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I met and talked with two people this month who had not had much
experience with computing. They both were just now becoming involved and expressed the wish that they had gotten into it earlier. There
was the feeling that they had been left behind now with so much
informationpassing by. Itis true they have missed much by not catching
onto the speeding information revolution happening right now. It is not
however true that this is a fatal mistake. Any one grasping on or taking
an interest even at this point stands a reasonable chance of staying
current. The load of information is vast and so much new happens every
day. But there is a point to keeping current, because it is affecting all of
' us in our jobs, in our entertainment and in our environment. We have to
, keeping tuning in to what is going on around us to stay economically
sa
- viable..
The federal government obviously believes this as they are spending
a large amount of money on a campaign to promote science and
technology. You may have seen orheard their advertisements.. They are the ones thatremindus that there
are only X number of days till the year two thousand. They are trying to nudge us forward into the high
tech sectors of computers, technology and the information age.
We also take this seriously and we are making our efforts in our own small way to help you keep up
with this barrage of information. We feel strongly that this information needs to be readily available and
have a regional and local flavor to give it a context.
This issue is about Networks. Any time you plug two or more computers together you get a network
Networks are a logical extension of single computing. Once you realize the power of a single machine,
you start to think of all the ways you could enhance other parts of your business, association or school.
It is a logical progression for many businesses who started with one PC to do their accounting, to want
to achieve similar benefits in other areas, such as order entry, inventory orpoint of sales. Enter the Local
Area Network (LAN)
We have looked at a variety of ways to integrate computers and it has been a real education process
for us as well as we struggle with our own networhng environment at the offices of The Computer Paper.
Small does not necessarily equate with simple. Good luck to any of you who are attempting this process
we know you will need it. I hope you enjoy the issue and get some insights into networks. We have tried
to include enough to keep both the novice and the more sophisticated readers happy.
So far no one has chewed us out for our change of format. The consensusisin and it appears you liked
i''lease
keep thefeedback coming, we are always happy to hearfrom you and what you would like to
see more of.
We are looking forward to meeting many of you live at the coming Pacific Rim Computer and
Communications Show in November Watch for us down by the Exhibitors Lounge booth 4193A. There
is also a New and Used Computer Swap Meet planned for October. Watch for that one for some good
bargains as well.
Until next issue

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24 Computer Calendar
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Feature: Local Area Networks

14 Cooking Up A Network
15 Network Decision Guide
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Th e Future of Local Area Networks

17 LAN Language
18 TOPS: PC to Mac and Back

Reviews & Surve s

20 h nage Studio Alters Reality

20 Macwrite 5.0
20 The Shareware Shelf: EasyLAN II

Columns
21 The Service Sector
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New Products

27 The Booksellers' Bestsellers

Coming Up in

The Compufer Paper:

September: Education 4 Training
Copy 4, Ad Deadlme: August 22

October: Windows
Copy k, Ad Deadline: Sept 17

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Publisher/Editor

November: Word Processing

Copy dt Ad Deadline: October 22

December: CAD

Copy 4 Ad Deadline: November 19

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ACCPAC BPI LnnPak Released

VANCOUVER B.C. June 1, 1988 COMPUTER ASSOCIATES CANADA, LTD today
announced the release of the ACCPAC BPI
LanPak, which provides for accounting system
gmwth and allowsmultipleusets to shareaccouuting resources. The company also announced significant enhancements to ACCPAC BPI General
Accounting. Accotmts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Inventory Contxol modules.
"ACCPAC BPI is a sophisficated accounting
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a group of products that provide a unique and cost
attractive solution to running multiuser software
in a microcomputer environment.
NewPubllc9omaln Clearing House Announced
The popular methodof allowing users of dif'ferPD-SIG recently announced the opening of a
entcomputers to access the same information is io
clearmg house for public domain, shareware and
"network" them together. TMs is achieved with
&eeware software. PD-SIG which stands for
interface boards that plug mto the bus of each of
Public Domain - Special Interest Group, will disthe computers, wiring to connect the interface
trilmte Public Domain and Sharew are software for
boards together, aud a network operating system
IBM Compatibles, Atari ST, Amiga and Macin- began in 1987 with a number of programs de- to keep track of and service the requests of the
tosh computers. Members dues are not required
ed for the Nintendo Entertahment System. mdividual users. One of the computers, called the
by PD-SIG.%henyou purchase a catalog I'rom the
Taita is still very much attached to the Nmtendo "host" or "server" has a large, fast hard disk drive
company, the dues are included in the price of the
that stores the data files to be accessed by the
as a third party licensee.
$9.95 catalogue.
Vancouver was chosen as the headquarters of networked disk drive that stares the data files to be
Included in the catalog are a membership card the company's Nortll Aillericaliopefallans. Alari accessed by the networked users and their multiwithnumber to use in ordering software, a catalog Fetzer, Taito's president, commented: "Vancou- user software. In many cases the host machine is
of over
2000 disks of software for the associated ver is the site of recent RkD and technological dedicated to the tasks of the network operating
computers
andan80pagem ailorderhardware and growth. Not only will its proximity ta Japanfacili- system and cannot be used to run user applicacommercial software catalog. A bonus offer to the tate s~
and o p erations, it will also profit tions.
first 500 applicants is a free digital clock and a &om expanding business activity in the Pacific
AHoy has taken a slightly different approach to .
copy of a technical reference manual for the PCI Rim."
networkmg. All of the maui components re the
XT compatible. Disks for PD-SIG members will
Contact: Michele Portello (604) 984-3344. 267 same but they are arranged differently. In the PCbe $1.95 for 5.25" floppies and $2.95for 3Z' %est Esplanade, North Vancouver V7M 1A5
PLUS system, each user on the network, instead of
disks. Non-members will pay $3.95 and $4.95
having their own computer, has on&/ a terminal
respechvely. New software additions to the li(no memory or processmg power in the machine)
brary will be announced
via a "Hotlist" which will
usually consisting of a monitor and a keyboard,
be circulated regularly.
The rest of their computer is replaced by a "slave
PD-SIG is also loohng for new PD and Shareboard". The slave board is shtular to the interface
ware programs to add to the Library.
board mentioned previously, in thatit plugs into
PD-SIG hopes to ~
a CD- R OM containthe host machine to ccenect the users to the corning the library in the third quarter of 1988 with a
mon disk drive.
targetprice of $179.
The slave boards, however, have memory and a
For further information on PD-SIG, otmtact
processor dedicated to the attatched terminal. A
Robert Scott, PD-SIG 65-13880 74th Ave Surrey
slave board is really just amotherboard-on-a-card.
B.C. V3% 7E6 Telephone (604) 597-0881
The fact
thateach userhastheirow nprocessorand
memory is just hke having their own computer
except ithasbeen movedcloser to the diskdriveby
placing it on the bus of the host machine.
This architechture is attractive for a number of
reasons:
1) Because each user's slave board and therefore all of their processingpower is right on thebus
of the host, very fast disk access is achieved.
2) Security of the dat is increased because none
of the network users have the ability to remove
daut &om the network, via floppy diskettes, unless
they have physical access to the host machine.
They will only be able to access data andprograms
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@MS Inc. recently announced the latest mem3) Users only have a keyboard and monitor on
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Despite a deluge of clip art,6ne quality graph- ver area by Hart Software Support LtcL The PCcapabiTities, including an HP-GL emulation, for
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computer-aided design and engineering (CAD/ now ta seethese new packages being offered. price of $1395 and the NTNX, the network operCAE) and IBMmain&arneusers.
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Commodore64-AIcon, Arkanoid,BubbleBobble,
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other. The unit is sleekly styled and its mbrim

footprint clears valuable counter space. A corn
piete hardware system includmg SofTerm teani
nal with bar code reader aud receipt printer can
purchased for as low as $800.
Integra is lis~ on the VSE and the TSE (sym
bol ISI) and has been recently listed an NASDA
ATARI is said te be workmg on a 68030-based in the U.S (symbol ISIIF). 1%e company piojec
version of its popular ST series. The as-yet-un- sales of $15 million this year. (Telephone:
named machmes will be aunouncedin September. 733-1322
Also an the cards is a stripped down ST posing as
a games cartridge machine. Expect the 68000based caxlxidge system m January next year at a SuyarCaic 5 Has Canadian Premiere
target yrice of $199,.
TORONTO (NB) SupexCalc 5, the latestver
ATARI, Smmyvale, Ca., has yut oif inuaducing sion of Ccxnputer Associates' electmnic syread
its uansyuter-based workstation until "at least sheet program for MS-DOS macltntes, made i
1989." COMPUTER SYSTEMS NPVS reports Sxst Cauadlaii aplieaaulce at The Boualn
the delay is due to a lack of adecent operating sys- Exhibition and Conference here July 13 and 14
tem. Sig Hartuumn, Atari executive vice presi- The program's featans include dynamic "hot
between multiple spreadsheets, debu
dent,reported
ly says the operating system, called links"
and auditing tools, yreseatariox~ality
Mica, will not be ready until October.
a reporting fimctian, the abiTityta read Lotus 13 files and execute 1-2-3 nuems, and comyaubil
ity with Silverade, Computer Assoaates' data
CA Showa LAN version ef ACCPAC V. 5
VANCOUVER (TCP) Computer Associates in basemanagemeutadd-infer syresldieetpxagrams
coajuaction with3-Coin andCadaaceCarnputers, SuyexCalc 5 works on all MS-DOS computers,
an ACCPAC software developer, demonstrated characteristic Computer Associates is pxomotm
their new Version5 Local AreaNetwarkManager as an advantage over Microsoft's Excel, whichre
recently at Lifescan Mehcal Products. Comlmtur iluires an80286or 80386micreyracessor. But el
Associates has xeceived rave reviews en the user though SuyerCalc 5 werks on "even a 512K
interface enihntcexnents of their version 5 of with dual 360K diskettes," theanny' says, i
ACCPAC released ia January, but the LAN ver- takes full advantage of ~f- the-lme 80386PCs
sionhad been slow to follow. Lifescanis a Johnson SystemhouseBuysCemputexLund
+ Johnsonwwned medical products company (NB) SHL Systemhouse Ltd.'s buyout olf
syecializixig in self testing kits fer diabetics. The for Computer lanovauoas DistributionLtdached
company estimates that with sales in the range of uied to close July 12, was a success with 92.2
5 - 50 million dollars, the system will meet their cent of Computer Ianovariens shares tendered
pmcessing needs. The customized ACCPAC sys- Sysusahouse. That inchides an option ori shar
tem mctuded an order entry and inventory system held by BCE Inc. of Montreal, parent of Be
with 10 PCs,2Macintoshes, 3 dotmauix printers, Canada and Northern Telecam. "It'sa dunedin
for Sy s
and a laser printer all networked to it off a single n er," said John Owens, spo~
dedicated 386 based 3-Com server with 150 meg temhouse parent comymy Kmbuxn Carp., also o
harddriveand asophisticated tapebackupsubsys- Ottawa Headdedthat the C$3.60ashare offer
beenexteudedto July 25 to allowremaming share
The Vice President of Lifespan, John Hayes holders to offer theirshares as welL "It' s easier fo
was pleased with the new system and the service the shareholders to tender their shares now"
aad dedication he as receiving from Cadence. to wait for Systemhouse te nipxeeze them
He said that their ACCPAC system is being jeal- Owens said. Systemhouse, a systems inta
ously eyed by their US yarem company which audcustom software house, says Computer
vatiouswill continue to operate asaseparate anti
utTiizes amain&arne basedsystem.
Cadence Computers had approachedCouxyuter with existing senior management. Cempu
Associates to install the first version 5 LAN. Innovations runs just under 100 Computer
Cadenceinuun chose3~becauseof perform- stores across Canada
aruA: factors. According to Cadence president lan BEDFORD SOFFWARRLTl?Buxnaby, B.C
Glass, the 3~
s e rver "screams" compared tomadeapxoStofC$553,000in theyear ended
any other LAN systems currently available. The 31, up from C$153,000 a year earlier. Rev
server aho allows for considerable Sue tuning rose ta C$53 million from C$2 nnllion.
which fiutherenhances speed and user access
times. Although the event was yuncumted with IBM CANADA LTD Markham,Oatwill elimi
muchback patting by the three vendors involved, nate some 300 matuxfacturing jobs at its T
the hardware was impressive, and it did suggest plant over the next two years as part of a world
that industrial suungth Local Area Networks re wide IBM consolidation, THE GLOBE
becoming areahty. (Late plash- July 18, 1988,CA MAIL xeytuted, but the cuts will be balanced
has beymshiyping theLANPak($399 far4usexs) growth at IBM Canada Laboraunies.

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TORONTO (NB) Free trade with the U '
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States won't be a shock te Canada's
B.C.'s Integru Big In POS Texxnhtul Market
service mdusuy, according te thepresidnuof

VANCOUVER (TCP) Startmg with aa htvestment of $400 less than duce years ago, Integra of tha couuuy's largest camputer sexvice
Systeum Inc. of Vancouver is shippiag multimiSondollarcadets for their tuuxyte Pomtof Sale
(POS) teuninaLIntegraxacentlyhe1dacoming eat
party for their Srst assembly lme preluced SofTenn POS teuninaL This uew teuninal is part of
a6million dollararder Sem Alhaace Systems lac
of Santa Momca Cahfoxxua. Alliance plans to use
the 6500 teruuxmls on order in the xetaB entertainmeat indusuy.1%e event was atuutded by such
dignitaries as farmer Iadustrial Development
Mimster Grace McCiuthy aad Little Mouuuun

MLA Doug Mowau.

and chaianan of the major professional assacia

tion represeatiag the iadusuy. John Ricke
president of Canada Systems Gamp Ltd. o
Toxauta, tell axeceat conference in Paris that
Canadianeomputer serviceiadusuy haslived
Canada-US. free uade in all but name fer
years aad is used to cexnyeting with
Sans.
R i c ketts was speahag te the Worl
Cemputmg Services I'ndusuy Caagxims in
capacity as chairraaa of the Gmadian Assed '
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is that the economies of both countries will
harmonized and that busmess wiR be mtegr
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The terminalxesetablesmanyof thwecuxxuutly

inuseto debit VisaandMasturcardaccounts.These
tetuimals cail uy a central cainputer to check the
buyers accetmt while the buyer waits. Integra's
unit is moxa soyhisticated thm most available. It
ness geueraHy."
will handle debit aml credit card transactions,
cheque authorizahoa, detailed actxvity reliortmg,
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650-MB Rewritable Drive Coming Soon

NEW YORK (NB) Advanced Graphic Applications Inc. plans to hit the PC market with a 650megabyte, 5.25-mch rewritable laser disk drive
around November, accarding to President Alan
Goldrich. Goldrich says the laser drive "will be a
standard DOS device, ar a standard OS/2 device,"
and will be priced initially at $4,995. Goldrich
says his firm has been worhng closely with
Olympus and 3M on tbe project, with the suppart
of Sony, Maxtor, and Fujitsu. The hardware will
include the drive, the controller, and tbe device
driver and software will include a utrTity that
allows the user to partition the diskswithnoregard
to the DOS limit of 32 megabytes. "We have
rewxittensectarsover ldxxuiliontimes,"Goldrich
told NEWSBYTES, "and with no data loss or
degradatian. We have xun Flight Simulator on it,
nmitonnetwoxks. Therehavebeennopmblems."
According to Goldrich, Advanced Graphic Applications
has been in businesssince 1984 and currently employs 50, most of them engmeers. "We
are recognized as tbepremier driver andcontroller
manufacturer in optical technology," he said.

