUcahans tlut
allow hllol and umplcd aud>o to be incorporated with the animation and graphics
the Asniga is (U5UT(arl>aus lar,
Amiaa MIDI
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According to Sill brooks, owner of
Noteworthy Musk in Richmond, S.C.. the
most conunon rcqueS> is for an alt tn~
sequence> wnh notalion that >s inexpen-
l>Le the hfactntash, thr Amiga requ>res an
exrenul MIDI Interface to connect to MIDI

devices. Mll)l software support Is fairly
poor, although some long time Amiga
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PAPER T) C EDITION
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naw ofleri ivan<cd huinslhrig functions
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The program allows the viewing raid
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Olt(ororst Versions
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Perhaps because of t tus, the Ataci version
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A version o( the program called Cuhaie
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ing perfectionists), Jnd lt dciivrrs on the
promise of real-time notsti i>n. Above an,
F<(Astor n s first rs<e scquencer, with more
features <fun mmt users could ever hope lo

usc. I'he main compla)nt I Jnd many other
Flats<or users have with the program is that
As A>rmidsbk featurr set is nurrrd by a user
interface tlut is regrettably complex and
accs<ionaay clumsy.
It is fitting tiirn, that thc authors of
F<(Astor, Gctiurd tangling and Chris Adam
have (rr J<(vf s next-grnrr stion scquencer
with notation snd a kilkf <a<fifa(c.
Fin<star Lot(is (5675) is currently availsbk (ar the Marin<<h. P(: and A<so vers)arb are due to be rcleaml be(ore summer.
i)cspite s few quirks, logic for thc Mac Is
<table and powerful. Its best feature is its
uwr intcris<e, whkh docs an admirable Iob
of simpli(ying and conceptualizing the

enormous amount of dsu that MIDI.
rhe program lets you foam in <o sce

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

ihJ< power
Other MID I applications. like Vision
snd (.Ut>asc oA tlie Msc Jlxl Cubssr art tile
A tan and PC incorporaie sunikr f o am
way to prado(e ihe custom

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

set of fcstureS Perhaps a better plan is to
crank out the basic notation with Logic,
FJ<corc, Cubase or wlutcvrr snd then msn-
do It on computer.
GS Star<dard
Several <ofnpsn<es iincludtng Roland,
which helped define the standard) now

t out their M I D I gear ss being G S ' o r
( ienersl MIDI c o mpstibk. A suabk ( a llecrion ot S.S DOS.<orrnst dks with MIDI
performances co n f u r m in g to t he
GSN>cr>rial MIDI standard arc svadabk. It
at ah passibk, get s musical instrument ar
mund card that promrs GS or Genera)
MIDI <ompstibthty. Although Kcyb(urd
caJgaziric fecelitly u i i JA editorial qlles.
tioning whether th e l o w est common
denomirutor appma(h to sound selection
tiun the others. It b certainly a contender
is a wohwhile goal GS and General MIDI

clearly offet advantages to <he computer
include an algorithmic compos<<<an tool

iiLc Cubssc's Interactive Phrase Svnthrsiarr,
nor does it luve the dim<.schsk audio

<ecarding cspsb<U<ies of Dqptal Performer,
Stu<bo V<shu> Or (.ubsse Aud>a on the Mac.
Iagx msy not be ss feature-rxb, but hat' s
<hen gene<shy weh-implementi,

Pcfforrrurxc b good, tou. MIDI tiiput b
<ranxribed as natation almosi instantly
snd when yuu d<sg s note around on s

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

LMAG IC hosts its own MIDI Raundtable
Jres all ('Fk ( tyPe M I D I J t an y ( Fnie
prompt to reach thc MIDI arcs) where use

can share information, songs Jnd Instru.
I<<en< ps<sheS. You U JISO (<rid Suppaft
arras lor Sir<At>r<g-)ones, hsref<UU Software,
Dr I " s, slue Rihbun. Kuf>weil, M y ) <
user. In a nutsheu, General MIDI g<urantees that you wul hear a rrma<uble fs(simile ui the orchestration the composer ar
arranger intended. In other wonh. Genera<
) <IDI rf<mres that mund I vU be a psano.
no mattn w N ( h brand the instrument or
audio card may be.
in the lower munlsnd, Cannon Musx
( 604-27(>-v~l) has a Isrgr selntian W n h
t itles like 'Sounds of the Seventies a n d
abc flit) of Dav>d laster, the content is

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

( ompuier-music enthusiasts, too, often
And the o>mn<c<(tsl affefings n>u(h better
than MIDI matedal available (rain the pub-
Ik domun.
This ls(1 has not esca(cd (f>A>psn<n I<Lr
QRS that own the rights <o ak) pts)rr-prana
rolls, fhey rr now busy converting the
scorn to General MIDI farut M ust> so(twarr pubfbhcfs <oo, are finding the market
hist 'content t<rks in C~

l MID I format
> t Shun, Sound Source Unhm<ted, Oiher publhhfn are wre to foaaw
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Flrv(ed O<ffg)tsf
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a Mini perform
ance
asintelligible <bert
niusi( and it w p p o rts an standard Mac
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Ihcre will always be some users who w<ii
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grams, every word processing document
spreadshee< and accounting entry. Hil
U NOE R
disks arr non-volatile. They continue to

rcta>n thr I nformat>on ven when the
T H E
power Is off (DF and SCSI are thr mou

popular k>nds of hard disk, but you miy
HOOD
mill find MFM. RLL and FSDI. Fi c h type

needs a differeni kind of adapter cird of
ekctmn>cs to attach it into the uunpu>er,
Most people err In putting too much

money into the CPU relative to thc power
mpply, RAM ind video card. The other

common error is to put too much money
inta the bus without making a matching
>nvcstmrnt in the video card and hatd dhk

mntmUer
Hkat>org>of ki>o e<aa
r'
The original XT computer had only eigh<

w>rcs on the bus for communkatmg dau
The rest were for housekeeping. This
aUowud the CPU to send one character (8
bit>< it a time ovrr the bus ta the hard disk
or to the v>dco card.
T he follow-on AT computer hi d I ( >
wcL t h is agowed the CPU to send da4
ri.
>wo ifuracte<s (16 brtsl at <<mr.

Since then the 80386 computers have
>rained to wnd dit i <uur chmacteis at i
time (32 b>ts), however, for ba<kwanl mm.
pi>ibility, the ordin~ry bus snU mm at 16
bi>s aru> ii thr u m r >prvf 8 k(Hr a> ii
did a ikcade ago
The Cl'Us are naw 150 mes faster tlun

they used tv bc, but the bus n the ume old
>peed (>uc(> when the bottleneck is now!
$<seeblnfz Around The Bottleneck

Thcie are >hrcc approaches to ftxing thr
bus bot<lrnr<L problrm
l. In vrn t a new fastrr general bus
M( A, LISA, VL ind PCI are examples ol
thh ippi>u<h.
2. Invent aui il<ary propnctary buses
> R t V 6 R >tv
Mvw some compooenu onto them, uking
This nlonth l will explain the technical terzns for computer

bf/ses/ I.'iA, Et.'>A, Mt:A, Local Hffs, VESA, VL and PCL l wf'll
also t(>wc' on the rnksterious /RQs (Interrtupt Requests>, DMA
(h(uufels and i/'o ports. To understfznd these, you will fzrst
luzve to le(zrn a little more than you wanted to know about
how the computer work~ under the ifood. l will try to make it
pai nless.
Bot(fur>ed<a
Bv ana>ogv, >(msnkr wiut hi lipens when a
large famdy cleans up atter d>nner. <>ne
p r>svn br>ngi th e d>shes to th e si n k
A not hrr wmhcs them, Anothi r dncs them.
Another puts them iwi y I h r speedaf the
whok opera<>vn drpcnds on thc bottleneck
>hr spec>I of <hr >towru prr>on. I f thi
dish ashcr Is the slo>vest, i> won't help to
irs run i tiurr chsh dryer
In the di>hwash>ng assembly hne, aU
pcaplr > in work at vr>cr. In t tie irulogou>
D(SS <vmputer assembly hnr, usually only
unc <urn>>ur>en< ~ark> i> oner f k >wrvrr,
thc botticncck effect is suU present. When
vou are upglad>ng ~pend your money an
<hr bur<ivor(k I' u t<ing n anywhere ehe
won't buy you much
I/ndrr U S/2, or other mu<ti-tasking
operating system>, both the ( I'U and hard
d>sk iin work t vnir Slo w devices like
modems and tapes run vvrrlipped in thr
Iu>kground. H r r e i t pays <o buv smart
RAM
RAM
I y p i ciUy, a PC has a to 16 MB of
U nr m r g a byte >s r>fu>valent to
1.068,576 characters RAM
memory N
>R>4>>k, i.e. wlwn the pm>er >huis oft, ilt is

forgotten
3. Peripheral i/o Bus ot bus (or short.
I ha <s thr srt of w>rrs on the n>a<herbard
that connects the ( PU with the video card
and the hard disL adapter I f y o u don' t
Lnow what a v>dco card or hard disL adapter
is. hang on, I'm getting to tlut I ( you look
it a muthrrboiid, yvu >ng scr a >rt ol oght
slats (ar adapter cards you can also ser <hr

