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ONTARIO EDITION THE COMPUTERPAPER APRIL '93 5
From
the
Editor
Contentedly Computing
Recently, I visited a computer
show in San Francisco. The big
trend I noted was the invasion
of content into computing.
Publish
Like a Pro..16
What do you mean by

"content"?
For years, the software industry
has been dominated by application software. Applications

are the programs that you buy
BY GRAEME BENNETT
computers for: spreadsheets,
PageMaker 5.0
Update. ........20
databases, word processors,

personal information managers, etc.
At the show, I witnessed an
invasion of a different type of
software vendor this year. Companies like Sony, Voyageur
and Educorp were on hand (in big, lavish booths) to demonstrate their growing collections of everything you can think
of on CD-ROM. When Sony gets interested, you know there
must be big bucks involved. (these are the same folks who
FROM TIDBITS.
MS-DOS 6.0...........22
MS-DOS isn't ready for the OS retirement home just yet.
BY GEOF WHEELWRIGHT.
Local Bus Video ...24
signed Madonna and Michael Jackson for mega-million-dollar

deals). Voyageur had discs ranging from Alex Haley's
Autobiography of MalcohnX, to the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night
m ovie in Q u i c kTime a d i g i t a l m o v i e f o r mat f o r
Macintoshes.
Technical terms for computer buses. BY ROEDYGREEN.
Desktop Music
Publishing ....33
Changing the way books are used

The books were interesting because you can add your own
notes to annotate the text and do searches on words. If, for
example, you wanted to verify the authenticity of the recent
movie, using the Autobiography of Malcolm X CD-ROM, you
BY GRAEME BENNETT.
could search on particular word references. This kind of usage

would be invaluable for scholarly research into topics. Given
that many of the "Dead White Male" classics have passed into
the public domain, we are seeing many of their collected
works showing up on CD-1(OM (William Shakespeare, Mark
Twain and Lewis Carroll, to name a few).
Mac
lp to
tn Pate 2 0......
N ow
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The most advanced calendar scheduling program for the Mac. BY GRAEMEBENNETT.
Comm Talk
Why we Need Electronic Highways....32
Solving the world's problems in high school

This move towards content is not just dominated by the big
guys. There was a fellow tucked away in the Educorp booth
selling a disc with all the data in the world. Well, almost. He
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Editor's Response: I agree that the vast

nfojorit)r of people aren't going to switch platforms.But consider th(s: the last version of
Illustrator for Windowswas much weaker than
theMac version.Itlacked numerous featuresits
Mac counterpart had (color controls, etc.). The
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a forthcoming 5.0 release for the Mac promises
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(ndeed, cross-platform developmentis a major
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on his hands
Just a note to say I enjoy your paper. But

this recent issue (Mar '93) was terrible, in
that the cover was printed with a black pigment that came off very easily and dirtied
your hands and whatever else touched the
cover. I think it was a bad choice to choose
such a dark cover photo, which might
explain why this problem occurred. Or on

the other hand your printing process may
be flawed. Probably a combination of these
two factors caused this problem. The only
solution, I found, was to rip off the cover
page and throw it away. This problem was
not localized to just the paper I picked up, I
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get the best performance out of Windows
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Windows NT will be able to address sevRAM, and terabytes
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A P RIL '93 THE COMPUTER PAPER ONTARIO EDITION
BY 6RA EINE BENNETT
Apple's recent emphasis on low-cost Macs,
IBM compatibles are and will probably '

remain the least expensive hardware
choice. Nearly all of the software Mac users
covet for publishing is now or soon will,
be available on the PC. Hardware is, in
most cases, cheaper and more plentiful,
and so on. So what's not to like
PCs are not as simple to use, with or
without Windows. Especially tricky are
extended and expanded memory configuration problems, which the Mac doesn' t
have. A PC is much trickier to set up and
maintain. Software installation and (espedally) un-installation are dramatically easier on the Mac.
Next issue, in our feature story Picking

The Right Operating System, we' ll examine,
some of the tradeoffs that this ease-of-use
necessitates, but one fact remains: the Mac '

is ideally suited for publishing.
Thankfully, once you are actually in a
program and using it, be it PageMaker,
Excel, or any one of dozens of other multiplatform titles, the PC vs. Mac debate loses
' steam. With few exceptions, the perfor-,
mance and functions add up to a comparable experience on either platform. And the
part that really matters the output from
a printer or imagesetter is virtually indistinguishable and can be quite spectacular.
We' ll look at output a little later. Right
riow, I' ll discuss a few other issues of relevance to PC owners. Mac users can skip
It goes without saying that the capabilities of desktop ahead to the section titled "Printer
Considerations."
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the first incarnation of PageMaker in the mid '80s IWindows/GEM/Geoworks,
etc., look for a
Indeed, traditional desktop publishing programs like DTP application that works in your chosen
environment. For one thing, you' ll save a
PageMakerand Ventura Publishernow face consider considerable amount of disk space by not
having to duplicate fonts, printer drivers
ablepressure from Windows based word-processors, and the other accoutrements of two separate graphical shells. For example, version
whose graphical abilities encompassmany of the fea 3.0 of Ventura Publisher for Windows
comes on two disks one of which contures required in DTP applications.
tains nothing but examples. The GEM ver-
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looking for the right DTP application,
but there are several key areas to consider. Because some of these are platform-specific, I' ll group them this way:
Choosing a Computer
There are compelling reasons to use a PC,
just as there are great reasons to use a Mac,
Amiga, Unix workstation or what-have-you.

Long-time readers wN recognize my familiar refrain: chooseyour software first.
These days, most DTP and graphics programs are available on both the PC and
Mac. Either of these platforms represents a
good choice for DTP applications. Despite
'
sion, on the other hand requires more than

a dozen disks.
As well, of course, you' ll have less to
leam, as most applications for Windows
(etc.) have a similar look and feel. A secondary reason to stick with one graphical
environment is that it causeslessproblems.
During the course of researching this article, I spoke to several userswho had memory-related difficulties when trying to use
18

Another useful hardware accessory is
a modem. With a modem, you can send
files to your local service bureau, obtain
fonts, clip-art and program updates
from your favorite BBS or information
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One problem with trying to use a word
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Add to t h i s th e selection of scalable
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(or Windows for Workgroups) and you
CD-ROM drive and a few discs of clipart or scanned imagery. I recommend a
it is relatively tough to set up headlines,
multiple columns and graphics on a page
drive that is compatible with multisession Photo CD discs. Read my March

'93 article Photo CD for details.
and move them around as you refine your

layout. PageMaker and other leading DTP
titles have what is known as a "pasteboard
metaphor" that makes it easy to drag items
A well-equipped DTP software toolkit

should include one of each of the follow-
I/ W SOO
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ing: a word processor, drawing program,
has done paste-up job by hand will immediately see the value in this way of doing
things. I don't recommend using a word
publishing application, plus a selection of

fonts and clipart. Many software titles
incorporate two or more of these areas.
Microsoft Word for Wi ndows 2.0, for
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processor as a page-layout program unless

your document conforms to a typical letter
example, includes a drawing module and

(though easily surpassed by most entry-
or book format. The more graphics, headlines and other fancy extras you put on
each page, the more of a hassle it becomes
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What's wrong with this picture?
On the other hand, some people use a
drawing application (CorelDRAW is a popular choice) as a page-layout program. If

your document hasmore than one page, a
drawing program is usually not a good
choice, as most cannot handle multiple-
page documents. CorelDRAW is better for

general DTP tasks than many of its com-
petitors (Aldus FreeHand, for example,

doesn't even support tabs in text), but all of
them suffer from one primary drawback.
They are painfully slow when more than a
experienced designers can break rules and

still look good, try to stick to a maximum of
four different typefaces per page. As a gener-
read, you' ve failed in your primary goal.

Simple, powerful designs are better than
busy, fussy ones. Remember, too, that
al rule, a black or extra bold sans serif font

(Helvetica Black, for example) makes agood
graphics are a powerful communicator. Use

charts, photographs and/or appropriate clip
headline font, while a serif font (Times,

etc.) makes a better font for body text.
3) Keep headlines short six words or
art to keep your readers interested.

5) What! You' re not a designer? Try
the venerable technique of Borrowing From
less.
The Best (A.K.A. Copping Great Layouts

I'rom Famous Designers). Briefly, it works
4) It's All About Communication. If
your headline font is so fancy or your layout so cluttered that your page is hard to
like this: you see something you like the

look of in a magazine, book or (best of all)
one of those expensive design annuals. You

make a page that looks very similar, but
uses your words and images. You sell it to
your clients. They love it. Is it entirely ethical? I doubt it. Legal? Probably. Common?
Absolutely. If nothing else, you will leam
what makes a great layout. And before you
know it, your own style will start to take
form, and all that borrowing will start to
seem like what is really is: a dass with the
Masters.
few objects are displayed on the screen. A

screen full of filled-and-stroked graphics is
punishingly slow to work with. Worse, all
the fancy effects today's graphics program

are capable of make it extremely easy to
assemble a page that simply won't print.
For all of its merits, CorelDRAW is one of
the worst offenders.
That said, there is definitely a place for
a drawing program in your DTP arsenal.

