p.8 Editorial: Guideposts

p.15 COMPUTING AT CHAOS MANOR Casting a Chaotic Network

p.37 BEYOND DOS: WINDOWS AND OS/2 Money, SQL, and Spreadsheets

p.41 MACINATIONS Crossing Over

p.47 DOWN TO BUSINESS Through a Window, Darkly

p.51 THE UNIX /bin IBM and Unix: Perfect Together?

p.57 NETWORKS Network Perestroika

p.244 Editorial Index by Company

FEATURES

p.62 IBM in the NinetieS

p.75 Benchmarks at a Glance: 1990

p.82 PC GUIs Go Head to Head

p.89 Stranger in a Strange Land

p.97 Programming 32-bit OS/2

p.105 Multimedia: DVI Arrives

p.113 DPMI: The DOS Protected Mode Interface

p.121 Optical Storage Primer

p.133 Continental Computing

p.137 Creating Virtual PCs on the 386

p.153 Notebook PCs Set the Portable Standard

p.161 Looking at the Graphical User Interface

p.169 Laying Out the Future

p.175 Color for the Desktop

p.183 The Migration of the X Window System

p.187 SCSI: The I/O Standard Evolves

p.193 Data to the Desktop: The SQL Advantage

p.203 Making the Micro-to-Mainframe Connection

p.207 Don't Worry, Use HLLAPI

p.217 Adding Value to Your Data

p.250 DOS Unbound: Uses of Protected Mode