RISC Road Becomes Riskier

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (NB) There axecurrentlynumyplayers in the RISC(ReducedInstruction Set Computer) market. Currently there are
AMD with the 29000, Motorola with the 88000,
Faixchild's CLIPPER, IBM with the proprietary
RT/PC pmcessar, SUN with the SPARC, Intel
with the 486 (not oKcially announced yet), National with the 532 (not really RISC), MIPS, and
now Cypress Semiconductor with the SPARC.
SPARC, which stands for Scalable Processor
Architecture Reduced Computer, is a novel idea
which of'fera a basic CPU cell, designed with .8
micron lines, and offers 20MIPS fiom the33MHz
part. Designed to sell for $700 in quantity, it is
umque becausethe chip offers "windows registers" similar to the Z80 chip alternate register sets.
At any point, the user can switch to another window snd no saving of registers is necessary because registers are designed to overlap. Inst this
point is seen to be so inrpoxtant that everyone
NEWSBYTES-EUROPE consulted was anxious
to urlk about it. That's beaem modern language
compilers which are designed to have many
modules, operate faster an the SPARC. Munay
Freeman, Cypxem marketing manager in Europe,
explained further, 'This chip is so well designed
that welmow of 286runulatoxs which nmfsster on
the SPARC that they do on the real 286 chip."
Although Cypress feels that the SPARC chip is the
future, AMD also feels that its 29K chip is the
future, and undoubtedly Motorola also feels that
the 88000 is the future. We will just have lo wait
and see.

Chips Cheaper in Japan than U.S.

TOKYO (NB) A dramatic difference in the
priceofsemiconductoxs between Japan aud other
countries occurredimmediatelyfollowing the US/
Japanchip scandaL Wise buyers rushed to Japan
to buy on the Japanese spot market, where chips
were cheaper and plcutifuL The price difference
has persisted. Where anceyoucouldbuyachipfor
100 yen, or 75 cents less than in the States, today
that same chip is $1.50 to $2.25 cheaper. The
reason for the cheaper prices is that many chipmakers m the U.S. reduced 256K DRAM production, then failed to make a smooth transition to 1
megabit DRAMs from 256k DRAMs.

componentsfor those madunes, is already in

cantxoL Un~
Rodg e rs says his chips will
sellon price and perfonnance. "It's the most
powerful monolithic microprocessor ever produced." He says his RISC chip will cost less than
half that of Motorola's competing offexmg.

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TORONTO (NB) Commodore Business Ma-

chines will be sending more than 30 high school,

college and university students to Amiga dealers'
stoma across Canada this summer to demonstrate
the Amiga 500. Commodore says its Amiga
Action Teamprogram willrununtilAugust 31 and
focus on retailers serving the home market. The
students will work in designated territories across
the country, where they will give demonstrations
and trainmg on the Amiga 500 and participate in
special promotions and trade shows. All mrunbers
of the Amiga Action Team have campleted a
comprehensive training pxogram on the features,
software, applications, operation, care and maintenance ofthe 500, according to Conunodore.
They' ve abc had some instruction in presentation.
skills, pxamotions and merchandising.

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TUSTIN, CA (NB) When Compaq decided to
go its own way in the PC market and leave the
IBM~ompatible umbrella, it was a question
whether third parties would continue offering
peripherals toupgrade themachines. WeH, atleast
oue will. CMS Enhancements Inc. of Tustin announced tune24it will offer afamilyof 8 hard disk
and tape drives for the newest Contpaq Deskpro
386 machines, with drives of up to 320 megabytes
which plug into the computers' SCSI(pronounced
scuzzy) interface. Compaq is also xolling along on
its expansion plans, havmg become rhe 900pound gorilla of the Houston economy. The city,
which is strapped Gnancially, nevertheless came
up with property tax abatements, roadimprovementsand a $253 millionplan to turn FM 149 into
an 8-lane freeway so that Compaq would keep its
new jobs there. Compaq, meanwhile, is holding up
annauncing its plans while it studies greenmail
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HOUSTON(NB) Compaqof6cially announced

it will buy 85 acres of land near its present headquarters for expansion, and build 1.4 million of
space there. It present has 13 million square feet
of space ou 149 acres. Plans call for three new
manufacturing plants, four new office buildings
and four paxking,decks on the site, which was
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llionm various "incentives",includmgan
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this action.

DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Seyboid Hits Big Time with Big Names

SANTA MONICA, Ca (NB) This may be it for

Seybold Semmarsandthe Santa Clara Convention

Center (September 14-17). While Seybold is
happy with the SiTicon Valley faciTity, the annual
Desktop Publishing Conference that the group
holds there has outgrown it. This year's affair will
leave dozens of vendors hanging around out in the
sun like so many of the pnmes that once grew in
there in ahmdance. Not only will the exhibit floor
be packed but more than the usual number of new
Semiconductor Development in Taiwan
As reported in NEWSBYTES- Japan last week, productannouncements are expected; And, the
Seiko Epson plans to move its planning, design stars will-be out over the valley. The opening
and software development to Taiwan. This week, canference session alone is to feature Steve Jobs,
Seiko has announced the establishment of asemi- Jabn Wamock, Scott McNealy, Alan Kay, Paul
conductor design center in Taiwan. Major semi- Brainerd and Eddy Shah. We hear that Moscone
conductor makers, such as NEC, Toshiba and may be next year's venue so enjoy that sun while
Fujitsu, have such centers in U.S. and Europe, but you can and try not to wrinkle.
they only modify basic circuits made m Japan. ZSOFT, Marietta, is preparing a faster version of
Seiko Epson is giving its U.S. and Taiw an centers its Publisher's Type Foundry which translates
total contxaL
fonts under Microsoft Windows forusein applications like Aldus' Pagemaker. The program will
Top Chipux Motorola, Intel and Cypress?
SAN JOSE, Ca. (NB) If T.J. Rodgers, Cypress include a data compression algorithm, and cost
Semiconductor's CEO has his way, the new Cy- about $500.
"V-.-A"/PA
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Cypresshassteppedinto tbemicxoprocessormarket Electron@ Sales $125 Billion in 1st Quarter'&8
with a 32-bit RISC-based chip said to pnform at WASHINGTON (NB) According to the Elec20 million instructions per second, or a speed five tronics Indnstries Association, U.S. factory shiptimes that of the Intel 80386. It's targeted at the ments of electronic equipment, components, and
Unix woxkstatian market, specifically, those who products totaled almost $125 billion for the first
would create Sun-compa6ble workstations, and a six months of 1988. That figure excludes imports.
market in which Motoxola, which supplies the EIA says this is a gain of about16 percent over the
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electronics sector registered $413 billion of the
total, up more than 20 perccsit over last year' s
$34.3 billion, EIA says. Total employment m the
electronic industries m June 1988 was about two
million, up five percent over June of 1987.
ATgr T, of New York, has announced a virtual
hiring freeze and will begin reassignmg employeesto strengthen its computer and long~tance
businesses. The reassignments will move 3,000
people to sales andmarketing. ATLTcantmues to
losemoney in computers aud has been pressed
hard by competitors for its kmg distance busmess.
The hiring freeze is on indefiuitely.

US:Made Computer Translates Languages

REDMOND,WA (NB) Advanced Products k

Technologies will deliver a computer called The

Voice this falL The machine, first announced in
December,1987, can handle simultaneous translations of English, French, German, Spanish and
Italian. Chief executive Steve Rondel said The
Voice can handle about 10,000 different senUnfsys to Cooperate with Probe

BLUE BELL, Pa (NB) Umsys, one of several

defense
contractorsbeingprobed forprocurement
irregularities, says it will cooperate fully with an
investigation mto its billing practices for work
done for die Army. The U.S. Att
in Tucson,
Ariz., is considering ~
char g es against the systemsyoucanmixand matchesyouplease;and
giant computer company and two ofncials over eOS/400, a new operating system which is backallegedoverbilling for workdoneat Fort Huachuca, ward compatible with old System 36 and 38 proAriz. Unisys voluntarily disclosed the Fart grams, and upward compatible through SAA
Huachuca problem. Unisys saidina statement that . (stands for Systems Application Architecture) with
"any mischarging which may have occurred did IBM PSI2s, PCs, and mainfratnes.
not exceed $250,000." The company added it The announcement was made worldwide over a
"intends to cooperate fully withthegovernmentin 200-node satellite TV hook-up beamed f'rom New
the completion of the mvestiganon." In other York to audiences across the U.S. (There were
Unisys news, the company has reported record 2.000 onlookers in Athnta for instance, 1,700 in
second-quarter
despite a decline in de- New York.) The satellite feed was foBowed by an
fense contracts. Unisys says eamingsincreased 34 hour of testimonials in each city. (In Atlanta a
percent to $1623 million for the quarter (78 cents Model 20 was supposed to rise f'rom the orchestra
per share) compared to $1212 million (62 cents pit sunounded by theatrical smoke, but regional
per share) for the 1987 second quarter. Second exec Tom Smith canned the smoke at the last
quarterrevenues were $2Abillion, compared with nuuute.) That event was followed by free food and
$2.3 billion for the second quarter of last year.
an afternoon of demonstrations at IBM field offices. (Athmta's audieucewasbrought to thetopof
Pubmc FAX Machines Debut fu California
SANTA CLARA, Ca. (NB) Need to fax a thenew50-staryIBM Tower, amileftom theFox,
document somewherebutyou don'thave a fax where they saw dozens of local software outfits
machine handy7 A Santa Chua finnhas the showing their best stuff, live all running, on ASI
answer public, credit card operatef, fax ma- 400s.) In addition, versions of the software are
chines located at airports, hotels, aud other pubhc available in about 25 languages worldwide (Ike
areas. The machines combine facsimile capabil- English, Japanese, Italian, notBASIC, Pascal, and
ity with a standard voice telephone aud operate C) and general deliveries worldwide begin in
similar to Ihe system used by automatic teller August Prices, based on the model and periphermachinm msert creditcard,push a few buttons, als you want, can run from $20,000 to over $1
srtd your transaction is done. "We paid a lot of million,
attention to ease of use," A. Wayne Luke, vice MEANING This is IBM's last, andmaybebest,
president of sales and matketmg, told NEWSBY- chance to foist a proprietaty architecture aud allTES. 'rhepublic doesn'twantto fool around with conuolbngenvelopearounditscustomers. They' re
offering a109o discount whenyou buy everything
something that looks like a computer."
The two big advantages to its fax booths are cost hmlwate, software, prmtets, support, even
and privacy,he adds. A hotelrecently charged computer paper through IBM. The online eduLuke $18 to send a 4-page facsimile document. cation and ouhne service (including online trouThe PayFax booths charge only $8 for 10ttnmles bleshoourg aud software updates) will make the
enibrace very tempting to current System 36 and
agesand$.80 for each additlonalminute. Andatholeh System 38 users. (One low, low lease Ml every
an operator normally has to send the docmnent for mouth for everything, IBM promised.) As for the
you abigdisadvantageif you' re sending some- ristof us, the Mac users, Unix users, and the great
unwashed with fully-loaded Cumpaqs and LANs,
thing private. These units are self~perateL
FaxPlus says the first PayFax machines have been this may prove an offer we can live without.
installed at four Bay Area hotels, including the
Holiday Inn Golden Gateway in San Francisco
and the Hotel Sofitelin Redwood City, California Englsh-Japanese %unalation Irum IBM JaBy the end of the year, some 1,500 units aru pan TOKYO(NB) IBM Japan has developed
expected lo be operating in 20 US. cities and apmgnunwhich translates English setttences into
20,000 installed by the end of 1992.CONTACI'
Jspauesa The system for human assisted hmCatule Hoffarth, for FAXPLUS, 415/S93-3000
guage translation (SHALT) claims its translation
Software Bad from US Military Contractors algorithm is 13-3 times more efficient than huPHTSBURGH (NB) Lackof management man translators' hands. SHALT includes an Engmethods and training in software enfpneering hsh analysis featute which clarifies the part of
hampersdefensecontractorsdeveloping advanced gtammarforeachword,anEnglish-Japauesetrauspmgrams,
accordingto astudybyCarnegieM el- ferfeature which transfers the resultof analyzed
lon University. MiTitaty comptter contracts lacka English into other English expressions, as well as
focused approach to software eitgmeering, the into a half uxpmssian of Japanese, and a Japanese
report by the Defense Defiartment's Software sentence generation feature. IBM Japanhas begun
Mellon con- translating its own manuals with the product. The
Engineering Institute at
cluded.'Ihe firmsdidnot tracksoftwatuengmeer- fitst, "IBM 3174 Control Unit Guide" was pubing projects adequately and lacked uniform stan- hshed in the middle of this month. IBM Japan is
dards for developing softwareor for estimatmg the aiming to release the SHALT in the Japanese
size and cost of projects. 'The bottom line is marketafter furtherim provements are mada
reduced efficiency, productivity, and quahty dur- Teletel
Lands In Japan
ing software development," saidTim Kasse of the TOKYO (NB) F rance's Teletel, the most
institute. "None of us cau manage software very papular videotex system in the world, is headed
well Jack Ferguson of Hanscom Air Force Base Sar Japan. France's Telecom is cutrently worhng
in Massachusetts told the Associated Press.
with PhiTips Japan on the project. Telecom has
obtained sales licences for its terminal machmes,
IBM's Latest Linet A400 Mini-Computers
ATLANTA (NB) As predicted in the June 21 called Miuitels in Japan. They could ship as early
edition of NEWSBYTES- UNITED KINGDOM, as this fall. The Minitelis expected to carry aprice