Core!DRAW 3.0 comes with such an array
of clip art and fonts that it is a nearly irre-
sistable bargain, When you look closely,

though, CorelDRAW's fonts are pretty bad.
The owner of local service bureau I spoke to

said, "Rule number one: no CorelDRAW
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What makes WYSIWYG?
Windows 3.1 brought TrueType fonts to
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this in more applications.
PageMaker 4.2 added the ability to
mentsfall in the category of "It's about time,"

but it's not worth com-
plaining now that they' re here. I'm sure

some people will write to tell me that
Quark XPress has had such-and-such feature for nigh on 39 years and why is it a big
deal that PageMaker has finally caught up.
The simple answer is that as far as I know,
PageMaker is still the most popular desktop
publishing program around.

I'm not going to go through these new
features in any order, and similarly, I'm not
going to talk about the standard things that
haven'tchanged. PageMaker has too many

features to do that, and some would say
that PageMaker has too many features period.

The main new features I noticed in
PageMaker 5.0 are its capabilities in moving

objects between documents and rotating and
SkeWing te X t an d
MultiFinder, there's no reason why we
shouldn't be able to drag data between doc-
rotate text in 90 degree increments, but this

feature was generally greeted with derision
90 degree rotation is unimpressive.
PageMaker 5.0 should silence those criticisms with its free rotation of text and
graphics in .01 degree increments. You can
skew text and graphics with similar precision. Oh, and by the way, you can edit text
or graphics after transforming it, something
that wasn't easy even with 4.2's limited
rotation. This news will be welcome to anyone who does single-page layout of posters
and the like.
I appredate PageMaker's new capability

of printing non-contiguous pages. If you
wish to print pages I, 5, 8 and 23 of a publication, you just type the page numbers
irito the page range box, separated by commas. Any application that prints should
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here.
I don't wish to imply that Aldus fixed
everything that might be construed as a
problem in PageMaker. For instance,
although Aldus completely redesigned the
awkward modal print dialogs for the better,
I found PageMaker still extremely modal,
related to PageMaker's close

relationship with M i crosoft
Word, another notable laggard,

but surely the functionality of
character styles is clear-
specific style to one or more
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Microsoft says that three key user needs

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MS-DOS long into the future. For example.
many arecomfortable with MS-DOS and

their MS-DOS applications or rely on certain specific applications that are not yet
ported to Windows. Some will still use a

computer that cannot run Windows.
Microsoft has made a public commitment to continue to improve MS-DOS to

provide more and better functionality for
MS-DOS users while maintaining strict
backwards compatibility.
All of which brings us to MS-DOS 6.0-
the new release of DOS. lt contains a host
hard disk space free, lt is also "aware" of
what other applications are doing such
Setup and Installation

One of the maior criticisms aimed at MSDOS over the years has been that it was too
hard to use. For that reason, Microsoft has
gone to considerable lengths to address that
from the outset with MS-DOS 6.
either deinstall for you or set itself up to
run alongside).
INernoqr INanagernent
Microsoft did include a number of new
Hard DiskManagement
memory management features in MS-DO( 5
Hard disk management tools have become
but admits they were not as easy to use
Building on the positive feedback from

the MS-DOS 5 upgrade installation program, Microsoft has made the procedure in
MS-DOS 6 even easier and safer. For exam-
more and more sophisticated with each

new release of MS-DOS and this one is
no different. Probably the single most
as the company would have liked. So MS-
ple, MS-DOS 6 includes a great deal of

"auto4etection" software built in so that
it can automatically detect what hardware a
time is something called DoubleSpace.

DoubleSpace is a disk compression utili-
user has and thus does not have to ask the

user stupid questions about what of type
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has.
MS-DOS 6 is also more modular you
your hard disk by "crunching down" the

existing data and being able to "uncrunch
it" on the fly while you are working.
can "custom install" part of it and then add
important hard disk utility included this
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DOS 6 boasts what Microsoft calls an
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advantage of the ability within MS-DOS 6
to load applications into specific blocks of
upper memory.
Memaker is not the only i m p roved
memory management utility in MS-DOS 6.
A new EMM386 will automatically recover
up to 200K of upper memory automatically,
while its dynamic EMS/XMS allocation system will allocate EMS and XMS memory
from a shared pool so that users can run
utilities that will backup your data, check

your disk for viruses and undelete files in
both Windows and DOS versions.
Rather than re-inventing the wheel
completely, Microsoft has wisely licensed
the best of the third-party utilities for doing
these tasks and enhanced them. The backup
utility, fo r example, is licensed from
installing new software or hardware,

these files are often modified and
sometimes don't work when you
reboot, At the moment, recovery
from this is often a matter of rebooting from a DOS 5 system disk. All of
which, to be quite blunt, is a pain.
With the new "clean start" fea-
Symantec and is based on Norton Backup.
turein MS-DOS 6,however,you can

boot up a "clean" system by just
holding down the FS key during
The anti-virus software, meanwhile,

comes from Central Point Software
and is based on Central Point AntiVirus. It includes the ability to scan
both memory and disks for known
infected viruses.
@la Qnhans uahs
( 'Dr I'W-s 4.&
To guard against the possibility of

unknown viruses hitting the system,
CONI'IG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files you
want to bypass during a problem reboot.

This is particularly useful when debugging
memory and interrupt conflicts.
If you want to choose from a variety of
CONFIG.SYS combinations, you no longer

have to reboot and rename. The "multi-
The Undelete utility, meanwhile,

is also licensed from Central Point
and has been significantly enhanced from
blocks in CONFIG.SYS and choose from
the previous version.
amongst a variety of boot combinations.
To start with, it now includes Windows

version so that users don't have to exit
Windows to undelete a file. A new level of
displays a memory map, among other information)and an enhanced MEM command
protection (delete sentry) has been added
(which shows details of unused memory

blocks and information on the way a spedf-
across network drives. Finally, and probably
ic application uses memory).
been added to recover deleted directories.
Data Protection
System startup.
This addresses probably one of the thorniest
that ensures recovery of deleted files even

most importantly, a directory undelete has
These utilities make a first for Microsoft in

providing both DOS and Windows versions
in an OS upgrade. With MS-DOS 6 you get
mands and getyou going again

quickly.
There is also a new "interactive start"which lets you choose which lines of your
checksumming files (i.e., checking

that key files are of the size they
should be) and a memory-resident
behavior.
applications running either type of memory

without having to know anything about
either memory standard.
Finally, Microsoft has included the
Microsoft Systems Diagnostic tool (which
reboot. This will bypass all CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT com-
the software includes a facility for
utility called VSafe that can continuously guard against "virus-like"
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config" facility within MS-DOS 6 lets you

create menu items and corresponding menu
And lastly, Microsoft has added a

"choice" utility which is a batch com-
mand that accepts keyboard input and lets

you build your own simple menu programs
to make life easier at startup.
Workgroup Computing
This allows PCs running MS-DOS 6 to
access shared files and printers from any PC

running Windows for W o rkgroups,
Windows NT, LAN Manager or compatible
networks as well as communicate over
a ny network w i t h M i c r o soft M ai l o r
Windows for Workgroups "post offices."
This set of utilities also includes a "popup" network interface that can load as a
memory-resident program and pop-up in

other DOS applications so that you can
make network connections without leaving
your work, as well as an "interlink" utility
that lets two computers share data, applications and printers over a parallel or serial
port.
Conclusion
MS-DOS 6 represents a major step forward
for DOS users. It will make working life easier in almost every respect for those running
attraction of Windows for Workgroups,
DOS applications, while also enhancing the

operation of Windows. If you run DOS,
then you' ll want MS-DOS 6.
Microsoft has included a built-in network

and electronic mail "client" within MS-DOS
6.
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Computer Paper.
In recognition of what is expected to be a

