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TABLE OF CONTENTS

[author : Rabindra P. Kar and Kent Porter]

In a major breakthrough, DDJ proposes a real-time benchmark and invites you to help finalize this long needed standard.

[author : David Bowling]

Even though MS-DOS isn’t multitasking, it can still be used for some real-time applications, and David shows how.

[author : G. Michael Vose and Dave Weil]

Knowing benchmark pitfalls can help you decide whether benchmark results really tell you anything useful. Mike and Dave discuss those pitfalls — and show you how to avoid them.

[author : Tom Green]

When Tom decided to rewrite his multitasking kernel, he thought that C++ objects would be ideal — and he was right.

[author : Gregory Ilg and R.J. Brown]

TENS, the scheduler Gregory and R.J. present here was designed for real-time process-control applications. It features its own high-level language, which is an extension of Forth.

[author : David L. Fox]

If you need to get the most out of small chunks of C code, David’s program shows you how to find the bottlenecks so you can improve performance.

[author : Costas Menico]

If you’ve ever had to reboot when a TSR hangs up your system, you’ll appreciate — and use — Costas’ techniques for debugging memory- resident programs.

[author : Robert Zigon]

Robert shares a data compression technique that’s saved him disk space and will for you too.

[author : Chris Burke]

As Chris reports, APL*PLUS II from STSC adds support for 80386 protected mode, nested arrays, better handling of files, workspaces, and more.

[author : Michael Swaine]

Michael takes object-oriented programmers off the horns of the inheritance dilemma.

[author : Al Stevens]

This month Al introduces TINYCOMM to connect you to the outside world via a modem.

[author : Kent Porter]

New column! Come join our senior tech editor for a voyage into the magical (and sometimes maddening) world of graphics programming.

[author : Jeff Duntemann]

The newest member of the DDJ family goes on a search for Mr. Goodbar, hoping to avoid the perils of shower curtain salesmanship.

[author : Martin Tracy]

Martin goes globe-trotting to update us on the world Forth scene, as well as sharing a Mandlebrot plotting program.

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[author : Michael Swaine]

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