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8 PR E A D $ H E E T S 00 • $$0 • 0 • 0 • 0$ • 0 • 0 • s • E • 0000 • 0 • OOOE • 0 • 0 • o • 0 • 0 • 0$ • 0 • ee • 032

E xcel 3 0 0 • 0 • • 0 • • 0 • 0 • 0 • $ • • 0 • 0 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 0 0 • E • 0 • • • 0 • 0 0 • $ • 0 • 0 • 0 • • • $ 32Ease of use is the focus of this new release of Excel for Windows 8.0.By Granns Bennett.

Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3.1An optional WYSIWIG interface and mousesupportmark the new Lotus.By Sfeve Mcllzvain.P la n P e r f e c t 0 • 0 • 00 • • E • 0 • 0 • 000 • 0 • sss • 00 • 0 • 00000 • 00 • ss • • 0000 • 0000 •0 • 0 • 0 • 0031A spreadsheet for WordPerfect users.By Ceorge Skszfe & Steve MdlttszizL

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Presentation graphics, ease of use and you don't need a $86 to run it.By Xirlnn Singh Xbalsa.8 up e r C a l c 5 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 000 • 00 • 0 • 0000 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0000 • 0 • 000 • 0 • • 0 • • 00 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 '3 9

"If you need complex spreadsheets, SuperCalc 5 is a worthwhile investment."By George SIads & SIevu Mdlwzsin.F V9 V e r S I O n 1 0 1 1 00$0000a se • • • 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 00 0 0 00 0 0 esessesa000$$00 0 4 0

Instant retrieval and analysis of ACCPAC Plus Gf L from within a Lotus spread-sheet. By George Sfstzk.

Can t a x a n c l H o m e t a x P l u s 00 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 00 • 0 • 0 • 0 • ss • 00 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 0 • • 04 1Cantax the old standby gets some competition this year. By Steve Mcrlzuatzt.

Spreadsheets For The Mac, Amiga, Atari, NeXT ...44The best and brightest on the "other" platforms. By Graces Bunnrt4Lotus improv — The 8preadsheet Redefined ..........45The NeXT computer hosts the spreadsheet for the '90s. By NtNiam Barr.

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Gur Fourth YearWith this issue, we formally enter our

fourth year of pubhshimg The Ampulsr Paperin British Columbia. (We enter our thirdyear of publishing in Albert in May,) Iwould like on this occasion to say thanks toall the people who have made the paperpossible — our advertisers, our readers arid

A question often asked of us is "How canyou give the paper away for f'ree?" The

the magic words that make them want tokeep advertising month after month are: "Isawyour adin TItu GorrzPulerPzsPur, and I wouldlike to buy..."

Some of our advertisers have supportedus f'rom the first fe wissue. Special thanks tothese people, who saw our potential andlooked past our initial limitations.

ders bothnewandold stead andoccasional.We hear your comments, we appreciate your suggestions and we love your suppot t.It makes the occasional late night at the terminal worthwhile.

Last but not least, I want to say thanks to all our staff, the people who put endlessenergy and joy into putting this publication together. Ottr writers, otir productionpeople, otir salespeople, our office staff — their names are below in our masthead, buttheir hearts and souls are in the pages. They put out major efforts to get outeach issue,and best of all, they are enormous fun to work with. Thanks, everyone.

SpreadsheetsThis month, we take a look at the best~lling spreadsheets. There is something in

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RAM and 40 MB hard drive, a DataTrainDM1200Amodem and a NEC System HI-T fax (an older machine). Isitpossible toinstall a FRECOM FAX96 card in mycomputer and use my fax to scan docu-ments to be further manipulated by theWordPerfect 5.1 program? I am also in-terested in scanning images (i.e., let-terheads, drawings, etc.) for furthermanipulation within my text. I would bemost pleased to receive your responsehow to achieve this task and also learnwhat or if other software maybe needed

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Yes, I remember reading of a product an-nounced at Gmukx that plugged into afaxand a computer alknuing thefax to be used as200-dpi scanner. A standalonefax machinecalkd TefaxPom Rehsys already does this, aswell ac being asabk as a printer, copier andfax modem. Horuever, 20&dpc'is not particu-larly great resohction, and an adAm box isdefcnitely required to access the scanner hi*den rui thin yourfax machine, if indeed ct canbe accessed at alL Another alternative mightbe top icrchaseaLow-cost hand scannerlike the400-'dpi Logitech SCAHMANPLUS($249)?Becider havingdoubletheresolution, itfeaturesgray scak and editing software, toa It will doall the things you cuantfor around $300.

Help WantedAfter reading The Computer Paper, I'm

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Recently I' ve been considering pur-chasing a computer. I have talked toAoari, Radio Shack (Tandy) and Amigaowners. They all recommend the com-puters they purchased. Their packagesall cost$1505$2000 complete.

I am totally confusecL Can you recom-mend computers to me that may beappropriate for someone who likes todabble in animation and needs a pack-age with good wordprocessingprograms.My purchasing power is f750-$1500.What about clones? Your help would beappreciated.

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You could do credibk animations with anyof the computers you rnentc'on, but only theAmiga has the inate ability to remove thebordersPom its screen, using afeature calkdoverscanning. If you videotape an Amigaanimation, no annoyingPameaPPears on theoutput. With only $75041500 to spend,consider getting an Amiga 500, RAM ex-pansion and color monitor (about$1200).Then you could invest the remainder cn soP-ruare. A good wordprocaaor is ProWrite, agood Animation/paint program is DeluxePaint 1U My only recommendation is toconsider getting either a hard drive (about$700) or secondfloppy drive (about $200).Although this will blocu your budget by afluhundred doNars, most users cuill agree thathaving two drives makesAmigafck handling

Help For The HandicappedFirst, let me take this opportunity to

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One ef the best things about com-puter trade shows are those exhibits thatare so great, that everyone just standsthere saying "Gee whlzl" One such won-der was to be found at Vancouver's Pa-cific Coast Computer & Communicationshow, in the Sharp Electronics booth.Their new color VGA 986 laptop had adisplay so spectacularly brilliant, every-one more or less agreedr "Who cares howmuch it costs?" Easy for them te say, butif you want one, it goes for about$18000.Now who wants one? Contact Sharp at416890-2100 about this nearMtimatestatus symbol. TeleportationTeleport, the 2400-baud modem for

Macintosh that doesn't take up a serialport (it plugs into the Mac's "DesktopBus" port instead) now comes in a ver-sion that adds send-fax abilitieL Dubbedthe TelePort/Plus 2, it is distributed byJust Fax Ltd.

The company also carries a variety ofvoice/modem/fax switches that allevi-ate the need to have mere than onephone line, including the Fax LineManager &om Technology Concepts.Their phone number is (408) 221-7M9,fiLx (408) 211-7NO.

LC Grows UpApple's new Mac LC low~est color

computer is, by all indications, lookinglike a smash hit follow-up to the Classicbuyers' &enzy of the Christmas season.Announced at MacWorld Expo inJanu-ary were several addwns that help to puta bit more pep in its step. Would youbelieve a 68040 upgrade for the di-minutive LC that gives it (considerably)more horsepower than a Mac IIfx? Atthat show, Apple announced severalEthernet cards, including an LC modelfor C$265. See the MacWorld report this

Hyper Upgrade

2.0 bundled with new. Macs, Interest-

Readers may recall our November '90issue, where we described a technique to"uncripple" the version of HyperCard

ingly, a recent Claris press release pointsout that "Like all previous versions ofHyperCard, the HyperCard 2.0 bundledconfiguration is set to the 'Typing' levelof access, which allows users. to browsethrough stacks and enter text. However,users can change the accesslevel to oper-ate within the program's highest userlevels." Sure guys, except the other ver-sions inctuded instrucfions on hew to doitanddidn't hide the higher accesslevelsbehind invisible boxes.

At any rate, Claris is now selling the

HyperCard 2.0 Upgrade Kit for C$69.Order it by calling 800-6684948. A $259developer's kit is also slated for releaseby the time you read this.

The company has also announced anupgrade of its popular MacDraw pro-gram, which according toa recent surveyby International Data Corp., enjoys al-most 50% of the market for Macintoshillustration software. Notable enhance-ments include improved color support,gradient fills and file~change capabili-ties. The $529 package will be shipped inlate spring. Current MacDraw ownersmay upgrade for $129.

Taito Leaves,President Moves On

Citing "a number of new hardwaretechnologies including high+peed pro-cessing, data/video compression andoptical storage that will soon be readilyavailable for the mass consumer markets[that will] fuel demand for more so-phisticatedsoftware than whatiscurrentlyavailable,"Taito Software, Inc. presidentAlan Fetzer has resigned to form a newbusiness venture focused on "new andemerging technology in the entertain-ment software industry." Fetzer's resig-nation comes at a time when Taito, aleading producer of Nintendo games, isclosing its North Vancouver of6ces andrelocatingitsNorth American operationsto Wheeling, Illinois. Fetzer indicatedthat discussions with offshore investorsare currently underway. Contact:JeffMacler (818) 783-1688.

Compaq 8c Banyan Ink DealCompaq Computer Corporation has

announced that it has signed a jointintegration agreement with Banyan Sys-tems, Inc. that will establish a formal&amework for their ongoing efforts to

- assist customers in multiwendor, widearea network, Phased solutions,

Contact Compaq at (416) 758-7876 orBanyan at (508) 898-1000.

Top Producer Slashes Price

Toronto has announced that their line

The area of Personal InformationManagement software is one that TheCorrrpu ter Paper is slated to explore in ourMay 1991 issue. Some of these programsare specifically for client management,and even more specifically, some are forspecific professions.

One such program is Top Producer, aclient management program designedfor the working realtor. Named an ofB-cially approved software supplier to bothRE/MAX International and RealtyWorldCanada, and recentlyjudged the best inCanada by members of the CanadianReal Estate Association, Top Producerpreviously sold for $1495. In an dfort toestablish it as an industry standard, TopProducer Systems, Inc. has slashed theprice to $495. Contact 604-2708819.

Xerox DistributesHot Product

Lava Comput~ Products Inc. of

o f serial, I / O , EG A , V G A a n dMicroChannel Architecture boards areto be exclusively distributed by XeroxCanada. Lava's products are said to be 'the only Canadian computer boardswitha lifetime warranty. Contact JamesGingerich 416674-5942.

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Datapac access number. Also, the newversion allows the use of alternativepacket~tching networks, notably theTymnet communicationsnetwork, whichcan he accessed in a number of majorcities with a local telephone number.

Existing Suzy users can download thenew version to their ISMwompatiblecomputer while connected to Suzy. Con-nect charges to download the upgradeamount to approximately $8.00 at 24QObaud, or $6.00 at 1200 baud. A Suzyrepresentative said thatsupport for othertypes ef persanal coxnputers is notplanned at this time.For further information: Sharka

Chobot, Marketing Manager, Stratferd

Canada V5H 4M2.

Are We There YetiIn what can only be described as a

gutsy move, the Fraser Valley CreditUnion, a $260 million, 80,00l4ncmhcrSnancial institution (one af the ten larg-est Credit Unions in S.C.) has switchedtheir entire database of over ene milliontransaction records to a network of law-cost PCs.

According to Jehn Charleswerth,Fraser Valley's Chief Executive OfEccr,the system, called the Prologic BankingSolution, was selected because of its

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I Fob'$1 9 ~unique ability to enhance customer ser-vice. Expected to allow the Credit Unionbetter control over its ewn database andcustomer records, the system also in-cludes an integrated G/L package. Us-ing a Client/Server architecture distrib-uted network„ the system is said ta allow'users virtually instant access to account

The system af 140 workstations nmscompletely on IBM' c ompatible mi-crocomputerss,with a 886kased machineacting as the host system. Data is storedon large hard drives of 760 megabyteseach, and is hacked up (often, we hope)on magnetic~ptical disk drives.

Contact: Rob Murray, Communica-

Up TempoA new notebook computer weighing

less than 7 pounds has been announcedby Everex. Dubbed the Tempo LX, the16 MHz, 886SXkascd unit comes stan-dard with 1MB (expandable to 8or 5MB)and includes a 1.44MB floppy and a21MB hard drive. The unit includes a 10-inch VGAcompatible LCD display, se-rial, parallel and external VGA monitorparts. A 2400kaud modem and additional battery packs are aptionally avail-able. The Tempo LXis distributed locallybyCMOS Marketing Ltd, (604) 7866661.

Mac Mouse ForThree-Fingered. Unix

Mac owners who must by now be get-ting tired of having sand kicked in theirfaces by other multitasking operatingsystems can new upgrade to Apple'sversion af Unix, A/UX 2.0. The onlysnag is that Unix all-hut-requires a mouse

readied for release.

Associates didn't exhibit at the Paci6c

with merc than one butten. What's aMac te de?

Enter the Gravis SuperMause for SEand Mac I I -serics machines. TheSuperMeusc enables yau te assign andmodify mouse button actians, changemouse speeds and emulate keystrokes toinvoke menu functions or launch macrosequences.QuicKcys Lite by CE Softwareis bundled with the unit, which closelyresembles a Logitcch C7 mouse.

%though many were surprised thataccounting software giant Computer.

Rim Computer 8c Communication Shaw,the company has net been idle.Just an-nounced are a number of changes te itsACCPAC Bedford cntry4cvel accountingprogram for MS-DOS and Macintoshcamputcrs.

The new versions(ACCPAC Bcdfardfor MS-DOS version 8.4 and ACCPACBedford for the Macintash version 1.2)have a new lower price of C$225 and arenaw Mly GSTwompliant. In addition,the company is offering ACCPACBedford Graphic and CustomReportingfor MS-DOS at na charge to users uponregistration. Contact Computer Associ-ates 604/788-2848.

Suxy Doubles PriceVersion 8.0 Suzy software has been

released by Stratford Software, with anincrease in price te $59.95. Previously,version 2.0 had retailcd for $29.95. De-fending the increase, Stratfard's vicepresident of marketing Sharka Chobotsaid that ™thc added functionality in ver-sion 8.0 makes the Suzy user programvery good value for users at g9.95."

The new version supports the use of amouse and is said to substan6aliystream-line Suzy's online navigational features.Reportedly, the new version also allowsadvanced con6guration of modem pa-rameters not possible in earher versionLA French4mguage version is also being

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Richmond Software tells us that theirMaximizer 2.0 program recently toppedAcl'I 2.0 in a comparative review inInfoWorld magazine. Now shipping is

May issue of The Computer Paper. ContactRichmond Software at (604) 299-'2121.

The Sound of MusicIn case you hadn't heard, 1991 is Brit-

Here are a few goin~n:• Fcb. 28-Mar. 3, Westcx, the West

Coast Music Exposition at the RobsonSquare Conference Centre. Anew-tech-nologyexhibition and trade show, Westexwill feature product demo clinics, work-shops and panels, as well as various live

e Sunday, March 3, theJuno Awarda-for the 6rst time ever in Vancouver,

Contact Laurie Mercer or LouiseMcLeod4~ (604 ) 684-9338.

GST Prie+CutsIn response to the introduction of

GSI', many computer companxes, m-cluding Dell Computer Corp. andCompaq, have announced price reduc-tions of between 5 and 7.5% on theirentire lines of computer systems. Con-tact Susan Kcndall, Dell (416) 764-7364or Compaq (416) 733-7876.

ish Columbia's o6icial Year of Music.

Maximizer 2.1. Look for a review in the

showcases.

Commodore MakesChanges, Cuts

Finance Ron Alexander'sofficecon6rms

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, JAN 8(NB) — Commodore International hasshu6led two senior executives and an-nounced cuts in its U.S. operations.Commodore appointedJames Dionneas general manager of its U.S. salesc ompany, s u cceeding H ar o l dCopperman, who has been appointedvice president of Commodore Interna-tional, with new responsibilities includ-ing Amiga multimedia strategies.

years, most recently as general managerof Conunodore's Canadian subsidiaxy.Coppermanjoined Commodorein 1989.

James McWhinnie, formerlyexecutivcviceyresident of 6nance and operationsat Commodore Canada, will replaceDionne in the top job at the Markham,Ontario-based subsidiary.

Aspokeswoman in Commodore VP of

published repoxts that Sscal year 1990earnings were $1.5 million, down 97percent from last year. At press tixne itwasn't dear whether this 6gure referredto the Commodore Business Machinesdivision or the Commodore Internationalmother company.

duction in the manpower of U.8. opera-tions, primarily in administration andfactory overhead. Commodore did notrespond, to calls in time for Newsbytes'

Dionne has been with Commodore 11

deadline, but Unl'tcd Press Intcrnatxonalrep'orted the company plans to lay oKabout 10 percent of its 60hstrong U c'r.workforce. This action is partly due tothe reorganization of certain functionsand is expected to result in improvedoperating efficiency, the company said.Contact Commodore International,215-431-9100.

Aldus AnnouncesFreehand 3.0

8EATI'LE, WASHINGTON, JAN 2(NB) — Alclus has announced AldusFreeHand 3.0, a ma jor new release of itsdesign and illustration program for theM acintosh. The U8$595 program had its6rst public showing at the MacworldExpo in San FranciscoJanuary 10.

Aldus adds that FreeHand 3.0 offersimproved performance that makes theprogram feel smoother, move faster,andoffer more precision than ever before.The program also indudes a builbsncolor separator that produces full pxo-cesacolor separations for ail parts of aniiuslration, induding imported 32+itcolor TIFF imageL

The new version is set to ship in thenext three months Upgrade pricmg forexisting users is U8$I50, but those whopurchase version 2.0 of Freehand be-tween now and the ship date can up-gxade for an additional U8$50, accord-ing to an Aldus spokesperson. Contact:Aldus, 206Jx284674.