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integer operations.
Balancing
Another analogy is a stereo system. Don' t
6. Har d D i sk. This is a rotating set of
buy a $3000 amplifie and hang on a pair of m a gnetic platters used to store massive
$50 speakers. Balance both speed and qual- amounts of information, typically 80 to 500
ity to maximize your bang per buck.
MB. Here is where you store all your programs, every word processing document,
The Components
spreadsheet and accounting entry. Hard
Here are the main components, roughly in
di s k s are non-volatile. They continue to
order of increasing cost, that you need to retain the information even when the
balance;
power is off. IDE and SCSI are the most
1. Power Supply. Fast machines need p opular kinds of hard disk, but you may
higher quality, better cooling fans and
s t i ll find MFM, RLL and ESDI. Each type
smoother output. The power supply takes needs a different kind of adapter card of
the 115 volt AC mains and converts it to 12
e l e ctronics to attach it into the computer.
and 5 volts DC for the components.
Most people err in putting too much

money into the CPU relative to the power supply,
Zpy O f
RAM an d v ideocard. The
2. RAM. This is the
fast, short-term memory

the computer uses for
holding temporary results
of its calculations. If you
were editing a file with
your word processor,

most of that file would be
B V RO ED Y
GREEN
Thismonth I will explain the

technical terms for computer
buses: ISA, EISA, MCA,
Local Bus, VESA, VL and
PCI. I will also touch on the
mysterious IRQs (Interrtupt
Requests), DMA channels
and i/o ports. To understand
these, you will first have to
learn a little more than you
wanted to know about how
thecomputerworksunderthe
hood. I will try to make it
painless.
Bottlenedrs
By analogy, consider what happens when a
large family cleans up after dinner. One
person brings the dishes to the sink.
Another washes them. Another dries them.
Another puts them away. The speed of the
whole operation depends on the bottleneck
the speed of the slowest person. If the
resident
in
RAM.
Typically, a PC has 4 to
1 6 lvIB of RAM. O n e
megabyte is equivalent to
1,048,576 characters.
RAM memory is volatile,
i.e. when the power shuts
off, all is forgotten.
3. Peripheral i/o Bus or
bus for short. This is the
set of wires on the motherboard that connects the
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taking agamble
other common error is to
put
too much money
i nto th e
making a
bus without
m a t c hing
investment in the video
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for housekeeping. This

allowed the CPU to send
able tO buy
troller.
The original XT computer

had only eight wires on
the bus for communicat-
onech aracter (8 bits) at a
recruit a faster dish dryer.

In the dishwashing assembly line, all
people can work at once. In the analogous
DOS computer assembly line, usually only
one component works at once. However,
the bottleneck effect is still present. When
you are upgrading, spend your money on
the bottleneck. Putting it anywhere else
won't buy you much.
time over the bus to the

hard disk or to the video
card.
and the hard disk adapter.
f i f tQe hgg.
The follow-on AT
If you don't know what a
computer had 16 wires.
video card or hard disk
adapter is, hang on, I'm getting to that. If
Th i s allowed the CPU to send data two
you look at a motherboard, you will see a characters (16 bits) at a time.
set of eight slots for adapter cards. You can
Sin c e then the 80386 computers have
also see the parallel copper traces connect- l e arned to send data four characters at a
ing all the slots with the CPU. These traces time (32 bits), however, for backward comform the peripheral bus.
patibility, the ordinary bus still runs at 16
4. Video Card. This is the cardful of
b i t s and at the same speed 8 MHz as it
electronics inside your computer that gener- did a decade ago.
Under OS/2, or other multi-tasking

operating systems, both the CPU and hard
ates the video signal to produce the picture

on your monitor. It sweeps out the image
The C P Us are now 150 times faster than

th e y used to be, but the bus is the same old
disk can work at once. Slow devices like

modems and tapes run overlapped in the
background. Here it pays to buy smart
hardware that can run simultaneously with
about 60 times a second.
speed. Guess where the bottleneck is now!
5. CPU. This is the chip on the motherb oard that does arithmetic. A 50 M Hz
machine is faster than a 33 MHz machine
by a ratio of 50/33. An 80486 is about 25%
faster than a similarly rated 80386 DX for
>+eeiri+9 ~ + + 41 The Bottieisedr

There are three approaches to fixing the bus
bottleneck problem:
dish washer is the slowest, it won't help to
the CPU.
CPU with the video card
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QuickRIng it is. However, factors other

than raw speed determine the market-share
winner.
The Politim
The bus is the hardest part of a computer to
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vendor designs a new bus, he must persuade thousands of other manufacturers to
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If you buy any of the improved designs
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yo u r choice flops in the marketplace, and,
in future, you will no t be able to buy
adapter cards to fit the bus.
A group of IBM's competitors came up

with a bus called EISA (Extended Industry
Standard Architecture). This bus allows you
to use both the old ISA adapter cards and
the new faster EISA adapter cards in the
same machine.
A consortium of about 120 companies
comp a t i bility slot or two to handle the

ol d sty l e adapter cards. ISA adapter
cards are cheap to manufacture, which
assu r es them a long life.
VES A -VLVL is a quick and cheap solution
to th e b u s b o t t l e neck p r o blem,
Unfor t u nately, it requires exceptionally
called VESA (Video Equipment Standard

Association) came up with yet another bus
called the VESA VL bus. VL slots look
either like standard ISA or EISA slots with a
116-pin MCA-like extension. This means a
VL slot could continue to be used for ordi-
care f ul adapter card design to be reliable. VL is catching on fastest. A large

group o f companies VESA support s VL M ulti-vendor support bodes
well for the future. VL comes in two
nary ISA or EISA adapter cards.

intel, the people who invented th e
80386 and 80486 chips, came up with yet
versions, 32-bit and the faster 64-bit,

which makes it more forward-Iookingi
than a n y of the competition. The VL
However, since Intel controls the heart of
bus s p ecification document is very

wooly/flexible. This means you can
expect compatibility problems. Buy
both y o ur motherboard and adapter
the computer including the new 58 6

Pentium chip, they may be able to force
cards f rom the same retailer to fob the

compatibility problems off on him.
another bus design called PCI. It won't be

available unti l t h e s u mmer o f 1 9 9 3.
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f u t ures of various buses.
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doned MCA, in favour of the cheaper ISA,
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for its lowland machines.
motherboards will still have an ISA
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everyone to play ball their way. There is an

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Compaq, IBM,NEC, Tandy, Toshiba and
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third kind of VL bus, called the mezzanine, that allows up to 10 cards, but
which is limited to 33 MHz.
EISA EISA hasbeen around a fair while and

has only slowly caught on. Insisting
on full ISA compatibility in every slot
made it more complex than it would
have been otherwise. EISA is not as fast
as VL, but it tackles another pressing

problem that VL does not automatic
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configuring. More on this later.

PCI VL has a commanding lead over Intel's
PCI. PCI isn't even out of the blocks
yet. 32-bit PCI is about the samespeed

as 32-bit VL. PCI would not likely
begin to dominate until intel came out
with a 64-bit version closely tied to the
Pentium chip, Most computer builders
feel nervous about Intel's monopoly on

the 486 chip. They are not likely to
voluntarily hand over any more pre-
cious parts of the computer's anatomy

to Intel's exclusive controL PCI is off
to a slow start because they still have
not yet decided what the slot connector should look like. PCI is a technically sounder design than VL, though it
may be difficult to adapt to new 100
MHz CPUs. If it succeeds, it will show
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up first in highwnd clones. It can handle up to ten slots, at speeds from 8 to

32 MHz. It is aimed at high<ad 486
and Pentium systems, not the older
386DX and SX,
MCA MCA was the first of the alternative
buses. IBM was a little too greedy in
the early days, insisting that MCA bus
manufacturers pay royalties for previous ISA bus design use. Though MCA
was technically advanced, manufactur-
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the idea to indude a sprinkling of EISA and

VL slots.
Why EISA Ain't Oead Yet
If you have ever attempted to install a
mouse, video card, CD-ROM, hard disk,
MIDI music card, modem, multi-io, scanner
or waveform sound card, you will likely
have had a minor nervous breakdown. All

these cardsconflict. They fight over intangible computer resources called IRQs
(Interrupt ReQuests), i/o (Input/Output)
port addresses and DMA (Direct Memory
Access) channels.
There are five popular IRQs, (fifteen in
theory on the AT), With all those cards
fighting over those few IRQs, with no arbitration scheme, other than the skill of the
technician doing the installation, often two
cards end up trying to use the same IRQ at
once with disastrous results. Each card
must be told which IRQ to use by arranging

the patterns of little jumper plugs over pin
pairs on the adapter cards.
There are bizarre rules for assigning
these IRQs. For example, modems on
COM1: must use IRQ 4. Modems on
COM2: must use IRQ 3. The LFI'I: printer
must use IRQ 7, but in a pinch, it can do
without. IRQs 0, I, 6, 8 and 16 are reserved.
IRQ 2 is sometimes available, but then it is
really IRQ 9. It sounds like Alice in
Wonderland!
There are only two DMA channels free,
so the problem is even worse there.
My point is, ordinary humans haven't a
hope in Hades of getting this right when
there are many adapter cards present.
When there are only a few cards they can

usually luck out and avoid conflicts.
You are probably thinking "Why doesn't

the computer sort all this out itself, automatically. That's the sort of thing a com-
puter is good at. Why does the computer

make us feeble humans rack our brains
doing this?"
That is exactly what MCA and EISA do.
You just stick a new adapter card in and run
a utility program that figures all this gobbledygook out and tells each card which
IRQs, i/o ports and DMA channels to use.
Since IRQs are in such short supply, these

new buses add extra ones and provide ways
for two unrelated adapter cards to share an
IRQ.
Unfortunately, when you put older ISA
cards in an EISA machine, they don't know

how to participate in the automatic alloca-
tion scheme, so you have to handle them

manually back to square one.
Installing is becoming more complex by
the day. Installation costs will eventually
force us to automate IRQ/Port/DMA assignment. Flectronic costs are dropping and
people costs are increasing. Automatic configuration is here today in FISA and ISA and
might be added in future to VL in some

bailing wire way. VL lacks the foundation
to add auto configuring later. Intel's PCI
bus has the basics needed for auto conflgur-
3 are 8-bit channels the most popular
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Technobabble
Port Addresses for the INillions
If you ever buy hardware, the installation

instructions presume you understand what
an IRQ, DMA channel and port address is.
Those of you not interested in finding out,
hop down to the next section about the 16
MB limit. W hen people stop me on the
street, the question they most often ask is
"What are IRQs, DMAs and I/O ports really?e So for those people, here is my short
answer.
The computer bus is like a telephone party

line. Every adapter card hears the commands for every other card. When the CPU
sends out a command, it prefixes with it
with a "Hey PRINTER, this is for you." All
IRQs for the Millions