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called the AS 400 Series on June 21. (AS, it toms
out, stands for Application System.) Besides having more speed, storage, and power than the System 36 and System 38 machines they replace, Ihe
new machiines also feauue online service and
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the fir s t full implementation of IBM's
vaunuA SAA standardofconnectivity,and anew
relationship with the people who re-sell IBM
machines and write software for it. These Business Partners, as IBM now calls them, wete kept
informed throughout the design process of what
IBM was doing, and 1,000 real applications were
shown, worhng, in IBM demonstrations worldwide au the day of the announcement. Here's the
low-down on all the new stuff:
eA new, lastof-the-hne System 36/5263, ituroduced as a lowend machme with 1-2 megabytes of main memory, 105%20megabytes of disk storage, and other
feauuus. IBM admitted that "migrating" System
36 applications to the AS/400is a httlehatder than
migratmg System 38 applications, so they offer
eThe Models
this for the small and the tmud.
10 and 20, each about the size of an office trash
can, which plug into an ordinary 110 volt outlet,
and feature internal memory of up to 16 megabytes, with up to 945 megabytes of disk storage;.
~ e Models 30,40,
50 and 60 ,mounted in racks
like old mainframes, with components like pmcessors, tape drives, memory, and communications

of under',000 yenor $380, far lower than NIT's river, a statistical muhiplexer that handles data
price for its CAPTAIN videotex terminals.
Videotex is an information search service using
telephone lines. Bycallmgup the computer center,
you can search mrrius for news, shopping, stock
market ipiotes, and weather reports.
Software CompaniesFrom Japan
TOKYO(NB) Japanese software development
companies havebeenestablishing bases in Europe
and USA. at an unprecafented rate.
TSD, Tokyo, will establish a coqorate of6ce in
the U.S. and Ihe PMippnes. Los Angeles-based
TSD America will deve1op application software
for Japanese companies entering the U.Starker.
Philippine TSD will support software development for the companies with which TSD has
contracted. Manila-based TSD will be set up in
August, with joint investment by Paul Akino, step
brother of Philippine President Aquino and director of PhiTippine Software Associates. TSD will
entzust 20 percent of the software development
orders received in Japan. to Philippine TSD within
6ve yean.
Meanwhile, Iness will establish cozpozate of6ces
in the U3. by the end of this year. Software
Research Associates (SRA) will set up SRA Europe in London this October. Toyo Information
System (TIS) sets up TISUSA in Los Angeles at
the beginning of this month.
Fntnrfstfc Communfcatfons Project Launched
TOKYO(NB) Tl Ministryof PostsandTelecommunicaritxt(MPP)hasreleasedazeptntwhich
details a 21st Century Universal k Intelligent

disiribution through seven asyncbmnous RS-232

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. Newb r idge says the 1070 is a costeffective way of disizibunng RS-232 data and is
simple to install and maintam.

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Symantec's 5 New Products For The Mac
BELMONT, Ca (NB) C
its commitment to the Macintosh market, Symantec has
released five new software products, inchidutg an
upgraded desktop presentation pmduct. MORE
II, InBox3.0, THINK's LightspeedC3.0, THINK's
Lightspeed Pascal 2.0, and Just Enough Pascal
were announcetL
MORE H, considered the centerpiece of
Symantec's Macintosh offerings, is a complete
planniug, writing, and presentation software system featuring advanced outhning, a woni processor, full drawmg capability, and the ability to
createcustomized color overheads nd 35mm
shdes. Atthe news conference, Syznantec announced that slide designs created with MORE II
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Available in the fall MORE II is expected to cost
$395 or $89 for current MORE owners. It is also
available to PowerPoint, Criticket Presents, and
ResdySetghow owners for $89 in a lhnited time
offer.
Macintosh Today Tabloid Folds
SAN FRANCISCO (NB) As expected,PCW
CommunicationsNetwozk(URN), asystnm which Communications has pulled the plug on its 6edgMACINmarries both aztiTicial intelligence and telecom- ling Macmtosh weekly t
TOSH TODAY. President David Bunneii, in the
munications technology.
The UICN is expected to perform, among other 6nal July 18 issue, tells readers the end as come "at
tasks, automatic language translation between least as you' ve come to know it." He praises the
speakers on the telephone, and wiB have new data hard-working and dedicated staff, then explams
Iransfer methods inwhichthecallerneednotknow the bouom line. "We just didn't get the response
I'rom adveriisezs we neehxL Our parent company,
the pmtocol of a remotereceiving station
The UICN pmject is not justpie-in-the-sky think- IDG Commuzncations, decided suddenly and
ing. The report wiB be the basis of a meeting by very recently not to continue investing in the
He sayshehopes forarelaunchof the
year's end between Iesearcliezs who will be ul- newspaper."
publicarion, possibly onhne. In the nieantime,
volved in implementing the concept.
most of the staffers are expected to be switched to
Voice Recognition Technology Develops
TOKYO (NB) Japan's telecom giant NIT hss the other PCW p u blications PUBLISH.
MACWORLD, and PC WORLD.
developeda large- scale integrated circuit (LSI),
which can distingmsh between a myriad of differ- Apple Shinesln Latest Quarter Earnings
ent voices. The chip makes it possible for a voice CUPERTINO, Ca (NB) Contmumg its stellar
recognition board to be one fourth the size of performance, Apple Computer has azmounced that
current peripheral, enabhng the board to be in- its latestquarter produced a71 percent increase in
earnings to $913 million, compared to $535
stalled in a PC.
The LSI is expected to bring a version of NIT's million one year ago. Sales were up 56 percent to
ANSWER system to end-users. In use by banks, $993.1 million. The firm attributes the great figANSWER allows customers to deposit or with- mes to "good progress in the business markets,"
drawcashfmm their checking or savings accounts according to astatementfmmDel Yocam, Apple's
through a telephone call and checks their voice chief operating of6cer. Especially encouraging
against digitized voice data saved in its database. were strong sales of Apple's high-end machizte,
the Macizuoshil. Bruce Lupatkinof Hambrechtk
:==;QKA'L:,:A'RF>5KF%9RKS::-:; guist,a m arketresearch 6zm, says some 50,000
Macmtosh lis were sold in the last quarter comDCA Announces a Fiber LAN
ALPHAREITA, GA (NB) Digital Communi- pared to 35,000in the previous quarter. He further
cations Associates announced a 1ocal area net- mnarked that themostsuqeising aspectof Apple's
work(LAN) using optical fibers instead of coaxial most recent report is suong sales m Eumpe with
cable. The 10-t Fiber Optic LAN uses software international sales accounting for 38 percent of
developed by Dayton, Ohio-based subsidiary 10- total sales.
Net Communications, formerly Fox Research, and ClarlaBuysFllemaker - Top Selling
Database
can connect several hundred computers together MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. (NB) In its second
without reyeaten. The cost will be $1POOper acquisiYion in as many months, Claris, the Apple
node, including software, plus about S3,000 for Computer software spiff ,
h as purchased
the mam hub.
s hoba Systems of Foster City, Camaker of
DCA also announced two LAN gateways, IR- FileMaker, the largest-selling database package
MALAN 8022 and IRMALAN SDLC Gateway for the Macintosh. The acquisition follows Ciaris'
2, which let users of such LANs access data in purchase of StyleWare of Houston, and pmvides
mainfrazne systems. The 802.2 pmduct lets non- Claris with a more complete lme of Macmtosh
IBM or Netbios compatible LANs access IBM software products.
mainframes using token-ring teclmology. 'Ihe Under terms of the deaf, which reportedly cost
SDLC Gateway 2 pmduct emulates IBM termi- Apple $7 million, Nashoba's programmers will
nals so the LAN appears to be directly connected remain in Massachusetts while its Foster City
to it. New software and enhancements for the operation will be folded mto Claris' Mountain
IRhQNandlRMALANlines was also announced. View headquarters.
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LOWELI Mass. (NB) Wang Litboratories has shipping its AppleFax Modem, $699. Operation
unveiled a security device for the Wang PC 200/ of the modem with a Macintosh actuary rapizes
300 series of AT clones, aud for PCs m stand- use ofa conventional modem. The fax machine
alone, networked, aud workstation environments. comes with software which allows fax calls to be
Though a licensing deal with Micnmyx, Incof timeMeiayed and permits printing to a LaserRichardson, Texas, theMicroContmlpzoductuses Writer printer.
an advan:ed security kernel, electmnic tokens, THE EXPLORATORIUM, San Fnmcisco, a
and file encryption tecfmiques.'IIie security ker- hands-on science museum, has received $170,000
nel is an addition to the operation system. Accord- worth of Apple computers 36 computers in all
mg to Wang, it enables MicroContml to pmtect includmg 5 Macmtosh Ifs, a fax machme, and 31
itself from attempts to tamper or alter its controls. SEs in a donation f'mm APPLE COMPUTER.
MicroContml is $1,200 and is available immedi- The machines will be used to produce exhibi@
ately.
graphics, and the Exploratorium's magazines, Ron
Newbzfdge Mttltlplexer Hnndha 7RS-232e
HipschmanofThe Exploratorium, toldNEWSBY-

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New Mag for Mac Dealers

MANHASSET, N.Y. (NB) No sooner has
one Macintosh trade publication bit the dust,
MACINTOSHTODAY, than another has taken
its place. CMP Publications is leaching a
biweekly tabloid aimed at dealexs of Apple
Macintosh computers and Macintoshdeveloyers. But unlike the deceased MACINTOSH
TODAY, whichbosstedacixculstienof2N,N0,
this four-color magazine will have a controlled
circulat
ion of 24,0N. CMP has been on sn
aggressivebinge of new launches of late,unveiling "Communications Weeklnmnational,"
"Unix Today," snd "Long Island Monthly" in
the last quarter. Altogether, the company publishes 15 magazines. The new Macmagazine,

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H-P Files Counter4uit Against Apple

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seea the papers believe that Hewlett-Pachad,

not Micmsoft, is the real target of Apple's
famed "look and feel" lawsuit aimed atyrotecting the Apyle Macintosh user interface. Were
all H-P computers to become Mae-hke, Apple
might lose its captive audience. And they are
beecstang that w'ay, thanks to "NewWave",
Hewlett-Packard's new oieratiag envirorunent
which is the target of the smt.
This week H-P countersued Apple, charging
unfair business practices and violahoas of the
Sherman Anti-Trust AcLQtecoaxpany, mshng
its formal response to Apple's Ayril 17 suit,
denied all the allegations, asking that the court
invalidate Apple's copyxights. BasicsBy, H-P
charges that Apple does aot hold vahd copyrights for its vtsual displays andimiges because
it did not originate them. In fact, they were the
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and sales to the SEC. When insiders buy, outsiders figure they know something good ishappening. When insiders sell, outsiders 5guxe bad
news is commg.
Recently, st Apple, insiders sold. ht a big way.
Del Yocam, executive vice president and chief
operating of5cer, unloaded 100,000 shares,
leaving himself with just 2,0N. Mike Syutdler,
senior vice president for iatexasrional sales and
marketiag, sold all his 20,{NO shares. JeanLouisGassee, seaiorvicepresidentforresearch
and marketing, sold his holdings aswell, and Al
Eisenstadt, senior vice president snd secretary,
sold 30,000 shares, roughly one-fouxth of his
holdings.
Analysts, however, said not to worry. Appleexecutives usually sell stock in the late spring,
based on the timing of their stock option phns.
Besides, with Yocam getting his Apple stock at
$7.75 per share, the sales left him with a real
pmfit of $3.7 aullion.
NEW IMAGE TECHNO L O G Y, INC.,Lanham, Mdhas ended producsioa of Magic, a
video digitizer for Macintosh computers.Magic
has been in production since 1984. New Image
says it will honor the full warrantieson all
systems.
Handy Image ScannerFor Macintosh
TOKYO (NB) Tokyo-based software venture Kowa John Giken has develoyed a small
scanner for Macintosh SE, 11, and PLUS. The
scannerhas adata transferspeed of100 megabytes per second, 30 times faster than other
scanners.As soon as an objectistracedby the
scanner,
theim age appears on the screen. The
scanner hss areadmg areaof 105mm x 300mm.
It can take photographs into Hyyexcsrd, too. The
price,includmg adaptox,ctamector, snd soft-

ware, is78,000 yen or $600.

Mac Gets More Beef From Ashton-Tate
TORRANCE, Ca. (NS) While the Macin-

tosh market may not be big enough to supyort

two weekly Macintosh-specifle tabloids, it' s
dearly big enough for Ashton-Tate to take it
seriously. Ashton-Tate has estabhshed a new
Macintosh Software Division which will em-

ploy up to 100 people in software development,

sales, and marketing. Just named to heed up the
new division is Terence Gaxnett, aventureeapitalist. Edward Esber, Ashton-Tate chairman, had
been heading the division since its founding in
February. Fullwrite Pmfessionsl, acquired fmm
Aan Arbor Softworks is currently Ashton-Tate's
flagship Macmtosh product.
Meanwhile, Ashton-Tate is offering a special deal
to those well-heeled enough to attend its Septem-

ber developer's conference. Sign upnow (registranon SJ95) and receive any of the following:
dBase IV Developer's Mtion, Framework IH, or
two Macintosh products. The conference is slated
for September 13 thmugh 16 at the Century Plaza
Hotel in Los Angeles.

