COVER STORY
COVER STORY
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PRODUCT FOCUS Is the Typesetter Obsolete?
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PRODUCT FOCUS Is the Typesetter Obsolete?
High-end desktop publishing packages give you professional results and savings in typesetting costs.
NEWS
NEWS
Late-breaking technology and industry reports from the BYTE news staff.
The best and brightest of recent hardware and software announcements.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Paradox 3.5, new features from Borland
Business VEISA 32CSX, ALR is Yugo engine on a Ferrari chassis
MediaTracks, Farallon lets you demonstrate software on the Mac
Sharp 9624e, a modem built for heavy full-time use
ATS Convertible Classic, new life for old Macs
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Smalltalk-80 Enters the Nineties
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Smalltalk-80 Enters the Nineties
Objectworks\Smalltalk from ParcPlace Systems features 24-bit color and cross-platform support.
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What's NeXT After 1-2-3?
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What's NeXT After 1-2-3?
Improv is Lotus's successor to the 1-2-3 throne.
REVIEWS
REVIEWS
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486 EISA Machines: A Slow Start in the Fast Lane
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486 EISA Machines: A Slow Start in the Fast Lane
Three 486 vendors deliver EISA bus machines, but where are the EISA add-ins?
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Director Takes Charge of Mac Multimedia
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Director Takes Charge of Mac Multimedia
MacroMind's new Director 2.0 provides interactive control and input from more audio and video sources.
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Object-Oriented C That Goes VROOMM
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Object-Oriented C That Goes VROOMM
Borland's Turbo C++ promises to bring object-oriented programming to the masses.
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Pumping Pixels: Hercules Flexes Its Muscles in 24-bit Color
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Pumping Pixels: Hercules Flexes Its Muscles in 24-bit Color
Hercules's economical graphics card offers 24-bit color display on standard VGA monitors.
Three 20-MHz SX systems push into 386DX territory.
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A Database Developer That's Different from the Rest
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A Database Developer That's Different from the Rest
The Clarion Professional Developer provides a complete development environment.
STATE OF THE ART
STATE OF THE ART
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OBJECT LESSONS Introduction
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OBJECT LESSONS Introduction
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There Is a Silver Bullet
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There Is a Silver Bullet
The birth of interchangeable, reusable software components will bring software into the information age.
Simulating object-oriented techniques with procedural languages can help you make the transition to tomorrow's software technology today.
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Database Wars Revisited
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Database Wars Revisited
The relational and object-oriented camps do battle for database honors.
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Objects-Born and Bred
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Objects-Born and Bred
Object Behavior Analysis provides a conceptual model for the first stage in creating an object-oriented application.
Ed Yourdon tackles the question of whether you should jump on the object-oriented bandwagon.
Just a sample of the object-oriented products available.
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A Knowledge Engineering Toolkit
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A Knowledge Engineering Toolkit
The first of a two-part series presenting a knowledge-engineering toolkit for building expert systems.
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ES: A Public Domain Expert System
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ES: A Public Domain Expert System
Develop your own expert systems-or experiment with some sample knowledge bases-with this free program.
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Alternative Operating Systems, Part 3: Theos: Serious Business
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Alternative Operating Systems, Part 3: Theos: Serious Business
A unique multiuser operating system for business applications.
HANDS ON
HANDS ON
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UNDER THE HOOD Megafloppies
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UNDER THE HOOD Megafloppies
Four new technologies are in the bidding to be the next standard A drive.
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SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED Just Between Friends: Talking Tasks
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SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED Just Between Friends: Talking Tasks
The first part of a series on interprocess communications looks at Microsoft Windows and Desqview.
DEPARTMENTS
DEPARTMENTS
Artificial intelligence lives!
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Editorial: Taiwan, the Soviet Union, and You, Part 2
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Editorial: Taiwan, the Soviet Union, and You, Part 2
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Letters, Ask BYTE, and Fixes
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Letters, Ask BYTE, and Fixes
Worldly readers comment on text displays.
PERSPECTIVES
PERSPECTIVES
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PRINT QUEUE Interface/Shplinterface
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PRINT QUEUE Interface/Shplinterface
The latest look-and-feel lawsuit coincides with the arrival of a new book on interface design.
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STOP BIT Spare Me the Details
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STOP BIT Spare Me the Details
The next generation of computer interfaces should handle details.
READER SERVICE
READER SERVICE
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Editorial Index by Company
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Editorial Index by Company
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Alphabetical Index to Advertisers
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Alphabetical Index to Advertisers
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Index to Advertisers by Product Category
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Index to Advertisers by Product Category
Inquiry Reply Cards. after 360
Inquiry Reply Cards. after 360
PROGRAM LISTINGS
PROGRAM LISTINGS
From BIX: See 204
From BIX: See 204
From BYTEnet: Call (617) 861-9764
From BYTEnet: Call (617) 861-9764
EXPERT ADVICE
EXPERT ADVICE
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COMPUTING AT CHAOS MANOR A Lesson in Maintenance
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COMPUTING AT CHAOS MANOR A Lesson in Maintenance
Jerry remembers the solution for an old problem and examines the prospects for a new DOS.
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
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MACINATIONS Science Goes Visual on the Mac
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MACINATIONS Science Goes Visual on the Mac
Get a new view of scientific data with graphics tools from Spyglass.
[author : Don Crabb]
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THE UNIX /bin Sizing It Down
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THE UNIX /bin Sizing It Down
A look at RISC versus CISC and the Coherent Unix-like operating system.
[author : David Fiedler]
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DOWN TO BUSINESS Picture This
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DOWN TO BUSINESS Picture This
Now you can make professional presentations quickly and easily.
[author : Wayne Rash Jr.]
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NETWORKS Welcome to Lilliput, DEC
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NETWORKS Welcome to Lilliput, DEC
DEC once again visits the land of microcomputers with LanWorks for Macintosh.
[author : Mark L. Van Name and Bill Catchings]
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BEYOND DOS: WINDOWS AND OS/2 Through the OS/2 Porthole
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BEYOND DOS: WINDOWS AND OS/2 Through the OS/2 Porthole
Martin Heller OS/2 rolls out the red carpet for Windows applications.
