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From the Editor

Features

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A look at the next generation of Windows, new products and more. Fnym Neaalytec.

Monitors and Dlslllay Adapters.................................................31

Everything you wantetplto Rnow about CRTs but were a&aid to ask By 1hcdyGreen.

The real cost of computing

at do you think a PC costsl Do you

include the computer ($1,00045,000
depending on how highyowered and
feature-laden), a printer ($50045,000 running
from 9-pin dot matrix on through ink jets, up
through laser printers to PostScript high-res
lasers or color laser printers), some software
(here the range gets really wide, $100 on up) y
The kicker here is that according to a number of
studies, the upfront hardware and softwarecosts
are only a third of the real cost of business

computing. Training, support, and development

is where the rest of the money goes in a business
environment.
This is where a product range like the
Windows software environment starts to really
make sense. If a user can open a brand nevt
program and already know how to perfoim SO40% of the basic functions such as printing,
saving, setting up pages, previewing, cutting,
pasting and other basic editing function, they
are miles ahead. Repeated studies have shown
that. users of graphical user interface products
(such as Windows and the Macintosh) are more likely to use more kinds of software.
Theoretically this can translate into more productivity for the user. (I say theoretically,
because we all know office tweakers who spend more time doing tbings than getting things

done.)

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Monitors and graphics adapters need buzzwords, too. ByRocdyGreen.
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Is Windows a threat to your computer system? .......................56

Some large hard disks and disk utilities cancause Windows problems. From STReport.
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The Kaypro Rom Hell has Windows problems.By Bob Lobhyo.

HOW TO get the most out of Windows ......................................59

Windows mstallation and opthnization tips from the experts. Couytayyof Symantcc.

Ersatz Windows: The Future of DOS? .........................................65

Character-based Wmdows alternatives are growing in popularity. Why)By Graeme Bennctt.

Home is Where the Campus Is ...................................................76

Home schooling strategies courtesyof CompuServe. By Cathjyn Conroy.
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More taIes of the houseschool schoolhouse. By Cathryn Conroy.

Teachers are AmUsKd...................................................................79

A summer workshop on the Amiga is set in an idyllic island setting.By Bob Herbicon.

Windows is not the beMwndM of computing, at least in its current incarnation. It

requires a lot of horsepower to perform adequately (a fiLst 386 with a graphics c~rocessor
seem to help it move along) but it is an indication of where computing is going easier-toe
use programs with a standard interface.
Many of our feature artides this month focus on these issues. We look at Windows word
processing and how to buy a monitor for the demanding Windows environment.
Additionally, you' ll find reviews of literally dozens of Windows products in this, our biggest
issue evei'.
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to fill it out and drop it in the mail to us. You will feel much better getting all of that
personal information off your chest, and by returning the questionaire you might even win
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Trust 10 top tips to terminate "terminal" terror. By Gracmc Bcnnctt.

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NDW is a switch-hitter for Windows' Program Manager...and more. By Graemc Bennett.

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A full-featured presentation package for Windows.By Stcoc Nlcllwain.

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Software for creating diagrams, illustrations, signs, posters and more.By Daniel Wcrger.
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Check grainmar, usage, punctuafion, spelling and style of domments. By Daniel Wcrger.

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Another Mac package makes the transition to Windows.By Steve Mdheain.
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Having been involved in the computer

i ndustry fo r t h e p a s t f e w y e ars, I
congratulate you on your Sne magazine that
seems to be getting heavier each month.
There was an article 'PostScript Color
Lasers available a t S e rvice Bureaus'
(September 1991) that may have misled
some of your readers. The Canon Color
Laser Copier is not a photocopier." It is a
digital copier with a 400 dpi scanning bed
and a 400 dpi printer capable of scanning
and printing at 256 shades per pixel and up
to an 11 x 17 paper she. The price of the
units that Laser's Edge and WSHhfVG have
is $50,000 indusive; that is for the CLC and
the PSIPU, an Adobe Post&ctipt, RISGbased
microprocessor, which enables Macintosh,
IBM (and compatibles) and UNIX machines
to access it as a 400 dpi, ll x 17 color laser.
Anyone who is interested in seeing a demo
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Benndorf Verster Ltd. at (604) 2984800.
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Reflections on learning
The article "A Tale of Two Dyslezics" by
George Slade in the September issue. is
interesting...I agree absolutely with it. In
fact, as a (retired) elementary school
teacher, I feel that the computer is a
valuable tool for many situations and hnds
of people.
CoPdren have incredible persistence and
patience and will stay with an activity that
they 'enjoy.' Some feel comfortable when
there is no air of urgency, and the computer
is not often programmed to say, "Have you
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which some like by contrast with the usual
goldSsh bowl competitive arena.
The computer may afford a child the
sense of getting the whole attention which
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Sometimes n child feels success when doing

computer work, which may be a refreshing
experience if he feels he is not very good at
'ordinary' work.
Some of the educational programs are
excellent and help the harried, teacher.
Some material is better than any nonspecialist could be expected to produce.
After all, in this information age, a teacher is
becoming as much a guide as an instructor.
For people l
to write reports, stories
and such, the word processor is a gift..And
then there are people of all ages who, like
me, love toys. I still have a little giggle when
I remember having to persuade parents that
the calculator was here to stay and is not the
work of the Devil
George A. Jnmeson
Vancouver

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printers that allows them t o r e ceive
incoming faxes and print them as if your
printer wns n plain p aper f acsiminle
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The ASAP Fax works with HP LaserJet,
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January but are accepted anytime subject to
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students can choose. There is no charge for
labor, but clients may be required to buy
as the earth was.
certain sofiwnre packages to use the sofbeee
Finally, I aeated the transparent Windaws type by developed by the syudents. To help defray
using Fhotoshop's ant04iased type satbng in conjundion
with Adobe Type Manager to render the large letters in a the cost of stationary, copying nnd computer
supplies, a one-time fee of $100 is charged.
mask channeL
W ith the
mask selected via the Load Selection
command, I could adjust the brightness of only the
masked area. I madeone sectiondarker, and then moved
the mask up snd aver a bit and made s lighter version,
which partially overlapped the darker one. Both areas
allowedthe background imagery to show through,
creating the transparent look of glass.
The image at this point was 14.5MB in size when
saved as a TIFF.Amazingly, after saving it with jPEGplaint
photographic experts group) compression at high'
quality, the image wssonly 870KI
To aeate the feel eever, I exported the TIFFto Aldus
FreeHand,adding the TCP logo,body textand turneddawn pay. comer asPostsaipt elements.
The color separations were printed ce a Unotronic
300 at WySIWFG (400 W. Georgia, 604/694-5466} st
1270 dpi.

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VANCOUVER, B.C., SEPT 18 (TCP)The Illustration on title month's cover of yfie Featuring a CPU, math co-processor and
Camfwser Pa/mrwns austed usbtg Adobe Phatoshop high~peed cache all mounted on a snap@<
LO.Hen's how:
board, Q by Javell's newest PCs are designed
I started with four scanned images: a doudy sky, a to be easily upgradeable.
computer circuitboard (from a NeXTstation, if anybody
According tothe company, a range of
wants to know}, a fish, sndthe earth. Additionally, I found
systems
from 25MHz 586DX to 40MHz
sn image of s pidure frame onthe backgrounds cfisk of
Eledronic Arts' Studio B. Becausethis hanbdrawn image 485DX are available.
was of fairly low quality, I modified it almost beyond
recognition, changingthe dimensions,woodgrain texture,
color and adifing the aosskars to acme my awnwindow
frame.
In the original scan of the sky, there were some
buiklings. UsingPhotoshap's RubberStamp tool, I dceed
blue sky areas avtop af the areas I wanted to remove,
adding and movingseveral douds in the same fashion. I
also adjustedthe brightness andcolor balanceof this, and
most alber imagesasthe work progressed.
Next, I decided to fade the sky into the circuit board
image. The first step wss to fade out the bottom of the
sky image. To dothi, I aeated a maskchannel and made
a gradient fill from white to black. Where the mask is
trssparent twhite}, the sky image would shaw through,
and ss the maskfaded to soBd(black}, the sky faded out.
Far the next step, I aop pad alarge photo of a drcuitbosrd
to focus on a smaller section festuring SIMM chips and
various other drcuitry which I felt was visually pleasing. I
then fadl it in the oppmite diredion to the sky'sfade, so
that the two awld blend together.
After combining the two images, I pasted the image
of the picture frame onto the sky-and-circuits image.
Whenever sn image isgoing to be pasted into analher, it
is always best to soften its edges with a one-pixel
Festllel seneg before cutgng or copying. By 9lsbblll9
sedions of the frame's edges, I created the aoss-bars.
After a little bbnding with the Smudge tool, they looked
Bke part of the anginalknage.
Next, I added the earth by opening it ss a separate
document, seisding a sedion of black space and using
Photoshop's Similar command, which selects all
similadpcobred areas. I then usedthe hvert commandto
select all areasbut bbick
With the lassoseladion tool, I extended this selection
to indude the shaibwed areas af the earth, and, after
again feathering the edge af the seledion to help it to
merge smoothly with the blended window background,
copied this image to the dipbosrdfor pasting into the
cover Image.
Afterthe selediny the fourpanes of the window
frame, I aested acBayonalblendwhichfilled the windaws
with s glaze ofBght.
Using the Paste Into command, the image of the
earth and stars appeared behind the cross-beams,
slbwing exactplacement of the earth in tha bwer comer.
I decided to addthe fish later. I msized eachone and
made sli
ght modifications to make each one unique.
Originsgy they were to be red, green snd blue
respectively-a reference to the issue's article on RGB
monitors. I decided against this for purely aesthetic
reasons.Theywwe feathered and pastedinto (and, in the
case of the lgest, in front of} the maskedwindow frame

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Adobe's Type 1 fonts in a future version of
System 7, Image Club Graphics Inc. has

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quality as the original. The

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fonts.
Show by Kirfurs
sitahn
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Image Club president Brad Zumwalt
announced that the company's future
The first annual Vancouver Business
t ypeface development efforts will b e
Computer Show sponsored by Industrial
focussed on Type 1 fonts andas such, it has Trade and Consumer Shows, (a Maclean
stopped the conversion of its typeface library Hunter company) was held recently in
to True Type.
V ancouver.
I managed to get a few hours to
TrueType font users can stiH access the s can the show, what f ollows are t h e
company's library of over 650 fonts using highHghts I noticed.
Image Club's Evolution v2.0 product, which
By far the niftiest thing I saw hnd to be
converts between TrueType, Type 1 and
Type S. For a limited time, the company is the Canofile document storage system on
display in the Ano booth. Let me first say
offering Evolution v2.0 for only $10 to
that I think this system is flawed, if only
purchasers of Image Club fonts.
because it is not executed in MS-DOS. That
Contacc Brad Zumwclt, Image Club Graphics Inc., said, what the system does is aweenspiring. I
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guess I ha d h e a r d o f t h ese. type of
document scanning systems, but I had not
seen one in operation.
CD-ROM Update
We received a call from the folks at FM
Basically, it is a system that scans in
Waves who produced that great CD-ROM of documents and saves the image as a
clip art we reviewed in our CD-ROM edition compressed image file on a magnetooptical
in June.. Seems when we did the review back 512 MB disk. To call back an image, you
in June. we messed up on the price. In fact, simply look up a code number or short
their CD-ROM seHs for $279, not $544 as name for the file, push a button on the
previously stated. T h i s m a kes t h eir bottom of the proprietary screen, and '
wonderful collection even more worthwbfie. bmgo, your scan comes back
They should be out very soon with a new
The system sells for around $17,000 and
DTP Pro CD-ROM full of Icons, elements includes a Canon laser printer to restore
and borders.
They are also looking for a
Canadian contributor to their upcoming your documents to the paper world. There
is also a $60,000 network option. The target
CD-ROM. If you draw well and have a
market for this type of product is lawyers
portfolio of cartoons, characatures, give offices and other places with large volumes
them a calL Their number is IWOM87of documents that must be stored for long
1254.
periods of time. This system was f'ast.
The scanner can scan 40 pages a minute
Correction
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for a series of typographical errors in the ad your fisx machine). It is very impressive to
of A a S Advanced PC Services Ltd in the see this machine suck back a stack of papers
at the same speed those bank machines
September edition. Through a mixup
during the proofing stages, the wrong count out hundred dollar bills. I look
version of the ad was run. 77sc CccrpsstcrPaprrr forware to the day when I can hook that type
regrets any inconvenience this may have of system into my network and link it into an
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Apple Preparing New Mac Portable Range

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After several months o f s n ippets of

information leaking to the press, The San
Francisco Mercury newspaper has told the
A pple world what it wants to her
pie i s
readying a new range of portables for launch
this October.
The paper asserts that Apple will unveil a
bhstering array of new products at Comdex
Fall. These include a small Japanesemanufactured notebook, thought to be
made by Sony, as well as a five-pound
portable plus two heavier laptops.
Also being readied are two additions to
the high end ofthe Mac range plus a new
version of the budget Mac Classic. Both the
new highwnd machines are based around
the Motorola 68040 microprocessor.
The three lightweight portables are
bound to c a pture th e M a c m a r k et's
attention. The Sony-produced notebook is
the Powerbook 100,a 2MB RAMwquipped
machine with a 20MB hard disk. Based
around a 68000 CPU, the machine is said to
be as powerful as the exMng Mac Portable,
which tips the scales at 16 pounds.
The two lightweight portables are the
Powerbook 140 and 170. The 680804ased
Powerbook 140 comes with2MB of RAM, a
20MB hard disk and tips the scales at 8.8
pounds. This is said to be a Mac Hcx in a
portable case.

and software, and secondly, to provide a

more open architecture in areas where
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and technologies for out' customers.
One of the new Macintosh System 7.0
operating system features is TrueType,
Apple's outline font technology, that the
company claims provides users with high-

quality text on the screen and the printed

page. The agreement with Adobe will
eventually aIlow users to access both
True Type and Type 1 fonts.
Currently Madntosh users can use ~e
1 fonts in Adobe's Type Manager 2.0
program running underSystem 7, although
Apple maintains that the indusion of the
Type 1 format into the Madntosh system

The Powerbook 170 comes equipped

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ROUNDUP

Stories Carried By Other Media

WASHINGTON, DC, AUG 16 {NB)-

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stoxies carrie in other publications received knowledge and data using public~ess and
government BBS.This issueaho looks at the
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Westinghouse Science Talent Search snd a
The cover story on the September 10 PC nuclear radiation monitor which can be
Magasinc is a first look at the new, lowerused with a computer to collect sunspot snd
pxiced AT bus PS/2s from IBhL
Byte'sSeptember cover headlines Sihcon other data.
CoxsInxtcr Recefkr Nessdated September 2
Graphics' new IRIS Indigo, a hybxid 8-D
says that Digital Research is about to unveil
graphics and business computer.
DR DOS 6.0, which vail include such features
Gnupusercrhi for August 12 looks at the
as data compression and task switching.
diversity available in special interest bulletin
September 24's PC Magasinclooks at
board systems.
spelling and grammar checkers, fonts, and
September's PC Wmid looks at 77 2400
tests Dell's PowerLine 450, the first 50MHz
baud modems and IBM's latest desktop
486 PC the magazine has tested. Also, don' t
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Lotusmagazine for Septembc,r cames a "Great Operating
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"spedal report" on "1-2-8 Network Power,
Data Based Advisorfor September looks at
How to get it - How to use it."
the inside story behind the Borland buyout
The Scybeld Jhpcrxon Desktop Publishing
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a 44page premiere of "Cheat/Server Advisor."
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versions of its Quattro Pro and Paradox and generate form letters, Borland oflicials
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manage important infarmation," he added.

Referring toBorland's new lowland

versions, Stephen Kahn, vice president and
general manager of Borland's spreadsheet
business unit, said: "Borland has a heritage
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customers."
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SCOTI'S VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, SEP 6
(NB) Borland is touting its Quattro Pro
IBM p ersonal computer spreadsheet
product has outscored Lotus 1-2-5 in a
leading computer i n dustry journal's
comparison testing. InfoWrrrklrated Quattro
Pro at 6.4 vs. 5.7 for Lotus le R e lease 2.5
(" Spreadsheets on 286s,"IrcfoWorfd,Aug. 26,

attempting to trade unopened copies of 1-25 won in a drawing at the shoot out for
software won later by other group members,
to rounds of laughter by the entire group.
I nterest in t h e Q uattro Pr o/ 1 4 - 5
competition by industry professionals is
stimulated in part by the fact that Lotus is
bringing a "look and feel" suit against
Borland over thecompany's Quattro Pro
product.
The Lotus suit against Borland is over a
menu structure in the Borland product that
has the same wording and command
structure as the Lotus 1-2-5 product.
In June, a Wa)i Street 6nancial analyst
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of abstraction that may verge on patent
rather than copyright consideration."
A similar suit was brought against the
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SCO stopped marketing its spreadsheet
product and recommended customers go to
Lotus. Not so with Borland. Borland's
President and Chief Executive Officer
Philippe Kahn was reported by Newsbytes as
saying, "...It's the principle of the thing...."
Newsbytes reported Kahn said at a
meeting of the Pasadena Users Group in
July that a hierarchy of commands based on
functionality should not be copyrightable,
and it could be disastrous if they became
copyxightable. Kahn said that, in the Lotus
suit against Borland, Borland is using a
hierarchical set of commands from a Lotus
menu based on functionality.