IN>at>el copper traces connecting ail the
hardware that can run stmuluncously with
the CPU.
Belersck>9
Anvttur analogy r> steiru system Don' t
huy a 5RX>0 amptifkr and hang on a pair
o( 550 speakers. 14(in<e both speed and
quality to max>m>rr your bang per buck.
dots wnh the CPU
I h c sc
>races Ioim the pepheraf

bus.
>L Video Card. T his is
thc cardlul of electronics
>nude your computer that

genrrates the v>deo signal
to produce the picture on
your monitor.
I t sweeps
memory the <omputer uses (or holding

temporary results vf its cakuiauons. If you
wrre rd<t>ng a iik >nth your word processor, mos> of that file would be res<dent in
imouni> of inlornuuon, typkigy 80 to 500

MB. Heir n where yvu store ag your pro.
livre are ihr ma>n <umparnis, roughly in

oider of >ac<easing cmt. tlut you need to
baknie
I Power Supply F ast mach>ncs need
tlighi'r 4ual>trv lir>tcl cooling Is i>id
smoother output I bc power supply takes
thr I IS volt A(. nuins and converts it to 12
ind S volts DC (or the componcn(k
2. RAM Th >s is the li st, short-term
bus. Nearlv aU 803(ki mach>ncs usr thn

approach for RAM R A M >hen <in run at
full hit, almost as fast as the processor can
go. ( 'ompanies such as DeU also usc pro.
prietary husrs for high speed uiko
3 Be clrvcr Figure out ways to grt the
uine lob done sending less in(urmition
over the bus. Co.processed video and softWRre disL ci<h>ng ire rami><r> o( th>s
ipp>i<h
The New B<asee

lhe oipnil IBM AI 16-b>t bus n caUrd the
ISA ilndustry Standard
Ar>h><esture) Iws M o st
o( thr cloncs sold today
u>e this b<n I h r v>ai>.
dard vcr(>vn ol >he bus
Slost people err

in putting too
much money
into the O BU
relative to the
aut th r i m age about 60

t>lees a second.
5. CPU. Ibis is the chip
on the mo<herboard that
dort anthmet>c. A 50 M>tr
machine is taster thin a 33
Mui machmc by a ii>K> of
50/1.1 A n N N 86 >s about
259b faster than a sim>lirty rated 8<>386 DX
for in>cger of>era<>ons
6, Hard Dnk. ( h i s is a rotating set of
magnetic platteis uird <o >tore mass<ve
The Components
the traffic a(i the mi i n general purpose
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Mur, though rarely you
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adapte< cards can run

>hit u >t withi>ut trip
p>ng.
IBM, with it s PS/2
Une of tn>crvcomputers,
invented a tutaUy nrw
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ultimate bus (or future versions of iis
theory on the ATI W ith all those catds

Unfortunately. when you put olde~ ISA
fighnng over <ho<e few IRQs, with no arbi.
cards in an FISA machine, they don't know
own Une o( computen, but some day it
tratioo schnne, other than the skdl of the
how to partiripate in the automatic agoo-
niay find its way i nt o th e M S-DOS

clones is well. I t is <hrre Umes faster
<echo<clan doing the Installation. olten two

cards end up trying to use the same IRQ a<
once wnh di'iastrou'i results. (i ch card
tion scheme. so you have to handk them
Quickking Apple computer designed this
<han the aompcnt<on.

aS<hcis ltcwktt Packard wis working on a
local bus, but I have not heard much of
broad base ot manufacturcix OPTI, the

chip.sct maker, invented a local bus
<hat will likely no< survive the Yah
onslaught. S3 also tried with its ACI
IRQ 2 is mmctimcs availabk, but then it Is
(Advanced Component Interconncctl.
really IRQ 9. i t sounds like Alice in

Wondniand!
(here are only two DMA channels free,
u> the probkm is even worse there.
w ould have to be m uch (aster i n d
cheipcr than the existing designs and

it would have to be supported by a
I think the mx h incs o( the future may
be polyglots with an FISA slot, three PCI

pure ISA slots.
My point n, ordinary humans haven't i

hope in Hades of getting this right when
Modern day ISA niachines have mixt ure of old XT-style S-bit and n c w A T .
uyk 16-bit slo<s. I think we might extend
the <dca to include a sprouting o( FOSSAand
VL slots.
usually luck nut ind avoid mn0<cts.

You are probably thinking W h y doesn' t
<he computer sort ak this out itsc/t, auto-
slots, three Vl / I 'iA slots ind a couple of
tg(hy RISA Aln't Deed Vet

it you have ever attempted to install a
mouse, video card, CD-ROM, hard disk,
stU)l muuc or<L modem, mulU-io, sonner
or waveform sound card, you will Ukely
have had a minor nervous breakdown AR
<turn cards<or<flu< Itscy light ewer <ntang<-
men< Ncctronic costs are dropping and

pcopk costs ire increasing. Au<omitk on(<go<at<on is here today in i LSA ind <SA ind
might be added In (uture to VL in some

hailing wtm way. V L lacks the foundadon
to add auto configunng later. Intel's PCI

bus has the baucs needed for auto configuring, so hopefully it may prevnl
Technogsebtsle
I( you ever buy hardware, the Ins<al(ation
instructions presume you under<and what
an IRQ, f>MA channel and port address is.
IT<ore of you not interested in lindmg out,
hop down <o the next sec<iort aturu he l6
MS hmlt. When people stop me on the
stree<, the question chcy most o(ten ask h
'What arc IR<2h DMAs and I/O ports really?' So (or those people, herc is my short
matlcaky That's the sort ol thing a corn.

puter is good at. Why docs the computer
mike us feeble humans rack our bmins
daung this?
<3<at is exactly what hid and F3SA do.

You lust stick a new adapter ord in and run
a utility program <hit (<Sures ak <his gob.
bledygook out and tells each card which
IRQs for the Millions

The computer has d u>ulders' the various
devices can tap. I'or exampk, every time a

character comes in the modem, the modem
card can tap the CI'U on shoulder <IRQ)
number 4 This says, Ahem, excuse me
CPU, but u>ore<hing very cxanng has (ust
happened A character has arrived on lhe
ncw buses idd extm ones ind provxk ways

for two unrelated adaptercardsto slwre in
IRQ
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there are many adapter cards present.

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Interrupt Re<3uestsi, I/o <input/Outputi
Sauce IkQs are in such short supply, these
port addresses and Dh<A <Direct Mcmoiy
Access) channels.
There afc five potrular <K<2<. <( teen in
Instaking is becoming more complex by

the day. In<<a<tat<on costs will eventually
must be told wh<ds IRQ to usc iry irtanglng
the patternsar( t<ttk (umper plugs over pan

pain on the adapter ords
There are hirarre rules for anigning
these IRQs. For exampk, modems on
COMI: <nust use IRQ a. M o dems on
COM2- must use IRQ 3. Thc LPFI: printer
must use <RQ 7, but in a pinch, ii can do
without iRQs0, I, 6, Sand l6are reserved.
it lately. Any success(ul newcomer
minuiUy bxk to square onc,
phone line. Please interrupt what you are

doing, save this charactr away in RAM,
then carry on with what you were daung.
Plcasc hurty Il a n othar comes in be(ore
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The various devices keyboards,

modems, hard disk pester the CPU, mtcrrupdng it h<tndrcch of tunes a second. lhc
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want interrupt service, thc CPU always han.
dies the lower numbered one (list.
OMA chennels for the RA((lions

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once. When you install an adapter cartf,
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use and which of its (our 'channeh you
will be working with. Again, i( two devkes
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Presumai>ly th>s trend w>ll continue.
Ccpcecessec( Video
last year I ad>ised m> iustomrm to stay

away (n>m l<>cal bu> Instead I re c v m .
mrn<kd pn>pie u<c co-prucrsuu video cards

