1984 10.04 1986

Vol.10 n°4 (#102) april 1985

Vol.10 n°4 (#102) april 1985

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p.6 Editorial (p.256 in reprint volume 10)

p.6 Editorial (p.256 in reprint volume 10)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

ARTICLES

p.18 MONTY Plays Scrabble: What We Can Learn about Human Factors Engineering from a Game-Playing Computer (p.264 in reprint volume 10)

p.18 MONTY Plays Scrabble: What We Can Learn about Human Factors Engineering from a Game-Playing Computer (p.264 in reprint volume 10)

[author : Terry A. Ward]

Designers of software can make it easier for the end user to interact with their programs. Some principles of human factors engineering can be learned from a small computer that plays Scrabble (Reader Ballot No. 192).

p.24 Shortcut to SCISTAR: For Prowriter Users (p.269 in reprint volume 10)

p.24 Shortcut to SCISTAR: For Prowriter Users (p.269 in reprint volume 10)

[author : Amer Nelson]

How to print special characters with an Osborne 1 / Prowriter system (Reader Ballot No. 193).

p.28 fx80char: A Character Editor for the Epson FX-80 (p.273 in reprint volume 10)

p.28 fx80char: A Character Editor for the Epson FX-80 (p.273 in reprint volume 10)

[author : David D. Clark]

A screen oriented editor for developing alternate character sets; commands for downloading the new characters to the printer (Reader Ballot No. 194).

p.58 A Magic Mushroom for the Epson Alice (p.293 in reprint volume 10)

p.58 A Magic Mushroom for the Epson Alice (p.293 in reprint volume 10)

[author : Gary Palmer]

An anthropologist prints vertically extended phonetic symbols for transcriptions of the stories of the Coeur d'Alene Indians (Reader Ballot No. 195).

p.74 Let's Mouse Around (p.305 in reprint volume 10)

p.74 Let's Mouse Around (p.305 in reprint volume 10)

[author : Vincent and Ronald G. Parsons ]

The Microsoft Mouse with Turbo Pascal (Reader Ballot No. 196).

COLUMNS

COLUMNS

p.12 Realizable Fantasies (p.258 in reprint volume 10)

p.12 Realizable Fantasies (p.258 in reprint volume 10)

[author : Michael Swaine and Bob Albrecht]

Liberating the essence of the Mac from Apple’s closed architecture (Reader Ballot No. 190).

p.14 Dr. Dobb's Clinic (p.260 in reprint volume 10)

p.14 Dr. Dobb's Clinic (p.260 in reprint volume 10)

[author : D. E. Cortesi]

DRI phases out unconfigured versions of CP/M; critique of Modula-2; shadowy printing; well- and ill-behaved functions Reader Ballot No. 191).

p.86 Software Designer (p.314 in reprint volume 10)

p.86 Software Designer (p.314 in reprint volume 10)

[author : Mike Swaine]

Dave Winer of Living Videotext and Thom Hogan of Business Software discuss human factors engineering and software design (Reader Ballot No. 197).

p.90 C Chest (p.316 in reprint volume 10)

p.90 C Chest (p.316 in reprint volume 10)

[author : Allen Holub]

Reasons for not using the Shell sort in K&R; qsort.c, a general purpose Quicksort routine (Reader Ballot No. 198).

p.102 16-Bit Software Toolbox (p.324 in reprint volume 10)

p.102 16-Bit Software Toolbox (p.324 in reprint volume 10)

[author : Ray Duncan]

ED/ASM-86; a TEE filter for MSDOS 2.x; MacAsm; 80286 Xenix 3.0 (Reader Ballot No. 199).

p.112 CP/M Exchange (p.328 in reprint volume 10)

p.112 CP/M Exchange (p.328 in reprint volume 10)

[author : Bob Blum]

A patch to enable PIP v. 1.5 to accept null command lines from a submit file; a stand-alone $$$.SUB file generator improves batch procedures (Reader Ballot No. 200).

DEPARTMENTS

DEPARTMENTS

p.8 Letters (p.257 in reprint volume 10)

p.8 Letters (p.257 in reprint volume 10)

p.80 Reviews (p.310 in reprint volume 10)

p.80 Reviews (p.310 in reprint volume 10)

SPSS/PC; Borland’s Turbo Toolbox

p.107 DDJ Classifieds (not in reprint volume 10)

p.107 DDJ Classifieds (not in reprint volume 10)

p.122 Of Interest (p.333 in reprint volume 10)

p.122 Of Interest (p.333 in reprint volume 10)

(Reader Ballot No. 201 )

p.128 Advertiser Index (not in reprint volume 10)

p.128 Advertiser Index (not in reprint volume 10)