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Borland says this marks the fourth time

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willing to pay Lotus a royalty, but Lotus especially for children. It works with PCs.
wants to say it owns those commands and no
Logitech says the mouse is ergonomically
one else can use them. "We could easily just designed to fit the smaller hands, looks like
remove that part of the program from the a friendly mouse and has two button "ears"
Quattro Pro product, and most of our users that can be set to act as one so children can
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Borland claims one million users have The mouse is installed so the child merely
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quotes PaulJones, second vice president for prevents the mouse from afFecting any other
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M an a g emen t S y s t ems mouse or trackball already installed on the
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provides the superior functionality that we the company said.
n eed, i n c l udin g e f f i c ien t m e m o r y
Vanessa Mills, p r oduct m arketing
management, high-quality graphics and associate at Logitech, said, "We developed
spreadsheet publishing.n
Kidz Mouse in response to the growing use
Q uattro P r o h as rec e i ve d an of computer technology in both the home
unprecedented 41 major international and classroom. Humanizing this technology
industry accolades and product roundup for children will help prepare them for the
victories since its introduction in October, important task of dealing with computers as
says Borland. Borland also quotes Dataquest, adults."
a market research firm, which said Quattro
The Kidz Mouse bears a retail price of
Pro is the only software product to achieve a $79 and comes with Mouseware for Kidz
20 percent worldwide market share in its software and a Kidz Mouse User's Guide
first full calendar year on the market.
written for children, the company said. It
has a 9- to 2~
se r ial adapter and is fully
Contact: Dick O'Donnell, Borland, Tel: 408/439- Microsoft plug compatible, Logitech said.
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NEW FOR PCs: Logitech

FotoMan Digital Camera

New QEMM-$$6 6.0, QRAM

2.0, Desqview Boosts Memory

utilization previously unavailable to users,

which could add as much as 115 KB to the
user's available RAM, Quarterdeck said.
"Stealth" is Quarterdeck's name for the
technology that allow users to utilize ROM
memory as h ig h R A M . T h e S t e alth
technology hides the ROM code, but makes
it available when needed, then allows the
ROM memory addresses to be mapped as
high RAM, or RAM above the 640 KB used
addressable by DOS, thecompany said.
The ROM, up to an extra 115 KB, is now
available to the user as RAM for other
purposes, Quarterdeck said. The design of
the ROM could prohibit some or all of its
use, but Quarterdeck said Optimize is

p rogrammed to look at the ROM an d

recommend to the user which Stealth
methods will work, and only attempts to use
Stealth if it cannot load all TSR (terminateand-stay-resident) or drivers into high
memory.
Gary Pope, Quarterdeck's co-founder
and
ex e c u tiv e vic e - president of
development, said about Stealth: "This
important new technology, unique to
QEMM-586 version 6.0, is compatible with
Microsoft's Windows environment."
Other new features include support for
the "suspend-resume" facility found on
many battery-operated computers, that
allows users to power up a system in an

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, AUG

15 (NB) Quarterdeck has announced that
the new version of QEMM-586 (Quarterdeck
Expanded Memory Manager -586) could
give users as much as 211 hlobytes of extra
RAM above what was previously possible.
QEMM came with Optimize, a program
FotoTouch, a Windowed image editing to automatically configure memory for the
software program.
user, so users could load drivers for mice,
Using FotoTouch, images can be stored screens and other peripherals into memory
in a standard image file format and used for above the640 KB of RAM the DOS can use
applications such as desktop publishing, for running applications software. QEMMimage databases or presentation graphics. 886 has enhanced Optimize byadding new
FotoMan can store up to 52 images on an read-only memory (ROM) detection and
internal RAM chip, and does not use any
type of removable media, as do some other
digital camera products.
Once the images are stored, they can be
transferred to a desktop, laptop, portable or
notebook computer through the computer's
serial port. No intermediate hardware is
required. Since FotoMan is a digital camera,
no special boards or frame grabbers are
required, the company claims.
The average image requires 90-100
kilobytes of disk storage space, once it has
been t r ansferred t o t h e c o m p u ter.
FotoTouch stores images in PCX or TIFF
format. The TIFF files can be compressed or
uncompressed. Fotoman uses a camcorder
screw~ount lens.
Some examples of FotoMan's use are
real estate agents capturing the image of
properties for sale; law enforcement
identification photos; pictures of catalog
items, which could then be included in a
desktop publishinggroduced catalog; and
ss";:
photos for personnel records.
Logitech says that FotoMan will be
available in late October or early November
of this year, and will carry a suggested list
price of $799 including the FotoTouch
image editing software. The user must
provide a copy of Windows 5.0.
The FotoTouch software is an improved
version of a program originally called Ansel,
which is included with Logitech's ScanMan
256 hand-held gray scale sinner. For use
with FotoMan, an additional module has
been added to support the specific features
of the camera.
FotoMan comes standard with a camera
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(NB) Logitech, best known for computer
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with IBM PCs and compatibles. FotoMan
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application right where they le& off
Also, additional support for u sing
Shadow RAM aa extended memory is
available in version 6.0, the company said.
Quarterdeck said it is also releasing
QEMM 50/60 version 6.0for Intel 80286based IBM PS/2s.
The company claims, though QEMM
works well with DOS 5.0, it is better and
easier to use than DOS 5.0's Expanded
Memory Manager (EMM). Quarterdeck said
that DOS 5.0's EMM is very similar in
functionality to its QEMM 4.1 released in
1988 in the way it functions in other
words, EMM is based on old technology.
Q uarterdeck claims t ha t r u n n i n g
QEMM-386 and DOS 5.0 together will

deliver more memory for DOS applications

in less time and effort. The strength of
Quarterdeck's argument here ia in the
Optimize part of QEMM.
QEMM-386 version 6.0 is expected to
ship in early September. Registered users of

any QEMM-586 or QEMM 50/60 version

can upgrade for $50 untilDecember Sl,
1991. Retail price for the new product is

$99.95.
The company is also releasing Deaqview
and Desqview-586 versions 2.4. Desqview
allows users to run multiple programs at the
same time in different windows on screen in
the DOS environment. Desqview users can
upgrade to Desqview version2.4 for $25;
Desqview-586 users can u p g rade to

Deaqview486 version 2.4 for $50.

Qram version 2.0, t h e c o mpany's
product for allocating memoxy resources on
IBM PCs, XTs and AT s is also being
released. The product has the Optimize
feature and allows use of Chips and
Technologies' Shadow RAM. Registered
users will be able to upgrade for $25.
Contact Charles McHenry, McHenry fk Associates,
Tel: 503/722-2382, Fax: 503/7766909.

Quarterdeck's QENIM$86 expanded

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SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, AUG

21 (NB)~
terde c k Ofnce Systems has
signed a licensing agreement with Adobe
Systems, and at the same time signed a jointdevelopment deal with Rational Systems of
Natick, Mass.
The licensing agreement with Adobe will
make available to DESQyiew/X users and
developers PostScript scalable fonts and
extensive printer support, at the operating
environment level,through Adobe Type
Manager technology.
T he joint d e velopment deal w i t h
Rational will result in the addition of systemlevel 286 and 586 shared dynamic link
libraries (DLLs), embedded 16- and 524it
DOS extenders, and v i r tual m emory
capabiTities to future Quarterdeck products.
"The Adobe Type Manager software
t echnology will b e supplied with a l l
DESQview/X systems," said Therese Myers,
presidentand cofounder of Quarterdeck.
"We have embedded this technology at
the system level of DESQyiew/X so that all
applications be i n g di s p l ayed in
DESQvlew/X windows including remote X
applications, will be able to take advantage
of highguality fonts regardless of size," she
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T he
co m p an y m ai n t a in s t ha t
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and windowing operating environment that
is a full client/server implementation of the
X Window System under DOS.
A ccording t o Q ua r t c,rdeck, t h e
agreement with Rational to will allow
programs to share 16- and 52-bit DOS
E xtenders enabling users to r u n X
Window clients and 16- and 52- bit DOS
p rograms i n a n y c o m b ination. F o r
d evelopers, the D E SQview/X system
provides a 82-bit environment with a large
address space for porting from Unix and
mainframe operating systems.
It is intended for DESQview/X to use a
derivative of Rational System's DOS 16/M,
16-bit DOS extender; and DOS/4G, the
company's recently announced 32-bit DOS
extender, to deliver these capabilities.
Dynamic Link Librariea are shared
libraries of routines, designed to manage an
array of common, generalized tasks, stored
separately f'rom an application program's
regular code. In the DESQview/X system,
shared DLL services will be performed by
the Rational Systems' technology embedded
in the system.
DESQview/X is expected to ship in the
fall, and, according to the company, will
allow users and developers a choice of
window managers; the ability to run DOS
extended applications up to four gigabytes
in size; the abibty to m u l titask DOS
applications and X Gients either locally or
remotely on DOS or non-DOS machines;

and will provide a logical growth path from

character-based DOS to industry-standard
graphical user interfaces.
Contact: Charles Henry, McHenry & Associates,
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15 (NB) Adobe Systems has announced
Ventura Software is bundling the Adobe
Type Manager (A T M) wi th t he n e wly
announced 4.0version release of Ventura
Publisher for Windows.
This marks the second major software
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bundle ATM with all its Mcicrosoft Windows
products.
Software companies are attempting to
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WYSIWYG to users transparently in Windows
applications. ATM displays on screen are

SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, SEP 12

(NB) Intel has jumped into the IBM
personal computer (PC) networhng market
with its announcement of the introduction
of 23 new products in three "families" for
the purpose of setting up l ocal area
networks (LANs).
Intel saysthe installed base of PCs with
an I n te l x 8 6 - based m i croprocessor
worldwide is 80 million and the company
wants to get into the business of connecting
those machines.
Frank Gill, senior vice president and
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Group, said, "We are at the threshold of the
age of 'Just-In-Time Business' where getting
information quickly to where it's needed is
a strategic advantage for a company."
Intel says it hopes to attract users to
these products by its name recognition and
by t o u t in g
i ts exp e r t ise a t th e

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Gill said networks have been difficult to
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Gill said.
However, Intel saysits new products will
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management.
Most significant is the fact that Intel says
its LAN adapter boards have "silicon
knowledge" inthem, so they can configure
and test themselves automatically as soon as
they' re installed, and are invisible to userL
"Users will be able to plug these products
into the network and forget about them,"
noted GilL
Intel is offering both hardware and
software, the company says. The software
includes network management software for
both monitoring and analysis. Hardware
offerings include adapter cards that support

Ethernet and Token-Ring LANs, fax cards

and plug-and-play printer and plotter
connection hardware.
Intel is even offering software to teach
new users how to use software on a LAN,
called LANschool. Intel says the software
allows instructors to broadcast program
screens and procc;sses onto multiple
networked PCs, as well as browse through
the individual student work in progress.

Canada's Stratford Software Bankrupt

Suzy Goes Under

BURNABY, B.C., SEP 18 (NB) Sixteen

months after launching its national online
service, Suzy, and two weeks after a
refinancing deal fell through, Stratford
Software has filed for bankruptcy. The Suzy
ContacL Jeanne Silsby, Hastings, Humble, Glardinl service has already been shut down.
& Freeman, 503r221-$063, Fax: 503i2214953.
Stratford's president, Thompson McKie,
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a ble t o p a y i t s c r e d i tors i n f u l l .
"Unfortunately we just didn't get into the
plus side of the book," he said, "and we
couldn't keep going."
The company'sfuture had looked bleak
since the end of August, when Stratford
announced that The Becker Group of
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Channelmark and it became primarily a
m ail order company. Over t i me, t h e
company began publishing more of its own
software and in 1989 changed its name back
to Power Up.
This year the company, which now has
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million in sales. Although the company
ships over one million of its Power Up
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Yideo LSI for Windows Released

This chip was developed by Chips and

TOKYO, JAPAN, SEP 18 (NB) ASCII
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venture of ASCII an d M i t sui Bussan Mitsuibussan Semiconductor is currently
shipping the LSI to mainly computer board
Trading, has released a video graphic LSI
(large scale integration) chip for Microsoft makers and personal computer makers. It is
expected that the application software or
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NEW FOR PCS: Aristosoft

Adds Sound to Windows

Alacrity's Windows Doc

FilelFax/Copy Board
HACKETTSI'OWN, NEW JERSEY, SEP
16 (NB) - In an attempt to further automate
the electronic Sling of paper documents,
the sending and receiving of plain-paper
faxes, and the copying of paper documents
within Microsoft Windows, Alacrity Systems
has introduced a single PC expansion board
called the Alacrity Desktop Document
Manager.
The board, which retails for under
$2,000, comes with a number of Windows
applications, and works with a laser printer
and scanner.
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PLEASANTON, CALIFORNIA, AUG 29

(NB) Aristosoft, Inc., has announced
Wired For Sound, a US$49 utility that adds
sound capality to Windows software using
the internal PC speaker. No ade n c ards
are required.
W ired Fo r S o un d l e t s t h e u s e r
personalize the Windows desktop with more
than 50 sound effects, musical cues and
voices, including a barking dog, a cartoon
bonk, a cat's meow, a doorbell and a
foghorn. These can be assigned to dialog
boxes, various types of a l er t b o xes,
application messages, system startup and
exit. A talking clock lets users set alarms
(one~ e , daily or weekly) to alert a user to
appointments, meetings, or weekly reports
due, using a Big Ben sound, for example. It
can also speak the time in 15-minute or
hourly intervals, or sound a chime.
All sounds still work while the user is in
another application, when the alert message
is buried, or in DOS. A Wired For Sound
Dynamic Link Library is included for use
with macros in such programs as Word,
Excel, and Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows.
Customized sounds are available f'rom
the company. Aristosoft plans to offer the
capability for userwreated sounds in the
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Software Handles Windows

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Technologies said its Rspool version 5.1

software corrects a problem that crops up
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Rspool lets any Windows 8.0 or DOS
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sharing system, the company said.
According toAvondale, Wmdows has for
years failed to recognize "busy" signals f'rom
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That means the application sends data for
printing, not knowing the printer is busy,
and the data is lost. The problem can even
arise with buffered printer sharing systems
when large amounts of data are sent for
printing, the company said.
Avondale, which also makes printer
sharing systems, came up with Rspool to
solve the problem. The software acts as a
buffer controlling the flow of data to the
printer sharing device, Avondale said.
Rspool 5.1 is available directly from
Avondale, Morgan said. By itself it costs
$49.95, in Canadian or U .S. currency
depending on where it is sold. Rspool is also
available bundled with Avondale's $460 PMux printer sharing system, which is also
available from K yocera laser pr inter
distributors in the U n i ted States and
through Raven laser printer dealers,
labelled as the Raven R-Link Printer Sharing
System, in Canada
Contact:
Ray Morgan, Avondale, 604/384-5000,
fax 6048884i764.

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According to the company, the product

also improves the print speed for graphics.
intensive documents from within almost all
Windows applications by up to ten times,
and printing is done in the background.
'To copy,file or fi
ax a paper document,
professionals will simply place it in their
scanner and click on an icon. Similarly,
faxes can be received, viewed, and stored
electronically with a few dicks of a mouse,
saidrim Folts, president of Alacrity Systems.
The Desktop Document Manager allow
from 200 to 500 pages of paper domments
to be stored as images in 10 megabytes of
hard disk space, through compression and
decompression of images documents at
ratios of up to 30 to 1, the company daims.
The A l acrity D e sktop D o c ument
Manager consists of an ATwompatible
controller card with built~ send/receive
fax modem, a high speed laser printer
raster intcdace, and a number of Wmdows
document processing applications.
The product supports the IBM 4019
laser printer, HewlettPackard's LaserJet IL
IID, III or IID products, and also Ofiiveui's
PG$06 laser printer. Also supported are
manual and sheet-fed scanners from HP
and Mlcrotek,
According tothe company, the pmduct
will be available t o O E M s ( o r i ginal
equipment m a n ufacturers), systems
integrators, and rescllers in the fourth
quarter of 1991.
Contact Alnaity Systems Inc., ~ 1 3 -2400)

Sun Challenges IBIN,

Apple, And INicrosoft

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, SEP 5(NB)Sun Microsystems, well known for its highpowered w o r kstation s ystems, h a s
announced that it will develop a new
operating system for computers based on
the popular Intel chip fimu1y. The current
big players in PC operating system software
are Microsoft, IBM, and Apple Computer,
with Apple software being produced only
for the company's own computers.
Microsoft and IBM, until recently very
dosely coordinating their systems saRwme
developments along the two major lines,
MS&OS and OS/2, have recently spht into
two separate wamng camps with Microsoft's
announcement that it would develop NT or
Newer Technology, a new operatmg system
compau1ile with MS&OS and Windows.
Solaria, Sunsoft's (Sun's new subsidiary)
operating system, is based on ATSIT's
vcncrablc Ullix opcraulig systcnt Microsoft
already has a piece of the Unix pie in
conjunction with SCO Xenix, and the Mark
Williams coanpany is making strMes selling a
$100 Unix done.
Many observers have predicted that
Unix will become the operating system of
choice within a few years, although this
prediction has been made every few years
since 1980 and Unix still holds a very small
portion ofthe market
Of major importance is the fact that
both SPARC (Sun's RISC workstation
systems) and Intel versions of Solaria will
use the same source code, allowing software
developers to easily port applications I'rom
one platform to the other with little or no
modification, reducing costs and decreasing
development time.
Sun reports that its software will be
available by the beginning of next year.

