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Inside BYTE : BYTE Topic Index
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Inside BYTE : BYTE Topic Index
COVER STORY
COVER STORY
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FEATURE Is Unix Dead?
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FEATURE Is Unix Dead?
NEWS
NEWS
Kaleida, the Apple/IBM multimedia venture.
Programming talent abounds here.
[author : Rich Friedman]
Vendors want to move from being low-cost providers to technology leaders.
[author : Alan Joch]
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FIRST IMPRESSIONS AutoCAD Gets a Face-Lift
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FIRST IMPRESSIONS AutoCAD Gets a Face-Lift
And AST's Power Premium 4/SOd.
[author : Patrick Waurzyniak]
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Acquiring Data Through Windows
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Acquiring Data Through Windows
Visual programming for data acquisition.
[author : Andy Reinhardt]
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Olivetti Quaderno, a 2-pound subnotebook with Italian style
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Olivetti Quaderno, a 2-pound subnotebook with Italian style
Acorn A4, this notebook shows the power of the ARM processor
Ami Pro 3.0, the feature battle rages
MacinStor, a portable gigabyte drive for the Mac
NetOctopus 1.1, a useful network manager with an odd name
Oxford English Dictionary, a 20-volume reference on CD-ROM
GammaFax MLCP-4/AEB, GammaLink broadcasts fax capability
HyperSpace Shuttle handles up to 3 GB of on-line storage; NetRunner integrates voice, fax, and network traffic; and more.
FEATURES
FEATURES
Unix faces its toughest challenges yet.
[author : Tom Yager and Ben Smith]
Unix: A Child of a Thousand Parents
Unix: A Child of a Thousand Parents
The history of Unix says much about its future.
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The Greening of Computers
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The Greening of Computers
The computer industry wakes up to ecological concerns.
[author : Andy Reinhardt, Ed Perratore, Andy Redfern, and Rich Malloy]
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The Outlook for Pen Computing
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The Outlook for Pen Computing
Before it can deliver, pen-based computing has many rivers to cross.
[author : Nicholas Baran]
STATE OF THE ART PHOTONICS
STATE OF THE ART PHOTONICS
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Overview: Photonics: Revolution or Evolution?
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Overview: Photonics: Revolution or Evolution?
Optical technologies are changing the way we process information.
[author : Jack Weber]
Smart Pixels and Free-Space Interconnection
Smart Pixels and Free-Space Interconnection
[author : H. Scott Hinton]
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Parallel Optical Memories
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Parallel Optical Memories
A perfonmtnce breakthrough.
[author : Demetri Psaltis]
The best way to switch an optical signal is with another optical signal.
[author : Mohammed N. Islam.]
SO NET: A Standard for Today
SO NET: A Standard for Today
[author : Mark A. Clarkson]
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Is What You See What You Get?
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Is What You See What You Get?
Access to optical information processing is now easier.
[author : David Casasent]
Interconnecting the Pieces
Interconnecting the Pieces
[author : Sing H. Lee]
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Resource Guide: Optical Product Sampler
p.195
Resource Guide: Optical Product Sampler
REVIEWS
REVIEWS
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SOLUTIONS FOCUS Profiles in Document Managing
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SOLUTIONS FOCUS Profiles in Document Managing
The BYTE Lab looks at four PC-based document management systems.
[author : Raymond GA Côté and Ben Smith]
Tools for Lassoing the Paper Cyclone
Tools for Lassoing the Paper Cyclone
[author : D. Barker]
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BYTE Lab Product Report Workhorse Computers
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BYTE Lab Product Report Workhorse Computers
The Lab evaluates the new low end of computing: 386SXes.
[author : Rick Grehan and Stan Wszola]
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Eight Notebooks Keep a Tight Grip on Power
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Eight Notebooks Keep a Tight Grip on Power
A thorough review of 386SL and 386SXL portables.
[author : Jim Carls]
A New Thumper
A New Thumper
[author : Howard Eglowstein]
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486 Notebooks Double as Desktops
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486 Notebooks Double as Desktops
[author : Barry Nance]
[author : Power to go.]
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A New Illustrator for Windows
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A New Illustrator for Windows
A few problems temper the enthusiasm for Adobe's latest release of Illustrator for Windows.
[author : Cal Vornberger]
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A Power Boost for PowerPoint
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A Power Boost for PowerPoint
Microsoft breaks new ground.
[author : Shelley Cryan]
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IBM's New System Speaks for Itself
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IBM's New System Speaks for Itself
The PS/2 Ultimedia.
[author : Tom Yager]
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Microsoft's Lucky Number
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Microsoft's Lucky Number
Microsoft joins the C++ minions with its newest compiler.
[author : Othar Hansson]
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Animation Energizes Rio's World-Class Graphics
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Animation Energizes Rio's World-Class Graphics
Rio Animator brings a slick look to presentation graphics.
[author : Tom Yager]
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Bringing the Outside into Windows
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Bringing the Outside into Windows
Outside In for Windows brings DOS documents into Windows.
[author : Steve Apiki]
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A/UX 3.0: The Mac's Odd Couple
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A/UX 3.0: The Mac's Odd Couple
Apple's latest version of Unix.
[author : Tom Thompson]
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Reviewer's Notebook
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Reviewer's Notebook
A Personal Librarian for Windows and a low-cost bundle of applications for the Macintosh.
[author : the BYTE Lab]
HANDS ON
HANDS ON
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UNDER THE HOOD Inside QuickDraw
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UNDER THE HOOD Inside QuickDraw
A detailed look inside Apple's imaging engine.
[author : Konstantin Othmer]
p.297
SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED A Shared Resource Access Manager, Part 2
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SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED A Shared Resource Access Manager, Part 2
Introducing a resource access manager server and C client functions that you can link into your applications.
[author : Rick Grehan]
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SOFTWARE CORNER Software with Curves
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SOFTWARE CORNER Software with Curves
Barry Nance, Tom Thompson, and Ben Smith
Bézier curves under Windows, synchronizing PowerBooks, and the language of bit maps.
p.307
BEYOND DOS In Search of an Object-Oriented File System
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BEYOND DOS In Search of an Object-Oriented File System
The future depends on it.
[author : Jon Udell]
Choosing a Unix; TWAIN explained; and mom.
OPINIONS
OPINIONS
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USER'S COLUMN The Amiga Revisited
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USER'S COLUMN The Amiga Revisited
Jerry looks at the Amiga 3000T.
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
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BOOK AND CD-ROM REVIEWS The Origins of Hypertext
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BOOK AND CD-ROM REVIEWS The Origins of Hypertext
Vannevar Bush and hypertext, street maps on CD-ROM, and Unix primers.
[author : Hugh Kenner, John Unger, and Stanford Diehl]
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STOP BIT The Artichoke Theory
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STOP BIT The Artichoke Theory
What applications can learn from PC games.
[author : Nolan Bushnell]
The Globalization of BYTE
[author : Dennis Allen]
Color PostScript printers; SGML image editors; and other topics.
READER SERVICE
READER SERVICE
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Editorial Index by Company
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Editorial Index by Company
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Alphatetical Index to Advertisers
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Alphatetical Index to Advertisers
p.372
Index to Advertisers by Category
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Index to Advertisers by Category
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