The computer has "shoulders" the various
devices can tap. For example, every time a
character comes in the modem, the modem
card can tap the CPU on shoulder (IRQ)
number 4. This says, "Ahem, excuse me
CPU, but something very exciting has just
happened. A character has arrived on the
phone line. Please interrupt what you are
doing, save this character away in RAM,
then carry on with what you were doing.
Please hurry. If another comes in before
you handle it, I will drop this one."
The various devices keyboards,

modems, hard disk pester the CPU, interrupting it hundreds of times a second. The
CPU knows which device interrupted from
the number of the shoulder on which it felt
the tap. T his "tapping" is really just a
short, electronic pulse the device sends up
the corresponding IRQ wire of the bus.
When you install hardware, you must
assign each device its own private shoulder
(IRQ) to tap. Some devices don't need an
IRQ. Some are hard wired to use a particular IRQ. Some can use one of a half-dozen
choices. If you accidentally assign two
devices to the same IRQ, then the CPU
becomes confused. One device taps it, but
it thinks the second did. I f two devices
want interrupt service, the CPU always handles the lower numbered one first.
DINA channels for the INillions

Some devices such as floppy drives use a
faster method than interrupting the CPU
every time a character comes in. T h ey
make use of a small auxiliary computer
called the DMA controller to direct incoming data to RAM. There are two DMA controllers. Each can service four devices at
once. When you install an adapter card,

you must specify which controller you will
use and which of its four "channels" you
will be working with. Again, if two devices
tried to use the same channel, it would

overload the pea brain of the DMA controller.
Channels 0, 2 and 4 are reserved. I and
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Don't assign two different devices to the
the cards hear it, but only the printer parallel port LPTI: responds. The CPU is actually a little more terse than that. It would just
say "3BC." All the devices have three-character names, called port addresses, made of
the digits 0 to 9 and letters A to F from 000
to 3FF. This gives 1024 possible names.
You would think, that with 1024 possible names, you would be unlikely to accidentally assign two devices the same name.
Unfortunately, duplication is a common
problem because the installers usually
haven't the foggiest idea which names are
already in use. They randomly try different
names till they find a set that appears to
work.
Some devices need a dozen or more
names. For example, a modem might use

one name for sending, another for receiving
and another when deciding whether to
hang up the phone. When you assign a
name, you are often really assigning the
first name of a continuous block of names.
Again, the key to success with port
addresses is to document which ports are
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The ISA bus has a 16 megabyte RAM limit,

something like the familiar 640K limit.
One reason for the new buses is to break
the 16MB barrier.
All buses have the 640K limit, inherited
from compatibility with the old 8088 CPU.
'I'here is a maximum of 640K of conventionalRAM. You can add more extended
RAM, but it is harder for programs to access
the RAM above 640K. For example,you
cannot use the extended RAM to run ordi-
nary DOS programs, only Windows programs.

However, only the ISA bus has the 16
MB limit, the new ones don' t. When a
smart hard disk controller on the ISA bus
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This does not mean, it is impossible to

put more than 16MB of RAM in an ISA
machine. However, if you attempt it, the
hard disk has to put its data somewhere in

the first 16MB of RAM, then a spedal little
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There are some cards in your machine that
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Even most hard disks don't tax the ISA
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With a co-processor, the CPU would

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what would happen if you were using
Aldus Photostyler. You wanted to show a
cal information, see Michael Sister's article
group portrait of all your friends on the
Report. He did another artide on PCI for
in the July 8, 1992 edition of Microprocessor
screen. There is no way the CPU could

compactly describe that image to the co-
the December 9, 1992 issue. If you want a

copy of the VL spec, all you need do is join
processor and still generate a life-like

image. It has to resort to sending the
image dot by dot, just as if there were no
ing on your company size. Intel sells the

PCI spec for $100.
co-processor present.
Then, it really helps to have a fast bus
to speed up such bulk transfers. When you

are working with photo images, rather than
text or line art, the VL bus struts its stuff.
How To Get Nothing For Your
VFSA for $1000 to $4000 per year depend-
with for decades. A new bus should have

autowonfigurtng. VL does not have this.
However, like the dandelion, VESA VL local
bus will prevaiL However, I am rooting for
PCI, presuming Intel gets its act together
and standardizes the connector.
Summary
I see a parallel between the emergence of
VL and the dominance of IDE disks. When
IDE disks came out, they lacked standards,
could not be properly tested and could not
be reformatted in the field. These problems
are still much with us; however, the drives
are so inexpensivethey have almost com-
Reedy Greenwrites custom software and helps

people with miscellaneous computer problems.
His custom computer manufacturing company,
Canadian Mind Products, had to close after
massive, and mysterious, inventory disappearances. He wS be on a computer-free retreat
until May 3. After that, you can reach him at
home (804) 885-8412. He will be personally
honoring all CMP warranties.
pletely taken over the market.
Credits
As usual, my friends on BIX helped gather
information and find errors in the draft.
Thanks go to Harvey Fishman, L. D.

Graham, Brian Hinkle, Karen Kenworthy,
Julius Oklamcak and Jay Vanderbilt.
31
VL is similarly crude but much faster

and cheaper than its competitors. It is a
temporary solution to a big problem.
Because of the extreme difficulty of changing bus standards, the last thing I want is a
temporary expedient that we will be stuck
Money
I have seen people buy an expensive EISA

motherboard, then refuse to buy any
expensive EISA adapter cards to go with it.
They populate it completely with the ISA
adapter cards. 'I'hey get zero speed benefit
from this. Only when you start to add the
FISA adapter cards does it go any faster
than a cheap ISA,
The same applies to VL systems. When
you use MCA, you have no choice but to
buy MCA adapters.
??,
Caveat emptor. There are Vl. cards and

motherboards that run little faster than
equivalent ISA cards. They are VL in name

only. The best way to protect yourself is to
insist that both the card and the mother-
board
s u p por t bus
mas t e ring.
Unfortunately, bus mastering does little to

improve DOS performance, but it greatly
helps OS/2 and presumably future versioris
of DOS/Windows.
Where Should I Put My Money?

Motherboard prices have been dropping so
rapidly over the last few years, most people

write motherboards off after about two and
a half years and start looking for a replacement.
Presumably this trend will continue.
This means if you pick a motherboard with

an unpopular bus, all is not lost. You will
get a chance to change it again in three
years.
You can buy a motherboard with one
or two extra VI. slots for less than $100
extra. This gives you a hedge for the
future. You might elect to buy an extracost VL hard disk or video card for the slot
now, or you might just use ISA adapters
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now. VI. adapter cards are new. Industry

leaders and respected brands have not yet
emerged.
A full EISA system is quite a bit more
expensive, especially when you add in the

cost of EISA adapter cards for video and
hard disk. If you want a big, powerful system now, guaranteed to work without flakiness, EISA is the way to go. H o wever,
EISA's star is waning.
If I were using Windows for word processing, or line art I would get a co-processor video card. To hedge against the possibility of lack of video drivers for future versions of Windows, I would go for 8514
compatibility (e.g. the ATI Vantage and
Ultra series). The other common type of
video co-processor are the S3 cards. They

don't have 8514 compatibility, but some S3
cards are so fast and so cheap, I might still
be tempted.
Learning More
Trevor Marshall wrote a technical article
comparing the various buses in the October

1992 ByteMagazine. Peter ltuber also wrote
one in the February 1993 edition of
ComputerMonthly. For heavy duty techni-
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person in and put them up in a hotel for a
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Why we need
Electronic Highways
Imagine an industrial economywithout highways. Obtaining
raw materials and distributing manufacturedgoodsis expensive, slow and not very reliable. Transportation becomes
an
economicbarrier to successand growth.
ow think of a knowledge economy without high-speed data
communications networks.
This is today's Canada. The
industrial age hasended. Get used to it.
In a knowledge economy information
becomes both the raw material and the end
. product. The cheaper and faster you can
both obtain and distribute information the
better off you are.