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cu processor video card. M ake' sure both
adaptor cards at' ln>gnrd f<>r Vl.. Or y<>u
will ieceiie nubencfit
Without a pru<nsar, r<miidrr wi>at
happen when Windows pnnts a large ktter
A on your screen while vou arr using the
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the background the co processor generates
ihr 3 I , tX>0 equi>alrnt bits panting the A
<k>t by dut I he copr aces>oris a specialist
at pamt>ng di>ts m u c h bcttxr adapted to
it than the masn CI'V
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>he t I'U did >t alone.
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Phutustylrr. Yau wanted tv show a group
p>>trait at all your triends un the screen
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as tf their wett r>o co processor prncnt.
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worL<ng with photo images, rather than
text oi line art. the Vl. bus struis its stui(.
Ihh me~ns il yau p>cL a mutherboanl with

an unpopular bus, all is not k>st. You will
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craik
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Ih>s gives y ou a hedge for the iututr Y o u
might elect tu huy an cxtrawost Vl, hard
disL or v>dco card ior th< >l<>tnow, or you
m ight l ust use ISA adapters nuw . V l
adaptrr cards re new. Industry kadcrs and
respected brands have not yet emerged.
s ive F ISA adaf>trr car<h tv go w>th it T h e y

populate it completely w>th the LSA adapter
c'ards, I hey gct crrv speed bene(>t f<om

thss. Only when you start to add the tLSA
adap>rr cards dun i t go any laiter than a
hard disk l f you want a btg, powerful sy

tern nvw, guaranteed to work without ea4ness, FISA >s the way to go. Huwner, EISA's
star Is waning
Il I werr uung Windows (ar word prosor video rank To hcdg< agnnsr the i>osstbility of lack of video dnvers for future ver-
sions ol Wind<vs, I would go (ur >LSIa><n.

patib>lity ie.g. thr ATI Vantage and Ultra
wrirsi I h e other common typeof vkku
coprocnsor are thc 53 card> I hey dun'1
have aslt compatibihty, but some 53 cards
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Leecrslclg eence
Trrvor Marshall wrote a technical article
Comparing the Var>uuSburn >n the CSCtaber
1992 gpfc Lfvturrnc peter aubcf aha wtatr
o ne >n th e February I 9 9 3 e d i t io n o f
carpurrr sr<v>rr>h For heavv duty tv<ha>cal
inloimatiun. sre Michael Slater's articlr i n
thc luly >L lo92 nl i t>un ul Mxv>pnxcsi<v
ftrp<>ri. He d>d another anick on PCI for
the December 9, 1992 issue. It ) ou want a
copy a( the Vl spec, all you need do n lorn

VtSA (ar 510tX) to 5atXXI pcr year depending vn your <umpamr <oe
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T hanL> go t o H a rvey Fishman, I. . I >
Uraham, arian Hinklc, Wren kenworth>,
Sxmsrcsecy
I we parallx I between the emergence of Vl
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nvt be properly tested and cvuld not bc
re(ormatted in the field. T hn e problems
are still much with us; however. thc dnves
are so inrrprnuvr they have altnost com-
you use Mi:A, you have nn <hoice hut to

btly LN A adapters
Caveat emptor T here are Vl. cmds and
<n<ithcrbaards that run li t t l e Ns ter than
equr alent ISA canis. ( h r > , ire Vl in name
<mly. Ih e hest way tn pri>tixt yoursel( ts tu
insist that both the card and the mother-
and cheaper than its competitors. it is a

temporary solution to a big problem
becauseof the extreme d>lnculty of chang.
bus
mas t ering.
Vl. tssimilarly crude but much faster
helps t>S/2 and prcsurr>ably future versions
and standard>an the connector

R<>e<fti orner> ixm curiam xouwsrs and r>st(>
s
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rapidly over the last (ew years, most people
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cost of F.ISA adapter cards lor video and
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Ihe same al>pltn to VL systrnm. When
bnard
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end all the other audio hoards on the market currently using ibl-syntheus.
Hef synthesis, which creates efectront.
rally generated sounds, was the system used

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What's con(used consumers is that in
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up loa gra>end <w stoat hsrthn ahead Th
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ty c>ght of thty the day in ft><e, Ay>san
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with sir k <ae'. 1 was w>elk>g.
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of than< in Iron>. Two rear v>cw <nirrora
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top ipn d c o rnenng absUtv and leaking

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i uid ncvn b e th r u m c w>th a bua>ed
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well, and alth<iuah I would knc g<und in
wai <iut of thc qur it>on. and I q ui<kly
some apaa. I'd gaun in othe < ountkss learned ho to nu rse < ar around ihc
Iart><c laps wrer pevang oU
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plrd ka n A kst wai now iust th<re >ca
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Iu bebv the <ar. knowing Aksi would vm
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make h>a a<we My mirrors weve &lied<ah
twh>nd <hc tri nl.rennin& >uggeinaut of
t he icd fcrran when I hnaily ovnsha
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timule One i iiiu>t I yes <hasr<wld Sf>an
tii haik ma<ken (pereh>
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lap ar< !ap fir t v - 't>1 > hrrr n e
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h end a n d n i ! l <r t>ont i >rais<it, I u w
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h ut w h a t . i i i h> i ' S i r i ii n d < a <
tiiem two to i nr h w as A)ru mitra(
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tn thr h<aw'
cerned to riacrgc witt> Scisna \ <nails>r>c 1st
I hed I I/ a ai r<uit lo the <he<sr<cd
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flag ! he<sigh wast/Untsh to begm my h<ul
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rntrird the t<k I h ri t< ><heat and onc af
k>< rd i yeiirsr and (in ha>d he<ger wr<r
thr twu vrai nim a)nn>ng m >hr iiff i<a<k
ia rapping It out )uit twu icands behind
h<ass ( au)d i><ih>c( <ah>1>c >><let Ii vc
mr' I br<augh thC haa k Urraght and inhi the
been done in ha a lowty beck-nurkrrf
Adr4kh' ha>rp>n anar aga>n >t was time
I sped pa>i <hr pa<averting <ce. and
I< berger Io make hii mi i v c. I w ent i n
uti <hr>n u>at1 <n <>N>st kiss>l sonic.
dcrprr than I sh w>d have then nst hard
tut gau>tv d>aapfntmrn> that indrcd i i
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How INicrosoft's Mogul Reinvented an

Indusltry and IVIade Himself the
Richest Man in America.
In this tshaustiscly rcscarcbcd book.
uthon Manes and Andrews tnwtvrewed
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Wlrile fnafly large cofnputer

compafries are cutting back
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is no different. In fact Gates

follows hurd on the heels of
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n aho the story of the pasonai computing

Computerurterme smce INs 'tccns, 4U
Gaan and tdkcmsob ssfoundn Pasd Ales
Wnet a vesrcrm Ol tbe BASIC PrOSiuaaauing
language for the bnt popular personal cno.
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male machines ihst could automaticaiiy
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a given amount of litic . T o gt t thc soft.
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a program to its function@ With that ie
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o n n, and got Altair to sell it. T h u s
microsoft was born, thanks to some smart
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best reading In the book. I t aho looks n

the increasingly strained rel IIonshic
between Miaosoft and IBM that stttthet
to brtaking point over the dtvelopmcm
stages of Windows and Ihc I )Sf2.0

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che biography Bgl Gaea

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Microsoft's long and
4ing hours in othn

w ords, l us t l i k e S i l l
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this b th ma n y cases or
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with Microsoft coming
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Bill G a te s b u t oc
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Gaits Ihe CEO ls rattly
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okf Biii Gates. Then again, after reading
Dirty Operating Synt m ) , m ade some

minor changes to its code. and then sold
Bccnsbtg rtghn lor the nevr lflaosoft DOS
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T HE COMPUTER PAPER APRIL s93 73
Apple's Color PowerBook, New Products At Macworld

(I>Kyth JAPAN (NB) Apple Computer
i avl I i h a s i h i p pr d i t i 1 0 millionth
A new Maontvsh I.C, thr IC I II, is an

In>proved model o( the popular Macintosh
Maiintvsh c iimputir . At ih e enormous

Macworld Exposition held this week m
(okyv, Ihe comp>ny also Introduced eight
LC II, whlih Apple says was iis bestw Ikr in