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Microsoft Mail 3.0REDMOND, WASHINGTON,JAN 17

(NB) — Microsoft has announced ver-sion 3.0 of its Mail network-based elec-tronic mail package for AppleTalk net-works, combining performance en-hancements with new features requestedby the users.

Major new features indude unlimited6le attachments for mail messages, andpersonal address books of the peoplecorresponded with most often, whichthe system can update automatically aschanges are made in the network

users can access their messages fromremote terminals. Custom message fold-ers can be created to organize corre-spondence. New administrative toolsindude automatic backups, automalicdeletion of older messages, and network

The suggested retail price of the Mi-crosoft Mail Server is $395, and worksta-tion versions cost $395 for 6ve or $1,395

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JAN 11 (NB) — Apple will try to add con-sumer electronics stores to its mix ofdistribution channels, said Robert Puette,president of Apple USA.

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TOKYO, JAPAN,JAN 9 (NB) — Tokyo-based office equipment maker Canonwill supply its latest "bubble jet" printerfor Apple's Macintosh computer. TheOEMAeal is expected to be officiallysigned this month.

Canon's bubblejet printer for theMacintosh will be a modified version ofthe company'snotebooks printerdubbed the "BJ10" and is expected to beequipped with outline font technology.The print quality, therefore, is expectedto be nearly as good as that of theLaserWriter II NTX J. The list price isexpected to be less than 100,000 yen($070).

The bubble jet printer is an improvedversion of an inkjet printer. Canon hasalready developed and has been mar-keting a bubblejet printer forJapanesepersonal computers such as the NEC PC-9801, the ToshibaJS100 and the EPSON

Canon has been the supplier ofMacintosh laser printers to Apple Com-puter on an OEM basis. Contact: AppleJapan, OM224-7000.

Apple To Add ElectronicsStores To Retail Mix

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Puette noted that the new low-endMacintoshes have sold more in the firstquarter since their introduction thanthe Macintosh Phrs did in its best fullyear.

To address the vastly different mar-kets into which the Mac is selling, Puettesaid, Apple USAwill segmentdistributioninto three pieces: the lowest, highwol-ume stores with minimal support; com-puter stores selling into small and largebusinesses; and highly value-addedresellers providing custom integrationand consulting.

He described the highwolume storesas electronics andwarehouse type opera-tionL He maintained, however, that thosestores would still be required to provideservice, if only minimal support."Service today means taking care of

the hardware," Puette said, providinginslallation and repair service. He con-.trasted service to support, which hecharacterized as providing software andoperations assistance. Macintoshes,Puette said, would have an increasingamount of "built~ support," assistingusers in setup and initial use by usinghighguality documentation and a newlrainingdiskinduded with everysystem.

Apple's quest for sales in the massmarketputsitin asegmentof the marketthat has been difficult for other com-puter manufacturers to crack PC clonemanufacturers such as HeadStart and

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In moving toward electronic stores,Apple also goes against past and currentpractice for the company. Apple has al-ways sold only through storefronts andconsultants, and has been aggressive in itsrefusal to merely push boxes — especiallythrough the grey market.

For GOCampbell Leaves Claris

FOSTER CITY, CALIFORNIA,JAN18 (NB) — Bill Campbell hasbeen namedpresident and CEO of Go Corporation,leaving a similar post at Claris Corpora-tion. The 50-yearold executive takes thehelm just as Go prepares to announce anew pen-based operating system,Janu-ary 22.

Campbell, prior to joining Claris, wasexecutive vice president and group ex-

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The Computer Paper Iecutive for sales and marketing kom1984 to 1987 at Apple Computer.

"Bill Campbell's expertise in buildinghigh~owth, technoiogyMiven busi-

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Ofhisdeparturefrom Claris, Campbellsaid, "During almost four years at Claris,we achieved our goals of creating amajornew software company that has emergedas a market and technology leader. With

Feb'o1 1s ~these accomplishments behind me, theopporbanity to help Go Corp. realize itsexciting potential was a very compellingand nahfral fit for me."

A successor to Campbell at Claris has

Reporting directly to Campbell in hisnew post at Go are Robert Carr, co-founder and vice president of software,Kevin Doren, co-founder and vice presi-dent of advanced technology, PaulHammel, vice president of operations,Dan'l Lewin, vice president of sales and

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Claris Software To BundleCharting AppsJAN 2 (NB) — The software subsidiary ofApple Computer is bundling theCheshire businesschartingprogram withcopies of MacWritie II and MacDraw II.The promotion will continue throughMarch 31, Claris officials saicL

Cheshire carries a retail price of $125,and is published by Abbott Systems,Pleasantville, New York The utility letsusers create andmanipulatie chartswithina word processing or drawing applica-

Claris said only selected authorizeddealers are participating in the promo-tion. Participating dealers can be foundby calling Claris at 408-7274227.

Abbott Systems is headed by KenAbbott, former president of ManhattanGraphics, the coinpanythatwrote Ready,Set, Go, now published by Letraset Thecompany also sells CanOpener, a utilitythat lets users open files created by ap-plications theydon'town. Contact: Claris,408-987-7202;Abbott Systems,800 — 552-

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Net revenues for the quarter were$1.676 billion, compared to $1.493 bil-lion in theyear~ period. Internationalrevenues accounted for 45 percent oftotal revenues during the quarter, com-pared to 36percent in the first quarter of

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CIIeeifiee NeimanSHL SystemhouseChairman Steps DownOTl'AWA,ONTARIO,JAN 11 (NB)-

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SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA,JAN 7 (NB) — NoRad Corporation hasintroduced a NoRad Shield for theMacintosh Classic. The Model 2524-P isplatinum with a flexible kame to matchthe color and bezel shape of the Mac

NoRad Shields have been tested inde-pendently and meet US Military Specifi-cations. Of several products claiming todo the same thing, the company's shieldshave been certified as the most effectiveproduct blocking video display terminalnon-ionizing electromagnetic radiation.The NoRad Shield is said to providebroad-spectrum EMR attenuation in-cluding better than 99.9 percent of virtu-ally the entire E-field (electric), includ-ing ELF and VLF, and better than 50percent of the HWeld (magnetic) above

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Apple Ferns $150.5 MillionIn First QmrterCUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA,JAN 18

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T oday, th e t a b les ar e t u r n e d .Systemhouse had a poor 1990 but re-bounded in the first quarter of this year,and Paterson says the company's pros-pects are good for the rest of the year,although its board believes the stock isundervalued. Kinburn is in trouble. Un-able to repay loans, the company has lostcontrol of its stakes in Systemhouse andin Computer Innovations Distribution,which controls Canada's Computerland

"No matter how you want to separateKinburn &om Systemhouse, and theyare separate," Paterson said, "the com-monality of Rod being the chief execu-tive of both, I think has had a negativeimpression."

Systemhouse will keep Bryden on fortwo years as a consultant to the chiefexecutive, paying him a fee for that pe-riod equivalent to one year's salary, bo-nus, and benefits. Paterson said this ar-rangement is mainly a m ethod of spread-ing out payment of Bryden's severancebenefits for tax purposes, although hemay be called upon to provide occa-sional advice to the company. In a pre-pared statement, Bryden said hewill keep

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IBM Canada Guts PricesDue To GSTMARKHAM, ONTARIO, JAN 15

(NB) — Responding to a change in thefederal sales tax system, IBM Canada hascut computer hardware prices five per-cent. Prices for most supplies were cutsix percent, and some paper items are11.9 percent cheaper.

The reason for the change was thereplacement of the old Federal SalesTax (FST) by the Goods and ServicesTax (GSI') January 1. The FSI' appliedto a limited range of goods but at highrates — 13.5 percent on c o mputerhardware. The GST is a seven-percenttax on almost everything.

The amount of FST actually includedin the price of goods was affected by theamount of manufacturing done inCariada as opposed to outside the coun-try, explained Martha Terdik, a spokes-

tion of the tax has not led to price re-ductions by the amount of the tax.

Prices of all hardware except IBM468X PointmfWale products have beencut five percent, IBM said. Prices forsoftware, maintenance service, andrental, none of which were affected byFSI', are unchanged.

However, the new prices do not in-clude GSI', which unlike FST will beshown separately rather than buried inthe prices of goods. Most businesses canclaim an input tax credit for the GSI'they pay, so the net cost will be lower. Foranyone not eligible for the credit, how-ever, the products will be slightly moreexpensive. Contact: IBM Canada, 416-474-3900.

Mitel, Bosch Mum OnAcquisition Rumor

OTI'AWA, ONTARIO,JAN 8 (NB)-Neither company will confirm a rumorthat Robert Bosch GmbH, which last fallbacked out of plans to acquire cellulartelephone maker Novatel, will buy into

company, Mitel. It is public knowledgethat British Telecom, which owns 51percent of Mitel, wants to sell.James Straus, a spokesman for Bosch

in the United States, told Newsbytes heknew nothing of plans for the Germanelectronics firm to acquire Mitel, andhad no further comment on the rumor.Bonnie Perrigard, a spokeswoman forMitel in Ottawa, said only that the com-pany could not confirm the rumors.

British Telecom announced a yearago that it wanted to sell its majorityinterest in Mitel, purchased in 1986.Assorted minority shareholders andpension funds own the other 49 percentof the company.

Last summer, Bosch was understoodto be ready to buy half of Novatel, amanufacturer of cellular telephones,&om Alberta Government Telephones,since renamed Telus Corp., afiter theprovincial government sold shares tothe private sector. In November, Boschpulled out of that deal, saying it haddetermined thepurchasewouldnotmeetits objectives. At the end of December,Telus exercised an option — put in placeto reassure prospective purchasers ofTelus shares — to sell Novatel to the pro-

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Alberta Govt. To BuyCellular Phone Company

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, JAN 4(NB) — Telus, the telecommunicationscompany the provincial government ofAlberta recently sold to the pubhc, willsell its money-losing cellular telephonemanufacturing subsidiary back to theprovince. Telus has exercised an optionto sell Novatel following the collapse of adeal to sell a halfinterestin the company

The province will pay Telus C$159.4million for Novatel. Betty McLennan,manager of media relations at Telus,said that figure represents Telus' C$139-million investment in Novatel, plus aC$50-million premium the company

it gone through, less C$14.6 million inadjustments and C$15 million that has

performance over the next two years.Telus will manage the maker of cellu-

lar telephone equipment for the nexttwo years. In addition to payment for itsservices, Telus will get 10 percent ofNovatel'snetearnings during thatperiod,if the company turns a profit. NeitherMacLennan nor James McDonald,deputychairman and managing directorof Novatel, would comment on Novatel'sfinancial prospects.

Last fall, after concluding Novatel'sforecast of a C$16.9~o n profit couldnot be validated, the Alberta govern-ment guaranteed it would buy Novatelfrom Telus if no other deal was closed.Press reports haver'eferred to a projectedC$4-million loss for the second half .of1990, but McDonald told Newsbytes thatfigure came neither horn Novatel norfrom Telus. At the end of November,Bosch pulled out of its planned purchaseof 50 percent of Novatel, saying it haddecided the deal would not meet itsobjectives.

Commenting on reports the Albertagovernment will try to sell Novatel toprivate interests, McDonald said informaldiscttssions are continuing with severalparties interested in buying in. Novatelcontinues to believe it needs a private-sector backer, he said. Contact: Telus,403-4934780; Novatel, 403-2954500.

Orchard Adds To FinancialSoftwareVANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUM-

BIA, JAN 17 (NB) — Orchard Software,based here, has added two packages to itsfinancial software line-up. The new Pro-fessional Invoicing and Inventory/In-voicing packages support Canada's newGoods and Services Tax, said LeeBrebber, Orchard's marketing manager.

Because the software was developedin the United Kingdom, Brebber toldNewsbytes, support for a value~dded taxwas already there. However, Orchardhas extended it to support as many asnine ~ r a tes and nine provincial salestax rates. "Qute a few of the companieswe deal with are multi-provincial," he

Orchard's Professional Invoicing is a&ee-fiow invoice module that works withthe company's Accounts Receivablesoftware. It sells for C$395.

Brebber said.

combines the functions of the Profes-The Inventory/Invoicing package

sional Invoicing software with inventoxym anagement. The software allows up to90 userAefined fields as well as standardinformation, and supports multi-ware-housing, defined inventory categories,and pricing details. It sells for C$495,

Contact: Orchard Software, 604-588-7768.

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The Computer Paperj17 (NB) — Easel, the maker of graphicapplication software development tools,is opening new offices in Toronto and

A new Eastern Canada office — Easel'sflrst direct presence in Canada — will belocated in Toronto, Ontario.

Easel's new South Central regionaloffice in Atlanta will cover Alabama, Ar-kansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mis-sissippi, South Carolina, and Texas.

Both offices will be operational byMarch, 1991, Easel said. The companycurrently has offices in the New York,Chicago, and Los Angeles areas. Con-tact: Easel, 617-93$8440.

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panies.The additions were part of a revamp-

ing that saw 18 companies cut &om theindex. None of those deleted were in thecomputer industry, although BCE De-velopment, a subsidiary of BCE, whichowns Northern Telecom, Bell Canada,and Bell-Northern Research, was one ofthose cut Northern Telecom remainsthe largesthigh<echnologycompanyonthe TSE 800. The companies droppedalso included Campeau Corp., much inthe news recently due to the heavy fi-nancial losses of department stores itowns in the United States.

The list of 18 companies added to theindex also included Rogers Communi-cations, which is part owner of UnitelCommunications, the company whoseapplication to provide competitivelong-distancetelephoneserviceacrossCanadaisnowbefore federal regulators. Rogersalso owns Cantel, a national cellulartelephone service provider.

Marija Finney, manager of the indexsection at the TSE, told Newsbytesstocksare selected for the index by a complexprocess involving the stock's value, trad-ing volumes, and the number of sharesactively traded outside of large controlblocks. Companies must also be incor-porated in Canada and have traded onthe exchange for a year to be included,

Finney said about 14 high-technologycompaniesare currently included in theTSE 300 index. The exchange alsomaintains a specialized high-technologyindex. Finney said she could not com-ment on any trends indicated by thelatestchangesin themakeupoftheindex..Contact: Toronto Stock Exchange, 416-9474226.

IBM Alumnus Is New BossAt Microsoft Canada

MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO, JAN 17(NB) — Micrcmoft Canada has a newgeneral manager — again. Frank Clegg,formerly asenior marketingexecutive atIBM Canada, is taking over from PattyStonesifer, who after only nine monthsin the job is returning to the UnitedStates to accept a promotion on whichthe company has released no further

A spokeswoman for Microsoft toldNewsbytes the change was a return toMicrosoft's policy of filling senior man-agement posts with natives of the coun-tries where subsidiaries are based.Stonesifer, an American„was brought in&om Microsoft Press last year to replaceMalcolmMacTaggart, CleggisCanadian,a graduate of the University of Waterlooin Waterloo, Ontario, and has workedfor IBM Canada for 14 years. His latestjob was as branch manager, manufac-turing and process, at IBM Canada inToronto. Contact Microsoft Canada,416-5680434; Creative Marketing Networkfor Microsoft, 416M94694.

has hired all staff at the former head-

WATERLOO, ONTARIO, JAN 8(NB) — Hayes Microcomputer Products

quarters of Waterloo Microsystems hereand changed the name on the once toHayes Canada. Hayes acquired the net-work operating system developer latelast year.

Sharon O' Brien, a spokeswoman forHayes, told Newsbytes that former em-

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ployeesat the Waterloo office "nowworkfor Hayes." The acquisition broughtHayes considerable technical expertise,she said, as well as a much-needed boostin the modem maker's Canadian pres-ence. Contact: Hayes, 4044494791.

Wicat To ProvideComputer-Based Training

OREM, UTAH,JAN 17 (NB) — WicatSystems has announced that its whollyowned subsidiary, Wicat Canada, hassigned a $741,000 agreement with AirCanada to provide computer-basedtraining (CBT) for Sight and mainte-nance crews of Boeing and Airbus air-

The hardware and software will beinstalled at Air Canada's main trainingfacilities in Montreal and Toronto, withadditionalinstallationsin Vancouver,andWinnipeg. Each installation will consistofaWicat886-based PCrunningsoftwarewhich integrates animation, interactivevideo disc and graphics software. Thelarger installations in Montreal andToronto will have up to SO WITS 4000

work The program replaces the tradi-tional classroom lecture and slide pre-sentation and will be used to providetransition training for qualified pilotsand mechanics of the new aircraft.

Wicat spokesperson Michael Plantetold Newsbytes that this is the first timethat software has integrated courseware

on the same platform. Plante says WicathasintegratedWicatcourseware,outsidevendorsand the air&arnemanufacturersthemselves, all controlled by a Wicatmanagement system.

A stand&one station will be set up inLondon, and Air Canada will have asland&one travel unit for remote train-ing at other sites. Wicat oKcials say AirCanadaplanstoprovidecomputer-basedtraining for all flight and maintenancepersonnel for its new fleet of Boeing and

Mitel President ResignsOTTAWA, ONTARIO,JAN ll (NB)-

John Jarvis has resigned aspresidentandchief executive of Mitel. AnthonyGriffiths, chairman of the telecommu-nications equipment maker, will assume

Abriefstatement&omMitelsaidJarvishas resigned "to pursue other businessinterests."Jarvis came to Mitel in July,1987,having been group chief executivefor the computers and telecommunica-iions group of PA, a management andtechnology consulting firm, in Britain.