As far as data communication goes,
Canada is treading along the cattle path,
not cruising the super-highway.

The new economy
Take alook atany knowledge-based company andyou'd be hard-premed to find one
that wouldn't benefit from being able to
move large amounts of information from
Mother boards
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waiting.
You could have had

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Ekttcr Business Bureau.

Deal dhetstlr with the canon 4oya't
waste roarthatte.eovemmaat and
coqente Is.O, welcome.
601
never designed to do
that. Neither is this
nation's telecommunications network.

In the 1950s both
the Canadian and U.S.
governments launched
g iant i n i tiatives t o ,
from individual to individuaL Radio and TV
provides a high-capacity one-way link from

the broadcaster to the masses.
What Canada needs is a high-capacity

Continued on
page 39,
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to chstngc. Visa + 896. A member of the
Drinking straws were
build highways to connect our towns and,

cities. This both aided
and created entire,
industries. As our economy moves away from
heavy industry and towards the information economy we require new highwayselectronic highways.
Other
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Take a look at the traditional telecom-
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you and I just don't exist.

It's akin to trying to,
deliver water to our
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ture to provide these services to people like,
ware, you have videos. You' re instantly on
5) You' re a home builder and you' re at a

trade show. Instead of hanging up pictures
seconds.
2) You run an audio production studio, of your model homes, you establish a live
The person you want on your next show as video link from your booth to the real
a narrator lives in another city. You fly this thing. Visitors direct your camera operator
$24 0
I' ve shown. The problem is the infrastruc-
system, but instead of messages and soft-
deliver this to your doctor's office in a few
Hard Drives
Electronic highways
The technology exists for every example
As our economy
moves away from
heavy industry
and towards the
information
economy we
require new
highwayselectronic
highways.
you had access to an

online forum on the
topic.
4) Your band has
just made a new rock
video. You' re not that
famous so none of the
networks will play the
video. You' re lucky to get on campus radio
stations.
Your band starts its own bulletin board
plate-to-place cheaply and quickly. Here's a

few examples:
1) Your doctor needs to send you to a
hospital for magnetic resonance imaging.
The images, which could easily take up
hundreds of megabytes, are simply too large
to be transmitted over normal telephone
lines in any reasonable time.
Your doctor must book an appointment
to visit the hospital and use their computer
to view the images. Because this kind of
equipment is in high demand you wait
three months for an appointment.
Meanwhile, a high-speed data link could
8 5MBHDIDE.
around the house, looking at things that

pictures could never show.
week It ends up costing you thousands of

dollars.
A CD quality digital telephone link
would have let this person stay at home. It
would have saved you a bundle and would
have made your narrator much happier.
3) You' re a software developer and
you' re looking for information on a new data
compression technique.
You pore over all of the
trade magazines but you
find nothing. You waste
a week of your time
looking for an answer.
Your customers are
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ONTARIO EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER APRIL'93
es o
s I mentioned in my August '92

feature Thoroughly Modern MIDl,
Windows 3.1 has added a level of
MIDI support to the PC's operat-
ing system that's nothing short of superb.

Because the details were spelled out in that
issue, I won't repeat them all here, but
briefly, Windows adds system-level support
for sampled sound, MIDI mapping and

MIDI playback. These features surpass those
l5 ln
found in any other operating system, making Windows the best environment available for computer music enthusiasts.
Although, as we' ll see a little later in this
article, PC MIDI software still lags behind
some of the other platforms in certain
areas, there is more MIDI software currently

in development for the PC than for any
other platform.
Because a Windows PC equipped with a
sound card can play MIDI files, Windows is
the ideal environment for those who want
to make music with their computer and
non-musicians who just want to enjoy lis-
B Y 6 R A E M E B EN N ET T
tening to music.
Cakewalk Pro for Windows has excellent support for multiple audio cards or
MIDI interface.
If you do dedde to hook up a keyboard

or other external gear to a PC, Mac or
Amiga, you' ll need a MIDI interface. There
are numerous models on the market. For
the PC, we' ve heard that the Music Quest
MIDI interfaces have the best Windows drivers that permit proper multitasking and
port-sharing. Music Quest MIDI interfaces
are available in basic models, or with tape
and SMPTE (the Society of Motion Picture
and Television Engineers) synchronization
options.
Many audio cards and MPC aden kits
also include a MIDI interface option.
Portable INIDI
Performing musicians might flnd a laptop
or "lunchbox" computer a wise investment.
Be sure that it has one or more standard PC
slots capable of supporting a MIDI interface.

Macintosh fans-on-the-go have a wide
choice of Powerbook and Duo models to
choose from. All require an external MIDI
interface.
Atari users may be able to find one of

the discontinued STacy portables around at
a good price. Like all Atari ST models, it has
built-in MIDI ports.
PC Sound options
For the PC, the games software market has
played a major role in defining the feature
sets and compatibility of add-on audio

c ards. The current standard is t h e
Soundblaster, which offers fairly Iow~uality 8-bit digitized sound input and output
and a simple FM synthesizer. Most PC
sound cards are "Soundbiaster compatible,"
although some, such as Microsoft's Sound
System, are not. An earlier audio card called
the AdLib is now considered obsolete,
although some games still support it.
Better audio cards are said to be "16-
bit." When a manufacturer claims that its

card is 16-bit, or "CDguaiity," it usually
means that the card plays back audio with
greater fldelity than an 8-bit card is capable
of. Some 16-bit cards, such as Advanced
Gravis' UltraSound card, come with the
ability to play back 16-bit audio, but require
an option to record 16-bit sound.
Other audio cards, such as Roland's
CM-32P and Turtle Beach's Multisound
card, provide sampled sounds (permanently
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stored on ROM chips) that can create more

appealing musical tones than those provided by simple I:M synthesis. These cards or
modules with sampled sounds in ROM are
generally referred to as having "PCM

sound."
INac IIIIDI
Mac MIDI interfaces all connect to one of
the computer's two serial ports (one on the
company's Duo models). This can lead to a
problem if you
haVe
Ot her
devices connected to these ports
'4
You may have heard reports of MIDI

glitches when running music applications
on Mac Portable or PowerBook computers.
These problems exist, but luckily, there are
a variety of solutions. Some programs, such

as FMAGIC's I.ogic sequencer, specifically
address theseproblems in their documentation and work around them with programming tricks; Opcode avoided the problem
by replacing the MIDI Manager routines
,or tn
with its own superior set called OMS.
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on a regular basis.
Fspecially troublesome is the

fact that some of
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Comdex) three years ago, but still has not
appeared. The program writes to the original disk without warning during installa-
year's NAMM, Steinberg announced an

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set on all supported platforms (Windows,
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Cuba se
Available for the PC, Mac and Atari, only
the Atari version (3.0) of this sequencer currently prints sheet music. The sheet music
output, incidentally, has been dramatically
improved since version 2 and now offers
advanced formatting functions for producing a printable score. Score symbols can be
given a MID1 meaning and more printers
are supported.
The program allows the viewing and
editing of MIDI data in several modes,
including the real-time display of standard
musical notation. Several of Cubase's display modes make it easy to cut and paste
tures. A strong user interface is essential to

harness that power.
Cubase's Interactive Phrase Synthesizer, nor

does it have the direct-to-disk audio recording capabilities of Digital Performer, Studio
Of course, who needs more than twenty

fonts in a piece of music, anyway?) Already,
Other MIDI applications, like Vision and
Vision or Cubase Audio on the Mac. Logic
some bugs in the initial release.
Cubase on the Mac and Cubase on the Atari

and PC incorporate similar "zoom" features,
but lxigic takes the concept further than the
others. It is certainly a contender for "best
may not be as feature-rich, but what's there

is generally well-implemented.
Performance is good, too. MIDI input is
transcribed asnotation almost instantly and

sequencer ever," although other programs when you drag a note around on a staff,
(Performer and Vision on the Mac and you can immediately hear the effect. The
area on GEnie (type "MIDI" at any GEnie

prompt to reach the MIDI area) where users
can share information, songs and instrument "patches." You' ll also find support
areas for Steinberg-Jones, Barefoot Software,
Cubase on the Atari) have got a few more

bells and whistles. Logic does not include
an algorithmic composition tool like
only bogus feature in the version I tested

was a font menu that did not scroll, (i.e.,
only the first twenty fonts or so are visible.
Dr. T's, Blue Ribbon, Kurzweil, Mystic

Software, Voyetra, PG Music, Genedit,
Continued on page39
grams often have a bewildering array of fea-
an update (1.2) is available that addresses