Apple To Replace Bugs in System Software

CUPERTINO, Ca (NS) Within two months of
its release, vexsion 6.0 of the Macintosh system
software is being revised. Numerous complaints
of bugs have prompted Apple Computer to promise anupdate, version 6.01, by the endof July, just
m time for the shipdateof thenew lmagewriter LQ
prmter drivef,

Users complained that version 6.0 had glarin

problems with scend 51es, scriyt editing, color
yalette 5les, aad Mulupmder. Consequeatly, accoxdatg to Apple syokeswoman Cynthia Macon,
there are a total of 19 patches in the new system
software.
APPLE COMPUTER, Gtyertino, CL, is expected to announce anew lathed optical scanner,
a 60 megabytetape drive, a new monochrome

monitor, andahighresolutionmonochmmevideo
adapterasearly asAugustat theBostonMacWoxld
Expo. Aho m the wings are a new version of

HyperCard, and a Mac SE with 2 megabytesof

memory and a 40 megabyte internal hard drive.

Sapermac Sells to Ventuxu Capital Group

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca (NS) Redmk-bleedmg Scientifh Micm Systemsmayflnallygetsome
5scalxehe; the 5nuhas signed a let ter of intent to
sell its coveted SuperMac Technology division to
the Sigma Partners venture capital 5rm of Ssn
Jose. The decision to sell to Sigma cuhninates
months of speculation about the fate of the pm5table Scieatifle Micro Systems division, whichhas
been courtedby a wide range of suitors, fmm
former employees to major corporations. TIte
pumhaseyriceof SuperMac wiilbe determined at
the date of sale, exIucusttobe August 1, Scienti5c
Micro spokeswoaum Mehmie MeNulty told
NEWSBYTES. Intexestiagly enough, SMS "does
not expect to xeelize any siyuflcsnt gain or loss
Rom thesale," she adds,since thepurchase price
will be based on the netbook value of the assetsof
SuperMac miaas certam liaMities. SuperMac
makes large screen monitor's aad hard disk drives
for the Macintosh.
Blyth Fires CaHfornfa Stxdf Moves to NYC

SAN MATEO, Cs.-(NB) Blyth Software,

famous for its Omnia database software, has instituted amajorreorymizationaimed atcuaing costs.
The 5nn's actmgpresidenthas fred Blyth's Califomia pmgrarmaiagstaff of Gv e and has closed
downits entire U.S. softwaredeveloyment teaxnin
order to facilitate research and development back
in the U.K. Paul Wright, chairman of Blyth
Software's parent company, basedin London,
England, told NEWSBYTES "the fiscal year has
been disappointing" and major changes have been
necessary. For one, the U5. ymgrsxmning team,
he says, was competing with Blyth's U.K. pmgrammexs and they were considered ao longer
necessary. Secondly, Blyth intends to purchase
Coxporate Class Software, aNew Yorkflrmwhich
sells ahighlevelflnsncial analysisreportmg package to Fortune 1000 5rms. The sale, which will
require a substantial but undisclosed amount of
resources &om Blyth, is due to be culmmated at
the endof July. Auhat time, Blythis also tomove
its U.S. headquarters from Ssn Mateo to Manhattan ~here Corporate Class is located. Wright told
NEWSBYTES one of the biggest advantages in
buying Corporate Class will be to acquire its

management
team, ahighly successful group of
people who will take over the reins at Blyth.
Wright added that the San Mateo of6ce will be-

come a fnlly staffedsupport andW

estern regional
sales of6ce.
Breakthrosgh Math Program For Mac
SANTA CLARA, Ca (NB) "Whencalculators

came out, arithmetic became very easy. We built

Mathematics to make all kinds of mathematics
that easy," said the developer of a revolutionary
new math product, Stephen Wolfram, flank by
enthusiastic representatives of Apple, IBM, Autodesk, Sun Micrcuystems, and NeXT. Thecelebration was about Mathemarica, apmgram currently

available for the Macintosh, which can perform

virtually every calculationin a fraction of the time
it would take to perform it by hand. Mathematics
can simultaneously produce 2-dimensional or 3dimensional graphs, and includes a language that
can be customized to create new applications
based ou textbook or teaching models. Everyone
is raving about it. For instance, Apple's Lsny
Tesler, vice president of advanced technology,
says of Mathematics, "It will really revolutionize
the way people do math."
Steve Jobs, Apple co-fouuder audcurrently
president of NeXT, is the first to promise to bundle the
product &ee with all the workstations he sells,
although Jobs refusoi to discuss when his computer will be intmduced. Autodesk pmmisss to
create a version that will run on IBM's PSII line.
The program will also become the foundation of
' new any'ueermg applicationsfromAutodesk. "It's
the most mcredible tool we' ve ever seen," gasped
Autodesk's Eric Lyons, director of technology. Iu
addition, Sun Micmsystems, Ardent Computer,
Stellar Computer, aud SiliconGraphics announced
plans to adapt Mathematics to their machines.
Mathematics, marketed by Woli'ram Research of

MS-DOS Version 4.0 is being released to hardware manufacturers first but is expected to be
available to end-users for $95 uo later than October.
PETER NORTON C O M PUTING, Santa
Monica, Ca., hss grown &cm earning $500,000 a
year in 1983 to making $112 million in 1987. It
ranks among the 15 fastest-gmwing software
companies, according to SOFrLE'ITER, and is
now the 32nd largest mdependent U.S. software
company. Journalists got a packet of tomato seeds
in the mail with this announcement, and it was
explained this way, "A good gardener always
plans for the future sud next year's crop. While
you' re wailing for the sprouts to break ground, be
on the lookout for au exciting new venture that we
will announce shortly..." Hummm....

Version3.0 ofLotus 123 Real Soon Now

PASADENA, Ca(NB) Lotus lovers were out in
full force at Cal Tech last week for a preview of
3.0. After making a presentation of the next
version of 1-2-3, pmduct manager Chris Randall
assured those assembledthat theproduct wouldbe
delivered, as promised, in the fourth quarter.
Randall dismissed rmnors that the latest implementation presently requires over 640KB to ruu
under DOS and that developers in Cambridge are
having fits getting it lo fit. Instead, he maintained
that the new version would not only offer spiffy
new features like multiple levels but would perform faster snd in less memory than previous
versiolls.

ZSOFI', Madlagank (Actlvision) Merging

hQLRIETI'A, GA (NB) ZSoft chairs Mark

SOFfWAREPUBLISHINGCORPORATION Zachmaun, in an exclusive interview with

Mountam View, Ca is doing quite welL thank NEWSBYTES, admits his Srm's merger into
you, with earnings of $3$6 million, a 338 percent Mediageuic, fortnerly Activision, is not yet fmalincrease over 1987 figures. SP's Chief Financial ' ized. Lawyers still are going over the papers, he
Officer claims the mcream comes fmm corporate said, and until then he can have nothing formally
accounts, which make up 60 petcent of the firm's to say about the firm's dircctian. But he did conrevenues now. 'This is a significant departure Snn that the present direction of Mediagemc is
Sam our past focus on smaller customers," says more in line with ZSoft's business, PC applicaChampaign, Illinois, is the brainchild of acknowl- Jim Heffer
nsn.
tions hke PC Paintlmisli, than its former life as

edged genms StephenWolfram, the firm's presi-

dent. He was the youngest doctorate recipient

Lotus'sMarkethsgENortsBoostlstPIMMaker

Activision, the gamescompany.

Oncethemerger

is final, expect ZSoft to t ake control of

Mediagenic's PC apphcatious development, snd
look for Zachmaun to have a bigger role in settmg
the company's direction.
CE SOFTWARE, Das Moines, IA, is creating a
version of its QuickMail package, written for the
NeXT Setbacks
on the market with a "personal informatitm man- Macintosh, for use on IBM machines. It will run
PALO ALTO, Cs. (NB) Think you canmsrket ager" or PIM, called Info-XIback in Febnnuy. under MS-DOS.
astate~f-the-art campus woikstationcrestedby a It's got Sve windows: outline processor, a file
team headed by one of the industry's wuuderk- manager, word processing area, schedular, and MSA, Atlanta, has weathered a takeover attempt
inds? There are now openings in Boston and calendar. They all work together to presumably kom Garden City, NY-based COMPUTER ASPittsburg, two cities where NeXTInc. is establish- sort through and organizeone's life. Info-XLsells SOCIATES INC. For now. CAI's Anthony Wang
ing sales office. Advertisements for salesperson- for only $295 compared to the higher price tag for said his finn was rebuffed at every nun by MSA
nel have been posted in those cities' local papers, competing GrsudviewkomSymantec, aud Agenda management,and acknowledged the board has
support Srom shareholders. MSA stock dropped to
indicating the forecasts of a July release date for fmm Lotus.
X T ' s first computer are most likely on target.
$9.12 per share in the wake of CAI's announceBut reg.Mess of the pmgrsm's uniqueness and ment CAI had offered $1150 per share.
The date of the introduction is also said to be in
price tag, Valor had a "tremendous educafionsl
perfect timing for fall purchasing decisions by burden," Gary Jose, VP of m arketing told Lotus ShipsAGENDA, New Type of Program
universities and colleges.
NEWSBYTES, in bringing news of this tool "that CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (NB) Lotus DevelopOnly one factor could delay the introductionof die can dramatically increase productivity" to the ment Corp. has begun shipping Agenda, its new
NeXT machines, according io published reports, public. A white paper wss published by Valor's personal information manager that is supposed to
aud that is a possible dispute between Apple President Steve Ssndo, explaimng the new cate- bring the HypetCard concept that is a success cn
Computer and XT over copyrights. The attor- gory to software resellers snd editors, which is Apply computers to the world of IBM PCs snd
neys from both sides are still said to be haggling now m its second printing.
clones. The pmduct, developed primarily by Loover details regarding the similarity of each fin's But Valor's efforts at publicity are now dwarfed tus founder Mitch Kapor,has beenindevelopmeut
offerings.
by Lotus' phumed $6 million advertising and for two and a half years. Lotus is devotmg great
Meanwhile, Jobs got something of a blow Som educational campaign to promote its own PIM, care to the product, includmg budgeting $6 milone of his biggest fans. Carnegie Mellon Univer- Agenda, says Jose. The mood was upbeat when lionforthe launch.Agendaruns under DOS 2.0or
sity, au investor in NeXT, announced that it will Lotusannounced shipmeut of Agenda, because higher,
sndrequires640Kof RAM and ahsnldisk
develop versions of the Mach operating system for "Lotus' market presence will significantly help in drive. The suggested retail price is $395 snd the
the Macintosh 11. That's the operating system on educatmg PC users about this new category."
product is available immediately.
which the NeXT workstation is rumored to be Info-XL runs on any MS-DOS machine with at How well will Agenda do7 Opmion is divided.
muning, and if it's ported to the Macintosh, the least 384k and MS-DOS 2.0 or higher. The pack- The "Wall Sweet Journal" quotes Stewart Alsop,
NeXT machine will lose some of its individuality. age is sold at Egghead software stores.
editor of P.C. Later, predicting that Agenda will
Tomskematters worse, the University announced
be "another very talked about program that falls
that the prefened machines for incoming students US. ComputatLandplles To Go Public
flat on its face" because it can' t multitask. Gn the
this fall will not be &om the Palo Alto company, HAYWARD, Ca. (NB) ComputerLand, other hand, Esther Dyson, editor of Release 1.0,
but &om Apple and IBM the Macintosh and the seeking toraise $1093 million, has Sled with the told thenewspaper thatAgend
ais "fimdamentally
Securities aud Exchange Commission to offer
PSI2 line.
new aud different. It's tremendously exciting."
31A percent of the company for public stock sale.
JASMINE TECHNOLOGIES, San Francisco, The prospectus asks that the initial public offermg REGIS MCKENNA, himself, has penned anhas lowered the prices and upgraded its hard disk of 3,4million shares be priced at between $16 snd other book, 'Who's Afraid of Big Blue? How
drives. Capacities now range from 45MB to $19 ashsre afsirlyhighprice according to most Companies Can ChallengeIBM snd Win." His
140MB aud are priced from $799 to $1,499.
analysts, who point to the fact that such a price is first blockbuster wss 'The Regis Touch New
higher than Busiuessland's, which is growing at a Marketing Strategies for Uncertain Times." The
new book tells many tales of success gleaned &om
faster rate than Computerlsud.
New DOS 4.0 FhtaUy Released
Theprospectus notes thatComputerlsnd sold $1.7 McKeuna's walks through the halls of Apple,
REDMOND, Wa (NB) Microsoft has released billion in goods during its last Sscal year and Compaq, and other Srms who have taken on IBM
an update of the world's most popular operating postedsales of$71billionfor the fnsteightmonths aud won. The book will be priced at$17.95 when
system, MS-DOS Version 4.0. The new operating of this year. Profitreached $5.6 miihon last year. it is released this falL
improvements over itsprede- The public of'fering is being managed by Salomon Yellow Pageson Your Hard Disk
cessors. First, it includes support for hard disk Brothers, Merrill Lynch Capital Markets and San GA (NB) John Rapp has been compiTing snd
files greater than 32 megabytes, so the user is not Francisco-based Volpe k Covington.
selling databases for almost 10 years now, but
required to divide large hard disk drives into
until renmtly he never considered selling dataSymphony
Sales
Pus
h
Lotus
Earni
ngs
smaller partitions. Also new is support for the
bases for PCs. What changed his mind was a study
expanded memory specification which allows the CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (NB) Strong sales of he did last fall showing that 70% of PC users in
computer to access more than 640K at one time. Symphony, its integrated software package, led business now have hard drives.
There's also a DOS Shell, a filedirectorymsuage- Lotus Development Corp. to $173 million (38 So Rapp's Digital Publications Inc. is now trymg
ment system for low- endpersonal computers that centsper share)in earnings forthe second quarter to, as he told NEWSBYTES, "do to this industry
allows users to visually organize their hard disk on sales of $122milhon. That compares topiofits
what Borland did with compilers." He's offering
files with pull-down menus. This feature may of $163 million (36 cents per share) on sales of customized mailing lists, organized by SIC code,
have been the reason for Microsoft's delay in $94 million for the second quarter of 1987. "Busi- at just $100 per 720K floppy disk. "Our database
introducing the product on the market. Sources ness was boosted by an outstanding quarter for is biased toward more established fians it
told NEWSBYTES-EUROPE that the Apple/ Symphony, another solid performance by 1-2-3, doesn'thave pizza places," he says. CD-ROM
Microsoft "look snd feel" lawsuit required the and a strong quarter of international sales," said versions ofhis databases,he says, will be available
Washington-based fmu to take a hard, second Jim Manzi, Lotus president.
once the players come down to $500 and masterGoldman Sachs k, Co. analyst Richard Sherlund
look at its visual copyright.
ing costs go lower than their present $2,000 per
Analysts say IBM didmostof the work on the new estimates that Lotus sold 285,000 units of 1-2-3 in disk.
the
quarter,
down
a
bit
from
the
record
first
quarDOS and hcensed it back to Microsoft, both out of
Rapp also has some interesting ideas on how to
respect for the software company's previous work ter, but still a solid performance. The good sales gather publicity. He's sending computer writers
for
1-2-3
indicate
that
Borland's
Quattro
and
on DOS, and out of concern that the public not
copiesof hisdatabaseofcomputer magazines, on
perceive IBM as abandoning its newer operating Microsoft's Excell aren' t taking marketsharefiom floppies. It has 1,276 listings, all in an ASCH file
the venerable 1-2-3.
system, OS/2.