A year earlier, British Telecom hadbought51percentof Mitel. At thebegin-ning of 1990, the telephone'utility an-nounced it wanted to sell that stake, butso far no buyer has been founcL Recentrumors had Robert Bosch, a Germanelectronics firm, ready to bid on thecompany, but neither company would

Mitel moved backinto the black afterfour years of losses soon after Jarvis'arrival. However,inthesixmonthsendedSeptember 28, 1990, the company re-ported a loss of C$7.1 million. Companyspokeswoman Bonnie Perrigard attrib-

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Lasermaster CompletesSale Of $10 MillionDebentures

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, JAN2 (NB) — Lasermaster Technologies, Inc.has confirmed the sale of $10 million ofthe company's 10 percent convertiblesubordinateddeben tures, the maximumallowed under its registered oaering.

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Soviet Free PressEra Ending?

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R.,JAN 17 (NB)-U.S.S.R. President Gorbachev has askedparliament to texnporarily suspend thepress law introduced last year which al-lows independent news services to oper-ate and desktop publishing to be per-formed. After some discussion, deputiesnaysayed.

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Stories Carried By OtherMedia This MonthWASHINGTON, D.C.,JAN 11 (NB)-

Roundup is a brief look at some com-puter, stories carried in other publica-tions this past month.

Sunday's Neo York Times(~ carried

puter Paper I Feb '9'Ian article on the current or coming pro-duction of monitors with very low orextremelylowelectromagnetic radiationemission leveh. The companies involvedstate that this is not for health or safetyconcerns but rather a refiection of mar-ket forces.

This same MT edition reported thatInsite Peripherals, SanJose, Calif., hasdev'eloped and is close to shipping aprototype "6optical" disk drive whichreads and writes data to both super 6op-pies and conventional disks; othermanufacturers striving to produce6opticals are Brier Technology, also inSan Jose, andJapan's NEC and Toshiba.

(Newsbytes note: The October issue

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Gooerameut Colwputer News datedJanu-ary 7 carried a &o nt-page storyreportingthat there are 225,000 laptops in federalofficesandprojects that biguserslike the

Agency will help boost this number toabout 440,000 by the end of 1992. Amajor inside feature covers the use oflaptop systems in the government.

The January 5th Saeaee Nnus carries afascinating article about Cornell Uni-versity research into creating micro-

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higherAensity data storage systems.The Wall SheetJournal (WSJ reported

on Monday, January 7, that Asian in-. vestment in U.S. technology companiescomes not just from Japan but also RomTaiwan, Singapore, and South Korea.

Updating one item in last week' sRoundup, the WSJ for Wednesday, De-cember 8, announced Microsoft's ex-pected sameAay unveiling of Excel S.O,list price $495, in Cambridge, Mass.,home of rival Lotus Development. Lotus,a lready w ounded by Bor l andInternational's pric~ tti ng tactics, iswidely expected to lose more market

According to Wednesday's NSJ, Chipsk Technologies, San Jose, Calif., hasdeveloped a singlewhip product, PCVideo, that lets computers show televi-sionetyle images.

Thursday's WSJalso carried an articleon the new trend of personal computeradvertisements — stressing power andperformance. Among the companiesmaking up this trend are Advanced LogicResearch, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.

The January 7 issue of Computeneorldcarried astoryfrom the U.S. Departmentof Commerce that projects strong growthin the computer industry, despite anoverall slowdown in the economy. Ac-cording to author Gary Anthes, Com-merce has projected that hardware saleswill climb 5.9 percent, chip sales willjump nearly 9 percent, and softwarerevenues will increase 20 percent.

Sony's CD Write-Once System, adesktopsize. hardware system that writesdata to a CD-ROM compatible disc, haswon CD-ROM&ofessionalMayuine's 1990Professional Development Product

This week's Computeruerld has a storyon problems the Army's informationservices command is having situatingequipment in Saudia Arabia — the storyis dated before the start of. the war.

Computer Reseaer Neres forJanuary 14carries the results of a major survey of100,000 computer users, showing that802864ased systems make up about 40percent of the installed base in thesebusinesses, with nearly 2.5 million 8088/86kased systems still in use. The surveyalso indicated that Fortune 1,000 com-panies plan to. make a surprisingly lowO.l percent of their purchases from theplethora of hot new 486-based comput-

The WSJ reported on Wednesday,January 16, that Compaq can' t meet con-sumer demand for its 60-megabyte LTE886/20 laptop computer, listed at $6,000,due to shortage of key partL

Thursday'sJournal reported on thedismissal of 500 workers by Wang Labo-ratories, Lowell, Massachusetts, shortlybefore Wang's expected agreement tolicense Sunnyvale, Califomiakvased MipsComputers Systems' new computer de-

Mentioned in Thursday's WSJ werebrief items on both the faster-thanex-pected switch & om traditional comput-ers to massively parallel computers, andsoftware which automates scheduling

Friday's Journal reported shortages ofInteVs 80886SX processor chips, whichare affecting companies trying to marketthe latest notebook computers.

Franldin To ShowElectronic Bible At CESMOUNT HOLLY, NEW JERSEY,JAN

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7 (NB) — Las Vegas may not seem themost likely place to sell Bibles, butFranklin Electronic Publishers' newproduct isn't quite like most Bibles any-way. At the Winter Consumer Electron-ics ShowJanuary 10-13, Franklin will in-troduce a hand-held electronic editionof the New International Version Sible.

The Franklin Electronic Bible weighs11 ounces and measures 5.5 by 5.5 by twoinches, with a smallQWERTYkeyboardand an eight-line supertwist display,cempanyspokeswoman MmdySavar toldNewsbytes. It stores the complete text ofthe New International Version Bible onmemory chips. It also comes with a car-rying case.

The New International Version joinstwo other electronic Bibles already pub-lished by Franklin: the KingJames andRevised Standard Version Bibleslaunched in 1989.

The New International Version, li-censed from Zondervan PublishingHouse, is written in contemporary lan-guage. Franklin's electronic version en-hances the printed work by permittingthe reader to probe through the Sible'sentire text at electronic speed. ThetechnologyofFersinstantaccess to favoriteor even unfamiliar passages in seconds,according to Franklin.

For instance, if a reader types in thewords "meek" and "inherit," the elec-tronic edition will search through theentire Bibleand instantly leadthe readerto the two books in which these wordsappear together. The search functioncan search simultaneously for all formsof any word.

The electronic New InternationalVersion Bible will sell for US$299.95,Savar said.

Franklin publishes a library of elec-tronic reference books, including theWordmaster electronic thesaurus seriesand the Language Master hne of elec-tronic dictionaries, as well as the SpellingAce spelling corrector. Contact: FranklinElectronic Publishers, 609-2614800.

cost of the reorganization is pegged at$45 million.SCom currently has 1,953 employees,

before the layoff. Most of those whosejebs are being terminated are in thecompany's Santa Clara headquarters.

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RICHARDSON, TEXAS,JAN 18 (NB)— NEC has introduced what it calls afirst: a portable cellular workstation. Ajoint effort between NEC America andNEC Technologies, two of theJapanesefirm's U.S. subsidiaries, the workstationcombines NEC America's P300 portablephone and the 6.5-pound UltraLite 286Vor 6.8-pound 286F notebook computer&om NEC TechnologieLMark Marangella, sales and market-

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The phone offers features availableon fullmze office phones such as speed-dial and memory search. It includescommunications software which canhandle either facsimile transmissions erelectronic mail.

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SCom, MicrosoftAnnounce PactREDMOND, WASHINGTON,JAN 8

(NB) — Microsoft and SCom Corp. haveannounced a pact whereby SCom willlicense software to Microseft for inclu-sion in future versions of Microsoft'sLAN Manager local area network soft-

LAN Manager is to include SCom'sApple Macintosh and Novell NetWareconnectivity functions.

Microsoftalso licensed SCom'sX.500-based directory services software, whichprovides LAN users with global namingcapabilities.

SCom also announced it will offerLAN Manager products with its SServerline of local area network file servers.Contact: SCom„408/764-6621; Mi-cresoft, 206/88M080.

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Radio Shack EntersNotebook Compllter Mashet

FORT WORTH, TEXAS, JAN 16(NB) — Radio Shack has entered thecrowded notebook computer marketwith a 6.7gound 286-based unit pricedat $2,499.

For that price, the new Tandy 2810HD comes with a 16 MHz processor,VGA graphics, and internal 20 megabyte

(MB) hard disk with an access time of 23milliseconds, one MB of random accessmemory (RAM), a 3.inch diskette drive,and MS-DOS 4.01. The unit is 1.7 incheshigh, 12.2 inches wide and 10 inchesdeep. Batterylifefortheunitisestimatedat three and a half hours of continuoususe. The display is a bacMit LCD arraythat can showscalesof gray. Abatterylifeindicator is located on the top of thecase, and the unit includes a Resumefeature that lets the users start up at thepoint in the software where the unit wasturned oK Contact: Radio Shack„817-390-3487.

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JAN 2 (NB) — Psion's MC400 laptop, in-troduced internationally inJuly and inOctober in the United States, is said tohave "strongly impressed the judges be-cause of its revolutionary use of power,"said Psion spokesperson Al&ed Belasco,commentingon thelaptop'srecentawardof Laptop Computer of the Year &omChiP magazine.

The system runs for up to 70 hours on

use of a CMOS 80C86 processor, flashcard memory and efficient screen man-agement to greatly reduce power re-quirements. Belasco stressed the "amaz-ingly long battery life of the unit." He

judges, representatives of trade journalsof seven European countries andJapan,which said that the MC400 represents"the most signiscant realization of thetruly portable computer with a 60-hourbatterylife and the use of solid state disks(SSDs) for data storage."

Thejudgesmade their selections basedon the following criteria: particular sig-nificance for market development;technical innovation; and completeproduct development and market avail-abiTity.

Belasco also told Newsbytes that theMC400, at4.5lbs., was one of the lightestcomputers in the competition and that itwas also praised for its intuitive, graphicuser interface andcompletemultitaskingcapabilities. He said that the MC40Q,with aauggcetedintroductoryretaiipriceof US$1%95, includes a proprietary op-erating system, a text processor, spread-sheet, terminal emulation and transfersoftware to "intelligently move informa-lion to and &om Apple Macintoshes andMS-DOS systems."

He said that coming new additions tothe productinclude "a fttil-featured wordprocessor and a more-intuitive, &iendlytransfer system to and &om the Macin-tosh."Contact: PSION Inc.,617 2374538.

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IRVINE, CALIFORNIA,JAN 2 (NB)-Advanced Logic Research says it is ship-

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measuring 12 inches by 8.6 inches by 2

Dave Kirkey, vice president of inter-national sales and worldwide marketingat ALR, says the unit is small enough tocarry comfortably in a standardizedbriefcase. It comes packaged with a 16-MHz 386SX CPU, an 8.ranch diagonalLCD backlit display, and 1 MB of inter-leave page~ode memory (expandableto 5 MB). There are various drive optionsand a rechargeable battery that offers u

ALRis also shipping the ALRPowerProupgradeable dualyrocessor server PC,which it claims rivals the CompaqSystemPro, at $7,495.

Contact: ALR, 714/5814770.

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ST4HD4RD COMPUTRONICS LTD. Intel Chalks Up $4%

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Increase In Pro6tsSANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA,JAN

18 (NB) — Snubbing its nose at theworldwide economic recession, IntelCorporation says pro6ts are up 34 per-cent, or 80 cents per share in the quarter

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ended December 29, 1990. Profit in-creased to $168.9 million over $122.7 ayear ago.

Sales are $1,04 billion for the period.Annual sales stand at $8.92 billion, up&om $3.12 billion &om the previousyear. Net income isup 66percentfrom ayear ago to $650.8 million.

The strong growth is attributed toIntel's line of 886 and 486 microproces-sors, which are being gobbled up bymicro makers worldwide at twice the ratethey were in 1989.

Starlite Ships$50 Wordstar WorkaIike

JAN 16 (NB) — Starlite Software has an-nounced it is shipping version 1.6 of itsGalaxy Lite, a commercial version ofOmniverse's Galaxy shareware wordprocessor. Galaxy's main claim to famehas been that it features the option todrive the package using Wordstar com-

The muchwriticised snag with theshareware package was that, while it in-cluded the facility of having two filesopen on~reen at once, the maximumsize of any file could only be 64K.

Galaxy Lite 1.6 appears to have gotpast the 64K file size limit while at thesame time offering Wordstar commandcompatibility, plus a host of other fea-tures including the ability of having twofile windows open on~reen at the sametime. Features of the package include a70,000 word spellwhecker, multipledocument printing and a choice ofmenuor keyboard command interfaces.

Galaxy Lite 1.6 requires a PC with asingle Qoppy drive plus at least 256K ofavailable memory. The package is avail-able now at$50, this price holding goodfor shipment anywhere in the world.Contact: Starlite Software,206/4374116.

Informix Posts Loss,Will Lay Off StaKMENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA,JAN

18 (NB) — Informix Corporation ex-pects to lose $6 million for its fourthquarter, and post a loss for the year. Thesoftware company, famous for its Wingzspreadsheets for various platforms„willalso lay off 15% of its 1300 employees

Informix says the loss includes sever-ance pay and benefits &om the layoff,and the wri~f f of previously capital-ized software development projects.

Lotus Me~lace SlammedBy Computer Pro Group

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Practices. The Code, developed in 1973by by a government study committeechaired by Willis Ware, a computer secu-rity expert- who now heads the federalgovernment's Computer Security andPrivacy Advisory Board, places a respon-sibility on data holders to ensure thatinformation is accurate, complete, andreliable. It requires that companies suchas Lotus provide individuals with accessto personal records and also an opportu-nity to review the records and to make

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Although the CPSRpressrelease listeda telephone number for Lotus'JaniceBrown as a press contact to be called todiscuss the CPSR statement, Ms. Browntold Newsbytes that she had not beencontacted by CPSR concerning a state-

She said that Lotus would have to obtaina copy of the CPSR release and review itbefore commenting. Contact: CPSR, 202-775-1588.

A Macintosh clone at last?

/Feb '91Sony To Set UpU.S. Software FirmNEW YORK, NEW YORK,JAN 9

(NB) — Sony Corporation has an-nounced that, on January 15th, it willform Sony Software Corporation, a newU.S.-based company which will encom-pass and coordinate Sony's present andfuture software activities under one en-tity.

Norio Ohga, president and chief ex-ecutive of Sony Corporation, will bechairman of Sony Software while MichaelP. Schulhof, a member of the board ofdirectors of Sony Corporation, will bepresident of Sony Software.

Other rave reviews:PC World (Nov. '90): "GEOS could be the biggest thing since Windows."PC INagazlne (Nov. '90): "You owe it to yourself to understand GEOS and the choices it offers."InfoWorld (Nov. '90): "GEOS appears to be superior to Windows in everything but size, visibility,and the number of available applications."Computer Paper (Jan '91) "I could not find a single bug in POGEOS."

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throughout the United States,In announcing the decision to oppose

Marketplace, CPSR President Eric Rob-erts said, "From a privacy viewpoint;,Marketplace simply fails. As computerprofessionals, we have a responsibility tomake the public aware of this shortcom-ing, We hope that Lotus will reconsidertheir plans and decide not to releaseMarketplace."

Roberts added, "There is a lot of workto do on the privacy front, but opposing

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Announcing the formation of. SonySoftware, Ohga said, "Uniting our sofit-ware companies in one structure willenhance our worldwide initiatives. I ampleased with the results demonstrated bythe creative efforts of the 18,000 mem-bers of Sony's software concerns world-wide. These individuals and operationshave been exploringinventive ideas andapplications for software entertainment.Sony Software has been formed to meetthe challenge of globally coordinating

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porate communications, told Newsbytes,"This is the brmging together of all ofSony's activities in the software area. Sonyhas various operations in the categorythat we call software. While the largestconcentration is in video and audio, thenewfirm will also have responsibility for' any activities that we may pursue in thearea of computer software;-" Contact:Sony, 212%18-9479.

X&ee Gold 2.0-New Features,Environmental Concern

SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA,JAN 7 (NB) — XTree Company has an-

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nesty'program, this new release marksthe beginning of an XTree environmen-tal program.

XTree Company will plant a tree foreveryuser registration card returned. Inkeeping with this ecology-minded ap-proach, the packaging and manual forthe new product, in fact everythingconnected with the product except thediskettes it is on, is being made f'romrecycied materials.

The latest version of the program issaid to be both more sophisticated andeasier to use. The company claims thatversion 2.0 "simultaneously shields usersfrom awkward DOS commands whilegiving them instant DOS power via pull-down menus and the enhanced XTreeApplication Menu." The company de-scribes the new XTreeGold interface asan intuitive, powerful operating envi-

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Spinnaker BuysPFS Product Line

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA,JAN 17 (NB) — Software PublishingCorp. has sold its PFS: product line toSpinnaker Software in Cambridge, MA.

Software Publishing Corp. says it willreceive 1,861,000 shares or approxi-mately 16 perceat of Spinnaker's out-staading common stock after the trans-action, and royalties on sales oa PFS:products.

