p.6 EDITORIAL
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
p.16 ARITHMETIC CODING AND STATISTICAL MODELING
[author : Mark R. Nelson]
You can achieve impressive compression ratios by combining arithmetic coding with powerful modeling techniques.
p.32 ENTROPY
[author : Kas Thomas]
Understanding entropy is key to understanding data compression.
p.38 DIFFERENTIAL IMAGE COMPRESSION
[author : John Bridges]
DFF keeps track of the differences between images rather than the images themselves.
p.52 THE DDJ DATA COMPRESSION CONTEST
[author : ]
Here's your chance to prove that your favorite compression technique is better than that of your fellow programmers.
p.54 PORTING UNIX TO THE 386:THREE INITIAL PC UTILITIES
[author : William Frederick Jolitz and Lynne Greer Jolitz]
Utilities to let you execute GCC-compiled programs in protected mode from MS-DOS, and copy files to a shared portion of disk so MS-DOS and Unix can exchange information.
p.85 SCREEN CAPTURING FOR WINDOWS 3.0
[author : Jim Conger]
This utility helps you get your foot in the Window 3.0 programming door.
p.65 EMBEDDED SYSTEMS SPECIAL
p.66 REMOTE CONNECTIVITY FOR PORTABLE TERMINALS: PART I
[author : Dan Troy]
Dan takes you through the steps his team experienced when they designed an 8051-based touchscreen terminal.
p.76 LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE OF MICROPROCESSORS
[author : Ray Duncan]
The most recent Microprocessors Forum gives Ray - and you - a look into what's around the corner in terms of microprocessors and microcontollers.
p.80 OPTIMIZING INTEGER DIVISION BY A CONSTANT DIVISOR
[author : Robert D. Grappel]
Speed up slow processors by decomposing a division by a constant divisor into a simple sequences of additions, subtractions and shifts.
EXAMINING ROOM
p.88 YACC FOR EXPERT SYSTEMS
[author : Todd King]
Todd uses MKS YACC to build a portable expert system.
PROGRAMMER'S WORKBENCH
p.94 INTRINSICS OF THE X TOOLKIT
[author : Todd Lainhart]
Programmers can configure the Intrinsics toolkit so that X Window users can personalize computing environments.
COLUMNS
p.131 PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS
[author : Michael Swaine]
Reading and thinking about van Gasteren's On the Shape of Mathematical Arguments is a task every programmer should shoulder.
p.135 C PROGRAMMING
[author : Al Stevens]
After catching up on recent events, Al examines the Huffman data compression algorithm.
p.145 STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING
[author : Jeff Duntemann]
Jeff ponders the imponderable, starting with software design.
p.153 GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING
[author : Michael Abrash]
Our newest columnist launches his column by developing routines to draw filled polygons.
p.159 PROGRAMMER'S BOOKSHELF
[author : Ray Duncan]
The use and abuse of fonts and typography leads Ray to Digital Typography.
DEPARTMENTS
p.8 LETTERS
[author : you]
p.176 SWAINE'S FLAMES
[author : Michael Swaine]
PROGRAMMER'S SERVICES
p.168 OF INTEREST
[author : Janna Custer]