1992. fhe Ill, priced at CS(,695 has a 25
MHr Motorola 680 U) mvvpracrssor. a )2-
tems thc Macintosh Centa l 6 10 and
nevi pllvdui ls, Inc)uifing th long awated
bit bus architecture and comes standard
Macintosh Crntris 650 both equipped
color Powerbook notebook computer, five

ncw desktop systems and two new laser
w>th 4 megabytes (Mb) af dyrumic undom

access memory (DRAM) expandabk to
36 MS; as opposed tv the IC II whkh was
o n I y
expandable
with Ihe Motorola 68040. The Ccntris 6)0

ts reuU pr)ccd at C52,560 while the Centns
pl(ntclt
to 10 MB
An 80
Mb or 160
MB h a rd
dr>ve i s
a va i l a b l e
for thr LC
III and an
LC processor direct
slot IPDS) is
included
~E
(or special)red ra pan.

sion capabdines such
"W
Apple says thn is Ihe tint time it has

uunchcd new pmducts rwtskk thr United
Slates and over 100,000 visitors are on
hand in Toykv attrmiing the Mal world
shaw. Thn Is also the 10th annwersary of
the company's Japanese sobs>dary, Apple
)spa
n.
Now Up-To-Date
( vnr>nuc>ff ram P>
ttr 72
yvu are modi(ying rrpraring I vents, a dial og bvl a PPcais asking it yv u w an t t v
change One, All or Future occurrences in
ihe iepcatmg srr>cs. You can nvw m >vr an
event (a missed appointment, for example).
hvm oni day or time tv a>Other simp)y by
dragging n there.
Another great ncw fratures is the addluon of I a D o items and a list vkw vl ab
calendar and To Do items. In the lint ver-
sion ol the program, ea'h item hal a date

avu>cured w>th It 1hn meant that anything
nvt vvmpktrd vn a )urtalar day hal to be
manually dragged forward. Now the pro

gram allows, through the use o( a check
bvx, a ( o D o I tem Iv be carved (vrward
auto>naticatly as Ihe date changes.
II Is fx>saibk to create Up to IO categories
to clasufy ncms. Thc dc(ault settings are
High, Medium and Li>w Yvu might add
Urgent, (vr yi>ur really pressing commit.
as Ethernet
networking.
Appk Ile emulation and )TTSC vi~
t
and video iaptuir, On. board sound input
and output is also ir>eluded. as is a small
f he new M acintosh (".entris line i s
drscr>bcd ai midunge computers geared

loward raainstream business and profesuonal users. The Centrls Une oVen two sys.
650 carries ac5 3.690 pnce ug

Thc Quadra 800, a new add>i>an to the
company's top o( Ihe line computers, Is the
most a) fordabk Quadra, wllh retab prkr

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

system faldcr where Irw userswill think to
look ior >t.
There are a hast o( other Mac>ntoshbasrd calendar applicativns. including
Alarming Fvrnts, I>aicbaok Da)Maker, Easy
Alarms, 1)rst Things first and LapTuck b
fimcslips III Now Up-to-Date can import
You' ve heard about the new LaserWnter

Pro 610 and 630. arid the ktrst news Is that
Appk will ship the 610 w>th BMB af RAM
a ll the ttnie, wh i i h
a llows t h c 6 1 0 t o
A W
pririt a i 60 0 dp i
Check this before yvu
buy one, though, )ust

in case. The t>)0 and
630 expand Apple's
printer offerings on
the high end; Apple's new LaserWriter
Select 300 and the lawiWr)ter Select 110 fit
into Ihe lvw end of Apple's printer offerihg'S.
mcnted in an addendum at the bak of thr
1hn serial)y4x>nncctcd 300 dpi LaserWnter
other programs the abilny to ras>ly switch
inks can be draggrd and dropped into
tv (lp to Bale. And w>th vers>vn 2.0, It s a
nrw locatk>r>s, sv the things that are impor.

rant to you are tn>nt and center. Using this
woithwhilc endeavor This program may

not be as sophist)rated as a dedicated organircr like DayMaker, but because of Its
tahnique, yvu can create a vanrty ol v>cws

Ot yOur I o Do and Calendar items,
Hat Help
The p>gram has many shortcut key-commands. luckily, yau don'I need to memorlre them. When yvu place the pointer aver
eah o( the available vpbans, a feature the
crunpany calh Hot Help indicates Ihr kry-
~trong orientat>on to shanng the infarma.

tian over a network with other members of
your wart tram, it Is weU worth looking at.

Nvw Up.lo.(NIC Is the tnost usable cakndal
and scheduling application avakblc for the

Ma.
standad leatures 600 dat~ n n ch ldpe resolution and th c company's Phviogra
Reports Wreng
News reports that Ihr LC I II c vuid Iahe
siagk Nubus card are wrong. The Cen

610 can ukc a s>nglr Nubus cad as lang
It's short enough, but the LC III is hsm
Iv arl LC.sty Ir I l)5 slot
StyleWriter
Qwners Beware
Don'I trv thc h ra i c leaning vpnon Iro
the StylrWriter II dnvrr on Stvksvntrr
The prcx.ess ruins the ink cartridge This
probably why Appk isn't mak)ng the
this purpose and the prrrdurr is dcu-
Clearly, Nvw waits Io give marl o( them
Apple is upgrading Ihe tatsdaurd configuration ol thc Apple (~

ter Pro 6(X) to
include BMb of RAM Usem who uuchased
Lasnwriter Pro 600 pnnlers gat SMS but it
New LaseWVriters LC III News
sl>rt vut your fa lk> lit a littk morc.

clking Ihe titles I Ihe toP. ISh>(thcking
allows sort>ng by multq>lr sntlna) and Ihc
LaserW>trrr Sekct 310 is C5),459
Apple News f .,n-~
Included as I>an oi a Sample Calendar (or
manual
Lasclwr) ter Sekct 310 The ncw printers ae

aimed at affordability and offer Apple,
Photograde and Finepr)nt, and Adobe
Postscript imaging technologies. The
Laserwnter Sekc4 300 Is C$1,109 and the'
6 88$2 math co-processor and I M B o f
ments, then throw In r atcgvrics like

Persona), lang Icrm Prolects etc., to help
I he list view can bc sorted by double
The company's laser printer luse a)dad

t hc I w scrwrttc r S e lect 3 0 0 a n d t h e
The new Macintosh Duo Dock stat>on
LaserWriter
SelectZOO
data (rom all ol them Import Templates ac
Le a der
teChnology sundard.
afkrs a 230 Mb hanl dnk drive, a Motorola
Unfortunately, thn RFA)) hlf. addendum
P o wermerge by
Technologies, sa users can auionuiically

update files cantainrd an the Powerbook
Duo, the Duo Dock had drive or a network
server to the latesl vertu>n.
9600 bps Th e i nternal Express Modem

with 9 42bis dau cam >ress)rm capabditrcs
af up tv 4 I can ach>rvr data throughput of
up to 57.6(X) bps. Retail pr)ce h C54,120.
Thr ilwilua) is Inacr Urate ih vrvrfal plaes,

but correct Information is contained in a
READ Mt file. Most of the Inacuracws are
minor. For cxampk, the manual nates that
yvu can Iind an Unrrcvnc>led Fvcnt bv
choosing Find... t r a m the Fwnt menu
and t)Tung ' ' I n f a t . you musk ty)>r '>'
to Snd an Unrccvncikd f w'nt; v' is the
M ark f o r an u nr ea d P u b li c E v e n t .
package
was a spec>a) offet The 600 abo nvw has
A Ma>ntvsh Ii. Ill Upgrade Kit is available far C5649 to Macintosh LC and LC II
custvnwl\ whv wish io upgrade, Appk u)IL
Bbanwl
I'owerboak Duo notrbook at additional

sc>st.
Thc Duo Dock cvnfiguuiion wifi also ' '
include the file reconciliation software
internal (ax/modem capable of dat trans.

ler speeds of up to 14,400 bit e>cr-second
(bps), and >md and receive fax speed of
computer systems interface (SCSI) port
board shc>lieut> Ii>ar yvli san ulr iv aiv>ill

plish Ihe desired action m the future and
avoid the dialog bol
video random access memory ISq(AM) for

(aster video and support (vr up to 12.000
colors on Apple d>>plays up to and mdudIng the Madntosh 16 Color Dbptay lhe
new Duo Dock Is 51,975 and rrquires a
tep)avs the LaserWnter LS. Linhke previous