Theproductsindudedin thepurchamare: PFS:First Pubhsher and PFS;FirstPublisher accessories, PFS:First Choice,PFS:Preface, and PFS:Easy Start Theagreement also allows Spinnaker Soft-ware to license PFS:First GraphicL

to corporate computing for SoftwarePublishing, according to Fred Gibbons,president and CEO. "The sale of ourPFS: line new allows the company todirect all of its resources to developingproducts for the corporatemarketplace,"he said in a published statement.

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peter Paper I Feb '91fessional access and present informationenabling them to make better decisions,faster. At the same time, we believe PFS:customers will be welkerved by Spinna-ker Software, which uaderstands theirunique product and support needs."

' Spinnaker Software says it is rea~ga line of Windows 8.0 applications thatwill be marketed under the PFS: brancLThe first of the new products will beintroduced this quarter.

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release five to six kinds of lowest per-sonal computers for theJapanese marketthis spring. They indudenotebooks

These machines will be equipped withIBM's new disc operating system calledDOSJ4.0/V, which will also be providedto the compatible makers. Prices of thenew machines are expected to rangebetween 150,000yen ($1,150) to 800,000yen ($2„800). Interestingly enough, thehomease PC will be jointly developedwith Tokyo4ased game machine makerSega Enterprise. It will be a dual CPUmachine, which will be equipped with a68000 chip and an 80286 chip. Accord-ing to the Nikkei Personal Computingmagazine, the machine will be codenamed Terra"andwiillooklikethePS/1. The tern will initiall be released in

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Japan in April.Contact: IBMJapan, 08-8586-1111.

Ashton-Tate AppealsdBase Copyright CaseTORRANCE, CALIFORNIA,JAN 17

(NB) — Thejudgewhoruled thatAshton-Tate violated Fox Software's copyrightsto the dBASE programs has deniedAshton-Tate's motion for reconsidera-tion of his order. Ashton-Tate says it willtake the matter to a higher authority-the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in

Judge TerryJ. HatterJr. did, however,grant Ashton-Tate an earlyappeal for his

"While we were disappointed thatJudge Hatter did not approve our mo-tion for reconsideration, we were pleasedthat he eased our path for appeaL Andthis puts people on notice that this is nota final judgmea," said William P. Lyons,Ashton-Tate president and chief execu-tive o8icer.

He stressed that the dBASE softwareremains protected outside the UnitedStates by the Berne Convention on copy-rights and in the U.S. by license agree-ments. "We remain very confident thatour position will ultimatelyprevail in theCourt of Appeal," he said.

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Also included are mathematical cal-culations with accuracy up to 14 digits,and calculated fields are supported. Re-ports can be sorted on up to 10 fieldssimultaneously, with three levels of sub-totals. The program has the ability tosearch and replace, or search and delete,records, as well as automatically searchfor duplicate records within a databaseor between two separate databases. Field.formats can be changed and fields addedor removed after the data has been en-tered, much like the popularQkA program &om Symantec.

Other features indude query and re-portiag facilities, with reports beinggenerated in columnar or multi-lineformat The user ran select individualrecords or record ranges for output.

Ail printing including mailing labelscan be in regular or condensed mode.File Express 5.0 supports network filelocking, and can exchange data betweenFile Express and Lotus, dBASE or WordPerfect formats. It is not copy protectedand has context~ ti ve Help screens

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Standards A ProblemIn E-Mail TransfersCAMBRIDGE, MASS.,JAN 8 (NB)-

For electronic mail vendors, 1991 willmean struggling with two different stan-dards — the MHS mail-handling standardand the X.400 message-passingstandard.Grant Harris, president of Work&arne,which makes MHS software, said in aninterview with Newsbytes the formerscheme is becoming the preferred wayoflinking internal mail systems, while thelatter is accepted for linking such systems

MHS has many advocates, Harris says,including X Technologies, Ashton Tate,and Novell, which distributes it withNetware. Work&arne's products addfunctions to MHS systems byletting themdo things like automatically forwardmessages to all members of speci6c com-mittees, based on a table of addresses.The company is also beta~ting a newversion of its X ferExec program, whichlets users attach instructions to messageswhich can spawn batch 61es, DOS com-mands, or the opening of utility or appli-

col issues haven't been decided on.

cation programs.X.400, in contrast, "is held out as the

enchaH, 'the' standard in moving mes-sages," says Harris. Trouble is, "It's stiUbeing defmed." The biggest problem isaddressing the envelope on a messagegoing to another system. That's supposedto be dealt with under X.400 with anenhanced standard called X.500.Unfortunately, "There are many dif-

ferentnamingsystemsin Email. Internethas its own long naming system. MHS issimpler~ characters plus 8 characters.It's name at host, or name atworkgroup."The result is that, while X.400 is an ac-cepted standard, it's seldom used. "If Isell an Email system I have to have a linkto X.400, but I don't know of anyoneusing it," Harris says.

Harris told Newsbytes recent discus-sions on X.500 he's held indicate theproblem is not yet solved. "Many proto-

Without a uniform addressing schemeyou still have a problem — you either needa look-up table or you have to know anaddress on a different system."

He concludes, "My impression is with-out X.500, then X.400 won't providemore than a physical standard. Withoutan addressing standard you can't movedata. And they' re saying they' re a year&om settling disputes,whichmeanswe're2-3 years &om X.500 products." Contact:Work&arne, 6174914678.

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JAN 8 (NB) — Hayes MicrocomputerProducts announced a partial victory inits fight to vindicate its major modempatent, as Promethus Products agreed toa settlement as the case was due to go to

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Modem with Improved Escape Sequencepatent issued to Hayes in 1985, number4,549,302, and it will pay license fees toHayes in connection with the executionof its settlement. Trial on the issue con-tinues against two other defendants inthe case, but the settlement strengthensHayes' hands. The 1985 patent coversmost PC async modems running at up to2,400 bits/second. The newest modemsare covered by the "V.S2" standardagreedto by the CCrlT, although both Hayesand US Robotics also sell proprietaryproducts at that speed, called the V-Series and HST Courier respectively.Contact: Hayes, 40444$8791.

Gulf War Is A Satellite WarEditorial by P. Zucker SYDNEY, AUS-

TRALIA,JAN 18 (NB) — The Gulf Warof '9l may not be remembered for thisfact, but it is "Ihe war that happened by

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control, and commercial, for the un-precedented TV coverage of the war.

It was the TV coverage which fihsci-nated this writer. Watching here in Aus-tralia, a unique thing happened: thereare five TV networks in Australia, andfour of them chose to run continuouswar coverage, each taking a differentU.S. network feed. Anyone turning on

dering which country they were in.In addition, thelocalnetworksall have

reporters in locations such as SaudiArabia, Baghdad, Jordan, Israel and soon, and each network regularly ran livesatellite links to these reporterL Assum-ing that many other countries (espe-cially European) were doing the samething, there must have been hundredsoflive satellite links every hour, rightthrough the first 12 hours or so of con-

Another interesting feature of this TVwar (and onlya TVwar would be timed tostart at evening news time in the U.S.)was the "feedback" effect caused by thenetwork's coverage. (Explanation: feed-back such as in a public address system

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Throughout the firsthalfwayof cov-erage, it became obvious that the mainTV news services (and especially CNN)were being monitored as the best sourceof news. For instance, people in SaudiArabia and other parts of the MiddleEast were monitoring the war fi om U.S.TVservicea Anumber of times, it seemedthat a comment on one service was heardby someone in the Gulf, quickly becamea local rumour, was fed to another net-work as news, broadcast, and then be-came news on the first network, where ithad been just a comment 15 minutes

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Cater said the coxnpanyplans to releaseMaple V for Apple Macintosh and Intel3864ased systems in the first quarter of1991, and for all other systems that runprevious versions of Maple later in theyear. Maple runs on an assortxnent ofhardware from xnicrocomputers tosupercomputers, she told Newsbytes.

Maple nms on a variety of Unix4rasedhardware, according to the coxnpany.Waterloo Maple chose the Sun platformfor the Grst release of Maple V because"it addresses one of Maple's largest.cus-tamer bases," said Ron Neumann, chiefexecutive of the coxnpany, in a prepared

Maple V for Sun sells for US$2,495,with equivalent pricing in other curren-cies around the world. The Ultxix versionsrange &om US$695 to US$3,595, de-pending on hardware supported. Sitelicenses and academic discounts areavailable. Contact: Waterloo MapleSoftware, 519-747-2373.

and Canada on 1-2-3 3.1 purchases andupgrades betweenJanuary 8 and April30. The suggested retail price for 1-2-3Release 3.1 is US$595 or C$719, withupgrades priced at US$150 or C$185.Ami Pro carries a suggested retail priceof USII'495 or C$599.

To receive their &ee Ami Pro, most 1-2-3 3.1 buyers will have to send theiroriginal sales receipts to Lotus as proofof purchase, along with an Ami Pro cou-pon available through local and nationaladvertising, from Lotus-authorizedresellers or by calling Lotus (at WSO-TRADE-UP in the United. States or at 1-800468-1509 in Canada). Usexs mustindudeaUS$19.95 (C$25) shippingand

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Austin Mayer, a spokesxnan in Sun' sInvestor Relations departxnent, said thatthe agreement let AT8cT buy as much as15 percent of Sun (14.8 million shares)in newly issued shares directly &om thecoxnpany, plus another 5 percent on theopen market. Mayer mid he believedthat AT8cT has bought most of the stockto which it is entitled &oxn the xnarket.The latest block of shares &om Sun is thelast to which AT8cT is entitled.

Sun expects the sale to be consum-mated within 30 days. The price will bebased on the average closing price ofSun stock for the 20 trading days endingJanuary 3, plus a 25 percent premium.

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The software works with any PC &xcard using the Sierra SemiconductorSendfaxchip set. Thataecounts for abouthalf the fax cards on the market, Delrinaspokesman Josef Zancowicz toldNewsbytes. Among the cards the soft-ware supports are those from ZoomTelephonics, Cardinal Technolegies,

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'86 or so), success.ament for Each program has grown in size, power

and version numbers. Today, Lotus 1-2-Windows 8 is at version $. 1 and Microsoft has

cause it re released Excel $.0. Now Microsoft, withn costly the stunning popularity of Windows $.0,

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sions 1 and 2, not exactly a runaway sheets (important for power users), butExcel has a far more usable spreadsheetinterface and superior graphical objecthandling.

This probably means that Microsoft'sbest chance at eventual market domi-nance is from the ground up, startingwith those people who will prize Excelfor its easeofese. If it can sway 1-2-$users over, all the better. As we shall see,both strategies are evident in Excel $.0'sdesign....

More Ease, PleaseTo their credit, Microsoft has notjust

piled on a new batch of esoteric features(although there are plenty), but has ia-

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stead taken the tack of trying to simplifythe most common spreadsheet tasks, thusconsiderably enhancing the program's

click of a button in the tool bar.

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Key Features• Optional WYSIWYG interface• Mouse support in the WYSIWYGinterface• Advanced file linking• Uve on-screen formatting• Bitstream fonts• Graphics 8 drawing tools• 3D technology• Network support• Free 24-hour, 7-day help line• External database access viaDataLens• Relational database manager• Add-in Toolkit allows design of yourown add-lns

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Release 8.1 still has the same interfaceas Release 3. Although the implemen-tation is very clean and looks quite niceon a graphics display, I wonder whenLotus will update their user interface to

Mouse compatibility has been addedin the WYSIWYG interface and is a wel-come addition, but most users will findthe WYSIWYGinterface too slow. Mousecompatibility should be added to the

The WYSIWYG interface is an add-mprocess which is included with this re-lease. This provides a very simple, easy-to-use interface, but it is slow I mademany mistakes while using this interfacedue to the fact that the display was farbehind where I was in my data entry. Ithought I was someplace on the spread-

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The sluggish graphical interface is theonly limitation that the vast majority ofusers will encounter with release S.l.While the WYSIWYG interface is adver-tised as making the product easier to use,it is only of use to those with quite fasthardware.

I use Lotto' 1-2-3 Release 3.1 on a80386 16 MHz machine, and the time ittakes to move around using the graphi-cal interface, even on the speed of thismachine,would &usfratemostuserL Youreally have to like all the fancy graphicsto want to put up with this.

ConclusionWith Release S.l, Lotus 1-2-Sis still the

dominant spreadsheet. There is not aspreadsheet available that is more pow-erful. Its output is unmatched by anyother spreadsheet I have seen. Forcomplex spreadsheet applications andtopnotch presentations I would recom-

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PlanPerfectby George Skrde O' Steve MdturrN'rs

Product: PlanPerfect V. 5 .1,Spreadsheet software for IBM per-sonal computers and PC networks.Publisher: WordPerfect Corporafion,1555 N. Technology Way,Orem, Utah84057 (801) 225-5000System Requirements: IBM XT/ATor compatible, DOS V. 2.0, 2 floppydrives or a hard drive; 384K RAMrequired, 512K recommended, mayoperate on a network.Price: C$645.

Key Features• Automatic timed backup• Dual worksheet editing• Relative, absolute, mixed cell ad-dressing• Integrated graphics• Import/export• Lock/unlock cells• Merge worksheets• Automatic calculation• Password security• Optional Lotus style interface• VIrtual memory• Most of the familiar WordPerfectfeatures

OverviewPlanPerfect is a fullkeatured twoch-

mensional spreadsheet I t has a stan-dard spreadsheet structure, with a capac-ityof 256columns and 8192rows. Graphs

functions in PlanPerfect

can be produced from data in any sec-tion of your worksheet.

Setup and Ease of Usedriven installation program. You havemanyoptionson whatyouwish to instaILOne option which is particularly benefs-cial is theabilitytoinstallonlyone printerdriver.

With over 600 printer drivers, if youautomatically installed all of them, youwould waste a lot of hard disk space. Thisseems only too obvious, but many soft-ware packages install a myriadof printerdrivers when you will only use one or two.The total time to install PlanPerfect isabout 15 minutes.

Plan Perfect, like all WordPerfect soft-ware packages, comes with an onlinetutorial. This tutorial will take you ap-proximately 60 minutes to complete.Once you have completed the tutorial,you are able to perform most simple

If you already use WordPerfect, youwill fmd PlanPerfect particularly easy touse as the interface is very much thesame. If you are not already usingWordPerfect, you may fmd yourself get-ting lost with the function keys but youcan always use the Lotus interface or thedrawdown menus.

PlanPerfect combines three samulta-neous user interfaces. You can use the"slash commands" as in Lotus 1-2-3. Youalso have the familiar WordPerfectfunc-tion keys, as well as the version 5.1 pull-down menus, and a mouse. All theseinterfaces are available at the touch of akey or mouse button, providing the userquite a powerful interface.

PlanPerfect installs irom a prompt-

tive to the tutorial.

Reports and OutputPlanPerfect has basically the same

printing power as WordPerfect Youhave the same 600 printer drivers avail-able, and the capacity of up to M differ-ent base fonts per spreadsheet.PlanPerfect has the potential for profes-siona14ookingprinting, butthis dependson your printer's capabilities and thefonts you have.

DocumentationThe manual is written much like the

WordPerfect manual. Itisslrictlyarefer-ence manual, listing features and func-tions alphabetically. There is also a com-panion workbook that offers an alterna-

Unlike the tough three-ring binderand slipcover WordPerfect packaging,PlanPerfeci, is a soft perfect-boundmanual that comes in a box with a pull-off top. Accessing the slipcover-typemanual on a tight shelf with the normalofBce clutter is much nicer than pullingout the PlanPerfect box and opening itup (and then pichng up all the papersyou just knocked on the floor that wereon top of the box). This probablysoundsa little picky, but when you pay $645 fora product, you expect more thoughtfulpackagmg,

LimitationsPlanPerfect is not limited to 286- or

886kased machines with extended orexpanded memoryas other spreadsheets.You can run PlanPerfect quite effectivelyon an aging 8088based machine.

ConclusionMast &equently, one tends to 6nd

spreadsheets the most dificult of appli-cation software to tackle, and peoplewho do not use spreadsheets frequentlyare intimidated by them. Plan Perfect isuser friendly, and even more so if you arealready using WordPerfect. The mar-riage of three user~terface types simul-taneously available on one system is im-pressive.WordPerfect Corp. has made

PlanPexfect so identical to its word pro-cessing package that it should defmitelybe considered by WordPerfect users.

PlanPerfect may not be the mostpopular or most powerful spreadsheetavailable. However, for the user whodoes not require the exhaustive func-tions of Lotus 1-2-8 and simplyrequiresapowerful tw~ ne nsion spreadsheet,PlanPerfect is perfect. PlanPerfect givesyou everything you want in stateefkhe-art spreadsheet management withoutmaking your current equipment obso-

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The first i mpressio of the interface isthat it looks very simiTiar to a Windows-style menu+ased screen. The differenceis that the menus are addressed, not by"Alt-F" for the File menu, but insteadwith the older "/" used in Lotueetyleprograms. Once you get past that ob-stacle,Quattro Pro has a very easy to use

Usersaccustomed to the olderQmttroPro interface have the option of switch-

Setup was straightforward with thisnew release. Six disks and a few minutes

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The new interface is not entirelyWKWYG. There is no dynamic page-breakpreview and you have tojump intopage preview to see what is actuallygoingto print.