Xerox Intros Workstation

To Compete With Sun IPX

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SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, SEP 15
(NB) Xerox's software organization XSoft configuration as the Sun IPX.
The new 6522, which XSoft says is twice
is comparing its newly announced 6500
sedes Unix workstation, the Xerox 6522, to as fast as the Sun SPARCstaion IPC, is
available w i t h s e v e r al c olor a n d
the Sun IPX workstation.
monochrome displays. Prices start at
XSoft says the 6522 comes with the
$15,995 for a 19inch monochrome display
Xerox GlobalView software, a graphical
system, and at $16,995 for a 19Jnch color
networked environment with a graphical
user interface (GUI), and can execute 28.5 display system. The systems are available
million instrucuons per second (MIPS) in a immediately.
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(NB) Although Apple isn't talhng about,
its notebook computer to the public yet,'
Phoenix-based First Wave is making no
secret of its revised TimeMaker personal
information manager (PIM), which now has
features to complement the new Macintosh
notebook computers due to be unveiled in
October.
First Wave says it will begin shipping
TimeMaker 3.0 this month. John Glitsos,
president of First Wave, says nearly 309o of
the people requesting product information
f'rom First Wave duxing August spedfically
requested Ma c n o t ebook-compatible

text sizes have been increased to be more

readable on the portable Macs. TimeMaker
is based on HyperCard 2.0 and Reports 2.1
from Nine-To-Five software. First Wave
President John Glitsos says TimeMaker has
the same look and feel as other Madntosh
applications with p u l l -down m e nus,
command keys, and the ability to run under
System 7.
TimeMaker 3.0 is unchanged in price, at
$149 for the software, or $249 with a vin-'.
zippered binder, index tab dividers, and an
audio cassette to improve time managemer r
skills. A leather binder version is also
available for $299, and come in two size.:
feature+
and colors. Registered owners will receive a
First Wave says TimeMaker 3.0 will be
free up e
th i s month.
able to look up phone numbers when it sees
Apple has had little to say about its new
the key word "call" in an action item. The notebook computers but recent Newsbytes
phone number is appended to the action stories have reported that the unit is being
item text, and can be nut~
ed t h r ough built by Sony, and will be unveiled at
the Mac speaker or a modem.
Comdex in Las Vegas next month. The unit
Other notebook compatible features is expected to weigh between 4 and 7
include the ability to print any report,
pounds, have 2 megabytes of RAM and a 20
induding letters, envelopes, calendars, or megabyte hard drive. It is believed that the
daily schedules to a disk file or to the screen unit will use a 68030 chip and will be priced
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Monitors an

crisp ay A apters
Overview

Since I last wrote about monitors and display

adaptors in the March 1990 issue of Tks
Comptstcr Paper, prices have plummeted,
making equipment only the Pentagon could
aKord now available to everyone.
I will tell you about these new highwnd
video co-processors and about the more
mundane VGA and Super VGA systems, as
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The Sasics
omputers display pictures and text on
TV-like boxes caHed monitors. The
electronics to control the monitors sit
on video display adapter cards hidden inside
the computer.
T he key specification for v i deo i s
"resolution." If you look dosely at the image
on the screen, you will see it is formed of
horizontal lines. Each line is made up of
minuscule dots called pixels. If the monitor
has a resolution of 640x480, it means there
are 640 pixels in each line and 480 lines.
The more dots per line and the more lines
per screen, the finer and dearer the image
will be. High resolution just means more,
finer dots.
High resolufion is more expensive, but it
is not aha a good thing. As I will explain
in detail later, higher resolution can mean

smaller, harder-to-read type and slower

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If you get out a magnifying glass and
look at the surface of a color monitor, you
will see the pixels are formed of even
smaller phosphor dots, arranged in groups
of blue, green and red. When an electron
beam hits them, these tiny dots glow with
varying brightness to create the myriad
colors you see on the screen.
If you examine a monochrome monitor
with a magnifying glass, you won't see any
phosphor dots at all, j ust a smooth,
u nbroken sheet o f a m b e r o r w h i t e
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PAPER OCT '9'I 33

Fuelling the Revolution

The key f'actor that brought these new

lower prices was not a new hnd of monitor
or display adapter technology but rather a
large, resource-hungry computer program.
Microsoft Windows S.o, almost overnight,
created a demand for computer hardware
that could rapidly draw detailed, futlwolor
pictures. Up to that point, people were
satisfied with plain t ex t ( l e t ters and
numbers).
Microsoft Windows makes MS-DOS
computers behave something like the
Macintosh. You point with a mouse and
click on little pictures called icons to get
work done.
Windows created a mass market for fast
video hardware. Hardware quality shot up
and prices plummeted.

The Catch

The Video Co-processor

Finally engineers invented a t r u ly
powerful solution the video co-processor.
It is an auxihary computer very fast (e.g.,
60 MHz) spedalized just for the business of
drawing dots.
Don't confuse the video co-processor
with the numeric co-processor. A numeric
co-processor is also an auxiliary computer,
but it speciahzes in trigonometry and other
mathematical calculations.
Windows can ask the video co-processor
to "paint the phrase 'Roses have thorns and
silver fountains mud' in Helvetica 10 point
type" and the video co-processor will go off
and laboriously paint the individual dots

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Not everyone is rejoicing about this

change, however. Why?
Though it may be pleasing to look at and
more fun, the Windows graphics method is
much slower than the old text method.
Some people, such as myself, would far
sooner have a fast computer than a comely
one.
What is the problem? Why is displaying

forming the letters. Or Windows can say

"draw a yellow circle five inches across" and
t he co-processor will c a l culate t h e
mathematical c o - ordinates o f th e
circumference of the circle and Good the
center with color, dot by dot.
The 886 or 486 CPU specializes in
arithmetic and text processing. It is clumsy
at handling dots (or b i nary "bits" as
computer programmers think of them), In
contrast, the video co-processor's whole
purpose for existence is to draw dots, so it
handles them adroitly.
While the co-processor is chugging away,
the 486 CPU can go off to compute
something more interesting than just

millions of individual dots. With the two

c omputers working i n t a n d em, f u l ly
simultaneously, screen painting can really
crank along.
Unfortunately, the video co-processor
just does Windows. If there are no dots to
paint, it cannot help out with other tasks.
This means when Windows is thrashing away
at the disks, the co-processor can do nothing
to help speed things up.
Further, if you are running ordinary text
applications, the video co-processor just
twiddles its thumbs and again does nothing
to help. The two main programs where a
video co-processor earns its keep are
Windows and AutoCAD.

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graphics so much slower than displaying

text? If you don't care, just skip this section.

There is plenty coming up to interest you.
When Windows paints text, it considers it
as just another type of picture. A picture
the size of a letter "A" might contain 126
dots. Traditional programs draw the letters
o n the screen a character at a t i m e .
Windows paints them a dot at a time.
Painting by dots is about sixteen times
slower than painting by characters.
It gets worse. Now add color to this. We
now want a large palette of colors. We used
to be content with eight colors; now we
might want256 or 82,768 or more. Each dot
then has to carry with it the baggage of extra
color coding. In theory these extra colors
would slow us down about another five
time sl
W aitl T h er e i s m o r e . N e x t a d d
resolution. Let us say we used to be content
with 640x200 dots (pixels). New we want
1024x768. In the Srst case there are 128,000
dots. In the second there are 786,425. We
have six times as many dots to paint. In
theoxy we would need a computer six times
faster.
Argghht Perhaps you can see why
Windows has a reputation for slowness. You
need expensive new computers just to get
the same speed as the "old fashioned" text
mode applications.

Technology To The Rescue

Clearly something drastic had to be done
to speed things up if Windows was ever
going to Qy.
Engineers set to work to increase the
speed of the brains of the video system the
display adapter.
The computer composes the screen
image in mathematical form in RAM. A
matrix of rows and columns of numbers
encode the color of each pixel at each (x,y)
location on the screen.
So engineers speeded up the RAM on
the adaptercard. They improved the RAM
so the computer could be changing the
picture while the adapter was sending the
picture to the electron gun to display. In
older designs the computer and the display
logic took turns looking at the picture
stored electronically. This new kind of RAM
is called duakported VRAM.
They invented ways of changing several
dots all at once.
They invented faster and faster and more
expensive computers the 886 then the 486.
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mouse, you need a GUI; if you want to work
with just text you do not. Windows is the
most famous example, though there are
others such a s G E M a n d G e o works
Ensemble. Before you select your video
hardware and monitor, you must first decide
whether you are going to use a GUI.
Let us examine the reasons why you
might want one:
l. All programs work similarly. This makes
them easier to learn. Once you have
mastered your first one, the others are
easy.
2. Many new programs arecoming out for
Windows only. There is no text mode
version. For example, Ventura Desktop
publishing only works under Windows
and GEIVL
5. WYSIWYG. What You See Is What You
Get. If y o u u s e a G U I - style word
processor such as AMI or Word For
Windows, the image on the screen witt
look very much like the final printout.
You can see the type size and the font
style choices more accurately.
4. Multitasking. With GUIs you can run
more than one program at a time and
transfer information f'rom program to
program. However,you can also do that
without a GUI, even more quickly.
Let us examine why you might not use a
GUI.
1. The hardware needed for acceptable
speed is much cheaper for text mode
applications. I recommend at least an
SX with 4 MB of RAM to experiment
with Windows. To use it seriously I
suggest a 586 DX 25 MHz or better. In
c ontrast, f o r ma n y t e x t m od e
applications an inexpensive 12 MHz AT
80286 will do fine.
2. GUIs use decorative, proportionately-

spaced fonts. These tend to be smaller

and harder to read than text mode
fonts.
5. On the same hardware, a text mode
application will run much faster than
the equivalent GUI program. If you are
a quick typist, the slowness of the GUI
may irritate you. For me, even with a 55
MHz 486 and the fa stest video coprocessor on the market, Windows is
barely responsive enough. Then, many
people c o n sider m e u nus u ally
impatient.
4. Your application may only be available
in text mode: e.g., most accounting
programs are available in text mode
only.
5 . Th e m o use i s f un , b u t f o r m o s t
operations, it is slower than using the
keyboard. GUI applications do not
always have Stat keyboard shortcuts.
6. GU I software is new and extremely
complex for developers to write. Usually
GUI programs have more bugs than the
wettweasoned text mode equivalents,
7. GU I control software is much more
complex to install than th e older
character mode equivalents. GUIs
requires much tweaking and fiddling to
get them working. However,once the
base is working, adding new applications
is easy.
8. Playing with a mouse and pointing at
little pictures might strike you as
undignified, effete or childish. In other
words, you might lack the manual
dexterity to control the mouse.

Text Mode
Let us presume first that you choose a
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monitor.You can choose a papermhite on precisely emulates the IBM VGA card. A fast choose a color scheme such as dark yellow
black or an amber on black 14" monitor. VGA card such as the ATI Basic will cost on pale green, which displays as pale gray on
The letters will be exceptionally crisp, just as about $106. This will give you 640x480
pale gra~ o m pletely unreadable. You have
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to tweak the various programs to use color
more. It can also show 720x548 graphics. It
You can pair that card with either a gray schemes that display proper contrast in gray.
cannot do color or shades of gray. A good scale monitor one that shows images in There is no general mechanism to do this
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as the Diamond Flower will cost about g8.
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get a Samtron or Samsung Gray-scale
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an image in the same league as monitors
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If you are a salesman and plan to use
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to look at the $900 Zenith flat tension
monitor. This monitor has a perfectly flat
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of any monitor I have ever seen. It is like
watching a m i n i ature movie theatre.
Unfortunately, it is VGA only. It cannot do
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GUI options
If you have decided you need graphics
there are three main categories:
1. Graphical user intedace (le., Windows)
2 . Desktop P u b lishing a n d r e l a t e d
applications
5. AutoCAD and'other high~ d graphics
applications
Each has its special needs:
Wmdows primarily needs speed and
color.
Desktop Publishing needs a tall screen.
There is no need for color, unless, of
course, you plan on publishing in color.
There are special screens and adapters for
desktop publishing. If you do desktop
publishing professionally, it is important
that you see your entire layout at once on
the screen. You cannot afford to waste time
scrolling the image to bring only bits of it at
a time into view.
AutoCAD needs a big screen, speed
and color. AutoCAD also needs plenty of
computer power a 486 with its built-in
floating point calculating engine.
The options are VGA, Super VGA,
Graphics Co-processor, interlace, noninterlace. If you buy any of these highwnd
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So you either tell your expensive video
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Interlace
Interlace makes some people's eyes start
to bleed after a few minutes of viewing. I
exaggerate a little for effect. Some people
cannot tell the difference. It depends partly
on lighting. Overhead fluorescent lights
make interlace even worse.
Whatever you do, test the monitor with
your own eyesbefore you buy interlacel
What is interlace) A monitor works by
directing a beam of electrons at the screen.
It waggles it back and forth like an ox
ploughing a field, fi om top to bottom. What
happens when you increase the resolution)
You increase the nuxnber of lines on the
screen. The poor electron beam has to
waggle much faster than before to get the
screen done in time. In fact, it might even
have to waggle twice as Bast. To keep up with
the beam, everything in the monitor has to
work twice as fast. Guess what that does it
makes it much more expensive, because all
the components must be rated for twice the
speed.
To bring the costs back down, engineers
devised a way to get away with cheap, slow
components. These interlacing monitors do
the even lines in one pass, then go back and
do the odd lines. This way the electron
beam has effectively twice as much time to
do its work The catch is, at least to my eyes,
the screen swlms and jitters.
Interlacing applies both to the video
card and to the monitor. Some cards and
xnonitors can work both ways, some do not
interlace at 800x600 but do interlace at
1024x768. You have to make sure your card
and monitor match.

How to Pick A INonitor

You must choose your video adapter card

and monitor as a pair. They must be closely
matched for resolution and interlace/noninterlace. You can even damage your
monitor if the card is not closely matched.
Buy them both Rom the same dealer. This
will save you headaches later if there is
trouble. You will not have to deal with two
dealers blaming the other for any problems.
Treat the specs with a hefty ymn of salt.
The Matsushita Viewpexfect and the NKC
5D have almost identical specs, but the NKC
monitors have a much steadier, clearer

Your monitor i s on e o f t h e m o st
expensive parts of the computer. You
cannot afford to make a mistake.Spend
some time in front of it typing. Dexno
software usually showspictures of birds,
volcanoes, girls, etc., but most of you will
not be using your computer to look at
digital photos. Run the programs you plan
to use. Txy reading the text m the corners
of the screen.
Visit various shops to see your proposed
monitor under a v a r iety of l i g hting
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Video Co-processor
The purpose of the video c~rocessor is
to help speed painting dots on the screen.
High resolution means more dots, so then
you need a processor morethan ever.
There are three main classes of coprocessor:
1. Texas Instruments TI 54010 chip;
2. faster Ti 54020 chip; Intel i860
5. dones of the IBM 8514 coprocessor.
A Canadian company, ATI, came out
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than nearly all the competitors and are
much cheaper.
Though coyrocessor prices have come
down drastically in the last year, they are still
not cheap enough to use routinely. Be
patient. They soon will be.

wear glasses, you will find soxne monitors

cause eyestrain. Find out before you buy.
Listen for a high-pitched whine. Men
often cannot hear the noise, but it drives
women mad. Make sure the monitor you
choose is su6iciently quiet.
A xnonitor is like a TV, using a giant
vacuum tube to create the picture. Lowquality monitors tend to be delicate, fussy
things needing service adjustments to keep
a sharply focussed picture. Look for a twoyear warranty, and ask others how well
theirs have stood up. PC Magasine and Qte
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Without the driver, the card is useless)
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Other companies provide new drivers
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worhng dxivers with the card at the dme of
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Monitor Specs

You can use specification sheets as a

rough guide t o n a r ro w d own which
monitors you might want to consider, but
don't use them to make your 6nal dedsion.
Use your eyes.
The dot pitch is a number such as .28
mm. On the f'ront of the screen are millions
of dlly red, green and blue phosphor dot
that glow when the electron beam hits them.
These are the smaller dots that compose the
bigger pixels. The dot pitch is the disusnce
between the phosphor dots measured in
millhneters. The amaner the number the
better. Thus a.% dot pitch is better than a
.81. The nner the dot pitch the smootherloohng the image. About the best you will
ever see is.26 mnL
The htsrlsontal frequency in kHE is how
many thousand times a second the electron
beam can dart from side to side. The faster,
the bigger the number. The bigger the
better. An ordinary VGA card is 51.5 kHz.
The vertical freqssency in Hz is the
number of times a second the beam can
plough its way from top to bottom of the
screen, wagghng from side to side as it goeL
The faster, the bigger the number. The
bigger the better. An ordinaly VGA card is
70Hz.
VESA
Interlace means the beam takes two trips
I exaggerated when I said super VGA has
no standards. VESA, the Video Electronics to scan the entire screen; non-interlace
Standards Association, has denned a super means the beam scans the entire screen in
VGA standard for 640x480 with 256 colors one trip. Non4nterlace is better.
and 800x600 with 16 colors. However, for
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You cannot even count o n a V E S A- artide, remember this. Trust your own eyes,
compliant board having alt the VESA modes not the speci)3cations or the experts. You
since all the modes are optioslal. There is want to use your applications, running on
not even a validation suite to check if a
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EGA IBM enhanced coloradapter: 640 x

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IBM's EGA standard was a precursor to
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Grayscalo An analog monitor that can

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on black,amber on black, green on black,
or vatious shades of gray grayscale. There
are digital TTL monitors whose control
signals are either on or oiF, and there are
analog monitors whose signal voltages vary
continuously allowing them to express fme
shades of color or gray.