IarWI>ters, it uses a luli Xerox engmr
that pants at five pages per minute, and it
holds three optional paper tuys tvr a grand
total o( SIX> sheets The LaserWritrr Sdcct
%0 Includes I inrl'iint and Grav5hare and

can br u pgraded I o P o ltScript a nd
I'hvtv()lade, but its main Irature n its dirt-
che~p prr 5819. This might be a good

printer in a limited number of spccillc
used bui we st>ll (erl that II makes mvrc
sense tv either buy a chea prr Iniqet pnntrr
ar to ante up the doll>>i for a mine versatile, normally netwarkable. I'ost5cnpt print.
StvleWriter ll dnver real>lv available an

dacsrl t ecamtr>end Out yau iise >I with t
Canadian System
StyleWriter I.
7.1 Upgrade
Canadian user> will br I>ira>cd tv hear
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TH E COMPUTER PAPER 8 C ED(TION
M A C
Ramie wu) Vtixtuau
R E V I E VV
Beating the System

Y Ci n A g M g g RIN TT
w"ve )sobabiy sseu tbe ads us PC
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o l the b uwncss ir i ( i o n o f T l r
(ilobr axd Ma (l and r l s ewheie
Whv wwc orat IRM Compuiri ' txx)td be

A MJ(tntcnh. I h e puch begins. acccxtspsnud by a la(su(e of a lauului lcxsn I-2-3
scram running on a Puwrr)4xii p a t a bk
. Run a whale w(xkl ol MS-DOS software.'
and
S(ru IC Viol
gas(sary. Parton(awe u on(y 'ba. Ovwi ixi
Iu()b Jnd Maaa. bus Siu pros)wit
nwr ba m a Ia)im bi ()sa
saacviutu I (cvnoutw past (orporato
PC ivt v aurcna(vnu rauuvwivxm
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m p ecikas, Ibough. we
scovescd tbe cttpphog wcubneas ol mls

At lint RLnir, u n an attractive pmpoution l i i l i i r h a ~ ing two computr() i n
two-headed b(uil You rails buy a vr I h ii
slow
Indeed, u vrrm( I bi( strange turn
ing a Ia(Rr) (( nail( Into a very iiow 2(u)

usa oM
clone. Sttkr )x((ixo)sike Is dearly nol Ihc

main issue brie, let's lock at the rcasotu
why Mac uwiv might want to run D(R( or
Wadows Jpptk J(x)ns
I ) A Ie(psrcd apptkauou u (xdy Jvatiabk
for DOS or Windosrc
2 I The uwr wishes Io learn {or stuch) nor
cx mon Ixv or W)ndowsapidkat)on(
I) The uwr wi)tws Io sites( data on I Ir ..
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Ci The uiri w i i h ri I n a ccess data on a
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SI COrporaae puic haae Iespauementa Snpu.
late that a(I iompulers must be INd
cost)pat)bk aixboe be capabk of runIsing Mksoson wusdosrc
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Macintosh, Iiut has a considriatiir
)Ores(men( In I X )S Or WmdOWS iuli
ware Jnd wiihri to m ake thc most <)I
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t ha( in i r i t m r o i
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but these. I un(us( arr the suais awa Ag
re worthwh))r a l t hough performance
(on\iderat)ons macr no n - mission-crit(
cal uses the nxiv( vublr once
ri
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Rmes&r)k u ~)uun(t, wth (he Pc)hefts Ik t(A',
vtteo dnxc Tu the Ino(t powerful nr Tntxv

of theEsnlly, thePntsefttrr)k t)E).furl) iclea 2
fgsvaate uTeellto t)oE(tIl and shufp youtube D
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f3( I S ,
thenesvc memtrT (if(he P(tuefttrr)k ta)n(tf It kti
worse alit ski)n(ak, (hmks (u (hr t)tsktn
y(x)piert s iur iles tn %i cokrs IR) (taster

tahe(e y(tu wnrk
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h() Ind(er h tw hr utu (ea(ef, t()via(I Iisn
anyptire ss()s(rg m)fkptte wgh Iheltm, nehmr(ci

Appk'Kasuoah P)tucvtkak I ep o s Tt u vr e
p(IRAQ c w Ri Iac', /1 l o anpgg)h srlh gh Ma Ts uh
cst ssutkuth Jflease ne(uofk ()f ((rt)putefa-
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fgrnttr hRIcornstang ir utu. Pmn the Poucrtkr )k
Ret byg(khnt(App+TII(' Rem(re A(resssou(se
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To Ihe tbueltk s {( I(( I the th tbaeetttrak uth
vtdeoout ess(tb)nR I( ai b) r()nne(T D ful kr
%hr Isrr sop hi brkfr) Tel sh()b ust host

a lbarcytkad( (I ~ yo ubc a p(rrturihe tiers g
noun(assaop,g) Tou de fn)m yr)ts d(bkt)p
Sim p ty
, V4C
MIOI
tk(c Jfc siliii(' uvrs (liat Softp( I s nex

Jppcopriatc for
I I Dc(i)oust(J(xiii( of applkalkxu cllwciany graphkv Intensive (xus
2 ) App(katk)ns where pr cesalsig a d t l .
p(Jv tpxd ii Priiuc cosscrru.
31 because of s ii running on obrkwsly
I kxistandafd Iiaiilwaic, So(IP( i l h i r
an )deut chixir lur icsung PC x>hwJ(c,
Jilhough Siil(V(. Igii'Jrs to bc Icniafli.
biy comps(ibk ( r r tamly, k u I na(v
proprutc lu( any Ir: Jppbcatxx)s ihat
dcpcni( upon
we Jd(Sons i Mll )I,
a udio cards. I(kol a a Za . tnt vxk o ,
p)ystkhs, ctc I, ivtth tbc cacepuou of
floppy d)saettcs, (:D-ROMs, ss)ode(us
and pnntcis
Issafunufhxa
I les(cd colt('( I ' i olrss(unai and S il(V(
with Windowi I t w manuals forbcxh Ixcv
grams siitfcr (iom 'tlight vagueness of
Ituaanason psoccdutes, but ouiy Ibe liner

coo(a)ns cnmpktrly wrong Stf(xmatsou
fhe manual In(In)its the uset to copy
nk caged 'Sor(V( I)ata Io the hani (btsv

as part ol Ihc Inst II (ion process As it
turned Out. I had to copy 'Softprl) I
and 'Softy( I) Jt J2' Io i tie C(ivc in onk( I
gct the InsLILI I< n Ixixess to wcxi as out
I)ncd m the dix umrntanon. Dunng Inst Jl.
Ltx)n. the sytsem buibh yik that simu.
4 (es a PC bard-dtsb partition. I h h t l k
needs to be 15 Mg or larger. Softy( does

not actuagv paninon wxu Mac hard drive
car
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Aldus TrapWise For Windows
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a f Iwoefwo wfu~
SEATT I.k, WA!iHINUTON >tdb) Aldus
nght inks and JI>o managei thr preprcss
Carporatlon says it >s nuw shipping soft-
worksow. Opcmtors can aeate piedcfmed,
ware Ior Wind(tws thzd will allow prep>res
cust<fmized sets of trapping configurauons
proff~onals to spot and process color trap.

ping on color conlorming encapsulated
for use on particular Jobs and paper stocks,

much hke word pruccss>ng operator neat-
Pas>SEf>pt flIes
Aldus spokespf >son b ra d 5 >eveni
>>lb J 5>andJ>d dixumcn> fora>a> Jfid Ic.
uung it.
Aklus says lrapWise can trap hks pro.
duced from any computer platform ttut
creates cvtorxx>alarm>ng EPS files>nciud-
cxpuined to Newsbytcs that (.olor trappmg

Is the process thai keeps Jdizcent colors
from o v e rlapping or se p arating,

I'raditionaay pcffomml by J person caUed
a \trippcf ifi f>iar>UJI pf>a>>rig vpcfattalis,
the program iabcd Trap>vise performs thc
necessJry adiustments automatically far
computer-gene
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to the program fast year.
copy of the program Aldus says U expects
the U.S. Jnd (Und>4 Jnd carr>cs suggested
both pr>xess and spvt culm print>ng by

handling all three color ink scenar>osspot to spot, apex to profess and prfxess to
process. It w>U also handle complex trapping situations such as graduated fibs, very
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announced it w>U double ifs work form by
this iun>mer aad is on a tight product>on
scheduk anth product expected m the mid
199(yc
Cauo wdl ship unt>i the end of 1994