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Product: Quatlro Pro 2.0Publisher: Borland International Inc.,1800 Green Hills Rd., Scotts Valley,CA 95066; (408) 438-8400.System Requirements: IBM PC orcompatible, 512K, standalone; 640Konnetwork(This spreadsheetfeaturesaccess to Borland's Paradox data-base product. This access requiresan additional 2MB of extendedmemory).Price: US$495 (upgrade from 1.0:$79). LAN Pack costs US$295.Borland alsowas offering upgrades toQuattro Pro for $99 from other high-end spreadsheets.

Key Features• New hypershow presentation ca-pabilities• 3-D graph types• Integration with Paradox database. Optional SQL Link package to other

• Undertyingenginelargeiyunchangedfrom previous version• Goal-seeking utility• ProShow slide show add-in product• Imports CGM clip-att to graphs

programs can run interactively. This re-quires at least an AT~lass or better com-puter and 2 MB of extended memoryabove and beyond what you need to nurQuattro Pro itself.

We did not try this feature, but itseems to make sense that the sum wouldbe greater than the parts if you couldachieve dynamic integration. Spread-sheet databases tend to require a lot ofkeyboard strokes to achieve what a da-tabase can do with one commancLSpreadsheets, however, offer more

Sexibility in experimenting with num-bers once you have extracted them. Adynamic link would allow a logical divi-

This feature is not exclusive to theQettro-Paradox duo. Lotus 1-2-8/G of-fers DataLens, which allows users to in-terface with a number of high~ d data-bases. Windows users,although currentlylimited to a small number of Windowsdatabases, have the power of DDE, orDynamic Data Exchange to do much thesame thing.

Quattro Pro fortunately does not stopwith the link to Paradox, but also offersan opdonal SQL Link, which allows it to&oned for networked SQL databaseservers. In addition, Qmttro Pro hasalways been able to extract data f'rom

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I Feb '91Conclusion

For highly complex spreadsheet ap-plications, SuperCalc 5 is very effecfive.

a program debugger. For a firstsuser the user interface may be a littlecumbersome, but in time one gets used

In choosing a spreadsheet you mustestimate how many features you wish touse, then purchase the one package thatgives you all the functioasyou need. It isno use purchasing a simple, easy-to~espreadsheet when you need 8-D spread-sheets. If you need complex spread-sheets, SuperCalc 5 is a worthwhHe in-

graphics or decent speed.Quattro Prohas a smaHer RAM requirement than thenew Lotlls 1-2-8 V. 8.1.

Virtual memory management allowsthe program to swap segments of code inand outof memory. The result is thatyoucan live below 640K The new version ofLotus, in contrast, needs a minimum of884K of extended memory.

Quattro Pro ofFers three types of cal-culation modes. In automatic mode, ev-ery time you enter a change in a spread-sheet, the spreadsheet recalculates. Inm anual mode, the spreadsheet puts offrecalculating until you issue the F9 com-

Finally, theprogramhasa backgroundmode. With this setting, the spreadsheetwiH update between keystrokes. In thisbackground mode, it is quite slow toupdate, but in either of the foregroundmodes, updates are very fast, exceedingthose of the new Lotus.

Macros are another strong point ofthe package, especially with the excel-lent macro debugger.

Graphics CapabiTitiesPeople doing presentation graphics

wiH appreciate the abilityto importlogosand other clip art stored in CGM, EPS or

users can import Lotus Freelance Plusand Harvard Graphics images.

Included on disk is a modest clipertlibrary. Gasphs can be copied from oneworksheet to another. This copying ca-pability makes the reuse of standardcharts simple and fiLst.

Another aid to those doing presenta-tions is Qmttro Pro's ability to installpoint~dMck graph buttons that allowlinks to other graphsor to macros. Withthese interactive text boxes, one can vi-sualize an ea~ lse and easy<oeeMpExecutive Information System.

These same techniques could be usedto setup a slide sequence to make formalpresentations more lively, because thereal numbers are accessible, not hiddenbehind another level of software.

On VGA systems, Quattro Pro sup-ports up to 182wolumn displays.

This new version also includes an in-creased number of graph stylesiacludiag8-D bar, line, and area graphs. They arekind of pseudo 8-D graphs — they arereally just 2-D graphs in which the dataseries are plotted behind one anotheraad displayed in 8-D perspective.

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OverviewSuperCalc 5is a full featured &dimen-

sional spreadsheet package that offersspreadsheet management, data analysisand visual presentatioa. I t o f fers thestandardworksheetstructure ofcolumas,rows and cells, with an optional Lotus-style interface.

Setup and Ease of Use

environment. It seems to me that "the

SuperCalc 5 has as poor an installa-tion procedure as I have seen in manyyears. The instructions say to create adirectory and copy all the distribufiondisks to that directory.

IfyoufoHowtheseinstructionsliteraHyyou will end up with many filesyou don' twant or need. I f you are instaHingSuperCalc 5 onto a network, the proce-dure is very long and complicated withnumerous manual changes to your DOS

world's leading independent producerof software" would employsomeone whocould write a user4iendly installationprogram, like everyone else in the soft-ware mdustry.

Once you have gone through the an-cient installation procedure and loadedSupetCalc, you find a spreadsheet pro-gram rich with fiuactions (it takes 20pages of the puck Reference manual tosimply display aH the menu options on amenu tree).

SuperCalc 5 uses the aging "slash"command Lo~ t y le interface. Themenu has many more features than Lo-tus, butone has toaskoneself, whywouldanyone want to copy the Lotus user in-

Sure, Lotus is the top speadsheetprogram and has a lot of features, butthis interface is five years old and needsto be re-worked. SuperCalc 5 would bebetter off with a more creative and bet-terAesigned user interface. (It can bedone. Just look at PlanPerfect.)

You can choose to use a Lola+styleSuperCalc 5 menu system or an exactduplicate of the Lotus 1-2-8 interface.For some reason, the status bar help foreach command is missing on the Lotus 1-2-8 interface but is present on theSuperCalc 5 menus.

The on@me tutorial is very efFectiveand we recommend it highly for first-time users. After ming the tutorial, youcan perform the basic spreadsheet func-

Reports and OutputSuperCalc 5 has basicaHy the same

printing power as all Computer Associ-atesproducts. In addition to thestandardComputer Associates printer drivers,SuperCalc 5 includes a copyof Sideways,a utility that allows one to print spread-sheets sideways,and about a dozen devicedrivers to extend the output.

One of the device drivers wiH allowoutput to be transferred to VenturaPublisher, for typesetguality reports.

DocumentationThe documentation is complete and

concise, and includes a reference guideand a user guide that can help users

Product: SuperCalc 5, spreadsheetsoftware for IBM personal cornput-ers and PC networks.Publisher: Computer Associates In-tematlonal Inc., Sr' Floor, 1770Burrard Sl., Vancouver, B.C. (604)733-2343System Requlrementa IBM XT/ATor Compslible, DOS 3.0, hard drive,640K RAM required, mono, CGA,EGA, VGAmonltor, can opetmteonaAebhfOfltItive: C4599.

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Lotus users will find themselves rightat home with Qaattro Pro. There arethree opfions for iaterface, the best Ithink is the new Quattro Pro, but userscan also choose a Lotuacione approachor the oldQaattro Pro Version 1.0 inter«

Filescan be imported andexported toLotus 1-2-8 Version 2.2 easily. Most file-linking commands are automaticaHyconverted on import, which savesmanually converting the links acrossspreadsheel3.

Goal SeekingLinear optimization has never been

easy to set up in spreadsheets. The firstspreadsheet to make this flmction rela-tively easy was Lotus 1-2-8/G with it' sSack Solver. Quattro Pro includes asimple goal~king utility that when setup, will automatically find the values

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The CompIIter Paperbetter understand the concepts of thepackage. Error messages are docu-mented aad explained in an appendix.

LimitationsSuperCalc 5 is not limited to 286- or

M6kased machines with extended orexpandedmemoryas otherspreadsheetsare. SuperCalc Sis limited to 229columnsby9999rows. You can displayup to threeworksheets on your screen simulta-neously.

SuperCalc 5 includes an Audit modethat can go through your spreadsheetsand debug them for incorrect formulas,etc. Thisisofparticularinterestto peoplecreatinghugespreadsheetprogramswithcomplex formula%

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Report writers are exciting produce.There are currently two report writersfor ACCPAC Pluc F9 andQuick Reports.Each of these solve a dineren t problem.F9 gives you the ability to use Lotus 1-2-Spower to manipulate your ACCPAC G/Ldata, whereasQuck Reports is not aspowerful in data manipulation, but youcan access data &om all your ACCPACapplications. I have worked with boththese products and6nd them very useful

Setup and Ease of Usetion prograin. This program also at-taches F9 to Lotus 1-2-S as a Lotus 1-2-Sadd-in.

When you load Lotus 1-2-S„F9 isavailable to you as an add-in process. Allthe Lotus 1-2-S commands are available,as well as some special F9 commands,such as @DESC() which prints the de-scription of the account used &om the

for reporting are similar to those used inthe ACCPAC Plus Financial Reporter,thus there is little confusion.

The F9 user interface is identical tothe Lotus user interface so when you areusing specific F9 functions you do notnotice you are not running Lotus 1-2-S.

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Another factyou will have to dealwithin implementing F9 (and all reportwriters in general) is that you have toknow the structure of the 6les you areaccessing data from. If you do not knowwhere the data is, you cannot create areport on it.

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Letyour imagination go wiild to dreamup the information you want, then useF9 with Lotus 1-2-S ta get that informa-tion produced in a format that e8'ec-tively conununicates the data. Graphs,charts, pie charts and text tables can allbe produced.

The documentation is not flashy but iscomplete, concise and easy to read.

LimitationsF9 will only work with Lotus 1-2-S Re-

lease 2 up to release 2.2. As Lotus is nowshipping release S. l,you must be carefulto purchaserelease 2.2ifyou are planning

2.2 of Lotus 1-2-S and some may evenhave it on the shelf. F9 does work withACCPAC Plus versions 5.0 and higher.

Until you have registeredyour copyofF9 you are limited to 40 cells of generalledger data per spreadsheet and you arelimited to the number of ©functionsyoucan execute per spreadsheet

ConclusionF9 provides a very useful function to

ACCPAC G/L data. When you know theinformation is there in the da~ butyou cannotget it out it is very &ustrating.

With F9 you can access the data andpresent it any way you wish. I recom-mend F9 to anyone who is not satis6edwith the ACCPAC Financial Reporter inthe G/L

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Hometax Plus's documentation iscomplete and also includes a book onexpert tax advice. I read this book, andwhat struck me was, if I used the advice inthe book Hometax Plus would then beuseless to me because my tax returnwould be too complex for Hometax toby Steve Mcllwai n

In the world of personal tax prepara-tion software, for the last few years oneproduct has dominated the market-place — Cantax.

Now there is a new player, HometaxPlus. Hometax Plus is produced by thesame company that produces TaxPREP,one of the major commercial tax prepa-ration packages. Now that there arechoices in which package you should usefor preparing your own tax return athome, we feel we should comparethem

calculation utilities.

head to head.

Product: Hometax Plus Personaltax preparation software.Publisher: Hometax InformationSystems,402 — 55AdelaideSt. East,Toronto, Ont. M5C 1K6SystemRequlrements: IBM XT/ATor compatible; 512KB RAM; DOS3.1; 2.5MB of free disk space.Price: C$49.95 plus GST.Of Interest To: A person whowishes to prepare his or her ownsimple personal tax return, andkeepan electronicrecord of their personalfinancial position.Key Features: T1 tax preparationand printing; Tax planning; Financialrecordkeeping; Personal directory;Expert tax advice; Financial odcula-tions.

OverviewHometax Plus will prepare a simple

Tl tax return for one or more individu-als. Hometax Plus also has a number ofadditional features: tax planning, experttax advice, financial information port-folio, personal directory, and financial

Setup and Ease of Usesimple and complete installation utility.

Once installed, I was able to prepare asimple tax in 20 minutes. In preparingthe tax return form with Hometax Plus,the user moves down through the wholeform in much the same way as filling theform out by hand, and the entry screens

The program installs itself with a

handle.

LimitationsNo errors were encountered while

using the package.This tax preparation package is very

limiting. In fact, on page 9 of the manualthere is a list of 36 different scheduleswhich the program does not produce.For mypersonal taxreturn, there are fiveschedules which cannot be produced byHometax Plus. For my partner's tax re-turn there are eight schedules whichcannot be produced by Hometax Plus.

As a matter of fact, I quickly looked atthe tax situation of ten of my &iends andonly one can have their complete taxreturn prepared by Hometax Plus.Hometax Plus claims that their limita-tions only exclude 15% of the taxpayingpublic as the other 85% have such asimple tax situation.

However, it is just those who have alittle more complicated tax situation thatare looking for a software package tosimplify it for them. If my tax return is sosimple that Hometax Plus could prepareit, I would probably go to HLR Block orBentax because they would charge me

One function that Hometax Plusboasts is compatibility withQuicken Ac-counting. The theory is that you keepyour bookkeepinginQuicken, then whenit comes to tax time, Hometax Plus takesthe information &omQuicken and yourtax return is prepared &om that,

This is a great idea and would beexcellent for most professionals. Theproblem is that anyone who would useQuicken could not use Hometax Plus

' because of its significant number of

much less than what Hometax Plus costs.

limitations.

CondusionHometax Plus prepares only very

simple taxreturns. Itis quite limited as tothe schedules it can produce. Complexreturns have to be handled by directentry of information &om other formsnot included. This severely limits thefunctionality of Hometax Plus as a taxreturn preparing package. However, itdoes have some features that Cantaxdoes not that you may or may not find

also look similar to the actual tax-returnform. This makes a more difficult userinterface.

For the other features of HometaxPlus such as the tax planner and thefinancial recordkeeping program, theuser interface is certainly very accept-able, but the layout of the tax returnpreparation area seems counter-produc-tive to the preparation of a taxform. Onehopes that tax preparation software isdesigned to make it easier to prepare atax retiirn. This does not appear to be

Reports 8c DocumentationHometax Plus allows the user to pro-

duce a proper tax return. We did findthat if the return was printed on a HPLeerjetseries II the return did notprint-out correctly on the page. I did questionHometax on this issue and they prom-ised me a newdisk which they said wouldfix the problem.

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Product: Cantax Personal taxpreparation and fi nancialrecordkeeping software.Publisher: Cantax Corporation Ltd.,68PumpmeadowCrescent, Calgary,AB, T2V5C6 Phone(403) 253-8665;Fax (403) 253-8689Price: C$59.95 including GST.System Requirements: IBM XT/ATor compatible; 512K RAM; DOS 3.1;1 MB of free disk spaceOf InterestTo: A person who wishesto prepare his or her personal taxreturn, andmakepiansfornextyear's

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TAX PREPARATIONCONTINUED FROM PA1

OverviewCantax will prepare a Tl tax return for

one or more individuals. Caniax also hasa tax-planning module which allows youto plan for the next year's tax season.

Setup and Ease of Use:The program installs itself with a

simple and complete installation utility.Once installed, I was able to prepare a

simple tax return within 20 minutes. Theentry screens are simple and easy to use,and though I had fewproblems using thesoftware, I would not rate it as user-&iendly as other commercial sofbvare.The user interface is useable but cer-tainly not state-of-the-art

To prepare the tax return form, Cantaxuses an index of schedules. The usersimply selects which section is applicableto his or her tax situation and edits eachsection. Thus in preparing the return,the user does not have to sort throughinformation that is not applicable.

DocumentationThe main report to consider when it

comes to a tax preparation softwarepackage is the actttal tax return. Cantaxproduces a proper tax return. There area few other helpful reports such as a taxsummary report and the tax planningreport. The tax return I produced com-pletely with Cantax was ready to go withno errors or additional work requirecL

LimitationsI encountered no errors while using

This tax preparation package is onlylimited &om preparing verycomplex taxreturns such as farm income or fishingincome (Cantax Plus, a more expensiveversion &om the same company, canhandle the more complex returns).

Cantax does not have the financialrecordkeeping features of Hometax Plus,although this may not be as much of aliability as it first appears. Many wouldconsider the financial recordkeepingfeatures of Hometax Plus as "fluff". Manyof these same functions, with the excep-tion of expert tax advice, could easily bedone in other more appropriate pro-grams such as a spreadsheet or personalinfo manager. Cantax does come with atax planner to help you estimate yournext year's tax situation.

ConclusionCantax will prepare most tax returns.

user interface.

turns than Hometax.

In preparing a tax return form, Cantaxiseasier to use than Hometax, and Cantaxwill prepare much more complex re-

Final ConclusionCustomer support could be a big issue

for a product such as this. Once youreceive your working copy of the taxsoftware, it is close to the beginning ofFebruary because Revenue Canada does

' not approve the software until earlyJ~~

This being the case, you only have twomonths to become familiar with thepackage and get your return off to Rev-enue Canada. If you have a problem youneed it solved nota. Cantax has its cus-.tomer support line right on the softwarestartsscreen, so even if you lose themanual, you know where to call.

In addition, I received an immediateanswer to any questions and was not lefton hold for more than a few seconds anytime I called. The support line forHometax Plus is not in the documennt-tion or the software.

While Hometax Plus ispackaged muchbetter than Cantax, Cantax is the supe-rior softNtate package for preparing taxreturns. This is one case where you can-notjudge a book by its cover. If you wantextra features, such as expert tax advice,financial recordkeeping and financialcalculations, and you do not really care ifit will actually prepare your tax return,Hometax Plus has these features.