Crom Caltech, reonvmg his distinction in physics SAN JOSE, Ca (NB) To sny the least, ithasn't
at the tender age of 20. He is currently a professor been easy for a tiny software start-up to get the
world to look at its new kmd of sofiware, but
at the Umversity of mheis
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tosh SE for $495 and the Macintosh II for $795. mattsrs. Valor Software, after researching the
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to Taiwan-made PCs is their low pxice, and there

is no indication that prices will increase. In fact,
the aggressiveness of the Asisncomputer industry
is beginning to worry both Japanese and US finns
OS/2Extended EditlonArrlves,PS/28ales Slow

Super Cartridge

I axdensdbafs
Sept1st

of'f their assemblylines. S

ofar the bigsellingpoint

B ~~~~

Edition 1.0 will be available July 29, accimhng to

International Business Machines Corp. The new
operating system for the PS/2 lme of personal
computers is OS/2 Standaxd Edition with the
addition of a databasemanager and a commumcations package that includes teaninal emulation.
Extended Edition 1.0 is $795, and the upgrade for
Standard Edition users is $645. IBM says it will
start shipping Extended Edition 1.1, which features the Presentation Manager graphical interface, inNovember. Upgrades from Extended
Edition 1.0 to 1.1 will be (is this really IBM
talking?) free.
According ta IMS America Computer Markets
Division, only the top-of-the-lineIBMPS/2Model
80 saw sales grow during the firstquarter of 1988.
The rest of the PS/2 line of personal computers
from International Business Machines Corp. saw
sales declines in dollars and units. Accordmg to
IMS, the Model 80 gained 41 percent in dollars
and 47 percent m units sold over the OctoberDecember 1987 quarter. The IMS retail audit
found total PS/2 sales down 24 perccsit in dollars
and 32 percent in units sold for the quarter. The
low-end Model 25 was down 58 percent in mits
and dollars, theModel30down38 percentin.both,
the Model 50 down 15 percent in dolhus and 14
percent in units sold, and the Model 60 down 22
percentindollars, 1$ percent inumts. Now wecsn
stop wondering whyIBM decided to taketrade-ins

IBM Rearm~

C o nsolidates

ARMONK, N.Y. (NB) Intemsrional Busmess

Machines Carp. has announced a $600 million

slimMwn program that will further consolidate

operations and trim the computer giant's payroll
by 3,000 to 4,000 employees. Txue to tradition,
nobody will be laid off at Big Blue, but the company will offer early retirement and financial mcentives to resign. IBM says the xestiuctermg will
cost about $600 million, to be charged off against
second~sitar
Wall Street analysts
praised theIBM move asaway torestore some zip

earnin
gs.

to the company's earnings,which have beenslug-

gish for the past couple of years. Explaining the

xeorganization, Terry Lautenbach, who became
responsible for most of IBM's operations inJanuary,said, "Our U.S. volumes of business have
been somewhat less than we
though we
axe stillplaxmmgforgxawth." Herearethebasics
of the xeargamzatian:
* All mumfacturing
operations at Boca Raton, Flu, win be phased out,
and all PS/2 manufactming will shift ta Research
Txisngle Park, N.C., where much of the PS/2
manufacturing takes place. ~ Manufacturingat
the Tucson, Ariz., plant will move ta San Jose,
Calif., Charlotte, N.C., and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
The Tucson plant makes storage pmducts.
ROLM's telecommunications plantin SantaClara
wiH close, with production shifting to San Jose.
The ROLM operations in Austin, Texas, will be
consolidated with IBM's main site m Austin.
Charlotte and Austin will take over same assembly work done m Toronto. Memory cards and
power systems will still be made in Toronto, and
the-pmgram development responsibilities of the
Tomnto labaratory willincrease. The Brooklyn
faciTity will serve as a diagnostic center, taking
over work done at locations across the country.
Assembly operations in Brooklyn will move to
Poughkeepsie. ~TheCorporate, U.S.Marketing
k Services Group, and the Americas Gxoupheadquartets staff's in Westchester County, Y., and
elsewhere will also be reduced.

expects

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of Murray Hill, J., has unveiled a service that
will allow computer users to receive fivayear
financial assessmentsof U.S. companies. Called
Duns FaxeSight, theservicecomparesacampany's
financial and balance sheet data with mfoxmatian
in tbe DgaB data base of 9 million public snd
private ccunpsnies.

on PS/2s.

November's Comdex Fall in the US. Wasch this Next, IBM,AdobeTrade Technology
PALO ALTO, Ca (NB) Rumors are rampant
space .
that IBM, Steve Jobs' NeXT, and Adobe Systems

IBM Aanank, NY., sawpxafits fall 18percentin are talking turkey regarding anexchangeof tech-

the second quarter on a six parce% mcxease in nology. IndustxysourcessaylBM wants to license
revenue. The profit declme was a function of the Display PostScript fmm Adobe for use in its own
$600 million writeoff IBM took as part of its computers, butmare impoxtimtly, has signed with
recent restructuring. Without the writeoff, earn- NeXT to license elements of NeXT's Unix operings would have risen 12.7 percent. Pmfits fell to ating system. Neither IBM, Adobe, nar NeXI'are
but industry observers say we shouldlook
$964 million ($1.63 pershare) fram $1.1$ billion
far an announcement on this possible menage a
($1.95 par shue) far the secand
quarter
of
1987.
*
Revenue rose to $13.6 bilhon fxam $12.8 billion. trois m September or October.
'

IBM Cuts Job Rolls

BOCA ROTAN, FL (NB) In its drive to cut

costs and its payxalls, IBM is moving the ghunar
out of its Boca Rotan, FL faciTity, the original
home of the IBM PC. M
of the PS/2
hne is being shifted Crom Boca ta IBM's phmt in
ReseaxchTriangle Park,NC, and the Bocaphmt is
beingclosed.The move willreduce IBM's Boca
staff &am 7,100 to 5,500. To maintain IBM's
history of no layoffs, all displaced Boca workers
will be offered aavignments elsewhere, but most
axen't expected to take them. To fuxthermake it an
offer they can't refuse, IBM will give those who
leave 2 years' salary plus $25,000, along with
medical and dental benefits for two yeats, help in
finding a new job, and up to $~ i n retraining
expenses. That's not all. ROLM's PBX manufacnuing is being moved &am Ihe division'sown
plants to an IBM plant in San Jose. ROLM operations in Austin, TX are also being oombined with
IBM operations there. Manufacturing in Tucson,
AZ will also be phasedout and moved to San Jose,
Charlotte, NC and Poughkeepsie, NY. The fir's

anufacture

IBM Upgrades RISC War~tlon

RYE BROOK, N.Y.(NB) IBM hss rolled aut

three new models of its RISC (reduced instruction

set) caxnputexs, and a new 310- megabyte disk
drive. The larger RT machines can handle three of
the new drives, giving users access ta 930 megabytes of internal data storage. Also, IBM has
announced several programs, inchding AIK/RT
VS COBOL, for commercial customers in Unix
envixomnents.Thenew RTmodel 130isadesksop
unit, while the models 135 and B35 are floorstanding machines. All three have 16 megabytes
of complementary metal oxide semicondactor
(CMOS) memary, a floating point accelerator,

ud114megabytesofhaxd
drive Priomare$23+M
for the Model 130, $30/95 far the 135, and

$32,165 for the B35.

DEC Pondering MIPS RISC Microprocessor
MAYNARD, Mass. (NB) Digital Equipment
Coxp. has acknowledged that it is talking with

MIPS ComputerSystemsInc. aboutusmgMIPS's

RISC chip in a Digital warkstation. Therumor that
Digital was talking to NIPS has been percolating

Toronto works will get out of manufactming and for weeks. Digital has customarily developed its

Inte r national ( 6p4) 73I 4033

Mark e t ins

into software development, and repair will be

centralized in Brooklyn,NY. Staff will also be cut
atheadquaxters. Analysts consider allthesemoves
welcome and overdue. IBM has shrewdly cut
plants in high-cost areas, like Boca, and cut staffing in sites popular with IBM employees, where
Boca again qualifies. Workers who decide to stay
with the company will mostly be moved into sales
posinoils.

processors internally and moving to MIPS could

boost the prospects of that closely-held firm. A
move to MIPS by Digital would also be a setback
to Sun Microsystems and MotorolaInc., which are
uying to woo customers to their reduced mstruction set processors. Watch for more firewoxks in
the workstationwars.
MOSAIC SOFI'WARE, Cambridge, Mass., has

that Gorbachev's "Peristmika" or restructuring is

designed to allow the use of more and more comp uters in Soviet life aud business. ~
y th e r e
share very quickly," said Mosaic president Rich- arerumoured tobeIBM ATs, PCs andempa6ble
systems, but no Macs.
ard Bexjian in a news xelease.
Adobe Jumps on X-Consortium Bandwagon Soviets to Get PC Magazbae
MOSCOW, USSR (NB) Informed sources tell
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (NB)me that ePC World*'s foray into Russia, as the
Adobe Systems has
joinedtheX Cousorthun. The
cansomum was founded by the Massachassetts fixst U. S. computer publication, may also be
Institute of Technology (MIT), aud promotes, as accompanied by a trade mission. Our mside
well as supports, tbe X Wmdow standard of soft- cammissar reports that PCW isn'tbrokering oHwsze. Other members of the consortium mclude but does Armand Hammer know about this? Not
Apollo, Apple. ATILT,Bull, DEC,IBM, Hewlett- unlew he read it here Bise
Packazd, Suu, Tektruux and Xerox.
The X Window systemisastandard far displaying
multiple epplica6cns sixnultaneosly on a com- NewWindows Unve8ed
puter screen. The ideabebind the xmsor6um is to REDMOND, Wa(NB) Microsofthasunveiled
establish a stmdaxdfar software vendors to work
two new versionsof its popular Windowsoperatamund, rather thm having to redesign the user ing environment which feature the ability to make
interfaceSor each computer/opera6ug system use of mare memory, provide easier installation,
envhzmmeut.
and provide improved performance. The newest
Ietry Byma, MD of Adobe Systems Europe, reck- mcaznations, dubbed Wmdows/2g6 version 2.1
ons that Adobe'smembezslup wiilresp dividends aud Windows 3$6 version 2.1, have "user-based,"
for Pagemaker usezL
not 'h6ga6on-based" changes, says Micmsoft
"We'replessedto be ~
amo ngst the leaders Vice President of System Softwsm Steve Balhner,
inthexuziputer mdustry whosemeuibershipmthe mfezriug to Appl's "look sndfeel" lawsuit agsmst
causor6mn will support the con6nued euhmce- the Windows products. The new'/286 version is
mentsnddevelopmeutof the XWmdow standard. designed to make use of the extra memoxy in ATAdobe is a great advocate of establishing stan- style PCs,pmvidmgup to anextraSOKof addressdards m the cmtpu6ng mdustty," he said.
able memary when more than 1 megabyte of
exteaded memory is available. In effect, the 640K
Asjitsn to JohxX/Open
Fujitsu will became the Brat J~ese maker to limit far DOS now becomes 690K. The same goes

begunshippmgTWIN-UX, avusionof its TWIN

far the Umx operating sysstem."We

prea
dsheeexpect
t designed
to capture a great deal of market

for the/386 version. Both productsare shipping

joinX/Open. XIOpenwasestabhshedby 13major

Bans in the U.S. snd Emupe, including ATT,

uow. Windows/286 has asuggestedretailpziceof

A.G. The gmup is aiming tostandardize UNIX,

which was created by ATILT. Fajitsu will mtroduce kauji chanuxers pmcesshtg into UNIX.

developers kit, which can run under OS/2 PresentationMauager withminarmodiBcations,is priced
at$500.

SUN LaunchesNntlanwlde VAR Program

New Group Farmed to Promote Windows

$99 while /386 nms$195. A Windows software

DEC, V
ms', NCR, Bull of France, audSiamms

MARKHAM,Ont. (NB) Sun Microsystems of

CanadaInc.has hmtched a vahie-added reseller

(VAR) program intended togive Sunmozepres-

ence in vertical markets and general-purpose

computing.The company isrecrui6ug Canadian
UARs with experience in Umx snd technical
backgmunds.Sun Canada saysthe m ove isaim ed
at moving its wadtsta6on teclmology into commercial applicatious "not previously served by
Sun." In short, it'sthenext step inheating up the
competitiau between wuksta6aus sud bigh
personal xuxtputezs.

ead

Is IBM Getthtg Tough an RISC?

