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Vol.18 n°4 april 1993

Vol.18 n°4 april 1993

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p.4 Contents

p.4 Contents

p.8 Inside BYTE : BYTE Topic Index

p.8 Inside BYTE : BYTE Topic Index

COVER STORY

COVER STORY

p.98 Fighting Fatware

p.98 Fighting Fatware

[theme : FEATURE]

NEWS

NEWS

p.28 MICROBYTES

p.28 MICROBYTES

Tandy and Casio stand poised to compete with Apple's Newton PDA.

p.41 Recovery Through Technology

p.41 Recovery Through Technology

Technology helps a troubled country rebound.

[theme : REPORT FROM CROATIA] [author : Neven Prasnikar]

p.44 FIRST IMPRESSIONS Easy Does It with MS-DOS 6.0

p.44 FIRST IMPRESSIONS Easy Does It with MS-DOS 6.0

Microsoft adds compression and memory management to the venerable operating system.

[author : Jon Udell]

p.49 Photoshop Now Does Windows

p.49 Photoshop Now Does Windows

Version 2.5 is new for Windows and improved for the Mac.

[author : Tom Yager]

p.55 Stylus 800, Epson is back in the ink-jet business

p.55 Stylus 800, Epson is back in the ink-jet business

Encarta, a multimedia CD-ROM encyclopedia worth exploring

microWriter, Texas In s truments' low-cost laser printer

AudioMan, an easy and inexpensive approach to Windows sound

p.62 WHAT'S NEW

p.62 WHAT'S NEW

The Dauphin 5500 Color Pentop flips its display, the Pocket Faxxer sends paperless faxes, ParaSet helps you develop and maintain software, and more.

FEATURES

FEATURES

p.98 Fighting Fatware

p.98 Fighting Fatware

Bloated software slows you down, but help is on the way.

[author : Ed Perratore, Tom Thompson, Jon Udell, and Rich Malloy]

p.111 Putting Fuzzy Logic into Focus

p.111 Putting Fuzzy Logic into Focus

Fuzzy-logic applications arrive on the desktop.

[author : Janet J. Barron]

p.116 JAPANESE LEADERS IN FUZZY LOGIC

p.116 JAPANESE LEADERS IN FUZZY LOGIC

[author : Jeffrey D. Shepard]

STATE OF THE ART

STATE OF THE ART

[theme : VISUALIZATION]

p.120 Overview: Visualization: Seeing Is Believing

p.120 Overview: Visualization: Seeing Is Believing

Visualization lets you see the meaning of numeric data.

[author : Jack Weber]

VISUALIZATION APPLICATIONS

VISUALIZATION APPLICATIONS

[author : Maxine D. Brown]

p.129 Navigating the Data Flood

p.129 Navigating the Data Flood

Find your way through large data sets visually.

[author : William Ribarsky]

p.132 INSIDE MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA

p.132 INSIDE MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA

[author : Lloyd A. Treinish]

p.137 Image Building

p.137 Image Building

A look at the core of modern visualization software.

[author : Peter Wayner]

p.143 The Difficulty with Data

p.143 The Difficulty with Data

Visualization requires diverse data types and formats.

[author : Nahum Gershon and Jeff Dozier]

p.148 Resource Guide: Visualization Software

p.148 Resource Guide: Visualization Software

REVIEWS

REVIEWS

p.150 Shrink to Fit

p.150 Shrink to Fit

The BYTE Lab tests on-the-fly data compressors for Macs and PCs .

[theme : SOLUTIONS FOCUS] [author : Rick Grehan and Stan Wszola]

p.164 Ultraportable PCs: Worth the Trade-offs?

p.164 Ultraportable PCs: Worth the Trade-offs?

Subnotebook or palmtop? BYTE looks at the alternatives.

[author : Robert E. Calem]

p.173 PowerBook Peripherals

p.173 PowerBook Peripherals

New hardware makes your Apple notebook more useful.