Both Cantax and Hometax Plus havea tax-planning module that can be usedthroughout the year to insure that thereare no surprises when tax time comesaround again. Neither of them have astateof-theist user interface. However,when you look at tax software, you willfind most packages have a cumbersome

Cantax is still much easier to use; I wasable to prepare my tax return with verylittle confusion the first time out withCantax. When I attempted to useHometax Plus, not only was I confusedby the approach, but windows were con-stantly popping out &om everywhere.

Considering the fact that this isInformatrix 2000's first stab at personaltax preparation software, I would notwrite the package off completely, and Ilook forward to seeing some real com-petition to Cantax next year. For taxreturn preparation, Cantax is still thenumberwne choice.

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MaciutoshThe Macintosh spreadsheet market is

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AmigaIn the opinion of Gene Endrody of

Conti Computers in Vancouver, there isonly one clear Amiga spreadsheetstandout Advantage, with a street priceof C$240. Taking, er, advantage of theAmiga's multitaskmg graphical environ-ment, it's by well-known Canadian soft-ware pubhsher Gold Disk It was alsonamed by several other sources.

Other titles mentioned when dealerswere asked to name the bestspreadsheetavailable for Amiga computers wereSuperplan by Precision Software, rec-ommended by Nu-Tek Computers; andMaxiplan by Oxxl (formerly publishedbythenow<efunctAegis Development),the choice of Sprite ComputerL

Atari ST/TTThe $249 LDW Potu by Logical De

sign Works is a bigger seller, and hasmore bells and whistles, but the best forthe ST is Analyze, says DarrellJohansenof Wizard Computers. Like LDW Power,Analyse reads/writes 1-24 file,and offerscharting features. He says it is the fastest

Ron Grant of GXR Systems prefersLDW. Now at version 2.00, it sports anifty feature similar to one available inWord 4.0 for the Mac. Any of its com-mands or options can be added or re-moved &om the program's menus, al-lowing users to craft their own look andfeel — lean and mean, or bloated withoptions.

The new version 2.0 of LDW Powercomes with a 68-page "Addendum ¹I"that covers all of the changes made to

LDW Power 2.00 has been expandedto support the extended macro com-mand set of Lotus 1-2-8, V. 2.01, that' sall.It does not daim to run all Lotus 2.2macroL Many of the new commandsinvolvewindowmanagement, or supportthe new Graphics Editor included nowin LDW Power 2.00. '

LDW Power 2.00 appears to be bug-&ee. A bug in the previous V. 1.10 oc-curred when your cursor rested in acolumn on the far right of your screenand you executed a /Range Erase. {In-sert) (Down) command. The screen be-came confused and displayed a different

you were working on. This bug no longer

Spreadsheets forthe Mac, Amiga,

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NeXTPeople &om NeXT Inc. are knocking

on the doors of the Fortune 500 compa-nies thesedays, showingoff what theysayis a program so great, it's worth buying aNeXT just to run it. And they may beright.

NeXT is capitalizing on the fact thatLotus Corp. has chosen its platform todevelop and release Improv, a spread-sheet Byte magazine's Oct. '90 issuecalled, "stunning...a spreadsheet for

duction (a video of which was seen bythousands of attendees at the NeXTbooth at therecentPacific Rim Computergc Communication Show), Lotus chiefJim Manzi claimed that they simplycouldn't have made Improv as good as itis on any other platform.

Indeed,running on the NeXT, Improvinherits its host's elegant user interface,virtual memory, transparent networkingandmultitasklngaMitieLAlthough eventhat would set it apart &om most others,Improv goes much further.

All hyperbole aside, Improv managesto strike a balance between the elegantsimplicity that is the hallmark of any"killer app," while proving remarkablycapable. As you might expect &om thecompany that produced the spreadsheetof the eighties (1-2-8, for those of youthat spent the decade in a cave), it readsand writes 1-2-8 files, while literallyreinventing the whole spreadsheetmetaphor, using named cells instead of

An innovative system of rearrangingthe display to see different relationshipsin the data makes it truly — no pun in-tended — a next-generation product,more powerful than any other spread-sheet on the market, period. Priced atUS$695, Improv is bundled free withnew NeXT systems until March 81, 1991.

Ashton-Tate's PowerStep is a moretraditional spreadsheetimplementation,offering 1-2-8 file compatibility and the

' same interactive rotation of 8-D graphsfound in the company's Full Impactproduct for the Macintosh. Like mostother good NeXT apps, it allows the

who want to let the numbers literallyspeak for themselves.

Informix's Wingz, now available onMac, Windows and Unix platforms hasalso come to the NeXT. Wingz producesthe best charts of the three programs,and also offers the best custom~pplica-tion programming and macro languagecapabilities. Using i t s in t egralHyperScript language, users can com-pletely control how Wingz looks andbehaves. An expert user can build anapplication environment that includescontrols such as radio buttons, polypmenus, slide bars, check boxes and cus-tom buttons. In short, Wingz — like theNeXT — is an application developer's

inclusion of voice annotations for those

rowsandcolumnsofnumbersandletters.

While researching thisarticle, I used acombination of techniques for deter-mining the most popular software titles:anonymous phone calls to local dealers;p~ ofreviews;personal experience;

ers and users, special thanks to DarekMihocka and Mike Squire for their com-ments on GEnie and inSTRoport (Jan. 18,1991, No. 7.08).

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5-D Glasses RequiredUpon seeing the program in action, it

is easy to believe that Lotus has designeda CAD program for manipulating num-bers. Any spreadsheet becomes a 2- or 3-dimensional image that you can ma-nipulate like a drawing. It' s quite a differ-ent way of looking at numbers.

Lotus quickly became a victim of itsown success. The fmancial and account-ing community were drawn to 1-2-3 likemoths to an open Game. Onemight evensay that 1-2-3 gave the IBM-PC its ruisors

Lotus found that with such a largeuser base, modifications beyond the ba-sic design became difficult to do becauselater releases had to be compatible withprevious versions. So, for a number ofyears, it has beeri trying to build a hetterspreadsheet. (Rumor has it that a devel-opment team spent several years workingon a version of Improv, originally forOS/2, butitnever came together.) WhenSteveJobs paid a visit to Lotos, the de-velopers found a machine for Improv.

At first glance, Improv looks like anyother spreadsheet. Rows and columns ofcells appear as in Excel or Wingz. Thebasic functions of all other spreadsheetsare there as well, formula editing, script-building and programmability are allincluded along with the basic calculatingabilities. You cao build either 2- or 3-dimensional models. Bot you have tolook a little harder to see what's underthe hood.

Improved Looktice is the look of improv. This is due tothe NeXTStep graphic user interface.NeXTStep also letsyou to paste in sound,voice mail, and graphics directly into aspreadsheet document. This makes pos-sible true multi-media presentations ofdata. Since NeXTStep uses DisplayPostScript, what you see on the screen istritly what comes oot of the laser printer.

Getting started on Improviseasy. Sinceit imports documents inthe "wks" format,no reentering of existing data is neederLUnlike more neolithic spreadsheets,

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sheet, these labels retain their integrityand remain related to the data they rep-resent. For example, if you delete col-umn "B," column "C" isn't renamed "B,""D" isn't renamed "C" and so on. In-stead, labels identify groups of data

Logically, formulas also appear inEnglish. For those of you who are used to"E25=SUM(A25..D25)," Improv showsthe same formula as "Annual Gross Profit= groupsum(Sales) ".

Since cells are "objects," you can easilycut~d onate entire sections of a spread-sheet without having to rater data oredit formulas. In addition to a generalformula applying to a group of numbers,any individual cell can have its ownunique formula within a general for-mula. This allows you to work withanomalies in data, easily.

However, you can spend house de-signing the world's best spreadsheet andnot have itunderstootL Lotus believes inthe sage who stated a picture is worth a

Avarietyof 2-D and 3-D charts/graphsare available for your use.

Since the graph is dynamically linkedwith the document, anychange made inthe spreadsheet is instantly re6ected inthe graph. Legends and labels are auto-matically generated, and axes are easilyinterchanged. As stated before, you caneven incorporate sound in your desktoppresentation.

Unix Advantagestakes full advantage of the NeXT. Sincethis is a Unix box, it is possible to collectdata using a background program andbuild a spreadsheet using that data, si-multaneously.

The 17-inch display easily accommo-dates Improv's ability to display severalworksheets, graphs and close-ups ofworksheet sections. It is also possible tolink data in one spreadsheet with anyother spreadsheet (on disk) using dy-namic data links. Anyhow, this may allseem nice, but I haven't even reachedthe good part yet.

What sets Improv apart from otherspreadsheets is the manner in which youcan manipulate data (seesereen shots abave)

Using an object~riented approach tospreadsheets enabled Lotus to give you apowerful analytical tooL Instead of usinga fixed gridweference of traditionalspreadsheets, this new model lets you

of spreadsheet design. Now you knowwhat to spend your budget surplus on.

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which promises to let people controlvideo devices the way they control print-ers or disk drives, and WordPerfect 2.0.The former won't be available for acouple of months. The latter, expectedfor nearly two years, is suddenly ship-ping — suddenly, because the companydidn't provide much warning that thething was as close to shipping as it ap-peared to be.

Lawyers have long known to arguejustice if the facts are against them. Onthe same principle, perhaps, this was thebusiest party Expo in recent memory.Friday night, the big night, there were nofewer than eight bashes — many of themsimultaneous and most of them major.In keeping with Expo tradition, how-ever, several didn't start imtil East Coastvisitors suffering Irom jel lag would longsince have turned into pumpkins. Notthat most people were stopped...

In keeping with that, theJanuary Expoappears to be increasingly geared to thegeneral public, rather than a specific

pm on Thursday and ran that night until9 — presumably so people could stop byafter work. The show was open over theweekend, too, so the only day dedicatedto professional showgoers was Friday.Given the costs of displaying at a showlike Expo, and given that a walk-in audi-ence is likely to have less influence thanone that travels and dedicates severaldays to it, one wonders if the attendeeswere all that exhibitors would havewanted.

WordPerfect, EduCorp (showing a newnot-yet-released CD-ROM-based game&om Reactor with terrific graphics), andMicrosoft. Microsoft usually has bigcrowds; this time, theywere drawing themwith Excel S.O. That's a DOS product,

GN Technologr'sMeeting Maker

JAN 7 (NB) — ON Technology, headedby former Lotus chief Mitch Kapor, hasannounced its second product: softwarethat lets users coordinate their calendarsto set up meetings.

Meeting Maker is slated to ship in thefirst quarter of this year for a retail priceof $495 for five users or $895 for 10 users.

The program, according to the com-pany,will let userspropose meeting timesto other users or will automatically findthe first open time slot for everyone

ing Maker to maintain their tcydo listsand personal schedules, blocking outtime and setting up recurring appoint-ments. Contact: ON, 6174764900.

trade audience. The show started at S

invited to meet. Users can also use Meet-

Big crowds: Aldus, Adobe, Apple,

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CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA,JAN 8(NB) — Apple Computer hasannounceda new line of circuit cards that let mostexpandable Macintoshes be hooked di-rectlyinto high~eed Ethernetnetworks.

The new cards include models for thenewly shipping Macintosh LC and an-other that will fi t al l models in theMacintosh II series. Apple said thirdparties will be making cards for otherMacintoshes, including the Classic.

Prices and availability for the newproducts were not announced.

The new products appear to replacethe Apple EtherTalk NB Card, whichdirectly supported only thin coax con-

nected only through external transceiv-

More Ethernet AdaptersSANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA,JAN

16 (NB)= National Sefniconductor hasintroduced three adapter cards thatconnect Apple Macintosh computers to10BaseT (twistedyair) Ethernet localarea networks. Asante Technologies,meanwhile; offers a line of Ethernetadapters for the Macintosh IIsi and

The NationalSemi boardsincorporate

twisted-pair Ethernet. They also featuredrivers that are fully compatible withApple's Ethernet protocol, calledEther Talk All three boards utilize Na-tional Semiconductor's Ethernet LANchip technology.

EtherNODE-16NB-TP is a 16-bitNuBus adapter for all models of theMacintosh II; EtherNODE-16SE-TP is a16kit board for the Macintosh SE expan-sion slot; EtherNODE-S2SE/SO-TP is aS2-bitDMA (directmemoryaccess) boardfor the Macintosh SE/SQprocessor~ectslot (PDS).

Asante, of Sunnyvale, California, says

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its Ethernet card for the Macintosh Hsi isthe smallest on the market. TheMacCon+S01 fits into the machine's Di-rect Slot OS0 bus. For the MacintoshClassic, there's the EN/SC external SCSIbox which provides Ethernet supportthrough the CLLmc's SCSI port. Thedevice has thick, thin, and twisted~connections.

The MacCon+SOi comes in two ver-sions, each $495, and the EN/SC is $595.Contact National Semi; Asante Tech-nologies, 415464-5600; fax415-552-5'TS8.

Apple Upgrades FaxSof&rare With BackFax

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,JAN 11 (NB) — Apple Computer will sellowners of its AppleFax modems an up-grade to what had been the company'sbiggest competitor: BackFax, fiom So-

For $S5, owners of the AppleFax mo-dems will be able to order a copy of the$245 BackFax, said officials of Apple and

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JAN 15 (NB) — A "black box" that letsMacintosh computers control. manycon-sumer video products has been an-nounced by Sony. The VBOX controllerwill give users complete remote controlover most Sony products.

The VBOX (which is in fact white andis about the size of a paperback book)uses Sony's proprietary LANG remote

chine control protocols. To date, onlySony video devices include a LANCport — speci6cally, a118mm products andother products sold after the introduc-tien of 8mm. While Sony plans toeventually publish the speci6cations toViSCA, of6cials told Newsbytes there areno plans to build hardware thatwill bringthe LANC and V iSCA protocols toequipment that doesn't have them al-ready built in.

Amongthe Sonyproducts thatindudeLANG capabilities are 8mm camcorders,Video 8 tape decks, VHS and Beta VCRrecorders, and laser disc players.

When Apple 6nishes writing driversfor the VBOX, Sony oKcials said, userswill be able to control video equipmentin much the same way they controlprinters and disk drives — in effect,printing te and retrieving data &om

One of the breakthroughs incorpo-rated in the VBOX is the price. Whenavailable early in the spring, it will have aretail price of $250, Sony oKcials said.

Sony said Farallon and Macromindintend to incorporate ViSCA technologyinto their products in 1991. Other soft-ware publishers are also known to beinterested. Contact Technology Solu-tions, 2IM05-9900.

New CD-RQM Titles FromWayxata TechnologyWASHINGTON, DC,JAN 15 (NB)-

Wayzata Technology, a small Minnesota-basedproducer of MacmtoshwompatibleCD ROMs,hasannounced the availabilityof "Down to Earth", a collection of morethan 750 high-resolution color andmonochrome (PICl' format) desktoppublishingimages. "ClipArt MasterpiecesVolume I" contains over 1800 turn~f-th~entury engravings aud woodcutL

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Just dewn the aisle, at various timesduring the day, presentations occurredin a special "Showcase" area. Twice, wenoted capacity crowds marvelling at thewonderful world of .reaUywxpensive-loohng computer graphics as presentedin videos and demonstrations by FirstImage. Ooh, ahf

Roland DG was showing an interest-ing hand-held signcutting machine, aswell as its line of CAMM machines,plotters,printersandcomputers. Nearby,Mitsubishi was handing out photo-graphicguality prints &om its new dyesublimation printer (at a reported cost-per~age of $6), as well as demonstratingifs monitors, scanners and lower-priced,but still impressive color thermal trans-fer printers. The Mitsubishi representa-tive exphuned that the unit supportedoptional drivers for the PC and Mac,including Zenographics and PostScript

Also showing bighead color outputsolutions at the show was Kodak, with itsown XL7700 dye sublimation printer andColorSqueeze software. A celor output

Brother booth,where anew $9,500 colorcepier wascranhngoutimpressiveprinfz.

Just down the aisle, WordPerfect'sbooth was set up with a seating area anda podium where a representative gavehourly demonstrations. In the backdropbehind, several monitor screens dis-played WP Corp's PC products, includ-ing a new WordPerfect for Windows.

Show" award„although there were somethat felt that Atari's impressive multi-sterey display deserved the honor. A fewpeople were (barely) heard to cemplain

performances emanating &om the Ataristage, although the shows by multi-tal-

The WP booth was awarded the "Best of

by Tke Computer Paper Stag

Attendance was up slightly over &st year,with 15,107 people attending the ksrgrstcomputer show west of The Gnat Lakes. Theshow was staged at the W orld Trade andConvention Centrit in Vancouver. The Com-puter Paper once again had a booth, andpomour vantage point on the jFoor, we got aglimpse of the LD. badges of a large number ofgovernment and corporate visitors to the showas they, too, stopped by to pick up our latestissue. Here' s our view ofsomeof the highlights:

Just inside the front doors, the Sharpand Toshiba booths were spacious areaslining the Grand Boulevard" ef thecentre aisle. A large crowd in the Sharpbooth stood gaping at the 256 colors ofits new PC8501 VGA color 886 laptop.

across the room, as well as the occasionalgasp when its$18Kprice was mentioned.Nearby, buchng the trend bymanyof

its competitors, Zenith was back in theshow in a big way, with an impressive andlarge booth that we, at least, feltworthyof an award. Featuring a full line ofproducts, thedisplaywasstaFed byZenithand parent company Grupe Bull per-

at the volume of the live Sc MIDI musical

ented mesomorph Tim Brecht reallypacked in the crowds. In particular, hishilarious full-blown rendition of "Let' sdo the Time Warp" was truly a marvelousexample of the (mis)use of MIDI tech-nology.