EMAGIC hosts its own MIDI Roundtable
MIDI data much as one would manipulate

text with a word processor. It supports
MIDI time code or SMPTE via optional
interfaces, for those users who need to sync
to tape or video.
Different Versions
The Mac and PC releases are not yet up to
the level of the Atari version 2.0, and lack
other features found in the Atari version,
such as the "interactive Phrase Synthesizer"
and real-time M1DI input transformations.
Perhaps because of this, the Atari version
costs more, selling for about $600. The
Windows version, in comparison, retails for
about $2$0. All versions have an easy "Maclike" user-interface.
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Along with Cubase, Atari users are fortunate to have Notator, another program that
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sequencing and notation. Its printed output is comparable to that of Cubase (i.e.,
good enough for all but the most demanding perfectionists), and it delivers on the
promise of real-time notation. Above all,
Notator is a first-rate sequencer, with more
features than most users could ever hope to
use. The main complaint I and many other
Notator users have with the program is that
its formidable feature set is marred by a
user interface that is regrettably complex
and occasionally clumsy.
It is fitting then, that the authors of
Notator, Gerhard I.engling and Chris Adam
have created a next-generation sequencer
with notation and a killer interface.
Notator Logic ($67$) is currently available for the Macintosh. PC and Atari versions are due to be released before summer.
Despite a few quirks, logic for the Mac is
stabie and powerful. Its best feature is its
user interface, which does an admirable job
of simplifying and conceptualizing the
enormous amount of data that is MIDI.
The program lets you zoom in to see
detail or zoom out, allowing components
of the music to be viewed and manipulated
as graphical icons or chunks of data. This
ability to go from micro-detail to overview

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B Y KE ITH
S C H E N G IL I - R O B E R T S
How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an

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Authors: StephenManes and PaW Andrews.
Publkqher: Doubleday. 1993. 534 pages.
Price:
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While many large computer

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just to keep in business,
Microsoft is thriving with
record profits. This is the
stuff that business biographies are built on, and Gates
is no diferent. In fact Gates
follows hard on the heels of
last year's Bill Gate's biography Hard Drive.
similar processor and when Gates and asso-
Dirty Operating System" ), made some
ciates realized this, they set about building

a program to its functions. With that in
hand, they created a BASIC that could run
on it, and got Altair
to sell i t . Th us
minor changes to its code, and then sold

licensing rights for the new Microsoft DOS
to IBM. This near-legendary story in the
computer industry is
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by the authors and
makes for some of the
best reading in the
book. It also looks at
the
inc r easingly
strained relationship
Microsoft was born,

t hanks
to
so m e
smart programming
on a borrowed computer. From this
point on in the biography Bill Gates and
Microsoft essentially
become the same
In this exhaustively researched book,

authors Manes and Andrews interviewed
Bill Gates, many of his associates and had

access to the Microsoft archives. This is not
an authorized biography however, and
between M i c r osoft
and
I BM
t h at
stretched to breaking
thing.
One of the more
interesting sections
of the book looks at
Gates offers a critical look at the way

Microsoft was built. The story of Microsoft
is also the story of the personal computing

industry.
point over the develW indows an d
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Microsoft's long and

often stormy rela-
Computer-literate since his 'teens, Bill

Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
wrote a version of the BASIC programming
language for the first popular personal com-
opment stages of
III
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real insight into how'
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tionship with IBM.

I t b e g i n s wi th
Microsoft operates,
Ne~NI
and what it is like to
Microsoft coming up
with an operating
system fo r
the
puter, the Altair, back in 197S. By this time

Bill Gates had already started his first information-based company Tref-O-Data, which
work for the company. It is a corporation
that thrives on hiring

highly i n t elligent,
competitive people
who are willing to put
launch of the IBM
made machines that could automatically

count how many cars passed by a road over
PC back in 1981.
When Microsoft was
approached by IBM for an operating system
a given amount of time. To get the software right for their li t tle car-counting
for the IBM PC, Microsoft didn't have one.

Realizing the potential of selling an operating system to IBM, Bill Gates bought out
boxes, Gates and associates made a program

on a larger PDP-10 computer that mimicked
its functions. The Altair was based on a
the
OS/2.0
The book offers a
Seattle Computer's QDOS (" Quick and
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should have, then cut hard right under

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drives a stint in his own car then hands
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During the actual race, the computer will take over one player's
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curbing acts like curbing really does-
easily accomplished, and all the more credit

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World Circuit is certainly a pretty sight, and
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a graduated, more pronounced tire squeal
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Trapwise is designed for use by service

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feature is its dirt-cheap price $819. This might be a good printer in a limited number of
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Macintosh computer. At the enormous
Macworld Exposition held this week in
Tokyo, the company also introduced eight

new products, including the long awaited
color PowerBook notebook computer, five
new desktop systems and two new laser
printers.
say s i t has the all-in-one design of the

Po w erBook 145, 160 and 180, and is retail
pri c ed at $4,790.
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model of the popular Macintosh LC II,
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which Apple says was its best seller in 1992. 9600 bps. The internal Express Modem
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megabytes (MB) of dynamic random access

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as opposed to the LC II which was only 6 8 882 math co-processor and 1 MB of
expandable to 10 MB.
video random access memory (VRAM) for
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able for the LC III and an LC processor colors on Apple displays up to and includdirect slot (PDS) is included for spedalized
i n gt h e Madntosh 16" Color Display. The
expansion capabilities such as Ethernet net- new Duo Dock requires a PowerBook Duo
PalmtDP PC
with
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working, Apple Ile emulation and NTSC

video-out and video capture. On-board
sound input and output is also included, as
no t ebook at additional cost.

The D u oD ock configuration will also
i n c l ude the file reconciliation software
is a small computer systems interface (SCSI) package P owermerge b y

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port,
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u p d ate files contained on the PowerBook

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customers who wish to upgrade, Apple
s erver to the latest version.

The company's laser printer line added
said,
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th e La s erwriter Select 30 0 an d t h e
described as midrange computers geared Lasermiter Select 310. The new printers are
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650 carries a $3,690 price tag.
The Quadra 800, a new addition to the
company's top of the line computers, is the
La s erwriter Select 300 is $1,109 and the

L a serWriter Select 310 is $1,459.
Apple i s upgrading the standard configuration of the Apple Laserwriter Pro 600 to
inc l ude 8MB of RAM. Users who purchased
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most affordable Quadra, with a retail price was a special offer. The 600 also now has as
of $6,310. The 800 has a mini-tower design standard features 600 dot-per-inch (dpi)
and offers a 30 percent increase in perfor- r esolution and the company's Photograde
mance over the current entry-level Quadra technology standard.
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Small Office/Home Office Sales To Balloon

NORWEL1., MASSACHUSETTS (NB)Pushed by social, economic, distribution
and product trends, the U.S. SOHO (Small
Office/Home Office) advanced technology
market will soar from a current level of
$10.2 billion to $14.1 billion by 1996, says
a new study by BIS Strategic Decisions.
The trend toward working at home and
buying technology in retail stores took
hold in the late 1980s, and since that time,
prices, effective merchandising programs

and broad product and vendor selection,
the list includes convenient hours and locations and attractive post-purchase support
PS/1s on display at the end of an aisle. So
found that sales picked up nicely when the

office equipment was consolidated, he
reported.
The new store layouts lent an increased
visibility that also contributed to sales
growth, he suggested. "The lechmere (discount store) chain, for example, put lBM
even if you came to lzchmere to buy record

albums, you'd still receive an advertising
impression," he said.
The new BIS study also identifies several
factors that influence users to buy SOHO
products in retail stores. Along with low
and return policies.

Contact BIS Strategic Decisions, 61 7-9629506,
products such as computers, printers and

i
fax machines have gotten increasingly
inexpensive and easy to use, explained BlS'

Raymond Boggs in an interview with
Newsbytes.
Around 1987 or 1988, large discount
and department stores began to adopt suggestions from vendors like Sharp and
Canon to group technological and other

office equipment together into a single
store area, Boggs told Newsbytes,
Shortly afterward, the numbers of
home-based businesses started to skyrocket,
rising from 13 million in 1989 to a current
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figure of 20 million, he added.

Movements toward product inexpensiveness and ease-of-use are manifested by
now in fax machines that sell for under
$300 and handheld computers like the
'
Sharp Wizard and upcoming Apple

Newton, the market analyst noted.
PCs now hold the largest share of
SOHO product sales, with printers coming
in at number two, and these products will
maintain the same respective ranks in
1996, the BIS study says. Also over this
period, telephones will show the most dramatic growth, estimated at 14 percent per
year. Cellular and other portable phones

are predicted to be especially popular.
Among distribution channels, retail is
expected to be the fastest growing by far,
but the SOHO figures also represent some
sales through VARs (value-added resellers),

systems integrators and mail order, particu-
larly of specialized products,
I
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Before the retail stores were reorganized, advanced technology and other
office equipment tended to be widely dispersed throughout the floor, he told
Newsbytes,
The change took lots of convincing on
the part of the vendors, but the stores
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including; interactive video, CD-ROM,
laserdisc technology, computer-based
instruction, CDTV, DVI and CD-I.
Seminars aswell as an opportunity to see
these technologiesapplied to the Selds of
Industry/Business, Medicine and
Healthcare, Education in Training and
Languages.Formoreinformation contact
Tony Paul, in the east, at (416)620-1078
and inthewest, VernonSamarooat (403)
448-9181.
ECOO - Educational Computing

Organization of Ontario's 14th Annual
Conference. April 29th to May 1st, 1993
at the Regal Constellation Hotel, Toronto,
Ontario. Over 200 presenters in a multistrandedconference. Pre-workshopsand
a large vendor area (including all the

industry leaders) are available. For more
information contact the ECOOoffice at
(416) 773-3981or tax(416) 773-6963.
NOW UP-tO-Date
FOR VIDEOAND MULTIMEDIA May 6 &

7, 1993, York University Instructional
Technology Centre, North York, Ontario.