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Monochrome Literally on~olor. This as

alternate name for an amber or paper-white
TTL monitor. Sometimes erroneously used
to refer to VGA grayscale monitors.
Palatta The set of possible colors an
adapter card can display. Usually, it can only
display a limited number (e.g., 16) of the
possibiTities at any one time.
NTSC stands for National Television
S tandards C o mmittee b u t i s mo r e
commonly known as Never The Same Color.
These andent monitors had lowquality TVlike images suitable only for games.

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second the picture is refreshed on the
screen. 60Hz is average. For some people,
anything less creates an annoying flicker. To
test the effect, look at a screen that is mostly
white background.

exhibiting...

RGB Red, Green, Blue monitors can

display only 16 difFerent colors and again
are used mainly for games. They work with
the old CGA cards.

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Suisar VGA IBM invented VGA, then to
everyone's irritation, refused to invent a new
improved high resolution version of it that
everyone could copy as a standard. So each
manufacturer went off on his own designing
his own enhanced version. Even when two
manufacturers both chose to do 1024x768,
they each did it a slightly different way.
N one o f
t he s e e n h a ncements a r e
compatible with each other. This hodgepodge of various higher resolutions is
known collectively as Super VGA.

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colors white on black, amber on black or
now rarely green on black It works with a
Herc card, but not with VGA cards.

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Assodation. Having all thc super VGA cards
incompatible with each othe;r made life
impossible for computer programmers.
They had to write special versions of their
programs for every different brandi So a
group of manufacturers(known as VESA)
got together to hammer out a common
standard. The politics and jockeying for
position meant the only things that VESA is
ever able to standardize are already out of
date.

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card can do three things: display text, allow
custom screen fonts, and display pictures at
$20 x 200 with 256 colors from a palette of
262,144, or 640 x 480 in 16 colors. Nearly all
software written works on this type of card.
Nearly all the fancier types of card can also
pretend to be a plain VGA card. Requires a
grayscale or color analog monitor. Can also
be used with the more expensive variable-

@ equency (multi~c, multsscan) monitors.

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And now, for your viewing pleasure...

More Aholit M o n i tol s

iy GrwomoBoaaerr
s you' ll discover when shopping for .25mm. The lower the numbers go, the
monitors and video cards, there are better. Generally, you should avoid anything
higher than a .28 dot pitch.
everal display standards (for a
discussion of the most popular of these, see
Of course, to take full advantage of
Monitors O' Display hdapton in this issue). higher resolutions, you' ll need a premiumSome video cards offer more colors or priced video card.I am always amazed at
higher resolutions, which you must match to how many people plunk down $8,000 or so
the monitor's capabilities.
for a hot~tuff computer, and then scrimp
Many of today's video cards and socalted on the display by buying a cheap monitor
multisync (rnultiscanning) monitors can and bottomwfWe-line video card.
Categorically, I recommend that you get
adapt to a variety of display standards ideal
for times when you want to run software for a high-performance video card with some
which no driver exists for a particular mode. sort of outboard acceleration, especially if
Another consideration is the size, or you plan on running graphics-intensive
pitch, of the dot elements that make up the programs like Windows 3.0. The difFerence
display. This s~alled dot pitch is a major in performance over "basic models" is quite
factor in how sharp the display appears. A shocking, as you start to r ealize that
great monitor can have a dot pitch as low as Windows isn't as inherently slow as it

Laptops
Notebooks
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On the subject of dot pitch, I notice that
at many computer stores, the advertised
prices for the "feature systems" usually
consist of malty lowland video monitors and
g raphics adapters. ( A d i stributor o f
monitors with a dot pitch of .41 (deafly badl)
told me that he sells a thousand a month!)
At one store I shopped at recently, the
salesperson easily sold me on the idea of a
"only $160 more" VGA color display instead
of a VGA monochrome one. Unfortunately,
the VGA color display featured a .39 dot

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Tower Models

Technologies, Oak, Trident Microsystems,

Tseng Labs, and Video Seven have good
repuations for compatibility.
For other brands, ask your dealer
specifically if i t h a s d r ivers for your
programs. Remember, too, that even if the
obscure brand is "compatible" with a big
name, you will usually find (as with most
things in life) that you get what you pay for.

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appears on most systems

the bottleneck is
in the screen display.
There is a direct relationship between
the number of colors displayed and the
speed of screen redraws. Again, to use
Windows as an example, you might have a
video card and driver that supports 256
colors. You can use the Windows Setup
option to reconfigure your system for less
colors (i.e., 16) to approximately double
your screen<rawing speed. This makes
Windows a lor faster. When you need the
extra colors, just choose the 256color driver
from Setup again. Your dealer can probably
help you set up this simple procedure.
Be sure that the video card and monitor
combination you choose is supported by the
software you want to run. Big-name brands
l ike A T I , P a r a dise an d G e n o a a r e
compatible with nearly all PC applications,
while some obscure ones may not be.
Generally, any video card with a chipset
from
G e n o a S y stems, H e adland

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COMPUTER INDEX

omputer Configurations
Qyatena

Lotus, dBase

& Upgrades

Ashton-Tate Dbase IV 1.1 ......... S450.00

Lotus 123 3.1 ...............,............... $399.00
Lotus 123 2.3 ............................... $337.00

286-12 ...............489
386sx-16 ...........659 386sx-20 ............693
386dx-25 ...........799 386dx43c ..........891
486sx-20 .........1089 486-25C ...........1420
48643C ..........1698

AST, Compaq, Everex,

NEC, Toshiba, Zenith, Zeos
AST PremiumExec.386SX/20MHz
40MB Notebook .................$2,988.00
Compaq LTE/386SX/
20MHz 60MB Notebook..... $4,390.00

1MB RAM, 1A4MBFD, 40MB HO. I/O (as,

388dx-25 ...........356 386dx-33c .......... 440

486sx-20 ...........689 48Msc ..............999

Compaq 486/25MHz/

120MB EIA DeskPro .......... $6,295.00

Everex Tempo LX/386SX/
16MHz 20MB Notebook..... $2A78.00
Everex Tempo LX/386SX/
16MHz 40MB Notebook ..... $2,798.00
NEC Prospeed 386SX/
16MHz 100MB Laptop ........ $2,850.00

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40MB .................182 Fujitsu 90MB ......299

Quantum 52MB.235 Toshiba 105MB ..366

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Super VGA ........325 14" mono ............125
1.44or1.2MB FD68 1MB'9SIMM........65
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spin ..................178 24pin .................285
16 Math Co.......149 33 Math Co........240

Toshlba T2OSX/16MHz/

100MB Notebook ............... $3,700.00

Toshlba T32008XSpecial/5MB RAM/
Math Co.. 120MB Hard Drive,
Leather Case, 1.5MB Standard
Expansion Slot .............,...... $3A98.00
ToshlbaT5100/386DX/16MHz/
100MB ................................. $2A50.00
Zenith Sufersport 386SX/16MHz/
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There are other considerations when
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Ami Pro 2.0 Outstanding

The evolution of wordyrocessing tools

started with our own hands laborious longhand then to the mechanical but still
brutal manual typewriter, then to the more
civilized electric typewriter. Finally, we saw
an electronic tool, the computer, which can
wipe out mistakes before they ever touch a
page. Character-based word-processing
started with the 40column, all upper~ac,
monochrome display ofdedicated word
rocessors. The 40-column barrier was
roken to a give a more page@Re 89column
screen. But word processing programs were
still too complex for most users, and there
began an evolution toward user-friendly
programs. Color monitors became available
and now pretty yet practical graphical user
interfaces are abundant.
Reviewers seem to demand more and
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stylewhecker, grammarwhecker, dictionary,
and animated encyclopedia, but also a
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wanted a program to have picons and objectoriented word-processing tools. I wanted
not just a color palette, I wanted a spectrum
palette with all the colors of the spectrum
including infrared and ultraviolet. I wanted
a screen developed to be as large as my
ideas. I wanted an intuitive AI chip on the
motherboard that would not only obey my
commands but would also anticipate them.

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The icon palette can be placed on the

top, bottom or to the side of the screen, or
can hover about the screen in a floating
menu. The icons are tiny 5-D chips that can
execute functions with a dick of the mouse
button. Lotus calls these mini icons picons,
and I agree that they are more like pictures
than the icons found in other Windows
applications. If you can't Snd that perfect
icon foryour macro, you can also create
your own BMP Sle then import it and Ami
Pro scales the image down to icon size
automatiadly.
There is a subset of icons called Smart
Icons that are ready to be assigned to
macros, either f'rom the collection of over
500 macros Ami Pro 2.0 provides or to one
of your creation. Perhaps, Ami Pro's multipurpose icons are also a move in the
d irection o f obj e c t -oriented w o r d

processmg.

Power Fields in Ami Pro are more

powerful than the bookmarks, templates
Well, instead of dreaming about word and annotations of previous Windows word
rocessors I should be thiinkmg more about processors, as they can be crosneeferenced
ow to get the most out of the terriSc word with text, they can perform sorting, and
processors in existence and in development. keep track of automatic numbering. For
Now, enjoy the haxvest of 1991's Sne crop of power power Selds you can assign the power
Windows word processors. (The programs Selds to macros.
that were not available for review have been
included in the Windows Word Processors

Smnmaxy chart on page 55.)

Smart icons Ix Power Fields

Word's Object-oriented Word

Processing
Microsoft Word for the Macintosh was a
very successful product; it introduced users
to a ruler bar to adjust margins, indents and
tabs easily. Also there were simple-to-use
pulldown menus, online help, instructional
dialog boxes, the ability to impoxt gxaphics,
and many other features. So it was natural
that Microsoft ported Word onto the PC,
when the W i n dows environment was
created. Word for Windows' innovations,
like hypertext help and multitasking,
became standard gear for all Windows word
processing wannabee.
Word for Windows also managed to
transfer the power features of its characterb ased mother, M S W o rd , t o i t s n e w
intexface, i.e., stylesheets, outlining, merge,
macro record. A feature that Word for
Windows is still paramount in is their macro
language,
t hus,
f or
power
users/programmers, Word for Windows is
still considered the best investment.
MS Word for Windows v. 2.0 is in beta
test now, and although the opportunity to
see a demo at Microsoft came too late for
the October deadline, the new version is
reported to contain object-oriented word
processing. B y o b j ect-oriented word
processing, I mean that words that needed
to be cut and pasted back in again through
the Clipboard will now be selected with the
mouse and then dragged into the desired
position in the text.

Equation Tool

The most exciting feature in Ami Pro

was the equation editor included with this
p rogram.
Der i v e d f r o m t h e u l t r a
challenging typesetting program Tex, this
equation editor solves the problem of
entering the formulae, Greek letters, and
symbols on multi4evels that mathematicians,
engineers and other scientists need to do
without having to leave the word processor.
Each symbol has its corresponding
picon, which is simply clicked on and the
summation, radical, integral, upper- lowercase Greek letter, etc. are inserted into the
body of the text.

Charts, Drawing Tools, Clip Art

A mi P r o' s c h ar t f e a t ure i s v e r y
impressive. The only other word processing
package that indudes charting is MS Works
for DOS that makes bar graphs, graphs, and
pie charts, but MS Works is more an
integrated ofSce package than a true wordprocessor and certainly could not create the
professional results that Ami Pro now can.
Twelve types of charts can be made from
your data: column or stacked column, bnr
or stacked bar; line or area; line and picture;
pie or expanded pie; and picture or stacked
picture.
If you wanted to do a quick pic in Ami
Pro, then you could just select the drawing
tools and go for it. A m i Pro has some
rudimentaxy lines and even a Bezier curve in
its toolbox.
Ami Pro also comes with 100+ Clipart
pictures. I found a wonderful leaf motif for

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indicate which level you would like the title
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be mentioned as it is easier to use than the arrangement with Samna (before they
competitive packages. To create an outline, became part of Lotus), to use the code of
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from its intc.rface to the ample sample
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Grammatik for Windows was induded with
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Here is a hst of what to expect by the end
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years of gestation are nearly over for this

elephantine company. WordPerfect for
Windows is advertising an upgrade from
WordPerfect 5.1 for $19.50 (manuals are
$50 extra). The advertisement also claims
that there will be no need to convert your
5.1 files into the Windows version, as it will
be a direct transfer. The interesting feature
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that you can customize and place where you
want. WordPerfect for DOS is still selling
enough to rank in the top three retail
Just Write
s oftware packages, so i t l o ok s a s i f
For the Smaller Budget
WordPerfect have a dominant and eager
Symantec's Just Write was featured in 1%c market that could soon eclipse Microsoft
Ccrraprotcr Palpcr in August '91, where I Word for Windows.
pronounced the program as being "just
right." At less than half the price of the
tjwlcrosoft Word for Windows 2.0 As
other commercialpackages, you do get a mentioned above, this version will have
full word processor. True, it's short on the spc;dal text dragging and probably a whole
deluxe features such as a macro language, lot of cool stufF that thc,y haven't leaked yet.
but it does include auto TOC and auto
indexing, table~aking, auto hyphenation, Wordstar for Wi n d o ws
Wordstar
auto foot/endnotes, outlining all for only adopted Legacy as their interim Windows
$199.
word processor. The new version will have
m ore WordStar compatibility. U s e r s
The Winner Is...
comfortable with the key codesof WordStar
I used to recommend MS Word for will appreciate the addition of those in the
Windows as the b est W i ndows word Windows version. Also, the company hopes
processor, but now I have to say the wiimer to include a macro language, which would
of this bumper crop is Ami Pro 2.0 for the bring it up to speed with Microsoft Word for
moment as there are, some exciting Windows and Ami Pro. 0

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p rograms about t o b e
released that may be even
better. But then everyone
has different needs, for
instance, my cousin, Kathy
Carney, w h o
re c e n tly
m igrated
fr om
her
Rainbow computer to a
566. While Kathy wants to
be progressive and use her
Windows 5.0 environment,
she f i n d s
W o r d f or
W indows
dif fi c u l t .
WordStar for Wmdows may
be a betterchoice for her
as she has used WordStar
on the Rainbow for years.
H ave a l ook a t al l t h e
Windows word processors
you can before you buy, as
there is now more than one
or two to suit your needs

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RAM: 1MB
Operating
Speed: 16 MHz
I.D.E. Drive: 45 MB
Floppy Drive: 1.2 MB
Video Card: 800 x 600 VGA
Monitor: 14n Colour VGA

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Some computer companies charge hundreds, even
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What we are sure of is that you' ll be satisfied with

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OCT '91

Sharewrare:

Ward Processing
and VVindows

n keeping with this month's th eme o

word processing and Windows, we
present a selection of the best, most
popular word processing and Windows
shareware. This list is not exhaustive, but
every product listed is of high quality.
Evaluation copies are available from
shareware vendors and telephone elecrronic
b ulletin b o ar d s y stems ( B BS's) i n
Vancouver an d t h r o ughout Western
Canada.

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l The Raven RF-250 telephone

answering system/facsimile is
perfect for any home or oIIlce.
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What is Shareware?

l The BJ-10ex Bubble jer printer,

compact R light. Put this one
in your briefcase. 50% o8' reg. I

price ($480) when purchased

with the Intra NoteBook.

with other ~

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I 386-25 MHz DX
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Limit one coupon per item purchased. %bile quantities last.

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Shareware is software distributed on a

"try before you buy" basis. Buyers get an
evaluationcopy from a friend, mailwrder or
store vendor, or electronic BBS. After a trial
period they rlecide if they want to keep
using the product. If so, they should register
'it, a polite way of sayingpay for it.
Shareware is usuallyless expensive than
commercial "shrink-wrapped" software.
Shareware
all o w s
indep e n d ent
programmers to m a rket t h eir w o rk.
Unfortunately the shareware market is
cluttered with a lot of junk, plain and
simple. Sorting wheat from chaff is an
annoying chore,
To solve this problem lyreGnsprrrcr Paper
presents this short catalogue of good,
reasonably priced shareware. Prices are
current as of this writing but subject to
change without notice.

