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[author : Ed McNierney]

Two new graphics chips, the Intel 82786 and the TI 34010, provides graphics power and complexity previously unknown in PC graphics. They also represent two strikingly different approaches to implementing graphics on a chip.

[author : Howard Katz]

The curious new mathematical object the Mandelbrot set is so popular it has its own journal. In implementing this elegant assembly-language application the author bypassed the Macintosh SANE floating-point package and used fixed-point ROM routines for greater speed.

[author : Mike Morton]

On the way to constructing a satisfying visual effect the author reveals a few tricks for rapidly generating pseudorandom sequences and three different dissolve algorithms. He also suggests how to implement the algorithms efficiently in various environments.

[author : Allen Holub]

Allen implements sets in C and discusses Version 4 of Microsoft's C compiler and the CodeView debugger. This column also marks the debut of Flotsam and Jetsam, a series of hints for both experienced and novice C programmers.

[author : Namir Clement Shammas]

Namir shows some wavs to trap errors in Ada and Modula-2 and examines a product that lets Turbo Pascal programmers madly matriculate, creating large sparse matrices, virtual matrices, and expanded-memory matrices.

[author : Nick Turner]

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[author : Michael Swaine]

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