NEWYORK (NB) IBM has approachedcompanies about their use of reduced instzuctian set
(Risc) technology,wliiciilBM saysitowusthxough
a series of patents. But of5cials fram coxnpauies
using Risc technology said they have not been
contacted by IBM and are at a loss to Bgure out
what Big Bhieis udking about. AnIBM statemeut
said, "We believe that anyaue'who is developmg
an infoxma6on-hsndliug system would pmbably
need tq use an IBM patent." IBM says it is not
trymg to kill its cmtpe6toxs. The company is
wilhug to hceuse its patents to other companies.
So far, Sun Micmsystems. Motomla, aud Advanced Micm Devices deny t h at IBM has
approached them to discuss Risc teclmology.
NNW
gg-

A '

W % :P

PW

Too Many Buzuanezats, Too Few Compntezu

WASHINGTON(NB) Aleadmg Sovietscientist says the state of science m the USSR is "stultifying,"snd plagued by bureaucracy aud outmoded tedmology. Writmg in Issues m Science
and Technology, pubbshed by the US Natiaual '
A cademy of
S~ R o a M Sagdeev wrote that
"Soviet research workers and engineers resemble
soldiers attenp6ug to Bgbt a xnodern war with
cmssbows." Wlile xesearclers need mohan
computers snd the kinds of tools available in the
West, they get "buxesucrs6c dinosaurs" and absurdpiotasfornewdiscovezies"instead. Ssgdeev
is the director of the Soviet Space ResesrchInstitute snd a key adviser to Soviet leader hBkhail
Gorbachev.

Soviet Style Software Resnszuh

NEW DELHI, INDIA (NB) NEWSMTESEUROPE has learned aninteresting pnspec6ve

REDMOND, Wa (NB) Microsoft Coxporatiou, 15 other softwarepublishers, sevenhardware

makers, snd 13 Fortune 100 companies, have
enlisted their support far a new organization devoted to promoting the development of Windows
and Presentation Manager products. The Windows/Presentmon Manager Association, which
will emphasize marketing aud public relations
ac6vi6es for the two products, is not in direct
respmse to tbe Apple "look aud feel" lawsuit
against Micmsoft Windows, accoxding to the
WPMA's Dhector Adam Rostoker. "We'xu not
all aboutnegativity,"hetoldNEWSBYTES, "aud
we pmtubly would have arisen anyway without
the suit." Rostoker, speaking for the members,
says the lawsuit is "uot our concun" and that the
buyers are not confused.
''The carpcra6ons of American are excited about
Wmdows and Presentation Manager." He says the
organization is devoted to the idea of a graphic
user interfacereplacing character-bssedintexfaces,
aud that even the Macmtosh aud Unix machines
axe among members' interests. Annual dues are
$99 for users and $2,000 for software developers.

New Headache for Canada's

Chartered Banks
Spens Relief for Canadian Business
The Accounting Master Payroll Program may spell the end of the charteted
banks domiaalion of the payoll processingmarket for many small and medium
SiZed buSineSSeS. N0W buSineSSOWnetg Can COmPlete their 0Wn PayrO11 in
house, and save a bundle on tenk charges and intett:st.

'lb make matters better (or worse for the banks), less work is involved in
using Accounting Master to complete I payroll, than in 511ing out foang for
the bank.

The company'gmoney can earn interest for the company not the bank.
Again, providing big gavingg for the small to medium sized business

particularly if aage overdraft ig involved.

Aceoundng MasterInc., of Suite 163-2619 Alma St, Vancouver has

introduced the definitive payroll program for the IBM and compatible
computers.
This easy to uge program does it all for you. T4's,employee
reyorts,
j urna
section
o
ls, cheques, pay advices. and detailed job costing are

just some of the tt:yotts it handIt:g. It even exports directly to ACCPAV"

general ledger, but saves the complex get up time often associated with
ACCPACS ownpayroll program.
Uatil now PayrO11 gOfbVatt: fOr yergonal COmPuterS hag been either toO
simple to handle more 1Ltn the mast gtattgbt forward situatiOnS, or too big and

expensive to set up. Accounting Master ptomigeg to be the best solution

POSSible, it ig eaSy IO lcm aad ineXPenSiVe to buy and maitgaitl.

The manual documentation does an excellent job of bringing the user

quickly up to speed oneverything needed to atn a payroll. You probably will
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BURBANK, Ca (NB) Apple lawyezsare reportedly givmg the'harry eyeball" treatment to
the latest product which emulates its Macintosh
screen display. Screenplay Systems' MCP is a
product which can port a Macintosh software
pmduct to an MS-DOS machine "with very minor
differences iulook andfeel secorhug toMACIN-

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TOSH TODAY. MCP, wziuen mLightspeedC, is

saidxo be capable of convez6ug any Macintosh
application to an MS-DOS appRca6on within
weeks. The pmduct is an oxigiual work, say company ofBces, and did not bormw whatsoever
Rom Apple's own code.
But Screenplay Systems' ofBcezs aren't wait'mg
far the war to get nasty, however. They' ve sent
Apple attorneys a copy far their approval. 'We
told Apple if we are breskiug any laws, we don' t
want to be; but if we have legal rights to pmduce
a compatibility package like this, we would like to
assert them," explains Steve Greeufield,

on Soviet software xesearch. We wue told by a

consultant who deals couu
axtzus inIndia thatmost
software ~
in t h e Soviet Union is done by
programmers subcautracted byMiia's computer
mdustzy.Itis thmughIndiathatmostIBMsystems
find their way into the Soviet Union even though
IBM pulled out of the subcoutment years ago.
Indian pmgrauuuersam said to work, by andlarge,
in dimly-litsoftwaelsbsearuiugveylittlemauey.
In arelated story, NEWSBYTES-EUROPE heard

Screenplay's president. No word &omApple on

the product yet. Company attorneys are said tobe

"studying the whole matter." Until the study is
complete,
however, do notexpectto see MCP on
the market.

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apart

"Smart" switches are slightly more sophisticated. The difference is that tbe switch is automatic. No operator mtervention is needed, and the
switch seems nonexistent to each user. It's like
beingabletobarbccueyaur steakfrom yourfavoritedeck chair.Ifthebarbecue happens to bebusy,
the switch wiH take your order, and save you a
place in line.
But do youjust want to share aprinter. or do you
want to share mfazmafion as weHv If you want to
share infoxmation, a zero-slot LAN might be the

pecfedanSaturdayaftemoon for our fizstB.YO.M

(Bxmg Your Own Meat) Barbeque
At home, it occmred to me that I hadn't reaHy
considered how fourteen people (inctudmg my
wife and I) were gomg to cook different meals on
the same barbecue, and eat at appmximately the
same tine.
Irealizcd thatsomeseriouspraccdurfd phmning
woukl be in aider if the fixst B.Y.M4. was gomg
Zem-slot LANs are so named because no spela be a success. (B.Y.OA. was still unproven cial hardware is needed (hardware that woukl be
methodology at mstaHed in an expansion slat). Cables are confhe tine, but I nected to adapters yaur computers aheady have.
ffzffess ~
knew zt held the
Printer sharing is usuaHy a built-m network
pzonlhc of cost service, but m addition, files can be easily shuttled
effective wcck- &om one computer to another. In other wards,
,j
end en t ertain- zero-slot LANs offer a method of sharing the
ment)
barbecue, and serving your guests, without being
cuff @
As I consid nm off your feet byrequesfs for salt ik pepper, and
cred the pxoblem, more potato salafL
I began to reahzc Xcra-Slot LANs
%F
fhat organlzlzlg
With a zero-slot LAN, mformatkm on the systhis gct-together fczncan bc browsczL ar coplcd by any RQK. Blc
zxxdd become complicated. I had visions of four- mamlimitationis thathfarmafionshould bcpmcteen people frying to extinguish a grease fire esscdby only one user. Zcm-slot LANs work weH
before it reached their ribs, chickens, and hsm- for serving your guests, but your guests can't help
burgfxs, aH howling like a hmch of technicians you cook.
trying ta prevent a major system failure.
A zera-slot LAN is a cost-.effective alternative
Suddenly it hit me - multiple cooks, multiple to Sneaker-Net, especially if you have a considermeals, and only one barbecue ... I thmk what' s able mvesuneut in computezs zdrcady.
needed here is a networkl
If zem-slot LANs sound simple, it's because
I further defined the pmblem - What I needed they are. In fact, their limitations make them a
was a system that would let aH the usczs use the liule too simple for many users. They impose
barbecue, without interfezmg with each other, in many of the same limitations as Sneaker-Net, so
ceder to accomplish the pmpose of eating, drink- care must be taken to ensure that data is being
ing and just aH-amund good times.
processed by one person only.
So what does Gus have to do with nctwozhng
sysfzans'E Aczazdmg to Webster' s, systems are Mulfifzser LANs
Amultiuser LANmakes itpossible for xnultiple
definite methods of pmccdure. Moxa than hardusers
to update the same file and process Ihe same
ware aud cables, networks are procedures for
woxkmgtogether, embodied
elec- datawifhoutdcsfzoymg iLIf anyaneis helping you
tmmcs. The goal of a networking pmject, should cook, or two guests are collalxnafing cm fhe same
be tadevelop a system amund an intended pur- dish, youneed amultiuser LAN. Multiuser LAWS
azc considerably mare sophisticated, and slightly
psc.
lnoxc cxpcllslvc,
Fear Basic Types Of LANs
It can be said that zem-slot LANs are designed
There aze essezmaHy four networkcategozies- to shutfie61esbetwcen PCs, and toaccomplishfhe
Smndm-Nef,
hmter (ordevice)Sharingsystems, task faster then you can xun in and aut &om the
Zem41ot LANs, and Multiuser Load Area Net- kitchen. Mulfiuscz LA are designed far enviwozks (LANs), m order of increasing sophistica- mnments wheresimplyslmttling filesshnply wont
tion aud value.
work.
Each type of LAN uses a different method of
Ffics have to be stared in a single location.
warkirg together, which is either correct far your Multiuser LANs sxe like buffet service, whcxe
pmpose, or completely inappmpriate. Your first anyone can help themselves wifhout leavmg their
step towards choosmg a network should be to scsf
deteamne the category appropriat for yaur purAccessing a file on one computer &om another
Pose.
is a frequent and normal event, so communication
Sneaker-Net is the least sophisticated of SH has to be very fast. Special hardware takes care of
four.
Ifyou aheady have more than one computer, high speed communications.
you alreadyhave Sneaker-Net. You simply place
The second component of a Multiuser LAN is
mfaanarion on a diskette, am down the hall, load
the software.
itin another machine, snd voila ... sharedinfoxmaLAN software
otmfzols thenctwork, and is
Sncaker-Nct
W ith Sneaker-Nef,
oneperson usuaHy creatcsa
usually indeile-adocument,database, spreadsheet,etc..The
f
pendent from
the hardware
file can b distributed to anyone else, and viewed.
modified, orconsumed,notunhkc the potato sahd
you use far the
actual connecmy wife would be sefvizg. If Ibis only happens
tions.
pcriadicaHy, and shoxt distances are involved,
Sneaker-Net might beyour solufian, but readon.
ThesoftSneaker-Nct's xnast serious limitation is that
wareis arguably
impmvements made by one user, arenot available
themoxeiimporto any others. So once you' ve served the salad to
hmt of the two
yourguests,ifoneaddssliced radishes,and an- components. %he software provides pzaccduxes
other adds green peppers, their salads azcgoing ta for workingtogether and in genead, keeps the
taste different.Somet'uncsthat's OK, but not if I system xunning, smoothly.
want everyone fa enjoy my wife's origmal world- Ffie Server VS Paar-fa-Pear LANS
zcnowned recipe
Multiuser LAN software faHs into two basic
hofzrca Sharing
categories - "file saver" and "peer-to-peer".
Do you have a laser printer, plotter, barbecue
File server systems emphasize a canted, vzuy
efc that evezyzmc wzmfs to usev Aze you consid- powerful computer. Each user can use fa his own
ermg purchasing prinfem along with uixozning equipment, as weH as pzmtezs, disk drives, and
coznpufcr puzchascs7 Does everycmc want to use infuzmafian on the file server.
With the emiihssis on powerful file serveis,
yaurbarbecne7Aprimersharing deviceis asimple
soiufian.
worifsfafions often havana disk dxives, or prinfzus
Pzmtersharing devices are mexpensive and

mthenecessazy

PeblN:

9aawis

easy to mstalL They are sizzqllc, mechamcal

switches that you connect aH the computers and
pr inter to. I recommend slightly more sophisticated systems in mast cases, and insist on it when
the users or the printers will be same distance

at aH, thus xelying totally an file server services.

Think of a file server as a waiter ar waitress.
FBC server systems sizzle (pardon the pun)
when access to shared mfozmarion is a serious
requirement, and especially if that infoxmauon is
caustantly changmg, so mast administrative aml
databasesystems shouldmaHy be on a 6le server.
File servers can handle fourteen orders, and
carry fourteen trays at once. That's sczvioaf I
couldn't picture myself doing that, so I knew that
I wouldn't make a vexy good sezver.
As fhe name
suggests, under
peer-fo-peer systems aH computers are created
equaL AH users
have access to aH
prinfczsand aH
filcs, on aH systems, at aH times,
unless youprevent

it for securit ox
pohcy reasons.

''I'H pass you the

self, but I'm not going to let you uy my rile."
Peer-to-peer systems are wolfhy of consideration in situations where there is ahcady a considerable invesunentin computing power, and where
peer-to-peer ficxibiiity is important. Peer-to-peer
systems take full advantage of every byte of storage, and every ounce of processing power available. You can put ane person in charge of the
barbecue and another in charge of the kitchen.
Everyone else can go about their business, or lend
a hand where one's necdeL

One drawback of peer-to-peer systems, is that

mfazmatian still has to be stored some place.
Depending on the level of activity, a workstation
can gct bogged down dealing with requests from
other users.
If one of the workstations is overworked, it wiH

become omsumed (my apologies, again) in re-

quests,
andmay never getachmce toeat.You can
end up dedicating a workstation strictly ta requests. which is what a file server is intended for.
Multiuser peer-to-peer systems offer simplicily, file shutthng, prizler shumg and multiuser
capabHity, as lang as your multiuser requirements
aze minimaL
Choosing between the various types of netwoxks, is reaHy a matter of choosing the appropriate set of pzzxxshucs. There are only a few systems
competingm each categozy,so once you have the
right method in mind, there will only be a few optians to choose from.
Contemplating my barbecue had helped me
explain networks, but it had done nothing to prepare me far Saturday's party. I couldn't envision
myyazduudersix feetofcopper wire,andbesides,
how do you jara a hamburger thmugh a cable
anyways People were just going to have to
help themselves.