Nerd Processing Shareware

1599=;;... r'

Hxpirea 10/31/1991

hy Canby Yerrrrg

Tel: |',604) 9'88-9'823

PC-WRITE 3. 0 b y Q u i cksoft, I n c.
Registration $129US + $5US postage and
handling. Registrafion brings latest update,
technical support aud a manual. Qncksoft
offers you a $25US rebate for new
registrations quoting you as their initial
source.
A large, powerM, popular, fu114'eatured
word processor. Menu driven with a
110,000- word spell ch ecker. Special
features include mail merge, typewriter
mode f or addr e ssing envelopes.
Competitive with MS-Word, WordPerfect,
aud other major word processors,but for
much, much?ess.
PC WRITE LITE L01 by Qwicksofr, Inc.
Registration $79US + $5US postage and
handhng. Regislration brings latest update,
technical support and a manual.
Smaller version of PCWrite. Good for
users with a main computer and a portable
who want a smaller version of their word
processor on the portable, or for users who
-don't need all the features of a full package.
PC-OUTLIN E 3 . 3 4 b y B rown Bag
Software.
Re g i s tration $49.95US.
.Registration brings a manuaL
] Ezcellentt This package makes outlines.
Its flexible, interactive operation turns a
computer into a powerful brainstorming
,tool. Organize and develop ideas, make
,outlines for writing, make lists or plan
,activities. Then output detailed hard~opy
,.outlines, or cut and paste oudines into your
. word processor. Can run memory-resident,
@EDIT ADV ANCED b y SemWare.
Registration $44US + $3.00US handling.
Registration brings technical support, lowcost updates, and a manual.
@Edit is a text editor for editing Des.
Features a full r a nge of t e xt-editing
functions, including macros editing and
split windows allowing work on more than
one file at a thne. PuJIAown menu driven.
Very popular;

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SUM M A R Y OF THE TOP WINDOWS W O R D P R O CESSORS

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System Requirements: IBM or compatible with
286 or higherprocessor, MS Windows 3.0 or higher, 1 Mb memory (2 Mb recommended), DOS 3.1
or higher, monochrome or colour monitor (CGA,
EGA, VGA, MCGA, Hercules), mouse is recommended.
Price: MSRP$399
Of Interest To: Windows users in need of a project planner that is quick and easy to use.
Key Features:,Starter Schedules; custom viewing
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resources and costs; keep notes on tasks; custom
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.WK1, .TXT and .CSV files; copy presentations to
other Windows applications; supports file locking;
use on single computer or install as a network
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Overview
n Target creates project plans from
an outline of tasks that you enter on
a spreadsheet. Multiple projects am
be entered in a master plan so you get a
complete picture of what needs to be done.
Plans am be viewed two different ways, Time
Table and Work Flow. IndiYidual tasks can
be linked with other tasks or to resources.
Resources related to projects (people, costs,
etc.) a r e
st o re d in the Res ource
Spreadsheet. When a task is changed, On
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that the change affects. The reports indude
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On Target uses many standard features

found in personal information managers,

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jects. It combines these features with projec
outlines that organize your plan. Most fea
tures are easy to figure out. For instance, ag
you have to do to lengthen a task time i !
stretch the task bar on the graph.
On Target's performance on a 386S1(
was good butI do not recommend running
this on a 286. Many Windows application!
cannot berun efiiciently on a 286 and On
Target was much too sluggish when tested
on a 10 MHz 286.
The key to On Target is its links between
tasks and resources and its rescheduling and
recalculating abiTity. On Target can auto
matically or manually reschedule and recal
culate relevant tasks when one task h
changed. Plans always change, and revising 8
schedule in On Target is simple. Linking
tasks and resources also allows you to man
age resourcessuch as people and costs. Foi
example, you can assign tasks to people and
then get an individual'6 schedule to see ho
their workload is and whether you can
assign them any more tasks.
Presentations are profemonal looking
and are dear even with black and white
pdnters where colors cannot be used to dis
dnguiah certain parts of the report. But ta
get the most from reports, a color printer
should be used. Reports can be oversized
(e.g., 2 pages by 5 pages), such as the
monthly wall calendar. The print preview ii
makes it easy to view large presentations
before printing.
Does On Target make project planning
easier and faster? I don't see how it cannot
AII you do is enter the task information and
create relationships between the tasks and
resources aud On Target does the rest. For a
first tr)r this is Version 1.0-0n T a rget ii
missing very little. I look forward to seeing
what future versions have in store. 0

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IS WINDOW S A THR EA T
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he Windows 5.0 environment, with its

greatly improved interface, memory
management,and developer and user
capabilities, gained near-universal acclaitn
when it was released by Microsoft on May
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But now, thousands of users around the
country are asking the question: What is the
REAL price of using Windows 5.0P In
addition to the more mundane problems
affecting any major new software release,
some users are reporting serious difficulties
with Windows 5.0. And some have had disk
failures and file losses because of severe
incompatibilities between Windows and
certain large hard disk drives and disk
formatting programs.
The underlying r eason fo r t h e se
problems is that some routines in Windows,
for performance reasons, bypass DOS disk
services (and associated disk utilities like
Disk Manager and SWBIOS which change
the way disk writes occur in n o rmal
operation) and write directly to disk
through BIOS. Symptoms of the resulting
discrepancy range from mild to severe, with
file systems damaged and data lost,
Yet, in it s general publicity and
documentation for Windows, Microsoft has
u tterly failed t o w a r n h u n d r eds of
thousands of affected users that their
programs and data are vulnerable to these
problems.
Nowhere in the Windows 5.0 manual or
in associated literature (such as the
Hardware Compatibility List) are these
limitations mentioned. For example, the
Windows 5.0 manual (pp. 515514) strongly
encourages optimizing hard disk interleave,
which "can drastically improve your system's
speed." But there is no waning about the
The publisher of Disk Manager software,
Ontrack Computer Systems, is reported to
have determined the following to be true
and verifiable: 1. If Windows 5.0 is used on a
586 computer which has a hard drive with
m ore than 1 0 2 4 c y linders an d o u r
DMDRVR.BIN is being used to allow DOS
(and of course Windows) to access that
portion of the disk, then the "[886enh]"
section of the SYSTEM.INI file in Windows
m ust c o n tai n t h e f ol l o win g l i n e :
VIRTUALHDIRQ =OFF See pages 52S-9 in
the index of the Windows Users Guide for
examples on how to modiiy SYSllM.INI.
NOTE: Many ESDI drives exceed the
1 024 cylinder b arrier bu t d u e t o a
translating controller card, appear to the
operating system to have fewer than 1024
cylinders. Such a drive is not considered to
have more than 1024 cylinders and does not
fall into the category described above. This
is because our SWBIOS.COM utility is not
required to set up the drive and the
DMDRVR.BIN will also not utilize that
portion of the driver.
2. The Swapfile program, which is used
to set up a permanent swap file on the disk,
checks for ANY partitioning device driver
i ncluding th e D M D R V R.BIN i n t h e
CONFIG.SYS file and will not run if it exists.
The swap files are hardcoded to use a 512
byte sector and in DOS versions earlier than
4.0, Disk Manager increased the logical
sector size to allow access to partitions
greater than 52 megabytes. Since this is the
case, a permanent swap file cannot be used
on a disk using the DMDRVR.BIN device
driver though temporary swap files will work
just fine.
Using a temporary swap file instead of a
permanent on e should no t d e grade
p erformance on a d i s k t ha t h a s an
optimization utiTity run on a regular basis.
Running such a utility is a good idea anyway
for general system performance as well as

for increasing the possibility of recovering

data should your system encounter some
sort of problem.
5. Finally, on page 55 of the Windows
User's Guide, users are cautioned against
running CHKDSK /F as well as any utility
that will modify the file allocation tables
(FAT). The utilities mentioned in this
section of the Windows User's Guide are
designed to operate in a single-tasking
environment and include such things as
undelete or optimization utTiities.
In the multimsking environment created
by Windows, theremay be many programs
creating, manipulating and deleting files.
While these operations are in process, the
FATs will not be accurate. When the
o peration is complete, th e FA T w i l l
accurately refiect that operation.
Since the file structure is constantly in a
state of flux, any utility that assumes the
structure to be static (unchanging) could
cause problems if run in this multitasking
environment. Be safe, run your applications
from within Windows and your utilities
before entering or after exiting Windows.
N OTE: These utilities can be r u n
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running Windows; the caution only applies
while Windows is running. Going to the
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GrrstiwrsedPorn Prrge 57
W indows has br ought t o t h e P C
environment power that has previously only
been available in mainframe and mini
computer environments. Even though
Windows makes it look like computing just
got simpler, with this increased power
comes increased complexity. As users we
n eed t o b e a w ar e o f t h i s a n d t a k e
precautions such as backing up our data
before we get on with 'business as usual'

Looidng Through Windows

{Welcome to the Dark Side) ...,

mdows 5.0 is supposed to be easy,

right? Well, my usedkobe-hot<tuff
20MHz '586 (a Kaypro) thought it
was an XT. Windows was running in "real
mode, hke a 'real" slug, and I couldn't get
it torun in Standard mode or S86 enhanced
FURTHER INFORMATION
The two main sources of information on this topic mode.
are the Microsoft Windows forum on CompuSeive
It had lots of memory that it wouldn' t
and the Ontrack SystemsBSS(612$574860).
even use. I couldn't even get Windows to
start up unless I configured the Extended
Reprinted courtesy of STReport No.7.05. 0

memory to emulate Expanded memory.

(This problem magically disappeared when
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long I spent installing it (or how many
timesl) And yes, I made sure that the
CONFIG.SYS file was loading the necessary
HIMEM.SYS driver that should have make
this puppy run.
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message warned me that I could expect to
be on hold for approximately half an houri
And the funny thing is, I know what I'm
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Will they be able to edit their CONHG.S%
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There is, of course, a happy ending to
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my hands in despair before trying yet
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and behold it workedi Windows 5.0 ran in
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memory management. The result? Still no

Standard mode Windows, but some of my
other applications (like Geoworks) stopped
working. Plus, after running Windows and
returning to DRDOS's GEM sheH (renamed
ViewMax, for some reason, in its current
incarnation), th e system consistently
crashed so thoroughly that even the CHAI
ALT-DELETE threefingered salute couldn' t
revive it. Goodbye, DRDOS.
So, was my graphics card confiicting with
something else? That would explain why my
screen went dead right after the Windows
title screen, wouldn't it? Was my EGA.QS
F UNC supposed to b e 0 0 o r F F , o r
something in between) Hmm. Would that
information be in the Windows, DOS,
graphics card, or Kaypro user's manual? Or
perhaps the Kaypro isn't compatible with
Windows 5.0 in "586 enhanced mode" at alii
There is, after all, quite a sizable list of 586.
class machines known to need "special
treatment" to run W i ndows properly,
including big names like AST, Zenith and

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Windows (againl) So, after all that, I wai
back in 'Real model" Needless to say,
QEMMS86 didn't last long on my system.
Thinking this may have been another
symptom of Kaypro Problemitis, I tried this
entire (boringl) excercise on another
computer; this time, a 5 86SX with 2
megabytes of RAM. QEMMS86 did the same
thing to Windows on it, too. Sayonara,

QEMM.

I find it interesting that the Macintosh'i

direct equivalent of all this nonsense is tc
simply diag an icon representing the system
startup file(s) into a place known as the
System Folder. Uninstalling something ii

just as easy. (What a conceptl)

I have yet to see a single example of a

Macintosh motherboard or 'Nubus" card
needing configuration switches set. No need
to configure "extended" or "expanded'
memory. The Mac just sees the RAM as one
contiguous, all-the-same bank of available
memory. Surely a PC equivalent of this ii
what users want... or is it?
So, did you hear that Windows ofFers PC
users the easewf~ of a Mac? I know I did,
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Clet the most out of Windows

Errcerptsfrorrs the docurrrentatson foOn Trsrrgrrtt reprinted courtesy ofSyrrsrsntec.
mdows 5.0 has thre;e separate
modes of operation, each of which
is designed to take advantage of
specifi hardwareconditions.

- 586 Enhanced Mode

- Standard Mode
- Real Mode

JetRam allows more

fonts to be downloaded and
higher resolution graphics to
be processed.

NOTE: Windows applications operate

essentially the same way in all three modes.
Windows 5.0 can handle multiple applications and multitasking in S86 Enhanced
Mode, Standard Mode, and even (to a limited degree) Real Mode.

Compatible with:
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A SPECIAL NOTE

Following is a discussion of the various

modes, and suggestions for optimal conflguration of your system.

FOR $86SX SYSTEMS

On some systems the additional processing overhead associated with 586 Enhanced
Mode may cause a noticeable drop in speed
and performance. This is espedally true on
386 Enhanced Mode vs.
machines with 2 Meg of RAM or less, and
Standard Mode
586 Enhanced mode provides optimum on %6SX,machines. For these systems, we
functionality for DOSbased applications highly recommend you use Standard Mode.
The problem is that 586 Enhanced
running u n de r Wi n d ows. However,
Mode
requires more complex processing
Windows applications operate equally well
overhead (as discussed above). The 586SX
in Standard Mode.
The main difference between Standard uses the same 16-bit BUS interface as on the
286.
Mode and %6 Enhanced Mode liesin the
If you own a machine based on the
way that non-Windows applications are han586SX chip, you will most likely want to run
dled. %6 Enhanced Mode allows more
sophisticated operation of non-Windows Windows in Standard Mode. Ifyou own a
applications, including multitasking, and 286 with 2 megabytes of RAM or more, you
running in a window (as opposed to "full- should run in Standard Mode.
286 systems with less than 2 megs of
screen" ). These advantages cost additional
processor time (devoted to Windows house- RAM must run in Real Mode.
Here is a summary of the advantages
keeping tasks), and result in a decrease in
and disadvantages:
speed.
Another beneflt that 586 Enhanced
Mode provides is Virtual Memory support, STANDARD mode:
which is the ability to use a portion of your
Advantages
hard disk to simulate additional RAM.
Normally Windows keeps all applications in You can run D O S a pplications that
indude "DOS extender" technology.
RAM, each in its own partition. When you
run out of RAM, you cannot load additional Takes advantage of the protected mode
of the 286 and 586 microprocessor.
applications. With %6 Enhanced Mode, virtual memory allows you to swap portions of
RAM out to the hard drive and back again.
If you like to run numerous applications all You must run non-Windows applications
full~creen.
at the same time, you will want to use this
All DOS applications are suspended while
option.
any Windows application is running, and
all Windows applications are suspended
Choose 586 Enhanced mode ifyou typiwhile any DOS application is running.
cally use a combination of DOSbased and
This means multitasking is restricted to
Windowabased applications, and if you use
Windows applications only.
a computer system with more than 2
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$86 ENHANCED mode:

Disadvantaye
Background processing of other applications means a loss in speed of the cusrent
Advantages
application, since it is sharing the proces DOS applications can be run in an applisor with the other, background, applicacation window (not full~ e e n), to take
tions.
advantage of the graphical environment.
Other applications will continue to pro- 886 Enhanced Mode requires considerably more overhead processing. On cercess in the background while you work
tain systems, such as the 586SX, this can
with the current application.
You can A r t a n d P aste information lead to a significant loss of speed.
between non-Windows applications.
Virtual memoiy. uses your hard disk to INCREASINI PERFORMANCE
WITH SMARTDRIVE
simulate RAM.
SMARTDrive is a diskwaching program
that sets aside an area of RAM to use as tem-

porary storage for frequently accessedpieces

of information. Getting this information
from RAM is much faster than retrieving it
irom the hard disk every time you need it.
There are costs that go along with the benefits. The primary cost is memory, the disk
cache uses RAM. If your machine has only 1
or 2 Meg of RAM, a large cache may hurt
more than it helps.
Below are some sample machine types,
along with suggestions for configuration.
Remember that there may be other factors
to consider with your own machine; these
examples are useful as a starting point.

1) 286-12MHz, with 1M RAIN

Don't use SMARTDrive. You need the

RAM more than you need the diskcache.
(Windows needs at least 1Meg RAM to run
in Standard Mode, and if SMARTDrive is
taking up part of it, Windows will possibly
refuse to start in Standard Mode.) Instead,
set BUIFERS=S2. This is the optimal setting
for DOS BUFH9tS to do essentially the
same thing as SMARTDrive, albeit somewha
less efficiently.

2) 286-12INHrwith 2M RAN

Your system has enough memory thai

M ndows should definitely start up i n
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to conserve memory for multiple applica
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file:
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256 128

S) 286-16MHz, with 4M RAM

Your system has enough memoxy to ga

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gest perhaps 1 Meg, set up in your CON.
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4) S86SX, with 2M RAM

On this machine you will most likely

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OTHER GENERAL

OPTIIMIIZATION TIPS
1) Set FILES m80 in your CONFIG.SYS.
Thirty' is more than enough in most
cases, and additional FILES use conventional memory.

5) D on't forget to include HIMEM.SYS in

your CONFIG.SYS file. This device driver is necessary to take advantage of
extended memory in Standard or 586
Enhanced Mode. W indows usually
installs it for you automatically.

