p.6 EDITORIAL
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
p.16 PERSONAL SUPERCOMPUTING
[author : Ian Hirschsohn]
PC/RISC architectures give you the horsepower to run large-scale scientific applications.
p.30 FINDING SIGNIFICANCE IN NOISY DATA
[author : Roy E. Kimbrell]
Adaptive filters let you identify significant deviations from expected values.
p.44 CONTOURING DATA FIELDS
[author : Bruce (Bear) Giles]
Scientific data is often in gridded data format, and contouring is a way to view it.
p.48 SCULPTING ON SILICON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHUCK MOORE
[author : Jack Woehr]
Chuck Moore and others have a wide-ranging discussion about computing's changing landscape.
p.56 PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: MISSING PIECES, PART II
[author : William Frederick Jolitz and Lynne Greer Jolitz]
A "bare-bones" execve() system call is implemented this month.
p.158 DESIGN FOR VISUALIZATION
[author : Peter D. Varhol]
Peter describes how to use a design tool to develop a team project.
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
p.64 PROGRAMMING THE I2C INTERFACE
[author : Mitchell Kahn]
The I2C bus is a two-wire synchronous serial interface for intelligent IC devices.
EXAMINING ROOM
p.74 ACCESSING LARGE DATA ARRAYS WITH X-ARRAY
[author : Barr E. Bauer]
Barr examines X-arRAY, a Fortran library that manages extended memory and math operations.
PROGRAMMER'S WORKBENCH
p.82 FORTEX, A FORTRAN RUNTIME EXECUTIVE
[author : Harold R. Justice]
FORTEX is a Fortran tool with a flexible UI that can be incorporated into applications.
COLUMNS
p.119 PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS
[author : Michael Swaine]
Michael argues that the way we interact with computers is in the early stages of a paradigm shift.
p.123 C PROGRAMMING
[author : Al Stevens]
Al discusses how to implement dialog boxes, and wraps up SD '92.
p.131 STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING
[author : Jeff Duntemann]
Jeff switches from Object Vision to Visual Basic in his look at Windows development tools.
p.139 GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING
[author : Michael Abrash]
Wu's method of antialiasing is Michael's focus this month.
p.145 PROGRAMMER'S BOOKSHELF
[author : Andrew Schulman]
Modern Operating Systems and The Design of OS/2 look inside today's operating systems.
DEPARTMENTS
p.8 LETTERS
[author : you]
p.176 SWAINE'S FLAMES
[author : Michael Swaine]
PROGRAMMER'S SERVICES
p.166 OF INTEREST
[author : Tami Zemel]