Another tremendously busy area wasthe NeXT booth, where reps were show-ing for the first time in Canada the newc olor NeXTstation. Shoulder~ hou l -der crowds watched a video of NeXTCEO SteveJobs demonstrate — in his oh-soconvincing manner — how to write adatabase program in two minutes flatwith his favorite computer.

Around the corner at Apple's booth,the crowd~ b b er was an innocuous-looking machine in the corner with oneof its windows displaying live full-motionvideo and sound — featuring Applepeople explaining why Mac is t jig way togo with multimedia. Almost everyonewho walked by did a double-take, andwas drawn hypnotically into the booth.The same effect could be seen at theCommercial Electronics display with theirlive video-in~-window, video editing andspecialwffects products for MS Windows

We were slightly amused to note thethrongs around the Vend-U-Print ma-chine, where for five bucks, you couldprint out a handful of instant businesscards. Have you ever noticed that com-puter peoplejustlove high~eh machinesail covered with buttons and instructions?Word has it that more than a few ex-hibitors depended on "Vend-U-Printed"cards for emergency card supplies. Re-gardless of what a professional typesettermight think, Vend-U-Print was quite a

At the Conti Computers booth: thePCViewer 5000CX &omIn Focus Systems(distributed in C anada by SMARTTechnologies of Calgary, Alberta),anew4,918-color LCD overhead projectordisplay panel (for PC or Mac) that hasbetter image definition than any otherswe' ve seen. Also at the Conti booth was aportable presentation device called theLiteshowII. Thecompact device containsa built-in specialwffects generator with avariety of wipes, fades and dissolves anda disk drive capable of storing up to 30PCgenerated images per disk. PC andMac images with up to 256 colors can beused. The LiteShowII plugs into virtuallyany monitor or video/data projectionsystem and comes with a hand-held re-

Nearby, Sharp A/Vwasshowinga mostinteresting interactive presentation de-vice by Proxima called Cyclops thatmounts on the top of its Versacolor 11color LCD display paneL The name Cy-clops isn't so strange when you find outthat it is a camera pointed at a big pro-jection screen that tracks the LED-equipped end of an arms-length pointer,translating the movements back intosignals that control the position of themouse pointer on the computer. Prob-ablyeasier to use than it is to describe, it' skinda like the ultimate point 'n' click

There were loads of other great thingsat the show, and aside &om the solem-nizing effect the announcement of warin the Gulf had near the end of the lastday, a good time was had by alL

PowerSoft Gives Away R000Software Packages

Close to 2,000 attendees at this year' sPacific Rim show walked away with aworking copy of PowerPay, a Canadian

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There's onlyone catch — the programthat was given away only works for fourmonths, &om the date the program isactivated by the user.

"We put something in the code," ex-plained company executive Ben Choi,and this allows the program to track thelength of time it's been used, up to thefour-month limit. At that point, usershave to decide if they liked PowerPayenough to pay $89 for a regular worhng

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&ont of the main unit.

When I unpacked the new flagship ofthe Atari line, the 68080basedTI'and itscolor VGA' PCA 1426 monitor, oneof the first things that struck me was thedesign of the casing. It looks like anarctutect'smodelofa&aturistic bungalow,or a computer designed by a bricklayer.Either way,it'sa distinct change &om thebig clunky shapes that characterize mostother brands.

Several elements ofitscompactdaignare downright clever, such as theway themonitor base interlocks with groovesalong the sides of the top of the mainunit to prevent the monitor's weight&om straining its flat surface; or the waythe detachable keyboard docks at the

In a welcome change &om earlierAtari models, the TT's keyboard has acrisp tactile response. Unfortunately, thepower switch is in the middle at the verybackof the machine, mahngitextremelyinconvenient to reach. Most users willprobably resort to powering up the sys-tem &om a power bar instead.

Accompanying the TT were a coupleof diskettes of utility software, a begin-nerMendly, illustrated manual (printedin the slightlyunusual-loohng Helveticavariant that is typical of the Atari laserprinter's GDOS output), and a quick-reference page. Of course I read none ofthem (manuals are for wimpsl), andpowered the machine up.

The 50MB hard drive began its warm-up cycle, and aside from the sound of itsfairly noisy fan...nothing. Hmm.Humbled, I read the quick-referencepage: "Press the space bar to boot &omthe hard drive." Very strange.

Back to the FeatureOnce I had that key piece of informa-

tion, the system sprang to life. The 50MBhard drive is prWormatted to autobootand load a fewmemoxy-resident utiTities,including a mouse accelerator, screenblanker and control panel. The exten-sible control panel (much like the one inMicrosoft Windows or the Mac) allowsthe user to adjust various system param-eters such as mouse acceleration speed,color preferences, and otherL

The icon used to showthestereo soundMance is particularly unique: A facewearing headphones turnshis head &omside to side as the balance adjustments

New DesktopBased on Digital Research's GEM

G raphic EnvironmentManager, the newdesktop hasbeendramaticallyenhancedover earlier incarnations of Atari ST se-ries computers. It now goes far beyond

the PC version of GEM, sporting keyboard equivalents for nearly every drop-down menu function (for example, toselect hard disk partition D: you merelytap Control-D). If, then,you decidedyouwanted that window to change to thedirectory of drive A:, you'd press Con-trol-A. However, if you wanted to openan additimsc/ window for A:, you'd tapAlt-A instead.

All key equivalents are customizable,too. If you prefer to use "A" to performthe menu function labelled "Select All"instead of the default "E" (everything?),you can — easily. If you prefer your "NewFolder" shortcut to be "N" instead of "F,"no problem.

Also improved over earlier versions isthe system's document and applicationlaunching abilities. By dragging anydocument over the icon of an executableprogram, you can force the program totry to launch that document.

If you want to display or print a textdocument, no need to launch a wordprocessor — these functions are providedby the system software.

Usersof other graphical user interfacesshould take a look at just how fast theperformance of the Tl" s desktop is. Withthe entire operating system in ROM,there are no slowdowns induced by harddisk limitations, and running at 82 MHzperformance is very peppy, indeed. (Al-though no bugs have been repoxted sofar, auto4oading RAM patches couldeasily be installed if necessary.)

In short, the Tl"s desktop is a greatpiece of work. If Atari spent some energyurging would-be Windows users to com-pare the TT's performance before theyjump on the PC bandwagon,manypeoplewould probably realize just how rich infeatures and 6Lst it is.

Hardware HeavenIn response to criticisms that earlier

Atari models lacked industrystandardexpansion and connectivity options, theTT includes several important hardwareenhancements. Provided are four ( I )serial ports, VGA-like color andmegapixel TIL monochrome video, ste-reo sound, SCSI, a VME bus and anAppleTalk network poxt.

Like its Atari ST siblings, it includes anexternalSoppy disk port, cartridge port,parallel printer port, ASCI hard diskconnector, mouse, joystick and MIDI INand OUT ports as standard equipment

Compatibility,The Tl's operating system seems very

stable and provides a good measure ofcompatibiTity with software written forPI'~ e s computers. Atari estimates that80% of the existing SI'software library iscompatible with the Tl.

In myown tests,it became evident thatcertain.-kinds of programs had more

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troubles than others. All ST businessprograms (word processing/spread-sheet/database), desktop publishing,telecommunication and utility programsI tried seemed to flmction correctly.These FI' programs july when rimning atthree to four times their "normal speed."

Less successful were ST programs thathad color graphics, animation or copyprotection. In addition„ the two top MIDIsequencers — C-Lab N o t a to r an dSteinberg Cubase — both failed, althoughthe popular and powerful Steinberg Pro24 sequencer worked without a hitch, asdid Passport"s scoring program Encore.

I was pleased to find that Digidesign'shighlandaudio samplewditing programSound Designer worked flne, too. Ma-nipulating massive amounts of digitalaudio data requires just the kind ofhorsepower the TI' can offer.

I successtully used a paint programcalled Sketch, the Script wordprocessor,Outline (a highlandvector graphicsdrawing program, approximatelysimilarin capabilities to Corel Draw or Free-Hand), and numerous PD utilities. Oneof the best programs available for theAtari ST/TT is the desktop publishingpowerhouse Calamus.

On the TI', its performance is aston-ishing. As an example, a full page ofCalamus graphics and text prints &omthe TI' to the Atari laser printer (at 300dpi) in 10seconds fla. Onlyusersof DTPprograms on any other computer canappreciate just how amazing that really

Also successfully tested were the Lotus1-2-3-compatible spreadsheet LDWPower, and Precision Software'sSuperbase database. (The TI" s internal3.5-inch disk drive directly reads andwrites standard IBM V20K diskettes,making data transfers to and from PCs asnap,)

Using STalker and STeno, possibly

available, itis reportedlyeven possible torun several different copies of STalker atonce, to utilize the TI's four serial portsfor multi-line telecommunications (if, ofcourse, you would need to have severalphone lines).

A few programs don "t make full use ofthe TI's increased capabilities. For ex-ample, even though the Tl' has an on-board math co-processor, ISD's top-ratedDynaCADD program does not currentlyutilize it, even though DynaCADD rec-ognizes an optional math co-processorin earlier Mega ST models.

However, even without co-processorsupport, DynaCADD is an excellent CADprogram, on per with IBM heavyweightslike AutoCAD. (I was amazed to discoverthat DynaCADD can even output to theRoland GVM - I s ignwutting machine

line graphics program, making it a great"vertical market" solution for sign shopsand design studios.)

WordPerfect, one of the "big names"in ST productivity sokwme, had prob-lems when I tested it, but I was informedby WordPerfect Corp. that an updatereleased December 6, 1990 is TI'com-patible. I was told by Ron Grant of GXRSystems that if you slow down the Tr'skey repeat speed, the minor problemswith earlier versions ofWP can be workedGrounds

Also, I found quite a few''games thatwere unable to nm — due, no doubt, toprogrammers "breaking the rules" tosqueeze extra speed out of their code.Somehow, though, I doubt that this is

workstation.

vided on the disks that came with the TI'

that Atari indude a few killer sound or

Mac SCSI devices.

Free AchriceA few of the sample programs pro-

are so weak, it's embarassing. I suggest

graphics demos ( there are some dandiesavailablel), demonstration versions ofCAD or DTP applications — heck, any-thing would be an improvement overthese trivial offerings. I' ll wager that de-velopers would even pay to have demosof their softwme installed on the TT'sdrive.

Better yet, Atari could take a nod lromNeXT and bundle some real applicationswith the system. More than anything,Atari needs to give people solid reasonsto buy this baby. Some may argue thatthat is the job of the salesperson, or VAR(value added reseller), but it is apparentthat to get their "foot in the door" andeven be considered, Atari has to offer aprice/performance ratio that's not justas good, but better than the competition.

Apple, as usual, is an easy mark. Its030-based Unix~pable machines arepriced thousands higher than Atari'soffering, but NeXT is breathing downeverybody's necks in the $5000 range,especially with their aggressive educa-tional pricing. I feel that the TI"s price isabout $1000 too high, but then again,the TI'offers color and a larger soflwarebase than the NeXTstation does. Plus,the TT can easily be made IBM or Maccompatible, which is something that (asmuch as SteveJobs might like to), hiscompany cannot yet claim.

Iu ConclusionIf, as the saying goes, we are known by

the company we keep, then the TI' isdestined toshowupin networked labs inhigher education and corporations; as aworkstation in graphic design studios; invertical markets like DTP, CAD andprofessional MIDI environments. As al-ways, I recommend you ensure that itruns the software you want to use.

Easy tosetupand use, the TI'isa goodexample of hassle&ee computing.

important to the person willing to shellout almost $4300 for a Unix~apable

One product that has already beenupdated for compatibility with the TI' isthe popular Mac emulation cartridgeSpectre GCR. Using version 3.0 of itssoftware, I found that Mac programswere able to directlyaccess thecal" s4MBof RAM as a 3840K Mac would, and Icould read, write and format both DOSand Mac disks &om Atari or Mac modes(a great featurel).

The TI'/GCR combo flawlessly ranevery Mac program I tried (according toa benchmark program called Speedom-eter, at speeds comparable to a Mac SE/30), including HyperCard, Aldus Page-Maker, Qmrk XPress, Microsoft Word,Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Ac-cording to Gadgets by Small, makers ofthe GCR, the TI' high-res monochromemonitor's entire 1280x960 display canbe used as the Mac desktop, as can the640x400monochrome mode of the colordis lay.

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Wednesday.Right next to Kennen's booth, and

also busy, was Microtalent Distribution,another California company and fellowtravellers with Kennen to Vancouver.Microtalent disiributes Wizardware, acollection of shareware and public do-main software that is grouped togetherby themes and called Wizpaks. They puttogether 10 disks of their best sharewareand publicware software in a particiilartopic,(e.g., children's education soft-ware) andsell the set of 10 disks, with fiveor six programs on each disk, at a sug-gestediistpriceofUS$89.95. Microtalentalso has a "hobbyist CAD shareware of-fering that sells for the same price.Wizardware is sold in Vancouver by Lon-don Drugs and Future Shop.

Did theylikeVancouver? Microtalent'sJohn Morleywill be up for the Swap Meetat the McPherson Centre in Burnaby.

"Page Me m Toronto"It's not uncommon these days te have

a pager, or to see others with pagersdutched in hand. But did you know youcan be off on business in, say, Toronto orMontreal, and still get paged by some-

A national paging service is providedby National Pagette, one of the exhibi-tors at this year's Pacific Rim Computer& Communications Show. There is onecatch, though.

"Yeu have to pay extra for it," saidStarr Ratcliffe, sales manager for Na-tional Pagette in Vancouver. Pagette, shesaid, is first to offer the national, pagingservice, which is available for certain des.tinations across the country. Paging ser-vices are not yet available for subscriberstravelling to the U.S. or abroacL

National Pagette provides telepheneanswering and page messageservicesandproducts through branches and dealersacross Canada.

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"It's not intended to replace theteacher or parent, in any way, shape orform," said company president KellyKroeker. (OK, parents and teachers,breathe a collective sigh of reliefl)"Schoolware is intended to supplementschool courses; it's better if the parentworks through the program with thestudent," he said.

Quality Learning was exhibiting itsSchoolware product at the Pacific RimComputer & Communications Show heldJan. 14-16 at the World Trade & Conven-tion Centre in Vancouver. According teKroeker, their productgeneratedalotofinterest &om attendeesat the show, both&om parents and potential dealers.

The new version ef Quality's firstpackage, Grades 5&6English, should beready to ship at the end ofJanuary, saidKroeker, with Grades 7 & 8 English readyby the end of March. These programsare undergoing final testing now.

Schootware is presently aimed at thestudent who has access at home to an AT(DOS-based) computer, with VGAmonitor. A Mac versionmaybeavailableby midyear, as well as high school ver-

Qiiality is developing, manufacturingand distributing Schoolware. Teachers,especially Manitoban Kevin G. Martin,have played a large role in the design ofthis package, and it has also been tested

Quality in tends t o d i s tributeSchoolware right across Canada. Ordershave already been received &om variousOntario communities.

Suggested retail list price is $89.95.Contact: 492-2592 (Penticton).

Great GiveawaysWhat's a computer show without pro-

motional trinkets and bags to put allthose brochuresin? Here'san incompletehst of some of the goodies that caught

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BANNERMANIA

by Robert TorrentMost people who read this magazine

take computers seriously.After all, we are business people who

look to the computer to get our workdone. When we sneak in a computergame now and then we don't talk aboutit much. Well, here is a business appli-cation that ismore firn than itshould be.

Banner Mania is dedicated to onething — producing banners, that's alL Itdoes its job superbly.

You get one disk and a thin manualwhich you don' t neecL Install it on yourhard drive or nm it straight from theoriginal fioppy. Youare escorted througha series of selfwxplanatery menue Adescription or short instruction appearswhen aselectionismadesoyoushouldn'tneed anyonline help, although itisavail-able by pressing Fl.

To start the program at the DOSprompt, type "Banner" and press Enter.Once the program is loaded, press Enteragain to get past the "Banner Mania"opening demo screens.'

At the Main Menu, you can startstraight in to create your own banner orload readyeaade banners to play aroundwith. The best thing to do at this point,however, is te select Choose a Printer.

Banner Mania supports a wide varietyof dot~trixprinters-the preferred wayto create banners. It also supports aselection ef laser printers, which are par-ticularly suited fer smaller banners orlogos. Wide carriage and color are sup-ported, too. Your printer is probablygoing to be on the list.Select your printer and press Escape

to get back te the Main Menu. It doesn' tmatter where you are, Escape will takeyou back to the previous menu.

To createyour own banner,you chooseCreate New Banner &om the Main Menu.You choose either a one- or two-linelayout, then type in your banner message

Now comes the fun part. You areguided through a series of choices so youcan make it look the way you want. First

with 34 effects on the Effects Menu such

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you select one of the 19 available fonts onthe Font Menu. You are then presented

as outline, shadow, block, perspective,balloons, etc. You can also specify a ver-

choose a variety of foreground and back-ground colors then move on to theShape Menu where yeu can define theshape of your message.There are 27differentsh apes to choos

&om, among them wedge, concave orcenvex, wavy or eventeardropshaped

That is the end of the basic selectionmenus. You now arrive at the PrintMenu, whereyou can go ahead and printoutyour banner. Butwait — your bannermay not be the right length or posi-tioned on the paper the wayyou want, orperhaps you may want to change thecolor of the shading.