6) For S86 machines, there are some

thirdgarty memory managers that do
2) I f
y o u a r e r u n ning SMARTDrive,
the same thing as HIMEM.SYS, only
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=O,O.
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This allows applications to dynamically
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Bases Loa e Illorton a tf, e Bat

Product:Norton Desktop for Windows 1.00
Publisher. Symantec Corporation, 10201 Torre
Avenue, Cupertino, California 95014-2132. Phone
408-253-9600,fax 408-253M92. Canadian tollfree number 1-800MS-2266
Prlca US$149, C$179 ($79 for registered owners
of Norton Utilities 6.0 or Norton Commander till
October 31, 1991).
System Requirements: IBM AT/PSi2 (286 and
up) or 1008o compatibles, Windows 3.0, DOS 3.1
or higher, 1MB or more RAM (3MB or more
recommended), 5.5MB free disk space for full
installation. Six 3.5-inch disks included. 5.25-inch
format available free by exchange.
Summary: NDW integrates the File Manager and
Program Manager functionality of Windows 3.0,
and adds a bevy of useful some might say
essential file management tools designed
especially for the Windows graphical environment.
s a reviewer, I look forward to new
r eleases f r o m
Pet e r N or t o n
o mputing ( no w a d i v ision o f
Symantec). The Norton line of products,
(Utilities, Commander, Backup, Editor) are
generally excellent and the newest addition
to the Norton family is no exception.
Norton Desktop for Windows (NDW)
improves what many consider WINS's
weakest feature its arbitrary separation of
file ma n agemen t
a n d pro g ram
management functions. Unlike the Mac,
Amiga, Atari and virtually any other
graphical user interface (including GEOS
and GEM for the PC), Windows has never
used the metaphor of a s i n gle work
environment (usually termed "the desktop"
where various icons and menu options let
you simply copy files and launch programs
by dragging or dicking icons that represent
the application(s) or files in a consistent
fashion.
This lack of consistency is perhaps only a
minor annoyance, but the extra step of
opening a special file management program
' ".A

resemble the way the Macintosh handles

similar functions. This Mac-like trend
extends to other utilities induded with the
package.There's Keyfinder, which helps you
was also slow and clumsy. Strikes one and to locate unusual characters or symbols
two, Windowsl
from any Windows font and cut and paste
them into your documents; Sleeper, which is
Switch-hitter
a Srst-rate done of multiwption Mac screen
What NDW does is provide WINS with a savers After Dark and Pyro; and (at lastl) an
completely new shell, switch-hitting for both icon editor and librarian with over SOO
the Program and File Managers. (The old included icons.
iles are left on your drive and are used in
I found it mildly amusing that the
cases where NDW cannot run, such as when NDW. disks (six 720K disks in all) state that
W INS is ru n i n " real mode" t o u se the product's system requirements are for
PageMaker S or o t her W i ndows apps "IBM-PC or 1009o compatible." NDW
designed for previous versions.)
doesn't even run under WINS's "real
You can drag and drop documents mode, which is all that 8088- and 8086-based
directly to the desktop for faster access, or IBM-PCs are capable of. The absolute
drag and drop on icons like printers,
minimum requirement is an 80286-based
backup or a file viewer. There's also a AT or higher. Perhaps the disk label
hierchical Launch submenu that makes designers should read the manual, which
switching between applications easy.
correctly s t a te s t he AT -o r - better
The viewer based on Norton's DOS environment that NDW requires. The full
product,Commander isone of my favorite product installation requires 5.5MB of hard
parts of NDW. Over SO file formats are
disk space, although partial installations are
supported, allowing you to view most
possible.
popular spreadsheet, wordprocessor,
In addition, NDW provides a suite of the
database and graphics files, Windows and type of utilities that made Norton famous.
DOS.
Graphical versions of data recovery utilities
When used in conjunction with NDW's include Disk Doctor for automatic disk
excellent SuperFind utility, files can be
diagnosis, and SmartErase for recovering
opened or viewed with ease, even with
deleted iles. The package also includes an
multiple drives. For example, I searched for "emergency diskette" which allows you to
s'.BMP. In a couple of seconds, SuperFind recover data, even when you can't access
showed me the location and file spedfics for Windows.
all Windows .BMP (bitmap) images that
Interestingly, the copy of Norton Disk
matched that file specification. By selecting Doctor included here works better on some
one and clicking on VIEW PANE, the image machines than the one found in Norton
is shown. If I then wanted to work on that Utilities 6.0, although they both appear to
Sle, I could simply press ENTER or click a be based on the same version. (The NU
button t o
la u n c h t h e a p p r o p riate version reported a "Memory Allocation
application in this case, the Windows Exceeded" error when running on one of
PAINTBRUSH application.
our systems loaded up with several TSRs and
other memory-resident goodies. When the
version from NDW is run in the same
Gases Loaded
In case you hadn't noticed, many of the environment, everything works fine.
Strange.)
features I' ve mentioned so far closely

Also included is another Norton standby,

Backup. N DW i ncl u d e s t h e f ull
implementation of the Windows half of
another Norton product for DOS and
Windows, the US$129 Norton Backup.
This utility i s c o nsiderably more
sophisticated than DOS' implementation,
including options for scheduled backups,
network support and improved reliability
and speed. Users familiar with Norton
Utilities for DO S will b e g lad t o see
improved versions of Windows diskcopy and
format functions and the 14 or more screens
of information about your system offered by
System Information, a Windows-I'riendly
version of the old standby, SL
There's other goodies, too, including a
batch file b u i lder f o r W i n d ows, the
ominously-named
Sh r e dde r and
S martErase, scientific a n d p r i n t i n g
calculators and an appointment scheduler.
Something for everyone, I expect.

Joy in Mudville
The only portions of the program that
did not work as expected on a one-meg test
machine (a S86SX) were the Fish module of
the Sleeper application (all twelve other
modules worked Sne) which aborted with
an error message that the application could
not run, and the Viewer, which was unable
to display the larger color bitmaps it found
in my earlier-mentioned example. Neither
of these are bugs per se, for, like everything
else in the world 'of Windows, NDW is
happiest with SMB or more RAM.
Symantec offersa 60-day money-back
guarantee on the product, a trend I would
like to see more of in the world of computer
software. Especially for registered Norton
users taking advantage of the $79 upgrade
promotion, NDW is a great deal.

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c ustomizable m en u i t e m s a nd k e y
equivalents, NDW is dearly an improvement
over the stock Windows interface. Best of all,
it doesn't require you to changethe way you
use Wmdows.
NDW is th e k in d o f p r o duct that
significantly improves theway that Windows
works. Like other Wmdows add-ins such as
HP NewWave, it enhances the environment

'

by increasing the intuitive nature of the

interf'ace, and enhandng the functionality
of the environment. Even if Windows S.l
o ffers some o f th e user i n terface
improvements found here, when it comes
out (and according to Microsoft, that won' t
be until sometime in 1992), NDW still adds
enough value to make it a must-have for any
serious Windows user. 0

Coarirstsedpoespop 61
Microsoft says one feature of Publisher
that makes it easy to use is PageWizards, a
tool that automates the design process.
Users select op tions and answer
questions, then PageWizards do the design
and layout of the publication, according to
Microsoft. PageWizards walks the user
through th e c r e ation o f 1 2 c u s tom
publications such as newsletters, calendars,
greeting cards, four-fold invitations and
various business forms, including invoices,
fax sheets and expense reports.
A user wanting to create a newsletter
would answer such questions as.how many
columns are needed. If you select a fourcolumn format, PageWizard will tell you that
a fourwolumn layout will provide the most
flexible format, but will take more time and
effort than fewer columns. You can then
continue with the fourwolumn layout, or
choose something different.
Users can create graphics in other
programs, save them in one of seven fonts,
induding TIP, EPS, PCX, DRW, then import
them intoPublisher. After placing the
graphics in the document, text will flow
around the rectagular box containing the
graphics. Publisher includes a spelling
checker, but no thesaurus. The program
also indudes a cliIHtrt library and scalable
borders. Nineteen fonts are supported,
induding the Windows fonts.

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Ersatz Wincioms:

The Future ef DOS?

r ecently read a n
artide in a major PC
publication where
t he a u t ho r c o m plained about the
changes to the user
interface
of
M icrosoft W or d
version 5.5 for the
PC. He griped that
the company had
r uine d
the
interface, and by
changing all of the
command keys, was
f orcing
him
to
relearn or abandonthe program.
I, for one, think the new
version is a dramatic improvement
over the older one, especially if the user is
fatnihar with the "Wmdows standard set of
commands. Microsoft, m a bold move that
has generated significant amounts of
criticism, dropped the old Word's confusing
command structure and interface for a
more elegant and consistent one known as
IBM Common User Access (CUA). New
users will definitely find it easier to learn
than the old version, and many of the skims
they acquire are transferable to other
programs (a strategy that has served
Macintosh users well). Experienced users
can opt to use Word 5 . 0's keyboard
shortcuts instead of version 5.5's, if they
prefer.
It is a shame that more PC programs
don't take a nod from Borland's popular
Quattro Pro spreadsheet, which can
completely adapt its menu structure to
emulate different command modes (and
one of the reasons Lotus is upset over
Quattro's inclusion of a file that turns it into

a I-2N loose.)

Another artide on the perennial debate

of which GUI is best, ibrwarded the statistic
that over 50% of PC mouse-and-menus
programs will use what the writer referred
to as "ersatz Windows." Why wouldn't these
applications just use the real thing)
In a word, speed. The perfonnance hit is
just too great for average users to accept.
Even those with 586SX machines or better
may still find Windows dog-slow. Take a
look at any side-by-side comparison:
W ordPnfect and the character~ d W o r d
easily outperform all W i n dows-based
' competition in performance tests.
I venture the opinion that the characterbased Wmdows4ke user intexface found in
MS-DOS 5.0's DOS Shell, @Basic and MS
Word 5.5 (etc.) represents the wave of the
future of DOS-based products at least
until average CPUs and video systems are
better able to cope with the heavy demands
of a full 'high-res" GUI (which probably
shouldn't ru n ' o v er" D O S , a nyway).
, Character-based displays with mouse
support and a familiar user interfiaceoffer
the best blend of performance, ~f
~
a nd c o m m an d c o m p a tibility w i t h
environments like Windows, OS/2 and, to a
lesser (but still significant) extent, other
graphical environments with strong user
i nterface design guidelines such a s
PC/GEOS (Open Look) and Madntosh.
While there are obviously drcumstances
w here a t r u e W Y S IWYG d i splay i s
preferable, I' ll even go so far as to say that

this socamed CUA standard

application i n t e r face
found in MS-Word 5.5,
t he ne w D O S 5 . 0
e ditor a n d S h e l l
represents the best
of the characterbased windowing
e nvi r o n m e n t s
found in N orton
E ditor,
N ort o n
U tilitie s
6 .0 ,
Quattro Pro, QScA
4.0, WordPerfect 5.1
and numerous other
non-Windows products
that h av e d r o p A o wn
menus, mouse support, and
a similar user interface. Not
only are its commands (and hence,
the user's skills) generally transferable to
Windows 5.0 (Microsoft's plan, I'm sure),
but overall, it feels better (at least to me)
than Norton's similar attempts. HopeMly,
future generations of CUA-compliant
character-based environments will begin to
duplicate key features of Windows and other
robust GUIs such as cut~d-paste between
applications, dynamic data exchange, and
multitasking.
Mouse support makes these products
appealing to beginners and others who
enjoy the "point~ d W o ot" approach, and
the speed of a character-baaed screen
contributes greatly to t h e p e r ceived
perfolxnance.
Madntosh fans who categorically scorn
Windows (i.e., most of them) would do well
to discover how pleasant it is not to have to
hold down the mouse button to keep menus
displayed. In Windows and its characterbased clones, it's an option-as it should be.
(A Mac program called Lazy Menus partially
alleviates the problem by making Mac
menus drop down and stay down, but not as
elegantly as the Windows method, which
works either way, depending on whether the
user simply clicks to "drop down" a menu,
or clicks and drags, to "puP down" a menu.)
And Mac owners who have heard how slow
Wmdows is compared to their Macs might
be surprised to see how pokey their
machines seem next to a comparable PC's
character-based environinent. The redraw
speed of a typical PC's 80 x 25 (rows and
columns) screen a mere 2K of data is
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permanently in bitmapped graphics mode,
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Unlike the Mac, which has no command
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1991 issue, "we need both." (A new program
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like those found in DOS machines.)
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Before getting mto any detaS about this
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Many products today require a fair amount
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Expert systems and AI technology such as
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ucts today force the user to make a career
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should be free to concentrate on the content, not the tool.
Having said all that, surprise, the biggest
critidsm of Hollywood is the complexity of
the software. It's not IBM's Sault, however.
Just as in produdng a storyboard for a
movie, presentations and slide production
involve mapping "things happening over
time, and time adds an extra dimension of
complexity. As with all IBM products, this
one is jammed full of features and very well
produced, with no half measures.

Installation
The Srst test of a software package is the
installation. Hollywood comes on four 5.5in

1.44MB Soppies (5.25in IAMB Soppies

available), and if you choose to install all the
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ls

install time of 'Rl minuteL Installing everything adds up to morc than 8MB of disk
space plus IMB or so for temporary Sle
space.
Ins t all h a ppens from i n side
Windows, using thc. "run command under
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on a 386/25MHz machine, 4MB RAM,
95MB of disk space, Hercules Graphic
Station card, and Mitsubishi monitor (no coprocessor or cache present). Overall, installation was simple, with no problems, other
than being a bit slow.

Perfonnance
First time running the program resulted
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opening and saves, fc:ature selections, etc.
This would improve with a faster hard drive
and more memory, but it sdll seemed like it
may be a little hstrating for real world production. Loading bitmap graphics and drawing diagrams took little effort, and moving
objects around was easy.
One area that needs attention is the storyboard window (a window showing you
multiple little boxes rcprcscndng each slide
or presentation screen in order of appearance). Designing each slide is relatively easy,
but the challenge of a boardroom presentation is to make the entire sequence of slides
make sense. Hence, as you are designing
your project, you are often calling up the
storyboard to see how the slides are progressing, and here Hollywood is Siirly slow,
going to the disk and painting the slides one
at a time. There must be a faster way of scaling and painting the screen than this. Again,
though, a screamingly fast graphics card and
hard drivewould probably help a great deaL

Features
Hollywood has more features than you
could shake a stick at. Starting with a good
indexed, hypertext, context~nsitive on-line
help, it comes with a small number of templates and an outliner for building the basic
structure of your presentation. A data manager lets you enter or import data f'rom

spreadshc,ets, word processing programs

and retains "wami" links to your data
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Drawing tools are available from the tool
box for lines, rectangles, cirdes, Bezier
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Persuasion's word processor is powerful
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The word processor includes a spell checker
Overview
a feature that is omitted in too many packresentat
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Persuasion's slideWow feature is excelenhance your presentations or you can
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Persuasion has ten chart formats (pie, bar,
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You cannot present a show on a PC without
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Excel or Lotus 1-2-3. Persuasion is designed
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Conclusion
slides, overheads and o~ e e n slide shows.
Aldus Persuasion has everything the others have, but the idea of using templates to
Installation
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Overview
Graphics Composer is a software tool for
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and color. Useful for both the graphic artist
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DA R I U S

P RO F E S S I O N A L .

Installation
Instalhng Graphics Composer is a snap.
It has its own install program which runs
under Wmdows S.O. Be prepared though,
there are a total of 12 Soppy disks to shuffie
in and out of the drive. It took about SO minutes to install all the iles and the programsl
One am only hope that optical technology
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to install software from CD-ROM disk (12
Soppies is a bit muchl). Also, be prepared to
give up SMB of.disk space or more. Once
eveiything is installed, though, the hard part
is done.