Jnd that NeXT can beat both companks lo thr punch
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reorganiz>ng and laying o>l 280

employees, leaving a work force of 200
Canon, which vwns 17.9 percent of
NeX I', has reportedly Invested US5165
milhon and w>U take ovrr manufacture
af the NeX I'step lutdware. NeXT uid it
will f>U the orden it tus until >rica>e of
the Intel eris>an af thc NeXTstep oper.
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UrafuCS>UO auartuau, ana Ihu paeverUI at>tart-CO> a>ud NUXTSTEPct>doc>urn la UI>of baaed PCU
nne >1 that founder Stree Jobs elms the
company is ranng laltgent - the hnf>tvenlure af Apple and IUM and M>crasaft far
dominance of ihe next.generation graph>cal u>cf interface market,
hh XI' says it will release an Intel proces

sar version of the NeX I'step opetating systern on May 25, 1993. Minosoft'1 next generation graphical user i nterface, nr
Windows 4.0 as samr caU it, is code named
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faligent, which is developing a graphi.
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any product, but Mii rosoft Window>
hai l>ter aby mdlions of uscn. The Intel ver-
s>onof the NeXT>tep operating system w>U

be iclca>cd In confun(>ton with NeXTwnrkl
Expo, wh>ch ls set for May 25.27 tn San
Franc>sco The new product will run on
Intel 486- and Pentium-based personal
computers (PCsl. Intel has nat yct iekascd
its next generation I'ent>um ch>p, but is
expected to do so th>sycJ>
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In 4 survey of 402 corporate informs
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tokl e w sbytes. However, the migration to
Windows i s e x p ected t o c o n t i n ue
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Trident 8900CL. 32 bit SVGA card wit MB
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200W CSA poww supply
101 aury enhanced keyboard
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the stcc of h ard d i sks will

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canyrsa caps 8 58L 3ar aat
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meg abvtes (MB) of RAM and
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I 2 and 1.44MB Japanese hoppy drives
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Nearly II those surveyed
ket. the MMA said that the

usage of OS(2 20 0 expected to increase. Apple Ma cintosh use is
expected to decrease, however. Mac users
surveyed %aid they were extremely satlsrierf
with their operating s>stem, but that they
didn'1 sce Mar hi(usher as playingan important part of t h e ir organ(cat(on Ho w ever,
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Keynote Address: Concentrated PC Power A Concern

rt>R(INTO, ONTARIO t NS) The Power of
ihe personal e iimputer industry's biggest
play<(5 is becoming a worry, Pi; World

kfaturinc Editor.in Chiel Phil I emmons
iid a conference. In panicular, (rmmons
uid ln the Industry Keyneue address in the
PC Woild(Network World Canada, that
However, he said, it probably will not

happen because each vendor would want a
second one of its own produos in the bun.
die lotus would irant to include lhe Ami
Pto word processor, instead of Wordrerfe<L

fur imtance.
Mtciuso(t's power thee~tens mulkr players

and could lead to reduced choices for PC
On the chip side. Lemmons said it

would take a ma(or PC vendor such as
Compa9 Computer placing a bulk order
uieru
wnh one of the maken ol Intel-compatibk
The other maior power that could be a

cause Ior concern ls chipmaker Intel Corp.,
Lemrnons uid.
Noting that Microsoft's profits exceed
the revenues of many of its competitors,
Lemmons said the software nuker ts the
moat powerful entity in the industry, espe.
cmny with th e i mminent arrival of
wmdows Nr, its poruble operating system,
proceuors to ensure the survival of a vuble

Intel compentor.
whkh will increase Mictosoft's innuence
osvi Intel because it can run on other vendors' chtpx
Lemmons also said he

would like to see
Microsoft's three
closest rivals in the
applications software
business offer their
flagship products as a
bundle to counter
similar deals from

Microsoft.
l .emmons acknowledged that b o t h
sat<voto(t and Intel fnve their customers

good value (or money and invest for the
PC vendors need to ensure the survival
lk said tlut whik ISM nsay have same.
of an alternvte CI'(I (central processing
thi/tg to fear from Mkrosoft's Windows Nl',
until, lrmmons uid, but he was doubiful it
Appk does not tn the short term, became
weli ha ppen
Touching on several other poinl ,
the Macintosh's user interface still outs(tines tliat o( Wl ndowc
lrmmons was pessimistic about the future

o( Taltgent. the operating. system (oint ven-
personal computer users ared tnfonrutton
ture between I bM a n d A p ple. The

Windows instaned base wt(l be so large by
the Bme Taligent appears in the market tlut
it will be lunl (or Taligent, whatever merits
it has, to be<ortk senous(y compeutlve
He also calkd for cooperatkm between

systems professimals. Ef(ective use of tedt.
nology can neither come spontaneously
from below, nor be unposed autocratically
(runs above, he warned.
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Friendly, Apple-trained technicians
k>ng term, something he noted is rare in

the industry today H o w e ver, he said,
they' re in such a strong positron now that

they can simply render their competitots
incompatible by evolving the standards
that they control
I emmons suggested some moves otikrs

in the i n dustry could m ake to reduce
Mie'rusoft's and Intel's power. though he
admnted he i nnsidirs them unlikely tu
tupikn.
ISM should consider renaming itsOS/2
operating system "ISM Windows, he said.
A ment court ruling that Micmso(t cannot
<opyiight the Windows name, while still
open to appeal, makes that appear possible.

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

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Nwailbox
puters I transfn the work, I shut the one

with high emission down. In addition I
tns o( apology (mm major cualpUtcf chains
always shut down Ihe video when nm in
then nothingl So the idea went on hold
ge: Radiation Risk,

February 1993
UlC.
Since then I have struggled through

acquiring two systems (or my business
I do not agree with the artklc puhlnlwd in

thr Icbniary lsuse. In 198ri I got hold of a
Roentgen meter and tested the emisdon o(
two monographic and onc <:GA Iype roloui
monitor. Ihc cmissions ol the monographic

monUors werc tnsrgnifkant no reading S
inches from the snccn. However the mctn
readings on Ihc CGA monitor extended 3
I/2 lect in front o( the screen. The avr rage
dtstanic from thc screen to thc operator's
(ace is about 2 I/2 (cet. Many of these older

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

I <heap battny operated radio Placed a fool
Horst Ruthcr
Vancouver. 8. ('
138IV33) about two vcan ago. I again had to

do aU thc lvcuk of putting the Individual
EcStor'a l Uagaunuei ir h uriaursgtu Ui rkuf

?raus wus(Ac us/y irrrrr wc scciwaf if(
parts into a paikage systnn (Yes. the dealer
fkr riuirss mudr is that satiric rfuisu tkaa

wr' frit wrrr borh dubiuur usd piuauruiivv.
Tlane cur SUSWrrso uifrrr Staabn I(rut diapurr
usd rrurbudr'it ikr srvrsrsgfy om</Us/sv find.
Most recently I bought a new hard
sparing
isgs fvnrsrrrf is rirur issue,Srvrnai of ibnc

riiagn wercmini'used is us urtfcir iw akr sub
none I ended up phoning 3,000 miles to

Ihc inanU(acIUres fep. Io gcl JUrrl per SctUp
data incredible.
VDTs,but ul nxr did, und dseartrsf su X-nrys.

As rkv dfsrkaknrr ut tka kmd af asu urltrfr uutrd, we wvkiwu sudrrs' vinn m d m rusrrra
venial sabfaf. Rb.
Frustrated and Angry
conditions (standard programs with no
the computer industry U the prrxtucts were
graphical interface) there are no detectable

nnissions. It took me some time Io recon.
ltruit the conditions under hlch amis.
Uom start. Apparently the video tube has to
br hot (at least two hours in Usei and the
not so Powerful and Useful, I would have

long ago fonaken it in disgust.
up Io live feet in (mnt of thc screen. Again I
drive I got thc unit In a bag with no documentation. Further the dealer saki hc had
Rrrsrrsbcr, rfrnugfr, tku( rfrlyrrrsf VDTs

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mast study isuy kuvc tnrcd rsusorfrrursr
I am orwe agam (nistiatcd and arrgry I son.

tinue Io be appgcd at the attitude I see in
are two to three detectable (rcqucncy bands

of emhuons. thc cmiwions re detectable
put tiw hardware trrgeiher.).
/rct is rfrc Frb.26, lttp3 iuur af Tlu Gmrgfu