Not to worry. Here you can also fine-tune your previous selections. SelectChange Colors, orJustification. You canalter the size of your letters and changethe length, &om 10% to 400%.. Is it time to print the banner? Not yet

It takes a while to print a long banner, soI suggest you preview the printout bypressing F2 &om the selection ef Func-tion keys at the bottom of the screen.

The screen will start to scroll sideways,showing how your banner will look-complete with paper perforations andtractor4eed holes. When you have seenenough, Escape back to the Print Menu.If it looks good, you can save &om thismenu before yeu print.

So can yougo ahead andprintnow? Ifthis were an ordinary program, I wouldsay yes, but it's not

To really get an idea of the wide vari-ety of ways your banner can look, selectTransmogrify, then be prepared to delayprinting up to several hours. This is thereally fun part.

This has extensive business and hu-man potential potentiaL For example,yeu could relax while your favoriteaffirmation transmogrifies before youreyes, orsetupa color monitor in a storewindow te displayyour product messagein over a billion waysRobert Tarrant is president of OfficeEvolution (767-6206)."Scheolware" educational software for

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The UllraLlte has no internal floppydrive or hard dislr„ instead using a 2 MB"silicon disk" ramdisk-type method ofholding files loaded from the externalfloppy or another PC.

I lifted the Sipwp cover over the ex-ternal port, where the system's Soppydrive plugs in. Oops. The tiny door felloff. OK, the door isn't broken, it clipsback on. The floppy drive's cable is evenshorter, a total length of six inches. Thankgoodness it plugs into the side of thefloppy drive and not the back.The drive, bundled as part of the

UltraLite package, has a capacity of 1.44MB, but also reads 720K diskettes. I wasmore than a little surprised to find thesystem'sonlyparallelporton thebackofthis unit. This means that you' ll have topack the drive with you if you want toprint anything to a Cenlronics printer,unless you purchase an optional paralleladapter cable from NEC.

Look and FeelThe UltraLite itself, once discon-

nected &om its charger and externaldrive, is a marvellously light unit thatexactly fits my notion of a notebookcomputer. A winner of PC Mayuine'sTechnical Excellence Award, the 8 x11.5 x L375-inch unit is small enough toeasily fit i n a b r i e fcase, or t r avelunobtrusively in a pile of papers. At 4.4pounds (including battery), it is lightenough to be picked up in one hand.

. I liked the keyboard feel and layout,with function keys along the top and thecursor keys in the popular inverted "T"layout at the lower right corner. Lightsare provided on the NUM LOCK andCAPS LOCK keys, and an extra ALT keycan be found at the right of the spacebar.

The screen is CGA~!andard, quitelarge, appearing as dark blue letters on awhite background, with good contrastand only a hint of horizontal interfer-ence patterns, certainly as good as mostother CGA laptop displays. When leftunattended for a fewminutes, the screendims to conserve power. Contrast andviewing angle are adjustable.

therefore limited to the amount of data

SiTicon DisksWhen the UltraLite is turned on, after

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The UllraLite'sincrediblysmall size isprimarily due to its lack of an on-boardSoppy or hard drive. With only 2 mega-bytes of "silicon disk" storage, you are

you can load into it Or are you?On the side of the unit, a (difficult to

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On-board ModemThe UltraLite comes with a built-in

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ManualsThe UltraLite comes with several

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ConclusionThe battery ran out of power after

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CONTINUED FROII P. 34profit ratio — without total advertisingspending exceeding $40,000. Solverwould provide your answer.

Like Lotus 1-2-9/G, Solver usesnonlinear programming methods tohandle a wider range of problems thanthe linear approach used in Borland'sQuattro or CA's SuperCalc.

Hypertext FunctionsDoublaclicking on a SUM function

shows how that figure was arrived at. Youcan even doublaclick on a formula con-

attached to worksheets.

referent cell.You can attach notes to cells that ex-

plain or commenton entries. Text boxes(with up to 256 unique fonts), graphicalobjects such as lines with arrowheads,circles, curves and rectangles can also be

A data consolidation feature (previ-ously only available in Excel's OS/2 ver-sion) allows the summarization of infor- .mation &om a number of worksheetsinto one worksheet For example, if threeworksheets have sales data &om differ-ent regians for the same time period, the

data can be quickly consolidated on afourth worksheet — a departmentalbudget-balancer's dream.

Great GraphsLike PageMaker and PowerPoint, Ex-

cel 8.0 supports Microsoft's DynamicData Exchange (DDE) protocol. Thismeans that 'you can embed an Excelgraph in, say, PowerPoint, where double-clicking on it will bring up Exceh Andwhatgraphsl Though not as extensive asthose of Wingz, Excel's graphing capa-bilities are clearly superior to 1-2-8's.

Custom 16color palettes can be cre-ated and graphics &om other sources

cau be imported. Charts can now beincluded directly on a worksheet, andpictures can be pasted into your 2-Dcharts, and used as series markers. Forexample, a picture of a gas pump couldbe pasted into a graph of gasoline salesand multiple copies of it stretched orstacked to represent the chart vahies.

S-D area, column, line and pie chartformats are also possible, and charts maybe sized or m oved anywhere on aworksheet, but the killer feature is this:To perform a graphical uihnf-if analysis,simply select a data series, hold down the<Ctrb key, and drag a data point aroundin the graph. Excel automaticallychangest he corresponding value in t h eworksheet. N%nf if, or what?

ConclusionMarried as it is to the Windows envi-

ronment, Excel terids to suffer, to someextent, &om the same problems that allWindows apps do. Windows is'a huge,modular operating system, constantlyswapping data to and &om disk, loadingsystem resources &om disk when RAMruns short (Excel 8.0 supports virtualmemory where available). ThereforeExcel, like other Windows apps, wantsRAM and disk space and lots of both.

Also, while technicallynotrequiringamouse, it becomes rather futile to try tokeyboard one's way around Windows, sobusiness users who prefer the lean, meancharacterised 1-2-5 will probably 'notappreciate the mouse induced benefitsthat Wmdows fans adore. Nevertheless,Excel 8.0 is a spreadsheet &om a com-

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DocumentationQuattro Pro 2.0 has a good set of

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The 486 story.• • •

echnical advancements have

affected each and every one ofus in one way or the other,Whether it be an automated

banking machine, or microwave ovens, the ef-fects are outstanding.

The computer industry has been both

blessed and brow beaten by new technologies.

Everyday we hear of new ways of doing thingsto make us either look better or work more pro-

ductively. Much of this is simple hog washand can be taken with a grain of salt, Otherssuch as Intel's i486 microprocessor, are truly

destined to shape our lives.

ogy behind Intel 'si486 processorfamily, wherethey fit into business, and why they are des-tined to become the next desktop standards,

In this article we will discuss the technol-

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expense.

The i486 is kind of the

Simply PutThe i486 microproces-

sor is simply a spruced upversion of the 386 proces-sor developed in the mid1980's. By integrating ontoone chip what before tookthree chips, and throwingin a couple splashes ofspeed enhancement rou-tines (kind of like siliconsteroids), Intel was able toimprove processing per-formance by leaps andbounds.

mini-mall of computing. Instead ofhaving three shops in three differentareas, Intel took all three stores andstuck them under one roof, added adrive through check out, and a "9-item or less" express lane.

More technically speaking, amicroprocessor, cache co-processor,and math/numeric co-processorwere integrated together into onechip. By doing so Intel was able to dothree things.

First, by putting all of the silicononto one chip, they eliminated theneed to develop pal chips to enhancethe processor's performance, Thiswas now left up to third party devel-opers to do so at their own time and

Secondly, costs could be keptdown, by only requiring a singlemanufacturing source rather than

Finally, Intel no longer had tocompete against such companies asCyrix and IIT in the math/numericco-processor market.

which the i486 introduced includePipelining and Burst Mode. Pipelin-ing technology simply breaks down

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The two other enhancements

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complex instructions into a series ofsimple ones. Resulting in dramaticperformance improvements in bothfloating point and standard process-ing. Burst Mode is a technique usedto improve the transfer of data be-tween the processor and main sys-tem memory.

The MicroprocessorSo far we have assumed that you

were already aware of what exactlythe microprocessor's function waswithin your system. Simply put, theprocessor is the heart and soul of anycomputer system. It is to a computerwhat the central nervous system is tothe human body.

The operating system which youuse (whether it be MS DOS, OS/2,MACH, Thoroughbred, BanyanVines, Unix, or Novell), is directlyrelated to the microprocessor in thecomputer. For example, the MACHoperating system used in the AppleMac (which use Motorola processors)cannot be loaded onto a machine runby an Intel processor without majormodification. L i kewise, MS DOScannot be installed onto a Mac sincethe operating system was developed

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as the math or numeric co-processorto run along side of the microproces-

In order for an application to takeadvantage of the math co-processor'scapabilities, it must have the neces-sary code built in to make the neces-sary requests. Most basic applica-tions such as word processors haveno real requirements for floating pointcalculations, thus they will not usethe math chip. Other programs, suchas CAD/CAM, spreadsheets, GUIs(Graphic User Interface), mult i-tasking operating environments, andanimation, rely heavily on floatingpoint, Thus a math chip is almost aprerequisite.

The Cache Co-ProcessorIntel created the 82385 cache co-

processor as a way to help slowersystem memory (RAM) keep up withthe incredible speeds of the 386 proc-essor. Using a buffer of high speedRAM (5 to 8 times faster than systemmemory) between the processor andsystem memory, greater system per-formance was immediately recog-nized.

The MathCo-Processor

Computers are basi-cally simple animals that doan excellent job of turningnumbers into meaningfulpieces of i n f o rmat ion.However, w hen t h e senumbers turn into complexcalculations the micropro-cessor begins to bog down.Which is why Intel devel-o edanaddonchi knownP P

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except the memory and all system ac-tivity/processing will be suspended.When the cover is reopened, the com-puter's operating status will resumeat the point the cover was closed.

MORE TO COMEAlthough the Exec 386sx/20 is

the first portable from AST, it is mostdefinitely not the last. Although notshipping, AST will also be offering a

ave you ever read an ad inthe newspaper for a carthat was perfect for yourbudget„only to be disap-pointed to see what you

were actually getting for your dol-lar? Or saw an outstanding price fora computer only to get to the storeand have a sales rep try to push youinto something different because thesystem in the paper wasn't verygoocl?

I've been witness to both of these,which would probably explain howskeptical I was when I saw the pricetag on AST Research's new Exec386sx/20 Portable Notebook. Wordin the company was that AST's firstentry in the portable market would

$4,000.00. "So what is the catch?" Iasked.

640x480 monochrome text and graph-ics resolution, the advanced CCFT(Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube)backlight provides up to three timeslonger life than older EL (Electron-luminescent) technology. The newsupertwist LCD display provides aclear, paperwhite screen that's lighterand brighter than ever before.

The high-contrast display is easyto read and the adjustable displayangle provides maximum viewing

12MHz 286 version soon.

resell at AN O f o r w e l l u n d er

Turns out the AST Premium Exec386sx/20 comes standard with morefeatures than m o s t s i m i l a r l yequipped desktop systems (only 75pounds lighter).

BIG FEATURESBorn to fly, the Exec packs a lot of

power. Boasting a 20 Megabyte light-ning fast hard drive, 2MB of highperformance RAM (expandable to8MB), an Intel 80386SX 20MHz proc-essor, 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive, in-dustry standard interface ports, stun-ning 32 grey scale VGA display sys-tem, a 3 hour internal battery, loadsof software, and a wide assortmentof options.

One of its most notable (pardonthe pun) features is definitely thevideo display system, Providing

comfort.

NO PUNCHES PULLEDInstead of simply putt ing to-

gether just another po r table ASTdecided that the comfort of the userwas of primary importance, One waythey improved this was with a Sys-tem Suspend/Resume feature.

operating state of the computer, in-cluding the contents of RAM and thedisplay, by simply closing the coverwith the po~er switch on. With thecover closed all system componentswill be powered down (or put to sleep)

Both the 286 and 386sx will beavailable with either a 20MB or 40MBhard drive. Currently, however, onlythe 20MB 386sx/20 is in mass pro-duction.

286 UPGRADEABLEThe Premium Exec notebooks are

designed around a modular archi tec-ture which separates the processorcomponent from the motherboard,This design - pioneered by AST indesktop computers- offers the abilityto simply interchange the PremiumExec 286/12's processor module witha 386sx/20 processor module. With-out compromising performance orfeatures.

AST QUALITYPremium Exec notebook comput-

ers offer the same quality, reliabilityand compatibility as AST's Premiumand Bravo desktop computers. AST'sdedication to producing high-per-formance computers combiningvalue and extra features is evident inboth Premium Exec notebooks.

This allows the user to save the

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Q. I have heard a lot about RISC micro-processors. What is the difference be-tween a RISC microprocessor and theprocessor inside my AST PC?

A. Basically you are asking what is thedifference between RISC (Reduced In-struction Set Computing) and CISC (Com-plex Instruction Set Computing)?

The primary difference (aside fromany proprietary state of the art changesadopted by RISC chip set manufacturer's)is in the way that instructions are handled.Under RISC, when an application requestsa process to be executed, it does so insmall simple chunks - known as instruc-

The theory behind RISC, is that aprocessor can best perform when it is exe-cuting smaller easier to swallow pieces.

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RISC processors are most common inworkstation type computers developedby Data General, Sun, IBM, MIPS, andHewlett Packard,

CISC technology, on the other hand,is the exact opposite. Instead of executinga bunch of small simple instructions, theapplications provide instructions that are

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more complex. The technology is mostprominent in PC's powered by Intel 80000series (not including the i860) and Motor-ola 68000 series of processors.

fied slightly with Intel'sintroduction of Pipe-lining in the i486family of microprocessors.Essentially, the application provides a com-plex instruction which the i486 processorthen breaks down and executes,

Should you have any questions forTech Talk, please feel free to send them to:

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iruses have become a multi-million dollarindustry in North America. Many Fortune1000 companies spend an absolute ton oftime, money and resources protecting their

PC investments from these annoying, not to mentioncostly, byproducts of disturbed minds.

tions that are embedded into an otherwise normalpiece of software. When the software is run, it beginsspreading itself throughout other applications, cor-rupting them and making them inoperable. The mostcommon target for a virus is the CO~, COMfile. Since the CO~ .COM is the heart and soulof Microsoft's DOS, a virus is most likely to gain thebest results by hitting it.

A virus is simply a set of programming instruc-

ample, a virus may corrupt files in such a way as tosimply change the numbers in a spreadsheet file orcertain words in a word processing document. Themoredestructive ones, such as the "Stoned" or '7erusa-lem" virus can raise havoc and make your hard driveunusable (without reformatting). In most circum-stances users think that there is a hardware problemsuch as memory faults are errors reading the harddisk, when in fact a virus is the root of the problem.

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Step 2 is a utility from Paul Mace Software,aptly title MACE VACCINE. Essentially it is a de-fence mechanism against viral infection. Mace Vac-cine prevents viral reproduction and damage bystopping unauthorized alteration of vital disk areas,including the COMMAND.COM file, and by check-ing programs for changes before allowing them to

By following this simple two step approach,you will be able to help in the war againstcomputer

Not all viruses are easily identifiable. For ex-

(Tnu»kittg PC Evolution Cont'rf from trrte» 2)The cache co-processor works some-

thing like this. Whenever the micropro-cessor reads a record or piece of data infor processing, it immediately makes amirror image of that same piece of infor-mation into the high speed static RAMcache. Upon subsequent reads for data,chances are very high that it will ask forthat same piece of data. Thus drasticallyimproving the response time between re-trieval and processing.

By introducing a built in 8Kb cachingsystem into the i486 chip, there was nolonger a requirement to rely on an outsidesource to improve processor and mem-ory relations. However, many PC manu-facturer's still include their own proprie-tary caching scheme to further improvedata throughput.

Unlike a math co-processor, the cacheco-processor is not dependent upon theapplications themselves.

THE SOFTWARE QUESTIONOne of the biggest concerns by PC

users, has been a lack of software whichtake advantage of the 386 and i486 proc-essors. This, however, is being squelchedby an on-slot of new products. Leadingedge applications such as Windows 3.0,Autodesk Animator, Novell/386, OS/2,Paradox, and Wingz, are hammeringhome the fact that the 386 and i486 proc-

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essors are here to stay.Unix users will find

the i486 a definite treat.Since the latest releases ofUnix System V for the PCare designed strictly for 386and 486 based systems, allof the software operatingunder it will as welL Someof the most infamous ofthese applications includeWordPerfect, Oracle, In-formix, AutoCAD, Lotus,and Foxbase.

I MP L E ME N T I N GTHE 486

Although originallydesigned for high perform-ance users, the i486 is sneaking onto thedesktops of everyday business users.AST's Bravo i486/25 is a perfect exampleof this. Designed as a general businesssystem, the Bravo i486/25 packs thepower of a workstation, at a price equal toor less than comparable 386 systems.

High performance users runningOS/2, Unix, Novell,3D CAD, simulation,scientific, or animation applications andoperating environments, should have nohesitation jumping right into the 486 fo-

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In brief, the Intel i486 family of proc-essors is destined to become the desktopand file server of choice in 1991. From aprice/performance standpoint it racks upimpressive numbers, and should be given

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