[author : Tom Thompson]

p.177 OS/2 's Multimedia Extensions

p.177 OS/2 's Multimedia Extensions

IBM builds a strong multimedia foundation for OS /2.

[author : Tom Yager]

p.179 Two Ways to Say VL-Bus

p.179 Two Ways to Say VL-Bus

Testing two motherboards that mix VL-Bus and EISA.

[author : Raymond GA Côté]

p.183 Teaching Macs to Fetch

p.183 Teaching Macs to Fetch

Aldus introduces Fetch, a new multiuser, mixed-media database for the Mac.

[author : Stanford Diehl]

p.185 Macs and Windows PCs Share Control

p.185 Macs and Windows PCs Share Control

Timbuktu for Windows makes cross-platform remote control possible, but it can be slow.

[author : Tom Yager]

p.189 Sun's C Solution for Solaris

p.189 Sun's C Solution for Solaris

Sparcworks Professional C is a solid compiler with a few good tools.

[author : Benjamin Fried and Othar Hansson]

p.191 A Beefier MKS Toolkit

p.191 A Beefier MKS Toolkit

MKS Toolkit 4.1 is a bigger and better collection of Unix tools for DOS and OS /2.

[author : Ben Smith]

p.193 Pioneer's Super CD-ROM Drive

p.193 Pioneer's Super CD-ROM Drive

Pioneer's new minichanger can access six CDs at quadruple speed.

[author : Howard Eglowstein]

HANDS ON

HANDS ON

p.197 FDDI Speaks

p.197 FDDI Speaks

The FDDI II standard mixes voice and data on a single medium.

[theme : UNDER THE HOOD] [author : William Stallings]

p.201 Processing Magic on the Mac

p.201 Processing Magic on the Mac

How to exploit the System 7 Process Manager in your applications.

[theme : SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED] [author : Raymond GA Côté]

p.210 LAN Remote Control

p.210 LAN Remote Control

Remote-control programs for NetWare and AppleTalk.

[theme : SOFTWARE CORNER] [author : Barry Nance, Tom Thompson, and Ben Smith]

p.211 Simple MAPI Delivers

p.211 Simple MAPI Delivers

Microsoft's first-release messaging API is easily supported.

[theme : BEYOND DOS] [author : Jon Udell]

p.215 ASK BYTE

p.215 ASK BYTE

Laptop parallel-port problems and creating dynamic arrays.

OPINIONS

OPINIONS

p.81 What's Hot, What's Not

p.81 What's Hot, What's Not

Pournelle's annual Orchid and Onion parade arrives.

[theme : USER'S COLUMN] [author : Jerry Pournelle]

p.194 BOOK AND CD-ROM REVIEWS Markets as Virtual Reality

p.194 BOOK AND CD-ROM REVIEWS Markets as Virtual Reality

The Death of Money, Windows 3.1 Insider, and other titles.

[author : Hugh Kenner, Raymond GA Côté, Jon Udell, Tom Thompson, and Rob Mitchell]

p.264 STOP BIT The Learning Organization

p.264 STOP BIT The Learning Organization

Distributed computing won't work unless companies are willing to change.

[author : Patricia Seybold]

p.12 EDITORIAL Fatware Strategies

p.12 EDITORIAL Fatware Strategies

[author : Dennis Allen]

p.20 LETTERS

p.20 LETTERS

The Amiga 3000T-040/200 and 4000-040/120, OS/2 2.0, Braincel defended , and other reader mail.

READER SERVICE

READER SERVICE

p.262 Editorial Index by Company

p.262 Editorial Index by Company

p.258 Alphabetical Index to Advertisers

p.258 Alphabetical Index to Advertisers

p.260 Index to Advertisers by Product Category

p.260 Index to Advertisers by Product Category

Direct Link Cards: 258A

Direct Link Cards: 258A

p.217 BUYER'S GUIDE

p.217 BUYER'S GUIDE

Mail Order

Hardware/Software Showcase

Buyer's Mart

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