Performance
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Features
Graphics Composer has a fun complement of graphics tools. Since it runs under
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Graphics Composer is basicaliy a vector
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The quahty of the dip art in this package is
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Cer rect,

Grammar
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Prroduch Correct Grammar for Windows V 1.0
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Overview
Of all the uses for computers, writing is
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inside Windows. No problems should be
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Correct Gramtrrar is designed to act like
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"Every one of us is interested in finding
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chooled at home. That number rose to
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areaL A collection of the ariides might one w ho choose this option are bucking society,
d ay serve as a valuable resource for a so none of them reach the dedsion lightly.
Nearly half of home schoolers say they
research project.
W hile young children can research chose home education so their children
projects with Grolier's Academic American could follow special interests and work at
Encydopedia (GO AAE), middle-'and high- t heir own pace, according to Patrick
school students will benefit from searching F arenga, president of Holt Associates, a
M agazine Database Plus (GO MAGDB), Boston-based company that offers resources
e specially by learning how to define key to home schoolers. Nearly one-third dte
words and phrases. Such an exercise forces r ehgious reasons, believing home schooling
s tudents to focus on a project's specific i s the best way to control their child's moral
topic, something that may not be done as and spiritual environment.
Perhaps the biggest advantage of home
effectively using traditional research tools.
T he forums offer a special resource schooling is that it shows the child that
available nowhere else. Leave a question 1 earning is not separate f'rom the rest of life.
H ome schooling i s d i f f erent f r o m
about black holes in the Astronomy Forum
(GO ASTROFORUM), for example, and traditional schooling in that it places the
chances are the answer will be provided by a e mphasis on the learning process rather
professional astronomer. "You can easily t han the t eaching process," explains
f ind people online who have a special Farenga "Parents who home school let their
expertise and who are willing to share that c hildren follow a project. They don't break
with young people. This is, perhaps, the best hf' e and learning into little sections called
benefit of the onhne medium," says Lynd. su bjects.
Ken and Carrie Loss-Cutler, home
Fourth~ader Patrick Olson turned to his
f ather, Douglas, for help with a science schooling parents from Dallas and section
a ssignment that required him to build a 1eaders of the Education Forum's Section
m odel of the solar system. (And he didn't and Library 16, "Home/Alternative Ed,"
want styrofoam balls suspended with stdng b elieve in this approach. Their 9gear-old
from a shoebox.) With hia dad by his aide, d aughter, Rachel, has never attended a
P atrick used a Madntosh computer to create t r a ditional school. Carrie, who serves as the
an interactive modeL
Primary teacher, deals with subjects in broad
"Our problem was that we needed some w ays. For instance, when Rachel started
' g questions about dinosaurs, Carrie not
nice graphics and sounds, and we had only a ashn
c ouple of hours to put the model together. o n ly taught her the basic facts, but also used
CompuServe to the rescue)" says Douglas. t he ancient creatures to embark on math,
He showed Patrick how to access the seivice g eology, literature and history lessons. "I
with CompuServe Information Manager, b ring it all together so it is received as a
and together they downloaded spac~elated w hole by Rachel," she says.
This spring Rachel participated in a
graphics from the Graphics Support Forum
(GO GRAPHSUPPORT) and space sounds m odel United Nations program. The day
f rom the Macintosh Entertainment Forum a fter it concluded, she and her father
1ogged on to CompuServe and exchanged
(GO MACFUN).
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whim made the project. Of course, Patrick a round the world, including Norway,
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assuming such things are possible so it's no G lobal Networking Project. "Ibis is the hnd
0 f resource telecommunication can make
big deal to him, says Olson.
When children pursue research in areas a vailable to families," says Ken.
O ne o f t h e c h a l lenges of h o m e
that hold a special interest for them, they
are more likely to retain that knowledge schooling is to be aware of a child's interest
o ver a longer period of time. "Kids can do i n a topic and respond accordingly. Meeting
i ndependent research online, asking t h at challenge is where CompuServe fits in.
questions that matter to them. Because of W hen parents are stumped "Mommy,
t he technology, those kids then become w hat's the difference between a black hole
an d a quasar? they can log on t o
independent learners," says Lynd.
CompuServe with their child and find an
answer together. In t his way, a young
Schooling at Home
The ultimate independent learner is the student also learns self-sufficiency, by
child who is being schooled at home. For a depending on himself in finding answers to
variety of reasons including religion, the questions.
Many home schooling parents find
belief that parents know best how to teach
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Parents considering home schooling also
can check out pertinent state education
statutes and requirements in Section 16.
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by local school officials.
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Kurt Harper, an assistant principal at Pems
High School in Perris, Calif., believes that
some students, especially those who are
gifted, don't do well i n a t r a ditional
schoolroom setting. "For students whose
parents want to take it on, I think that home
schooling is a valuable, valid option."
Harper is not just talking theory. His
school system actively provides assistance to
help home schooling famiTies succeed. For
instance, students can go to school one day a
week for independent study and take
advantage of the wider resources the school
offers. " Considerable personnel an d
material resources are made available to
parents for the success of this modified
home schooling approach," Harper says.
Extensive adult education courses also are
offered to home schooling parents to help

them upgrade their skills and better teach

their children.
"The parents' and the school's goal is
the same: To help more kids do better
s choolwork, w h a tever G e s talt t h a t
schoolwork may take," he says.
H arper a d vises parents t o work
cooperatively with the Iocal school system,
seehng a consensus approach rather than a
confrontational one. It behooves home
schooling parents to establish a good
worhng relationship with the school so they
can take a dvantage of t h e s ystem's
resourceL
One of the main reasons schools fightsometimes tooth and nafi home schoohng
is that they do not receive money for
students who are being educated outside
the confines of the school building. Local
schools receive funding based on the
number of enrolled students.
Parental attitude can make a difference.
Harper encourages parents to meet local
school officials with this approach: "Begin
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home schooling? Leslie AyreJaschke says it all comes down to phonics.
As a high school social studies and language
arts teacher, she didn't like the way children
were being taught to read. she believed a
phonics-based program would produce
better readers. Besides, she thought a sixhour school day was too long for first
graders.
So in 1986, Ayre-Jaschke joined the
growing rank of home schoolers as she set
up her one-room schoolhouse-or is it a
houseschool)- for her two boys, Paul, now
12, and Ixhrk, 9. Her husband, Eric Jaschke,
is an accountant.
Living in Peace River, Alberta, a small
town of 6,000, the family's life quickly
became centered around the home schooL
''We didn't realize the impact it would have
on our lifestyle," she adxmts. She cannot be
employed full-time, although she tries to
work part-time from her home as a lactation
consultant, helping solve breastfeeding
problems for new mothers.
Although the teaching and learning
approach inthe Ayre-Jaschke home school
is unstructured, much is accomplished in a
day, and aQ of itis geared toward each
child's individual learning needs and style.
Typical activities include journal writing
and drawing, reading aloud, working math
problems and visiting Mends who are also
home schooling.
B ut no day i s r eally typical. On e
structured lesson, such as reading from a
novel, can often spark other ideas and
issues that need to be explored. For
instance, when r e ading T h e D e v il' s
Arithmetic, a novel about World War II and
Hitler's concentration camps, Ayre-Jaschke
realized how little any of them knew about
Jews, their history, religion and culture.
Together they explored the topic at the
libraxy. She shared selectyed photographs of
the concentration camps with Paul, while
helping Mark read about them in an
encyclopedia. They also learned about
Jewish holidays and read about the unique
way the Danes helped Jews in Denmark
escape Hitler's forces.
Because so many Canadians live in
isolated spots, there is a long history of
home schooling in Canada But depite this
precedent, Ayre Jascbke has had to be more
than a teacher; she has also had to be an
activist.

Local school systems in Alberta (as in

B.C.) receive funding from the province for
students who are being home schooled. The
idea is that parents can then selectively use
the resources of the school. However, AyreJaschke found the school board to be
unsupportive of home schooling. To get
what she was entitled to, she had to lobby
for support. "We persisted and kept
agitating for our rights," she says. "I had an
advantage over other home schooling
parents because I had been a teacher in the
school system. I had the confidence to deal
with the school board."
The effort paid off. It has taken five
years, but the 20 home schooling families in
Peace River can now use the school's libraxy,
rent text books and buy work books, borrow
video tapes and computer programs from
the media center and even attend selected
classes.
Ayre-Jaschke is confident her home
school has been successfuL Paul, who enjoys
the same activities as most boys his agevideo games, soccer and hockey- is a good
reader and an excellent writer. She admits
that Mark is not reading on grade level yet,
but he is catching up.
''Home schooling allows children the
freedom to develop and learn when they
are ready. Some kids are ready to read when
they are 4 years old, and others learn when
they are 10," she explains, noting that if
thelate readers are home schooled they
avoid the label "learning disabled" that
would be applied to them in an institutional
situation.
An active member of the Education
Forum on CompuServe, AyreJaschke often
turns to Section 16, 'Home/Alternative Ed,"
as resource network. She also uses other
CompuServe forums and databases, such as
the Medical, Working From Home arid
Good Health Forums, for ideas. In addition,
Paul learned about Amexican culture from
a Bostonhmsed electronic pen paL
"A crucial component of home
schooling is parents who like to learn," she

says.

Cathryn Conroy is a contributing editor of

CompuServe Magazine. Ihis article was originally
published in the September 1991 edition of
CompuServe Magazine. To subscribe to
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Maxwell International Baha'i School on
Shawnigan lake (Vancouver Island).
This workshop provides Amiga-using
educators with an opportunity to learn
more about the Amiga computer and its
application in the classroom.
The AmUsEd organization was founded
three years ago w i th t h e f o l l o wing
objectives: to make information available
regarding the use of Amigas in education,
to make publicAomain software available to
educators, to organize a yearly workshop for

training, and to make resources available

for workshops within any school district.
To date, there are over 100 members.
Each year a location outside of the
main urban centres is selected. T h i s
creates a relaxing environment and
teachers often bring their families as part
of their vacation. This year, over 60
educators from across the province
attended the summer workshop. They
experienced a mi xture of h a nds-on
computer t r a ining a n d i n t e r active
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enough, when I tested another card, it was
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ROM and 2.0 software update to work with
System '7. I found Radius tech support to be
extremely helpful and friendly. A Radius
rep arranged for my ROM update to be
ready forpick~p the very next morning, a
vast improvement over the 10 to 14 day wait
that two dealers quoted me. In addition, the
dc:alers wanted to charge me between
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software, but Radius gave me the update
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boards sans acceleration. My tests showed
approximately a 600% improvement in
scrolling through full 24-bit color images
with Adobe Photoshop. Thc: Radius software
includes a n o p t i o n t o to g g l e. the
acceleration on and off with the Caps Lock
key, making it c;asy to sc;e just how much it
improves screen updating. There is no
question about it: if you want to use 24-bit
color, a graphics accelerator makes it a lot
more pleasant. Even in Sbit or @bit modes,
the acceleration produces a noticeable
improvement in scrolling and screen
redrawing.

Options
A umque Macintosh feature is revealed
if more than one video card and monitor is
connected at the same time. Windows and
the mouse pointer can pass treely trom one
screen to the other, as if the displays are
separate views of a larger virtual desktop.
You can even run different programs on
each display and move windows or other
information between the two screens. I
tested this feature with the Radius and an
Apple video card and found no interference
or other problems with the two side+yside
displays. Using the tearwff menus feature of
RadiusWare, you can place commonly-used
menus on the second screen for convenient
access while you work
The DirectColor/GX is compatible with
an exciting product called Radius TV
(US$2'795). A Mac equipped with Radius
TV can receive TV (cable or other) video
signals and sound, and display them in a
window while you work. Included software
allows various special effects and the
capturing of highguality 24bit images for
use with other programs. But the most
innovative feature of Radius TV is its
amazing ability to save a text transcript of
TV broadcasts. How is this possible? The
Radius TV software/hardware combo acts as
a Closed Caption decoder, and can display
or save t hi s n o r m ally h i d d en text
information trom the many broadcasts that
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but for now, Radius gives us an enticing
taste of the future. 0

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Flight of the Intruder

Product Ri ht of the Intruder
Publisher. spectrumHoloByte
System Requlramen&t ISM PC or compatible,
deplay: Hercules, CGA, EGA or VGA, joystick or
mouser sound support: Adlib/PC speaker
tones/digitized.
Price: $60 Cdn.
u, the player, are flying your choice of
an A4 Intruder of an FA Phanuen jet
in this simulation. You will be sent in
search of enemy targets f'rom your base, the
aircraft carrier USS Shiloh. The game's
a ction takes place during t h e 1 9 7 2
Linebacker campaign over North Vietnam.
Accordmg to Spectrum HoloByte, they
received and used many valuable ideas from
a variety of Vietnam naval airmen, including
Flight ojths Intruderauthor Stephen Coonts.
Flying this simulation is like flying the
real thing in Vietnam.
Using a direct cable link, players can
connect two IBM machines for tradtional
dog@ghting action or two players can team
up against the enemy. In joint missions
with both players on the same team, you can
work together as each other's wingman, by
both piloting A<s or FW. Alternately, one
player can choose to pilot the FA Phantom
and patrol the area for bandits, while the
other player takes on the bombing role in
the A4 Intruder.
Flight of the I n t ruder features 15
different operations to choose from
including Alpha Strike, Deck Alert, Iron
Rain, Hunter KHler, and July 4th Day. The
operations are composed of up tofour
separate missions, with a total of 36 in the
game. Each operation yields different
targets, strategies and adventures. To be
successful, a player must plan the operation
carefully, such as selecting the ammunition

and charting waypoints.

The operations build on one another,
making up the larger overall campaign. The
outcome of an operation determines the
pilot's position in future runs. Following
each operation, the player is given detailed
analysis of his/her successes and failures in
the debrie6ng room. The success rating is
based on factors such as the number of
targets hit and missed, weapons used and
MiGs and SAM (surface to air missiles) sites
destroyed. The player receives points at the
end of each mission which are displayed
and also averaged into an ongoing overall
score of all operations ever flown by that
pilot.
Typical bombing targets over enemy
territory include bridges, power supply
plants, docks, and shipping facili6es. Some
can be examined on arecon photo before

MacDraw Pro c p p q ef
Mac's full 16.7 millionwolor palette. It is
compatible with System 7, but lacks Balloon
Help, Pubhsh/Subscribe and other visible
attributes of 7~vviness.
The program comes with a hypertextbased Help system, and several good
perfect-bound manuals. (What's with this
trend away from more convenient spiral
binding)I) There's also a "Hypertour" of
the program that might be useful to those
unfamiliar with Mac graphks programs nd
what you can do with them. Users with a
little experience in the usual Mac toolbox
items and conventions will 6nd MacDraw
Pro a breeze.
A README fde on one ofthe program's
six disks describes a problem if the program
is used on a System running Adobe's Type
Reunion (an extension that creates a
hierchical font menu), and advises holding
down the shift key when starting MacDraw
Pro, to temporaxily disable ATIL
However, even if this is not done, the
problem appears to amount only to a shght
slowdown of the operation of the program's
menus, so ATR devotees need not worry too
much. Ifound no other bugs or problems
in MacDraw Pro, except the ever-present
performance issues that plague users of all
but the most powerful Macs.

Speed Issues
MacDraw Pro is not a terribly speedy
program, especially if used on a color
system with complex hnages and millions of
colors displayed on~ e n . T his, of comse,
is hardly a surprise tousers of any hfgbend

graphics program on any computer

platform.
Nevertheless, the program is featurorich
and easy to use, and, as such, is wem worth
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taking eff on the operation. The player
must bc prepared te run the gauntlet of
both air and ground defenses. In the air,
the enemy has MiG-1'7. MiG-19, MiG-21 jet
Sghters which are aimed with cannon and
Atell heat~eeking missiles. The ground's
major threats
are SAMs and Sak.
I rate this game as about a 7 eut of 10.
The graphicson a CGA monitor are about 5
out of 10, they gct better on EGA and they
are quite good on a VGA monitor. The
sound is not great.
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The ilorton Utilities

VerSian 6.0
byStephensSssixli

Protfuch The Norton Utilities Version 6.0

Publishers SvmantecCoro., 10201 Terre Ava.
Cupartine, CA 950'l4, USA. Teleahone: (408)
253-9600. Vancouver office: 73741214 Contact
Person: Stephan Dewitt.
System Requirements: IBM PC XT, AT, PS/2 and
100% compatibles. DOS 2.0 or higher (with
spadal support fcr DOS 5.0). 512K memay.
Kay Faaturas: Damaged disk recovery. Disk
optimization. DOS Enhancement U'tilitias. Data
Protection.
Prka: US$179. Upgrades US$39.

his is the latest release of the popular

Norton Utilities for the PC. It is a
collection of programs designed to
greatly enhance MS.DOS. All the uiTities
are useful, easy t e u se , h ave g o od
documentation and good online help.
They werk with all versions of DOS above
version 2 including version 5, they aho work
with Windows 8 (but not as true Windows
applications), icons are provided to make
them easy to run f rom th e W i ndows

Program Manager.

Data Recovery

Norton became famous for its routines

to restore damaged disks and unerase files.
These functions have been enhanced with
an unformat command, greater ability to
unerase iles, automatically repair common
disk preblems with the Norton Disk Doctor
and a u t omatically re p a ir dam a g ed
spreadsheet and database iles (Lotus 128,
Symphony and dBase. There is a program
called image"which you run f'r
om your
autoexec.bat filc, which copies important
information about your disk to a special Sle
that unformat, unerasc and disk doctor can
use to help recover your data. There is also
the Norton Disk Editor, which allows yeu to
edit any data on your hard disk, induding
directoxies and the Sle allocation table.

Speed Disk

Norton speed disk has always been a

favorite, it reorganizes the physical layout of
all files and directories on a disk so as to
mimmize movement of the read~te head.
That makes it faster for data to be read eff
the disk. Speed disk is much faster new and
automatically detects if you are running
under Desqview or Windows and refuses to
r un i n s uc h a n e n v i ronment ( D O S
multitaskers maintain open files that could
cause disk corruption if speed disk rearranged the disk on them).

Benchmarks
The system information program has
been greatly enhanced, it gives much more
detail of your system configuration and
compares the performance of your system
t o a 286 an d 88 6 a s well as the o l d
comparison to the oxiginal IBM XT.

NDOS
There is a DOS enhancement shell
NDOS to add features to the existing DOS
commands. NDOS expands the wildcard
capabilities of DOS so you can enter
commands such as "DEL .TMP *.BAK"
(normally DOS only accepts one wildcard).
It also keeps a command line histoxy similar
te DOS 5, allowing you to recall, edit and
rewxecute previous commands. It a lso
features fiister, more powerful batch files.