Struigbr
trom the screen, I!ndcr normal operating
program uses a g r aphic i n terface

i&pending on thc program used there
Ior IotaUy ignoring my inquirin. but even
My Ust ol Uutdcnis is too long to dna'

bui I will provide an outUne. Six ycun ago I
was mtrigucd by the idea of drung low.run

fullwolor printing and copying using a
computer. I even had a printer identt0cd
that wm, lor its tink, cxsvpttonaL Over the
lollowing two yean I searched Iur any vcn.

dor who would put together a packaged
don t know 1( thc col lsuoru are ilafillhll iu
scanner, punter, software and computer
not but they cxbt. As I have Iwu com-
systcirl. None would. I cacti have a fcw Icl-
1 uili have thc idea for low-run color

printing floating around and have now
scen new printer thai Is a dream come
true. I will be doing a system Ibis (aU to
Iruplemcnt thb. come hcU or IUgh water!
II appears. with some shining exccpUons, that thc attitudes of six yean ago an
stiil these. I get no, I mean absolutely no
mppon on puning a package together. At

luaat 90 prr cent of the compames I call for
information am m incapable of even dealmg anth brochure mquests that I would not
buy their product To date I have called at
(or compattbtbty?
I may be unaU pomton to thnc companies, but wdl I always be? Can they afford
to actively of(end potential cuslomcrs so
casuaUy?
John Humphrey, Owner
John's Books
Trrul, S,C.
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rufur bwmd ur ur /brut(ac(rv kuuf sraramw'

nrppf/crs, As tkc ufd raying Rises, iuu usuuiiy
gaf whua lcw puy far. CuvaadEmptur.
Osc wuy to upprourfr rhc iinwstiou is tu
dcul wdb u spcriuiilf is yosrr rbusn /i cfd.
TIrcsc sprcru(Isis, ruiird VARs (vulur-uddrd
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will drfiwr. Musy laarsrdrusts ura VA(b; kuk
rfrruught tbc smuffci uris ur the bruk uf Tlar
least 80 companies, on my money, as the
Cumpuarr Puprr fbr spcrfufists is DTP usaMar
$00 numbers do not wotk in Canada for
the pr(siirtg vudr. Sursr oowputcr rmwpurdn
moat of them At least <S of thne compsnin I will never speak to again, much less
actually buy from.
(IBM, /br rsarl iruvr busrrwsspurmcr ekaffaa>
It still seems I must, anth at bnt sketthy
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Small Office/Hame Office Sales To Ballaan

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machines have gotten increasingly incx-
Pusher( bv sr>eral, cconomi<, distbutton

and product trends, the U S SOHO (SmaU
D(hcr/Home Ofhcei advanced Iechnok>gy
marker will soar Irom a current level ui
US5 lo 2 bine>n to USS IS I cullion by 1996,
says a nrw study by BIS Stratrgr< pensions
The trend towatd worL>ng m home and
buv ing tr> hnology m rctmi stores took hold
in the tetr l'>Sos, and since that timr, prod.
acts such as computers, printers and fax
pcniivr and easy io use, explained BIS'

Raymond Boggs in an interview with
Nrwsbytes.
Around 19S/ o r 19BS, large discount
and drpament stores began to adopt sug.

gestions (rom vendors liLe Sharp and
Canon to group technological and other
office equipment together into I single
stoic alt J, Boggs told New>bytes.
Shortly aftr rward, I h e n u mbers of
hme-hami busincsse. starred to sky rocLei.

nung from 13 million in 19S9 to a current
Ngure i>f 20 mUlton, hc added.

Movements toward product inexpensiveness and ea>c-of-urc arc manikstml by
now in (ax machines that sell tor undrr
US550(f and handheld compute Ukr the

Sharp Wrxaid and upcoming Apple
Nrvnon, the market analyst notrd
PC now hold Ihe largest shate o( SOHO

prcxlu>t saks, with printrn coming in at
numbet two, and these prod>u'ts will main.

tain the imr resPccuve ranks in 1996, thr
BIS study says. Aho over this period, tele-
phones will show the most dramatic

growth, estimated ar le percent per year
( r Ruler and other Ixuiabk phones err predntcd to be especlaUy populas.
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Novell also introduced its NFS Gateway,
a scrvet based system to extend th e

NctWafc cnvuonment into the Unix worM.
A key new <apahiiity is <alkd NctWare

Directory Services, or NDS. This provides
single view o( the network, fedudng administrative coN$, Thcfc arc ncw i<runty arid
This means users <an acss Network File

System servers on remote Unix systems as
ofsdy as Ihey now aess NetWare icrvcn,
Novell utd. All o( this u done using tooh
auditing <apabibnes usuig pubb< key <fyp.

tug<aphy, Improvements in Ihe usc o( band-
pfovufcd Ily the ii5cr 5 ilativc operating sits

tern, even Mt<rot<fit Windows and MS-DOS.
fidth Io fcflu<c Illc <ONS 0( WMC area nct.
The gateway also allows for centralized

administration, and security is handled
working, ncw nurugcmcnt <afubtlities and

sup(urn fof muiupk <umputcr languages.
Niwcll is iisirig thi5 vcfiion o( NclWare
to get its arms around every other operanng

syucm, and ncw target service agents in this
rekase allow <ustomers to backup DOS,
Windows and OS/2 clients, as well as
NctWme .I. I I and NeIWare 4.0 servers.
Nct Ware 4 0 can aho run in no n ~ i< a red mode under OS(2 2.0, NCIWafe 4.0 fof
through NetWare. Iffe gateway <onsifts of
':ctWarc Loadable Modules, or NLMs, written (or NeIWare v3.I I. A version (or
Net Ware 4.0 is under development. Prices
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Carel, IVlotion Works In INarketino pact

VANCOUVIR. SRITISH COI.UMblA INS)Mouon Works, develoPcr of multimedia
tools and Cl)-ROM rrrln. liar Ilnaullced a
marketing agreement with Ottawa software
developer Cocci
Under the agreement, Corel will take

aver the marketing or Moiran Works' prod-
ucts, Icavmg the Vancouver firm free to

concentrate on development.
PROMO'ClN
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Macintmh and Microsoft Windows ai wdl
as one compact disc read-only memory

ICDROMI title. the Paine Time CD.
Motion Works will focus on developing
ncw productx particularly further CD-ROM
trtkn, he sard
building a marketing channel lur small
amparucs is one ot the biggest chaUenges

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

hopes io meet or exceed revenue pro.
Icctfons of C54.S million to C55.7 mU.
lian in 199.1, he addesk
0
Ii s a mvnage of twa comfsarricsiih
indivi<luai strengths, said Sob Eundc, a
spakeunan (or stnon works.

Randaii McCaUum, chwf execu<we ot
Motion Works, said thai Corel will use its
iirong marketing organization to seU hii
c ompany's e x isting p r oducts, w h i c h
include animation software lor the Apple
Motion Works had carber licensed

animaaan saftwve and other multimedia technology (about which the corn.
pany wtb n<K release details) to Corel.
we' re solidifying our relarionsh<p wKh
Carel more and more,' McCabum sard.

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

research cole in a development-oncnted
company
The deal yves Cocci the right ol first
refusal an ail tuiure Motion Works products.
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MARKHAM, ONtARIO (Nbi lzperCamp

servues I.td., the clone-making subsidiary
models, ranging lrom a 33.megahertz
af Ilk<<I Canada I id., ss braadenmg its hori-
3$6SX-base
d computer to a 66-megahertz
zonsio include mid-sized corporate buyers

as well as thc home and small buuncss our.
Lcr.
FxperComp has launched the Ambra
Izrwrprtsc and Enterpnse Max lines ot perional computers, which have hardware
specifications ssmdar to those of its exssnng
models but ve aimed at corporate buvette
Fz pe<Comp has aho <chosen a different div
tribution approach lor thc new modeh
rather than ielUng through deals as it does
with its Hurdla and Spnnia desktops and
4 $6DX 2 m a chine. P rices range f r o m
tob.free telephone order lme

While home buyers tike to iouk ai PCs
before they buy, said Andre Turgcon, chief

operating oflicer of lzpcrComp, corporate
buyers usually know luii what they want
What they'rc looMng for n a convenient
way to acquire tire product

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

nd fnierpriic Max machines through a
C51,699 i a
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4 MB RAM
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Machines in this tine come with three bays
tar hard drives and other storage devices

and three expansion stats Four megabytes
of memory is standard, and 100. or 200megabyte hard disk drives are included,
depending on ihe ruadel,
Ail Ambra Enterprise madcii are suppbcd wuh DOS 5.0and Micro<oh Wind<vs
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dnve bays are standard. Depending on the
model, the Enterpnsc Max machines come
with four <u eight megabytes and 100. ar
200 megabyte hard drive. Prtces range from
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The Enterprise Max models ve sold with
either Dos 5.0 and Wrndas 3.1 or, optionaUy on some models. IbM's OS/2 2.0,
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A PRIL '93 8
Canada Product Launch Update

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

eight milhmcter tape library announced in
ihe US.
ISM Canada also mnounicd i)atabase2
OS/2, a vers<on of iis relational database
the ( anadian market to supplement other
system, a nd D is t r i buted Da t a base

Connectio n Se r v i i e s/ 2 Ye t <io n 2
New<bytes coverage ol ttie<e annourueilicni<

ISM Canada an nounced 4 range oi
work<rat<or< pro<lucis on tile ianie day as it<
parent company (Ncwsbytek February 2).
I he new Sl'I parallel procesung system

is the (itsi product (tom I S M ' s Highly
on local-area networks and <n un<vent<res.