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minals which had 10).
UMX's popuhuity has gone up and down over
the yeaxs. Upgraded standards were introduced a
couple of yeas ago, and once mare UNIX was
gaining in popularity. IBM, DEC, AT&T to name
just a few big players announcedmajor support for
UNIX. Unfoxtunately, itmay nothappea, as UMX
seems to have shot itself m the foot again. In May
of 1988, amid fans of being left out by the AT&T/
Sun Microsystans joint development agreement,
mostotherplayexs(includmgIBM and DEC) fanned
the Open Software Foundation to develop their
own standard. Now AT&Tis considering spinning
UNIX development off into a separate company.
So, no standard &is year folks, but maybe only 2
next year ...?
There is a sigmficantbase of very good applicaticn software,psxticularly for someverticals. Nothmg like the selectian available in the IXS world,
but all of it imtiakly designed for multi-user operation (as opposed to applications initially developed
for singleuser DOS aud later patched formulti-user
LAN operation). In fact, you may get UMX and
not xealize it- far instance Banyan's VINES LAN
Operating System is based onUNlX servers.
UNIX won't go away, but the lack of consistent
standanh and real vendor support will prevent it
from making significant market share gains.

Where Is The Future?

We who work in LAN envimmnents now take
for granted thexeakityofmultiplenetworks, allconnected, possibly spanning huge geagraphical distances, with gateways to "foreign" environments.
This represents a very small segment of the computer world, themajority of users are still restricted
to aspecifichaxdwsre vendor, and thus fixed
a view
of the computer resource.
Software developers with similar products in
different hardware environments must maintain
and improve several versions of the samepmgram.
This becomes more and more intolerable as R&D
and support costs escalate. They are keenly interested intheability tomamtainane productcommon
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Glossary of LAN Terms

ADDRESS: Auniquelocationm acomputer's
memary. Also a umque number identifying a
workstatian.
APPLICATION Work that is done on a
computersuchas accounting, spreadsheet, ward
pmcessing etc.

BIT Binary diglT - must be 0 ("off") or 1

("on").

BRIDGE A link betwam 2 LAN's, usually of

different topology's.
BUFFER An areain RAM used for temporary
data storage.
BYTE Normally the 8 bits what represent a
character in binary.
CACHE A buffer area speci6cally used to
speeddisk access by storing large portions of
files in memory.
COAX A medium speed type of wiring similar
to cable.
CONSOLE The screen and keyboard of a

SERVER.
CRASH Slang term meaning that hardware or
software has stopped functioning pmperly
CPU Central Processing Unit - the "brain" of
the computer, executes all mstructions.
DMA Direct Memory Access - a techmque
whereby data is moved amund in memory simultaneously with other CPU tasks.
DOS Disk Operating System - the mostpopular personal computer operating system.
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memorymfers to the computer chipsw
hichm
akeupthe
computer's working "memory".
E-MAIL Electranic Mail.
FIBRE OPTIC A high speed type of wiring
using light beams to aansmit signals in skwcial
optical cable .
GATEWAY A link between a LAN and some,
other system, usually a mim or miixdrame.
HARDWARE Physical computer equipment
- you can touch it.
HASHING A technique used to reduce the
effort required to locate a specific data

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pmgTwo or mare networks
ress in this direction. Manufacturers realize that INTERNETWORK
caxmected via a bridge which now ct as one
ihey cannot impose their "s~
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those who lxy lose market share. As the environ- larger network LAN Local Area Networkconsists of 2 or nunc micm~ pu t exs conmentsbecomeploser,moreunivexsal softwaretools
nected together to share mfoxmation
will become "availame to enable developers to
MODEM MODukator/DEMohxlator - ahardmaintain a single pmduct over differen hardware
ware device which sends data via telephone
systems.
In the distxxbuted LANpxxxmsing envimanent, hnes.
MULTIUSERUsedtodescxibeoperatingsysspeciali
zedboxea areappearing,suchashighspeed
servers, archive servers, diskless LAN stations, tems which allow many users at different stations to share data and hardware.
communications servers etc. Thus a LAN can be
MULTITASKING Used to describe operatcon6gurak for the most cost effective capacity.
ing systems which allow the same station to
As mare and mare diffexent systems became
execute 2 or more pmgauns simultaneously.
coxmectak, users wikk
have a choice as to how they
view the computing resomce, a single station on NODE Any station on a LAN OS Operating
System - the control program which manages
your desk will pmvide access to the information execution of other,applicatian pmgramsOS/2
you ~
and p f esmt xt 1n Ihe manner you axeA new operating system which uses todays
mostcamfortable with,
it wasrexnaxe powerful xmxoeonxputers more fully
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regard
lessofhow

How To Choose
Looktkng for a LAN? First determine whatneeds
to be automated NOW and in the near future. Find
tbe sokbvare required to do the job, ideally with
local support and local references. Do not be
blinded by hardware claims, at this point, hardware
does notmatter. Ifyouarenota"computerperson",
hire pmfessional advice fiom a reputable consulting fixm. Sorry, but Joe, your neighbor, who does
some spreahlxeet work onhis secretary's PC at the
office is NOT an "expert", although he will freely
dispense advice for which you, not he, will be
xespansible should you follow it.
Knowing which softwaxepackage wikkdothejob
will determine what kind of system you need to
implement it. Purchase enoughpower andcapacity
to operate now and for the near (18 lo 24 months)
future. Remember, in a LAN environment, you can
add power m incremental steps asyou need it, you
do notneed to replace the existing system. Have an
installation/implementation plan - there will be
some disruption fcr your staff which plaxming and
trainmg beforehand can minimize.

RAM see DRAM.

RECORD LOCKING A critical LAN conceptwhichpreventsmultipleusers k'rom
Qnultaneously accessing the same data in a shared

file, ensuri n daa integrity.

SERVER A special LAN station which contains infinmation aud/cr resources shared by
other stations.
SHELL A special program loaded into each
network workstation which performs the netwaxhng tasks nothandledby the local DOS or

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SOFfWARE Instructions to the hardware.

Software programs cause the hardware to execute the desired applications.
STATION Apersonal computeronanetwork.
SPOOL SequentialPeripheralOu@utOn Line
- refers to the control of shared printers such

thatmultipleprintjobs fiomdifferent worksta-

tions can share a common printer.

TOPOLOGY Refers to the method in which
components of a LAN are coxmected.
TV COMMUNICATION Generally sending
data krom one station to another.
TWISTED PAIR A low speed type of wiring
Mike F+e is a parrne with Softiok Systems generally equivalent to telephone wiring
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machme you choose, you can also store applications as welL This
means you could put a program like MacDraw onto your PC hard
drive and run it on your Mac. Granted it runs relatively slowly, bul
itcaubeusefulmeuviromnents wherehard disks are mshortsupply.
Uiiforumately you stB1 can t run Mac software on your PC.

TOPS
You have numerous PCs in your ofilce aud you recently got a

Machttosh in to do DesktopPublishing, or youhave a Mac office

andyou added a PC to bebetter able to service your clients wilhPCs.

Now the question is how do you get them to work togethmV
You might consider looking at TOPS 2.0 a network solution designed to integrate the use of PCs and Macs into a relatively uuauless workingenviromnetit. TOPScanbeusedonanexclusivelyMac
or a PC environment, but its features shine in the integration of tbe
two.
TOPS takes a distributed serve philosophy which eliminates tbe
need lohavean extracomputer thatis the dedicatedserver. This also
aHows for greater network NuBiauce. If one computer goes down, it

daesn't brin down the wholenetwork.

TOPS is also a true file server as opposed to the simpler disk
server. This allows amore sophisticated foun ofnetworhng. Allusers on the network can access stored data and "network smart"
applications can allow multiple users to access a file concmreutly
without compromise to data integrity.
TOPS is not what you would call lightening fast. This is a function of Appletalk which moves along at about 230K per second,
about the speed of floppy disk access. As with all LANs, it gets
slower with more activity ou the network. It is however about 200
times faster than a1200baudmodem or 25 times faster than a9NO
baud null modem connect between two machines. Usmg TOPS ss
a strictly PC networkspeeds can be three times faster than the PC
to Msc connection because of the a special software driver caHed

FlashTalk. This putsthe speedup more like 690K per second, still

not fast compared with high speed networks, but better than the
AppleTalk speed.
How it Worlrs
TOPS is really a series of programs aud hardware used to bridge
the two worlds. Thepackages you need tobuy are: TOPS for theMac

(software), TOPS for the PC(software), and aFhshCard, an add-m

board for the PC. (Alternatively, youcanuseApple's ownAp-

pleTalk Card for the PC, a TandyLiuk Card fmm Tandy or a

Hercules Network Card plus) One of each of the software packages
must be purchased for each machine on the network aud one
RashCard is required for each PC. Each software package has a
serial muuber, and can only be used once on the network. Included
in the Mac software is a file translator aud a desk accessory prmt
spooler. Included in the PC software is a program which allows the
PC to use printers on the network and the printspooling capabHitie.
For applications which lack drivers for PostScript, TOPS seHs a
separate program which will convert any files which will printonan
Epson FX-80 to PostScript files.
Setriug up a TOPS network is a relatively straightforward affair.
TheMac sideis especiaflyeasy to anyonehaving fau6liarity withtbe
Mac interface. TOPS rms on Appletalk or PhoneNet cabling so if
printers or other peripherals are already being shared, it is smatter
of dropping some softu are into the system file, rebooting and you
areresdy tonm with the main TOPS program nmuiug as aDAunder
the Apple menu.
It may take a few mmutes of "mousing around" to figute out the
idea of "mounting" and "publishing" a volume. You "publish" a
"volume" (or folder) to make it accessable to others on the network.
You "mount" a volume when you want to make it appear on your
desktop asauotherdisk driv. To use an analogy,"publishing" is like
putting your files up for sale. mounting" is when someone buys it
to use on their computer.
DOS Software
The PC side as with most things PC requires actuafiy opening the
manual. Firstyou must install the FlashCard into anempty 8-bit slot.
Thea you add a line to you CONHG.SYS file. Finally you reboot.
Nextrunthesoftwareinstaflprogram to load the necess'ary filesonto
the hard drive. Then type "LOADTOPS" and "TOPSMENU" to get
to the TOPS program. Having done that, you are ready to "publish"
somevolumes. This is easy with amenu driven process. It seemsyou
can publish only four volumes at a time on a PC.
TOPS on the PC can be used either from the menu driven
TOPSMENU program, or &om the DOS command line.
Some of the TOPS programs are memory resident in the net-

The file translation program is caHed TOPS Translator. This

allows file translation between common PC and Mac programs.
Uttforluuately it, unlike the main TOPS program, is a stand alone
program which means you nmst exit the program you are worhng
on to use it. It would be much smoother if they had it integuued into
themain TOPS programas anoprionwhenyou tranfer files between
computerL This file conversion uhTity is the same one used in by
DaynaFBe and MacLmk. Itcontainsfileconversiousfor a variety of
word pmcessing, spreadsheet and database applications. Desktop
PubHshers will be disappointed by its hck of graphic interchanges.
In addition to the file translation capaMities contained in the
TOPS translator, programs such as Pagemaker, Excel and Word
offer the ability to save their files in either Msc or PC format, facilitating transfers.
Prhthtg hotu u PC
For many users who just want to get their PC onto the office
LaserWriter, the manual is a bit of a disappointment. It doum't
inchde these mstructions in the quick start seyneut. Instead you
have to slog though the technical pcrtiaus to figute it out. Eventually,you wiH decipher the fact thatunless your PC program supports

PostScript already, you are will need to

buy their separateprogram

called Netpiint to convert ftum Epson FX-80 print files to PostScript. You can download your files &om the DOS level by access-

mg TPRINT foHowed by [devicetypelY] [device natne/Y] [zone

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[f il e name/e]. Fortunately you can develop a data
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ietain these characteristics, and just access TPRINT and your file
name. Most files which lack PostScript information will have to be
printed in Diablo mode and you end up with Courier typeface. a
fairly prosaic typewriter style font. Even files such as those generated by Word which do contain the PostScript instructions, must be
modifiedbecause Word thinks itis prinung to aLaserWriter via the
serial cable not over the AppleTalk lmk.
Who Should Buy TOPS
If you just have to pass to odd file back and forth to your 1Nac or
PC, there are much less expensive ways to do it. The cheapest
solution is using telecommunicatians programs on both sides and a
null modem to link the two computers. This is sometimes cumbersome to set up and use, but it is cost effective. If however you
the twoeuvinmments,
i.e. aLaserWriter), TOPS
offers an eKuctive and well executed solution.

regu
larlynaedtomovefilesbackandfotthbetween
orwishtoshareprintingresounds(
Things I Wish TOPS hud