$321 (GST included) for both days. For
more information, contact AmyLouzon,
CommodoreBusinessMachines.3470
Pharmacy
Avenue,Scarborough,Ontario
M1W 3G3, (416) 4994292 or Fax (416)
494-9755.
RADIOCOMM
'93 May26-28, 1993at the
Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Canada's only trade showdedicated to

mobile communications. Hours: Wed.
May 26th 10 a.m.4 p.m., Thur. May27th
10 a.m.-6 p.m., Fri. May 28th 10 am.-3

p.m. Formoreinformagon, contact Harley
Austin, ShowManager, or CaroleMayer,
Assistant ShowManagw (416) 252-7791
or Fax (416)252-9848.
MULTIMEDIA'93EXPOSITION AND
FORUM"The Merging of Technologies"

May 26-29, 1993 at the Metro Toronto
Convention Centre, Toronto. Featuring:
Multimedia Communications, Vicom,
Electronic Design and Showcase on
Production. Conference Trade Show
May 27-29, 1993. Contact Susan Blair
(416) 660-2491.
TORONTO FOXPRO DEVELOPERS
CONFERENCE June 11 & 12, 1993
Toronto, Ontario. To register call 1-800268-2841 Ext35.
COMDEX/CANADAJuly 13-15, 1993, at
the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

The 1993showis, in a sense, a congnuation of theLANExpo andWindowsWorld.
Contact: Kim Pappas, The Interface
Group (617)449-6600.
WINDOWSWORLD-Canada. July 13-15,
'93. Toronto, ON. Contact: Interface
Group: 61
7M9-6600.
THE ATLANTIC CANADACOMPUTER
SHOW September 15-16, 1993 at the
Halitax Metro Centre, World Trade &
ConventionCentre. 10thshow, Business,
Industria Trade &ConsumerShowsInc.

(61 3)2324766.
"
TELECOM SEMINAR"Managingthe
Meridian 1, TheNext Generadon." Anindeplh coverageofthe technology, security and managementof the Meridian 1and
Meridian Mail. April 26-27/93 Toronto,
May 3-4/93 Ottawa, May 10-11/93
Vancouver, and May17-18/93 Montreal.
Coraact GenePellerin (613) 966-2721or
Fax: (613)9688038.
CUTTINGTHE COST OF SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT
This seminar will ireoduceyoutothe new practicesandshow
you how to start by applying inspection

now. Contact: Kathy Mahoney, Ottawa
Carleton Research Institute 613-5928160.
CeBIT'93Hanover,Germany March2431, 1993. Over 6,000 exhibitors from 45

countries will showcasetechnology from
the entire information 8 communicabons
sector. Information Technology, Network
Computing, Local Networks, CIM
Contact: Reed Exposition Companies.

Tel: 203-9644000.
VARDEX'93 with anaddedUnixsection,

May 5 & 6 at Toronto's International
Centre. Contact: Marina Perry, Reed

Exhibibons(416) 479.3939.
PROFESSIONALAMIGA TECHNIQUES
Marketing Resources Together.' For

more information contact Michael D.
Scott, World Computer Law Congress
(21 3)689.5186.
MICROFOCUS USERS CONFERENCE
May 10-12, 1993. Buena Vista
Palace/Orlando, FL. $745 U.S. before

4/1/93, $845 U.S. after 4/I/N. Contact
Micro Focus Users Conference
Headquwters, Palo Alto, CA. Tel: 41546-7356.
LOTUSWORLDMay3-6, 1993. Hynes
Convention Center, Boston, MA.
Workgroup Computing, Technology
Management,KnowledgeWorking, applicationDevelopment and Technology
Trends.
Theseare amongthemanytopics to be addressed by top industry
experts, writers, analysts and senior

Lotus management.Call 5084434830.
NEXTWORLD EXPO'93.May 25-27

Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.
NEXTWORLDExpo combines three
events in one: Aworldwide Developer's
Conference; anend-user product show,
with over 100 exhibitors. A User
Conferenceprogramwith topics ranging
from object-oriented, client/server systems to enterprise-widedeployment.Wilh
the theme NEXTSTEP 486-Thealtemative to the MicrosoftMonopoly.Call (800)
767-2336.
APPLE WORLDWIDE DEVELOPERS
CONFERENCEMay 9-13, 1993. San
Jose, CA. Contact: Danieli & O'Keefe
800433-775t,fax 508-443-4715.
SUNWORLD EXPO.
May 10-13,'93, San
Francisco, CA. Contact: World Expo
Corp. 800-2254698. Fax:508-872-8237.
COMDEX-Spring May 24-27, 1993.
Atlanta, GA. Contact: The Interface
Group: 61
7-449-6600,
MACSHOW
June 3-5, 1983. Chicago, IL
SOFTWARE WORLD CONFERENCE 8

EXPOSITION May 4-6 at the Metro
Toronto Convention Centre. The most
extensive Canadian computing event
returns to Torontostrongerthan ever with
Client/Server World at ils side. Over 75
industry expertsandmorethan 100leading Software companies. Contact: DCI
(Digital Consulting Inc,) at (508) 4703880,
CANADIAN HIGH TECHNOLOGY
SHOW. May 5 & 6, 1993, Toronto, ON.
Success in the Computer Industry:

Putting the Business, Legal and
OTIAWA BUSINESS& GOVERNMENT

COMPUTER SHOWSeptember29 and
30, 1993 at LansdownePark. Contact:
the Palais des Congres de Montreal.

Estimated attendance 15,000. Contact:
Industrial Trade & ConsumerShows Inc.
I' d -361 4329.
Coronado
,San Diego,California.Global
governmentand other organizations can

find out how computer technology can
help thembecomemore productive and
profitable. A showcaseof the latest products and services. Contact: Fred West,
Show Manager(416) 252-7791.
DESIGN FOR DESKTOP PUBLISHING...an advanced perspective. Master

the fundamentals ot effective design
using desktop publishing and develop a
sense of 'visual literacy" to gobeyondthe
basics for dynamicresults! Tues. April 27,
1993 Park Plaza Hotel, Four Avenue
Road, Toronto, ON.416-924-5471.
PC EXPO April 30, May 1 & 2, 1993 at
Paul Day(416)497-9562.
WORLD COMPUTER LAW CONGRESS
'93 "April 25-28, 1993 at the Hotel Del
WINDOWSWORLD May 24-27, 1993.

Atlanta, GA. Contact: The Interface
Group: 617W9-6600.
;4'N::IAI.:,:,
49
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(Computer Integrated Manufacturing),

Software
8
Consu lting,
Telecommunications, Office, Banking &
Security Technology,Strategic Research
Centre, Conferences, Company
Presentations and Special Displays.
Contact: Jennifer Cooke, representative
for Canada, at Co-MarManagement
Services Inc,(416)364-5352.
THE MISSI
SSAUGA BUSINESS SHOW
April 14-15, 1993 at the International
Centre. A show
of oflice technologyproducts for the oflice environment. Contact:
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but correct information is contained in a
READ ME file. Most of the inaccuracies are
minor. For example, the manual states that
you can find an Unreconciled Event by
choosing "Find..." from the Event menu
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Fasy Alarms, First Things First and LapTrack
R Timeslips III. Now Up-to-Date can import
data from all of them. Import Templates are
included as part of a Sample Calendar for
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manual.
Clearly, Now wants to give users of these
other programs the ability to easily switch
to Up-to-Date. And with version 2.0, it's a
worthwhile endeavor. This program may

not be as sophisticated as a dedicated organizer like DayMaker, but because of its
strong orientation to sharing the information over a network with other members of
your work team, it is well worth looking at.
Now Up-to-Date is the most usable calendar
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HELP
Contact: The ShowManagement: 215540-9111.
CONSUMER ELECTRONICSSHOW
INT'L Summer, June 5-9, 1993.
Chicago, IL.Contact Electronic Industries
Assoc. 202457-8700.
Canadian
PAYROLL
PAGEMAKERCONFERENCE &EXHIBITION June 7-9, 1993, Seattle, WA.
Contact: PagemakerConference: 2066334431.
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HELP payrollis one of Canada'8 best selling

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PC EXPO May 29-July 1, 1993, New
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MACSHOWJune 22-24, 1993, Orlando,

FL Contad: TheShowManagement Co:
215-540-9111.
DATABASEWORLDCONFERENCE &
EXPOSITION-SummerJune29July 1st,
'93, Boston, MA. Contact: Digital
Consulting Inc.: 5084704526.
lan::,
MACTIVITY June 29-July 1, i993, San
Jose, CA Contact WinehouseComputer
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already using HELPCanadian Payroll.
York, NY.Contact Nat'I BlenheimExpos.