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

Several new servers also loined <he
R S/6000 li nc
I he I'o w e r N e t w o r k
ltuta<erver supports thc Network Fife 'ierver
(NFS) standard and ISM said <t will support
a< many as 200 c l i ents. Prices start at
C$171,)<l I arid shipment is planned for the
er>d of hprd.
three new models av<ulable as wockstar<ons a as servers become the highest-pcr.
fornunce memben of ihe KS/600() line. Thc
Powers<ation/I'owe<server W) arid 170 are
phced at C519,675 and C527,600 re<pec<ixvfy lhe 570 ha< a (:$5<),69S PC<Ce tag.
IbM Canada has also announced thai

enhancements to its 9708, 9808 and S80
mudels apply in Canada as well a< the U S.,
and new graphin options are aho avadable

here. The Canadian anncwncemeni d<d not
(New<bytes, January 28)

Ftnt cx<stomer shipments of DS2/2 and
l)DCS/Z Version 2 an pu n n ed for March
26, lbM sard. The single. user edit<on of

Db2/2 will cmt C5538 rhe client/server
version < C53,(SS plus C5103 per client
venion of L)DCS/2 is C5633. and the rnultiu<er version is C$5,92 5 A s i ngle-user

upgrade friim Vcrskui I i) to Venion 2 0 of
DOCS/2 is C5 103, and th e mu l t i - uier
n C595 7.
Microsoft Ollice (or Windows on CD-
upg
rade
ROM (Newsbytes, January 6) has now

arrived in <he Canadian nurket. The CDROM includm the suite ol busineu aPplica.
lions complete with documentation on onc
CD. ROM disk Now available, <t has a mggested retar I pnce of C $899
Brokers of Caruda. of
Also, C
Toronto. announced 4 Canadian distribution agreement with Hercules Computer
Technology, thc Franont, Cahtomu, maker
ol graphics adapten foi Penonal computcn
and Iw)ikstat<orrx (.8( w ill ill<tribute three
Ikr<ules product l<neR the Supentation Xr
wotkstation card.. the Chrome dual-page,
24-bit color display card tor I'Cs; and
Graphite, < Windovn accelerator card,
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Sof t ware
Computers
QAUTODESK.
Digitizers
Plotters
AUIHOR<ZED Au)OCAD DEA<fR
Softdesk
Land Cadd
Cadpipe
CAD Overiay
Monitors
Scanners
Networking
Sun Microsystems
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(outset pc(ces on computersystems f
Novell; LANTastic
Third Party ApplioatianS
Or AutOCad & muCh mOre
Needsanalysis; Turn-keysolutions for CAD

Osystelns
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shipping the 199Z tax year venion of it s
Canadun income tax preparation software,
march by typing feature w<tl respond as the

usertypes m the name of a form or file by
Can<ax Tl. New features this year include

mouse support and online help.
T he o n l in e h e l p
mcludes tax preparation
pany's tax specialists aml
<nlormat<on
from
kt ten lypcd.
The new release also adds a functionkey template for t h e
computer keyboard, onIcmen clock ard calen.
dar and compatibility
with mom laser printen
Revenue Canada's tax

g uides Can<ax ofhi u l <
put fiom its package is
(umpingto the (irst name that matches the
<.antax said the outapproved foi submission
said tlclp wnh uung the

progra<n <tself is also
included, and thc help Is
of computer-phntcd tax
forms to Re v enue
Canada
The software needs a
personal computer with
512K bytes o( memocy, 4
h ard disk an d D O S
Version 2.0 or later The
suggested retail pnce is
cori<eat-sensitive
Another new le<uvre

is the 'expand option,
which lets the user <elect
any data fild calculated
by thc sonware and dn.
play the form where the
calculation was made.
'Ihis year's release aho ackts a IXSS shell
(e4ture so users can enter DOS commands
without shutting down the lax preparation
software. A new Oo I'o" feature lets usen
mime to a form by selecting R (rnm a list. A
Hardware
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Canadian Tax Prep Package On PC Ships
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management <ystem for the OS/2 operating
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ftom OS/2 Fxtendcd Fait<<on n C5267. and
laboratory. While it was announced in
from OS/2 Extended Services C5130.
Canada pricing and availability in(orrna.
The cost t o u p grade t o D S Z/2
tion weren't available.
client/sen er hom OS/2 Extended bht<on is
fhe announcement< aho include three
('52,04( and from OS/2 Fxiendcd Sen<ces
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The PowerStation M20 is meant to be
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PAPER 8 C. EDITION
Canada Product Launch Update

'IDRONTD. DNf ARID INbl Dn January
25. only 4 few >471 behind its psieni >om.
pan) i n t h e U S., Sun M i crosystc ms of
('ansds unveiled its Network Terminal
Server i ewsbvs, January 211, saying the
system will soon bc sva14b C510, ISO
Sihcon Gisphks Canada launched the
borland Canada Software said Paradox

for Windows (Newsbytes, January 281 is
avu4bk i
in Csnsds. The intro
ductory pre in (.snsda is C5167 95 until
April lb. 1)avid McC4ughtin, president of
bor4nd Canada, said the bst price 10 risc
to a bout C 5 5 7 5 a f te r t h at , a l t hough
company's Onyx advanced graphics super.
upgrades snd competitive upgrades will
coinputns and the new Indigo? lx trcme
nn>sin in the C5170 range
woikststuui (Newsbytes,January 2(>), as well

as its Challenge and I'ower Challenge
serwrs, in ihe ('ansdian market on January
borland Canada shn announced a 90day pnce prom<>iion on ns (2uattro Pro
27 Prices h>r the Extreme wrukstst>r>n will

start st less than ( 514,000, ihe <ompsny
said. Prices for the top-of-the-line Power
Challenge supercomputing servers will

bcglll at about C5170,(xxi
mmediately
IVlicresaft Oenied a Trademark

on Windows Name
WASHINDIDN, 0(. (NS) A preliminary
different types of creative properties and
decision by the U.S. Patent snd Trade

Office hss dealt 4 setback io Microsoft. by
offers differen Inters>on.

Patents must be granted by 4 govern-
denying the company'1 spplicmion to

make Windows a protected trademark
name.
Although thc decision is urdikely to put
ment sgen>y, sr d to bc approved they

must either contain new ideas or processes,
or incorporate msior improvement on
much of a dent m Mkrrnoft'1 massive share

of Ihe marLet, hsd it gone the other way, it
not only from dupUating a patentd ptod-
spreadsheet software, which will be avail.
could hsw been signifksnt lor other pub.
sbk lor C5124.9S unul Apnl 30.
li\Iiers.
Windows '
then arguing to be ftce of patent c4lrns.

Trademarks musi
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many compsns make
I n d enying t h e
spplksaon, tl Patent
SAN JOSL, CALIFORNIA (Nbl Sales ol
US53,37$,900,000 in 1992. The estimated
application softwaie for I h e M i crosoft

Windows operating environment have
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total revenue Ior wttwarc spplkxtions was

up 60 percent owr 1991 to an all time high
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Of all software spplkations, thc top five

>endor(. Mi cron>lt, Ix>tus, Wordperfect,
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cent of thc market in 1992 I )stsquest ntn
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soltwsre publishers from adveniung any
modity, and I)atsquest says pnce wan wne
p roduct with the word ' wind(un ' i n I t s
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writing 4 book or (scat>ng a word processor
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competffors to ptomote then programs,
program
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Kesselnng says the top vendon ktep
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I bc Iop vendon.
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Mktosoft Windows cnnronment.
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