ANTI-VIRUS
There are some new utTiities to protect
you from virus' and unwanted people
accessing your computer. T h e r e i s a
program "dishnon which can protect your
system areas, your files or your whole disk
from any form of writing. T his doesn' t
provide complete virus pretection, for
better protection from vhus' Norton has a
program called "Norton Anti-Virus" sold
separately. T h ere is a file encryption
program se nosy people can't read you files,
a keyboard and screen lock to protect you
computer while you' re not there. There is
also the old "wipeinfo" program which
deletes a program completely, overwriting it
so that the data is completely obliterated
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UNBEATABLE' COMBO
Norton provides a very good balanced
set of utihtics. Perhaps individually you can
Q nd b e t ter u t i l i t ies, b u t t h e to t a l
combination is very hard to beat. Such a set
of utiTities is a must for any PC owner and if
you use your computer a lot, you will greatly
benefit from their use. The Norton Utilities
are also available for the Madntosh and for
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PAPER OCT '91 85

I llerten Editel 2 . 0

Advanced Text Editing

Product The Norton Editor 2.0
Publisher: Symantec Corp., 10201 Torre Ave.,
Cupertino, CA 95014, USA. Telephone: (408)
253-9600.Vancouveroffice: 737-0214 Contact
Person: Stephen Dewitt.
System Retluirementa IBM PC XT, AT, PS/2 and
100% compatibles. DOS 2.0 or higher (with
special support for DOS 5.0). 130K memory.
Key Features: Easy to use character based text
edktor with mouse support, pull down menus,
dialog boxes, on line help, edits large Ries, features
for programmers.
Price US$99. Upgrades US$29.

he Norton Editor has always been a

popular simple to use text editor for
editing ASCII files (unfomiatted text
files). Before DOS 5, everyone needed a
simple text editor, since EDLIN which came
with DOS was terrible to use. Now DOS 5
comes with a decent fiill screen text editor,
greatly cutting into the Norton Editor' s
market. The mostcommon use for such an
editor is to edit your AUTOEXEC BAT and
CONFIG.SYS files.
You can accomplish the same job with
most word processing programs, however
word processors are encumbered by many
features not needed for simple jobs. They
tend to be slow to load, and require you
remember additional commands to save in
simple ASCII format. Also word processors
are usually geared to editing files where
carriage returns end paragraphs and the
word processor automatically inserts the line
breaks where necessary. When editing BAT
files or program source files, it is important
to put acarnagereturn aRer each line.
The Norton Editor is very full featured
now, but retains its aMity to load quickly
and is stim ample to use. It also comes with

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even quicker. There is also a small version
which will edit files in situations where you
have very little memory.
There are many more powerful editors
on the market such as Brief and Emacs
w hich i n c orporate p o werful m a c r o
languages, but these editors tend to be
bigger and not quite as easy to use tight out
of the box.
The Norton Editor features: pull down
menus, dialog boxes, online help, mouse
support, ability to edit two files at onces, edit
files of any size, some programming
features, some word processing features,
access to DOS commands, use of various
display modes (such as VGA 43 )me mode).
The Norton Editor is a nice product that
fits in4etween the editor which comes with
DOS 5 and more complex programmable
editors. If you don't have DOS 5, then
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IIItts I I IS -SROS 386SX Notebook

by OmnneBmsctt
Product NB-320520MHz 386SX notebook computer
Manufacturer. Intra. Disliibuted by Computer Express, (604) 2794731.
Price: from C$2589. Doddng station $650; RAM to 5MB $530; sendfax $360
System configuration tested: 40MB hard disk, 3.5-inch disk, 1MB RAM (SRP
$2889)
lh7elglrL 6.38)bs.
Pros: Intelligent power managanent contributes to improved batlary life on this speedy notebook. Good
LCD screendisplay and excellent keyboard feel.Ports forserial,parallel, external keyboard, external CR T
monitor and optional 4elot "docking station expansion base add versatility.
Consi 16Mor VGA cmsplay is smaller than some competing notebooks, L layout of cursor keys may
prove awkward for some. Proprietaiy slots for expansion RAM, external floppy, COM2 port
LCD displays, with some ghosting and
distracting lines when large contrasting
areas are displayed.
The display was stable and "pure"
without the mottled texture that marred the
appearance of the Darius (reviewed this
issue) notebook's screen. Although the
manual refers to it as "paper-white,' the
I ntia's screen tends towards bluewn~y a t
most viewing a n gles an d c o n t rast/
biightness settings. Let's just say I wouldn' t
want to use this display all day, every day.
The keyboard has a very good feel, with
deep key travel, a pleasant tactile response
eaders who recall myJan. '91 review of and it is reasonably quiet, The backslash key .
Intra's then relatively statemAhe~
is conveniently located and a lighter color
0 lb. 586SX offering will probably than the surrounding keys a nice touch.
not be surprised that the company has a new
I didn' t, however, like the tooemall Esc
and fimction keys or the placement of the
model that is both lighter and lister.
The NB820S appears to use the same 5- cursor keys in an " I s h ape. Many other
by-7-inch (8.5 inches when measured
notebooks use thc m u c h p r e f erable
"inverted T l a yout that is the desktop
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I'd recommend careMly considering

the keyboard layout/feel and display quality
as the prime considerations in your choice
of alaptop or notebook.
The power supply died during my I&day
test of this notebook While the distributor
was wiHiny to replace it on the spot, it is
worth notmg that the previously-reviewed
Intra Laptop abo had a hardware failure
d uring its tests. Could a p a t tern b e
emerging here?

Conclusion
There are laptops with better keyboard
layouts, more keys and bigger screens (the
IBM PS/2 Laptop, one of the many
notebooks reviewed in our May '91 issue,
has 84 keys and a 104nch diagonal display).
Some have more storage and more RAM,
and/or more shades of gray, etc., but the
Intra notebook. is a solidlybuilt, respectable
performer half the price of IBM's offering.
With an external keyboard, CRT display,
some more RAM and the addition of the

Darius

386SX Notebook

optional expansion base, which features 4

ISA slots, plus bays for floppy and hard
drives, the Intra NE820S could sufiice as
many users' only computer, although I
wouldn't recommend this if cost was a
prime c o n sideration. W i t h to d ay' s
graphically-intensive applications, I
wouldn't recommend anything less than the
20MHz speed of this unit. 0

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mailing labels. Using Wizard, the user
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automatically create the format desired.
The Works For Windows database can
handle up to82,000 records, compared to
the 4,096 record maximum in the DOS
version of Works. Reports can be sorted in
several ways, and are created after the user
selects titles, fields and calculations. Results
c an be viewed and pr inted, and t h e
program can write dBase III and 'dBase IV
files.
Thesaurus and spelling buttons have
been added to the toolbar, which had its
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Product:Darius 20MHz 3865X notebook
The floppy drive is on the unit's right
Manufacturer. Darius
side,
as are recessed brightness and contrast
Price: C$2950 (40MB) $3200 (60MB). Expansion
controls for the display.
RAM: $120 (to 2MB) $400 (to 5MB).
The nonglare, CFL backlit LCD display
System Configuration tested: 60MB hard disk,
3.5-inch disk, 2MB RAM
measures 9.5 inches diagonally and folds all
Weight: 7.05 lbs.
of the way back ideal for systems where an
Pros: Attractive, well-designed unit with quiet
keyboard. Inverted "T" cursor key layout and
convenient Fn key functions. 2 serial ports, parallel,
external keyboard, external CRT monitor and userinMllable 80387 math mprocessor. System comes
with adapter cables for attaching external AT

keyboard, external 5.25-inch floppy disk, 2 serial

devices.
Cons: Very shallow key travel. 16-color VGA
display hasslightly mottled appearance. Proprietary
slot for expansion RAM, other expansion
possibilities limited.

'rst, let it be said that the Darius

Notebook is a very, very good-looking
notebook. The slightly-textured case
has an interesting velvety look to it and
completely hides fingerprints and small
scuds. Ergonomically and aesthetically, it
appears well<esigned, as long as you don' t
mind the deeply recessed power switch on
the twsck
The product's manual is also very good,
with color plates, a complete glossary and
pinout charts. It appears to be free of typos
and reasonably beginnerMendly.
DOS is not supplied with the system,
hence the notebook will not boot f'rom the
internal hard drive until the user (or dealer)
has formatted it and installed DOS on it. A
total of four accessory cables came bundled
with the system, for attaching an external
AT keyboard, external 5.25-inch fioppy disk,
and COMl and COM2 serial devices, such as
a modem and mouse.
The unit's hard disk (I tested the 60MB
version) is speedy, and automatically shuts
off after a few seconds of inactivity to
conserve battery life. The system uses an
Award BIOS and has a full suite of onboard

external CRT is used. The LCD on the unit

I tested appeared to have slightly uneven

solid (dark) areas, as if there were a thin
layer of clouds visible, or one of those
backgrounds that photographers use to add
drama to a portrait scene. It was also
perceptibly brighter on the right side of the
screen. A small amount of horizontal
interference was visible when the screen
displayed a large white area. None of these
problems were serious, or particularly
unusual for LCD displays.
Only five Fn keys are used as substitute
keys. The remainder (and there are a
bunchl) are used to set up and control
various LCD screen display options, such as
reversing the video text, shutting off power
to the screen, etc. There's even a Help
command that shows what each one does.
Although the keyboard layout itself is
good, and the keys quiet enough to take
notes at a meeting without causing much
distraction, I found the key-travel to be too
short for my hhng. I preferred the touch of
the Intra's keyboard, although such
keyboards are almost invariably noisier.
The Darius keyboard has a clever design
for the corner where the Esc key is. The Tab
key has its upper portion recessed, making
Esc much easier to hit. Good idea
I n m an y w ays, t h e D a r i u s i s a
thoughtfullyAesigned unit inside and out.
Although I have reservations about the feel
of its keyboard and the uneven screen
display, it represents a good value, and
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Produch OkiLaser 400

Iijianufacturer: Okidata
Price $799
Pros: Inexpensive, good print quality, many fonts,
"sleep mode reduces noise when not in use.
Cons: Expensive to upgrade RAM.

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I also tested the unit with the new Adobe

Type Manager (ATM) software, and was
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sizes and styles, although printing speeds
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page took over four minutes to print.
However, the benefits of scalable fonts, not
to mention true WYSIWYG onacreen font
rendering in any Windows application, are
undeniably attractive features of ATM. HP
soft fonts may also be used, or proprietary
OkiLaser400 font cards added.

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cost of "personal laser printers"
recently, I picked up an OkiLaser
400 forunder $800, and am happy toreport
that I am impressed. This diminutive
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actually a misnomer, as the OkiLaser 400
uses what is known as an LED array as
opposed to a laser to image the data onto
the drum) was the smallest of the nine lowcost lasers tested by PC Magastrsein their
June 12th, 1990 issue, and won their
Editor's Choice award at a US retail price of
tt1595. At its current Canadian street price
of less than half that, it is hundreds of
dollars cheaper than its main competition,
the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet HP (another
PC Magtttsinn Editor's Choice). The 4 ppm
OkiLaser 400 was judged' by that magazine
to beat the HP in graphics and text quality,
and, with 17 built' fonts, outnumbered all
eight others tested in that area.

Drawbacks
The $550 cost of upgrading the
OkiLaser'0 memory is simply outrageous,
and presents the only significant drawback
to the plinter.

Summary
Aside fiom the fact that I find it slightly
obnoxious that Okidata can dare to call an
LED-based printer a laser (it isn'tl), this
fact is, in the final tally, insignificant. If it
looks and quacks like a duck, as they say....
The OhLaser 400 is a tremendous value
until you Sgure in the $550 cost of one
megabyte of RAM, which anyone printing
fullyage graphics needs. But for straighta head word-processing, it i s h ard t o
recommend a
dot matrix printer or
ink jet printer when you can have laserprinter quality for a hundred or two more.
And doesn't everyone want great-looking
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more memory (required for creating full- equivalent of six HP font cartridges),
page graphics) can be added later, though induding Times, Helvetica, Line Printer as
not by the end~ , a n d not at all cheaply well as the obligatory Courier. Both portrait
(see drawbacks, below). Various settings, and landscape printing is supported
like paper length and font styles, can be (though not by all font styles).
viewed on a 16character LCD panel on the

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ven if you are n o t a b e g inning

computer user, you probably know
someone who is. Show them this
articlel It is guaranteed 99% "jargon&ee
and should p r o vide a n a p p e t iaing
introduction to the Power Users' wonderful
world ofyouknowmhat.,

Having taught a course ofFered by the

Vancouver School Board for the last few
years called Cosssp
sstcssmmk RidicsiossdyEasy,
I have heard much of what novices do and
don't Snd easy. During these classes, I have
also listened to seemingly countless
questions posed by beginners and after a
while, certain patterns become evident...
This artide will attempt to distill some of
the information that these students have
told me was useful, practical knowledge. I
hope that even expert readers can take a
moment to think back to the earliest days of
their inexperience. (It wasn't that long
agol) I rather fondly recall the days when...
heck, I used to read the manualsl
The ten guidelines below are just that,
and may or may not all apply. to your
particular use for the machine. Obviously,
i f I say that you don't n eed t o b e a
programmer to use a computer, the wouldbe programmers are going to get
confused...

him or her to help you set the thing up.

Those books will only confuse you if you
read them now. Wait until you need to
do something that you can't Sgure out.
Then, refer to item 5, below. If you really
want to read something, look up the
precautions section in the index. The
parts about plugging in things with the
power on (don'tl) and what not to do
with diskettes are important. Most of the
r est isn' t. I t ' s m o stly written b y
programmers for programmers. You
don't need.to be a programmer to use a
computer anymore than you need to be
an auto mechanic to drive a car. (It can
be helpful, of course, if only to decipher
the manualsl)

Invitea friend or coworker who knows

so much about computersover and get

slow modem (uhwh, jargon attacki) may

have cost our friend Joe Consumer less
initially than a twice-as-fast model, but
when he telecommunicates over long
distance phone lines, he pays twice as
much for the long distance. These, and
countlessother jargon~ed e xamples,
are short-term bargains, but long-term
headaches. Another dassic example is
having a total of 2 megabytes of RAM in
your new computer. Most models these
days have only 8 sockets for plugging
memory into, and all eight are Slled up
with low-capacity memory modules
called 256K SIMMs. (8 x 2 56K = 2
megabytes). Unfortunately, when you
want to upgrade to more RAM (and you
willi), you' ll Snd that you can't use some
or all of the old SIMMs, and ssobodywants
to buy them. If you'd asked your dealer
for 4MB of memory when you bought
the computer, there would still be
sockets See, because the type of memory
module used would be a higherwapacity
version called one meg SIMMs, whichas you might have guessed~nly require
four sockets to equal four megs of RAM,
hence, there are still socketsfree for
future expansion. They have a much
better resale value, too. Don't makeJoe's
mistake. See items 4 and 6.

there are any perfect programs out

there, I h aven't seen them. Workarounds for software bugs or design
Saws are normal procedures in all but
the simplest programs. This seemingly
alarming fact is not meant to discourage
you, it is merely a fact of hfe. These days,

major applications (programs) for

computers ar e h u g e , i m m e nsely
complex undertakings written by teams
o f people. M o s t o f t h e t i me, t h e
software has been sufSciently tested that
it does the important parts of what it' s
supposed to do. It's just that it usually
doesn't do a few of the other parts
properly. Your only hope is...

lther, for the same reasons as above.

Rocket science degrees, in general, are
not required to use a computer, just a
little common sense and the ability to
look up things occasionally in the
indexes of software manuals.

3) Try startlnB at the back of the 6) Read Magazine Reviews. A "Buyer' s

manu al . I ' m n o t k i dding, either.
Virtually every manual has a quick
reference guide, troubleshooting tips
and the other important stuff right
before the index. Believe it or not, but
this tip really works for me.

speed. I know this sounds elitist and

power~
, b u t buy as much computing
horsepower and capacity as you can
afford. If you think that you don't need

Guide" or "Comparison Chart" type of

review is usually an ok place to Snd out
general features, but if you want really
specific dir t o n w h a t a n y g i v en
program's Achille's heel is, you need to
read a fulldength review. Luckily, there
are plenty of computer "brand~peciSc
mags out there that cover virtually every
major product within a few months of its
release. I would almost go so far as to say
never buy anything until you' ve read a
good review of it, but few people can

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8) Beware offalse economy. Buying a

5 ) Software never works right. I f

3) You don't need to know math

1) Jump tight in. Don't start by reading 4) You can never have too much
that bunch ofprogramming and DOS
books that came with your computer.

it, you' re wrong. Nothing makes a

alFord the time to read all those reviewsl
computer feel more obsolete than being
It's worth a try, though.
too slow and/or smalL A Stst hard disk
is a relatively cheap way to increase the 7) Never buy the f i rst version of
apparent speed of a system, also a SLster
anpthlnB. Ask a Pinto owner, ask an
processor makes a big difference.
original 128k Macintosh owner, ask
Absolutely everyone who has used a slow
anybody thatbought vLO of any software
system, then upgraded to a faster one
before they read a review of it. Many
will i m m e diately - become more
companies quickly come out with a
productive. And nobody wants to go
version 1.01 or 1.1 update because they
back to a slower one. T his goes for
know that smart folks wait till "the bugs
printers and hard disks, too. Get more
get ironed out" before buying. Be smart,
than you think you neesL You grow up
folks.
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Summary: A book which not only covers the
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