TOPS lacks E-MaB capabiTities. The printing set up is not the

most straight forward on the PC side aud I wish the NetPrint were
included with every package. Full PostScript access would be ideal
&om the PC side instead of mahng it a separate product. TOPS also
lacks Ihe sophishcated network statistical reports available &om
other PC LAN software. The ability to asssign costs for resources
used would be great in multiMepartment companies. For aH these
short comings, it is smooth to use, easy tosetup, res
iTieut aud does
a great jobThe feature I amreafiy looking forward to from TOPS is
their implementation of FlashTalk on the Macintosh. This little
black box will probably clip on the back of a Mac aud promises to
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Pricing: Tops for the Macintosh $224, Tops for the PC $224,
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This stealsabout200K from yourPC applicatons.%Ms
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The Mczriam-Webster Dictionazy defmes virus the mere advancedMac users. Apple suggests that the user back-uy
all non-infectcd documents, zc-initialize the floppydisk or harddisk
$0
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ve a g ent too smail to be seen with aad replace the applications, from your lockcdMaster Disks sud the
pc
light '
backed-uy documents. This is a tixneconsummg project, only prac2. something (as a conuptmg mfluetcc) that tical if the user hasbeenusing working copies of all applicatiens and
poisons the mind or spirit.
Lsd locked the Mash@
Disks before mounting them m the computer.
But,whatis acomputer virus? How does it infect Welkin spi
te of all the preaching by the "experts" and the warmngs
your computer system? How can an infection be that accoxnyany new applicatians, few users have taken all the pxedetected and am the mfectienbcprevented? How can we cure those cauuons to protect their entire hbrazy of Master Disks. Thc lack of
systems already infected? Thecemyutcr virus canbe prevented and/ clean Master Disk has resultedin many owners, of infected systems,
or defeated with a little care and a few pieces of valuable Pubhc attsckmg dieir software withreseurce ~
try i ng to remove the
Domain and Shazewsze sofbvare.
vari
ousoffcndingresourceonehyena .Theresultsaregenerallyless
A computer virus is a piece of computer code that is mtcnded to than satisfactoxy and often various applications are irreparably
be self ympagatmg, spreading mfectious resource codes thmughout damaged.
system 6les and pmgrams that it comes in close contact with. Ries
containing "resources", such as applications and the "System" 61e,
~i!~~ Th e"WriteProtect" xab
*' i
are the unwitting carrier of the virus, 6xst becoming infected snd
:,

'p lltIiI:
"lttti;i
I I i~~ onQ lf yogr Ixfasxcr Dlskz: ,
then spreading the infcctiaa to other applications. In sixnyhflcd
should bc azthe xopef
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)
terms a computer virus will wrizc additional resources to any
the slot, opening the hole
application operated on the same comyuter or network as the
through the disk. This
cantaminated file. These newly mfectcd files then become cazriczs
wdl yrCvdtlx gogp Ngsxgr
themselves and spread the mfection to other applications, thus
DiskxPCNi being
staning a seemingly endless chain. This infecbon can be spread to
+eetexf and alknv
for axi
i: :.:::ii:":
any application on the same disk erany additional floppy or hard
easy recovery.
disk mounted at the same time as the infected application is being
In answer to this need for reliable detection and removal of viral
run. This can also include other floppies andhard disks operating on
infections several programs have come onto the Public Domain snd
a network system.
Though these viruses are relatively new to the Macintosh com- Sharewaremarket. They have taken varied approaches but are
puter
family,various pennutations havebeen around forthepastfew united in their intentto help users prevent, detect and help remove
years on other computer lines. Their severity may range from that their venom with minimal destruction to otherwise heal thy systems.
V lrns RX by App/e Comparer
of a nuisance virus, which may interfere with the productiveuse of
Virus Rx is a stand alone apphcation which lists xesource
your software, to the destruction of data At present there are only
flles. such as INII' snd cdev, damaged applications and
afew known viruses which have beenspread onMacmtash systems.
applications which axc
The 6zst virus to be discovered has become known as the
of possible infection.
"MaeMag" vials, due te the admitted development of this virus by Many of the 61es, which appear on Ihe list, axc not infected making
a magazine publisher &em Monlrcal, Canada. This vins appears to things somewhat confusing for many users. Apple has anticipated
have beenrelatively hazmless and was supposed to have been this and provides you with warnings of files which are suspect or
programmed to remove itself after presenting a "World Peace" infected and a summary of the likelihood of your system being ill
message m March of this year. MacMag gained worMrecognition The summazy is easy to understand andthe list canbc saved for later
as being the6rstcoufnmed Macintosh virus audhaving been posted comparison or to assist in the viral removal process.
VlrmDetectiveby J~ey Shuknan,$15.00sIzareware
fer a short period of time fess than 24 hours) on a national bulletin
VizusDctcctive is a desk accessory which will 6nd and
board.
alert you of the existence of the known viral strains.
BeforeIgo any further,and raise thehacklesofoker Mac enthuThis viral aid, unlike thcothers, canbc modifiedby the
siasts, lct me clarify that I do not feel that any computer virus is
haflnlcss. Thcsc cenulllunatulg Icsoilrccs which infect a users user to identify new infectious resources that may arise.
Interferon by Robert J WoadkeadInterferon scans your
system, without their knowledge, can cause anuuknown amount of
disk' checking for possible infections. When a viral
grief. My use of the term "relatively harmless" is relative to the
resource is detected the apylicationis listed at the bottom
amount af damagethat more destnictive viruses are capable of
of your screen along with a code that can be checked
doing. Ne computer virus is truly harmless.
against the supplied list of known viral resources. An optionis
The second discovered virus wasaamedthe "Scores" virus, after
an invisible flle which it creates andplaces in your System Polder. provided for removal ofthe offending resource.
< Fcrrit by Larry Ncdry
The Score vixus was discovered this spring but is suspected to have
Fcrrit is a specialized virus detector designed to sniff out,
beenaround smce asearly aslastSeptem
t has been the centre
b
e
r
.
I
and if directed, remove the Scores viruL Fenit has been
of much attention and its' source is currently under investigation, m
reportedto leave some benign virus resources in an
the U.SAby the FB J. Scozes was6zstdiscoveredin Dallas, Texas
and is suspected to have been developed there by a disgruntled apyliauion and for this reason I would rccommead using ' lail
exnployee after being dismissed fmm a local electmnics finn. This Scares", a similar application.
Kill Scores by NacPalz and Apple Corp of Dallas
virus has since been discovered in computers ranging 6om major
Uke Ferrit, Kill Scores is designed tedeuetandremove
hardware and software manufacturers te U.S. Govenunent comthe
Scares virus from your ayplications. It is an easy to
puter systems. It is far more powerful and complicated than the
use application that zvquircs nothing more than sclzctMacMag virus and has
retained the secrets of its' ~
pul p ese in
spite of itsdissccflenby someoi the top Macintosh experts in Nerlh mg a disk or ayplicatian and click your mouse. Prier to usmg this or
any other application, which removes resources, insure that you
America, mcluding those at Apyle Computer Inc.
Scoresvirus has been known to cause problems with other have an accurate back-up copy of your floppy or hard disk
Agar by Bill Krinunel, Aha Sojhvure
pmgrams, most notably with MacDraw, and leaves some very
Agar is a small 361 byte file that just sits on your floppy
distinct signs of its existence in a Mac's system. A reliable sign of
or hard disk, waiting to be infected. When a virus adds
its presence is the changes which it causes to the "Notcpad" and
resourcesto an application the applicshon's size is in"Scrapbook" icons in the System Folder. Assuming that your
system hasthese two desk accessories installed, youcantake aquick creased. It then becomes a simple matter te periodicall check the
look at their icons to verify that they are thatof the miniature Macin- size of Agar to determine if it has grown in size, indicatmg sn
tosh, the same asthose of the System and Finder. If your systemhas infection. The current version of the Finder displays the file size, in
been infected and you have both ofthese desk accesserics installed, both bytes and kilobytes, in the file's "Get Info" window.
These are the mast common viral detection aids currently avaHtheir icons will bc changed to that of a generic document; a blank,
able snd ayycw to do their intended jobs weil, but an ounce of
dog eared, page of paper.
prevention is warth a pound of cure and these applications are only
of use to inform you after your system has become mfected.
Dan Brown's CE Software was the first to come out with
96 items
45+46K e disk
51, 6 98K svci1able
a viral aid and has been the only one to take a preventative
approach with Vaccine. Vaccine is placed into your
Systein Folder where it self installs each time your Mac is booted
(started up.) If any resources Izyto install themselves inyour System
6le a "Beep" and
message wiO soundand you wiO be
Notes' Scrapbook
presented with the option of ailowiug the precess to continue or
saying "NO" snd returning to the Pmder. Some applications are
<i .:i::" 'l l::i .Ni!i4%l!ixiiei l Igi:,:.!il! I'lI,';.".I'i!gal
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:",:.i:.":.,.:ii i:.:4' I I.',i!,":iN
intended to install resources and must be identiTied and allowed to
AScorer vinebfectios casoPecbedeil,hardby checks a4iconrfor iheNoised
ual Smybaok Fi hr. If the IconshuvechnaxefPons the Mac" icosato Ae mstall by selecting the 'VE5" bunen.
These files will help you prevent viral infections ar detect the
"Genaie doscared pure, your ~is l ihlyinfccax
virusbefore serious damage is dane. Bvexy Mac user should
periodically check their syslem for mfection and should have a
When these viruses were flrstdiscovered, the recommended "Viral Survival Kit" setup for this speci
ric purpose. As my
method ofdetection and remedy was to search and clean your files donation, to the effort of eradicatirg these viruses, I have prepared
with a resource editor such as Apple'sMacintosh Resource Editor, a "Viral Survival Kit" disk and suggest that you acquire a copy.
ResEdit. This is a compflcatcd approach, and only appropriate for Copies cau be obtained, at no charge, directly Srom myself, Plus
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C OM P U TER SWAP ME E T

New Copyright Law Affects Computer Users

Computer software
is now proticted by
capyright. On June 8,
1988, Royal Assent
was granted to Bill C60, the first major
changes to the Copyright Act in 64yeus.

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Compuring, or Sum Ihe PD libraries of either

Mainland MacintoshUsers' Gmupor Apples B.C.
(" Write Pmtect" the disk before mounting and
follow the instructions providetL)
If your examination determmes that your system is infected you must make a decision as to the
best way to tackle the removal process. This
decision wiH be greatly mfluenced by the type of
system you are operating and the likelihood of
your Master Disks being infected. A fioppy only
system can easily be cleaned by transfemng data
files andreplacing applications fmm your Master
Disks. The infected disks must be m-initialized
prior to usage. A hard disk drive system is mtuu
complicated and time consuming as there is often
more data involved and the safety procedures are
far more complicated. The status of your Master
Disks will determine if you should try to eliminate
the viral resources or re-initialize your hard disk
If you are oimrating on a netwarked system I
would suongly recommend that you obtain some
expert assistance. Networked systems are the
most prone to viral infections and are the most
complicated to clean. The possible combination
of deterinining factors aud the complications of
additional infections during the removal process
makes this far tuo complicated for most users or
network administrators.
Here are a few pointstokeepinmindtohelpyou
Stom becomitig another infection statistic:
1. Check your system with the "Viral Survival
Kit" or a similar disk of your own mahng on a
regular basis; daily on a network or systems available to several users.
2.Only use Public Domain snd Shateware file
which have been filtered for viral infections.
3. Insure that the Write Protect tabs on all Master Disks are set to the "Locked" position prior to
mserting in any disk drives.

4. Install Vaccme (12K) and Agar aspreventative and easy detection tools.
5. Do not allow anymte tu insert a disk, which
hasnotbeenchecked for viral infections, into your

s ince 1924. The Act "~ i ' s

hterary works" including writings, maps and charts. Since that time, teclmology
has given us radio, TV, copiers, computers, and
other devices undreamed of when the origmal
Copyright Act was written. The advent of widely
beentheCopyrigbt Act's latest and most difficult challenge.
Under the current amendments, computer programs will be protectedregardless of the medium
and will be eligible for Ml copyright protection
for the life of the creator plus 50 years.

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Backups Not Included

Theprotectionoffered to softwareby copyright

is unique in that it has two exceptions. The first
exception will allow those in lawful possession of
acomputer program to alter or adapt it to suit Iheir
personal needs without infringing copyright The
second exception will allow themakingof abackup copy of the program. Computer programs will
be protected by copyright even if they were created prior to the June 8, 1988.
Needless to say, these changes will provide
software developers with much needed certainty.
If Canada's high tech, research and development
industries are to Qourish, this certainty is critical.
However, with cheap, high quality copying of all
copyrighted materials possible, strong enforcement is also needed. The new Copyright Act
provides that enforcement.

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'Ihe piracy provisions of Bill C-60 specify that

any person who sells, distributes, exhibits or
imports for sale, any in&ingmg copy of a protected work is guilty of an offence aud is subject
to fines up t $1,000,000and imprisonment for up
to five years. These are significantly increased
penalties designed to reflect our economic malities of commercial piracy and to give the new
legislation teeth.

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While programmers and commercial distribu-

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system.
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6. Check any of your disks used an other sys- will
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tems prior to reusing them on your system.

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Although many people tend to think of viral

of software. How does this new legislation
infections as inbeing only &om Public Domain copies
affect them't

~ Corporate Marketing Consultants

users own at least one if not many unauthorize

and Shatuwaru applications, they can come from

any applicatians including new commercial packages. This was evidenced lately with a leading
softwaremauafacturershippingnewMaster Disks,
aheady infected at the facmry.
With a little care and prevention you can beat
the viral breeders without abstaining from your
enjoyment of Public Domain and Sluueware software. Thmkyou and please practice safe computulg.

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The short answer to that question is "very
little." While trading capias of programs with
fellow caruputer users is technically aviolatiouof
copyright and an offence punishable by fmes and
jail teuns, itis not the sort of violation that the legishtion is designed to attack. The legislation was
amended to meet the burgeoning software piracy
industry andto provide softweu develapers and
distributors with the protection and certainty
needed to eacourage Canada's high tech sector to

gmw.
Software Pirates Beware!

However, software users who trade software

softwam in public or commercial mannets without
previous authority are breaching the Copyright
Act snd are expasing themselves to the risk of
civil action by the owner of the copyright and to
the stiff penalties pmvidedby the Copyright Act.
The Coiiyright Act makes no distinction as tu the
size nor economic value of the mkingement
Software, pirates beware!

a Apple Macintosh Marketing Representatives

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Downtown 687-4255
DTP - Ventura, Alternative Approaches
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P.O. Box 24776, Vancouver, 8754677
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Ventura Senior Level Aug. 11
$159
Desktop Design Clinics
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John Oliver School, 530 E. 41 Ave
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$180
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This seminar will be given by Lance Bracken, President
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of the Vancouver Electronic Publishing Association and
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See demonstrations of Ventura
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Apple III SIG Monthly Kiyo Masuda 437-9935
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