p.6 EDITORIAL
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
p.16 FORTRAN & GUIS
[author : John L. Bradberry]
Fortran wasn't designed to write drivers but Fortran applications can provide direct window support.
p.26 USING THE REAL-TIME CLOCK
[author : Kenneth Roach]
Access your system's real-time clock using homegrown Turbo Pascal time and date functions.
p.34 FAST SORTING USING LARGE STRING BUFFERS
[author : Dale Thorn]
This Basic sort routine uses large string buffers and integer variables as pointers to buffers.
p.42 WHAT'S NEW WITH MODULA-2?
[author : K.N. King]
All isn't quiet on the Modula-2 front. Our experts brings you up to date.
p.50 PORTING UNIX TO THE 386:RESEARCH & THE COMMERCIAL SECTOR
[author : William Frederick Jolitz and Lynne Greer Jolitz]
Before beginning the kernel port, Bill and Lynne reflect on 386BSD's place in the world of UNIX.
p.86 EFFICIENTLY RAISING MATRICES TO AN INTEGER POWER
[author : Victor Duvanenko]
Avoid redundancy—and improve performance—when raising polynomials to integer powers.
p.55 REAL-TIME AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
p.56 RECONCILING UNIX, ADA, & REAL-TIME PROCESSING
[author : Bill O. Gallmeister]
Is POSIX.4 the key to reconciling Unix and Ada for real-time systems?
p.66 UNIX, ADA, AND REAL-TIME - A FORTH MULTITASKER
[author : Jack J. Woehr]
This Forth multitasker falls between "medium weight" and "heavyweight" multitasking and provides preemption without additional overhead.
EXAMINING ROOM
p.74 TAKING UP RESIDENCE WITH CODERUNNER
[author : R. Bradley Andrews]
TSRs are no longer a chore when you use tools like Coderunner.
PROGRAMMER'S WORKBENCH
p.80 CELESTIAL PROGRAMMING WITH TURBO PASCAL
[author : Lars Frid-Nielsen and Alex Lane]
Capture planetary images using a CCD camera, a frame grabber, and Turbo Pascal.
COLUMNS
p.115 PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS
[author : Michael Swaine]
Michael reports on The First Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy.
p.123 C PROGRAMMING
[author : Al Stevens]
This month's D-Flat installment manages application configuration and window classes.
p.131 STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING
[author : Jeff Duntemann]
Jeff takes a look at Turbo Pascal for Windows before moving on to dissecting UART registers.
p.139 GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING
[author : Michael Abrash]
Complex polygons are simpler than you probably think.
p.145 PROGRAMMER'S BOOKSHELF
[author : Ray Duncan]
Pearls of wisdom about Jon Bentley's best programming books.
DEPARTMENTS
p.8 LETTERS
[author : you]
p.168 SWAINE'S FLAMES
[author : Michael Swaine]
PROGRAMMER'S SERVICES
p.158 OF INTEREST
[author : Tami Zemel]