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FUZZYLOGIC'93 July 20-22, 1993, San

Francisco, CA. Contact: Pennwell
Publi
shingCompany:508-392-2124.
MACWORLDEXPO-East August 3-6,
1993, Boston, MA. Contact: Mitch Hall
Associates: 6174614I000.
SIGGRAPH (ACM) August 3-5, 1993
Anaheim,CA. Contact ACM/SIGCG
708-850-7843.
SUN OPEN SYSTEMS EXPO-West

August 10-12, 1993, Anaheim, CA.
Contact Publications Comm.Inc: 800289-3976,lax: 512-250-9756.
INTEROP-Fall August 23-27, 1993, San
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WINDOWS& OS/2-East August 24.26,
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AUTOCAD
OPERATOR:Seeks full or
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COMPUTER LITERATE: Customer
Service Representative looking for
work, comfortable with: MAC-Desktop
Publishing VAX-BASIS/WISDOMIBM
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Call 225.1051.
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Available for consulting programming,
maintenance,etc. Part-time andsum.
mer. PC Hard/Sogware;DOS,Cobol,
Pascal, Qbasic, SQL, etc. Raymond
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COMPUTERTECHNICIAN:Seeks FT
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9614344.
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Gall Dwdicaal274-5875.
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SPECIAUST: UniversityBSC. Exp. 4yrs. Comp.Design, DTP,
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seeks job Std/or parlner for Marketing
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Inquire TEKTYPO-EXE
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286SL BONDW
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A5602.05 ROM STEREO MONITOR:
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ARCHIVEXLE:Tapeext. backup:40
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AST NOTEBOOK:40Meg Hard Drive

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$175,
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FOR SALE: Fully loaded 388SXcall
677-5913.
FOR SALE:IBM XTTurbo with 640K,
1 floppy, 40 Meg HD
and VGAmonochrome monitor. Only $300.Call 2870474.
FUJITSU: 420MB SCSI Hard Disk

$1,000 paid$1,600, Fujitsu 100MBIDE
Hard Disk $230, and a Desk Top
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$850. Call 398.6218.
HARD DAIVE:(MFM) 40MB $50:
80MB $120; 360K floppy disk drive
$25. Call Jim a1532-1396.
HARD DAIVE:Wanted for IBM 120+

for under$250, if interestedpleasecall
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Tom orPat 7604268.
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recondilionedHewlett-PackardLaserjet
il laser printer. In good condition,
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(H) 533-1
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copies,worksgreat. Lookingto sell for
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WS dekver,call Robp05) 435-7597.
IBM 4216POSTSCRIPTUISEf. Exc.
condition, low copies, 35 fonts extra
toner, opcdrum,asking$750obo. Call
Sam 2704738.
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from US $399(list price $1,350). Call
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IBM Color Monitor VGA 8513 $300.,
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OlivetgPraxistypewriter$300 or best
affer. Call538-2359.
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Resolution enhancement, scalable
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$1,600 asking$1,300 (warranty). Call
Wayne881-9745.
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758-2428.
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(416) 342-2140.
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ager 6p.m.461-5313.
MGE-AT-16:Graphicsboardwithsoftware& manuals$200 obo.Call3600283.
NEW KODAK:Photo CD Call 5138659.
SIMMS: 8x1mbCHIPSwilh 60NS$35

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SMITHCORONA: PWP6combowordpracessor/lypewritertypesor sloresto

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ribbons,etc, Absolutely mint!$500,
call Frank
431-0334.
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TOSHIBA LAPTOP: newcontrol
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emgs, 5084944.
TRS MODEL: 100, Disk Drive, themal
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3600494.
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452-4724 or4%-7208.
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ABS Group Inc.

1140 Sheppanl Ave.W., Unit df2
Toronto, Ontario M3K2A2
Phone: 636-2571 Fax: 636-2515
Brand of Computers: Olivettf, IBM, ALR, IBM
Compatibles, and Word Processors
Brands of Printers: Various
Weekly Rental Rates: Varies on machine
Monthly Rental Rates: Starling $30/mth.
$585/mth.
Rent-tcbdswn (tenne): Yes/ Depending on what
the customer wants.
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This Index is provided as areader senrlce. Every etfori has been madelo mane it ss compleie ss possible, however, Ihe publicallon does nol assume liabnity for errors or omissions.
Campus SystemsGroup
7Itte Eyttez TL8ti'ioirIBi) MLtlltitilyte6ita
100 Harbord Street

Toronto, Ontario MSS EGG
Phone: 025-2277 Fafc 8254$08
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Brands of Printers: Most major brands
Weekly Rental Rates: No
Monthly Rental Rates: Long-tenn only, from $40
(min. 1 yr. rentaf)
Rent-own (terms): Yes/In- house rental on an
hourly basis, both IBM Compatible and
Macintosh.
Genstar Rentals
6880 Finch Ave.W. Unit df11
Rexdale, Ontario NIGW SY6
Phone: 675-7513 Fax: 6754738
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Brands of Printers: HP, Tektronic, Apple and
Epson
Weeldy Rental Rates: Depends on terms,
configuration and quantity
Monthly Rental Rates: Depends on terms,
conEguration and quantity
Rent-own (terms): Yes/Terms will vary
depending on what the customer wants. Our
business is customer driven. We will buy and
acquire to the demands of our
customer base.
Marketron
700 Lawrence Ave.W.

Lawrence Square
Toronto, Ontario MGA 3AS
Phone: 256-7000 Fax: 256-7208
Other Location: T.D Centre Shopping
Concourse (36M168)
Teachers Professors Researchers Media Specialists

Librarians Government Trainers Communication
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this spring to explore the emerging technologies of
Interactive Video CD-ROM Virtual Reality and exam-
The Notebook Store

4485 Chesswood Drive
North York, Ontario
ine how they will affect the future of Industry Business

Medicine Healthcare Education and Training in the '90s.
Call now for a conference brochure 1-800-56?-4257
April 28, 29 and 30

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Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario
Get your hands on the future.
Brand of Computers: IBM and Compatible

portable computers, only (286, 386, 486
based systems)
Brands of Printers: Portable printers only
Weekly Rental Rates: Depends on configuration
Nlonthly Rental Rates:Depends on configuraticn
Rent-t~n (terms):Yes/ Try before you buy
program. We specialize in portable
computer sales and rentals only.
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Weekly Rental Rates: $40 - $100
Monthly Rental Rates: Leasing starting at $38
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rental which is then applied to the full list,
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computers, but most of them know the

value of a dollar. [t's their job.
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At IPC, our jo b i s t o b u i l d a f f o rdable

computers without sacrificing quality or
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While everyone else was busy cutting this

and cutting that (the middleman for instance)
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computers even better without charging
you more money. The IPC 4SX/25 is a fine
example of what we' ve accomplished.
The IPC 4SX/25 is fully upgradable to a

66MHz 486DX based system.
We even pre-load the hard drive with everything you need to be up and running right
From the upgradable Intel 486SX CPU, to
away MS/DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, and
the genuine Microsoft mouse, every IPC
working models of Microsoft Excel, Word,
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components on the m a rket. (Otherwise throw in a three year limited warranty!
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To be fair, we used "suggested list

prices" quoted directly by each manufacturer during the first week of February,
1993. We made every effort to compare
systems that are as similar as possible but
each vendor has their own ideas about
what is and isn't standard.
Naturally, list prices are not accurate
selling prices (except in the case of Dell
who sells direct). But, whatever price
you pay you can be sure of one thingdollar for dollar IPC offers the best value
in the computer industry. We wouldn' t
have it any other way!
AVAILABLE FROM
Compuquest
Toronto
(416) 599-1 428
Computroniits '
Brampton
(416) 458-6665
Copen Computer
Scarborough
(416) 754-3055
I.C.C.
Willowdale
(416) 250-0705
Incorporated Computer
Mississauga
(416) 567-0040
Scarborough Bus. Mach.
Scarborough
(416) 751-4415
So, if the only d i f ference between our

computers and their computers is the price,
then you probably don't even need an
accountant to figure it out. Just call us today
for the name of the qualified IPC dealer
nearest you. (Toll-free of course!)
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Deskpro is a Sademark of Compaq Computer Corporason. The Dell logo is a registered trademark of Dell Computer Corp. Microsok is a registered trademark and Windows and the
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